Caarrie, the original attempt, using PlaneShift-v0.4.03-x86.bin was downloaded from the Planeshift website's links, not the PCLOS repo. The repo only has 0.4.01. But for the hell of it, I've tried both.

Prolix, not gnomish. Yuck. KDE 3.x.

Zoran, I'm using the default configuration, whatever that may be. I haven't touched it. However, I do have an additional sound-related problem on my system, and that is that while I have sounds in my desktop effects, and sound in Amarok, I have no sound in any media in my web browser. YouTube videos, flash videos, etc, have no sound in them. And I know it's not a hardware problem, because I have a Windoze installation on this computer too, and it all works fine there. Also, in Amarok, mp3 files sound good, but wma files sound..... I don't know.... dirty? Like a dusty vinyl LP.

I would assume that these issues are probably related, but I have no idea where to begin to solve them.

Nevermind. Duh. I found the patch you were referring to, on the downloads page. I'm going to try that, as I'd rather not use WiNE to do it, and I have no desire to install it in Windoze either. I'm about 95% of the way to eliminating my dependence on M$ products.

My OS is fully up to date, as far as I'm aware. I'm not a Linux expert though, so I could be wrong. (Me? Wrong? Never. Ok, it's been known to happen.... on occasion)

I'm running the following hardware, in case it matters:

MSI K8T Neo2 motherboard
AMD Athlon64 3500+
eVGA NVidia Geforce 7600GS 512MB
1.5 GB Kingston DDR 400 RAM
2x 160GB SATA Seagate Barracuda HDD (SATA1)

PCLinuxOS2007 freshly installed 2 days ago, and updated from recently synced repositories, including the latest kernel.
I've downloaded and installed PlaneShift-v0.4.03-x86.bin. I followed the instructions, using the chmod command on it first, ran the installer as root, so that I could do a system-wide installation, and add icons to the K menu. First thing I noticed is that it didn't add icons to the K menu. I had to find it in /opt/PlaneShift. When I ran ./psupdater, it seemed to update fine, though I'm not really certain about that. After that, I ran ./psclient, and got the following:

[loki@localhost PlaneShift]$ ./psclient
Your configuration files are in... /home/loki/.PlaneShift
DEBUG: Initializing OpenAL sound system
DEBUG: Retrieving available devices.
DEBUG: Default OpenAL device: '((sampling-rate 44100) (device '(native))
DEBUG: No device specified
DEBUG: Falling back on default device
ALSA lib conf.c:3843:(parse_args) Unknown parameter 1
ALSA lib conf.c:3969:(snd_config_expand) Parse arguments error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2202:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default:0,0
open /dev/[sound/]dsp: Resource temporarily unavailable
DEBUG: Can't retrieve attributes size: OpenAL error ALC_INVALID_DEVICE
X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  Major opcode of failed request:  145 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent)
  Serial number of failed request:  108
  Current serial number in output stream:  108
[loki@localhost PlaneShift]$ 
I really don't know what any of this means, but the game won't run. Aside from root, I have only one user on this system, loki. I've added loki to the games group. When I finish typing this and hit post, I'm going to log out and back in as root, and try running the client. I'll let you know if that changes anything.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. I've played the game before, though it's been a few months, and I really liked it. I'd like to be able to play it again.