🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 12 Dec 1999 15:15:00 GMT, "B. Hunter" <compugeek@portup.com>
wrote:

>
>Ray <Justme@nospam.moc> wrote in message
>news:385312ce.4054644@news.pacificnet.net...
>> On Sat, 11 Dec 1999 19:32:39 GMT, "B. Hunter" <compugeek@portup.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >Problem is, I can't even play as root.
>> >And how do I set it to +rw?
>> >
>> >Ray <Justme@nospam.moc> wrote in message
>> >news:38528b86.403807@news.pacificnet.net...
>> >> On Fri, 10 Dec 1999 00:17:50 GMT, "B. Hunter" <compugeek@portup.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >I get a Segmentation Fault when I run UT, the screen pops up then
>> >vanishes
>> >> >and BOOM! Seg Fault! Please help!!!
>> >>
>> >> Look at /dev/3dfx and makes sure it's set to +rw for all.
>>
>> I think I saw in another post that you said you don't have a /dev/3dfx
>> file?  If that's the case, you'll probably be needing to follow
>> D'Arque Bishop's advice in the other thread's posting first.  Once you
>> find you *do* have the /dev/3dfx file, do the following from the
>> command line:
>>
>> chmod ugo+rw /dev/3dfx
>>
>> and that'll set the permissions.
>>
>> Good luck!  If *I* can get the game working, anyone can.
>>
>> Ray :-)
>
>
>You may be wrong here....Did it all...including changing the
>permissions....but I still get a seg fault.

I don't think I'm wrong so much as I knew what worked for me :)  In my
case, it was the magic bullet that finally freed up the game to the
point of acutally being to play it, as a non-root user.  I have no
doubts, however, that other problems can crop up.  Sorry my
contributions didn't help as well as I hoped they would.

Ray