[quake3] icculus quake 3 very dark

[Erik Auerswald]

Hi,

On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 12:56:44PM -0700, Aaron Gyes wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 20:42 +0200, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 12:26:09PM -0400, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
> > > I am running Linux Fedora 5 with Xgl server and Compiz and although 
> > > things look before Q3 starts up, even the ID splash screen, menus, and 
> > > especially the game are very dark and I can just barely see them.
> > 
> > Try a normal X server, not Xgl.
> 
> Xgl is a normal X server, but right now the NVIDIA drivers do not
> support it properly. Until 9xxx drivers come out OpenGL is going to
> remain crippled on Xgl.

I don't consider running an X server on top of an X server normal. There
are special cases where this is useful, but not gaming with X server
and client on the same machine.

The idea of running two fullscreen OpenGL apps at the same time (Xgl and
ioquake3) seems a bit strange to me, too.

Erik