Quake3 in linux problem

**BobOmega** · March 6th, 2004, 03:06 PM

i got quake3 to run in linux using the point release and the pak file.
but my mouse dosn't work in it. i can use the buttons on it but i can't move it. even in menus.

any ideas?

also i'm starting to notice that games are locking up/crashing my computer like they would in windows sometimes.
i was playing one of the ones that came with mandrake and it made me have to hit the reset button. save that problem for another day unless someone knows

**vass0922** · March 6th, 2004, 03:13 PM

Regarding the frezing in windows and linux

I had a similar issue.

Turned out to be an IRQ problem
I moved my sound card to another slot, and all was well

(stupid sb live)

Try sliding any pci card to another slot, especially if you have a sound blaster card.

**BobOmega** · March 6th, 2004, 06:06 PM

ok switched the sound card. find out sooner or later if that workd. i know windows is going to have a fit if i ever reboot into it.

switched my mouse to ps2. didn't change it.

**krohnjw** · March 6th, 2004, 06:17 PM

also i'm starting to notice that games are locking up/crashing my computer like they would in windows sometimes.
i was playing one of the ones that came with mandrake and it made me have to hit the reset button. save that problem for another day unless someone knows

Check dmesg and your XFree log to see if anything is happening.
I had this happen using a KT333 chipset on the stock kernel that did not have the appropriate module for that (2.4.18bf in debian). It turned out I was getting suprrious IRQ interrupt messages, (tipping me off) and that was the cause of the freezing during Games and heavy I/O.
This could also be an ACPI/APIC problem. After fighting for a while with that I make sure to explicitly disable it.

**BobOmega** · March 8th, 2004, 08:16 PM

bump, on the quake no mouse issue...

**Scott Tiger** · March 8th, 2004, 08:24 PM

Have you tried running memtest on your machine?

It's easy to do and will give something to mark off the checklist as no being a problem.

**BobOmega** · March 15th, 2004, 10:14 PM

bump?
defiently seems to be a mouse issue

or something, someone said something about console mouse? i dont know what that is though... so...

edit: how about what goes on when i run it...

Q3 1.32 linux-i386 Oct 7 2002
----- FS_Startup -----
Current search path:
/home/bobomega/.q3a/baseq3
/usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3/pak8.pk3 (9 files)
/usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3/pak7.pk3 (4 files)
/usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3/pak6.pk3 (64 files)
/usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3/pak5.pk3 (7 files)
/usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3/pak4.pk3 (272 files)
/usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3/pak3.pk3 (4 files)
/usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3/pak2.pk3 (148 files)
/usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3/pak1.pk3 (26 files)
/usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3/pak0.pk3 (3539 files)
/usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3
./quake3.x86/baseq3

----------------------
4073 files in pk3 files
execing default.cfg
execing q3config.cfg
couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
Hunk_Clear: reset the hunk ok

------- Input Initialization -------
Joystick is not active.

i have a feeling the problem lies in that part...