quake2 on ubuntu

[Vlado Plaga]

On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 05:27:21PM -0500, Travis Newman wrote:
> ># apt-get install quake2

> Uh... you think we haven't already tried that?

Sorry, I might be a bit tired already. The "re:" in easy_target's eMail
escaped my attentention and I thought that it was the first message on
the subject of Q2 (although quite short).

Then I thought you were fiddling around with wine not knowing there are
native linux binaries.

Actually I did find something, as I remembered having had quake working
in Debian linux not so long ago. So I tried it in Ubuntu:

# apt-get install quake2

Strange: although it installed quake2-data as well it did not ask me for
the CD. So I did a

# dpkg-reconfigure quake2-data

Now it asks for the CD and the latest windoze quake binary.

# quake2

-> Same error that you had:

LoadLibrary("ref_softx.so") failed: No such file or directory

Ok, I still have my Debian on a different partition, looked for a file
named "ref_softx.so", found it in /usr/lib/games/quake2/ - this is
missing in Ubuntu. Downloaded and installed quake2 from
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/quake2

# quake2

-> works.

No sound though:

------- sound initialization -------
loading alsa sound output driver, ok
ALSA lib pcm.c:1972:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM PCM
ALSA snd error, cannot open device PCM (No such file or directory)

This is annoying, but as I don't have 3D acceleration on my mac I cannot
play properly anyway, so I won't wast time on finding out what could be
wrong there.

I wish you more luck,

  Vlado