Installation Failure Question

Hola El Groupo!

Here are a couple of failures for an install of the FlightGear simulator on
my FC3 box.


.....
Initializing OpenAL sound manager
Adding subsystem fx
../fgfs: symbol lookup error: ./fgfs: undefined symbol: alutLoadWAVFile
[root@localhost bin]#

I d/l and rpm -ivh the OpenAL audio system and dependent library; I am
wondering if I need to make a hard link between the OpenAL libraries and
the /opt/games/flight location where the rpm installed the FlightGear
system?

If I do, I am not sure on making a "Hardlink" as opposed to doing a PATH.


The second problem:

[root@localhost bin]# ./fgfs --log-level=debug
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x24
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x28
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2c
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x30

.......


RenderTexture Error: Couldn't find a suitable pixel format.
bbcache:Initialize failed, RTT not available for 3D clouds


See here it looks like a problem with the graphics card driver. I have an
ATI Rage 128 card that other wise works great. My 21" LCD screen is set
for 1270 and "painting" of graphics including photos is very fast.

I need some guidance on if I need to reinstall the driver. BTW, I am right
now using the analog output to the Dell 21" monitor but as soon as I can
rob a couple of gas stations I'll get a digital card and go digital to the
display.

Ideas?

Cheers,

Dave


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On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 12:03:41 -0600, CWO4 Dave Mann Cried: Read These Runes!:[color=blue]
> ....
> Initializing OpenAL sound manager
> Adding subsystem fx
> ./fgfs: symbol lookup error: ./fgfs: undefined symbol: alutLoadWAVFile
> [root@localhost bin]#
>
> I d/l and rpm -ivh the OpenAL audio system and dependent library; I am
> wondering if I need to make a hard link between the OpenAL libraries and
> the /opt/games/flight location where the rpm installed the FlightGear
> system?
>
> If I do, I am not sure on making a "Hardlink" as opposed to doing a PATH.[/color]

I've never seen anything like that so I did a look at google. A similar
problem with a different game was solved by upgrading OpenAL from CVS.
[color=blue]
> See here it looks like a problem with the graphics card driver. I have an
> ATI Rage 128 card that other wise works great. My 21" LCD screen is set
> for 1270 and "painting" of graphics including photos is very fast.[/color]

What version of the ATI driver are you using? The evil binary only is
currently version 8.22.05.
[color=blue]
> I need some guidance on if I need to reinstall the driver. BTW, I am right
> now using the analog output to the Dell 21" monitor but as soon as I can
> rob a couple of gas stations I'll get a digital card and go digital to the
> display.[/color]

I have a 19" Sony LCD driven by an ATI 600X (256MB) with both analog and
digital connectors. I see no difference with either connection.

Thorn
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Thorn The Mannamavi wrote:
[color=blue]
> On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 12:03:41 -0600, CWO4 Dave Mann Cried: Read These
> Runes!:[color=green]
>> ....
>> Initializing OpenAL sound manager
>> Adding subsystem fx
>> ./fgfs: symbol lookup error: ./fgfs: undefined symbol: alutLoadWAVFile
>> [root@localhost bin]#
>>
>> I d/l and rpm -ivh the OpenAL audio system and dependent library; I am
>> wondering if I need to make a hard link between the OpenAL libraries and
>> the /opt/games/flight location where the rpm installed the FlightGear
>> system?
>>
>> If I do, I am not sure on making a "Hardlink" as opposed to doing a PATH.[/color]
>
> I've never seen anything like that so I did a look at google. A similar
> problem with a different game was solved by upgrading OpenAL from CVS.
>[color=green]
>> See here it looks like a problem with the graphics card driver. I have
>> an
>> ATI Rage 128 card that other wise works great. My 21" LCD screen is set
>> for 1270 and "painting" of graphics including photos is very fast.[/color]
>
> What version of the ATI driver are you using? The evil binary only is
> currently version 8.22.05.
>[color=green]
>> I need some guidance on if I need to reinstall the driver. BTW, I am
>> right now using the analog output to the Dell 21" monitor but as soon as
>> I can rob a couple of gas stations I'll get a digital card and go digital
>> to the display.[/color]
>
> I have a 19" Sony LCD driven by an ATI 600X (256MB) with both analog and
> digital connectors. I see no difference with either connection.
>
> Thorn[/color]


Hello Thorn, thanks for the tips. I reinstalled OpenAL lastnight with the
latest build. No Joy.

As to the ATI driver, I am looking for that one .. my kernal is 1371 ..
fairly old .. but I always think "why fix something that isn't broken".

Looks like I may need to yum upgrade the whole system.

Thanks!

Dave



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CWO4 Dave Mann wrote:
[color=blue]
> Thorn The Mannamavi wrote:
>[color=green]
>> On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 12:03:41 -0600, CWO4 Dave Mann Cried: Read These
>> Runes!:[color=darkred]
>>> ....
>>> Initializing OpenAL sound manager
>>> Adding subsystem fx
>>> ./fgfs: symbol lookup error: ./fgfs: undefined symbol: alutLoadWAVFile
>>> [root@localhost bin]#
>>>
>>> I d/l and rpm -ivh the OpenAL audio system and dependent library; I am
>>> wondering if I need to make a hard link between the OpenAL libraries and
>>> the /opt/games/flight location where the rpm installed the FlightGear
>>> system?
>>>
>>> If I do, I am not sure on making a "Hardlink" as opposed to doing a
>>> PATH.[/color]
>>
>> I've never seen anything like that so I did a look at google. A similar
>> problem with a different game was solved by upgrading OpenAL from CVS.
>>[color=darkred]
>>> See here it looks like a problem with the graphics card driver. I have
>>> an
>>> ATI Rage 128 card that other wise works great. My 21" LCD screen is set
>>> for 1270 and "painting" of graphics including photos is very fast.[/color]
>>
>> What version of the ATI driver are you using? The evil binary only is
>> currently version 8.22.05.
>>[color=darkred]
>>> I need some guidance on if I need to reinstall the driver. BTW, I am
>>> right now using the analog output to the Dell 21" monitor but as soon as
>>> I can rob a couple of gas stations I'll get a digital card and go
>>> digital to the display.[/color]
>>
>> I have a 19" Sony LCD driven by an ATI 600X (256MB) with both analog and
>> digital connectors. I see no difference with either connection.
>>
>> Thorn[/color]
>
>
> Hello Thorn, thanks for the tips. I reinstalled OpenAL lastnight with the
> latest build. No Joy.
>
> As to the ATI driver, I am looking for that one .. my kernal is 1371 ..
> fairly old .. but I always think "why fix something that isn't broken".
>
> Looks like I may need to yum upgrade the whole system.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dave
>
>[/color]


OK, I went back and reinstalled the rpm's for both; also, I did some more
Googleizing .. here is something interesting:
[color=blue]
> As it seems that the only useful function in ALUT, alutLoadWAVFile,
> is seriously flawed in at least two different implementations, it
> might be a good idea to clearly state that in the documentation or fix
> them. I wish there was a single portable loadWav function that would
> actually work.[/color]

The alut functions are indeed a problem -- largely because they were
not ever included in the spec, and won't be in the new one either.
Since the alut code in the Windows branch is BSD-licensed, it's
probably best for you to just re-appropriate that code directly into
your app, adding better error handling.



Soooooo ... if the alut function is broken in Linux (e.g. not completing the
loading of a wav file), then there has to be a work-around.

I ran fgfs using the --nosound option but still no luck. Here is what the
output looks like:

[root@localhost bin]# ./fgfs --disable-sound --disable-intro-music
opening file: /usr/share/FlightGear/data/Navaids/carrier_nav.dat
/usr/share/FlightGear/data/Navaids/TACAN_freq.dat
RenderTexture Error: Couldn't find a suitable pixel format.
../fgfs: symbol lookup error: ./fgfs: undefined symbol: alutLoadWAVFile

So, to recap:

I've reinstalled both rpm's fresh from their respective sites;

I've run fgfs with the --nosound option;

Tried running with variations of ./fgfs --noalut to see if the developers
may have put an undocumented hack in the command line;

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Dave




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