K. I solved my sound issue by switching OS's. I first moved to Mandriva and then decided to duel boot with Opensuse. However, upon installing VO on Opensuse, it would not run and for some reason it seems to think it should be opened with the Autorun prompt.

Suggestions please?

chmod +x vendetta (in your home/username/bin directory) ?

On the money! Thx m8 :)

Ok. VO runs like crap for me on Opensuse. I think it has to do with a sound issue, possibly a conflict between VO and gnome or something, because it appears to be running just fine on my KDE version of Madriva. Anyway, here's the error log.

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[Sun Dec 6 19:53:33 2009] Found driver: "Open Sound System driver". Type 1, Version 8.1. Load @0x00b030e0
[Sun Dec 6 19:53:33 2009] Instantiate address: 0x7f9f05b06010
[Sun Dec 6 19:53:33 2009] Found driver: "OpenGL Reference GKGL driver". Type 5, Version 78.0. Load @0x00b03860
[Sun Dec 6 19:53:33 2009] Instantiate address: 0x7f9f058e7a10
[Sun Dec 6 19:53:33 2009] Found driver: "ALSA driver". Type 1, Version 8.1. Load @0x00b05710
[Sun Dec 6 19:53:33 2009] Instantiate address: 0x7f9f054577c0
Warning: GLX context is not Direct.
ALSA initialized: 44100Hz, 16bit stereo, 92ms latency (16 periods x 256 samples)
[Sun Dec 6 19:53:33 2009] load_sample_ogg: Couldn't open sound/mission.updated.ogg (mission.updated)
[Sun Dec 6 19:53:33 2009] load_sample: Couldn't open sound/mission.updated.ogg (mission.updated)
[Sun Dec 6 19:53:33 2009] load_sample_ogg: Couldn't open sound/nfz.warning.enter.ogg (nfz.warning.enter)
[Sun Dec 6 19:53:33 2009] load_sample: Couldn't open sound/nfz.warning.enter.ogg (nfz.warning.enter)
[Sun Dec 6 19:53:33 2009] load_sample_ogg: Couldn't open sound/nfz.warning.leave.ogg (nfz.warning.leave)
[Sun Dec 6 19:53:33 2009] load_sample: Couldn't open sound/nfz.warning.leave.ogg (nfz.warning.leave)
/dev/js0: No such file or directory
Found joystick 'Logitech Logitech Extreme 3D (/dev/input/js0)'
numaxes = 6
numbuttons = 12
/dev/js1: No such file or directory
/dev/input/js1: No such file or directory
/dev/js2: No such file or directory
/dev/input/js2: No such file or directory
/dev/js3: No such file or directory
/dev/input/js3: No such file or directory
Found 1 joystick(s)
Input driver initialized.
Loaded plugin 'CargoFind'
Loaded plugin 'FlashChange'
Loaded plugin 'MultiAim'
Loaded plugin 'customHUD'
Loaded plugin 'guildnotify'
Loaded plugin 'targetless'
Http Library Revision 27 (c) 2007 Fabian "firsm" Hirschmann <fhirschmann@gmail.com> http://code.fahi.eu/
Loaded plugin 'tcs-plugins'
[Sun Dec 6 19:53:50 2009] Flight-Assist mode enabled.
[Sun Dec 6 19:53:50 2009] Auto-Aim enabled.
hud scaled!
Hud Updated

This is the first indicator that VO is running poorly:
Warning: GLX context is not Direct.

Try to solve that problem and VO should run better. It may be a problem with your WM. We've seen previous WMs have that problem, mainly ones that allowed 3d rotation of the different virtual desktops on sides of a cube.

Errrr... I believe that I completely and utterly qualify for the Dumbass of the Day award here. Certainly I should be listed amongst the Darwin awards for stupidity even if I'm not quite dead.

It would appear that my problems in suse stemmed from not having an nvidia driver installed.

As to the crap desktop effects, I now wonder if that was my problem on ubuntu 9.1. I just made the assumption that because I had them turned off on 9.04 that by doing a fresh install after problems with the upgrade that the desktop effects had ceased to exist. Ah well, water under the bridge.

Fluffy, thy name is Moron.