From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 29 13:40:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FC4A16A4CE for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:40:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (sea1-f117.sea1.hotmail.com [207.68.163.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7B3243D46 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:40:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crollins666@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:40:53 -0700 Received: from 216.19.22.118 by sea1fd.sea1.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 20:40:53 GMT X-Originating-IP: [216.19.22.118] X-Originating-Email: [crollins666@hotmail.com] X-Sender: crollins666@hotmail.com From: "clayton rollins" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 20:40:53 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Apr 2004 20:40:53.0928 (UTC) FILETIME=[441A1280:01C42E2A] cc: dcaffey_fl@yahoo.com Subject: from newbies: bzflag under FreeBSD release 5.2.1 - can't open display - missing X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 20:40:54 -0000 On April 28, 2004, Dominic Caffey wrote: > >Dear FreeBSD Newbies, > > I installed the game "bzflag" from the >packages collection under games. The install >went fine but when I try to run "bzflag" it >complains that it can't open display 0:0 and >complains that it's missing GLX extension. When >I installed "bzflag" shouldn't the dependencies >have been automagically resolved? I've got >Xwindows running without problems and am using >the VESA driver. I'm using the i386 release of >ver 5.2.1. Any suggestions would be appreciated. > >Thanks, > >Dom > Hi Dominic, Generally, all technical support questions should go to freebsd-questions and all answers must be sent there. (Any follow-up posts should be CC'ed to you, so you shouldn't need to subscribe.) Being a newbie myself, I can't give too much help, but can maybe give you some ideas. (And get this on the proper list.) As far as I can tell, GLX is an X module. Here it seems to be loaded during X startup, given the line: Load "glx" in my XF86Config. The vesa and XF86Config man pages make no special mention of the glx module not being suitable. If that line is in your XF86Config, you might also confirm that libglx.a exists in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/. If all that seems proper, you might also check /var/log/XFree86.0.log to see if any errors are printed during X startup (when the module is loaded). Well, that's the extent of the help I can offer. (Others will probably chime in to correct me and to offer some advice.) To note, bzflag seems to work here (4.9-RELEASE-p2; cvsup'ed on Fri Feb 27.) Aside, yes ports *should* automatically set up all dependencies. If my assumption (that glx is simply not loaded) is correct, I don't know what the port could/should do to assure this. The port maintainer should be made aware, though (again, only if I'm correct). Regards, Clayton Rollins PS. Sorry about the snipped subject line (hotmail limitations). _________________________________________________________________ Test your ‘Travel Quotient’ and get the chance to win your dream trip! http://travel.msn.com