Graphics Problem with Mupen64

[doktor5000]

Hello althogether,

i'm currently using linux (Mandrake 10.1) and was on the lookout for a good N64 emu.
I found one with mupen64 which seems to be the most complete emulator of all.
But there are problems concerning the graphics plugin. If i unpack and start it,
i can't choose one at all, though there are 3 installed: Glide64.so, glN64-0.4.1.so and ricedaedalus.so.
So i searched for others and found Rice 5.5 for linux and tr64gl 0.8.7pre and the only
plugin i can choose is tr64gl, but i can't configure it or click on about, and it doesn't work.
So if anyone had this problem, please answer me. Or if anyone knows of another good
N64 Linux emulator, then answer me, too.

[Kethinov]

Try launching the emu from the terminal and when it starts doing funny things, read the terminal output. It can usually help you figure out what's going wrong.

[ciruZ]

Well, try compiling Mupen64 + Plugins yourself, maybe that helps.
Anyway, which glibc Version and wich libdl version do you have? It sounds like problems with dlopen / dlsym and / or mupens plugin system.

Or if anyone knows of another good
N64 Linux emulator, then answer me, too.

Mupen is the best emulator for Linux. And even for Windows it's one of the best .
Mupen has high compatibility, but a poor performance.
But if you have 1,5 GHz or more, Mupen should be no problem for your CPU.

[blight]

try running "ldd plugin.so" on the plugins - this will show you if you are missing any libs for the plugins (which would result in them not beeing loadable and thus not showing up in mupen)

[doktor5000]

I just solved it together with Hacktarux, the author of mupen64. you just have to do a simple

ldd -r PLUGIN.so

and it tells you which library you need to install. At my distribution, it was libstc++5 and the developer-library of it
It runs fine now, it just played Biohazard 2 during our conversation via instant messager.

But thanks for the help, anyway. If i got some questions later on i will post them only on emutalk64.