I'm trying to install the KDE game mahjongg 3D (http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=12553&PHPSESSID=23d79a4e780029a6433767155a41f066)
As root, I downloaded and extracted the tarball (mahjongg3d.tar.bz2). Then I did: make PREFIX=/opt/games make PREFIX=/opt/games install The build produced a number of harmless looking warnings (unused parameters and such), but seems to have run successfully. The install appears to have been successful as well. But when I run the game, I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhd]$ /opt/games/bin/mahjongg3d-hires Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". /opt/games/bin/mahjongg3d-hires: line 8: 23090 Illegal instruction ./mahjongg3d I had no idea what "XFree86-DRI" was so I started investigating. There was a previous email on this list with the same error, but for a completely different video card, and the links provided didn't seem to help me at all. I have an nVidia Riva128. I found the sourceforge site for DRI, but it says that nVidia cards are not supported because the drivers are all closed source (http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/nVidia?action=highlight&value=CategoryHardware). Does this mean I'm out of luck, that there's just no way to make this game work? I understand the problem with vendors that won't release driver source. But what good is a graphics technology that excludes the number 1 graphics card manufacturer? Funny thing is the game README makes no mention of DRI being required. It only says that OpenGL and qt-devel are required. This is certainly not a show-stopper for me, but if anyone can provide any pointers (short of writing my own driver :^), I'd appreciate it. It's funny, I read criticisms of Linux and FOSS that a mostly volunteer effort can never keep up with the innovations of a well funded corporation. Yet it seems to me that the biggest problem is the rapid turn-over in technologies that makes it so hard to keep up! I see the OSS to ALSA migration, the 2.4 to 2.6 kernel issues, this DRI graphics technology, and so on. Everything seems to be in a constant state of transition. Oh well, keeps it interesting! -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL.
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