Hi,

I've just upgraded to 1.0.5 and Vendetta doesn't work for me anymore. "Play vendetta" closes launcher window and the error from topic is printed on the console. Nothing more. I use X.org 6.8.0 with nvidia drivers (6111). 1.0.2 worked just fine yestarday and I made no changes to the system during this time. What other information should I provide?

Update: Exporting LD_PRELOAD=libGL.so fixes it. I have this problem with America's Army too, dunno what's the reason...

What does errors.log say afterwards?

I was afraid this might happen. it's probably a glibc incompatibility or something. What distribution are you using?

I'm having the same problem, using Gentoo.

In errors.log only this:
[Sun Sep 26 00:44:46 2004] SetVideoMode failed, line 34
Fatal Error: Couldn't open window.

I use gentoo ~x86.

Did you try doing an opengl-update nvidia, then running Vendetta?

No, I'm used to installing nvidia drivers by myself, so opengl-update doesn't even work for me. Anyway - that's not the case, majority of other applications using OGL works flawlessly.

There are no lines that say "Found driver: ..."?

You do know that you should never install the nvidia drivers yourself on a gentoo system, right? You do know that if you do so, you need to reinstall them after every X merge, and things like enlightenment-0.17 that depend on opengl-update will fail...

Huh. How did I miss it first time: O_o

[Tue Sep 28 03:23:14 2004] Can't load driver /home/karol/.vendetta/drivers/gkgl.so: libnvidia-tls.so.1: cannot handle TLS data

without LD_PRELOAD set, vs:

[Tue Sep 28 03:24:04 2004] Found driver: "OpenGL Reference GKGL driver". Type 5, Version 27.0. Load @0x082af270

with LD_PRELOAD="libGL.so". Rest of the log really seems irrelevant this time, sorry for not having spotted it earlier. :-\

roguelazer: I don't really care and I hate when some things are being done automagically. ;)

Ah. I had the same problem with a few apps for a while. Do xmms opengl plugins not work either?
Anyway it happens when you are running the TLS version of the nvidia drivers/libraries on a non TLS system. The Nvidia installer tries to detect during installation what its running on, but the test isn't foolproof.

There is a command line switch for the installer that forces it to install a specific set of libraries.

EDIT:

--force-tls=[TLS TYPE]
NVIDIA's OpenGL libraries are compiled with one of two
different thread local storage (TLS) mechanisms: 'classic tls'
which is used on systems with glibc 2.2 or older, and 'new tls'
which is used on systems with tls-enabled glibc 2.3 or newer.
The nvidia-installer will select the OpenGL libraries
appropriate for your system; however, you may use this option
to force the installer to install one library type or another.
Valid values for [TLS TYPE] are 'new' and 'classic'.

try one of the two...

Woot!
You were right. Forcing tls type to "classic" solved the problem. I guess is should be mentioned in some kind of troubleshooting guide as it's pretty obscure...

What kind of system are you running?
It probably only happens on some rare combinations. I think libc >= 2.3 compiled with gcc <= 3.2.* or so.

I've written it somewhere above: gentoo ~x86 with no special mods, so I'd consider it a fairly common configuration.

Ahha. The difference is that Vendetta-1.0.3+ uses threads, and previous versions did not, so thread local storage was never an issue.

Hmm. That reminds me. Has anybody compared the new Vendetta using linuxthreads and pthreads?