[quake2] floating point exception

arny at taiga.com arny at taiga.com
Tue Jun 22 19:14:50 EDT 2004


Hello,

I forgot to say, I compiled it with gcc 2.95.3

ld etc is GNU ld version 2.12.90.0.9 20020526

Thanks,

Robin Arnold

> I've compiled quake2-r0.15 fine and followed the installation
> instructions carefully.  However when I start quake2 or sdlquake2
> they both quit out on a floating point exception as soon just
> after you start a game and get the 'loading' graphic on the black
> screen.  Its just after the music on the CD starts up, but before
> you see any of the game.  The introductory video plays OK and
> if I hit space just after starting the game, the option menus work
> fine.  I've tried it using svgalib and X, with both quake2 and
> sdlquake2 and get the same problem.  I've also tried it with both
> the full CD data and the demo download data, exactly as described
> in the readme in the quake2-r0.15 tar, same problem with both.
> 
> I'm using linux 2.4.20 on a system installed from Slackware 8.1
> - not too old, not too new.  libSDL-1.2.so.0.0.4 is the SDL libary
> on my system.  System is an AMD XP2200 with 512 meg of ram with a
> PCI voodoo 4 3dfx video card (32 meg of ram I think), 200 gig of
> disk space using 2 IDE drives.  I've got all the libraries needed
> for the hardware 3d rendering for flight gear installed and working
> (glide, glut etc), but I'm just trying to get quake2 working with
> software rendering under svgalib first.



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