On 2 Aug 2003, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 20:53, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > > When trying to start xboing I get this: > > > > $xboing -sound > > XBoing - Please wait [ ... ] User, initialising xboing ... > > No access to sound device: Permission denied > > Are you in group audio?
I wasn't, but in the meantime I am, so sound is available for me now .. Thanks, Michel: Before the current Debian OS I had a RedHat 6.2, where AFAIK there was no audio group at all ... :) > > > Can't init soundIt library. yech.. > > XBoing - Warning: Audio unavailable or not supported. > > > > Is soundIt part of the kernel? Or is it a loadable module? > > At any rate, I found it nowhere on my system. > > Looks to me like it's part of xboing. I downloaded the xboing tarball this afternoon from http://www.techrescue.org/xboing/ and had a look at it, and I also had one at the Debian xboing source: Just a guess: Either the debian source has no sound support compiled in, or if it has, my system lacks 3 files, that I found here (and I *think* both xboing versions need these files for sound support): http://www.lookbuysell.net/web/astroids/sast1.5/soundIt/ I installed these files on my machine, and the compile of the original, not the Debian source, finished after some time without errors -- after having changed a bit on the xboing source files (actually in the end I didn't believe it ever would .. :) But when I tried to start this new xboing I got this error: ----------------- XBoing - Please wait [ ... ] User, initialising xboing ... XBoing - Error: Xlib Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Please read `/usr/share/doc/xboing/problems.doc.gz' document for help. ----------------- I found this on <http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2000/debian-x-200012/msg00021.html> : ------------------- "After upgrade to X4 my X package xboing has troubles..I had to patch it to use default colormap, because if it do not I get fatal error(s): XBoing - Error: Xlib Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)" ------------------- So I think the current xboing simply does not run on a modern X environment ... but I'm not sure of that: Just a guess ... But if someone knows what this (from above) means: "I had to patch it to use default colormap" he might let me know ... Nice weekend, Thanks again, Michel, for your help ... Best Regards Wolfgang > > xboing 'works' here, except that it has endianness bugs, so you only > hear white noise. And frankly, that's not the only crappy thing about it > - for a breakout game, I recommend lbreakout2, which works perfectly and > is much better in general. > > > -- Profile, Links: http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer
