Hi all,
I've just got myself a set of new HW. It's a 6400 Core Duo Processor PC, with an NVIDIA Graphics chip 7600 GT in a graphics card (256 MB) made by MSI. The motherboard is also MSI. It has 2 x 1024 MB memory.

This new PC is running Madriva 2007.0 as is my older PC (still working fine). In the old PC (with an ATI X700 Pro graphics card) I can get Frozen Bubble running with no problems, but not with this new PC. I've used the same installation DVD with the both of them. This is what I get in shell command (ctrl-E) from trying to run Frozen Bubble:

It would seem that I'm missing some vital libraries, but I'm not really sure what to do... Anyone?

I've downloaded files from NVIDIA's site, so it should be OK. From running glxgears I get three nice gears w/ around 10500 to 18000 fps.
From this following, I believe I can see that 3D rendering is running (or am I wrong?).

I've managed to play Mania Drive and Tuxracer , but e.g. Quake II and Frozen-Bubble would not play... What can I do; I would need Frozen-Bubble up & running ASAP as it's usually my wife that wants to play it!
Thanks already in advance.

In MCC under the software installation try searching for an rpm named similar to perl-sdl, and ensure that it is installed. This is the package that SDL.pm should be included with.

If it is already installed, then we need to find out of SDL.pm exists, which we can do with locate:

Note that you may need to run updatedb as root first to build the database that locate users.

OK, first I found out that perl-SDL-1.20.0-15mdv2007.0 is already installed. So it's not that.

Then this is what I did as root:

I have to admit, I was a bit lost for a minute, but then I dug a little deeper (= googled) and installed slocate in MCC.

This is what I got after slocate:

OK. What does that tell us? That frozen bubble cannot find the SDL.pm, because it's not looking for it in the right places? If so, how can I tell it where it is?

The quick and dirty way would be to just symlink one of the directories it's looking in to the directory it's actually in:
But be sure that /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 (or whatever dir listed in @INC that you choose) does not already exist (I doubt it will).

The more "proper" way would be to add /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux/ to @INC, but I think that's a program-defined variable so you'd have to modify the program.

Well the /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/ does not exist, but at least some of the directories do exist... I did the symlink as you suggested, but no help. It still doesn't work.

-- EDIT --

OK, it did change the line it froze on:



Earlier it looked like this:

it seems the symlink didn't take. could go onto the command line, get into the site_perl directory and give us the output of:

OK, will do, when I get home this evening.

What is the problem, if these folders do exist? The one that I mentioned (and the one I tried to symlink) does not exist, but many of the ones Frozen-bubble reported do exist.

If you meant the folder wher I found SDL.pm then it's this: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux/



The first line 5.8.8 -> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/ was blinking red, so there must be something wrong with it - right?

sorry for the delay.

yes, there's something wrong with it. my stupidity, is mainly what it was

you want this command:
I have this horrible tendency to switch things when I try to link them. You want the existing directory first, and then the location of the link to it. You can delete the 5.8.8 that's showed up in vendor_perl.

Thanks tyme, I'll check this tonight. I'll post findings here.

Sorry, but I didn't have time to test it. I'm not able to access that PC as I'm travelling, but I'll get back in a week. Post back then.

Back again.
I tried what you suggested and switched the lines in the symbolic link. No help

I also tried with the slash after 5.8.8/

I double-checked and the SDL.pm is still in the folder /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux/

I still get this when I try command: ./frozen-bubble

When I try to run Frozen Bubble from the Games (application menu) it is just silent and nothing happens.

I also removed the earlier link - no help.

What am I missing here - anyone?

You did install this from the DVD's, right? And you've made sure to grab any relevant updates?

I updated from MCC using either the DVD or one of the easy-urpmi links I have. All the relevant updates - yes (at least what the MCC suggests).

I un-installed it all and now I'm downloading the files from Frozen-bubble.org. I'll post back when I've tried them.


Nothing... I DL'ed from the frozen-bubble.org site and it did come with some other packages (libs) I also installed. I tried - nothing. Then I upgraded/updated from MCC to the latest - nothing. Still the same problem...

I guess it was not meant that I'd play frozen bubble on my Mandriva with this particular HW set. It's not a big thing, but it kinda keeps bugging me - you know what I mean.

I know what you mean, especially since it should work. It's very odd that a Mandriva-built (official) package would not be configured properly for the system it's meant to be run on. This may be a bug, and you may have better luck getting it resolved by putting it on qa.mandriva.com (assuming, of course, such a bug report does not already exist - you should search).

My suggestions really constituted a hack, but it's a hack commonly used (make the program think the files are where it's looking) - but there was no guarantee that it would work for you

sorry I can't be of more help...but I'll keep thinking on this and see if I come up with any other ideas.

Is it possible you have mixed up 32 bit and 64 bit software using your DVD and easy-urpmi?

Hmmm... that may be, but I'd need to check. I'm not home at the moment, but how can I see, if I've done it correctly (Easy-Urpmi)?

If I've managed to screw up something there, should I try to install Mandriva again? The only thing is, that I have not been able to play the damn thing ever on this hw. Not even when I first set it up before I did any easy-uprmi.

I believe your using an i586 DVD? So check to see if when you set up easy-urpmi that you also used i586 and not x86_64?

It looks like you may have installed a 64 bit (x86_64) perl or frozen bubble package?

If you have managed to do this, and have installed very many apps and libs... it would probably be best to reinstall your system.

Well that may be the case... I just tried to install new NVidia drivers and this is what I got:

I don't know where have I got this 64 bit information into my system, but I guess I must try to get it back showing 32 bit. This is one of the Easy-Urpmi addresses I've got:

If I want to reinstall the system, would I be able to do that without losing everything I've already installed... At least the wireless interface was a real pain...

Well, I did install the system anew. Did a full re-installation, but no help. I get the same errors when trying to open Frozen Bubble from the /usr/games/ folder with Ctrl-E.

Then again I tried to install the latest NVIDIA drivers and could not install the 32 bit version. I finally installed the 64 bit version and managed to do so. So I don't know anymore which system I have... It did give me some error notification about the kernel, but it seems to be working fine. I can get the glxgears to run smoothly.

I had previously managed to install both Quake 4 and Doom 3 (also with the expansion pack). I just need to install them again... I must say that ID has done a good job with linux installation.

But I guess this is a little off topic for this gaming subforum and the subject.

Just today, I realized that I must be using the wrong system... At least when I changed the easy-urpmi versions to 64 bit versions and updated some packages (including the Frozen Bubble one) I managed to get Frozen Bubble running! Let's see, if I get any other problems with that, but for the moment it looks to work fine...

So the problem presented in this topic is solved.