Strictly speaking: no, timidity is not a mandatory dependency of rott. rott can (or should) be able to run without timidity with disabled sound. You can check this by calling "rott nosound" in a terminal, that will start rott without sounds and it shouldnt hang anymore.
I will investigate further and try to fix up the thing if I'll be able to understand it fully - people who know SDL_Mixer are highly wellcome to help :) -- ROTT freezes after a short while https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/298992 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Debian/Ubuntu Games Team, which is subscribed to rott in ubuntu. Status in “rott” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: rott Hi there, I don't know if anyone ever tried this package, but it seems to have a serious bug. It runs perfectly fine at the beginning, but the whole game freezes after a few seconds and simply does nothing anymore. This happens everytime, no matter what I set before. I always have to kill that process after that :-/ The terminal output doesn't show anything unusual: ---[snip]--- Rise of the Triad Startup Version 1.4 Shareware Version Z_INIT: 8950000 bytes IN_Startup: Mouse Present Adding /usr/share/games/rott/HUNTBGIN.WAD. Adding /usr/share/games/rott/REMOTE1.RTS. W_Wad: Wad Manager Started NUMLUMPS=2103 RT_DRAW: Tables Initialized MU_Startup: SD_SetupFXCard: SD_Startup: RT_MAIN: Fonts Initialized RT_MSG: Message System Started RT_VIEW: Colormaps Initialized ---[/snip]--- Can anyone confirm this? _______________________________________________ Pkg-games-ubuntu mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-games-ubuntu
