Alright, this is getting frustrating. I've got Doom running with the Legacy port, Quake 1 running with the Darkplaces port, and all I have left is Quake 2 with the Quake2MaX port. But... I cp'ed all the data off the CD into a Quake2 directory, tar -xzf'ed the quake2max.044.i386.tar.gz and quake2max.044.zip into into Quake2/, and tar -xzf'ed quake2-3.20-glibc-i386-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz also into Quake2, and ./quake2max'ed into the game, and it plays the demo, but when I try to start either the single-player OR multi-player game it quits on me with apparently no errors.

Here's the console output:

bert@darkstar:~/Downloads/Quake2$ ./quake2max
Added packfile ./baseq2/pak0.pak (3307 files)
Added packfile ./baseq2/pak1.pak (279 files)
Added packfile ./baseq2/pak2.pak (2 files)
Added packfile ./baseq2/_maxpak.pak (118 files)
using /home/bert/.quake2/baseq2/ for writing
execing default.cfg
execing maxconfig.cfg
Console initialized.

------- sound initialization -------
sound sampling rate: 22050
------------------------------------
------- Loading rfx_glx.so -------
LoadLibrary("./rfx_glx.so")
rfx_gl version: GL 0.01
Using libGL.so for OpenGL...
... Using stencil buffer
R_SetMode() - CDS not allowed with this driver
Initializing OpenGL display
...setting fullscreen mode 3: 640 480
Using XFree86-VidModeExtension Version 2.2
GL_VENDOR: ATI Technologies Inc.
GL_RENDERER: RADEON 9200SE DDR Generic
GL_VERSION: 1.3 (X4.3.0-3.9.0)
GL_EXTENSIONS: GL_ARB_multitexture GL_EXT_texture_env_add GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array GL_S3_s3tc GL_ARB_occlusion_query GL_ARB_point_parameters GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp GL_ARB_texture_compression GL_ARB_texture_cube_map GL_ARB_texture_env_add GL_ARB_texture_env_combine GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat GL_ARB_transpose_matrix GL_ARB_vertex_blend GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object GL_ARB_vertex_program GL_ARB_window_pos GL_ATI_element_array GL_ATI_envmap_bumpmap GL_ATI_fragment_shader GL_ATI_map_object_buffer GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3 GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once GL_ATI_vertex_array_object GL_ATI_vertex_attrib_array_object GL_ATI_vertex_streams GL_ATIX_texture_env_combine3 GL_ATIX_texture_env_route GL_ATIX_vertex_shader_output_point_size GL_EXT_abgr GL_EXT_bgra GL_EXT_blend_color GL_EXT_blend_func_separate GL_EXT_blend_minmax GL_EXT_blend_subtract GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint GL_EXT_draw_range_elements GL_EXT_fog_coord GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays GL_EXT_packed_pixels GL_EXT_point_parameters GL_EXT_rescale_normal GL_EXT_secondary_color GL_EXT_separate_specular_color GL_EXT_stencil_wrap GL_EXT_texgen_reflection GL_EXT_texture3D GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc GL_EXT_texture_cube_map GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp GL_EXT_texture_env_combine GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3 GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp GL_EXT_texture_object GL_EXT_texture_rectangle GL_EXT_vertex_array GL_EXT_vertex_shader GL_HP_occlusion_test GL_NV_texgen_reflection GL_NV_blend_square GL_NV_occlusion_query GL_SGI_color_matrix GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp GL_SGIS_texture_lod GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap GL_SGIS_multitexture GL_SUN_multi_draw_arrays
...allowing CDS
...enabling GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array
...using GL_EXT_point_parameters
...using GL_ARB_multitexture
...GL_SGIS_multitexture deprecated in favor of ARB_multitexture
...using GL_ARB_texture_env_combine
...GL_NV_texture_shader not found
...using GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap
...ignoring GL_ARB_texture_compression
------------------------------------
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

------- sound initialization -------
sound sampling rate: 22050
------------------------------------
==== ShutdownGame ====
------- Loading gamei386.so -------
==== InitGame ====
------- Server Initialization -------
0 entities inhibited
0 teams with 0 entities
-------------------------------------
0.0.0.0:0: client_connect
------- Server Initialization -------
27 entities inhibited
1 teams with 2 entities
Received signal 11, exiting...
bert@darkstar:~/Downloads/Quake2$

I've searched on this site and on google and came up empty handed, anyone have any ideas?

I had the same problem, to make it work I had to download the source and build it from source, and also to stop the signal 11 problem I had to not use the MAX feature.
Then everything worked.

Aw that sucks, I've already tried building from source with no luck, any tips?

Just a suggestion, play the windows version with wine. I do it, works super.

What went wrong building from source? Not compile or not work. What doesn't work?

It's been a while since I last tried but it was definitely not compile. It may have been because I was to lazy to mess around with the makefile though.

Try this Berto.

http://www.markshan.com/thesinraven/

Hope that this helps you.

The SIN Raven

Thanks SIN Raven, but it still does the same thing, am downloading the MaX sources and the original sources right now. Hopefully I can get those to compile this time.

Hey Berto, what version of Slack are you ussing?
Where did you installed Quake 2 /usr/local/games/quake2?
Please post your XF86Config-4.
We must put the sucker working...
Thake care.

The SIN Raven

I'm using Slackware 10 with xorg 6.7. And I just unpacked all the files into a "quake2" directory in my Downloads folder, but I've also tried it in /usr/local/games/quake2 but it still didn't work... In fact the only time it did run was several years ago when I was running Debian 3.0rc2. I'll be posting my xorg.conf file shortly.

By the way, the damned thing still won't compile for me.

Berto the dir to install Quake 2, must be /usr/local/quake2.
Also all the files must be lower case.
In you xorg.cconf, look for the line with the following:

Option "omit xfree86-dga"

If it is uncoment, coment it:

# Option "omit xfree86-dga"

Also try with the binaries from my page.
If you whant i can also help you witht the source code, we can talk via msn:

thesinraven@hotmail.com


Thake care.

The SIN Raven