[gentoo-user] bzflag is broken

[gentoo-user] bzflag is broken

[James]

Hello,

I recently upgraded ati-drivers to 9.9-r2 also to
xorg-server-1.6.3.901-r2


bzflag fails to run from the kde menu.

trying to launch it from the command line yields:
X Error of failed request:  BadRequest (invalid request 
code or no such operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  129 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
  Serial number of failed request:  13
  Current serial number in output stream:  13



So I ran 'equery depgraph --depth=1 bzflag'
and got:
[ Searching for packages matching bzflag... ]
* dependency graph for games-action/bzflag-2.0.12
`-- games-action/bzflag-2.0.12
 `-- net-misc/curl-7.19.6
 `-- sys-libs/ncurses-5.6-r2
 `-- net-dns/c-ares-1.5.3
 `-- virtual/opengl-7.0 (virtual/opengl) [ sdl ]
 `-- virtual/glu-7.0 (virtual/glu) [ sdl ]
 `-- media-libs/libsdl-1.2.13-r1 [ sdl ]
 `-- >=media-libs/svgalib-1.4.2 (unable to resolve to a 
package / package masked or removed)
 `-- >=media-libs/svgalib-1.4.2 (unable to resolve to a 
package / package masked or removed)
 `-- media-libs/glew-1.5.1 [ sdl ]
 `-- x11-libs/libICE-1.0.4 [ sdl ]
 `-- x11-libs/libSM-1.1.0 [ sdl ]
 `-- x11-libs/libX11-1.1.5 [ sdl ]
 `-- x11-libs/libXau-1.0.4 [ sdl ]
 `-- x11-libs/libXdmcp-1.0.2 [ sdl ]
 `-- x11-libs/libXext-1.0.4 [ sdl ]
 `-- x11-libs/libXi-1.2.1 [ sdl ]
 `-- x11-libs/libXmu-1.0.4 [ sdl ]
 `-- x11-libs/libXt-1.0.5 [ sdl ]
 `-- x11-libs/libXxf86vm-1.0.2 [ sdl ]
[ games-action/bzflag-2.0.12 stats: packages (18), max depth (1) ]

hmmmmm,


Since svgalib lists like this:
media-libs/svgalib
     Available versions:  *1.9.25


I'm looking for a little advice on what I should do next.


James

[gentoo-user] Re: bzflag is broken

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 09/26/2009 04:52 AM, James wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently upgraded ati-drivers to 9.9-r2 also to
> xorg-server-1.6.3.901-r2
>
>
> bzflag fails to run from the kde menu.
>
> trying to launch it from the command line yields:
> X Error of failed request:  BadRequest (invalid request
> code or no such operation)
>    Major opcode of failed request:  129 (GLX)
>    Minor opcode of failed request:  19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
>    Serial number of failed request:  13
>    Current serial number in output stream:  13

I don't know why this is happening, but here some things that might be 
worth checking:

Check if your graphics card is actually fully supported by 
ati-drivers-9.9; only HD2000/HD3000/HD4000 series cards are supported.

Make sure ATI's OpenGL library is used instead of X.Org's:

   eselect opengl set ati

Also make sure that your /etc/X11/xorg.conf contains this:

   Section "DRI"
         Mode         0666
   EndSection

Finally, make sure to rebuild all X drivers since you updated 
xorg-server.  This should be a rather quick compilation; the drivers are 
small:

   emerge -a1 `qlist -IC x11-drivers/`

You need app-portage/portage-utils installed for "qlist" though.

Restart X.

For what it's worth, I just installed bzflag here. I'm on AMD64, a 
Radeon HD4870, ati-drivers-9.10 (renamed ebuild of ati-drivers-8.660, 
which is a beta release of 9.10 released by Ubuntu, therefore the weird 
version and mask in portage), gentoo-sources-2.6.31.

[gentoo-user] Re: bzflag is broken

[James]

Nikos Chantziaras <realnc <at> arcor.de> writes:

> Check if your graphics card is actually fully supported by 
> ati-drivers-9.9; only HD2000/HD3000/HD4000 series cards are supported.

It an EAH4350 Silent. It worked fined  with the '8' series
of drivers.



>    eselect opengl set ati
> Also make sure that your /etc/X11/xorg.conf contains this:
>    Section "DRI"
>          Mode         0666
>    EndSection

Always have these...

>    emerge -a1 `qlist -IC x11-drivers/`
Yep did that too, but, I'll do this one more time, just to
make sure nothing was missed.... 

> For what it's worth, I just installed bzflag here. I'm on AMD64, a 
> Radeon HD4870, ati-drivers-9.10 (renamed ebuild of ati-drivers-8.660, 
> which is a beta release of 9.10 released by Ubuntu, therefore the weird 
> version and mask in portage), gentoo-sources-2.6.31.

Most like the card is not supported. Where is the list of supported cards
for the 9 series of ati-drivers. Mine is a  EAH 4350 SILENT from
asus.

James

[gentoo-user] Re: bzflag is broken

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 09/28/2009 02:55 AM, James wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras<realnc<at>  arcor.de>  writes:
>
>> Check if your graphics card is actually fully supported by
>> ati-drivers-9.9; only HD2000/HD3000/HD4000 series cards are supported.
>
> It an EAH4350 Silent. It worked fined  with the '8' series
> of drivers.
>
>
>
>>     eselect opengl set ati
>> Also make sure that your /etc/X11/xorg.conf contains this:
>>     Section "DRI"
>>           Mode         0666
>>     EndSection
>
> Always have these...
>
>>     emerge -a1 `qlist -IC x11-drivers/`
> Yep did that too, but, I'll do this one more time, just to
> make sure nothing was missed....
>
>> For what it's worth, I just installed bzflag here. I'm on AMD64, a
>> Radeon HD4870, ati-drivers-9.10 (renamed ebuild of ati-drivers-8.660,
>> which is a beta release of 9.10 released by Ubuntu, therefore the weird
>> version and mask in portage), gentoo-sources-2.6.31.
>
> Most like the card is not supported. Where is the list of supported cards
> for the 9 series of ati-drivers. Mine is a  EAH 4350 SILENT from
> asus.

The 4350 is fully supported:

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/catalyst_99_linux.pdf

Can you try with some Live CD that loads the ati-drivers during live 
boot?  I think Sabayon does this.  If bzflag works there, then there's 
something wrong in the Gentoo installation.

[gentoo-user] Re: bzflag is broken

[James]

Nikos Chantziaras <realnc <at> arcor.de> writes:


> The 4350 is fully supported:

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/
drivers/linux/catalyst_99_linux.pdf

> Can you try with some Live CD that loads the ati-drivers during live 
> boot?  I think Sabayon does this.  If bzflag works there, then there's 
> something wrong in the Gentoo installation.


I think I have issues with the system. The recent thread where I posted

Sep 28 @rebuild-preserved is the same system.

One new addional piece of info: Every time I run
'python-updater' 2.5 to 2.6 is takes a long time,
says it complete, but If I run 'python-updater'
again,  is does the same upgrade from 2.5. 2.6.
It's like it says it competes, but doesnot
or fails to log something.

I'm going to rebuild python-updater, just for kicks....
and see what that does.

The version of python is 2.6:
eselect python list
Available python interpreters:
  [1]   python2.5
  [2]   python2.6 *

but every time I run python-updater, it thinks it 
is still at 2.5. I do this on other systems, can 
python-updater comes back really quick, and clean.


????

I've been using ati-drivers with this card on gentoo
on this gaming/workstation for some time now, successfully.

James

[gentoo-user] Re: bzflag is broken

[James]

Nikos Chantziaras <realnc <at> arcor.de> writes:

> The 4350 is fully supported:

OK


> Can you try with some Live CD that loads the ati-drivers during live 
> boot?  I think Sabayon does this.  If bzflag works there, then there's 
> something wrong in the Gentoo installation.


The card and bzflag worked for a long time with ati-drivers and gentoo.
It was my most recent upgrade to the 9-series of ati-drivers that 
is broken.

can you run this and tell me what you get?


# equery depgraph --depth=1 bzflag
[ Searching for packages matching bzflag... ]
* dependency graph for games-action/bzflag-2.0.12
`-- games-action/bzflag-2.0.12
 `-- net-misc/curl-7.19.6
 `-- sys-libs/ncurses-5.6-r2
 `-- net-dns/c-ares-1.5.3
 `-- virtual/opengl-7.0 (virtual/opengl) [ sdl ]
 `-- virtual/glu-7.0 (virtual/glu) [ sdl ]
 `-- media-libs/libsdl-1.2.13-r1 [ sdl ]
 `-- >=media-libs/svgalib-1.4.2 (unable to resolve to a package / package masked
or removed)
 `-- >=media-libs/svgalib-1.4.2 (unable to resolve to a package / package masked
or removed)
 `-- media-libs/glew-1.5.1 [ sdl ]
 `-- x11-libs/libICE-1.0.4 [ sdl ]
 `-- x11-libs/libSM-1.1.0 [ sdl ]
 `-- x11-libs/libX11-1.1.5 [ sdl ]
 `-- x11-libs/libXau-1.0.4 [ sdl ]
 `-- x11-libs/libXdmcp-1.0.2 [ sdl ]
 `-- x11-libs/libXext-1.0.4 [ sdl ]
 `-- x11-libs/libXi-1.2.1 [ sdl ]
 `-- x11-libs/libXmu-1.0.4 [ sdl ]
 `-- x11-libs/libXt-1.0.5 [ sdl ]
 `-- x11-libs/libXxf86vm-1.0.2 [ sdl ]
[ games-action/bzflag-2.0.12 stats: packages (18), max depth (1) ]

[gentoo-user] Re: bzflag is broken

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 09/29/2009 03:55 PM, James wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras<realnc<at>  arcor.de>  writes:
>
>> The 4350 is fully supported:
>
> OK
>
>
>> Can you try with some Live CD that loads the ati-drivers during live
>> boot?  I think Sabayon does this.  If bzflag works there, then there's
>> something wrong in the Gentoo installation.
>
>
> The card and bzflag worked for a long time with ati-drivers and gentoo.
> It was my most recent upgrade to the 9-series of ati-drivers that
> is broken.
>
> can you run this and tell me what you get?
>
>
> # equery depgraph --depth=1 bzflag

  * Searching for bzflag ...
  * dependency graph for games-action/bzflag-2.0.12:
`-- games-action/bzflag-2.0.12
  `-- net-misc/curl-7.19.6
  `-- sys-libs/ncurses-5.7-r1
  `-- net-dns/c-ares-1.6.0
  `-- virtual/opengl-7.0 (virtual/opengl) [sdl]
  `-- virtual/glu-7.0 (virtual/glu) [sdl]
  `-- media-libs/libsdl-1.2.13-r1 [sdl]
  `-- >=media-libs/svgalib-1.4.2 (unable to resolve: package masked or 
removed)
  `-- >=media-libs/svgalib-1.4.2 (unable to resolve: package masked or 
removed)
  `-- media-libs/glew-1.5.1 [sdl]
  `-- x11-libs/libICE-1.0.6 [sdl]
  `-- x11-libs/libSM-1.1.1 [sdl]
  `-- x11-libs/libX11-1.2.2 [sdl]
  `-- x11-libs/libXau-1.0.5 [sdl]
  `-- x11-libs/libXdmcp-1.0.3 [sdl]
  `-- x11-libs/libXext-1.0.5 [sdl]
  `-- x11-libs/libXi-1.2.1 [sdl]
  `-- x11-libs/libXmu-1.0.5 [sdl]
  `-- x11-libs/libXt-1.0.6 [sdl]
  `-- x11-libs/libXxf86vm-1.0.2 [sdl]

[gentoo-user] Re: bzflag is broken

[James]

Nikos Chantziaras <realnc <at> arcor.de> writes:

> > # equery depgraph --depth=1 bzflag

Nothing stands out. I unmerged bzflag.

Oh well, I'll find another pass-time....


thx,
James

[gentoo-user] Re: bzflag is broken

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 09/29/2009 08:39 PM, James wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras<realnc<at>  arcor.de>  writes:
>
>>> # equery depgraph --depth=1 bzflag
>
> Nothing stands out. I unmerged bzflag.

Well, actually one thing that stands out is that I'm using newer 
versions of most of the dependencies.

[gentoo-user] Re: bzflag is broken

[James]

Nikos Chantziaras <realnc <at> arcor.de> writes:


> Well, actually one thing that stands out is that I'm using newer 
> versions of most of the dependencies.

I might have found my problem:


# xdriinfo
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
Screen 0: not direct rendering capable.



ideas?

kernel, xlib. xorg.conf or ati-drivers problem?


James