LOL

Let me tell you something. Only thig why I am running FC2 is because of this tribes since my Gentoo X86_64 2004.3 from stage1 installation cannot install tribes because it has depency to loki_patch and loki_patch has depency to loki_setupb and even thought I am able to compile loki_setupb. But when compiling loki_patch it says that I haven't compiled loki_setupb and it fails to that. I have tried forcing the installation with -O and doing it by path, but it fails because I don't have loki_patch in my system.

Gentoo is really good system. I have used gentoo more that four years. And I think that my most problems with that relate to my amd64. If I am going to build Gentoo from stage1 again to create fast x86 installation with gensplash and other nice things that gentoo offers like gentoo-dev-kernel and portage (
darcon3k, do you have ever used OpenBSD or similar? Ports is better than Portage. Hell, Portage is Ports that is stolen from BSD). However if I am going to run loki games on gentoo platform I have to compile gentoo-kernel because it is still 2.4 and most games just won't work if you're not running 2.4 kernel with 2.4 kernel hearders. So why not to build my own distro for running Loki Games and then writing some configuration software for it and then adding Arch Linux Pac-Man to it and making it a bootable cd and then installing it. With label: "This distro can run loki games. Old packages expected. Do not install if you're not going to play linux games."


*So please note this is a advice for n00b who thinks more about himself than he really is.

Ps. I should have wrote to gentoo forums instead of this, but since comversation was started here so I didn't want to move it.

Ps2. Even thought I know lot's of things I do have problems too. Since I don't do much gaming on linux even thought I use it as my sandbox for lot of things and acctually for everything since I don't have money to buy Mickeysoft WindowsuX Professional Bleeding-edge software (tm).

Actually I run openbsd on my router/server I wanted to install freebsd on my desktop but AFAIK ATI hasn't made any freebsd drivers. And I can't have a desktop system without Tribes2

oh and I'm running kernel 2.6.10 and tribes 2 runs fine so I'm not sure why you need a 2.4 kernel to play games. Although Ive got a athlonxp 2500+ (overclocked to 4000+ ) so I'm running in 32bit. Maybe you could try dropping down to 32bit? I'm not sure what the performance hit is but I heard athlon64s can do that.

I solved the problem some time ago. i installed debian and rest is history as they say.

Hey AnXa ! I have the same problem with Tribes2 !
Any ide what is the problem ?
thx 4 help

Some times I wonder why people don't listen.

You need real tribes2 cd(It means that you have bought it from the shop, there are two pirated versions moving in internet of the linux tribes2 and another one works and that another doesn't work), the patch to newest version and working 32bit linux or 64bit linux with 32bit libraries in it. It doesn't matter which kernel you use, but what version is your Glibc since loki_patch is the program that makes things go wrong.

Here is what you need to do:
(0.) Install tribes2
1. Download tribes2-25034-cdrom-x86.run
2. Download http://icculus.org/~msphil/loki/x86/loki_patch
3. chmod 0777 tribes2-25034-cdrom-x86.run
4. ./tribes2-25034-cdrom-x86.run --target tribes2patch
5. copy loki_patch you downloaded over the old one in tribes2patch/bin/Linux/x86
6. run ./update.sh script in tribes2patch folder

That's it, have fun time playing Tribes2 under linux...

If that new loki_patch doesn't work you either have that non-working pirated version you have most probably downloaded from the net or then it just didn't work with your distros glibc and you need to compile your own loki_patch. You can get the fixed sources from: http://icculus.org/loki_setup/

That gentoo thingy worked cause gentoo compiles literally everything from the sources. It ment that when he installed tribes in gentoo the portage did everything for him. Like compiling loki_setup tools automaticly to use with portage ebuilds...

You cannot however compile those loki_setup tools in 64bit linux cause those sources include 32bit assembler stuff which is a really nasty thing to get working at all... (yeah yeah, I know about the ebx and abx thingys, I tried to compile quake1 in 64bit linux.. )

By using debian I resolved the 32bit library thing with loki_setup tool compiling. And oh, one more thing. I bought tribes2 from the shop. It resolved many md5 things... wink wink...