Generally, this means that q2 doesn't know where your baseq2 directory is. You can solve this by
Post by Jeremy BrennerFrom http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Quake-HOWTO-5.html
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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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?
* If the renderer in question is ref_gl.so, did you install the
glide libraries?
sorry, been having mailing list trouble...
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From: tom fogal <tfogal at cisunix.unh.edu>
To: quake2 at icculus.org
Subject: Re: [quake2] Error during start
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:21:10 +0200."
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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:39:10 -0400
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Post by Daniel Seichter------- Loading ref_softx.so -------
LoadLibrary("ref_softx.so") failed: No such file or directory
Refresh failed
recursive shutdown
Error: Couldn't fall back to software refresh
What is ref_softx.so? What else I have to install?
ref_softx is the X-based software renderer. It is created as part of
the build process for icculus (and just about all other variants) of
quake2.
By default I think it searches for renderers in the current directory,
so you'll have to cd to the install directory and run the quake2 binary
from there. It sounds like you used some kind of package manager that
is unfamiliar to me, so I'm not sure where this directory will be.
HTH,
- -tom
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