On Thursday, November 08, 2012 13:28:07, Chris Knadle wrote: > On Thursday, November 08, 2012 04:11:58, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > > On 11/07/2012 07:59 PM, Chris Knadle wrote: > > > You're correct about the error being thrown -- until now I've never > > > noticed it because I generally start Mumble graphically. Mumble seems > > > to work fine (communication-wise) even though the error gets thrown. > > > > > > From what I can see, this might be expected behavior of the program > > > because /usr/share/doc/mumble/Readme.Linux discusses using LD_PRELOAD > > > or the 'mumble- overlay' program (which is shipped with the 'mumble' > > > package) in the case where the OpenGL overlay is desired -- but it's > > > /not/ required. What's going on is that Mumble is designed with 3D > > > gaming in mind, and the overlay is for showing a list of people in the > > > channel and who is actively speaking while you're playing a game; but > > > this overlay and the plugins for the overlay (for particular games) > > > are only needed in a 3D game, and not otherwise. > > > > > > So I thank you for pointing this out because it's interesting, but I'm > > > not sure if it's actually a bug. ;-) Let me know what you think. > > > > hm, i see what you mean that it isn't really a bug. > > > > however, when mumble fails for whatever reason, a natural approach is to > > look at the console output to see what sort of errors are coming up. > > This happened to me, and this message spew led me down some time of wild > > goose chasing that i would rather have spent actually getting my client > > working. > > > > That kind of red herring seems like a misfeature at best. > > I agree. > > Looks like Gregor already found that this has been fixed in Ubuntu.
Ugh. Spoke too soon -- when I saw an attached .diff I thought the bug was fixed in Ubuntu, but it's not. Adding a build dependency on libqt4-opengl-dev doesn't alter the behavior. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
