The Sunday 2003-11-16 at 23:29 -0500, Krikket wrote:
Has anyone played around with Falcon's Eye (NetHack)?
I can not even start nethack (suse 8.2). cer@nimrodel:~> nethack.gnome /usr/games/nethack.gnome: line 22: /nethack.gnome: No such file or directory cer@nimrodel:~> nethack.tty.gnome /usr/games/nethack.tty.gnome: line 63: /nethack.gnome: No such file or directory The line in cuestion has: exec $HACK "$@" falconeye does start, but I get no sound: ......................ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:976:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: Device or resource busy Can't open pcm device 'default'. Couldn't open ALSA pcm device (`s') Mm... I tried the other day, and I could not move the figure, not response to the mouse. I had to kill it. Today it works, and I'm even geting some sound (the cat meows), even though I get the alsa error. Strange. And it uses a _lot_ of CPU, even when I'm doing nothing... An when I say "quit", the window remains there, fully black (CPU 0%) 14446 pts/2 S 24:36 \_ /usr/share/games/falconseye/falconseye 4 14447 pts/2 S 0:00 \_ /usr/share/games/falconseye/falconseye 4 14448 pts/2 S 0:01 | \_ /usr/share/games/falconseye/falconseye 4 14449 pts/2 Z 0:00 \_ [timidity] <defunct> 14450 pts/2 Z 0:00 \_ [timidity] <defunct> 14451 pts/2 Z 0:00 \_ [timidity] <defunct> 14452 pts/2 Z 0:00 \_ [timidity] <defunct> 14453 pts/2 Z 0:00 \_ [timidity] <defunct> xkill does not kill it completely, my xterm is not released, no process dies. I had to "killall -9 falconseye" to kill it. Not a very good program, I'd say... :-( -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson