[quake3] Hey all -- who here is an X config god? ;)

[David Chait]

Hey Tom... thanks for the pointers.  I had 640x480 already, so definitely 
weird.

glxinfo looks good on this run (think it was the same last time).  however, 
I just did remove my 16-bit display modes from the Screen and now defaulting 
to 24 (to match yours), renamed the monitor and device (still should have 
been fine before..), and added the Virtual setting you had.  Replicated the 
changes to both my XF86 config files (I can't figure out why there are 
two...).  THEN, I also just switched to have Gnome as my default desktop.

Lo and behold, NOW I get past the SDL error.  Of course, past that I get a 
"Sys_Error: recursive error after: User Interface is version 3, expected 6". 
I'm using the Q3A demo pak0.pk3 file (assumed that'd work since I saw it 
mentioned somewhere regarding running the Q3A code), placed in baseq3. 
Anyone know if the User Interface version issue is because of the pakfile, 
and if so what I can do about it?  I'll go pick up a copy of Q3A somewhere 
if I have to -- not an issue, just wanted to get up and running quickly with 
demo content if possible!

Thanks all!

-d

----- Original Message ----- 
>> I'm trying to get Q3A base running to try porting it to some new
>> platforms/cpus.  I've just installed the latest nv drivers (have a
>> GeFX5200), ran Xconfigurator, went back and manually adjusted to use 
>> "glx"
>> and "nvidia" in the respective places, have even rebooted, but I'm 
>> getting:
>>
>> Initializing OpenGL display
>> ...setting mode 3: 640 480
>> SDL_SetVideoMode failed: Couldn't find matching GLX visual
>
> What does 'glxinfo' give?  In particular, does "direct rendering: " say
> "Yes"?
>
>> Is there a commandline arg to start in a given res (I've scoured the
>> internet, didn't find a thing, except lots of 'dead sites')?  Not sure 
>> it'd
>> help, but I thought trying in 1280x1024 to match the current X mode might
>> help.
>
> Not sure, but you can try making sure 640x480 is supported.
>
> In /etc/X11/xorg.conf or /etc/X11/XFree86.conf
>
> look, for a 'Section "Screen"'.  You want to make sure your "Modes"
> line contains 640x480, in addition to what you normally like to run X
> at.  For example, here's mine:
>
> Section "Screen"
>        Identifier "screen-one"
>        Device "agp-one"
>        Monitor "monitor"
>        DefaultDepth 24
>        SubSection "Display"
>                Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>                Virtual 0 0
>                Depth 24
>        EndSubSection
> EndSection