tuxracer sound

[David Mangani]

jb wrote:

>I seem to remember I was having a different problem with XFree86-Mesa-libGL 
>and libGLso.1 not being recognized so I tried removing XFree86-Mesa-libGL 
>with the intent to reinstall it again thru synaptic and it removed a whole 
>slew of dependant programs, apt-get being one of them as I was using it. It 
>is funny now, which I'm sure you can imagine what devastation it caused. ; )
>Bottom line, I ain't gonna mess with libGL, so there must be another way to 
>recompile, maybe with tuxracer.spec so it points to libGL and satisfies the 
>dependency? Hehehe, anyone know if the tuxracer sound works with fedora core 
>1 and core 2 ? I'll be switching to core 2 when they release the stable 
>version, which I think they are releasing later this month.
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>P.S. thanks for the mpage info Dave, I used to waste way too much ink and 
>paper.
>JB
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>On Sunday 02 May 2004 11:23 pm, jb wrote:
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>>Oops, tuxracer sound works great but when you update apt-get it insists it
>>is a broken package and removes it. Humm, the failed dependancy problem is
>>with libGLso.1
>>and my Nvidia driver is using XFree86-Mesa-libGL.
>>I wish I could just install libGL and be done with it but I think it will
>>mess with the Nvidia driver. I wonder if there is something in the
>>tuxracer.spec I can adjust to point to libGL for the compile?
>>Oh well, I wonder if there is a way to trick apt-get into not seeing it as
>>a broken package?
>>Any help would be appreciated,
>>THX
>>JB
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>>On Sunday 02 May 2004 10:22 pm, jb wrote:
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>>>My daughter loves playing tuxracer but it never had sound with RH9 and
>>>come to find out it is disabled. With lots of searching I found a way,
>>>although step 5 was wrong and step 6 wouldn't work until I added
>>>--nodeps. If anyone is interested, here is the work around for sound.
>>>You need the source,uxracer.spec
>>>tuxracer-0.61-19.src.rpm
>>>either download it or get it from the source disk 3
>>>1. rpm -i tuxracer-0.61-19.src.rpm
>>>2. cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
>>>3. vi tuxracer.spec
>>>comment out 2 lines
>>>(Esc i)
>>>#Patch1: tuxracer-0.61-config.patch
>>>#%patch1 -pl -b .config
>>>(Shift ZZ)
>>>4. rpmbuild -ba tuxracer.spec
>>>5. cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/
>>>6. rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps tuxracer-0.61-19.i386.rpm
>>>After playing it, there will be a .tuxracer directory created in the home
>>>directory and a file called options where you can adjust everything.
>>>I wonder if the sound is disabled in Fedora?
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I had the same trouble in RH9. No sound. As far as Fedora Core 1, yes, 
the sound works perfect in tuxracer.


Dm