11-24-2008, 08:01 AM
I was playing with my nix toy (Itanium II 1.5Ghz SMP, has both HW and SW x86 support, Ubuntu 8.10) and trying to see how good / bad the x86 performance is on it. But before even getting HLDS to run Im running into "no explanation" deadends, which is annoying.
When I execute ./hldsupdatetool.bin I get the License Agreement and type Yes then.. nothing, it just goes back to the prompt. No error, no crash, nothing at all. Whats happening behind the scenes here? Can I bypass a machine check if thats whats happening?
Also, I tried circumventing the Agreement entirely by running ./steam directly (downloaded from the web) and I get:
Im not expecting miracles, but I would really like to see it fail in a more.. constructive manner.
When I execute ./hldsupdatetool.bin I get the License Agreement and type Yes then.. nothing, it just goes back to the prompt. No error, no crash, nothing at all. Whats happening behind the scenes here? Can I bypass a machine check if thats whats happening?
Also, I tried circumventing the Agreement entirely by running ./steam directly (downloaded from the web) and I get:
Quote:Checking bootstrapper version ...
Getting version 34 of Steam HLDS Update Tool
Downloading. . . . . . . . . . ..update failed, please run "tar xzUf LinuxHldsUpdateTool_34.pkg" to install the latest steam binary
Im not expecting miracles, but I would really like to see it fail in a more.. constructive manner.