pc freezes when trying to load hl

[Daniel Sabo]

In article <9qrj9q$27e$03$1 at news.t-online.com>, "Tilman Jeske"
<t_jeske at gmx.de> wrote:

>> Try 20010510 or the latest CVS (NOT the latest release though).
> 
> i downloaded 20010510 and compiled it, this time it was even harder to
> install halflife because the installation window sometimes disappeared.

Sorry about that... 

> opengl works for sure: i am able to play tuxracer, unreal tournament,
> quake3arena and return to castle wolfenstein mp test (all linux
> versions, no wine needed...)
> i forgot to write to log file, but i wrote down the last line that is
> displayed after hanging (yes, it hangs too with this version you said me
> to use):
> fixme:ddraw:Main_DirectDraw_SetCooperativeLevel
> (0x44960034)->(00000000,00000008)
> maybe u now what to do...

No, that's a harmless one too. Did you try it without -desktop? I'v had
nothing but problems with that.

Daniel