[Problems I had with TDM Installation on Linux w/ Solutions]

@bedhead

 

Thanks for your reply man.

 

In my case TDM segfaults for both drivers. Indeed, I use 'unofficial Mesa builds' and the fglrx version is the one from the official 14.04 repo but regardless, I suspect having some sort of library incompatibility. I'll upgrade the OS these days and try again and see if I can make it work.

[Problems I had with TDM Installation on Linux w/ Solutions]

This might be obvious to some people, but I'm still a noob and my TDM behavior was annoying me.

 

Running LInux Mint 17 and following the wiki to install TDM yields a few errors

 

after you enter "chmod +x tdm_update.linux" in terminal

you can install tdm with "sudo ./tdm_update.linux (not mentioned in wiki but might be something new users don't know)

 

here's the part that threw me off.

The training mission + Saint Lucia was invisible after the download was completed

TDM was also having some weird behaviors with some missions not installing causing CTD

 

The solution I found was that the permissions in the files + subfolders of main darkmod folder was not the same

Some items was under root privileges meaning you can't erase/modify it without being a superuser

 

After modifying all the user/group/permissions TDM was happy again.

 

Hope this helps someone.

 

Did u used catalyst or Radeon OSS?

 

I have problems starting the game with both of them.

 

If u used fglrx, which version was it?

 

Thanks.

[TDM doesnt launch on ubuntu 14.04]

@Tels.

 

Thanks for your reply.

 

For general purpose usage, the OSS driver is MUCH better than fglrx. Only the 3b performance is keeping it behind (but things there too seems to be improving lately, as shown by many recent Phoronix articles. )

 

I will try catalyst but my ultimate goal is to make sure it runs on OSS (because that is what I use).

I was asking the question because I wanted to see if other users experienced the situation (if the issue might be in TDM).

 

If it's a driver bug, then I'll report it and help in its debugging.

[TDM doesnt launch on ubuntu 14.04]

I am reopening this post.

 

I tried to install TDM on my Linux machine but failed.

 

The executable outputs the following error:

 

-----------------------------------
----- R_InitOpenGL -----
Setup X display connection
dlopen(libGL.so.1)
dlopen(libGL.so.1)
idRenderSystem::Shutdown()
signal caught: Segmentation fault
si_code 1
Was in fatal error shutdown: Unable to initialize OpenGL
Trying to exit gracefully..
About to exit with code 0

 

After doing a little bit a searching I have found this forum thread that discusses a similar issue for Do om:BFG in windows.

 

Can they be related? If so, how can those fixes be applied to TDM? Running ./thedarkmod.x86 +set r_fullscreen 0 doesn't help.

 

Or is it just a driver issue? I'll open a bug report if so.

 

Specs: OS Ubuntu 14.04 (x64) on Radeon 8550g with Radeon Open Source driver (Kernel 3.17, Mesa 10.4 (daily), Xserver 1.5).