Descent 3 (Linux/Loki) - Crashes after intro

[Vanguard-741]

I'm hoping you guys can help. I have asked PlanetDescent, PCLinuxOS, Descentbb.com, and now you guys.

I installed Descent 3 on my computer (PCLinuxOS), and the installation went fine. I did as they said, place in disc 2 to run the game. Intro works fine, sound and audio. however, at the end (when you see the ship burn and the words DESCENT 3 come up), the game just ends, and I see myself back on the desktop.
No warnings that I can see or hear during the game.

According to the konsole, when launching the game, I get:

[jeremybailey@localhost ~]$ descent3
Failed to load library [libGL.so].

Descent 3 Message(Error: Failed to load library [libGL.so].
)

System Error


[jeremybailey@localhost ~]$

As I said, I asked in PCLinuxOS, and no help yet on this libGL file. May have to direct it better.
Found an OLD topic a a few years ago, from Mandiva, me asking for help on this same issue.

I hope you guys can help.
Thanks in advance,

[snoopy]

What video card do you have?

What video driver are you using?

Sounds like maybe you don't have one installed...

[Vanguard-741]

according to the hardware section in linux:

Identification
Vendor: ‎Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI

Description: ‎RS780L [Radeon HD 3000]

Media class: ‎VGA compatible controller

[snoopy]

try making sure that you have a decent driver for the card installed - I.E. xf86-video-ati.

or try something like this:

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php?topic=101766.0

...Bottom line: it looks like you don't have hardware acceleration installed for your video card, and unfortunately you have an ATI card.

[Jeff250]

Does glxgears work?

[Vanguard-741]

I don't even think I have glxgears. can't find it in the software to add/remove software/packages.

Penumbra works great. I don't get it. Had this issue, i think even with NVIDIA. on a laptop, on another distro.

[Jeff250]

Most people here use Ubuntu or Arch, so since your problem seems to be not having the right distro packages installed, I don't know if there's much we can do to help you if you're using PCLinux.

[Vanguard-741]

i appreciate you guys trying anyway. I had better luck using the windows version with "wine". I believe I did anyway.