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From: Zenin <zenin@best.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,rec.games.computer.quake.misc
Subject: Re: Linux Quake under FreeBSD?  -Working, kinda (How good is SVGAlib support?)
Date: 13 Jul 1997 21:12:10 GMT
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Adam Spiers <adam@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> Have you made the squake executable setuid root?  If not,
> consider yourself to have received a cyber-slap from me for not
> reading the docs properly ;-)
	>snip<

	Yes, I have. -I got a page more of error messages when I tryed to
	run it non-suid root...  I do find it damn anoying that it must
	be suid root however as I don't trust any suid root program that
	I don't have sources for AND that I've compiled myself, the kernel
	included.

> BTW don't even /think/ about running Quake under Linux unless
> it's an SVGAlib version.
	Indeed.  From what I've seen of the docs, XQuake does not support
	sound nor mouse, so it's basicly just meant to waste disk space I
	guess...

-- 
-Zenin
 zenin@best.com