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Problem running Quake4 Linux

When executing quake4-demo I get this error

Code:

Verifying archive integrity... All good.                

Uncompressing Quake 4 (TM) demo.................................................................................

Removing existing quake4-demo symlink                                                                          

Installing symlink /usr/local/bin/quake4-demo -> /mnt/games-share//quake4-demo                                  

Removing existing quake4-demoded symlink                                                                        

Installing symlink /usr/local/bin/quake4-demoded -> /mnt/games-share//quake4-demoded                            

Quake4 Demo Final V1.0.0 linux-x86 Nov 28 2005                                                                  

found interface lo - loopback                                                                                  

found interface eth0:FWB1 - 192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0                                                          

found interface wlan0 - 192.168.1.100/255.255.255.0                                                            

CPU: AMD CPU with MMX & 3DNow! & SSE & SSE2 & SSE3                                                              

enabled Flush-To-Zero mode                                                                                      

--------- Initializing File System ----------                                                                  

Loaded pk4 /mnt/games-share/q4base/game000.pk4 with checksum 0xc01bb9a0                                        

Loaded pk4 /mnt/games-share/q4base/game100.pk4 with checksum 0xe71d2aa2                                        

Loaded pk4 /mnt/games-share/q4base/pak001.pk4 with checksum 0x4a4195c2                                          

Loaded pk4 /mnt/games-share/q4base/zpak_english.pk4 with checksum 0xab62ab5e                                    

Loaded pk4 /mnt/games-share/q4base/zpak_french.pk4 with checksum 0x88c09a6b                                    

Loaded pk4 /mnt/games-share/q4base/zpak_italian.pk4 with checksum 0xb7cf593a                                    

Loaded pk4 /mnt/games-share/q4base/zpak_spanish.pk4 with checksum 0x1dec3532                                    

Current search path:                                                                                            

/home/lhorace/.quake4-demo/q4base                                                                              

/mnt/games-share/q4base                                                                                        

/mnt/games-share/q4base/zpak_spanish.pk4 (864 files)                                                            

/mnt/games-share/q4base/zpak_italian.pk4 (822 files)                                                            

/mnt/games-share/q4base/zpak_french.pk4 (784 files)                                                            

/mnt/games-share/q4base/zpak_english.pk4 (779 files)                                                            

/mnt/games-share/q4base/pak001.pk4 (7663 files)                                                                

/mnt/games-share/q4base/game100.pk4 (2 files)                                                                  

/mnt/games-share/q4base/game000.pk4 (2 files)                                                                  

game DLL: 0x0 in pak: 0x0                                                                                      

Addon pk4s:                                                                                                    

file system initialized.                                                                                        

---------------------------------------------                                                                  



Running in restricted demo mode.



------------ Initializing Decls -------------

Loading guides.... 59 loaded                

405ms to load 1064k of material              

84ms to load 43k of skin                    

341ms to load 719k of sound                  

4ms to load 1k of materialType              

488ms to load 2078k of lipSync              

119ms to load 105k of playback              

2569ms to load 1666k of effect              

---------------------------------------------

/proc/cpuinfo CPU frequency: 2000 MHz        

detecting video ram ( set sys_videoRam to force ) ..

guess failed, return default low-end VRAM setting ( 64MB VRAM )

Detected                                                      

        2.00 GHz CPU                                          

        1744 MB of System memory                              

        64 MB of Video memory on an optimal video architecture 



This system qualifies for Low quality.

-------- Initializing renderSystem ----------

using ARB renderSystem                      

renderSystem initialized.                    

---------------------------------------------

Found default language English with VO      

.... found additional language 'french' with VO

.... found additional language 'italian' with VO

.... found additional language 'spanish' with VO

641 strings read from strings/english_code.lang 

1669 strings read from strings/english_guis.lang

5631 strings read from strings/english_lips.lang

6100 strings read from strings/english_maps.lang

641 strings read from strings/french_code.lang  

1668 strings read from strings/french_guis.lang 

5630 strings read from strings/french_lips.lang 

6099 strings read from strings/french_maps.lang 

641 strings read from strings/italian_code.lang 

1668 strings read from strings/italian_guis.lang

5630 strings read from strings/italian_lips.lang

6099 strings read from strings/italian_maps.lang

641 strings read from strings/spanish_code.lang 

1668 strings read from strings/spanish_guis.lang

5630 strings read from strings/spanish_lips.lang

6099 strings read from strings/spanish_maps.lang

Couldn't open journal files                    

execing default.cfg                            

"ALT" isn't a valid key                        

"CTRL" isn't a valid key                        

couldn't exec editor.cfg                        

couldn't exec Quake4Config.cfg                  

couldn't exec autoexec.cfg                      

-------- Initializing Sound System ----------  

sound system initialized.                      

---------------------------------------------  

--------------- R_InitOpenGL ----------------  

Initializing SDL subsystem                      

Loading GL driver 'libGL.so.1' through SDL      

TODO: Sys_SetClipboardData                      

********************                            

ERROR: SDL_SetVideoMode failed: Couldn't find matching GLX visual

********************                                            

--------------- BSE Shutdown ----------------                    

---------------------------------------------                    

WARNING: rvServerScanGUI::Clear() - invalid scanGUI              



idRenderSystem::Shutdown()

Sys_Error: SDL_SetVideoMode failed: Couldn't find matching GLX visual

here's the output of fglrxinfo and glxinfo

Code:

[lhorace@comp1 ~]$ fglrxinfo

display: :0.0  screen: 0

OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.

OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon 3100 Graphics

OpenGL version string: 2.1.8870



[lhorace@comp1 ~]$  glxinfo | grep render

direct rendering: Yes

OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon 3100 Graphics

    GL_KTX_buffer_region, GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_conditional_render,

[lhorace@comp1 ~]$

According to the Log Error above, it miss detects my video card with 64 MB instead of 256 MB

It looks like you need to modify a line in your xorg.conf,the following links all point to the same solution:

http://www.mepis.org/node/11541
http://forums.opensuse.org/archives/...w-trouble.html
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t...5-start-0.html

Let us know how you get on.

I checked my xorg.conf file

Code:

[lhorace@comp1 quake4-newer]$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display



Section "ServerLayout"

        Identifier    "Default Layout"

        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0  

EndSection                            



Section "Files"

        ModulePath  "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/catalyst"

        ModulePath  "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions"        

        ModulePath  "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"                    

EndSection                                                        



Section "ServerFlags"

        Option      "AIGLX" "on"

EndSection                      



Section "Device"

        Identifier  "Videocard0"

        Driver      "fglrx"

        Option      "OpenGLOverlay" "off"

        Option      "VideoOverlay" "on"

        #Option    "SWcursor" "true"

EndSection



Section "Screen"

        Identifier "Screen0"

        Device    "Videocard0"

        DefaultDepth    24

EndSection



Section "Extensions"

        Option      "Composite" "Enable"

EndSection

EDIT: here's my new xorg.conf

Code:



# Xorg con:figuration created by livna-config-display



Section "ServerLayout"

        Identifier    "Default Layout"

        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0  

EndSection                            



Section "Files"

        ModulePath  "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/catalyst"

        ModulePath  "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions"        

        ModulePath  "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"                    

EndSection                                                        



Section "ServerFlags"

        Option      "AIGLX" "on"

EndSection                      



Section "Device"

        Identifier  "Videocard0"

        Driver      "fglrx"    

        Option      "OpenGLOverlay" "off"

        Option      "VideoOverlay" "on"

EndSection



Section "Screen"

        Identifier "Screen0"

        Device    "Videocard0"

        DefaultDepth    24

        SubSection "Display"

                Viewport  0 0

                Depth    24

                Modes "1280x800" "1024x768" "1024x640" "800x600" "640x480"

        EndSubSection

EndSection



Section "Extensions"

        Option      "Composite" "Enable"

EndSection

to make sure DefualtDepth was already set to 24, it already is....

I seen I downloaded the 1.0 version, so I want and got the 1.4.2 version and I am getting a different error this time

Code:

---------------------------------------------      

--------------- R_InitOpenGL ----------------      

Initializing SDL subsystem                        

Loading GL driver 'libGL.so.1' through SDL        

SDL_ListModes:                                    

1280x800 1280x768 1024x768 800x600 640x480 640x400 512x384 400x300 320x240 320x200 

SDL_ListModes are currently ignored for resolution filtering. Set r_useSDLModes to 1 if you want it

Initializing SDL subsystem                                                                        

Loading GL driver 'libGL.so.1' through SDL                                                        

SDL_ListModes:                                                                                    

1280x800 1280x768 1024x768 800x600 640x480 640x400 512x384 400x300 320x240 320x200                

SDL_ListModes are currently ignored for resolution filtering. Set r_useSDLModes to 1 if you want it

Fatal Error: Unable to initialize OpenGL                                                          

--------------- BSE Shutdown ----------------                                                      

---------------------------------------------

I also have tried

Code:

startx `which quake4-demo` -- :1 -depth 24

and

Code:

./quake4-demo +set r_useSDLModes 1

Code:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 quake4-demo

all commands as root or non-root, same error

Are you using a 64bit o/s by any chance?.
I run Q4 myself on my machine,and to run it i have to use the ia32-libs package,which lets me run 32bit applications like Q4.
Can you run any other games that use 3d acceleration?.
Have you tried running glxgears from a console,this should give you an indication if you have acceleration working.

His drivers are definitely installed properly, but you are correct that if he's running a 64 bit distribution, he needs to install the 32 bit drivers to run 32 bit opengl applications such as quake4.

Yes I am running Fedora KDE 64 Bit...

I don't known if this makes any different..

Code:

[lhorace@comp1 /]$ sudo find -iname libGL.so.1

./usr/lib/libGL.so.1

./usr/lib64/libGL.so.1

./usr/lib64/catalyst/libGL.so.1

[lhorace@comp1 /]$

what other 3D games should I try to see if it work

Note, if I 'yum install game' it will install a 64 Bit version...

glxgears with and without compositing.. I did try running Quake4 without compositing also

Code:

[lhorace@comp1 /]$ glxgears

2834 frames in 5.0 seconds = 566.793 FPS

2966 frames in 5.0 seconds = 593.025 FPS

2907 frames in 5.0 seconds = 581.397 FPS

2713 frames in 5.0 seconds = 542.553 FPS

XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"

      after 41 requests (41 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

[lhorace@comp1 /]$ glxgears

13168 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2633.449 FPS

13491 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2698.023 FPS

13315 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2662.974 FPS

12072 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2414.172 FPS

XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"

      after 41 requests (41 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

[lhorace@comp1 /]$

I think we can rule out your graphics drivers,they appear to be working.
It would probably be a good idea asking at LQ's Fedora forum if there are any 32bit libraries you can install.
Or ask how do other Fedora users run Q4 on a 64bit machine.
Sorry i can't help further,it's been a number of years since i used Fedora myself.
Post back if you find the solution,i'd be interested to hear how it's done with Fedora.

My Wine is 32 Bit, I check appdb.whinehq.org and Quake4 1.4.2 is in platium status, I'll give it a try and see if it works... I will check fedora forum, if nothing comes up.. I'll file a bug at redhat.com

I'm getting somewhere now, I went to http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux...2582f7fc39ba5c and followed the section about reporting bugs and it was suggested that when I run the games... Issue this command..

Code:

quake4-demo +set developer 1 +set logfile 1

And I got a an error, unable to open $HOME/.quake4-demo/q4base/qconsole.log... I checked my home directory and notice that the folder was root root .quake4-demo. So chown the folder to user user, everything seems to work expect this time, I get a different error

Code:

---------------------------------------------                                                                                                

--------------- R_InitOpenGL ----------------                                                                                                

Initializing SDL subsystem                                                                                                                  

Loading GL driver 'libGL.so.1' through SDL                                                                                                  

SDL_ListModes:                                                                                                                              

1280x800 1280x768 1024x768 800x600 640x480 640x400 512x384 400x300 320x240 320x200                                                          

SDL_ListModes are currently ignored for resolution filtering. Set r_useSDLModes to 1 if you want it                                          

WARNING: SDL_SetVideoMode failed: Couldn't find matching GLX visual                                                                          

Initializing SDL subsystem                                                                                                                  

Loading GL driver 'libGL.so.1' through SDL                                                                                                  

SDL_ListModes:                                                                                                                              

1280x800 1280x768 1024x768 800x600 640x480 640x400 512x384 400x300 320x240 320x200                                                          

SDL_ListModes are currently ignored for resolution filtering. Set r_useSDLModes to 1 if you want it

WARNING: SDL_SetVideoMode failed: Couldn't find matching GLX visual

Fatal Error: Unable to initialize OpenGL

--------------- BSE Shutdown ----------------

---------------------------------------------

WARNING: rvServerScanGUI::Clear() - invalid scanGUI



idRenderSystem::Shutdown()

Sys_Error: Unable to initialize OpenGL

I think I'm getting somewhere

SOLVRED

I was on a RPMFUSION channel on Freenode asking, an unrelated question about another video problem that I was having with OpenGL. I was told to install xorg-x11-drv-catalyst-libs.i586, that fix my initial issue and while at it fix my Quake4 *Unable to initialize OpenGL* issue.

The point is: 32 Bit apps needs 32 Bit openGL compatibility libraries.

Note: The 32 Bit openGL libraries (ATi catalyst Libs) can be installed along side with x86_64 Catalyst driver

Glad to hear you found the answer.
Thanks for coming back and posting the solution.

They had to be tons of people out there who might be going through what I went throught ;)