Ian K wrote: >Holly Bostick wrote: > > > >>� schreef: >> >> >> >> >>>Hi there, >>>I have just emerged nwn and copied the files needed >>> >>> >>>from my windows partition. However when I run nwn, >> >> >>>i get the following error: >>> >>># /opt/nwn/nwn >>>Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute >>>Deployed) >>> >>> >>>How do I fix this? >>>Here are the computer's specs: >>>Kernel 2.6.12-mm1 // P4 3.2 gHz // Ati Mobility Radeon >>>9000 // 512 MB RAM // Using KDE 3.4.1 right now. >>> >>>Thanks!! >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>NWN can be a bit touchy when it comes to SDL-- that's why it comes with >>its own (1.2.5). The ATI drivers are also a bit touchy-- and since I use >>fglrx and play NWN, I've had a lot of dealings with tweaking it so it >>bloody runs.... although usually it's fine, quite often something isn't. >> >>**DISCLAIMER** All that follows is 1) IME (since I am not a programmer, >>I just try to tie my experience into some kind of framework that makes >>logical sense, rather than that I *know* what's actually happening) and >>2) from memory, as I just borked my skeleton NWN setup (it ran, and >>nwmovies ran as well, but it was only a skeleton install because I had >>not installed any of the expansions, haks, or custom content that would >>constitute a full and complete install on my parcticular system, and I >>hadn't spent any time playing it since it was just a skeleton install). >> >>Also, probably some of this stuff is more required to get nwmovies >>running rather than nwn itself, but since I find the loss of the movies >>ingame rather painful, I consider it part of my default install (i.e. >>nwn is not really working if nwmovies doesn't work, even though I can >>play it). I also refer only to getting the OC (and expansions) running >>single-player, as I don't play online, and know nothing about managing >>or connecting to a server, PW, or any of that.**END DISCLAIMER** >> >>Anyway having disclaimed... afaics, NWN doesn't come with *all* of SDL, >>just the main package. You have to have the rest (at least sdl_mixer and >>sdl_image, I think; possibly more, like sdl_ttf) yourself, and the >>versions you have may conflict with the main SDL library that Bioware >>provides (after 1.2.6, things got really dicey with getting SDL working >>properly on NWN without some manual modification). >> >>Was that the whole error message, btw? IIrc, if the problem is actually >>an SDL conflict, you get more message that mentions the SDL component >>that failed to start properly. >> >>OK, possible solutions... >> >>You can try going to the nwn/lib folder and renaming the *symlink* to >>the bioware SDL package >> >>libSDL-1.2.so.0 >> >>to something else (I use libSDL-1.2.so.bioware), >> >>and then creating a new link with the original name, but link it to your >>actual SDL library in /usr/lib (or copy the link that's already in >>/usr/lib to nwn/lib). However, before you do this, you might want to >>re-emerge libSDL as follows: >> >>FEATURES="nostrip" emerge -av (or whatever switches you might want) libSDL >> >>Apparently the common practice of stripping binaries is not something >>that makes NWN happy. >> >>The benefits of this are: >> >>1) You don't have to edit /nwn/nwn , because it still needs to look in >>the ./lib folder for the symlink >> >>2) If you want to go back to the original Bioware-provided SDL, you just >>rename both symlinks (yours to libSDL.so.mine and the one now called >>libSDL-1.2.so.bioware back to libSDL-1.2.so.0) >> >>Alternatively, you can also copy your actual libSDL from /usr/lib to >>nwn/lib (renaming it libSDL-1.2.so.0 after deleting the symlink already >>present); I've had that work for me as well (but not so much with 1.2.7). >> >>Or, of course you can edit /nwn/nwn and remove ./lib from the >>LD_LIBRARY_PATH, as mentioned in the script itself: >> >># If you do not wish to use the SDL library included in the package, remove >># ./lib from LD_LIBRARY_PATH >>export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./lib:./miles:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH >> >>.. after which, the game will use your installed SDL rather than its own. >> >> >> >> >The above option was the road I took. Here is the newly modified line >in /opt/nwn/nwn: >export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./miles:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH > >I removed "./lib" from the line. I should also replace LD_LIBRARY_PATH >with /usr/lib right? This is how I left it though, as you see above. >I got this error when running /opt/nwn/nwn however: >Fatal Signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed) > > > >>The only problem with all this is that if you want to use nwmovies (in >>order to play the movies in-game, which otherwise is not possible), >>neither the Bioware SDL nor the Gentoo seems to work (at least the >>Bioware doesn't seem to work anymore-- it used to, but I think that now >>it's too old in comparison to the current SDL functionality), and you >>have to compile SDL yourself, using the instructions at >> >>http://home.woh.rr.com/nwmovies/nwmovies/nwmovies.README.txt >> >>(main site is http://home.woh.rr.com/nwmovies/nwmovies/ ; they have >>other utilities for NWN as well as instructions on how to get the >>toolset working-- although on that subject, I will say that it worked >>fine with regular Wine once the relevant .exe files were extracted and >>the specified registry entries were imported, and compiling the old >>version of WineX turned out to be a waste of time for me) >> >>and in >> >>nwmovies.README.softmix.txt (in the tarball; these were the instructions >>I used, and the only way it all worked properly). >> >>It's not hard (thank heavens), and the movies thus worked fine for me >>(using the native BinkPlayer that I had emerged, so that I don't have to >>convert the movies) before I (probably) borked my NWN install due to a >>stupid error on my part. So now I will likely reinstall the whole thing >>again, but it *was* working well before I (probably) messed it up (I'm a >>bit afraid to test, honestly, plus busy trying to straighten out other >>stuff). >> >>In any case, in addition to the links previously provided links, you >>might also check out Bioware's forums for the NWN Linux client, where >>(truly unsurprisingly), there are a lot of threads on this if you do a >>search. You have to register your NWN with Bioware to be able to post, >>but you can read the forums without having to do so: >> >>http://nwn.bioware.com/forums/search_results.html?keywords=SDL+parachute&start=978332400&end=1120283999&author=&dev=&sort=date&search_for=any&where=subject&forum=72&type=n&limit=100 >> >>I would also suggest that you confirm your 3D hardware acceleration is >>in fact running (is fglrx or MESA running, and do you have direct >>rendering support). >> >>Hope this helps, >>Holly >> >> >> >> >It's a great start! Thanks for your time, Holly!!! > > Oh I forgot, after I sent that last message, I tried the forum's answer for working in the /opt/nwn/nwn script:
"I had followed the instructions for removing the "./lib" from the LD_LIBRARY_PATH line. Instead of REMOVING this, you need to change it to where you have your SDL librarys installed (eg. /usr/lib). " OK, so I tried that as well. Th line now reads: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:./miles:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH This also gives me our friendly error message about the seg. fault. Ill play around with the syntax a little, while I wait for a reply. I'll let you know if anything works, but please reply anyways. Thanks again, everyone!! Ian
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