The default video renderers (softx / soft) currently do not work on amd64. So for now we add a little hack which will select the glx renderer by default. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86552 --- src/linux/vid_so.c +++ src/linux/vid_so.c @@ -435,6 +440,9 @@ VID_Init */ void VID_Init (void) { +#if defined __x86_64__ + vid_ref = Cvar_Get ("vid_ref", "glx", CVAR_ARCHIVE); +#endif /* Create the video variables so we know how to start the graphics drivers */ // if DISPLAY is defined, try X if (getenv("DISPLAY"))