Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 14:34:50 +1000 From: Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Amir Shalem <amir@boom.org.il>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quake2 on FreeBSD Message-ID: <3B32CAEA.91F2AB87@quake.com.au> References: <XFMail.20010622114850.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 21-Jun-2001 Amir Shalem wrote: > > I have tried lately to run quake2 on freebsd 4.3. > > I managed to get it running, but I had some problems with the sound: > > ------- sound initialization ------- > > /dev/dsp: Invalid argument > > Could not set /dev/dsp to stereo=2 > > > > I have tried looking for FAQs about installing quake on freebsd, > > I have found http://www.dons.net.au/~darius/quake/ page, it said > > quake2/quake needs sound driver capable of supporting mmap()able DMA > > buffers, is that the problem ? > > Hmm, I haven't updated that page in a while :) > That isn't the problem you are having though, but I haven't seen that error > either :( Hmmm I have never been able to get sound working with quake... But my NVIDIA based card wasnt supported ether, so I didnt try to hard with the sound since I couldnt run in openGL :( But NVIDIA support is coming (nvidia.netexplorer.org) so I might look into it again, though Tribes2 looks like a good game that could benifit from some FreeBSD power :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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