Bug#466897: warzone2100: Briefings not displayed at high resolutions

[Roland Mas]

Package: warzone2100
Version: 2.1.0~1.beta1-1
Severity: normal

Warzone 2100 ceased displaying the mission objectives to me,
apparently with the latest upload.  I get the background briefings
(displayed on a black background, since I presume the original videos
haven't been liberated), but the actual orders do not appear, and I
get an empty box with only "Briefing commences" at the top.

  I thought it was related to the fact that I progressed through
missions, and maybe the objectives were only displayed for the first
handful of missions, but that doesn't seem to be the case, since the
Tutorial/Fast play mission suffers from the same behaviour (and I
distinctly remember having played it and having seen objectives).  I
tried renaming my .warzone2100-2.1/ directory, to no avail.

  Further poking led me to a surprise: the default resolution for the
game (800x600, or maybe 640x480) does display the briefings.  But when
I go back up to my usual 1680x1050, not touching other graphics
option, they disappear again.  All resolutions starting from 1280x960
exhibit the bug; 1152x864 and under work fine.

  I don't see how resolution could have an impact on displaying one
particular piece of text (the others are okay, including the other
pieces of "Intelligence reports"), but there you have it.

Roland.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages warzone2100 depends on:
ii  libc6                    2.7-8           GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 7.0.2-4         A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglc0                  0.6.5-1         QuesoGLC GLC implementation
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]   7.0.2-4         The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii  libogg0                  1.1.3-3         Ogg Bitstream Library
ii  libopenal0a              1:0.0.8-7       OpenAL is a portable library for 3
ii  libphysfs-1.0-0          1.0.0-5         filesystem abstraction library for
ii  libpng12-0               1.2.15~beta5-3  PNG library - runtime
ii  libpopt0                 1.10-3          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsdl-net1.2            1.2.7-2         network library for Simple DirectM
ii  libsdl1.2debian          1.2.13-2        Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libvorbis0a              1.2.0.dfsg-3    The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisfile3           1.2.0.dfsg-3    The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libx11-6                 2:1.0.3-7       X11 client-side library
ii  warzone2100-data         2.1.0~1.beta1-1 data files for warzone2100

warzone2100 recommends no packages.

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