Re: startx lxdoom - wrong colormap
Hi, There's an old P90 at my school that we use during the breaks and it's running potato. I have installed lxdoom (the svgalib version of doom doesn't work for some strange reason although other svgalib programs like thrust work fine) on it and it works, however there is one problem: As the machine is quite old and has a very slow VGA I would like to start doom this way: startx lxdoom so it will be the only X-client running. When I do this, the game works but the colors are just weird - the wrong colormap is set. So I have to type: startx lxdoom -- -bpp 16 which shows perfect colors but is quite slow. Is there a way to set the right colormap when running lxdoom exclusively with 8bpp without a window manager? Thanks for your help, Christoph What I do is put the executable in my $HOME/.xinitrc file. So, my .xinitrc file looks like this: # START #! /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/quake3 # END This way only X and quake3 start up (I believe)...no window manager. Doing it this way, quake3 seems to run faster for me. YMMV. Scott
startx lxdoom - wrong colormap
Hi, There's an old P90 at my school that we use during the breaks and it's running potato. I have installed lxdoom (the svgalib version of doom doesn't work for some strange reason although other svgalib programs like thrust work fine) on it and it works, however there is one problem: As the machine is quite old and has a very slow VGA I would like to start doom this way: startx lxdoom so it will be the only X-client running. When I do this, the game works but the colors are just weird - the wrong colormap is set. So I have to type: startx lxdoom -- -bpp 16 which shows perfect colors but is quite slow. Is there a way to set the right colormap when running lxdoom exclusively with 8bpp without a window manager? Thanks for your help, Christoph
Re: startx lxdoom - wrong colormap
On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 03:39:46PM +0100, Christoph Groth wrote: Hi, There's an old P90 at my school that we use during the breaks and it's running potato. hehe, that's a good idea ;-) I have installed lxdoom (the svgalib version of doom doesn't work for some strange reason although other svgalib programs like thrust work fine) on it and it works, however there is one problem: As the machine is quite old and has a very slow VGA I would like to start doom this way: startx lxdoom so it will be the only X-client running. When I do this, the game works but the colors are just weird - the wrong colormap is set. So I have to type: startx lxdoom -- -bpp 16 which shows perfect colors but is quite slow. Hm, lxdoom ist _very_ slow! On my K6-2 400 the maximum resolution is 800x600 with KDE2 ;-) Better is 640x480. Try it with a lower resolution (the parameter for lxdoom are mention in the readme) Cu, Sven -- ACHTUNG! Aktuelle e-mail Adresse ist [EMAIL PROTECTED] == One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them
Re: startx lxdoom - wrong colormap
At 03:39 PM 11/26/00 +0100, you wrote: There's an old P90 at my school that we use during the breaks and it's running potato Old P90 heh We still have rooms of Mac LCIIs, 386s and Mac Classics (10 years old now) Just think, you might be amusing yourself with typewriters a few years back. As for the question - I suspect that in 8 bit colour mode the window manager has a lot to do with the colour map. Try a lightweight WM like twm or similar. Or start playing tetris-bsd -- Criggie
Re: startx lxdoom - wrong colormap
Sven Hoexter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: which shows perfect colors but is quite slow. Hm, lxdoom ist _very_ slow! AFAIK you must blame the original Doom code for this, not lxdoom. It simply wasn't designed for higher resoultions and scales very badly. On my K6-2 400 the maximum resolution is 800x600 with KDE2 ;-) Better is 640x480. Try it with a lower resolution (the parameter for lxdoom are mention in the readme) I'm running it already at 320x200. I know that it runs much faster at 8bpp than at 16bpp as I can try it out. The problem is just those wrong colors. And running it under a window manager doesn't satisfact me either. Christoph
