Mr. Bish & Mr. Tathagata,
Thank you very much for the reply. I am extremely sorry I could not reply earlier since my system had suffered a breakdown and for the past 2 1/2 weeks it was at the doctor's. I had to reinstall everything and I could come on-line only today and am going through the mails now. I will try out your suggestions and will let you know. Regards, K. Ghosh. > Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 20:36:13 +0530 > From: USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:22:20PM +0530, K. Ghosh wrote: > > > > Heretic has - heretic, xheretic, vgaheretic and xaheretic. > > Out of all these, I am able to run xheretic. vgaheretic and > > xaheretic first reported broken pipes and stopped. After > > trying further, both are closing down with a message like > > segmentation fault and are dumping a file called core. Can > > anyone provide any ideas ? > > > > I do not play games. However, making a reply ... may help to > keep this thread alive. To me it looks as if you have only > two binaries, xheretic and vgaheretic. By all probabilities > xaheretic is a common file run by these. Please do a file on > each of these and crosscheck. > > You should be able to run xheretic with that command. It is > unlikely that xaheretic will run. xheretic should run as a > normal user like any other X application. > > > > > Also, why is it that only root is allowed to play games ? > > > > This may be true for vgaheretic (but not xheretic). There is > a problem with all svgalib programs, wherein for security > considerations, root privileges may be necessary ... In case > yours is a stand alone box, you may consider setting the > suid bit (viz. chmod +s vgaheretic), which will enable you > to run this program as a mere mortal ! > > HTH > > Bish > Date:Thu, 10 Jan 2002 00:29:59 +0530 > From:Tathagata Banerjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >i. see that your "wad" file for heretic is named rightly and is in the right place >(consult the readme). > ii. either run the games with "sudo" or make the binaries setuid root. > iii. run heretic with the "-nomusic" option. > are you running "vgaheretic" in a virtual console? it won't run under X, because >it's an svgalib programme. > let us know whether this solves your problem. > - tathagata. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
