[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev Digest, Vol 15, Issue 6

[David Bruce]

Hi Bristow,

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Bristow Thankachan
<bristow.thankachan at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi all,
> I have been using tuxtype on my desktop for the last few weeks, but when I
> tried running it on my laptop with debian OS, I got the following error
> message:-
>
> debian:~/bristow/tuxtype# tuxtype

Looks like you're running as root.

> SetupPaths(): checking for '/usr/local/share/tuxtype' as default data path
> path '/usr/local/share/tuxtype' found, copy to settings.default_data_path

Looks like you installed from our tarball (which version?) rather than
with Debian's package manager.  That should work fine.

> load_settings_filename(): no theme-specific settings

This isn't a problem.

> found/root/.tuxtype/settings.txt
> Couldn't initialize SDL: No available video device
>
If you were able to install with "./configure; make; sudo make
install", you must have SDL and friends on your laptop.  Is Xorg
running when you try to start tuxtype, or are you just logged in as
root to a tty?  The common window managers won't allow root logins by
default.  If you're within KDE/Gnome or another WM, you certainly can
start tuxtype by just typing "tuxtype" in a console window, but you
probably have to be a regular user rather than root.

Anyway,

1. Did you install with "./configure; make; sudo make install" on this
machine successfully?
2. What version of tuxtype is it?
3. Can you install and run the official Debian-packaged version on
your system (sudo aptitude install tuxtype)?
4. Do other SDL apps work (esp. tuxmath since I'm extremely familiar
with its code)?
5. running "tuxtype -w -d" may provide some additional helpful terminal output.

Thanks,

David Bruce

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