xboard is a chess GUI. By default it acts as a GUI for GNU Chess, and it expects the GNU Chess program to be named "gnuchessx". (That's correct for GNU Chess 4, but for GNU Chess 5 the correct command is "gnuchess xboard". Some distros work around this by installing GNU Chess 5 as gnuchessx, while some change the default before compiling xboard.) I don't know exactly what Debian does, but apparently they didn't change the default and you don't have a program named gnuchessx installed on your system.
Please read "man xboard" to find out what command line options to give to make it do what you want. On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:48:36 +0800, sl_axl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My OS is Linux debian 2.6.17-2-686 #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 16:34:10 UTC 2006 > i686 GNU/Linux. > > I try to use 'xboard -debug',and the following is : > > xboard 4.2.7 + gnuchessx > Reset(1, 0) from gameMode 0 > recognized 'normal' (-1) as variant normal > GameEnds(0, (null), 2) > StartChildProcess (dir="") gnuchessx > 2420 >first : xboard > protover 2 > xboard: Error writing to first chess program: Broken pipe > 2562 <first : gnuchessx: No such file or directory > xboard: Failed to start first chess program gnuchessx on localhost: > gnuchessx: No such file or directory > > GameEnds(0, (null), 2) > 7243 >first : force > 7243 >first : quit > > Thanks. -- Tim Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tim-mann.org/ _______________________________________________ Bug-XBoard mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-xboard
