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johns@rd.scitec.com.au (John Saunders) wrote:

>I have installed RedHat 2.1 a couple of weeks ago. I've just gotten to the
>stage where everything is working normally as I like it so I decide to
>try out some games. I played a bit of abuse.x11 but found the 320x200 X11
>window much too small. So I switch to a console and tried running it there,
>what I got for my trouble was a blank screen. I CTL-C'ed it and the error
>messages showed /etc/vga/libvga.config not found. I remember seeing this file
>in /etc, so I made a /etc/vga and moved the files there. I tried abuse.svga
>again, same familiar blank screen. Error message about MOUSE_TYPE environemnt
>variable not set if not using a MicroSoft mouse. So I switch my mouse into
>MicroSoft mode, checked that abuse.svga is suid root, then tried again. Got
>my good old friend the blank screen, and my new friend the MOUSE_TYPE error
>message. OK, I think, lets try something less stressful than abuse. So I fire
>up svga_klondike, hey hey I got graphics, Do'h! the mouse doesn't move. So I
>repeated all svga_ games and found that I get graphics but no mouse. Abuse
>still gives me a blank screen.

>Has anybody got this going? BTW, my RedHat install was a commplete, everything
>with cherries on top install (and my harddisk felt it). I'm running Linux
>1.3.57 and it's an all ELF system but include the a.out libs.

>Cheers.
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Hi,
	I have Maelstrom working. As I recall the libvga config file is in the
wrong place as you discovered and as I recall all options are
commented out or set to some default value. I don't beleive the mouse
worked unless I was root. Even after changing some of the config
settings, e.g. specifying the chipset and a more capable monitor there
didn't appear to be any differrence in video quality - for this game
at least. I am running the same RedHat distribution but with the 1.2.?
kernel.