Patrick Mayer wrote:

>I am trying to run Quake 3 Arena on Mandrake 8.1.
>
>My hardware is as follows:
>PIII 800mhz, 768 megs ram
>Matrox G400, 16mb 1024x768x 16bpp
>Soundblaster Live!
>Asus P3B
>
>DRI runs well with the games packaged with MDK 8.1.
>
>However, Quake 3 Arena crashes just before it gets in play mode.
>The same goes with Descent 3.
>This crashes X but does not lock up th emachine: I can still telnet and 
>shutdown.
>
>Both programs have been patched to their latest version.
>
>Has anybody been able to make hose two games runwith Mdk 8.1, using similar 
>hardware?
>
>Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! 
>

Can you start it from eterm or similar and then post the error message 
please?
thanks, mike


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