ArmyOps: Could not load OpenGL library

Hi

I can't seem to start America's Army: Special Forces 2.0.

I've got a AMD Athlon 64 with a nVidia FX5900, running Mandrake 10.0
Community for AMD64 and drivers v.6110.

Some games, like Chromium & Frozen Bubble, I can play but ArmyOps
shows the splash screen and then crashes.

[nick@localhost nick]$ armyops
Could not load OpenGL library History:
Exiting due to error

This is in the log:
....
Init: Initializing OpenGLDrv...
Log: binding libGL.so.1
Critical: appError called:
Critical: Could not load OpenGL library
....

In this thread on the support site of ArmyOps
(http://forum.americasarmy.com/viewtopic.php?t=7232) people with
similar problems were advised to start as follow
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/tls/libGL.so.1 path/to/armyops/binary/armyops

Problem! I don't have a libGL.so.1 in any tls/ directory:

[root@localhost root]# locate tls/
/usr/lib/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.1.0.6111
/usr/lib/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.1
/usr/lib64/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.1.0.6111
/usr/lib64/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.1
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/tls/gamma_dri.so
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/tls/ffb_dri.so
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/tls/radeon_dri.so
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/tls/i810_dri.so
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/tls/i830_dri.so
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/tls/mga_dri.so
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/tls/r128_dri.so
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/tls/r200_dri.so
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/tls/tdfx_dri.so
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/tls/via_dri.so
/lib64/tls/libpthread-0.10.so
/lib64/tls/libc-2.3.3.so
/lib64/tls/libc.so.6
/lib64/tls/libm-2.3.3.so
/lib64/tls/libm.so.6
/lib64/tls/libthread_db-1.0.so
/lib64/tls/libpthread.so.0
/lib64/tls/librt-2.3.3.so
/lib64/tls/librt.so.1
/lib64/tls/libthread_db.so.1
/downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-6111-pkg2/usr/lib/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.1.0.6111
/downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-6111-pkg2/usr/lib32/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.1.0.6111

You see, no libGL.so.1.
I got several libGL.so.1 in other dirs, though:

[root@localhost root]# locate libGL.so.1
/usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.6111
/usr/lib/libGL.so.1
/usr/lib64/libGL.so.1.0.6111
/usr/lib64/libGL.so.1
/usr/X11R6/lib64/libGL.so.1.4.502
/usr/X11R6/lib64/libGL.so.1
/downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-6111-pkg2/usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.6111
/downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-6111-pkg2/usr/lib32/libGL.so.1.0.6111

So I tried:
[nick@localhost nick]$ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libGL.so.1 /usr/local/games/armyops/System/armyops-bin
/usr/local/games/armyops/System/armyops-bin: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Very strange, because /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1 does exist and is readable:
[nick@localhost nick]$ ls -l /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Sep 27 20:07 /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1 - libGL.so.1.0.6111*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 579400 Sep 27 20:07 /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1.0.6111*

I asked this question on this support forum
(http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=37787) but I got no
answer.

Do you have a solution?

Thanks

Nick.

On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 14:13:22 +0000, Nick de Graeve wrote:

Hi

I can't seem to start America's Army: Special Forces 2.0.

I've got a AMD Athlon 64 with a nVidia FX5900, running Mandrake 10.0
Community for AMD64 and drivers v.6110.

Some games, like Chromium & Frozen Bubble, I can play but ArmyOps
shows the splash screen and then crashes.

Try re-installing OpenGL.
You did know that Mandrake 10 "Community" is a buggy beta didn't you?
Update your distro or install another. I have much better framerates using
Gentoo when I changed from Mandrake.

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