t3h : i'll look into it to verify thats true and if so i could remove the check. I'd be curious if the sharepak pak0 is bit-for-bit identical to retail pak0. If for some reason the shareware pak resources/structure doesnt play well with mods then i cant really distribute retail pak0.

munky/t3h : currently i think you have to modify the autoexec.cfg file to make changes to bindings that last longer than the current game load. I am open to alternatives to config files for advanced users (modders) or 810 key remappers as long as i can keep versions that just work fairly well on a fresh install (no configuring needed).

Slixor : not sure about that... but did you mean to load sdlquake instead of sdlquakepxd? Both should work but maybe your successful runs were with the faster pxd version. Also did you mess the contents of quake folder? Redownload the program (deb) and/or shareware data pak to see if something just got messed up.