glquake on Alpha - limited success

["M. Eric Christy" <christy jlab org>]

Hello all


I have found limited success in my all-important quest to 
play glquake on my Alpha and I am looking for any feedback 
from interested parties.  Here is the current status.

My machine:  164LX/533MHz, Matrox Millenium, running RH6.1. 
Mesa3.0 installed.

I downloaded the recent quakeforge souces and compiled all 
targets.  Compilation went smooth.  Fired up glquake and was
surprised to see a very pretty menu screen thanks to Mesa.  
Unfortunately sound was extremely choppy so I turned that off.  
I then ran a couple of the demos - damn was it slow, but what 
do you expect without hardware acceleration.  I then tried to 
fire up a single player game and got a core dump (not sure 
what the problem is here).  

Conclusions/questions:  Glquake looks to be a reality soon on 
Alpha.  There are possibly some issues but I'm not going to 
look into them further until I have some sort of hardware 
acceleration.  So my biggest question is whether anyone is 
currently using hardware accelerated Mesa on Alpha and what 
cards are you using.  

I hope to get in touch with whomever is updating the games 
section of Alphalinux.org soon, if there is adequate interest, 
so people can keep track of the current status of glquake on 
Alpha.  The biggest piece of the the puzzle which is currently 
missing is the question of 3d hardware on Alpha so I would 
really appreciate anyone with experience here to email me.


Cheers

-Eric Christy