Re: Linux quake

[Edward Dekkers <edward tripled iinet net au>]

fred smith wrote:

> I know I'm waaaaaay behind the times here,....
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to get quake (or quake II, either/both)
> running on RH7.2.
>
> So far all the binaries I've found are from 1998 and they don't seem
> to work on the 2.4 kernel and glibc6. I can't even "ldd <filename>" 
> them, which tells me they're really ancient.
>
> I can't find any modern builds on quake or quakeII, most of the links 
> I find on a google search either all have the same stuff, all point to
> the same (few) download areas, or are dead (linuxquake.<xxx>, for example).
>
> I've got an nvidia geforce-4 mx440 card, I'd think glquake could be made
> to work there, but so far no go. I've just tried sdlquake and it is
> unbearably slow. I thought sdl could use GL as a back-end, but either
> this particular one doesn't, or else I don't have a clue how to set it
> up.
>
> Assistance anyone? Tks!
I've never done the Quake thing myself, but I'm assuming if you're using 
the glquake, and it's slow, that you have loaded the nVidia drivers on 
Linux?

Unless quake doesn't run under X, in which case I'm talking from where 
the sun don't shine.

Regards,
Ed.