Bug#840342: [ace-of-penguins] Freecell No Longer Runs, Nvidia Legacy-304xx video driver

[Markus Koschany]

On 10.10.2016 21:28, David Baron wrote:
> On יום שני, 10 באוקטובר 2016 20:42:25 IDT Markus Koschany wrote:
>> Control: tags -1 moreinfo
>>
>> On 10.10.2016 20:34, David Baron wrote:
>>> Package: ace-of-penguins
>>> Version: 1.5~rc2-1+b1
>>> Severity: normal
>>>
>>> --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
>>> After upgrade of the Nvidia Legacy 304xx driver (contrib), Freecell no
>>> longer runs:
>>> ~$ ace-freecell
>>> X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
>>>
>>>   Major opcode of failed request:  73 (X_GetImage)
>>>   Serial number of failed request:  25
>>>   Current serial number in output stream:  25
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> what makes you think that this is a bug in ace-of-penguins? Did you try
>> to downgrade your Nvidia drivers? What was the outcome? Are you able to
>> play the game with the free xserver-xorg-video-nouveau drivers?
>>
>> Markus
> 
> Program did run using nouveau but nouveau and KDE/Plasma desktop do not mix. 
> So have not played it using nouveau in recent memory.
> It is no longer possible to downgrade to the testing version of the nvidia.
> 
> If other programs fail with the same error, then the point is well made.
> If this is unique here, then something in the ace "backend" might be examined.


The error message indicates a bug or incompatibility between your X
environment / X server and the proprietary Nvidia driver. This is a low
level error and not related to ace-of-penguins which only requires a 2D
capable graphics card. Everything from the past 20 years should work.

If the game works with nouveau it is most likely a bug in the non-free
driver. Since the source code is closed it is not possible for Debian to
work on a fix. The game works flawlessly on my system by the way.

Please note that you can download an earlier version of the Nvidia
driver from snapshots.debian.org.

I am inclined to reassign this issue to
xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-legacy-304xx. Please confirm this is the
package you are currently using.

I am sure the maintainers of xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-legacy-304xx
would be interested in your /var/log/Xorg.* log file because it provides
a more detailed error report. Please attach this file to the bug report.

Regards,

Markus



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