Bug#432790: Should warn the user if hardware acceleration isn't available.

[Daniel Burrows]

Package: snowballz
Version: 0.9.3-1
Severity: wishlist

  I didn't notice that snowballz had an opengl dependency, and
went ahead and tried to run it anyway on my unaccelerated graphics
card.  I was impressed with how fast it was, but it was still a
little painful.  It would be nice to check whether you have hardware
acceleration and, if not, warn the user on startup that the program
probably won't work.

  Daniel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-xen-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages snowballz depends on:
ii  python               2.4.4-2             An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-imaging       1.1.5-11            Python Imaging Library
ii  python-numeric       24.2-7              Numerical (matrix-oriented) Mathem
ii  python-opengl        2.0.1.09.dfsg.1-0.2 Python bindings to OpenGL
ii  python-pygame        1.7.1release-4.1    SDL bindings for games development
ii  ttf-tamil-fonts      1:0.4.7.4           Free TrueType fonts for the Tamil 

snowballz recommends no packages.

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