[quake2] quake2 on ppc?

Brendan Burns brendanburns at attbi.com
Fri Jan 31 20:15:41 EST 2003


Hmm, I don't know.  But from reading about Linux on iBook (I have one 
running OS X) it seems sound is a little unstable…

--brendan

On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 05:29 PM, Andreas Hasenack wrote:

> Anybody running quake2 on a ppc machine? I'm having some problems with
> an iBook, mostly segfaults at startup.
>
> Environment:
> gcc-3.2.1
> glibc-2.3.1
> XFree-4.2.99.3
> SDL-1.2.4cvs20020911
>
> Seems to be sound related (!), but it's really weird. First, I can 
> only use
> glx or sdlgl. Others crash at startup, I don't even see the menu.
>
> Second, when using glx or sdlgl, the demo runs fine, with sound, but, 
> when I
> start a game, I get another segfault. BUT, if I start quake2 without 
> sound,
> then I can start a game and play. Strange.
>
> So, basically, I can only play without sound. If using sound, the game 
> crashes.
>
> Anybody else with such problems? Or success stories on ppc? :)
>
> Thanks
>




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