I don't know if this helps but running rt separately works flawlessly.
2017-06-21 19:27 GMT+02:00 Mario Meissner <mr.rash....@gmail.com>:
> Hi Daniel.
> Following the compilation instructions, the built filesystem on linux
> doesn't yield any Release folder, just a bin folder. That folder contains
> dozens of executables, including mged and archer. However if you look at
> the screenshots I attached, you can see that on windows I do get a release
> folder, however no executables can be found inside the bin of that folder.
> Where are they?
>
> About the color shemes, as I said they only seem to change colors inside
> the main window but not the console. However this is not important and
> probably conflicting with my window manager settings.
>
> I installed Uvesafb and configured it as stated in the wiki entry to
> linked me, but the same error is still happening. I also added myself to
> the video user group to have access to /dev/fb0 but that doesn't seem to be
> the issue either.
>
> Mario.
>
> 2017-06-21 17:47 GMT+02:00 Daniel Roßberg <danielmrossb...@gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi Mario,
>>
>> > I'm working my way through the introductory guide, and I haven't been
>> able
>> > to use raytracing. As I try to do as the guide tells me to, this error
>> shows
>> > up: http://imgur.com/a/RGCBV , but only after a few minutes of
>> waiting. I'm
>> > using Arch Linux (Antergos) x64. Am I missing a library? I had to
>> manually
>> > check for the dependencies, but I might have missed one.
>>
>> Looks like there is an issue with the frame buffer device. Maybe this
>> is helpful: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uvesafb
>>
>> > Also I'd like to ask two secondary questions:
>> > I tried building for Visual studio as mentioned on a previous post, but
>> the
>> > resulting build is different from the one I would obtain on linux, as
>> you
>> > can see here: https://imgur.com/QznornV and https://imgur.com/1YZWULO
>> > I've not been able to find the archer and mged executables, for example.
>> > Whats going on here?
>>
>> They look very much the same. In case of Linux you have them in the
>> build/Release/bin directory. You should look at the same directory
>> under MS Windows too.
>>
>> However, I recommend to install the program. This is "make install"
>> under Linux and building the INSTALL project under MS Visual Studio.
>> You can set up the directory where it should put the files with CMake.
>>
>> > Can I change the color of the console text? I'm using Plasma with a dark
>> > theme and blue text is difficult to read. The color settings only seem
>> to
>> > affect the wireframes.
>>
>> In mged: File -> Preferences -> Color Schemes
>> Or not?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Daniel
>>
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