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roman
12-08-2000, 03:33 AM
Has anyone else had difficulty using the Quake III demo script. I haven't been able to get it to run and I've downloaded it three times. Other .sh scrips work fine, but a white window pops up and dies. If someone can find me a rpm I'd appreciate it.
ph34r
12-08-2000, 11:04 AM
There is no rpm.

At what point does it stop working? Do you already have 3d, etc. working properly?
roman
12-08-2000, 11:13 AM
The installer won't even start
roman
12-08-2000, 11:15 AM
any yes 3d seems to work for everything but games. I have the Nvidia drivers for my GeForce 2. Quake III is one of the games that supposedly the quirks with these drivers is worked out.
DrDrake
12-08-2000, 02:13 PM
If you are using mandrake go to evil3d.net and follow instructions to install your video card drivers. You will want to have X 4.0.1, and get the newest (.095 or something along those lines) Nvidia drivers installed. Also it helps if you turn off AGP 2x, it seemed to make my card very unstable. I currently have a Geforce 64mb prophet II working great..
roman
12-10-2000, 08:14 AM
yeah man 3d is enabled in Linux, it works fine for most things, the installer just falls and dies. Maybe I missed some Mesa files.
Phuzon
12-13-2000, 01:24 AM
Err, if you have any mesa files it will most likely **** up the nvidia drivers. Just thought you might like to know that http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif
Avatar
12-13-2000, 01:53 PM
Okay, the installer should work even without 3D support. (It could care less.) So, this leaves the following questions:

1.) Is that file executable? It should be.
2.) Are you running it from a terminal in X? You should be.

[This message has been edited by Avatar (edited 13 December 2000).]
sdunn
12-15-2000, 12:14 PM
Hey the same thing happened to me. But I dont think I installed my voodoo 3 2000 card right. I thought I would throw in my 2 frags.
roman
12-19-2000, 03:30 AM
hadn't checked this post for awhile and was suprised to see that it was still getting replies. To update, the script for some reason wasn't executable by default, even for root, I mean the file was green like a shell script in bash, but it wasn't giving permission to anyone. I figured this out after an error message finally hung around long enough for me to read it. It runs fine