1) Nethack has a problem with the /var/lib/games/nethack/perm(?) file, and claims there's no permission to write to it. I changed /usr/lib/games/nethack/nethack to setuid, and it worked (it was setgid already). I presume setuid was the wrong thing to do; what's the real scoop?
2) can't get gravitywars to work. I presume it's because svgalib isn't set up right, but I don't know how to do that. I filled with the config file, but have no way of telling if it's set up right or wrong. How does one test svgalib setup? Also, how does one fix up the display once it's messed up? I remember this as being simple under slackware/redhat, but now I can't recall what the magic command to restore the scren is (restoretextmode isn't it, it wants a file as an argument, and textmode does nothing, etc). (then again, in three years, I've never had svgalib work correctly, but I was hoping that with a new video card, it'd be worth trying again. Since everyone writes games for it, I assume it must be working for someone) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
