newbie quake 3 problems

[moogle33]

hello all ive just tried to install quake 3 on my machine I have a gefoce 2 GTS card a clean install of mandrake 8.1 ive copied the baseq3 folder accross and installed the latest patch but when i run ./quake3 all i get is error saying cannotload OpenGl subsystem any help would be appriciated

[Simon3D]

Which XFree are you using?

I'm using XFree 4.1.0. The GL subsystem means that Graphics Library allowing Quake to render onscreen. To enable it in XFree 4.1.0 you need to make sure you haven 'open "GLX"' in the drivers section I believe (I'm not sitting infront of my own linux box at mo). Obviously another to make sure is that OpenGL/Mesa is installed for XFree. I downloaded the appropriate binary install for XFree 4.1 since I've found that the XFree installs that come with distros are not always built correctly (ie have bits disabled vital for games etc).

If you have other problems with X concerning DRI (Direct Rendering Manager) that allows openGL to work with hardware acceleration you might want to visit dri.sourceforge.net and have a look at the documentation.

Simon

[moogle33]

thanks ive just installed mesa man I thought open gl would be included.
still wont work though I get a strange message that QGL_Init cant load libMesaVoodoDL.so
but im not using a voodoo i using a geforce ive tried ./quake3 +set r_gldriver libGL.so but it want to load libMesaVoodoDL.so

[Simon3D]

I'm purely guessing here, but I suspect that the libGL.so library that has hardware detection/rendering code, that needs the libMesaVoodoDL.so library. Now even though the library is named Voodo, it might have similar code to make you're geforce work, but I simply just don't know.

I would have a look at dri.sourceforge.net because I believe some parts of the documentation are specific to certain graphic cards and thus there maybe an appropriate work around, remedies, clues to point you in the right direction etc. Failing this, I suppose you can have a look at Loki's FAQ for quake3 to se if it mentions anything about your graphics card.

Simon

[Avatar]

Actually, wht you need to do is install the NVIDIA 3D drivers for you card. Not having them is what is causng your error. (Can't have 3D without 3D drivers.)

[bwkaz]

Originally posted by Avatar:
<STRONG>Actually, wht you need to do is install the NVIDIA 3D drivers for you card. Not having them is what is causng your error. (Can't have 3D without 3D drivers.)</STRONG>

And you get them from www.nvidia.com (http://www.nvidia.com) (just so you know).

[moogle33]

Thanks bwkaz ill download them tonight