[quake2] help with q2lnx

[Matthias Schuh]

On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 16:16:48 +0100
matthieu <matthieu at bsdmon.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I'd like a bit of help with release 0.15
> 
> I compiled the code (disabling aalib, that i don't have on my system), 
> installed everything as described in the README, and i have some problems:
> 
> - quake2 is unable to load the glx renderer
> 
> - so it runs with soft renderer. But when i start a game it segfaults
> 
> - additional problem: when it segfaults, i loose my mouse in X. I have 
> to restart X to have mouse again. (Perhaps there's something to do to 
> get the mouse back without restarting X?)
> 
> i launch quake with the following command line:
> 
> ./quake2 +set basedir /home/matthieu/prog/quake2 +set vid_ref glx +set 
> gl_driver /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
> 
> i first tried as a regular user, and also as root. The only difference 
> is that when i'm root, the console and the menu background are a lot 
> more dark.
> 
> i tried also to export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so befaore launching
> in this case the game fails completely to load with the following message:
> ./quake2: relocation error: /usr/lib/tls/libGLcore.so.1: undefined 
> symbol: __gl_tls_var0
> 
> here is the output of the console when i launch without export 
> LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so:
> 
> Quake 2 -- Version 3.21+rCVS
> Added packfile /home/matthieu/prog/quake2/baseq2/pak0.pak (3307 files)
> Added packfile /home/matthieu/prog/quake2/baseq2/pak1.pak (279 files)
> Added packfile /home/matthieu/prog/quake2/baseq2/pak2.pak (2 files)
> using /home/matthieu/.quake2/baseq2/ for writing
> execing default.cfg
> execing config.cfg
> basedir is write protected.
> Console initialized.
> 
> ------- sound initialization -------
> sound sampling rate: 11025
> ------------------------------------
> ------- Loading ref_glx.so -------
> LoadLibrary("/home/matthieu/prog/quake2/ref_glx.so")
> Trying joystick dev /dev/js0
> Error opening joystick dev /dev/js0
> Trying joystick dev /dev/js1
> Error opening joystick dev /dev/js1
> Trying joystick dev /dev/js2
> Error opening joystick dev /dev/js2
> Trying joystick dev /dev/js3
> Error opening joystick dev /dev/js3
> Trying joystick dev /dev/jsfd
> Error opening joystick dev /dev/jsfd
> Trying joystick dev /dev/jsflash
> Error opening joystick dev /dev/jsflash
> rfx_gl version: GL 0.01
> /home/matthieu/prog/quake2//usr/lib/libGL.so.1: cannot open shared 
> object file: No such file or directory
> rfx_gl::R_Init() - could not load "/usr/lib/libGL.so.1"
> ------- Loading ref_softx.so -------
> LoadLibrary("/home/matthieu/prog/quake2/ref_softx.so")
> Trying joystick dev /dev/js0
> Error opening joystick dev /dev/js0
> Trying joystick dev /dev/js1
> Error opening joystick dev /dev/js1
> Trying joystick dev /dev/js2
> Error opening joystick dev /dev/js2
> Trying joystick dev /dev/js3
> Error opening joystick dev /dev/js3
> Trying joystick dev /dev/jsfd
> Error opening joystick dev /dev/jsfd
> Trying joystick dev /dev/jsflash
> Error opening joystick dev /dev/jsflash
> setting mode 0: 320 240
> 808k surface cache
> ref_soft version: SOFT 0.01
> ------------------------------------
> CD Audio Initialized
> ------- Loading gamei386.so -------
> ==== InitGame ====
> ------- Server Initialization -------
> 0 entities inhibited
> 0 teams with 0 entities
> -------------------------------------
> ====== Quake2 Initialized ======
> 
> 0.0.0.0:0: client_connect
> ==== ShutdownGame ====
> recursive shutdown
> 
> i noticed that it says that basedir is write-protected, though it is not
> (all perms are rw-rw-r--)
> 
> the console says this:
> 
> my system is a red hat 9. gcc is 3.2.2
> i do have an nvidia driver that works ok and accelerated with other apps 
> (my graphic card is a geforce 256)
> 
> I only tried the 0.15 release, and i did not applied the brian hook's patch.
> 
> any help appreciated
> regards
> 

Perhaps this may help you!

Everytime I tried to get it to work with compiled code I failed with similar problems, but when I tried the CD less installer that can be found on the Icculus Quake2 page as download everything went fine!

So try the installer!

Bye

tuXist