Linux Q3Atest Released

Gaza writes "Heard the Q3A linux test was just released on Id Software's site a few minutes ago. It is going to be a long night... " We're gonna need some mirrors people!

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Here are my Two private T1 Mirrors

[Anonymous Coward]

all i have is the RPM

50 clients:
ip: 35.10.22.48
login: slash
pass: dot
ip: 21

20 clients:
ip: 35.10.22.61
login: slash
pass: dot
ip: 21

Anthony Fuentes
fuentesa@egr.msu.edu

Re:Some questions / issues / observations

[Zoid]

1. There isn't a current framerate counter. You can use 'timerefresh' to get a guess based on the current position.

2. Because you have vsync on. Turn it off. Quake3 has renderered its pass and is waiting to for the vblank interval to switch buffers. You can turn off vsync by doing this in the shell:

export FX_GLIDE_SWAPINTERVAL=0

3. Quake3 is a _lot_ more demanding than Q2. It pushes about five to ten times as many triangles as Q2 did. Use "fastest" in the video configuration along with r_lodbias 2 in the console.

4. This 'faster' you are seeing is vsync.

5. Great! The only real problem people are having is that Q3 blows up if you don't have a 16bit depth on the desktop. I'm going to revise this in the next test relesae.

contact info

[Bowms]

ATI - email: sales@atitech.ca
phone: (905)882-2600 - Sales and Marketing

nVidia - email: info@nvidia.com
phone: (408) 615-2500

Please add to this list. Personally, I'm amazed these companies don't have 800 numbers (they probably do and just don't list them). That does not speak well for their desire to hear feedback from customers.

Re:contact info

[dbullock]

I just called nVidia - and I told their receptionist that I HAD checked the website and needed to talk to someone (Dave was my victim) about the driver support.

Don't email. It doesn't take effort to email. SPEND the $ and make a call, or send it in via snail mail. Email has no real impact on the recipient, but taking the time to call and let them know in a friendly supportive way that you like their hardware but that you need the support or you'll have to go somewhere else really has a lot more impact. It's all about confrontation, you'll reach someone much more effectively by actually talking to them and appreciating their position, but holding firm on at least getting a binary driver module. It also takes up their time to have people answer the phones, email can be read and roundfiled in seconds.

Anyway, Dave was supportive (he offered the 2D X-Windows support which I explained was good but that I could do 2D with any old card, I had bought the TNT because it was the best 3D card (whether that's true is irrelevant - it helps to be supportive when we're asking for something)) and clearly unhappy at the prospect of telling me that there was no support for the 3D in Quake yet. He was really wanting to tell me what they had on their agenda but they have not made it public yet so he wasn't at liberty - I told him that I understood and that it was fine, I was willing to wait a little bit, but I wanted to know if the company even planned on addressing the issue. He then told me DEFINITELY and that in a couple of weeks he thought I would be very happy with what the company was doing.

You can ./ their telephones WAY more easily than you can their website or email or mailroom. Most companies have very few incoming lines, when they can't do business they'll look for ways to address the problem, and to do so they'll HAVE to publicize some sort of stance that will keep us from calling.

I'd like to see some coordinated ./ phone planning so that we can focus our efforts a vendor or two at a time and make them feel the demand.

My $.03 (inflation)

Primitive Q3A Pinging tool

[rebrane]

it's kludgy as hell and it's written in perl, but it -does- ping a realtime list of public q3a servers for you. check it out:
http://rebrane.k-r4d.com/~rebrane/lin uxspy.pl
make sure to edit the constants in the top of the file (accepting command line arguments would be too nonkludgy).

--neil

Re:Ok so where's a mirror?

[Lieux]

Check www.3dfiles.com. They have a list of mirrors. I'm heading there now.

Re:Ok so where's a mirror?

[rkennedy]

Linuxberg has it, so check your berg mirrors to see if they updated yet. Should be soon

/Rob

NON 3dfx card and q3test

[doomy]

Hello,

As you may all know q3test runs out of the box on voodoo. But there are two other cards you can use it on. That's the matrox g200 and 3dlabs permedia 2. I'm in the process of making a HOWTO for the pm2. If you have such a card please let me know. I heard the fps wasnt that good (~10fps) , but viewable.

Also, it runs fine on vanialla mesa. (No 3d) on my celery 450 (300a oced), i get about 0.5 FPS with software only mesa. But it looks cool. Though xdm wouldnt take a screenshot, due to the way colors were handeled. Download q3 just to check it out at 0.5 fps! Yah!

More to come.

Department of Non-3dfx Users
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some productive commentary

[Bowms]

Hey... listen, I don't want to hear about "Q3Test doesn't support this" and "Q3Test doesn't support that". That's Windoze thinking. If Q3Test doesn't support your card, it probably means your card's manufacturer hasn't written drivers, or released the specs from which drivers could be written.

This means you should find 800 numbers and email addresses for that company and BUG THE HELL out of them. Whining on Slashdot about a lack of support will get you nowhere. Turn that energy to more productive efforts and start letter-writing campaigns to get get Linux drivers AND SPECS from nVidia, ATI, and others. Call their 800 numbers daily. Let them know that Linux users will not sit quietly and wait for the powers-that-be to acknowledge us.

WE WANT QUAKE, AND WE WANT IT NOW!

bowms