Army Operations on FreeBSD

[Karel J. Bosschaart]

On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 07:33:22PM +0200, Bill Moran wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I may be asking for too much ... but has anyone gotten the Linux version
> of America's Army Operations running on FreeBSD?

Heh, yes, I just completed Basic Combat Training :-).

> It installs nicely, and tries to start, but then complains that it can't
> find OpenGL (I have Mesa installed).

I tried with the nvidia driver (from ports) and a GForce Ti4200 card. 
Setting __GL_SINGLE_THREADED=1 is necessary or the game won't start.
I don't know if the game can be played with other cards (UT2003 for example
can only be played with nvidia on Linux/FreeBSD).

> Any success stories, or anyone interested in working with me to get this
> running?

It feels flaky: I had it hang a couple of times while loading a mission, 
and sometimes it's crashing, either on start or on exit with a Backtrace:

Backtrace:
[ 1]  ./Core.so [0x288dc34a]
[ 2]  /lib/libpthread.so.0 [0x28cb05eb]
[ 3]  [0xbfbfffbf]
[ 4]  /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_free+0xb0) [0x28ae2fc0]
[ 5]  ./armyops-bin(Realloc__11FMallocAnsiPvUiPCw+0x3d) [0x805297d]
[ 6]  ./Core.so(Realloc__6FArrayi+0x3a) [0x28895d6a]
[ 7]  ./Core.so(Remove__6FArrayiii+0x8a) [0x28895e06]
[ 8]  ./Engine.so(_._11AnalogTrack+0x91) [0x285683d5]
[ 9]  ./Engine.so(_._11MotionChunk+0xb1) [0x28568b15]
[10]  ./Engine.so(_._14UMeshAnimation+0x18e) [0x2856cc22]
[11]  ./Core.so(PurgeGarbage__7UObject+0x19f) [0x288b7b13]
[12]  ./Core.so(StaticExit__7UObject+0x1c8) [0x288ab270]
[13]  ./Core.so(appPreExit__Fv+0x4b) [0x288a023f]
[14]  ./armyops-bin(main+0x2709) [0x8050a79]
[15]  /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0x8e) [0x28a82336]
[16]  ./armyops-bin(GetFullName__C7UObjectPw+0x5d) [0x804c6e1]
Signal: SIGSEGV [segmentation fault]

Also, there are these messages:

fcntl: Invalid argument
fcntl: Invalid argument
Xlib:  extension "XiG-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD" missing on display ":0.0".
fcntl: Invalid argument

but I think they're harmless.
> 
> I'm trying to install on 5.1 at the moment ...
>
Tried this on 4.8-stable. Having remote access to the machine is recommended
to 'kill -9' when it misbehaves. 

Karel.