I hope you don't mind if I chime in here; what kind of hardware were you
running when you had Q3 running with MDK7.0? I'm considering pulling 7.1
off and replacing with 7.0 just so I can play this new Q3 that I bought -
I'd hate to do that if it ended up not working either. I've got the Matrox
G400 card that's supposed to be supported out of the box from loki, Athlon
700 and 512MB RAM and I'm getting the same results as Jay - I figured it had
to be something with the mesa drivers, but I'm not really sure.
Thanks, Mike
> QIII (full) worked fine with the 3.3.6 in 7.0, there are mouse probs in
> 4.0 that will not be fixed until 4.0.1 is released. Do you have glide
> & mesa installed (version that comes with quake is probably better
> than the mandrake one)? There are drivers & instructions at
> http://www.linux.3dfx.com . IIRC I have seen a Mandrake rpm
> for device 3dfx, so it might be on your CD, but you'll probably
> need the voodoo 3 glide rpm. Don't download the X 3.3.5 from
> 3dfx.com though, as, 3.3.6 from Mandrake is better.
>
> If you are still having probs, start it from a term (without "&")
> & post the output (try killing it with ctrl+alt+esc->move cursor
> ->enter, or opening a new term with ctrl+alt +F1 & whacking it
> with top).
>
> HTH
>
> -WBD
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jay Summet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 2:39 AM
> Subject: [expert] Quake III doesn't work with XFree 3.3.6 OR 4.0??
>
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I've been trying to get the Quake III demo working on my system:
> > Dual PII 333 192mb
> > Voodoo 3 3000 16MB AGP
> > SoundBlaster AWE 64
> > Mandrake 7.1 install (with XFree 3.3.6 initally).
> >
> > I downloaded and installed the Q3Demo and everything appeared to go ok
> until I
> > ran it. When I did, the sound was very choppy, and the mouse would
barely
> move.
> > I had to press the tab key 5 times to get down to exit and hit return
> (took it
> > about 2 seconds between moves.)
> >
> > I figured it might be GPM, so I killed gpm off, no difference.
> > I figured I may as well try upgrading to XFree86 4.0 so I did so
> (downloading
> > directly from XFree86.org) and had the same problems. Then I noticed the
> > XFree86 4.0 mdk.rpm on the install CD, so I erased my current setup and
> used
> > that to upgrade to 4.0, same problem.
> >
> > (X windows is working correctly in all cases other than the Q3Demo
> problems
> > outlined above.)
> >
> > It appears that my version of Xfree doesn't matter, and I was wondering
if
> > anybody else had fixed this problem?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jay
> >
>
