I just downloaded Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, but it's a .run file. How do I go about installing a .run file?

Um, did you try running it?

Seriously, just issue:

chmod a+x et-linux-2.55.x86.run (or whatever the file name is)

then

./et-linux-2.55.x86.run

(period then forward-slash then the filename to run it).

i didn't know about the chmod part, but when i ran it before it just opened as a text file in kwrite.
what exactly does chmod do? change it to an executable file?


and when I try to install the ATI drivers from ati.com.. i get this error

"error: failed dependencies:
/bin/sh is needed by fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6
/bin/sh is needed by fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6
/bin/sh is needed by fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6
/bin/sh is needed by fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6
ld-linux.so.2 is needed by fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6
libX11.so.6 is needed by fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6
libXext.so.6 is needed by fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6
libc.so.6 is needed by fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6
libdl.so.2 is needed by fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6
libm.so.6 is needed by fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6
libpthread.so.0 is needed by fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3) is needed by fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6
libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6
libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by fglrx-4.3.0-3.7.6
RESULT=1"

Is there a file i can download that includes most of these files?

..so if you indeed have proper versions of glibc/x installed, the errors seem very odd (though I'm insanely tired right now, so I might be missing something obvious ). I'm using a Geforce FX5900 myself (my Radeon 9700 Pro broke before I got it to work properly), so I can't really help you out...but there are loads of threads about the ATI-drivers and related issues.

DOH! I think its the "* glibc version 2.2 or 2.3" I'll go install and see if that works.

NaTaS... You'll always get dependency errors when trying to install an RPM in slackware. Slackware has no rpm database. You probably already have all those libraries and programs, but rpm doesn't know about them.

The solution:

rpm2tgz fglrx(whatever).rpm
installpkg fglrx(whatever).rpm

There you go, buddy.

Now read up a bitmore on getting those drivers to work

--Shade

Hrmm...maybe that's why every damn rpm i try doesn't work? lol

Well, Gaim's RPM did work :-p

thanks a bunch man, ill go try it right now!

ok, it seemed to work, it didn't give me any errors. Is there a way to make sure they are the drivers X is using, or make sure they are installed?

**edit** scratch that, i ran the ati configure, and it seems to have worked because now KDE loads a lot faster. Thanks for the help!

You can use glxinfo to figure out what's going on

glxgears gives you a primitive benchmark for 3d acceleration.

glxinfo will have a line near the top you should look for:

Direct Rendering: Yes

That's the ticket

--Shade

this is what I get when entering those at the command line.

"glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual

visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
0x21 24 tc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None"

"glxgears
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual"

I'm not that familiar with the ATI drivers (as previously stated) but I remember seeing something about 'fglrxgears' or something...you might want to try that.

I think I know what the problem is. When I ran fglrxconfig, the ATI configure file, it created a new fx86config-4 file. But, it saved it to /home/nathan, and I know that isn't where it is supposed to be. So where do I need to put this file?

X reads the file located at /etc/X11/XF86Config

So, just open up XF86Config, and replace the text with that of XF86config-4 which was created by the ATI configuration?