Re: SVGALib, Xpert@Play and sQuake/Quake II

1998-09-22 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 05:57:26PM -0500, Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote: > On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > > > Matrox Millenium isn't particularly well supported by SVGAlib at the moment. > > I have an improved patch here, but I'm a bit wary of some trimmed security > > patches which are in

Re: SVGALib, Xpert@Play and sQuake/Quake II

1998-09-21 Thread Ryan Kirkpatrick
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > Matrox Millenium isn't particularly well supported by SVGAlib at the moment. > I have an improved patch here, but I'm a bit wary of some trimmed security > patches which are in the upstream release - the fewer patches we apply the > better, however we

Re: SVGALib, Xpert@Play and sQuake/Quake II

1998-09-20 Thread Adrian Bridgett
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from Ryan Kirkpatrick on Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 07:35:44PM -0500 On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 07:35:44PM -0500, Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote: > On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > > > > >Does "ldd squake.real" say anything useful? > > > > > > Er, que? (spot the ne

Re: SVGALib, Xpert@Play and sQuake/Quake II

1998-09-19 Thread Ryan Kirkpatrick
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > > >Does "ldd squake.real" say anything useful? > > > > Er, que? (spot the newbie sysadmin...) > > Which seems okay to me - the top one is the libc5 maths library, the bottom > one is the libc5 C library and the middle one is the libc5 vga library.

Re: SVGALib, Xpert@Play and sQuake/Quake II

1998-09-17 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 01:23:18AM -0700, Chris Whitworth wrote: > I forgot to mention that I'm a little new to this Linux admin business > (as in running my own box; I've been using other ppls for ages) > > >I don't suppose "ldconfig" (as root) helps? You are runnning the > programs > >as root

Re: SVGALib, Xpert@Play and sQuake/Quake II

1998-09-17 Thread Chris Whitworth
I forgot to mention that I'm a little new to this Linux admin business (as in running my own box; I've been using other ppls for ages) >I don't suppose "ldconfig" (as root) helps? You are runnning the programs >as root aren't you - they need direct access to the video card (OTOH plain >vga pro

Re: SVGALib, Xpert@Play and sQuake/Quake II

1998-09-16 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 08:54:22AM -0700, Chris Whitworth wrote: > It doesn't work basically! > > It seems that the Mach64 libvga drivers as supplied on the Debian 2.0 > CD-Rom don't actually work (it crashes out with a segmentation fault > when it attempts to initialise the display) > > If I s

SVGALib, Xpert@Play and sQuake/Quake II

1998-09-15 Thread Chris Whitworth
It doesn't work basically! It seems that the Mach64 libvga drivers as supplied on the Debian 2.0 CD-Rom don't actually work (it crashes out with a segmentation fault when it attempts to initialise the display) If I select the default VGA drivers, then I can get some stuff to work, but certain