i never tried empathy (see previous post). i got sidetracked. such is life.

BUT… we had AppalachLAN XI yesterday (gaming club) and i had not played quake since before i went strictly linux. if you are not familiar with open source gaming, quake 3 arena runs on linux. WOO! i installed it and low and behold, it did not work.

turns out, if you have pulseaudio running, it does not like to work. i was screwing with it for HOURS and could not figure out what the error message was for. i would post it here, but i forgot to save it and thankfully have not replicated it. :-)

bottom line, if you try to install quake 3 arena (ioquake3.org) on fedora and you get a funky error message, that might be your problem. give it a shot. if all else fails, download open arena. it’s 100% open source and is based on the q3 engine.