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Hello...

I wan't to play joquake on my Linux machine, and for that you need GLX. Now the problem is that i am pretty new to Linux, and i can't compile sourcecode myself .

In the readme of GLX they talk about compiling GLX with the Xfree86 source code... This is too much for me to handle, far too much.

So i thought, maybe someone in this forum uses joequake on LInux with GLX and could help me out with this, maybe show me how to do it, step by step...
I would be eternally greatful, because i just HAVE TO get joequake running...

Thanks!

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Best choice.

You don't need to compile courcecode (JoeQuake, I assume), but you have GLX "enabled".
Usually every Linux distro has at least MesaGLX (or something similar) libraries (packed in distro related package [rpm, deb etc.] which have to be installed). This is easy way, but this is a "generic" GLX, performance will be VERY low. So if you want to have maximum performance you have to force Linux to using your graphiccard manufacturer drivers. And THIS could be a real problem for you...

Tell me more about your Linux (ex. which distro you have, kind of graphic card), maybe I can help you.

13Homer

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"Wymiana swin nic nie da, trzeba zabrac koryto" UPR

Well, you can always play software-rendered quake!

I use Simply Mepis 3.3, it's based on debian, so it's pretty much the same thing. I've downloaded the nvidia-lx package, and it recognized my geeforce2 card, and everything worked just fine. The only thing that isn't working fin is JoeQuake.

I says something about that the Libfmod-3.73.so isn't found, and then halts and returns to console. As far as i've seen, there is no debian package of libfmod available. How to preoceed?

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If everything is OK, JoeQuake should be fine too. At startup it shows which GL drivers it is using: GL_VENDOR, GL_RENDERER, GL_VERSION.
Just look if there is somewhere NVIDIA string (maybe vendor, maybe renderer).

As I know there is no official rpm nor deb release.
Try this: download tar.gz package from
http://www.fmod.org/files/fmodapi374linux.tar.gz
(3.73 "has disappeared"), unpack and put libfmod.3-74.so into standard library directory (/lib or /usr/lib - there's a planty *.so files).
Execute (3.73 "wrapper").
Run JoeQuake.

If it fails, try this:
download RPM from
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/ ... 6.rpm.html
Use alien to convert RPM to DEB (http://kitenet.net/programs/alien/).

13Homer

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"Wymiana swin nic nie da, trzeba zabrac koryto" UPR

You could try compiling from source. Download, unpack, run "make -f Makefile.linux", see what happens.