Bug#435468: warsow: segfaults when starting (amd64 bug ?)

[Pierre Habouzit]

On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 01:50:18AM +0200, Gonéri Le Bouder wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 11:44:45PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> > Package: warsow
> > Version: 0.31.dfsg-4
> > Severity: grave
> > Justification: renders package unusable
> > 
> >   when I launch warsow I get:
> > 
> > ********************
> > ERROR: R_Upload32_3D: texture is too large (resizing is not supported)
> > ********************
> > Error: Error during initialization
> > ********************
> > ERROR: Received signal 11
> > 
> > ********************
> > Recursive Sys_Error: Received signal 11
> Hello Pierre,
> 
> I don't think it's a bug but probably a limitation of your OpenGL
> driver.
> 
> Which graphic card/driver do you use and how much memory do you have on
> it?
> Can you try: glxinfo -l|grep GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE
> 
> Maybe we should add a check in the wrapper.
> 
> if ! glxinfo | grep "direct rendering: No"; then
>   zenity --error "missing direct rendering" --text "You're OpenGL installation doesn't support direct rendering. If you have an NVIDIA or an ATI card you'll probably need to install the propritary driver."
> fi
> 
> WARSOW_MIN_TEXTURE_SIZE=2048 
> if [ "`glxinfo -l|grep GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE| sed 's/.*= //'`" -lt "$WARSOW_MIN_TEXTURE_SIZE" ]; then
>   zenity --error "texture is too large" --text "You're graphic card doesn't doesn't have enough memory to launch Warsow."
> fi
> 
> This add two new dependency (mesa-utils and zenity) and we need to deal with i18n stuff.

  Yes, I happened to lack DRI, and then it begun to work when I fixed
it. Though I think the error messages would be of use. Also note that
s/you're/your/ in your texts :)



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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder at debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org
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