[ale] Quake2 with NoGl??? That's not right...

[Linux Idiot]

Nomad the Wanderer wrote:
> 
>   Ok,
>     I've got Q2 running, but whenever I tell it to use GL mode it says it
> can't find ref_gl.so.  I've done some finds and the ref_gl.so is in all the
> same places as the ref_soft.so.  it's in the Q2 dir (in my LD_LIBRARY_PATH)
> and in my /usr/local/lib (in my /etc/ld.so.conf but doesn't show up in a
> lddconfig -V ) but it does find the ref_soft.so...  I got used to GL in
> winblowz and would rather NOT go back...

I had this problem too.  First check out your /etc/quake2.conf file. 
Remove it and then recreate it.  If you copied it from the install
directory, it may contain an extra 'dos' character in it, so your file
path is not recognized.

> 
> Anyone got a clue?
> 
> Robert
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> 
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> 
> FYI:
>  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'

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