[braid] Trouble Starting Braid on Debian Lenny

[Harry P]

Thanks. I installed driconf and toggled the setting. This seemed to have
fixed the problem with launching the application, but there appears to be
another problem keeping it from running.

Now, whenever I run the game with -windowed, the game appears with a black
screen, my mouse pointer changes, and the command line starts outputting a
bunch of errors and my computer freezes. I was able to reproduce this twice.


I can still get to a terminal via Ctrl-Alt-F1, but killing the process ID
with kill didn't seem to do anything. I can't copy/paste the errors because
my computer usually freezes right after it outputs them. Here is a picture I
took with my phone: http://oi54.tinypic.com/25jgn6v.jpg

Do you think this is a problem with the game, my graphics card, or
freedesktop.org? Thanks for your assistance so far.

~Harry

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Lakota Morris <lakota.james at gmail.com>wrote:

> This has been talked about already on the mailing list, but basically
> it's this bug report: http://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4825
>
> One of the extensions uses patented stuff, so it's disabled by
> default.  There's a tool you can download to reenable it.  Look
> through the bug report or the mailing list, they have the fix in there
> somewhere. :)
>
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Harry P <habstinat.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The subject pretty much explains it all. Here's the error:
> >
> >> habs at habs-desktop:~/braid$ ./braid -windowed
> >> Game Startup Error: Unable to set up graphics.
> >> Reason: Missing required OpenGL extension.
> >>
> >> To help fix this problem make sure you are running the newest version of
> >> your video drivers.
> >> Lastly, you could try running this game with the -windowed command-line
> >> option.
> >
> > As you can see, the -windowed option does not fix my problem. A window
> opens
> > with a white screen for about a second, but it quickly closes and outputs
> > this error.
> >
> > To be honest I'm not sure if this is considered a bug report because
> there
> > is no bug, it's simply my computer not having the right extensions to run
> > the game.
> >
> > If this would require patches specific to my hardware, I'm on a Dell
> > Dimension 3100, the specs for which can be found here:
> > http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim3100/en/sm/specs0.htm.
> >
> > Some more specs that may or may not matter: Debian Release 5.0.7 (lenny),
> > Kernel Linux 2.6.26-2-686, GNOME 2.22.3, 1002.2 MiB Memory, Intel Pentium
> 4
> > CPU 3 GHz Processor.
> >
> > A link to the OpenGL extension or some tips, or help with troubleshooting
> > would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > ~Harry
> >
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