Quake3 and FC3T1

[Michael Wiktowy]

> Message: 14
> Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 10:56:06 +0300
> From: Pekka Pietikainen <pp at ee.oulu.fi>
> Subject: Re: Quake3 and FC3T1
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> On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 09:45:09AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/legacy_va_layout
> > > 
> > > Fixed it (and various other problems) for me.
> > 
> > can you please be more specific about what it fixes?
> > this ought to work always realistically, so if stuff breaks we need to
> > know.
> I've noticed that software that does wineish stuff breaks without 
> setarch -L (or legacy_va_layout). This includes mplayer using win32 dll
> codecs. It's entirely possible quake3 does some funny things to allow
> the same libraries to be used with Linux and Win32...
> 
> -- 
> Pekka Pietikainen

I have noticed the same thing with Q3 as well as other closed source
programs that I run like TeamSpeak2. The problems started with kernel
2.6.7-1.517 . If I boot to a version earlier than that things work
fine. 
I opened a bug on this a while ago. Please let me know what info I can
provide that will help debug this.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=129834

The echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/legacy_va_layout works like a charm though ...
thanks!

/Mike