Re: XFree 4.0.1 and Quake

["Brandt Dusthimer" <brandt.dusthimer@qcom.net>]

I originally had to comment them out because I hadn't compiled a kernel (and
therefore modversions.h wasn't there).  Now that I learned from that stupid
mistake I deleted everything and tried again without editing anything.  Do I
still get the dump?  Yup.  I'm beginning to think it is my video card.  ???
It's not supported under the XF86Config.  ???  What do you think?

    Brandt Dusthimer

> Why did you need to edit out moduleversions.h?
>
> Did you get both the kernel and the GLX archives?
>
> There are those who would have you believe that Brandt Dusthimer wrote:
> > Yup.  Did all of that.  Do you think that editing the Makefile code so
that
> > it would not load moduleversions.h had anything to do with this?  The
error
> > reported from Quake is this:
> >
> > XError of failed Request: GLXBadRenderRequest
> > Major opcode of failed request: 142 (GLX)
> > Minor opcode of failed request: 1 (X_GLXRender)
> > Serial number of failed request: 4510
> > Current serial number in output stream: 4514
> >
> >     Brandt Dusthimer
> >
> >
> >
> > > There are those who would have you believe that Brandt Dusthimer
wrote:
> > > >     I'm having problems with XFree 4.0.1, NVidia drivers (I have a
> > > >TNT2 Elsa Erazor III, not available in the XF86Config), and Quake
III.
> > > >Quake 3 runs fine until I try to start a game.  It load game media
and
> > > >all that other stuff, but as soon as I go into the real game it dumps
> > > >me with a GLX error.  I compiled the garbage myself and had to do a
> > > >little editing (comment out the modversions.h because it isn't in
> > > >kernel 2.2.17), and after I did that it ran everything fine.  In
fact,
> > > >everything seems to run fine except for quake III ( and a little bit
> > > >of X with the window managers and the screensavers not working.)
> > > >Anyone know anything about this or had something like it happen to
> > > >them?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Are you using the NVidia drivers included with X, or the ones from
> > > Nvidia's website?  In the latter case, did you follow the instructions
> > > included with the driver about GL support (I don't remember the
> > > details, but IIRC it concerns making sure that you're loading the
> > > library from /usr/lib/X11R6/lib/modules instead of
/usr/lib/X11R6/lib)?
> > >
>
>
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