hi,<div><br></div><div>First of all I'm sorry for the late reply, my net connections was broken. As you said I was logged in as root and now I can run it smoothly in my laptop as a local user. Thank you for the reply.</div>
<div><br></div><div>regards </div><div>Bristow</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 5:24 PM, David Bruce <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davidstuartbruce@gmail.com">davidstuartbruce@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi Bristow,<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Bristow Thankachan<br>
<<a href="mailto:bristow.thankachan@gmail.com">bristow.thankachan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> hi all,<br>
> I have been using tuxtype on my desktop for the last few weeks, but when I<br>
> tried running it on my laptop with debian OS, I got the following error<br>
> message:-<br>
><br>
> debian:~/bristow/tuxtype# tuxtype<br>
<br>
</div>Looks like you're running as root.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> SetupPaths(): checking for '/usr/local/share/tuxtype' as default data path<br>
> path '/usr/local/share/tuxtype' found, copy to settings.default_data_path<br>
<br>
</div>Looks like you installed from our tarball (which version?) rather than<br>
with Debian's package manager. That should work fine.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> load_settings_filename(): no theme-specific settings<br>
<br>
</div>This isn't a problem.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> found/root/.tuxtype/settings.txt<br>
> Couldn't initialize SDL: No available video device<br>
><br>
</div>If you were able to install with "./configure; make; sudo make<br>
install", you must have SDL and friends on your laptop. Is Xorg<br>
running when you try to start tuxtype, or are you just logged in as<br>
root to a tty? The common window managers won't allow root logins by<br>
default. If you're within KDE/Gnome or another WM, you certainly can<br>
start tuxtype by just typing "tuxtype" in a console window, but you<br>
probably have to be a regular user rather than root.<br>
<br>
Anyway,<br>
<br>
1. Did you install with "./configure; make; sudo make install" on this<br>
machine successfully?<br>
2. What version of tuxtype is it?<br>
3. Can you install and run the official Debian-packaged version on<br>
your system (sudo aptitude install tuxtype)?<br>
4. Do other SDL apps work (esp. tuxmath since I'm extremely familiar<br>
with its code)?<br>
5. running "tuxtype -w -d" may provide some additional helpful terminal output.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
David Bruce<br>
<br>
(also, don't top post with a large amount of unrelated text below your<br>
post, especially the weekly digest)<br>
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