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Title: Couldn't get OpenArena to work even after installing libopenal0a
Post by: Blue on January 20, 2008, 07:59:18 PM

Hello,

i have recently downloaded your game, and i am in the process of getting it to work.

heres my problem.

when i load up the game the screen turns black, then the game quits. no error msg, just crashes.

i poked around on your wiki site and found that i needed libopenal0a installed for it to work.

i am running Ubuntu 7.10 so i did

sudo apt-get install libopenal0a

it said it was already installed.

i dont know what to do, and my gfx chip is a 810 intel chip, and i believe my comp reaches all the specs required.

SOS
Help

etc.

Title: Re: Couldn't get OpenArena to work even after installing libopenal0a
Post by: kit89 on January 21, 2008, 01:35:57 AM

Run OpenArena in a terminal & tell us what it says, please.

Title: Re: Couldn't get OpenArena to work even after installing libopenal0a
Post by: Blue on January 23, 2008, 07:37:25 AM

Code:

anthony@anthony-desktop:/usr/games$ ./openarena
ioQ3 1.33+oa linux-i386 Dec  7 2007
----- FS_Startup -----
Current search path:
/home/anthony/.openarena/baseoa
/usr/share/games/openarena/baseoa/pak7-patch.pk3 (76 files)
/usr/share/games/openarena/baseoa/pak6-misc.pk3 (191 files)
/usr/share/games/openarena/baseoa/pak5-TA.pk3 (11 files)
/usr/share/games/openarena/baseoa/pak4-textures.pk3 (1496 files)
/usr/share/games/openarena/baseoa/pak3-music.pk3 (9 files)
/usr/share/games/openarena/baseoa/pak2-players.pk3 (620 files)
/usr/share/games/openarena/baseoa/pak2-players-mature.pk3 (171 files)
/usr/share/games/openarena/baseoa/pak1-maps.pk3 (73 files)
/usr/share/games/openarena/baseoa/pak0.pk3 (926 files)
/usr/share/games/openarena/baseoa
/usr/lib/games/openarena/baseoa

----------------------
3573 files in pk3 files
execing default.cfg
couldn't exec q3config.cfg
couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
Hunk_Clear: reset the hunk ok
----- Client Initialization -----
Couldn't read q3history.
----- Initializing Renderer ----
-------------------------------
QKEY building random string
QKEY generated
----- Client Initialization Complete -----
----- R_Init -----

------- Input Initialization -------
Joystick is not active.
------------------------------------
...loading libGL.so.1:
Calling SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO)...
SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO) passed.
Initializing OpenGL display
...setting mode 3: 640 480
SDL_SetVideoMode failed: Couldn't find matching GLX visual
SDL_SetVideoMode failed: Couldn't find matching GLX visual
Using 8/8/8 Color bits, 16 depth, 0 stencil display.
GL_RENDERER: Mesa GLX Indirect


***********************************************************
 You are using software Mesa (no hardware acceleration)!   
 Driver DLL used: libGL.so.1
 If this is intentional, add
       "+set r_allowSoftwareGL 1"
 to the command line when starting the game.
***********************************************************
...WARNING: could not set the given mode (3)
----- CL_Shutdown -----
RE_Shutdown( 1 )
-----------------------
Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem

anthony@anthony-desktop:/usr/games$

after i did that, i ran the game again adding this

Code:

***********************************************************
 You are using software Mesa (no hardware acceleration)!   
 Driver DLL used: libGL.so.1
 If this is intentional, add
       "+set r_allowSoftwareGL 1"
 to the command line when starting the game.
***********************************************************

it worked, but REALLY choppy.

and i do believe my intel 810 chip supports Hardware Acceleration.

any ideas how to speed it up?

editing some config file or something?

Title: Re: Couldn't get OpenArena to work even after installing libopenal0a
Post by: pulchr on January 23, 2008, 08:17:09 AM

do you have real 3D graphic drivers installed in your system?

Title: Re: Couldn't get OpenArena to work even after installing libopenal0a
Post by: andrewj on January 23, 2008, 05:39:49 PM

Read the manual page: man i810

Title: Re: Couldn't get OpenArena to work even after installing libopenal0a
Post by: sago007 on January 24, 2008, 10:34:26 AM

Try installing 'libgl1-mesa-dri' to get some hardware acceleration (it is some time I installed on a Intel system, but I believe that was the package).

It was default in 7.04 and older but missing in 7.10.

Title: Re: Couldn't get OpenArena to work even after installing libopenal0a
Post by: Blue on January 25, 2008, 08:49:36 PM

Quote from: pulchr on January 23, 2008, 08:17:09 AM

do you have real 3D graphic drivers installed in your system?

i believe i do, Ubuntu had the 810 driver when i installed it awhile back.

and andrew, i did, but theres so many options and i dunno where to start let alone where to edit them.

Title: Re: Couldn't get OpenArena to work even after installing libopenal0a
Post by: andrewj on January 26, 2008, 08:20:54 AM

I think you will get a lot more useful help at the Ubuntu forums. Search them first, e.g. for "opengl i180" and I bet something will pop up, if not then ask your question.

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