suse 9 : quake 3 crashing on startup

qanopus · 11-28-2003, 02:39 PM

I can't seem to get quake 3 to run on suse 9. Was someone able to do so?
Here is my console output:

Code:

 ...loading libGL.so: QGL_Init: Can't load libGL.so from /etc/ld.so.conf or current dir: /usr/lib/tls/libGLcore.so.1: undefined symbol: __gl_tls_var0
failed
...loading libMesaVoodooGL.so: QGL_Init: Can't load libMesaVoodooGL.so from /etc/ld.so.conf or current dir: /usr/local/games/quake3/libMesaVoodooGL.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
failed

as you can see, it can't load the opengl library. I also have "libGLcore" in "/usr/lib". I worked out that if I use that library, instead of the one in "/usr/lib/tls" (by sym. linking /usr/lib/tls/libGL.so to /usr/lib/libGL.so),
quake 3 starts but other apps that rely on opengl crash with an segfault. And besides, talking about your ugly fix!
I found this site describing a very similar problem, although they have problems with xmms rather then quake3. But I suspect the underlying problem is the same.
Does any one know some more about this?

I use the 2.4.21 kernel, optimized for atlon cpu's and glibc 2.3.2 is installed. And i'm using the latest nvidia drivers.

qanopus · 11-28-2003, 04:39 PM

after some googling, I tried doing "quake3 +set r_glDriver /usr/lib/libGL.so.1", but it still crashes. I found out it's because it loads the library "/usr/lib/tls/libGL.so.1. 4496" , which causes the problem.

Kakarotto · 12-17-2003, 07:01 AM

Just wanted to say THANKS.

I just needed to create a symbolic link to libGL.so.1.0.4496 (the one provided by nvidia's driver), instead of using the 1.2.* one, provided by any other shit I don't know.

so it was easy as "ln /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.4496 /usr/lib/libGL.so", because for some reason that link didn't exist.. and while making the symlink to the newer version (1.2.*) it made Quake to crash.

raynet11 · 01-05-2004, 10:43 AM

I'm having the same problem with Suse 9.0, in the past I used mandrake and usually the problem was that mesa was installed and quake 3 was grabbing the mesa lib's and not the native lib's .. On Mandrake I would just uninstall mesa to fix the problem but it looks like Suse 9.0 is dependent on mesa for other things so it's not so simple. In theory if this (mesa) is the problem all that is needed to be done is to make the mesa lib files unavalible to quake 3 (touch command?) Problem is I will have to track these down .. =< I'll post if I find out more, seems like a lot of work just to play a game..

manishsingh4u · 03-20-2006, 05:44 PM

hi, I have just installed a demo version of quake 3 on my my computer which is -

Code:

intel 933 MHz
82810E Vesta MainBoard
128 MB SD RAM
4 MB onboard VGA

The windows version works very good. But it is not working on SUSE 9.1 Personal which I have installed 3 days back. I am getting the following error when I type q3demo on the konsole.

/**********************
Manish:~ # q3demo
Q3 1.11 linux-i386 Dec  4 1999
----- FS_Startup -----
Current search path:
/root/.q3a/baseq3
./baseq3

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

Running in restricted demo mode.

----- FS_Startup -----
Current search path:
/root/.q3a/demoq3
./demoq3/pak0.pk3 (1387 files)
./demoq3

----------------------
execing default.cfg
execing q3config.cfg
couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
----- Client Initialization -----
----- Initializing Renderer ----
-------------------------------
----- Client Initialization Complete -----
--- Common Initialization Complete ---
Opening IP socket: localhost:27960
Hostname: Manish
Alias: Manish
IP: 192.168.0.1
----- R_Init -----
...loading libGL.so: QGL_Init: Can't load libGL.so from /etc/ld.so.conf or current dir: libglide2x.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
failed
...loading libMesaVoodooGL.so: QGL_Init: Can't load libMesaVoodooGL.so from /etc/ld.so.conf or current dir: libglide2x.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
failed
----- CL_Shutdown -----
RE_Shutdown( 1 )
-----------------------
----- CL_Shutdown -----
-----------------------
Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem

Manish:~ #

Can anyone tell me what I need to make it work? I hope many people might have faced the same problems. Thanks in advance.