[quake3] Broken GLX?

[LinuxManMikeC]

On 11/28/06, JoeHill <joehill at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:22:35 +0100
> Thilo Schulz got an infinite number of monkeys to type out:
>
> > Looks like your HW-accelerated libGL.so kinda got replaced by Mesa Software
> > GL. Reinstalling the accelerated, hardware-specific drivers should do the
> > trick.
>
> Okay, this goes from 'oh crap' to 'oh f#$@', to now...WTF??
>
> I was experiencing other issues with my OS, so I thought, hell, let's start
> clean.
>
> Yep, clean install, didn't take long, but...
>
> Same problem. GLXGears gives me no errors and reports 900 fps fullscreen, 3000
> at the default size, so GL *is* working on *some* level.
>
> Tried every suggestion I could find on the web, tried all different versions of
> NVidia drivers. Even tried the DKMS version from PLF, those were the worst, but
> did give some interesting error messages:
>
> ...loading libGL.so.1:
> Calling SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO)...
> SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO) passed.
> Initializing OpenGL display
> ...setting mode 3: 640 480
> SDL_SetVideoMode failed: Couldn't find matching GLX visual
> SDL_SetVideoMode failed: Couldn't find matching GLX visual
> Using 8/8/8 Color bits, 16 depth, 0 stencil display.
> GL_RENDERER: Mesa GLX Indirect
>
>
> ***********************************************************
>  You are using software Mesa (no hardware acceleration)!
>  Driver DLL used: libGL.so.1
>  If this is intentional, add
>        "+set r_allowSoftwareGL 1"
>  to the command line when starting the game.
> ***********************************************************
> ...WARNING: could not set the given mode (3)
> ----- CL_Shutdown -----
> RE_Shutdown( 1 )
> -----------------------
> Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem
>
> Got rid of *those* right quick. Now the game will run again, but still renders
> the textures using software.
>
> Reconfigured xorg a million times, deleted or renamed all q3 config files, is
> there any other config possibly lurking in my /home? Something to do with mesa?
>
> This just does not *make any sense* (like the 'Chewbacca Defense'). I am at a
> complete loss as to how to proceed, if there's anything anyone can think of to
> try, I'm willing. I *really* want my ioquake3 back (I was up til six AM fighting
> with this)...
>
> Thank you for listening... :-)
>
> --
> JoeHill / RLU #282046
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>

How about crating a new user (thus a fresh home dir) and try running
Quake as the new user.  That way you would know if it's some odd
config hiding in your home directory that's causing the problems.

Mike