[Supertux-Devel] SuperTux on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)

[Matthias Braun]

Am Donnerstag, den 19.11.2009, 10:26 -0700 schrieb Joseph Brower:
> Try looking for the .supertux folder inside of your home directory and
> make sure that it is readable.  That could be the issue.
> 
> On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 14:55 -0500, David Dzikowski wrote: 
> > Hi SuperTux developers,
> > 
> > My kids and I love playing SuperTux! I recently upgraded my system to Ubuntu
> > 9.10 and now it won't start. I'm getting the following error when I try to
> > run it at the command line:
> > 
> > ============================================
> >  Datadir: /usr/share/
> > 
> > games/supertux
> > Warning: Unable to open the file "/home/dave/.supertux/config" for read!!!
> > Warning: No joysticks are available.
> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> > 
> > ============================================
> > 
> > Can you suggest any work-around? I'd really like to get this working in
> > Ubuntu 9.10/

I just tried it on my ubuntu 9.10 - supertux-stable indeed crashs while
supertux2 (a development versions) works flawlessly (how ironic). So the
easiest workaround is installing the supertux2 package.

As for supertux-stable crashing: I just looked at it and SDL crashs when
we use the SDL_SoftStretch function. Unforunately this function is
undocumented and not public SDL API so we can't even blame the SDL guys
but someone would have to bring in an alternative (SDL_stretch, SDL_gfx
or copying stretch code from somewhere)...

Greetings,
	Matthias