Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 10:30:51 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> Cc: Robert Lynn <grumpyoldman0@yahoo.com>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: squake AND quake.x11: revisited (dont we just LOVE this?) Message-ID: <199808120100.KAA22709@cain.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:45 %2B0200." <19980811152345.A5770@cons.org>
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> > Well, squake won't work :) Its the svgalib version, and the linux svgalib > > won't work under emulation. > Sure it does, Amancio did this. Check the archives. For me, it works > at least to run it with a 3dfx card. Yes, I didn't specify.. Amancio hacked up svgalib enough to allocate a virtual terminal, and thats about all it needs to do, because the 3dfx card switches out your 2d card. It doesn't actually allow you to draw anything to the display. > The problem here is that Quake2 uses the mmap interface to the > soundcard. Only Amancio's driver for the GUS (which isn't being built > anymore...) implements this. The Voxware drive supports GUS DMA I thought..? > > You could try downloading the demo version of OSS from > > http://www.4front-tech.com and see if it works :) > Their version for -current usually don't run on recent -currents (for > me) and you need -current to get the Linux emulation patches for > Quake2... Ahh... damn :-/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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