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Before firing up ut you can see if anything is using your sound device with this command: The problem is that the desktop sound process (artsd) takes a few seconds to release the device.

Opening a command prompt and starting ut straight away results in the game starting but no sound, and sure enough there is a warning message in the prompt that the sound device, /dev/dsp, is busy or in use. If it does get stuck then do the Red Hat thingy to fix it.Īfter X starts KDE (on my system, anyway) a little desktop sound is played. Unlike (for me) in Red Hat, the script will unmount the cdrom (thus allowing you to eject disc 1) when it comes time to insert disc 2.

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The Slackware GOTY install is the easiest - open a command prompt, change directory to where the ut install script is, su to root and type:

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This is important if you are using an nvidia graphics chipset and are compiling your own driver modules. I had a little trouble running GOTY because of X problems, whereas RH9 looks at the XF86Config file to run X, 7.2 uses XF86Config-4. If you're getting this error then do this to fix it: Mount /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device However, 7.2 has a well-known bug that sometimes prevents a cdrom from being read, giving the error: Install for 7.2 pretty much follows that of 9.0, in my case I did not even need the second terminal to get the cdrom to eject. Go ahead and exit at this point, since it was installed as root if you play now all the preferences will apply to the /root user. The installer finishes and asks if you want to play or exit. Sit back and chill, as this part takes the longest, copying disc 2 and then uncompressing all the files. Inset disc 2, close the Nautilus window that comes up, and then select ok.ħ. Open a second terminal window and su to root as in step 4.Ħc. If the cdrom will eject then change discs and click ok. Then a dialogue box will appear, asking to insert disc 2 to contine. The paths should be /usr/games/ut for the install path and /usr/bin for the link path. Open a terminal (Start -> System ->.Terminal)Ħ. Close the Nautilus window that pops up (RH automounts/displays cdrom contents)ģ.

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Right click on the file link proper and do a 'Save As' or 'Save Link As' to download it properly.Ģ. Also, it can confuse browsers, which will try to display it as text. run format is rarely used and these apps will corrupt the archive. When you download this file don't use a download accelerator or anything, as the. Fairly clever, too bad Loki is now defunct.

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run file is a basically a compressed archive with a pre-appended shell script that runs/uses it, an idea that Loki Entertainment came up with. Anyway, the file you need to start fragging in Linux is:ĭownload this file and cd into the directory where you put it. Yesterday (Memorial Day 2004) afternoon there were still 5600 players fragging away. In 2001-2 there were peaks of 8000 or so players (at the same time) in the 'Populated Servers' tab in the UT Server browser. These days UT noobs are few and far between, although it is amazing how many people are still playing. I say in the past because Unreal Tournament has been around since 1999 and GOTY (which simply included a second disc with the ChaosUT and Rocket Arena mods) since 2000. This howto is intended for linux newbies who have played GOTY in the past on other operating systems. Installations of GOTY on Red Hat and Slackware are similiar and fairly straightforward. (UT directions for Debian and Gentoo here) Content on this page is old and may no longer applicable, use with this is mind Installing Unreal Tournament GOTY Edition On Red Hat and Slackware Linux