Hi,
I’m on Debian Sid (x86, yes, I know) and I try to compile dxx-rebirth (dxx-rebirth_20211021).
I installed the few missing packages needed for Ubuntu but scons still complains.
Here are its famous last words:

2X-Rebirth.2: CXXFLAGS: ['-g', '-O2', '-ftabstop=4', '-Wall', '-Werror=extra ...

Remove descent.tex, and make sure you are using the most recent d2x-xl.hog.


I’m using the one found in the latest binary archive. Removing the descent.tex makes d2x-xl complain that it does not find some fonts, but I don’t need to kill it violently anymore: it suicides.
I did not touch the ...

No, absolutely not.
Note that sometimes the game simply crashes with segmentation fault (when I move descent.tex in .) and sometimes I must kill -9 it (when I move descent.tex in data/).

OK, it appears that some files are missing:
hoard.ham, descent2.p11, descent2.p22 and banlist.txt.
I can’t find them, neither in the Descent 2 CD, neither in the archives nor in an old Descent 2 directory in Windows.

After several GetAppFolder, I see:


Creating default tracker list
Loading main ...

Hi,

I run an up to date Debian Etch.
I first tried to run the 1.6.81 version of d2x-xl, but it crashes without explanation. It just says “Segfault”.
With strace, I get this:


write(4, \"\\n\\1\\2\\0\\16\\0`\\1\\4@\\2\\0\\17\\0`\\1O\\0\\2\\0\\f\\0`\\1l\\0\\1\\0\", 28) = 28
read(4, 0xbfffbf20, 32 ...

Descent 2 really needs OpenGL 2?

Diedel wrote: It's not my fault if Debian supports neither OpenGL 2.0 nor the 1.4 extensions.

Is it Debian or the nVidia 7174 driver?

Next read time read the entire compilation instructions.

Ouch, not in the teeth!

Diedel wrote: Did you set #define RENDER2TEXTURE to 0 in include/ogl_init.h?

Yes, of course.

From all Linux distros Debian has the most problems with D2X-XL. Makes me believe that distro seriously sucks.

Gah, no. Your source may not be very portable (your fault, your fault, not mine… )

Diedel wrote: Re the missing symbols see www.descent2.de/d2x-install.html.

It doesn’t help… I still have the error.

Diedel wrote:This belongs in the appropriate bug report thread. I don't even know your OS.

Er… you’re talking to me? I already told I run Debian Etch.

Can you grab the source code and compile it on your machine? It's fairly simple.


I tried ./configure, it worked but make complained that:

fbuffer.c: In function ‘ogl_fbuffer_avail’:
fbuffer.c:69: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘glCheckFramebufferStatusEXT’
fbuffer.c:69: error: ‘GL ...

Diedel wrote: Ducon,

I have no clue. Did you try my binary, or compile the app yourself?

Your binary.

Diedel wrote: ducon,

your application folder contains all necessary data. The subfolders you are listing here are all ignored by D2X-XL.

OK, so what’s the problem?
> ./d2x-xl
Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed)
Should I try to strace it?

OK, edit:

> ls -RX1
.:
controls
d2data
d2x-xl
alien1.256
alien2.256
credits.256
fire.256
groupa.256
ice.256
palette.256
water.256
hmidet.386
hmidrv.386
hmimdrv.386
d2.bat
descent2.dem
d2icons.dll
ereglib.dll
eregreg2.dll
iforce.dll
sos32s03.dll
sos9503.dll
soslibs3.dll
readmew.doc
descentw.exe ...

Note that my Debian Etch has libSDL version 1.2.9-0.0.

Yes, I read this file but I can’t make Descent 2 work.

Hi,

Can someone tell me where and what must I copy to play Descent 2 with Linux?
I copied some files in /usr/local/games/d2x-xl/, some found in the CD, some others from the archive, lowercased their names but no way.
Can someone show his ls -lR exactly?

Thanks.