On 2015-06-11, Helmut Jarausch <[email protected]> wrote: > has anybody any luck in running games-board/gnubg ?
Not recently (within the past year or so), but I played it on and off for a few years before that. I don't remember if I used an ebuild or just installed from CVS sources. > The installation proceeded just fine, but when I start it, it hangs, > i.e. it takes 100% CPU and has to be killed after half an hour. > > Has anybody more luck? IIRC, it uses a couple bearoff databases. I vaguely remember downloading and installing pre-built bearoff databases when I installed gnubg a few years ago, but I don't see anyting about doing that in the current gnubg docs, and there's a vague reference that implies it might not need those anymore: http://www.gnubg.org/documentation/doku.php?id=gnu_backgammon_faq#54 Databases --------------- What is the Database' menu for? Go find a newer build if you still have the database. You don't see any messages about missing files (either bearoff databases or neural-net weightings)? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Are you the at self-frying president? gmail.com
