I tried out running gl-117 and got this:
Info: Found gl-117 data directory /usr/share/games/gl-117
Info: Startup gl-117, V1.3 ...
Info: Loading /home/ragge/.gl-117/conf
Info: Saving /home/ragge/.gl-117/conf
Info: Loading /home/ragge/.gl-117/conf.interface
Info: Saving /home/ragge/.gl-117/conf.interface
Info: Using SDL and GLUT
Info: Using SDL_mixer
Fatal: Cannot open winner.s3m: Unrecognized music format

I run Gentoo Linux on a amd64 whith 1gig ram and nforse sound card using alsa.

I tried varius things like reinstaling sdl_mixer but none off it worked.

Any sugestion on how i shall solve this issue?

Wow so many answers we got here.
Thanks for all the help

i have nearly teh same configuration u got, an i got the same problem after emerging gl117.

USE="mikmod" emerge sdl-mixer

did the trick for me.