Video Card Problems Linux Display Driver - IA32 with Quake 3
 

Hi,

I have been using linux for a few months, know some basic commands and stuff.

I tried recently instaling quake 3 for linux. It successfully installed and everything, But when it came to running the program it gave me an error saying "Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - Could not load OpenGL Subsystem.

I figured that I need drivers, so I searched this forum and found a link to the Nvidia Linux Display Driver - IA32. (It wont let me post URLs)

I am not entirely sure of waht my video card is, but I am sure it is a GeForce 2 with 32 MB of Video Ram.

I downloaded and tried to install the driver, but It wont even open the file. gives me an error saying "Could not find the program NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run"

System Specs:
OS: Mandrake 9
GeForce 2 Video Card 32 MB Video Ram
256MB DDR Ram
20 GB HDD

I just cant seem to figure out why it wont run.... the file is right there but the system cannot "find" it :scratch:

Thanx for any help in advance :Pengy:

It's because that's not how running a program in linux works. Try this :
"sh NV*"

After I typed that In, It started uncompressing the files and stuff. Then I gave me an error saying "Unable to find the system utility "ld": please make sure you have the package "binutils" installed. If you do have binutils installed, please check that "ld" is in your path.

Any Help Appreciated

Well depending on the distro that your using, why don't you search for the package online.

Usually some distro's bring a built in "package manager" for me I had to download mine which was swaret.

all i have to do is swaret --install "name of progry"

but it doesn't mean it will find it all the times.

But sometimes you just have to compile from scratch, so try to see if you can find the binaries of this "binutil" my distro brings it, so type in google download it, look at the install me instructions and get it up and running, then recompile what you were doing before, I doubt you will get error, maybe others since if your missing this basic utility.

Do you have the development tools installed?

Im not familiar with "development tools"... please explain

So no one knows what development tools are......

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