Supertux won't start...?

[altairz]

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

I run SL 5 x86.
Haven't tried equo deptest or libtest. How do I do that, and what do they do?

[joeoden]

Haven't tried equo deptest or libtest. How do I do that, and what do they do?

http://wiki.sabayonlinux.org/index.php? ... ns#deptest
You should learn the package manager
http://wiki.sabayonlinux.org/index.php?title=En:Entropy

From a terminal as root type
equo deptest
equo libtest

I run SL 5 x86

You are running a 32 bit OS on a 64 bit machine

I haven't setup SL 5 on my older 32 bit systems, will install on one today
Will also setup SL 5 x86 on my backup 64 bit machine then install Supertux and let you if the game runs

If you have plenty of hard drive space create a new partition and install SL 5 x86_64 then install Supertux using sulfur

[joeoden]

Sorry, my ISP has changed my billing from the third of the month to the tenth of the month and I'm almost at my download limit so I have to wait until the tenth before I can download the latest SL 5 G x86

[joeoden]

Clean install of SL 5 x86 Gnome on a 32 bit computer fully updated with default sabayon repository (1259)
Test system = i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+, 1 gig ram, Radeon X1650 Pro 512 Mb AGP graphics

Installed and run supertux from terminal and received the error as altairz but this time I also received a message telling me that it could not read the file /home/claudia/.supertux/config

So using a file-manager I looked in /home/claudia/.supertux/ and sure enough the config file wasn't there, so I created a blank config file and tried to run supertux this time I received
usr/share/games/supertux
Warning: No joysticks are available.
Memory segment error"

So I pasted the text of the config file from my 64 bit syatem to the blank config file I created and still no go

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(supertux-config
   ;; the following options can be set to #t or #f:
   (fullscreen #t)
   (sound      #t)
   (music      #t)
   (show_fps   #f)

   ;; either "opengl" or "sdl"
   (video      "sdl")

   ;; joystick number (-1 means no joystick):
   (joystick   -1)
   (joystick-x   0)
   (joystick-y   1)
   (joystick-a   0)
   (joystick-b   1)
   (joystick-start  2)
   (joystick-deadzone  4096)
   (keyboard-jump  32)
   (keyboard-duck  274)
   (keyboard-left  276)
   (keyboard-right 275)
   (keyboard-fire  306)
)


So while reading the config file I noticed

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   ;; either "opengl" or "sdl"
   (video      "sdl")


and decided to change "sdl" to "opengl" (it worked) so the config file now looks like this

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(supertux-config
   ;; the following options can be set to #t or #f:
   (fullscreen #t)
   (sound      #t)
   (music      #t)
   (show_fps   #f)

   ;; either "opengl" or "sdl"
   (video      "opengl")

   ;; joystick number (-1 means no joystick):
   (joystick   -1)
   (joystick-x   0)
   (joystick-y   1)
   (joystick-a   0)
   (joystick-b   1)
   (joystick-start  2)
   (joystick-deadzone  4096)
   (keyboard-jump  32)
   (keyboard-duck  274)
   (keyboard-left  276)
   (keyboard-right 275)
   (keyboard-fire  306)
)


You should have a file named config in your /home/"username"/.supertux/ directory

If you do not then create a file in your /home/"username"/.supertux/ called config, with your favorite text editor and paste the above code in to it, save and then run supertux

If you do have the config file then change "sdl" to "opengl" with your favorite text editor, save and run supertux

The above worked for me even after installing kde-meta, hope it works for you (if it does then please do not forget to mark topic as solved)

[Fitzcarraldo]

That's some serious detective work, Joe. Bravo. I don't think the OP ever filed a bug report as I suggested. May I ask you to file one with the results of your investigations and your solution? Thanks.

[joeoden]

That's some serious detective work

Thanks that's what I like to call the fun part of sabayon, it was just luck that I stumbled across it

May I ask you to file one

You may ask and yes I have filed a bug report, I just hope I did it the correct way