On Sunday 31 December 2000 03:43, you wrote: > anybody got quake2 working with a voodoo5? I can't get it to go in > anything other then software mode at 400x320. yuck! > > Trevor Reynolds wrote: > > Hi, > > I am having problems running Quake II in LM 7.2. My PC is a > > Celeron 600@750, Via Apollo Pro chipset, 128 meg RAM, Guillemet 32 Meg > > GForce 256 SDR video card. I am running X 4.01 with the Nvidia .9-5 > > drivers. My problem is that Quake II is very unstable. Sometimes I can > > play it for hours without a problem and other times it will close with a > > "Received signal 8, exiting" while loading the game. The real pain is > > that sometimes X will totally crash and throw me back to the login > > screen. I can log back in but X and KDE (or Gnome) will be very unstable > > and I end up rebooting. > > I've looked in /var/log/messages and all is says is "KDM: server > > for display 0 terminated unexpectedly". The xdm-error.log says at the > > bottom "cat: write error: broken pipe" and "stdin: is not a tty". This > > problem happens whether I'm logged in as a user or root (which I know is > > not good to do), using KDE or Gnome, running in either OpenGL or X Quake > > mode. > > I have looked around www.linuxquake.com and the mail archives and > > haven't found any answers. > > Has anyone out there had a similar problem? Any help or leads > > would be appreciated. Thanks! > > > > Trevor Make sure you do not have a framebuffer-enabled kernel loaded. If you see a graphical bootup, you are using a framebuffer kernel. Civileme
