Linux Intel demo has major problem

[Leif_-]

(Added) Actually, belay this post. I just noticed that the download of the .tgz seemed to have failed at 99%. This might be caused by a corrupted download. I'll check the matter.

(Added) Tried again with a fresh, successfully completed download, and got the same result. The problem is real.


I've just downloaded the demo and tried to get it running. First a couple of annoances. The .tgz file didn't contain a dedicated directory, which is a bit annoying as I ended up unpacking the contents all over my home directory. Secondly, the dom2demo didn't have the executable bit set - which makes it difficult for inexperienced Users to get anything running at all.

That fixed, I got it running and managed to create a pretender and set up a game. I then started the game I'd created, selected my turn and read the two introductory Messages (well, glanced at them - impatient, you know.) When I then tried to press "OK" to go into my turn proper, the game froze the console - even blocking the usual "Alt+F1 to text-console and kill the blocking program" route. Music was still playing though. Since I didn't have any way to log into my machine remotly, I was forced to power-cycle it - which is rather annoying as I have several large EXT2 partitions on it.

I tried three times, twice in a window with music and once in full-screen without music ("dom2demo -u -s") with the same result every time. My system is a IBM Thinkpad T30, running Mandrake 9 and using the (ATI) "Radeon" graphics driver for X-window.

[ October 27, 2003, 12:50: Message edited by: Leif_- ]

[Kristoffer O]

JK is checking it. Our Version seems fine, but the downloadable Version seems strange. We'll be back with more info.

[Leif_-]

Originally posted by Kristoffer O:
JK is checking it. Our Version seems fine, but the downloadable Version seems strange. We'll be back with more info.

Thanks for the immediate reply. :-)

[Johan K]

I'm truly baffeled. Our Version is a .tbz file which unpacks into a dominions2demo directory. It also has the proper permissions set and it doesn't crash.

I have no idea why the downloadable Version isn't the same one, but I'll try to figure out what has went wrong.

No promises about the no crash though. Non root Linux programs aren't supposed to crash that hard even if you want them to.

[Leif_-]

Originally posted by Johan K:
No promises about the no crash though. Non root Linux programs aren't supposed to crash that hard even if you want them to.

Eh, it does happen. It's usually not much of a problem, since you can normally telnet or ssh into the machine and kill the process (or the X Server.) It's typically graphic intensive programs that does it, and as far as I know (which isn't very far) it's usually related to bugs or problems in the graphics drivers for X.

[Richard]

Johan,

I sent you a PM on this, can you get back with me. Thanks.