[Mageia-dev] quake2 issues

Sun May 1 01:07:51 CEST 2011

I was testing some games, and quake2 seemed to be broken by default...
+
+1st, it seems for regular quake2 (and the 2 mods shipped) that you need the 
+demo downloaded. (no install script was provided)
+
+2nd, it required one of the renderers, which were not installed, by default it 
+was the quake2-x11 one. (perhaps that one should be suggested?)
+
+3rd, when running it with GLX, it couldn't find libGL.so (which is normal, 
+because my nvidia setup, there is libGL.so.1) but this seems hardly fixable, i 
+don't know how other graphic card setups or mesa or ATI will react?
+
+4th, sound didn't work, (possibly due to OSS usages) i tried to use 
+soundwrapper on it, but #1070 happend, and soundwrapper segfaulted.
+
+
+To completely fix this, this seems like quite some work and then i'm not sure 
+if this would be enough to put through version freeze.
+
+Secondly, perhaps games like this (packages that require some non-
+redistributable packages, which are still freely obtained) should maybe need a 
+policy?
+
+eg:
+ - script is always provided to get the non-redistributable part.
+ - display a text notification after install that the script to fetch whatever 
+needed, still needs to be run to be able to play this game
+
+So, perhaps this is something to be discussed for after final release...
+