I downloaded the demo to my home directory... the resulting file is:

linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh

What do I do from here? It did not have any instructions with it...

Hi, I just had that problem the other day, i posed about it and got this witch was easy enough

"For the Quake 3 demo file, you need to set the permissions to execute. Do: chmod +x linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh. Then run it by doing: ./linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh (hint: just type ./linuxq3 then press the [TAB] key for autocompletion)." - spurious

in a terminal cd to you home dir, then type chmod +x linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh. then type ./linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh and enter, hope it works for ya =]

I got the following:

[thaidog@localhost thaidog]$ chmod +x linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh
[thaidog@localhost thaidog]$ ./linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh
bash: ./linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Text file busy
[thaidog@localhost thaidog]$ linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh
bash: linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh: command not found
[thaidog@localhost thaidog]$ ./linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh
bash: ./linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Text file busy
[thaidog@localhost thaidog]$

Not sure what's up... I'm going to reboot and see what happens...

again im very new to linux, my guss would be you have to be root to change file permissions. but if not then im spent

Holy sh#t... I logged in to root got he demo installed and ran it... but's running way too slow to be playable! I mean frame by frame... like 3D acceration is not enabled or something... man this sucks!

hey me again, Yah i had the EXACT same problem in the EXACT same order... heres my post about it, hope it helps =]

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=148933

you have to edit the xf86 config file or somthing heh

This is what the file currently looks like:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "ATI Radeon 9000"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection

And I guess I should add a # to the module like this:

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
# Load "dri"
EndSection

??? Thanks for all your help!

i did the load "DRI" like this

load "#"
and it works for me,

though we have differnt viedocards... that may be a problem

Oh... ok... I try that!

Hmm still running slow... I just downloaded and install the newest ati drivers too! Man this is not good...

That DRI to # however made a noticable difference in frame rate... but it's still slow as hell on quake 3...

i used the drivers found here...

http://nvidia.com

and this is what it should like like

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "ATI Radeon 9000"
EndSection

but thats for my gforce 2 may or may not work for yours

thaidog, try doing this (all as root)

cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod
./build.sh
cd ..
./make_install.sh

and see if that fixes the problem

I get an error at the second step....

[root@localhost root]# cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod
[root@localhost build_mod]# ./build.sh
bash: ./build.sh: No such file or directory
[root@localhost build_mod]# ls
2.6.x agpgart.h i7505-agp.c make.sh
agp3.c agp.h i7505-agp.o nvidia-agp.c
agp3.o fglrx.o libfglrx_ip.a nvidia-agp.o
agp_backend.h firegl_public.c libfglrx_ip.a.GCC2 patch
agpgart_be.c firegl_public.h libfglrx_ip.a.GCC3
agpgart_be.o firegl_public.o make.log
[root@localhost build_mod]#

Yeah that's what mine looks like (with the exception of the driver name... I'm using an ATI card instead of nvidia...)