On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 09:28, Bart Garst wrote:
> >
> > Got the three tar.gz files for nwn 1.32:
> > nwclient129.tar.gz
> > linuxclientupdate129to132eng.tar.gz
> > nwresources129.tar.gz
> >
> > emerged nwn, then tar xvzf'd the resources file in /opt, then (because
> > the resources are for 1.29) re-emerged it again to properly patch. Ran
> > fixinstall as root in /opt/nwn, and when, as a fully game privileged
> > user, I run nwn, all that happens is a message of "Error" on the command
> > prompt.
> >
> > Running on an nForce2 board with nVidia X server on latest Gentoo, and
> > Alsa sound. Onboard GeForce4 MX 440 and nForce2 audio.
> >
>
> Is that the XFree86 provided Nvidia driver or the one from www.nvidia.com?
> I've only been able to get it to work with the "nvidia" driver (RedHat 8.0
> w/ GeForce2 MX400)
>
> Also be sure your color depth is correct (24).
>
Yep, that was it (colordepth). Nice of them to give such an informative
error message...
Thanks for letting me know! Works pretty well now :)
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