can only run d1x as root!

ptesone · 04-06-2004, 11:45 AM

-When I launch d1x (descent) I get the following:

You must be the owner of the current console to use svgalib.
Not running in a graphics capable console,
and unable to find one.
svgalib: cannot get keyboard mode.

Error: SVGAlib Keyboard Init Failed

Error: SVGAlib Keyboard Init Failed

-I can only play it as su

-I mean an easy fix would be just to create a shortcut to it as su, but I think I saw a way (once) to make the SDL/SVGA work for all users. . .

Tinkster · 04-06-2004, 03:11 PM

Use the SDL or OpenGL version instead of SVGA? :)

But there has been a similar question, regarding a
graphics viewer for SVGA not long ago ... if I could
only remember the name of it ... basically there's some
configuration to SVGA to be done and some permissions
to be changed, but I don't recall it since I never needed
it ... works fine on my box for non-root-users.

Cheers,
Tink

ptesone · 04-06-2004, 03:31 PM

I know
I think i've found the same thing before
I just can't remember WHERE !!!

as far as SDL or GL goes, I'll have to re-complie the d1x source files
which was hard the first time and I think I broke my Linux last time I did it (which was installing all kinds of usless/unknown things to get the complie to succeed) PLUS I don't remember where I got the d1x source from, i had forgotten to back up my Bookmarks before I re-installed Linux. . .opps

Tinkster · 04-06-2004, 05:12 PM

http://d1x.warpcore.org/

Enjoy!

Cheers,
Tink

ptesone · 04-06-2004, 07:37 PM

DUH !
(that's for a CVS repos, I was hoping for a tar.gz)

Tinkster · 04-06-2004, 07:42 PM

Sorry ... they took that off the site quite a while ago
(over a year I'd say) .... if you can't live with CVS
I can tar it up for you.

Cheers,
Tink

ptesone · 04-06-2004, 07:46 PM

only if it comes with a configure file

(I had found a site doing a search of a compile error I was getting during a compile of d1x and I found a whole mess of dx1.*ver*.src.tar.gz 's and had it bookmarked and forgot to back it up when I reloaded Linux). . .

But if you could do that I would be in your debt

ptesone · 04-06-2004, 07:50 PM

and I just found it again:

http://www.reprehensible.net/~donut/d1x/

ptesone · 04-06-2004, 07:50 PM

opps, can I make links? or is that a no-no

ptesone · 04-06-2004, 07:52 PM

". . .please don't de-activate me. . .I told him not to go, but he's faulty; malfunctioning. . ."

-C3P0 '1977

ptesone · 04-06-2004, 07:56 PM

'. . .kept babling on about his mission. . ."

ptesone · 04-07-2004, 03:47 PM

hey Tinkster

thanx for the offer but I think I figured it out

Tinkster · 04-07-2004, 03:57 PM

Good ... I had _no_ idea what you were
rabbiting on about for the last few posts ;)

Cheers,
Tink

ptesone · 04-08-2004, 11:12 AM

I tend to do that. . .It's one of my many bad habits

I fixed it by recompiling with SDL instead of SVGA

Tinkster · 04-08-2004, 03:50 PM

Good on yah :) Wish all bad habbits were
fixed that easily ;*)

Cheers,
Tink