Newer AMD and NVIDIA drivers have so many OpenGL Extensions that Quake 3 engine based games crash when probing the extensions at game launch. 

2 solutions:

Download these fixed binaries (are also nocd patched)

OR

If using the NVIDIA proprietary driver you can start the game prefixed with:

__GL_ExtensionStringVersion=17700

Note to all x86_64  (64 bit) Linux users:

Ensure that your system have installed the OpenGL 32bit compatibility drivers, or else Jedi Academy will not start or work correcty. If you don't know if your system has the 32bit compatibility drivers, ask in your distribution forum or live support chat. (Questions about how this is done will be not answered here, due to the wide range of distributions existing).

A first step can be look at: 3DDriverIssues