Re: [Sheflug] quake 3 / mesa / open gl / nvidia geforce 2

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Monday 16 July 2001 11:47 pm, you wrote:

> Now im just getting annoyed. I went to all the trouble of downloading 27mb
> worth of quake 3 point release, only to be told when i try and run it that
> it cant find a mesa compatible open Gl renderer.

IMO Quake does bad things in it's quest to find GL libraries in order to take 
into account old versions of XFree86. Hopefully this should be sorted quite 
soon so new games should have a better basis for searching.


> GL_RENDERER: Mesa X11

Not sure whether or not this is correct but maybe you have two GL libraries 
installed on your system.

Try "locate libGL.so" at a shell and see what turns up. If you have more than 
one of them then that could be the trouble. Again this should be fixed with 
later XFree86 versions.


> ***********************************************************
>  You are using software Mesa (no hardware acceleration)!
>  Driver DLL used: libGL.so
>  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)
> ..loading libMesaVoodooGL.so: QGL_Init: Can't load libMesaVoodooGL.so from
> /etc/ld.so.conf or current dir: /home/wolf/apps/quake3/libMesaVoodooGL.so:

Looks like you have a setup problem here, it's trying to find the Voodoo 
(3dfx) GL library. Check your configs. I don't have quake 3 but I know it has 
some way of selecting a GL driver.

There are Q3 support forums on the net which may be of more use than here, 
I've only dabbled in Quake since version 2. The 3D situation on Linux/XFree 
is not great yet, but it is getting there. When XFree 3.x is finally put to 
bed a lot of these wrinkles should be ironed out.

Hmmm, as a side note, is there a libGL.so in the quake3 directory? If so it 
may be an idea to delete it (back up first) and symlink to your nVidia GL lib.
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