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From: Steve Roome <steve@visint.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: xf86quake problems
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 12:51:55 +0000
Organization: Vision Interactive
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Mmm, been trying to run quake on 2.2BETA with XF3.2

if I run xquake it works okay (in a window)
However if I run xf86quake it works okay fullscreen
until I wan't to quit at which point quake says
VID_SHITDOWN
and the computer reboots, even if I play as someone other
than root as well.
 
Okay, so I'm a slob playing quake but this shouldn't be happening,
has anyone else experienced this or know how to fix it ?

Secondly why can't I get quake to play sound, it seems to think
that my sound driver is too old (whatever voxware thing comes
with 2.2Beta). I beleive I need memory mapped DMA or something,
is this a lacking in my soundcard or the sound driver ?

I'd really like to play quake with sound in a window, (well,
it's more than twice as fast in a window than it is under
MS-DROSS for me, so that should be understandable why I'd like
to get it working).

Any help appreciated.

Steve.

steve@visint.co.uk