[braid] Trouble Starting Braid on Debian Lenny

[Lakota Morris]

There's a command line option, something like -half.  or something.
Look in the mailing list and find that, that could help.

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Harry P <habstinat.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
> I updated the bug report (see the most recent comment). The new patch
> allowed the game to start, but I'm still having a lot of texture and speed
> problems to the point where the game is still unusable.
>
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Harry P <habstinat.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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