I've tried the four games: Wolf3D demo (wl1), Wolf3D(wl6), Spear of Destiny demo (sdm) and Spear of Destiny (sod), and the result is the same: When I execute the game, the windows opens, but a corrupted image appears and nothing more happens. My guess is an ATI binary drivers incompatibility. I'm using ati-drivers 3.14.1 on a Radeon 9600 Pro. Mutsumi wolfgl # emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r2 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.inode.at/ ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/portage /usr/local/overlays/bmg-main /usr/local/overlays/bmg-gnome-current" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow S3TC X aalib acpi alsa apache2 apm audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cddb cdr crypt cups dga directfb divx4linux dvdr eds encode esd evo f77 faad fam fbcon flac flash fmod foomaticdb freetype gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal imagemagick imlib ithreads jabber java javascript joystick jpeg latex lcms ldap libg++ libwww lzw-tiff mad mikmod mime mmx mng mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozp3p mozsvg mpeg mplayer msn music ncurses net nls nntp nocardbus nptl offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl pic plotutils png pnp ppds python quicktime readline rogue sdl slang spell sse ssl stencil-buffer svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype unicode usb videos wmf x86 xatrix xface xine xml xml2 xmms xprint xv xvid zlib linguas_en linguas_es"
Is this still a problem? What versions of ati-drivers have you tried?
I recently fed up with ATI crappy Linux support and bought a GeforceFX. Now it's working. Sorry.
good choice. I'll mark this fixed for now.