[braid] Trouble Starting Braid on Debian Lenny

[Harry P]

In case any of you were interested, I posted this bug to bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4848.

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Harry P <habstinat.mail at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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