Linux Beta Demo and Feedback (1.0.1 Final Out)

[Urkle]

On my Gentoo athalon64 box wit 32bit libs as well as 64bit. I get tis wen starting

Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing nixstaller............................
Collecting info for this system...
Operating system: linux
CPU Arch: x86_64
C libraries: /lib/libc.so.6
C++ libraries: /usr/sfw/lib/libstdc++.so.*
awk: cmd. line:1: fatal: cannot open file `./bin/linux/x86_64/edelta_src' for reading (No such file or directory)
awk: cmd. line:1: fatal: cannot open file `./bin/linux/x86_64/edelta_src' for reading (No such file or directory)
Error: Couldn't find any suitable frontend for your system

maybe my system is missing something?

Try running
linux32 ./penumbrademo.sh

The next build of the installer will address this issue.

[Urkle]

Hi,

the game simply crashes when DISPLAY is unset (or any other initialization error occurs).

Maybe you could add an error message of what went wrong?

Thanks for the backtrace. I have it fixed for the next release.

[Urkle]

My only complain is that during the intro movie the spoken text is a bit abruptly stopped after each part. Is that normal ?

yeah, i got the same thing, too. (on a gentoo box)

Timonater and Ruthenium,
What hardware are running on? specifically the sound card.

[Urkle]

Hi, first i want to say its nice to see a new commercial linux game once in a while, so thanks for that.

I get this error, when I want to run the game on LinuxMint 2.2, which is based upon Ubuntu 6.10 i think.

./penumbrademo: line 2: 13506 Floating point exceptionLD_LIBRARY_PATH=./lib ./penumbrademo.bin

I looked into the ./penumbrademo script but dont know if I can do anything to make this go away.

Are you running the x86 version of Ubuntu or x86_64? Also what hardware are you running it on? (cpu, video, sound, etc..)

2 others have reported this error. And it is quite odd.
I'm getting ready to test it myself in Ubuntu 6.10 x86.

[Ruthenium]

I have a PIV 2.8 Ghz
1 go ram
Nvidia 6800 gt
sound blaster live 5.1 (EMU10K1)

I also have another question, I tested the windows demo and it seemed faster with mouse handling, I got back to linux and change the mouse sensitivity to 2.0 and now there's almost no difference in speed. Maybe the default 1.0 is a bit slow ?

[tmw]

Are you running the x86 version of Ubuntu or x86_64? Also what hardware are you running it on? (cpu, video, sound, etc..)

2 others have reported this error. And it is quite odd.
I'm getting ready to test it myself in Ubuntu 6.10 x86.

I'm running the x86 version

the hardware is:
intel core2duo on an asrock board with via chipset(its a board with pci-e and agp, also ddr and ddr2 ram slots)
2 gb ram in dual channel mode
realtek onboard sound(using this as standard), also Soundblaster Live!
agp nvidia 6800GT with latest official drivers

erm... that should be it, let me know if you want to know anything else

[timonator]

Timonater and Ruthenium,
What hardware are running on? specifically the sound card.

00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a1)
using the snd_intel8x0 driver

[JoyFM]

JoyFM:

Dog always kills you sooner or later If there is no really major slow down (making the game unplayable) then I think you should be fine.

as i said at the end it seems unplayable ... but don't know weather it is becouse the end of the demo screen is loading

p.s. about the sound thing i have a sound blaster live! 5.1 using through alsa

[Patteh]

Quick and dirty workaround for "Couldn't find any suitable frontend for your system" problem:

On my Gentoo machine I did this:
1. Extract PenumbraDemo.sh into a target dir

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./PenumbraDemo.sh --target /some/temp/dir

2. Run install script /some/temp/dir/startupinstaller.sh. It aborts with error: "Couldn't find any suitable frontend for your system"

This happens because the fltk and ncurs binaries in /some/temp/dir/bin/linux/x86/libc.so.6/libstdc++.so.6 can not be extracted properly (NOTE: bin/linux/x86/libc.so.6/libstdc++.so.6 might be different on your system. This path was created by the PenumbraDemo.sh script) The getbinlibdir subroutine returned this for LCPPDIR: bin/linux/x86/libc.so.6/libstdc++.so.2.* which cannot be handled by the rest of the script.

3. Extract the file /some/temp/dir/bin/linux/x86/libc.so.6/libstdc++.so.6/fltk.lzma manually. In /some/temp/dir/bin/linux/x86/libc.so.6 issue:

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$ ./lzma-decode  libstdc++.so.6/fltk.lzma libstdc++.so.6/fltk
$ chmod u+x libstdc++.so.6/fltk

Do same for ncurs if you like. (This is what the routine unlzma() in startupinstaller.sh should do)

4. Then at the end of startupinstaller.sh I removed some stuff and set FRBIN manually, so the last for loop reads:

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for LCPP in $LIBSTDCPPS
  do
    FRBIN="bin/linux/x86/libc.so.6/libstdc++.so.6/fltk"
        if [ ! -z "$ED_SRC" -a $FRBIN != $ED_SRC ]; then
            edelta ${LCDIR} $ED_SRC $FRBIN
        fi
                
        # Run it
        chmod +x $FRBIN
    `pwd`/$FRBIN
    exit $?
   done

5. Invoke startupinstaller.sh again. FLTK-based installer started to install the demo

[Thib_G]

I'm running Ubuntu 6.10, and penumbrademo.bin fails with SIGFPE.
Here is the output of gdb :

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(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/thib/local/PenumbraDemo/penumbrademo.bin
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)

Program received signal SIGFPE, Arithmetic exception.
0xb7f088b6 in _dl_rtld_di_serinfo () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
(gdb) bt
#0  0xb7f088b6 in _dl_rtld_di_serinfo () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#1  0xb7f08c47 in _dl_rtld_di_serinfo () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#2  0xb7f0a291 in _dl_rtld_di_serinfo () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#3  0xb7f04138 in ?? () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#4  0xb6ec7780 in ?? ()
#5  0xb6ec7928 in ?? ()
#6  0x00000001 in ?? ()
#7  0x00000000 in ?? ()

By the way, I had trouble to register onto this forum ( your SMTP server is probably refused by free.fr ), please delete Thib and ThibG