Thank you again for all your help. I used memtest86+. The fact that it failed everything except one really old Compaq DL580 puzzled me. I find it hard to believe I have 37 defective servers and desktops. It even failed memory in a brand-new, just opened, Dell R210 with a Quad-Core Intel Xeon 3400 series processor, that arrived this past Friday.
So, something isn't right there. Anyway, because of this, I put all of the hardware back to its original state, motherboards and memory, and kept at it. I got it to work with this command line: h...@d7 -] screen -dmS DODSERVER /var/hlds/server/hlds_run -game dod -binary ./hlds_i686 +maxplayers 31 +map dod_flash -nojoy -noipx +port 27015 +ip <public IP> Without either -nojoy or -noipx, boom. With both in place, it runs fine. We tested last night with 17-18 players and everything worked as one would expect it to. Nothing on our network(s) run IPX, and in fact that protocol is turned off on the Cisco switches. I really have no idea why a server would be looking for a joystick but maybe there's something unique about the Dell 1750 hardware that resides in the I/O space of an audio controller or joystick controller that confuses hlds. These 1750's we have all have the DRAC remote management board and the PERC4 raid controllers, maybe they sit there? It's also possible that Centos 5.4 thinks it found a joystick port when there isn't one, and that made the HLDS server software unhappy. I didn't get that far yet, once I got it working I called around and we went right into testing. Anyway, that's the update. Strange, no? _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
