Team Fortress 2 problem solution @ Steam for Linux

--Team Fortress 2 problem's solution @ Steam for Linux with older hardware--

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If you get the following error:

"Could not find required OpenGL entry point 'glColorMaskIndexedEXT'! Either your video card is unsupported, or your OpenGL driver needs to be updated."

Try:

If you're running a 64bit distro you'll need the package libc6-dev-i386 installed. If you're using Mint, Ubuntu or one of its derivatives that's as simple as pasting the following into the terminal:

sudo apt-get install libc6-dev-i386

Now paste the following into the terminal. It will download 2 files onto your computer and then compile one of them.

wget http://dl.dropbox.com/s/5h8n4ivfbgq98bl/strstr.c && gcc -fPIC -DPIC -O2 -m32 -c strstr.c && ld -m elf_i386 -shared -o strstr.so strstr.o && mkdir ~/bin && cd bin/ && wget http://dl.dropbox.com/s/t7rlsvp26h50vro/hl2debug && chmod +x ~/bin/hl2debug

Now paste the following into the terminal. It will open your .profile in a simple text editor. If you're using something other than Ubuntu, replace 'gedit' with the name of your text editor. For example on Xubuntu this would be 'leafpad'.

cd $home && gedit .profile

Paste these 2 lines at the bottom of the file. Save it, then close the editor.

export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
export GAME_DEBUGGER="hl2debug"

Restart Ubuntu or logout and log back in

Start Steam and play.