Advice for Linux users

Tequila · Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 5:41 pm Post subject: Advice for Linux users

To install the game:

Then you can run "smokinguns.x86" from anywhere.
For example, you can create a link on your desktop pointing to "~/SmokinGuns/smokinguns.x86" and just have to click on it to start the game.

Also make sure you have opengl and openal drivers installed in their 32bits version.

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Gordoarcane · End User Joined: 06 Jan 2009 Posts: 1

Im a Linux user, and i followed your instructions to the letter, but kept getting errors when i chose to run the exe, i discovered what i had to do to cure that and get the game runnning which was : Rightclick on the x86 file, pick properties, then permissions, then ticked the box to " Allow executing file as program" double clicked on it and it ran...just incase any other linux users have my initial problem.

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zeVlad · End User Joined: 13 Apr 2008 Posts: 32 Location: Belgium

It's what Tequila says by :

dolny · End User Joined: 28 Mar 2003 Posts: 207 Location: Poland

Downloading, will report how it works on my Arch Linux laptop.

Pardner · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 2:12 pm Post subject:

dolny, welcome back Very Happy

Hope everything works out all right and hope to catch ya on the servers!

Don Memento P · End User Joined: 01 May 2006 Posts: 2 Location: Gdansk

It doesn't work on my Gentoo Linux: Confused

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[EDITED] It works Very Happy

I forgot to use homedir Very Happy

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[dmp[@]sirius] chmod +x smokinguns.x86
[dmp[@]sirius] ./smokinguns.x86
zsh: brak dostępu: ./smokinguns.x86
^ it means access denied, same using bash

It's the same error as I try to exec any file without +x

[dmp[@]sirius] ls -lh
razem 2,9M
drwxr-xr-x 2 dmp dmp 104 gru 31 00:36 baseq3
-rw-r--r-- 1 dmp dmp 2,4K gru 31 07:45 LICENSE.txt
drwxr-xr-x 5 dmp dmp 384 gru 31 07:36 manual
-rw-r--r-- 1 dmp dmp 4,2K gru 30 08:48 sg_48.png
drwxr-xr-x 2 dmp dmp 336 sty 1 03:34 smokinguns
-rw-r--r-- 1 dmp dmp 658K gru 31 11:18 smokinguns_dedicated.x86
-rw-r--r-- 1 dmp dmp 1014K gru 30 08:48 smokinguns.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 dmp dmp 1,3M gru 31 11:18 smokinguns.x86

[dmp[@]sirius] startx /mnt/liberty/oth/SmokinGuns/smokinguns.x86 -- :2
reports error too:
/mnt/liberty/oth/SmokinGuns/smokinguns.x86: /mnt/liberty/oth/SmokinGuns/smokinguns.x86: cannot execute binary file

Any hints?

wine smokinguns.exe
works quite fine, but it's not native. I guess slower undecided

Tequila · Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 6:59 am Post subject:

Yep in fact I guess you were trying to start the binary from a mounted folder, maybe mounted as vfat (usb key ?). In such way, the mounted point is surely mounted with noexec option, then that's better to start it from your homedir Wink

astsmtl · End User Joined: 03 Jan 2009 Posts: 2

Here is my package for Arch Linux.

CoolHand · Tester Joined: 22 Aug 2008 Posts: 43

I had this issue on my Debian/Sidux system when first running the SA, so thought I'd post my workaround for anyone else that has it. It is an LCD monitor with native 1280x1024 resolution. when I ran SG, it would black the screen, and "Out of Range" would display on the monitor while the music played in the backgrount. I'd have to ctrl-alt-bkspc to restart my X server when it did it.
To get SG to work I went into the config file created and set the fullscreen parameter to 0 instead of 1, and then it loaded in a window. After that, I could change the options to 1280x1024, and fullscreen and it loads fullscreen perfectly now.
The file is:
~/.smokinguns/smokinguns/q3config.cfg

and the parameter is:
seta r_fullscreen "0"

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I actually ended up changing my system wide config after that so any new users would have it start in a window and not have the issue...
/usr/local/games/SmokinGuns/smokinguns/q3config.cfg

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Hope this may help someone out someday Smile

xgregx

Hey all -
This game looks really cool so far.
I'm trying to get the dedicated server working on Gentoo Linux. On 2 different boxes, the server starts and stays at 100% cpu. No error output to the console. Anyone experience this?
Thanks,
Greg

Tequila · Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 4:33 am Post subject:

Welcome xgregx,

such problem may be related to how you're starting the binary.

Tell us which binary you're trying to use. Tell us also the command line you're using.

Is that to start a public server or a lan private server ?
If your server config file is not a secret (any rconpassword removed), you can put it on pastebin for example and give us the link.
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xgregx · Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 11:39 am Post subject:

I'm starting with all defaults. Just testing it out at this point.
All I'm doing is running ./smokinguns_dedicated.x86

The only stuff I changed in server.cfg is the hostname/motd stuff
// Administrator Info
sets Admin "Rawhide_McGee"
sets Email ""

// Server Name and Daily Message
set sv_hostname "OpenGamePanel.org Smokin' Guns Server"
sets g_motd "Powered by OGP - visht opengamepanel.org"// This is the message that will be displayed during loading.
sets sv_Location "California - USA"

Thanks for the help in advance!

Tequila · Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 5:33 pm Post subject:

So just starting dedicated is not sufficient.

You must specify a map to start in some way...

If you have modified the "server.cfg" file, you should start the dedicated server in at least that way on a terminal:

xgregx · Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:43 pm Post subject:

That didn't help, I ran the exact command line you gave me, and I also tried adding the map switch.
Thanks for the help. Any other sugguestions? I'll try a few other command lines.
Thanks again!
Greg

Tequila · Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:10 am Post subject:

Hey, we can't really help you if you don't put any command line output !!
Sometime problems come only with little mistake we can just point you out if you give as much information as you can... Telling what you are trying to do is just a context, but we really need to see the result to understand your problem.
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