On Sunday 14 January 2001 22:12, you wrote:
> Praedor Tempus wrote:
> > Has anyone purchases Heretic II from Loki and actually managed to get it
> > to work on Mandrake 7.2? On a 7.2 system with XFree86-4.0.2?
>
> I have, but I can't remeber if it was vbefore I installed X 402 or not.
>
> > I must say I am becoming disgusted with Loki on this. Linux will NEVER
> > make it with the general user if it is impossible to simply install and
> > run a freakin' game that is LINUX NATIVE, fer shit's sake.
>
> I hope that isn't the case. Remember how fast things are advancing in the
> Linux world compred to Windows - and they have groud to make up on us too.
Either Mandrake has drifted "too far" from Redhat, which tends to be the
distro most test against, or Loki is not keeping up with linux. It would
rather suck if one had to go to Redhat installs if one wants to play games.
Another nice thing...I DID manage to play the game for a while when I got it
- as root. I cannot recall if that was before or after I went from
XFree86-4.0.1 to 4.0.2 or not. Anyway, Loki has an update for heretic2 which
purports to fix some bugs. Upgrading your heretic2 binary, however, makes it
incompatible with any saved games you might have. You lose all of them, not
that it mattered much. Trying to start a new game either crashes the game or
wrecks X, requiring a restart of the X server.
> > Anyway, trying to run the game totally dicks up my X session.
>
> Do other OpenGL apps run? It sounds like your in software mode...
Yes. Unfortunately, the readme with the games indicate that they will not
work with hardware acceleration if you are using XFree86-4.0.x. I would
expect them to fix this soon as it will certainly become THE X server for all
quite soon. Surely it is just a recompile against the new xfree libs, etc?
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Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain
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Praedor
