Re: quake

[Bernard Leach <leachbj@aba.net.au>]

Daniel Stringfield wrote:
> 
> I've had some weird things happen in quake under X.
> 
> 1. Keys are sticking.  No, its not my keyboard.  Fire button stays on
> alot, and you must hit fire again to make it stop..
> 
> 2. head movement.  many times it will let me "look up" but not back down
> again.
> 
> 3. Sideways - It will force me to only be able to move right, (or forward
> and backwards work) but not left.
> 
> All these problems seems to be related with the keys.
> 
> 4. Display pops down when I'm hit.  quake iconizes whenever I get hit.
> 
> I'm running the x version 3.2 and fvwm95 as my window manager.
> 
> If quake will work ok in X, i'll get rid of it for DOS...
> 
> quake is a real stress reliever/builder/reliever/builder (mean cycle)
> 
> It makes you happy that you have a rocket launcher and you are imagining
> that the monster that is about to get toasted is your boss or some jerky
> customer. :)

The best way to run quake under linux is to have a special xconfig
and startup script so that you start X in 8 bpp in some fairly
low res, with no window manager and xf86quake as the only thing running.
Its also good to use xset to max out the sensitivity of the mouse and
then use
'sensitivity 0.05' at the quake console to set the mouse back
to normal.  (This gets around the bug which makes the mouse wander...).

Sorry I dont have any scripts handy, but I just put it all in my
.xinitrc for root.  When I want to play quake I just login on the
console as root and startx8 (same as startx but has a -bpp 8).

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Bernard Leach                    Australian Business Access Pty Ltd.
leachbj@aba.net.au               http://www.aba.net.au/


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