[ILUG] X with a TNT

Jakma, Paul Paul.Jakma at compaq.com
Tue Oct 5 12:03:42 IST 1999


> I have RH6 with most of the XFree upgrades applied (3.3.5) and I tried
> the Nvidia rpms. I was only able to install the SVGA server 
> and GL rpms
> (version conflicts on other RPMs)
> I thought that would be enough to run Quake 3 but no luck. 
> Even copying
> libGL.so.0.1 into the q3test directory doesn't help :( Gotta 
> bring home
> my 3dfx.
> Do a search for "riva" on www.linuxgames.com for more info.

iirc, q3 does something funny wrt the GL library, it dlopen's it directly
rather than linking to it.

there's a workaround documented in the glx faq, see the glx homepage..
(somewhere on openprojects.org). Next q3test release should fix it according
to john carmack.

-paul.




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