All of these actions must be performed as root on a FreeBSD 3.x system (it may work on a 2.2.x system as well) with a 3dfx Voodoo2 card (a Voodoo Rush or Voodoo Graphics may work- see step 7). For those of you without hardware accelerators, you may use a Mesa library (see NOTES, below). The Q3A Test is FULLY FUNCTIONAL (sound, Internet play, etc.) under FreeBSD.

Last Updated 6/29/99 15:20 EST

To use the new maps, and modify config files, rename your demoq3 directory to baseq3.

A more recent document has been put together by Keith Pitcher, the DeadOfQuake3 Document for FreeBSD/Linux.

1. Load the Linux emulator using:
   /usr/bin/linux
   
   
2. Download rpm2cpio, then run:
   chmod 0555 rpm2cpio
   brandelf -t Linux rpm2cpio
   mv rpm2cpio /compat/linux/usr/bin/
   
   
3. Download the q3a-test 1.05 RPM.
   Get the latest from www.quake3arena.com.
   
   
4. Install q3a-test from the RPM using:
   /compat/linux/usr/bin/rpm2cpio q3test-1.05-glibc-9.i386.rpm | (cd /compat/linux; cpio --extract --make-directories --verbose --unconditional)
   Zoid corrected the problem with the 1.05 server where it chomps all of your CPU time. Get the updated server program, then install it using:
   cp linuxquake3 /compat/linux/usr/local/games/q3test/
   chmod +x /compat/linux/usr/local/games/q3test/linuxquake3
   
   
5. Download the linux-lib 2.6 package, then run:
   pkg_add linux_lib-2.6.tgz
   cd /compat/linux; mkdir -p .`pwd`; cd .`pwd`/..; rmdir linux && ln -s `cd /compat/linux && pwd` linux
   
   
6. Download the linux-glide 2.4 package, then run:
   pkg_add linux_glide-2.4.tgz
   
   
7. Download the 3dfx Voodoo2 2.53 driver, or Voodoo Rush 2.46 driver, or Voodoo Graphics 2.46 driver RPM.
   Get the latest from www.3dfx.com.
   
   
8. Install the 3dfx driver from the RPM using:
   /compat/linux/usr/bin/rpm2cpio Glide_V2-2_53-1_i386_glibc.rpm | (cd /compat/linux; cpio --extract --make-directories --verbose --unconditional)
   OR, for Voodoo Rush
   /compat/linux/usr/bin/rpm2cpio Glide_VR-2_46-3_i386_glibc.rpm | (cd /compat/linux; cpio --extract --make-directories --verbose --unconditional)
   OR, for Voodoo Graphics
   /compat/linux/usr/bin/rpm2cpio Glide_VG-2_46-1_i386_glibc.rpm | (cd /compat/linux; cpio --extract --make-directories --verbose --unconditional)
   
   
9. Tell the Linux subsystem about these new libraries by running:
   /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig
   
   
10. Run the GL test application, to verify your installation:
    /compat/linux/usr/local/glide/bin/test3dfx
    
    
11. Start your X11 server on the console, then in an xterm, run:
    cd /compat/linux/usr/local/games/q3test
    ./linuxquake3 +set sv_hostname "FreeBSD!"
    

NOTES

• To install q3a-test updates, run steps 1, 3, and 4.
• To remove most of the restricted mode limitations, follow these instructions. Mesa users (those w/o hardware acceleration) will get full screen mode if you do this! (see below also)
  cd demoq3; unzip pak0.pk3; rm pak0.pk3; cd ../maps; mv Q3TEST1.bsp q3test1.bsp; mv Q3TEST2.bsp q3test2.bsp; cd ../..; mv demoq3 baseq3
  
• If you have multiple libGL or libMesaVoodooGL installed, you may have to specify which GL driver to use in step 11, as in:
  ./linuxquake3 +set r_glDriver ./libMesaVoodooGL.so.3.1
  
• Voodoo Rush users will most likely need to install and run a special X11 server from 3dfx, as well as some extra libraries. The latest can be found at the 3dfx web site. After installation, don't forget to run:
  /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig
  
• The 3dfx Voodoo Rush and Voodoo Graphics have not been tested (by me). Email me if it works!
  
• If you have a Voodoo Banshee, you may be able to use the drivers at Creative Labs in step 7 above.
• If you have a TNT board, they may have Linux drivers somewhere at the nVidia site, someday.
• A Q3A client can run without hardware acceleration, but it will run very slowly. Use the MesaGL 2.6 driver or MesaGL 3.1 beta1-5 for Linux in step 7 above, instead of the 3dfx VoodooGL library (also available from the Mesa 3-D site). In step 11, run:
  ./linuxquake3 +set r_glDriver ./libMesaGL.so.2.6
  
• You can run q3a-test as a dedicated server. This does not require hardware acceleration, or any of the glide libraries (skip steps 6, 7, 8, and 10). Also, you may want to take a look at the nifty screen program.
  ./linuxquake3 +set dedicated 1 +set sv_hostname "FreeBSD!"
  Use a value of 2 to automatically register with the id Master Q3A site.
• Interesting: one player had sound working under RH 5.2 Linux, except with linuxquake3. The same machine worked great (including sound) under FreeBSD 3.1 and linuxquake3.
• Matt Ownby at PlanetQuake has put together a Linux How-To. Visit it if you are having difficulties!
• Hampton Maxwell put together a Increasing your Mouse Sampling Rate in FreeBSD document.

LINKS

• Console variable tweaking: The Flagship Engineering Room, Gameaholic, I.Am/Q3A, and Q3A Tweaks
• Official Quake3 Arena Site
• Master list of Q3A servers
• id Software
• Q3Arena.com
• Planet Quake
• Quake City Gaming Network
• Blue's News and their great Quake3 Page
• LinuxQuake.com
• TeleFragged.com, and their Q3A Test Server List
• Planet Quake3
• Q3 Center
• Team GoiGoi MainFrame
• FreeBSD

Brought to you by Mark Taylor. Email me if you have difficulties (or comments).