Some games not launching

[Rob]

I've installed several games from the repositories ,some games launch fine but others such as frozen bubble and domino's won't launch .Is there something I can do to get these games to launch? I tried reinstalling but same thing happens. I was able to get frozen bubble thru djl to run but my screen goes black around the game window.

[T6]

what video card do you have and what video driver is using?

verify that information in pcc/hardware/setup the graphical server

some games won't work well with kde desktop effects or compiz fusion so you could try to disable those before running the games

[Rob]

I tried shutting down desktop effects to no avail . I have an integrated intel 945g graphics card . The games worked before I installed the 2.6.33.3 kernel bfs. could the kernel upgrade cause a problem with launching some games?

[T6]

yes it can, try the pae kernel or the basic kernel

sometimes after a kernel change you need to verify your video settings in pcc/hardware/setup the graphical server, just reenter the information you already have

[Rob]

I tried all the above still a no go. If there was a problem in the graphical server shouldn't all games refuse to launch rather than just some of them?

[T6]

some games uses the opengl extensions and others don't, not all the games use the same resources, frozen bubble is one of them

[Rob]

Thank you for your help . I'll try different things and see what works.

[T6]

don't have more ideas, sorry

[MBantz]

Hi Rob,

try and open a terminal and start frozen-bubble with the command:

frozen-bubble

and paste the messages you (presumably) get here,

cheers,
MBantz

[Rob]

here are the results : Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.1/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/SDL_perl/SDL_perl.so' for module SDL_perl: libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.1/i386-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 200.
 at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.1/i386-linux-thread-multi/SDL.pm line 42
Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.1/i386-linux-thread-multi/SDL.pm line 42.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.1/i386-linux-thread-multi/SDL.pm line 42.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/games/frozen-bubble line 58.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/games/frozen-bubble line 58.
[rob0917@Windows ~]$

[Rob]

I just installed libSDL_mixer-1.2 after I had seen it in the terminal after trying to launch a number of games through the terminal and seen that libSDL_mixer-1.2 showed up in all of them . Well everything is working now games launch fine . thanks much

[Texstar]

I just installed libSDL_mixer-1.2 after I had seen it in the terminal after trying to launch a number of games through the terminal and seen that libSDL_mixer-1.2 showed up in all of them . Well everything is working now games launch fine . thanks much

I will add it as a dependency to the package.