Hi all,

I know this is a game, and normally goes into the game threads here, but my issue is probably something wrong with how I have my dvd-rom setup/installed in my slackware 10.2

Problem: the "data installer" for quake 3 does not see my cdrom device, which as I indicated is a dvd-rom drive.

What I did:
downloaded from http://www.icculus.org/quake3/?page=home
this file: "ioquake3-1.33_SVN797-0.1.i386.run"
I made that executable and installed the 'program/game files' and the 'binaries'
to : /home/fogie/games/ioquake3 this installed fine without error in Konsole/terminal.

then from that same site, I downloaded this file: "ioquake3-data-1.32-0.noarch.run"
this is where my problem comes in.
I AM selecting "Quake III Arena CDROM" option, as I understand it, the installer needs to verify my store bought CD, then it will copy files over to my hard drive, and patch as required. All other options there are default, and I see that the installer see's the proper path I previously set for the game to install to of /home/fogie/games/ioquake3

As soon as hit next, a dialog box keeps asking me to mount my cdrom.

here is how my cdrom (really a dvdrom) is set up for me on my slackware:

running this in terminal : [HTML]ls -l /dev/cdrom[/HTML]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2006-07-27 21:28 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdd

my fstab has the following:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,users 0 0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd auto noauto,users 0 0

Also, I have used 'chmod 666 /mnt/cdrom' 'chmod 666 /mnt/dvd' and 'chmod 777 /dev/cdrom' and 'chmod 777 /dev/dvd'

These files do exist in my /dev folder on my hard drive.

The installation is a store bought cd. I know that it works, because I just dual booted up into windows xp service pack 2 and the game installed just fine off of the cd that I'm trying to use in my slackware.

I have no other issues with this dvd rom, well I dont own any dvd's so I dont even know if that works, but I can play my music cds, burn iso's, no dmesg error's of any kind.

Any thoughts?

I think you are making it too difficult on yourself....
Just use the Point release from ID Software.

Follow this link, right click on the point release and then "save link location" (otherwise it just opens the bianary)
ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake3/linux

Run the installer... then copy the game files from the "base" directory on the Cd to wherever you installed the game.
(there is a readme in there somewhere, its been a while)

Good luck

Hi Mike160,

thank you for the reply, that worked superbly.

just in case anyone stumbles on this, there is a newer version of the point release that supposedly address security issues.

thanks again mike.

i have some experience with q3, good luck with punkbuster updates (i freakin hate em)

Yeah, I had that too over and over and over.

I'm glad you posted, it reminded me that I wanted to post this link in case anyone comes looking for help on Q3.

Finally I found this: http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php

It turns out, for some reason, firewall I don't know; but I was waiting forever for punkbuster to update if I was hooked up to a game server. Then I'd get booted...and no error message that I could find. I put that application in and manually ran the update and vuala!

yes, thanks for link, i remember pb was ok first (when it was q3 only) but it's been getting worse and worse.. try updating q4, such a nightmare (maybe not anymore with new pr, haven't tried yet).
I'm waiting for slackware 11 to install all my games, maybe i'll catch you online then. Happy fraggin

It's an issue in Q4 too, ok. I don't have that game, unfortunately my pc is too slow to play it, basing that on the windows xp demo I tried.

tho, i've heard that the deathmatch and tdm stuff can really be toned down more than the demo itself, but they dont let you try that out.

Manny do you have any good links/tips for cpma and osp installations? I haven't done them yet.

Sure, here's cpma
some great demos (many games/files/maps/configs) on challenge-tv.com
osp's site seems dead, but found some link in the osp wiki
Some configuring/tweaking of q3a config sites seem gone or down atm, pm me or post here if you need help, i used to play q3+mods a lot!
nowadays i mostly play quakeworld or doom1&2 as i don't have time to hang around on servers as i used to, but i still love id games.
ps. A nice "linux" thing is you can run q3a on x with no window manager improving performance or ctrl alt to a terminal with xchat (for clan activity) and run the game in ctl alt f7. Try that on windows!

How do you run Q3 without a window manager?

Fantastic, thanks manny!

Well, it's been a long time, i don't have q3a installed and i just deleted my freebsd, hopefully somebody will correct my post.
I'll give it a try:
1 If you normally boot to kde log out/end current seesion. Then start a failsafe session and run quake3
2 If you boot to a cli it will depend on your ~/.xinitrc (or lack of it). You can try "startx" or "xinit" and/or comment out the window managers.
3 I used to run 2 xsessions, type xinit -- :3 and start q3a in there, ctl alt fX and then xinit -- :4 and start xchat or whatever.
sorry for lousy info, just try it. gl

to Old_Fogie: np