Bug#820304: openarena: does not run in a gnome wayland session

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Thu Apr 7 10:25:22 UTC 2016


Control: reassign 820304 ioquake3
Control: found 820304 1.36+u20160122+dfsg1-2
Control: affects 820304 + openarena quake3
Control: user pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
Control: usertags 820304 + wayland

On Thu, 07 Apr 2016 at 10:57:38 +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> i've tried running openarena in a gnome wayland session but it fails with
...
> Couldn't get a visual
> ...WARNING: could not set the given mode (-1)

It worked OK for me, but perhaps only in windowed mode?

Variables involved:
* full-screen or not (\set r_fullscreen 1 or 0)
* display mode (\set r_mode 3 for 640x480, -1 for desktop resolution)
* $SDL_VIDEODRIVER set to wayland or x11 (by default it uses X11 I think)
* your video hardware (I'm on Intel)

openarena is really only the game logic, so I'm reassigning this to
ioquake3 and marking it as affecting openarena (and guessing that
quake3 will behave the same).

Don't expect a quick fix for this: full-screen games on Wayland are one
of the bits that is not necessarily expected to work yet.

    S



More information about the Pkg-games-devel mailing list