salane wrote:
>
> was in root
>
> Dan Geer wrote:
> >
> > Make sure your permissions are set correctly (e.g., root)
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Salane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "cooker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 7:33 AM
> > Subject: [Cooker] Quake 2 in Mandrake 7.2.beta 3
> >
> >
> > > does anyone have instructions on how to get quake2 working in mandrake
> > > 7.2b3? I an having trouble getting it to start. i am using instructions
> > > in linuxquake howto with demo quake
> > >
> > > added packfile ./baseq2/pak2.pak (2 files)
> > > couldn't exec default.cfg
> > > couldn't exec config.cfg
> > > Console initialized.
> > >
> > > --------sound initialization --------
> > > sound sampleing rate: 11025
> > > -----------------------------
> > > -------Loading ref_softx.so---------
> > > recursive shutdown
> > > Error: Couldn't load pics/colormap.pcx
Hmm - I was playing with quake this afternoon & found I had to cd to
/usr/local/games/quake to start it, rather than run it from /~, maybe
QII works the same way....
http://linuxquake.com/howto/
&
http://www.planetquake.com/linux/quake2.html
might help too.