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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!firehose.mindspring.com!news.mindspring.com!exfjnzl From: exfjnzl@zvaqfcevat.pbz (Wakko Warner) 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: 14 Jul 1997 01:45:01 GMT Organization: Gunsmith Cats Lines: 27 Message-ID: <5qc0at$j2n@camel3.mindspring.com> References: <5q71m2$1tm$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> <5qaobp$au9@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk> <5qbgba$oc1$2@nntp2.ba.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: user-37kbo8v.dialup.mindspring.com X-no-archive: yes X-Anti-Spam: get my email address from my .sig X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.4.0 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44372 rec.games.computer.quake.misc:66894 In article <5qbgba$oc1$2@nntp2.ba.best.com>, Zenin wrote: >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... Sound effects work fine in xquake (i386-ELF-xquake-1.06) but there is no CD audio support or mouse support. You can use the mouse in xf86quake but I believe the latest xf86quake binary is version 1.01 and does not support CD audio either. -- Ravi K. Swamy, Solicitor in Chief, CtWC rkswamy at mindspring.com http://www4.ncsu.edu/eos/users/r/rkswamy/www/ root@genom.com