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From: exfjnzl@zvaqfcevat.pbz (Wakko Warner)
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: 14 Jul 1997 01:45:01 GMT
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In article <5qbgba$oc1$2@nntp2.ba.best.com>, Zenin wrote:
>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...

Sound effects work fine in xquake (i386-ELF-xquake-1.06) but there is no
CD audio support or mouse support.  You can use the mouse in xf86quake
but I believe the latest xf86quake binary is version 1.01 and does not
support CD audio either. 

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