Chris Ross wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Joe Sloan wrote: >> LOL, nobody has ever ported a game to opensuse, no need. Like I said, my >> quake 3 arena demo binary from 1999 has played just fine on every >> distro I've tried. > > Except that Quake III Arena (I have the "limited edition" metal box > version) has no sound on OpenSuSE 10.2 and my *favourite* game,
A kernel change in the sound ABI sometime in the past few years (I don't remember at what version exactly, it might have been 10.0) caused quake 3 arena to come up without sound, but a bit of googling produced the answer, and since then the "gamesound" init script has been part of my standard post install setup. In any event, quake 3 arena works for me, and it would probably work for you if you add the appropriate command to your startup scripts. > Terminus > http://www.vvisions.com/games/details.cfm?ID=28 which I used to > play constantly doesn't run on 10.2 at all :( That's odd, I've not seen a game stop working. I might have had to add some tweak to the environment setting, but that's the extent of it. > So yes, you can play your old 1999 games if you keep an old 1999 Linux > around to play them on. Nope, no need - I play my 1999 games with a fresh suse release- it's much snappier that way - as well as with newer games (UT2k4, ET, Q4) Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
