Comments on: Devastation Net 0.1.4.0

By: Endolith

Endolith — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:01:09 +0000

You just got a crash report from me, too. I have an Nvidia 3D card, and I can use it in Ubuntu (Compiz with black windows, for instance), but it doesn't find it and I have no idea about hardware drivers vs software drivers.

By: jer@nyquil.org

jer@nyquil.org — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:22:00 +0000

Indeed you did. I did have hardware drivers installed before I let ubuntu upgrade itself, and Compiz is nice and snappy, so I'm pretty sure hardware is doing its job, but I would not be at all surprised if Hardly borked it up. I have been having display quirks, so I'm pretty sure something is broken on my end.

By: Zorba

Zorba — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:00:59 +0000

I think I got a crash report from you :D

Just to confirm, do you have 3d hardware drivers installed? I know Ubuntu has software drivers since that's what I had to use for testing, but honestly I haven't gotten a shot at testing with hardware drivers yet (although, since all that happens inside SDL, it's unfortunately kind of a black box to me – one problem with using third-party libraries.)

By: Jer Warren

Jer Warren — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:46:35 +0000

it installed fine, but can't find my 3d hardware. which i suspect is Ubuntu's fault, because my display is all fubard since i upgraded to Hardly. You'd think I'd learn after EVERY freaking ubuntu upgrade in the last 5 years has hosed my machine, but no... Anyway, when I get around to the fresh install that I've been putting off for over a month I'll let you know how it works.

By: Zorba

Zorba — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:29:45 +0000

I've thought about providing a tarball also, but I don't want to delve into the mess of Linux shared object hell. I don't even know how that works on Linux since you don't have essentially guaranteed shared objects - how can I provide something that will interface with your windowing library when I have no idea what your windowing library is? I'd probably have to distribute at least one library along with it, and I just don't know how that would work. If you have suggestions, though, I'm interested :)

By: David

David — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:20:53 +0000

The effort involved in figuring out how to install a .deb on my RPM-based system is higher than my desire to play the game. :P

Possibly just a plain tarball would be better.