I sent an email to the developers of Eschalon but they said it was not their fault, but the programming language's, so I sent an email to the developers of Blitzmax the programming language used for Eschalon and this was the banswer I received:
EMAIL I REICEIVED FROM BLITZMAX DEVELOPERS Thanks, I've forwarded your email onto our developers. I'm not sure there's much we'll be able to do, as it sounds like it's a driver-specific problem, but it's good for us to be aware of these things all the same. If we find out anything we'll let you know. Blitz Research. ----- Original Message ----- From: <...> To: <....@blitzbasic.com> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 9:01 PM Subject: [SUPPORT] blitzmax and issue with new linux intel drivers > Dear developers > > I tried to contact the developers of Eschalon book 1, a game created with > your language, about a bug with the game and the latest version of the > intel graphics driver for linux. > > This is the bug i noticed them https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/324292 > > The bug is a serious one and it makes games created with your language > preatty unplayable if you own intel video cards and run linux. > > In the email I told them to contact the intel linux driver developers to > solve this bug because they where directly interested in collaborating > with other programmers to solve the bug. > > The developers at Eschalon answered me tough that they can't do anything > and the programming language deals with the graphics on its own, and that > this problem should be turned to you at blitzmax. > > Could it be possible for you to collaborate with intel linux driver > developers to solve this bug ? > > Thanks for the attention > > THIS IS THE EMAIL I SENT TO BASILISK GAMES: > > Dear developers I'm a happy owner of your game linux versione since it > came out. > > Lately I've been a lot less happy bacause with the new kernel, and the new > versions of Ubuntu the game does not run anymore. > I filed a bug about this and a very competent person has given me a lot of > help on the matter. > > The bug is this one : > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/324292 > > Please read the bug very carefully and the answers I received. > > He suggested the developers of the game to collaborate with the intel > driver developers as Eric Anholt (one of the intel drivers developers) > himself suggested on your game forums > http://basiliskgames.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1951#p15771 it's all > on the bug page anyway. > > This is the contact page of the driver developers > http://intellinuxgraphics.org/feedback.html > > Please solve this bug, if it's not solved in the next driver release me > and all the linux owners of intel cards won't be able to play book 2. > > Thanks for the attention > > THIS IS THE ANSWER I REICEVED FROM BASILISK GAME > > Thanks for the email, Lele. > > I hate to be someone who passes the blame around, but we really have > nothing to do with the implementation of the OpenGL driver on Linux. You > may want to forward this information back to the Linux guys: > > We use a development package called "BlitzMax". You can find it at > http://blitzmax.com > > It is their development language that handles all the "grunt work" in > setting up the Linux OpenGL driver. In our game, we simply ask for a > graphics mode and BlitzMax makes it. If there is a problem in the way > BlitzMax handles OpenGL initialization, then the devs at BlitzMax should > be notified. > > Our current Linux development box is a PC running 32-bit Ubuntu 8.10 with > an nVidia 8800 video card. We can only promise that the game runs fine on > this setup when it leaves our studio. With so many different distros and > machines out there, we simply cannot guarantee that it will run on > anything else. > > Basilisk Games -- [i945] (Jaunty) Eschalon Book I runs only in windowed mode and it's terribly slow with Intel video cards https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/324292 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
