Bug 486716 - alex4 does not start
Summary: alex4 does not start
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: alex4
Version: 11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Hans de Goede
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-02-21 11:59 UTC by Karel Volný
Modified: 2009-08-12 06:42 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-08-10 08:53:51 UTC
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Description Karel Volný 2009-02-21 11:59:31 UTC
Description of problem:
I tried the games spin alpha DVD. When trying to start alex4, the screen goes black and nothing else happens. Hitting Ctrl+C kills it and returns to normal desktop.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
alex4-1.0-7.fc10

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot the games spin DVD
2. start alex4
  
Actual results:
screen goes black, leaving just mouse cursor

Expected results:
the game starts

Additional info:
I tried to run the game from console, but it does not write *any* messages. So that I wanted to run it with strace, but I have found that strace is not available on the DVD. I know only a very little about debugging, so just give me some hints what info might be of interest (and how to get it) and I'll try to provide the needed details.

Comment 1 Hans de Goede 2009-02-22 10:46:32 UTC
Can you please create a texfile called ~/.alex4/alex4.ini, and out the following 2 lines in there:

[graphics]
fullscreen=0

And then try again? I think X is going foobar when alex4 tries to change the resolution as it goes in to fullscreen mode.

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 11:33:31 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 3 Hans de Goede 2009-08-10 08:53:51 UTC
Closing due to lack of response from reporter.

Comment 4 Karel Volný 2009-08-12 06:42:47 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> Closing due to lack of response from reporter.  

oops, sorry, it slipped through my inbox :-(

yesterday I downloaded the final version of the F11 games spin DVD, and now it seems working even without the proposed modification of the configfile - so changing the resolution to WORKSFORME


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