From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 10 5:11: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snsonline.net (snsonline.net [210.9.53.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1124637B423 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 05:11:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sarge@snsonline.net) Received: from snsonline.net (nobody@localhost.snsonline.net [127.0.0.1]) by snsonline.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f3ACB5a27695; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 22:11:06 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from sarge@snsonline.net) Received: from 61.9.167.182 (SquirrelMail authenticated user sarge) by webmail.snsonline.net with HTTP; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 22:11:07 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4035.61.9.167.182.986904667.squirrel@webmail.snsonline.net> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 22:11:07 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: doom From: "Mark Sergeant" To: kris@obsecurity.org In-Reply-To: <20010410025823.A82441@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20010410025823.A82441@xor.obsecurity.org> Cc: phelipc@yahoo.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.0.2) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Without the error message it is bloody hard to know what the problem is, reminds me of my days on a help desk, damned irritating. Anyway my best guess is it is complaining about not being able to run in anything but 256 colour mode, if so change your X server to run in 256 colour mode if you need to play it. Cheers, Mark p.s. whilst I think of it you are really lucky anyone read & replied to this message, the guidelines state that you should at least provide a brief description of the problem in the subject of the mail as many (myself in cluded) filter messages based on subject. 1000+ mails in the inbox a day for me at least makes it damn hard to work out if I should read a message or not based on ... "doom" . > On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 08:41:05PM -0700, Phelip Cray wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I can't get DOOM to run on my freebsd box. It is a 4.2 >> satable and I am trying to get it to work from the >> ports collection. >> >> I always get an error message ... >> >> does anybody have a clue? > > Well, you could try telling us the error message for a start.. > > Kris > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message