OpenGL Woes

[bdg1983]

Hiya,

I have just installed Suse 7.3 Personal and have used the online update to upgrade my Nvidia drivers/glx to 1541. I am attempting to run Quake3 and am receiving this error message that it can't find libGL.so.


----- Client Initialization Complete -----
----- R_Init -----
...loading libGL.so: QGL_Init: Can't load libGL.so from /etc/ld.so.conf or current dir: /usr/local/games/quake3/libGL.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
failed
...loading libMesaVoodooGL.so: QGL_Init: Can't load libMesaVoodooGL.so from /etc/ld.so.conf or current dir: /usr/local/games/quake3/libMesaVoodooGL.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
failed
----- CL_Shutdown -----
RE_Shutdown( 1 )
-----------------------
----- CL_Shutdown -----
-----------------------
Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem


I have re-run ldconfig to rebuild the reference list as suggested in the Nvidia support .pdf file but it can't seem to find the library either. Other opengl games like Armagetron will run (although the fonts look like crap).

There also is no XF86Config-4 file ... does this mean I will have to add entries in the XF86Config file (like using NVidia's AGP support as opposed to AGPGART).

Any help would be much appreciated !!

TIA Willy

[carlywarly]

If there is no XF86config-4 file, that should mean that you are not running Xfree86 4.x.x That probably will affect which drivers you need to install.

To get the best results, install Xfree86 4.whatever then download the latest nvidia drivers and follow their FAQs etc.

Hope that helps. ( I recently had a similar problem with Mandrake 8.0 and a very nice LNO contributor sorted me out )

[bdg1983]

I just checked Yast2 and it says that I am already running XF86 Server V-4.

:(


Willy

[ 24 November 2001: Message edited by: Willy ]