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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ou.edu!leto.ou.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!nntprelay.mathworks.com!europa.clark.net!newsfeed.nacamar.de!news1.best.com!nntp2.ba.best.com!zenin!thrush.omix.com!byron From: Zenin <zenin@best.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,rec.games.computer.quake.misc Subject: Re: Linux Quake under FreeBSD? -Working, kinda (How good is SVGAlib support?) Date: 13 Jul 1997 21:12:10 GMT Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5qbgba$oc1$2@nntp2.ba.best.com> References: <5q71m2$1tm$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> <5qaobp$au9@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: thrush.omix.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44361 rec.games.computer.quake.misc:66885 Adam Spiers <adam@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > Have you made the squake executable setuid root? If not, > consider yourself to have received a cyber-slap from me for not > reading the docs properly ;-) >snip< Yes, I have. -I got a page more of error messages when I tryed to run it non-suid root... I do find it damn anoying that it must be suid root however as I don't trust any suid root program that I don't have sources for AND that I've compiled myself, the kernel included. > BTW don't even /think/ about running Quake under Linux unless > it's an SVGAlib version. Indeed. From what I've seen of the docs, XQuake does not support sound nor mouse, so it's basicly just meant to waste disk space I guess... -- -Zenin zenin@best.com