Foldit

lynnai Lv 1

November 25, 2011

Brick how does your opinion of any aspect of chat have to do with the ins and outs of Debian?

tealight Lv 1

November 25, 2011

Regarding the comments concerning the "bot".

I was in chat earlier, the bot thing was incredibly annoying.
Correction, the people giving it lame words to define was incredibly annoying.
I wouldn't consider that chat, or even helpful, nor is it fun, unless one is two years old.
I didnt see anyone hooraying a bot, I saw a mod and a player "spamming" chat using a bot.
I have seen new players kicked for less…much less.

With regard to peoples comments about topic change, upon reading this feedback I note it was auntdeen who raised the subject to start with.

Gringer, as for your main issue, I'm sorry I am of no help to you, I dont use that OS

Deleted user

November 25, 2011

I really don't think you can speak for the "majority of the folders" in what they thought of the return of the spamming bot.

Perhaps a few who were playing with it, and at least two mods, seem to enjoy it, but I don't that constitutes the "majority". Perhaps they don't speak up for fear of retribution by the moderators who are supposed to maintain decorum. I've seen the mods kick and ban people from #Global for a lot less spamming than that exhibited by that bot tonight.

mercutio22 Lv 1

November 25, 2011

I confirm it happens here too:

./Foldit
freeglut ERROR: Internal error in function fgOpenWindow X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 4 (X_DestroyWindow) Resource id in failed request: 0x0 Serial number of failed request: 30 Current serial number in output stream: 33

lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux testing (wheezy)
Release: testing
Codename: wheezy

lspci | grep -i vga
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GF110 [Geforce GTX 580] (rev a1)

nvidia linux proprietary deiver version 275.36

gringer Lv 1

November 28, 2011

Is it possible that this could just be due to the linux tarball download link not being updated in a while? I'll check this by doing an install on my other computer (which doesn't use any proprietary display drivers), copying the directory structure over once it has updated.

gringer Lv 1

December 12, 2011

I've tried the version of the binary updated by my other computer, and still get the same error:
$ ./Foldit
freeglut ERROR: Internal error in function fgOpenWindow X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 4 (X_DestroyWindow) Resource id in failed request: 0x0 Serial number of failed request: 30 Current serial number in output stream: 33

gringer Lv 1

December 13, 2011

I tried installing the Windows version via Wine, to see if there was any difference. It didn't start, but produced a different bug, which lead me to the following bug report:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine1.2/+bug/506320

I then did an 'aptitude install libgl1-nvidia-glx-ia32', and now the wine version of foldit will work on my computer.

I then checked the native Linux client, and it works as well. So it looks like the problem is that I needed the 32-bit binary nvidia libraries in order for foldit to work on my computer.