[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev Digest, Vol 15, Issue 6

[Bristow Thankachan]

hi,
First of all I'm sorry for the late reply, my net connections was broken. As
you said I was logged in as root and now I can run it smoothly in my laptop
as a local user. Thank you for the reply.

regards
Bristow

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 5:24 PM, David Bruce <davidstuartbruce at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Bristow,
>
> On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Bristow Thankachan
> <bristow.thankachan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > hi all,
> > I have been using tuxtype on my desktop for the last few weeks, but when
> I
> > tried running it on my laptop with debian OS, I got the following error
> > message:-
> >
> > debian:~/bristow/tuxtype# tuxtype
>
> Looks like you're running as root.
>
> > SetupPaths(): checking for '/usr/local/share/tuxtype' as default data
> path
> > path '/usr/local/share/tuxtype' found, copy to settings.default_data_path
>
> Looks like you installed from our tarball (which version?) rather than
> with Debian's package manager.  That should work fine.
>
> > load_settings_filename(): no theme-specific settings
>
> This isn't a problem.
>
> > found/root/.tuxtype/settings.txt
> > Couldn't initialize SDL: No available video device
> >
> If you were able to install with "./configure; make; sudo make
> install", you must have SDL and friends on your laptop.  Is Xorg
> running when you try to start tuxtype, or are you just logged in as
> root to a tty?  The common window managers won't allow root logins by
> default.  If you're within KDE/Gnome or another WM, you certainly can
> start tuxtype by just typing "tuxtype" in a console window, but you
> probably have to be a regular user rather than root.
>
> Anyway,
>
> 1. Did you install with "./configure; make; sudo make install" on this
> machine successfully?
> 2. What version of tuxtype is it?
> 3. Can you install and run the official Debian-packaged version on
> your system (sudo aptitude install tuxtype)?
> 4. Do other SDL apps work (esp. tuxmath since I'm extremely familiar
> with its code)?
> 5. running "tuxtype -w -d" may provide some additional helpful terminal
> output.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David Bruce
>
> (also, don't top post with a large amount of unrelated text below your
> post, especially the weekly digest)
>
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