after some searching, I arrived at this guide
http://forums.pcsx2.net/thread-2375.html...ght=ubuntu

I'm pretty sure I'm using Glew0.5, which doesn't work with the graphics plugin rolled into the provided package. Arcum provides a replacement plugin for just this situation, but when I drop that into the plugins folder, I get an error on trying to run Pcsx2:

Could not load GS plugin 'plugins//libZeroGSoglr.so.0.96.2': plugins//libZeroGSoglr.so.0.96.2: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32

Which, to me, signals that it's full of 32-bit code. Is there a way to kill Glew0.5 and install 0.4?