Army Operations on FreeBSD
Bill Moran
wmoran at potentialtech.com
Sun Jul 20 16:43:51 PDT 2003
Karel J. Bosschaart wrote:
> 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).
Hmmm ... I tried to install it on a basic vid card with the SVGA driver
for X. The more I think about it, I don't know why I expected it to work
at all.
>>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:
Doesn't sound bad to me. It tends to do that on Windows, which is the
platform it was designed for. Although the actual frequency of crashes
may be more.
>
> 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.
Thanks, but now that I'm looking at the situation again, I'm guessing I'm going
to have to get a better video card before I've got any chance of it working, and
(with my current work outlook) it may be a while before I dump any cash into a
gaming video card.
--
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com
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