Bug#558270: warsow: fails to start with an oscure error message

[Bruno Kleinert]

Am Freitag, den 27.11.2009, 15:46 +0100 schrieb Fabian Greffrath:
> Am 27.11.2009 15:41, schrieb Bruno Kleinert:
> > Does the other machine have the same or similar video card? Ideally you
> > should check again on a machine with a video card from a different
> > vendor.
> 
> It once happened on my "real" computer at home (it has a Radeon 9500 
> [i.e. R300] type GPU from ~2003 running woth the free "radeon" driver) 
> and in a Virtual Box just now. I assume, both video hardware could 
> hardly be more different. ;)
It depends if you enabled "3D Acceleration" in VirtualBox for the guest
machine or not. If it's enabled, the OpenGL commands are redirected to
r300 on the host machine.

I'll checkout if I can reproduce the bug on my 32bit Intel notebook.

> > I often experienced bug reports about crashing games but the real
> > culprit was a bug in Mesa (libGL.so) :(
> 
> There is a comment in an ubuntu bug which claims "it seems to be a 
> general warsow problem with i386 architecture. It's not possible to 
> reproduce with x64. warsow 0.5 is affected too". o_O
> 
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/warsow/+bug/442003>
Maybe that user also uses the error-prone r300 driver. I didn't see
anything in the report about the video cards.

Let's see what will happen on my Intel thingy later on ;)

Cheers - Fuddl
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