Do yo mean creating a LWJGL App as a bundle should fix it?  I wonder because AlienFlux works fine on the Mac.. but I made an App bundle for it.

Could a linux user please try
http://www.movegaga.nl/CosmicTrip_LINUX.jar ?

Just extract the jar and run ./run_linux.sh

I'm wondering if the offline linux version has the same problem as we're having now with the mac (see the Mac Distribution thread in newless clubies).

Erik

What's the last 'e' for?

Thanks,
Erik

ah :-)

no ./ necessary before 'java'?
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Erik

pffft, of course. Stupid me  

eh?  

what does?
I just checked and it still works here... :-/

Erik

Black for a long time (about 30 seconds).

Then the logo and the four circles appear in the corners.

Nothing happens for another 30 seconds (top shows that it's got almost 100% CPU though)

Pressing keys has no effect

Eventually, menu appears and logo is smaller above menu. Some highlight effect behind the word "start" takes 10 seconds to change from white to sort-of-red.

There is a little "1" in the bottom-right-hand-corner.

I'm guessing I'm experiencing some kind of "0.001 FPS" problem here.

linux 1.4.2_04 1Ghz P3. No exceptions in log, but I do get

Failed to choose preferred display mode, falling back to any mode:1400 x 1050 x 24 @0Hz

Which is correct (that means "laptop monitor running at full res and it's normal refresh rate" - as I've pointed out before elsewhere, LWJGL seems to always report 0 as the refresh rate for this LCD). As noted previously, linux reports "24" for 32, IIRC because of the  way X11's config works - e.g. if you specify "32 bpp" in the config, your machine will crash and not load X . Apparently, its not that they think 32 == 24, it's that they have their own unique definition of the meaning of the term "ColorDepth" which is not equivalent to what everyone else in the world uses...

Heh, weird bug,.
Anyway, there's no need whatsoever for using xml for just a config file. I'll just use a Properties file instead.

I think it still works in 1.4.2 though, so I blame 1.5 being in beta.

As for blahblah's error, I regard 24 bit modes as 'undesired' since on many cards (on windows) they are very slow. Maybe I have to check if we're dealing with linux and then allow 24 bit so that it won't fall back to the 1st mode it can find and do a more sensible selection.

Thanks for the reports