[ale] offtopic: Q2-Mouse: First you have it, then you don't

[Linux Idiot]

Nomad the Wanderer wrote:
> 
> OK,
>   I'm hoping someone here will have a fix or atleast be able to tell me
> what's broken.
> 
>   Quake2 in standard soft mode, I have mouse control.  If I either start
> GL mode, or switch to GL mode, the mouse ceases to be useful.  It is
> completely missing.  If I switch back to "soft" mode I get mouse back.
> 
>   I have mouse with gpm of course.  Anyone got any ideas?

Have you got gpm running?  I thought I read in the docs that you should
not have gpm running when playing Q2.  I don't use my mouse, but it does
work under quake2 without gpm as I've moved it and the screen responds..

> 
> Robert
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Robert L. Harris                |   You mean you paid
> Senior System Administrator II  |        MONEY for
>   at Great West Life.           \_    Service Pack '98???
> 
> http://www.orci.com/~nomad
> 
> DISCLAIMER:
>       These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
> 
> FYI:
>  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'

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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at denali.atlnet.com

You mean you paid MONEY for Service Pack '98????