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O-K, I've never been into computer games, but on a whim, I saw something about Super Tux Kart and decided to try it on my Ubuntu 10.04. While I was at it, I downloaded Emilia Pinball, and Dreamchess.
Well....Tux Kart doesn't work for me- the graphics are all swcrambled.....all you see is gibberish.
The flippers in the pinball game have a big lag problem, so as to make it unusable (A simple game on a 3GHZ 'puter, and it doesn't work?!)
And the Dreamchess....well...I just suck at chess! (Maybe I'll teach myself how to play now that I've got this....amazingly, it is the one thing which does work)
I feel Windows-style frustration level coming back- all these little annoyances- every day something new. Think it's time to switch distros?
...or is it just me? Maybe my 'puter is just a schlamozzle.
Can't get that var/log info- this comes up (regardless of if I use sudo or not)
it is not an executable. It is a log file. Ie a text file with the output from a program. In this case the output of your xserver. I'm not asking you to execute it I'm asking you to either read it to find out what driver you are using of to attach it to one of your posts here so that I can read it.
For example you can read it with the following command
Code:
less /var/log/Xorg.0.log
You can attach it to a post by "ckicking" the "Manage Attachments" button on the page where you type text to create a post.
Ok, from your Xorg.0.log it looks like you are using the correct driver and have hardware rendering working, so I don't know what is causing the problems with the programs you list in your first post.
I'm assuming you start those programs from some sort of menu: have you tried starting them from the command line to see what, if any, errors or warnings they report? If not I suggest you do.
Cheers,
Evo2.
PS. It is generally better not to put spaces in filenames.
Ok, from your Xorg.0.log it looks like you are using the correct driver and have hardware rendering working, so I don't know what is causing the problems with the programs you list in your first post.
I'm assuming you start those programs from some sort of menu: have you tried starting them from the command line to see what, if any, errors or warnings they report? If not I suggest you do.
Cheers,
Evo2.
PS. It is generally better not to put spaces in filenames.
Thanks. I'll try opening the games from the command line tomorrow (getting ready for bed now).....
I don't know what's going on though- now, I can't even get the gibberish graphics....when I go to start the race in Tux Cart....it just closes out the program!
Update manager says my system is up to date. I really don't know why I'm having all these problems!
~$ supertuxkart
Data files will be fetched from: '/usr/share/games/supertuxkart/'
SDL_LoadWAV() failed to load /usr/share/games/supertuxkart//data/sfx/horn.wav
Highscores will be saved in '/home/bob/.supertuxkart/highscore.data'.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the problems mentioned above-
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