when I upgrade to ati driver 3.14.6, vendetta will segfault right after the "loading textures" splash page. other openGL programs seem unaffected.
if I roll back to driver 3.14.1, vendetta works again.

this is with debian "sid"
kernel 2.6.8
xfree86 4.3.0
ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 M9

It doesn't bring up the bugreporter? No stack dump in ~/.vendetta/errors.log?

nope.
I run vendetta. I get the updater, and then push "play vendetta". I get the "loading textures" splash screen. and then just at the point it would normally go to the loging screen, it disappears altogether, leaving you back at your xterm with a segfault message.

[michael@wanderer] /home/michael -> vendetta
zsh: 2247 segmentation fault vendetta

[michael@wanderer] /home/michael -> cat .vendetta/errors.log
[Sat Nov 13 16:11:51 2004] Found driver: "ALSA driver". Type 1, Version 7.1. Load @0x082bffe0
[Sat Nov 13 16:11:51 2004] Instantiate address: 0x4032a340
[Sat Nov 13 16:11:51 2004] Found driver: "OpenGL Reference GKGL driver". Type 5, Version 27.0. Load @0x082c0c18
[Sat Nov 13 16:11:51 2004] Instantiate address: 0x40411410
[Sat Nov 13 16:11:51 2004] Found driver: "Open Sound System driver". Type 1, Version 7.1. Load @0x082c1958
[Sat Nov 13 16:11:51 2004] Instantiate address: 0x4058ace0
Found 0 joystick(s)
ALSA initialized: 44100Hz, 16bit stereo, 92ms latency (16 periods x 256 samples)

[michael@wanderer] /home/michael ->