Hi, I would like to play Sauerbraten Assassin Edition under 2008 Spring. I've installed all available SDL libraries and even succeeded to go through the installation's procedure, but when I try to play the game at the point of "Recalculating Geometry" shown in the corner, the X server crashes and I'm getting the login screen. The same troubles are with all the SDL driven games. What's wrong?


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First question - do you have GLX working? (3d accel)

open console (Konsole)
type:

glxinfo | grep direct

see what is says.

Also if you start the game via konsole you may get a hint of whats wrong from the output.

For your code:
direct rendering: Yes

Dirvers in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Driver "kbd"
Driver "mouse"
Driver "ati"

glxgears test:
5580 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1115.999 FPS
6153 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1230.503 FPS
6086 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1217.163 FPS
6289 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1257.607 FPS
6144 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1228.718 FPS
6141 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1228.029 FPS
6070 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1213.846 FPS
6280 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1255.983 FPS

Start Sauerbraten in a konsole ans see if an error comes up when it crashes

As ac_dispatcher has already noted, we need to see any error messages you have when you start it in a terminal.

Do you have all the SDL packages installed that are listed in the readme.txt? What ATI card do you have? Have you tried using the fglrx driver?