[plug] Quake 2 - Different problem

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Trevor Phillips wrote:

> While we're talking Quake2, being an avid Q3 player I thought I'd give Q2 a
> burl. Well, eventually I got it mostly working: Got GL working fine with my
> Pure3D, connected to a net game, sound worked, everything was stable...
> But NO MOUSE CONTROL!! (Basically rendering multiplayer unplayable. -_^)
>
> It was hassling me about a svga config file somewhere (sorry; not under Linux
> ATM so can't checl), so I went in, set it to the right mouse (standard MS
> Serial), set the right mouse driver.
>
> After that, it stopped complaining about misconfigured mouse, but it still
> doesn't work!
>
> Am I missing something? Help!

I had a similar problem.. It was gpm... I stopped gpm and tried q2 again and it
was fine... I wouldn't have thought of it, I'm just lucky I live with Tony :)

On the other hand I can't run quake3... For that matter I can't run X :(


Mark