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Re: Quake2/3dfx



On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote:

> Michael Beattie wrote:
> 
> > After just acquiring a 3dfx card from a friend, Using Quake2 is much more
> > attractive.. :)  My problem is the mouse. Since Quake2 does not use
> > svgalib in 3dfx mode, I have no mouse. This upsets me.. Who else uses 3dfx
> > with Quake2, and if so, Can you use your mouse? Do you? How can I?
> >
> >                        Michael Beattie (mickyb@es.co.nz)
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> Hello,
> 
> I have quake2 and 3dfx, and canot play it with mouse under svgalib mode either....
> 
> But i have a question for you.... i can play quake with 3dfx support as root. And all
> the Opengl (mesa) things too. But i want to use 3dfx as a normal user....
> What should i do?  Maybe create somthing like /dev/3dfx ??\
> 

Copy Mesa libs from Quake2 directory to /usr/local/lib and run ldconfig
(as root). It wont work if you have mesag2 installed.


                       Michael Beattie (mickyb@es.co.nz)

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