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Date:      Sun, 20 Jul 2003 19:43:49 -0400
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        "Karel J. Bosschaart" <K.J.Bosschaart@tue.nl>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Army Operations on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <3F1B2935.5040800@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030720180009.GA77886@phys9911.phys.tue.nl>
References:  <3F070BE2.5030007@potentialtech.com> <20030720180009.GA77886@phys9911.phys.tue.nl>

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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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