Re: OFFTOPIC: can't start Quake2
Hey,
That only happens to me when I'm already playing a sound (other games,
MIDI's, etc). I would make sure no other
processes are running, and also that your sound is configured properly.
Cameron Matheson
----- Original Message -----
From: Pollywog <croak@shadypond.com>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 3:33 PM
Subject: OFFTOPIC: can't start Quake2
>
> I installed Quake2 according to the instructions at
> http://www.linuxgames.com/quake/Quake-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.2
>
> but when I try to start it I get this:
>
> lilypad:/usr/local/games/quake2->./quake2 +set vid_ref softx
> Added packfile ./baseq2/pak0.pak (1106 files)
> Added packfile ./baseq2/pak2.pak (2 files)
> execing default.cfg
> couldn't exec config.cfg
> Console initialized.
>
> ------- sound initialization -------
>
>
>
> And it stops right there. Anyone know what the problem is? The
> troubleshooting section does not mention any config.cfg, which does
> not even exist on my installation.
>
> Here are the contents of my quake2 directory:
>
> lilypad:/usr/local/games/quake2->ls -l
> total 46606
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 4327 Nov 30 1998
> 3.20_Changes.txt
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Dec 27 22:16 baseq2
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Dec 27 22:13 docs
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 120460 Nov 30 1998 lib3dfxgl.so
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Dec 27 22:16 libGL.so ->
> libMesaGL.so
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Dec 27 22:16 libMesaGL.so
> -> libMesaGL.so.2
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Dec 27 22:16
> libMesaGL.so.2 -> libMesaGL.so.2.6
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 897135 Nov 30 1998
> libMesaGL.so.2.6
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8963 Feb 18 1998 license.txt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39015499 Dec 27 21:56
> q2-314-demo-x86.exe
> -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 342972 Nov 30 1998 quake2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6004460 Dec 27 21:56
> quake2-3.20-glibc-i386-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24 Nov 30 1998 quake2.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8580 Nov 30 1998 README
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 61630 Nov 30 1998 readme.txt
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 285753 Nov 30 1998 ref_gl.so
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 286984 Nov 30 1998 ref_glx.so
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 235055 Nov 30 1998 ref_soft.so
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 242990 Nov 30 1998 ref_softx.so
> drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 1024 Nov 30 1998 rogue
> drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 1024 Nov 30 1998 xatrix
>
> Does anyone know what the problem might be?
>
> thanks
>
> --
> Andrew
>
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