Game opens, then closes, what to check?

[John55]

I am relatively new to Linux. I am running SuSE 8.2 with a gnome desktop. I intsalled the gnome games, there was one called Chromium. Anyway, when I tried to launch it a window opened with a black background, stayed open for a few seconds and then closed. I had checked all my dependencies as I installed the games through YAST and thought all was OK.

Is there a way to track down what may be missing? Would there be an error log or something, somewhere? Where would I start looking?

This exercise will help me for future problems too...

Thanks
John

[Icarus]

Best thing to do is run it from a terminal (command line window), just type chromium in the term and you should see all the errors there

I'll take a stabbing guess that you don't have Direct Rendering enabled. A quick "glxinfo | grep direct" will tell you a straight yes or no answer on that...

If no, what video card do you have and have you installed thier Linux drivers? (kernel modules in Linux terms :) )

[freakmn]

Try running it in a terminal window, such as xterm. that will give you any errors (my guess is that it is probably an opengl problem).

[John55]

The video card is a Voodoo3 all set up and working.

Mahdi: I will try that when I get home. Thanks.

Freakmn: I did not think about trying it from the terminal. I am still getting used to the many ways to get at things. :) I know I can get it figured out if I could just see the error messages.

This site is great, BTW. I have already printed a couple help files. I want to get slackware on the pc but I couldn't figure out the sound (old isa awe64) but I found the hints here!

John