Grrr..Need help with QuakeIII demo and Linux please EDIT: Fixed..I'm fraggin'

[GonzoDaGr8]

I downloaded the quakeIII demo from Idsoftware last night to see how it would play on my box with Linux (SuSE 8.0 BTW), and for the life of me, have no idea how to install this thing.. The file is something like quake3a-1.11demo.gz.sh don't quote me on the exact filename as I am on my Winbox right now and don't remember the full name. I know that it is a .gz.sh file. I looked up and down in all the books that I have and can not figure out how to get this to install or run..Damn, why can't this be like the Mac or Windows versions that I can just double-click and install? I know there will be a simple answer, But I don't know it..

TIA

 

[pac1085]

Originally posted by: GonzoDaGr8
I downloaded the quakeIII demo from Idsoftware last night to see how it would play on my box with Linux (SuSE 8.0 BTW), and for the life of me, have no idea how to install this thing.. The file is something like quake3a-1.11demo.gz.sh don't quote me on the exact filename as I am on my Winbox right now and don't remember the full name. I know that it is a .gz.sh file. I looked up and down in all the books that I have and can not figure out how to get this to install or run..Damn, why can't this be like the Mac or Windows versions that I can just double-click and install? I know there will be a simple answer, But I don't know it..

TIA

chmod +x quake3a-1.11demo.gz.sh
./quake3a-1.11demo.gz.sh

should do the trick

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

Thanx Vortex, That did the trick...Installed ok, but I get GL errors when I try to run it.. I need to tinker around with it for a bit and see what I can come up with..

 

[TheOmegaCode]

Originally posted by: GonzoDaGr8
Thanx Vortex, That did the trick...Installed ok, but I get GL errors when I try to run it.. I need to tinker around with it for a bit and see what I can come up with..

Have you installed the nvidia drivers?

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

Yeah, I installed the GLX and kernel drivers from SuSEs' ftp site..I know that I have openGL working as GL screensavers work, tuxcart and tuxracer play very well, and if I type "glxgears" in the console, the little gear program runs @ 3000-4000 frames per sec. I think quake is not finding my GL driver.

 

[manly]

I don't really use OpenGL under Linux, but as far as I could tell, the Nvidia drivers used to have a minor setup bug.

Even after running switch2nvidia_glx, the symlink /usr/lib/libGL.so still pointed to a Mesa library, instead of Nvidia's implementation.

I can't recall whether fixing that symlink OR (more likely) specifying the renderer (/usr/lib/libGL.so.1) as a command-line argument to the quake3 binary was the working solution.

FWIW, Quake3 Arena for Linux (in tin box) has been $10 retail for many months now.

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

Woohoo....Got it goin'!! Thanx Manly, All I needed was the libGL.so.1. I had to do ./q3demo.x86 +set r_gldriver libGL.so.1 and walah, fraggin fun. I was just the .1 off(d'oh ). Running 179 FPS in demo 1 640x480, default settings. Seems to want to crash out back to console(shell) if I change res to 800x600. Oh well, at least I got it running. Hey, this Linux $hit ain't so bad..Sorta startin' to get the hang of it.