I have just installed UT2003 for the first time since my last bout of tweaking stuff I shouldn't mess with hosed my system.

I've tried installing both as user & as root, and the install seemed to go flawlessly either way, however when I try to run it I get the splash screen & then:

| crispian@libranet:~$ ut2003
| Could not load OpenGL library
|
| History:
|
| Exiting due to error
| crispian@libranet:~$

Here is my set up-
Libranet 2.8.1, fully dist-upgraded (Debian based, mostly Sarge)
Linux 2.4.23
nvidia 1.0-4620 drivers (beta, but had the same problem with the 4496- thought the upgrade might help)
Athlon XP 2000+
512MB RAM
PNY Geforce 5200 128MB

TuxRacer etc. seems to run fine,
glxgears gives me-

| crispian@libranet:~$ glxgears
| 12680 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2536.000 FPS
| 12989 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2597.800 FPS
| 12929 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2585.800 FPS

UT2003 used to run fine when I installed it on my freshly installed Libranet 2.8.1 (2.4.21), it seems to be since upgrading to the new kernel etc. that I'm having the problems.

I know being able to frag people is not the noblest of pursuits, but it's really bugging me that I have to go back to my Windoze box to play this- so any advice would be appreciated!

Well in redhat and of course fedora ut2k3 will work after the mess that the nvidia drivers make is cleared, by removing the package mesa-libGL or something along those lines.
You have a debian based system, so this will not propably help as is, but maybe the problem is caused by the same stupidity in /usr/lib/gl or somewhere around there.
I can't remember what exactly it was, but TLS was a key word.

purplecow- you did it!

A quick Google <Linux> search on-
nvidia ut2k3 tls
turned up a post that said-

"If that indeed is the problem perhaps you missed some of the non-Nvidia
libraries when trying to delete them? See if there are any non-Nvidia
libs when you run:

ldd `which glxgears` | grep libGL

and then delete them or remove the XF86 Mesa rpm."

so I ran that & it pointed me to two files in /usr/lib/tls (libGLcore.so.1 & libGL.so.1) that were in fact links to 2 nvidia files in the same folder (libGLcore.so.1.0.4620 & libGL.so.1.0.4620)- remember I'm running the beta 1.0-4620 drivers.

So I renamed the two link files (su'd into gedit to get root privileges) by adding .bu to the ends of their names.

And now guess what- ut2003 runs beautifully just like it used to!

So, I don't pretend to know how it worked, but thanks to your hint about tls & the wonders of Google I can frag away to my hearts content & my Widoze box can carry on sleeping! Thanks again!

Dude... thanks a lot.... been trying to get games running on my newly compiled 2.6.5 kernel for ages... and your little google search helped me as well as you..