quake 3 on slackware 9.1

[pheniks]

i've got quake 3 arena installed on my new slack 9.1 installation...i've tried to install the 1.32 quake 3 point release, and i'm having some troubles--

initially, it says "No UI drivers found" so it doesn't do a gui install".

then it'll bomb out at a segfault in setup.sh line 213 (which basically is an issue that's been documented and solved)

so i follow the instructions that tell me to extract the source files from the .run, which i've done. i've replaced the setup file as instructed, run it as root from the top level quake install directory, as instructed, and i get "Cannot load setup.data/setup.xml" and the install fails.

has anyone else had a similar problem?

my video card, incidentally, is an nvidia geforce fx5200, and yes i have the nvidia oGL drivers installed and configured.

please note that the game plays just fine.

thanks :(

[Real_mortal]

That sounds weird.I cant help u with that but maybe you know why I constantly get an invalid folder error when I connect to servers.Some work but many dont that did with windows.I was using 1.23-b3 linux release in slack 9.1.I'm guessing its a linux version thing.I could not play with music either I had to yank out all the music files from pak0.pk3 to prevent instant crash.Butit does run well and quake2 is amazing on linux.THX!

[Real_mortal]

oops I meant 1.32b-3 release

[pheniks]

about the folder error-

what is the syntax of the error, and when exactly does it happen?
maybe you're trying to connect to a server that you need some mod patch for...?

about the sound, you said you're using slack 9.1-
does sound work outside of quake, either? i ran into the same problem, i had to run alsamixer to unmute all the sound channels on my card, because for some reason they were muted by default.

after that it worked great.

-pheniks

[Real_mortal]

ALSA is unmuted-sound is good-I just have to remove .wav music files from pak0.pk3 or game crashes after intro map-whenever music is loaded.Sound effects though,work fine.The message I recieve is simply "invalid game folder" right after "awaiting gamestate".Mod does not seem to matter as I can connect to one server running a given mod but four others running this mod will say "invalid game folder".Also punkbuster took so long to update that I think it did not work at all.Even servers that were pb disabled would give me "invalid ga ....".

[pheniks]

ok, so basically i can't read. i figured out why i was getting that error, and it was because i didn't carefully read the information at the website i found the error fixing at.

i wasn't running the install from the right place.

incidentally, i got an error in the installer after i got it to run, telling me that it couldn't find the file '/bin/Linux/x86/quake3' in the directory '/usr/local/games/quake3/setup.tmp' ....

this is because the installer is flawed somewhere, and there isn't a linux directory in the bin directory that it mentions...just create the dir, copy the x86 directory that is in the bin dir into the newly made linux dir, and you'll be cookin....

Real, as for the sound, thats really weird. it sounds like there are some file locations that aren't correct in some of the source definitions or something.

-pheniks

[Real_mortal]

Cool!glad you figured it out.

[TheGimp]

Originally posted by pheniks
ok, so basically i can't read. i figured out why i was getting that error, and it was because i didn't carefully read the information at the website i found the error fixing at.

i wasn't running the install from the right place.

incidentally, i got an error in the installer after i got it to run, telling me that it couldn't find the file '/bin/Linux/x86/quake3' in the directory '/usr/local/games/quake3/setup.tmp' ....

this is because the installer is flawed somewhere, and there isn't a linux directory in the bin directory that it mentions...just create the dir, copy the x86 directory that is in the bin dir into the newly made linux dir, and you'll be cookin....


what website had the fix? the new setup binary you downloaded had to of been a newer release so that's why the error about bin/Linux/x86/quake3 came up.