[quake2] Error during start

[Brendan Burns]

Alex,
quake doesn't know where the base dir is.

cd /path/to/quake2; ./quake2

should do the trick.  You can also specify the base dir on the command
line...

--brendan

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 21:52 -0400, Alex Burger wrote:
> I just did a fresh install using the Loki installer and I am getting the 
> same error.  I don't have a ref_softx.so in the installed folder.
> 
> I just looked at the RPM version and it does include the ref_softx.so 
> file.  When I try to run that version, I get the error saying it can't 
> find colormap.pcx.
> 
> Alex
> 
> Daniel Seichter wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I've downloaded the packages again and was able to install. Now have the
> > problem on start up.
> > Please help, thanks:
> > 
> > # /usr/local/share/games/quake2/quake2 
> > using /home/daniel/.quake2/baseq2/ for writing
> > couldn't exec default.cfg
> > couldn't exec config.cfg
> > Console initialized.
> > ------- Loading ref_softx.so -------
> > LoadLibrary("ref_softx.so") failed: No such file or directory
> > Refresh failed
> > recursive shutdown
> > Error: Couldn't fall back to software refresh
> > 
> > What is ref_softx.so? What else I have to install?
> > 
> > Daniel
>