I have a porblem (hehe) with Cube, the (as you all know) open-source fps engine.

For one, i can only start in root (but i think thats a permission thing, i'll have to fix it) and when i do, it' just go into limbo.

In other words, it just goes to a blank black screen with a cursor in the middle that doesn't move.

what gives?

*bump*

...help

Do you use slackware? If you do, your going to run into tons of permission problems. I havent found a way to let users use The Sims yet. But hopefully when I find the way, ill tell you.

Nope, no slackware. It's not a permission thing, now I can do cube in my reglar ass user mode, but it does the same thing.

I've reinstalled everything related (nvidia drivers, xorg, opengl, cube...) but it still has no effect

I assume that you are trying start cube with the ./cube_unix command. cube_unix is actually a shell script that launches cube,it is not a binary. In cube_unix the working directory is defined. This is unlikely to be where you unpacked it. Other information such as your operating sytem and pc type is also defined here.

If you edit it to suit your system then (hopefully) it should go.

azraelder

and... say... that i wasn't using ./cube_unix

say that, just maybe, i didn't.

would using it possibly make it work??

Well you know, all I can really say is that I edited cube_unix to suit my system and then launched it to run cube and it worked. I just recently did the same to a friends computer and it worked as well but I will admit that both use red hat 9.

How did you try to run cube?

Of course if your system has other dramas such as conflicts with sound or problems with changing screen modes or monitor conflicts, that can also cause symptoms such as black screens or crashes.

However, editing cube_unix to suit your system and then using it to launch would be a good start. If cube_unix is correctly configured then you could put a copy into /usr/local/bin and run it from anywhere.

azraelder

lacking documentation (or, really, very much experience with linux) i ran by doing this:

$cd /usr/games/lib/cube
$cube_client

or

$cd /usr/games/bin
$cube_client-bin

both do the same thing. whether the cube server is running or not makes no difference.

Where did you unpack the cube tarfile.? Is cube_unix there? I tried running linux_clinet in the bin_unix directory and I know that doesn't work.

The version I have also has binaries for windows as well as linux. The documentaion reflects that so linux information is quite sparse, although I am fairly sure that it says somewhere to start with ./cube_unix.

azraelder

ps Is your 3d hardware setup correctly? (try glxgears). Is your soundcard setup properly? Can your monitor display the fullscreen mode that cube switches to correctly. This can often give mysterious black screens for no good reason. Same with soundcards or permissions with soundcard dev's such as /dev/dsp or /dev/mixer

I'm using gentoo so i took the easy way and just did
#emerge cube

so i guess i'll have to do actual work... can someone give me a brief rundown on how to do this after i've unpacked the source?

sorry, bit of a linux newb.

oh and yes my 3d is set up fine. i get 3000+ fps on glxgears

Well I downloaded the binaries and source from the cube website (or was it sourceforge?) and since the binaries worked fine I didn't bother compiling it.

Since I never used gentoo I'm not familiar with its packaging system but since gentoo compiles everything, maybe something went wrong there.

Perhapes you could contaminate your gentoo system with some pre compiled binaries :-) It would be worth it as cube is a great game.

azraelder

it worketh, thanks.

: D

Good to hear. Thanks for replying when things work.

azraelder

ps Odd that the emerge cube didn't work for Gentoo as I heard that it was supposed to sort out any dependencies.

I thought it was a bit odd too. Everything else i've gotten has worked fine. in fact, the only thing i've had to even spend any time configuring is xorg, and for some reason gaim wouldn't compile right so i had to get the source, but other than that it was pretty awesome. I'm gonna go see if any other gentoo users couldn't get the portage'd cube to work.

thanks again.