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mw007
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 Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 2:34 am Post subject: supertux: No video device [solved] |
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I have been trying to get supertux to run and always get this error:
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Datadir: /usr/share/games/supertux
Error: I could not initialize video!
The Simple DirectMedia error that occured was:
No available video device
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I have searched the official supertux page as well as various distro forums and have not found a working solution. I think the problem is due to my card not having 3D hardware acceleration. Can anyone confirm if this is a requirement to run supertux? I am using the standard nvidia driver installed by portage.
EDIT: All I needed to do was compile libsdl with the directfb use flag.
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alienjon
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 5:05 am Post subject: |
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Two things. First lets see what acceleration we do have:
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glxinfo | grep direct
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Let us know what that puts out. Secondly,l run:
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emerge supertux -pv
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Post this as well. I don't think that hardware acceleration is REQUIRED for supertux to run (as it can also run under SDL), but if you compiled it in a certain way, then it may need 3D acceleration until you change the settings elsewhere. |
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mw007
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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First off, nice signature 
Here is the information you requested:
glxinfo | grep direct yields:
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direct rendering: No
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect |
emerge -pv supertux gives me:
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These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] games-arcade/supertux-0.1.3 USE="opengl" 0 kB
Total size of downloads: 0 kB
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One thing I forgot to mention before is that I tried building supertux without OpenGL support first. Got the no screen error. Then tried building with OpenGL support. Same error occurred. I still have the opengl use flag set in my package.use.
Thanks for your help! |
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alienjon
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| Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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891 posts (well, now 892) and you're the first to comment on the signature. Thanks!  |
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