Supertux won't start...?

[altairz]

I have installed Supertux, but when I start it, the window is only open a second before it closes automatically.
I also installed SuperTuxKart, and it works good, also in fullscreen mode.
Why won't supertux work as it should?

[Fitzcarraldo]

Open a Konsole/Terminal window and run it from the command line, to see if any error messages are displayed.

[joeoden]

I just installed both games and both are working OK on my SL 5 kde amd64 system with compiz running

Will try the games on my notebook later

Could you tell us what GUI you use and what hardware you have

[altairz]

when I open it in the terminal, I get this message:

"Datadir: /usr/share/games/supertux
Warning: No joysticks are available.
Memory segment error"

I use Gnome.
My hardware is:
Processor: AMD turion Dual-core rm-70 (2000 MHz)
memory: 3 gb
graphic card: Nvidia GeForce 8200M

[Fitzcarraldo]

Not sure, but it looks to me like it might be a bug.

Do you get the problem when you are using Compiz-Fusion? If so, have you tried selecting the Metacity windows manager instead of Compiz-Fusion to see if the problem still occurs? Another thing you could also try is building it (as root in a Terminal window) with the opengl flag switched off:

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USE="-opengl" emerge -1v supertux

[altairz]

I got the same problem when I used the Metacity windows.
I have built it now, but I don't know how to turn off the opengl flag. How do I do that?

[Fitzcarraldo]

If you entered the command exactly like I wrote it:

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USE="-opengl" emerge -1v supertux

then you have turned off the opengl flag. Does the newly built supertux run under Metacity?

[altairz]

No, it dosn't run under Metacity

[Fitzcarraldo]

Then I'm afraid I'm all out of ideas. I suggest you file a bug report (see the link at the top right of this page), giving full details of your hardware (lspci), version of SL and the error message you quoted earlier.

[joeoden]

Will try the games on my notebook later

Both games work on my HP C700 notebook, Celeron 530 1.73GHz, 2 gig ram, intel GM965/GL960 intergrated graphics using Gnome 2.26.3, Sabayon Linux x86_64, kernel 2.6.31-sabayon, system updated with sulfur using limbo and sabayon repos, also no problems running the games under kde

Also games are working on AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ 4 Gb DDR2 RAM Sabayon Linux x86_64, kernel 2.6.31-sabayon, GeForce 9500 GT 1024 MB, 22" LCD (1680x1050), using Gnome 2.26.3, system updated with sulfur using limbo and sabayon repos, also no problems running the games under kde

When I run from terminal I get
$ supertux
Datadir: /usr/share/games/supertux
Warning: No joysticks are available.
And then program runs, I do not receive the Memory segment error

Supertux is running on 2 of my computers (both are 64bit) using the gnome and kde systems on different partitions

Are you running SL 5 g x86 (32 bit) or SL 5 g x86_64 (64 bit)
And have you tried equo deptest and equo libtest