Hey there, I've been trying endlessly to get this to work... It was a hair tearing experience, I could tell you that. But the solution turned out to be so simple I tore more hair out in angst.

Now I'm running Descent with sweet bilinear filtering - on a phone. One of my milestones of human technological achievements have arrived.

About the solution, it's a bit TL;TR but here goes (summary: watch your data file's names. make sure they're not in caps).

It all started out normally. I dropped my data files, taken from instances of D2X-XL I already have on my PC (and in turn, they came from my old Ubuntu box). All done, I clicked on the D1X icon.

Nothing.

Thankfully, you made the executable generate a log file.

I found out that it says it can't find the descent.hog file which is funny because I already put the files in /.d1x-rebirth/ and /opt/d1x-rebirth/ (in one or another or both, in folders called DATA).

I was about to give up and just freaking buy another set of data files from the GOG download, when it suddenly hit me. The filenames of the data files. They were all in CAPS for god's sakes, and I forgot that *nix places far more importance to case differences then Windows ever did.

So I renamed the files from DESCENT.HOG and DESCENT.PIG to descent.hog and descent.pig, and proceeded to drop the files into /.d1x-rebirth/.

It seemed so trivial at first, but NOW it runs.

Hope it helps someone out there.

Now if it had midi support (or a built in background MP3 player) it would definitely rock.

EDIT: Jukebox? How do you use that?