Quake II
Linux Quake HOWTO
When I run Quake/QuakeWorld/Quake II under X, the image only takes up half the window and/or the colors 38
When I try to run Quake II with the GL renderer, it fails and says
"LoadLibrary("ref_gl.so") failed: Unable to resolve symbol"
If immediately prior to the "Unable to resolve symbol" line, you have messages like "can't resolve
symbol 'fxMesaCreateContext'", your Mesa library doesn't have glide support compiled in. See
section The GL renderer in the Quake II installation section for information on installing Mesa and glide.
Quake II fails with the message LoadLibrary("ref_XXX.so")
failed: No such file or directory
/etc/quake2.conf doesn't have the correct path to your Quake II directory in it. This file should
contain one line that is the directory Quake II lives in.
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If /etc/quake2.conf does contain the correct path, try removing the file and re−creating it by
hand. Some versions of Quake II for Linux included an incorrectly formatted quake2.conf file.
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Do you have SVGAlib installed? Check /lib, /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib for a file called
libvga.so.1.X.X, where the X's are some numbers. If nothing turns up, you need to get and
install SVGAlib to run Quake II outside of X.
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If the renderer in question is ref_gl.so, Mesa may not be properly installed. Did you copy
libMesaGL.so.2.6 to a library directory like the installation instruactions told you to?