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Date:      Wed, 25 Sep 2002 16:25:12 +0200
From:      "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl>
To:        Juan Francisco Rodriguez Hervella <jrh@it.uc3m.es>
Cc:        "(Lista) freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Tux Racer over =?iso-8859-1?Q?FreeBSD_?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?=28port_linux=5Fbase-7_doesn't_exists_=3F=BF=29?=
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In-Reply-To: <3D919D23.A596C2AB@it.uc3m.es>
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On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 01:25:23PM +0200, Juan Francisco Rodriguez Hervella wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I've just bought the game Tux Racer, which runs
> nice on Windows and Linux. I've also got an NVivia
> Riva TNT2, so the game should work well when the NVidia
> people or someone release the GLX accelerated 
> driver for FreeBSD.
>
Yes, but the question is what "real soon now" means. I suppose you know about 
http://nvidia.netexplorer.org/

> But when I try to install it, the following message
> appears:
> 
> "This software doesn't run with glibc-2.1 over FreeBSD."
> 
Try running the script in a linux bash shell. I did it with the
Linux demo version:

/compat/linux/bin/bash tuxracer-demo-1.1-linux-i386.sh

Installs fine, except for some ELF errors in the end of the installation.
(to find out the cause you'ld probably have to play with the --keep and
--confirm options of the script) I'm seeing this very often when 
installing from this type of script/archive meant to run on Linux. 

When I attempt to run the game, it complains about GLX missing, which is 
correct for the machine I tried on ;-).

> So, I tried to upgrade the linux emulation, but
> I've discovered that doesn't exist anything under
> "/usr/ports/emulator/linux-base_7"
> 
> What's happening with this port ?

Use linux-base instead, this will install version 7.1, which is the 
default nowadays. 

> Do you think "Tux Racer" will someday run over FreeBSD ?
>
I expect it will run on a machine with hardware acceleration. For you,
it means waiting for the NVidia drivers, or maybe playing in software
mode (which really sucks). BTW, there is an open source version of 
Tuxracer in the ports tree, but of course it doesn't contain all the
levels.

Good luck,
Karel.

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