FoFiX ubuntu problem

[laskolainen]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD_lXopBOws at 1:30 i can't press notes (or whatever they were,im young and from finland,so my english is not very good.) can somebody help me

[Lysdestic]

Are you using a keyboard or a controller?

If you are using a controller, what are you using as your driver?

[laskolainen]

Im using keyboard

[death_au]

Is it possible that at that point of the song you manage to hit some sort of keyboard button combo by accident? Some key combos can lock up the game for some unknown reason

[Caggio]

No that's not a keyboard problem... I'm using a guitar, which works normally on fof, and when there are some notes close, the game doesn't work anymore... I have to kill the process and re-open it, but it gives always the same problem.
With the latest patch (the 21st december one), the song stops after few seconds and i need to reboot or kill very quickly FretsOnFire...
(I'm using the 32 Bit version on ubuntu 8.10)

[Azzco]

No that's not a keyboard problem... I'm using a guitar, which works normally on fof, and when there are some notes close, the game doesn't work anymore... I have to kill the process and re-open it, but it gives always the same problem.
With the latest patch (the 21st december one), the song stops after few seconds and i need to reboot or kill very quickly FretsOnFire...
(I'm using the 32 Bit version on ubuntu 8.10)

I'm not sure if you and the topic creater have the same issue, but in your case I'd reccomend starting fofix from command line with the verbose flag, and if it hangs get the proccess id.

cd /path/to/fofix
./FretsOnFire.sh -v
or if you're running from source
cd /path/to/fofix/src
python2.4 FretsOnFire.py -v

If you need to kill the proccess you can find the proccess id with this command
ps x | grep ire
grep is basically a way to only print the lines where the specified text occurs. in this case ire, the proccess is called FretsOnFire.bin or py , and ire is most of the times enoughy (will give hits for firefox also of course).
In any case look at the proccess id for fretsonfire and do a
kill -kill PID
where PID is your fofix proccess id.

I hope that will preventy you from rebooting again due to fof crash.

@topic creator
I watched your video but I still have no clue what might be the problem. The game stops responding to input? If you just can't hit notes, can you hit esc, or whatever you have set to cancel, to open the menu?

[laskolainen]

I can't even hit Esc

[Lysdestic]

Try what Azzco suggests, and if the game locks up, use alt-ctrl-f1 to go to a separate terminal and kill the game.

Hopefully, your keyboard isn't locking up system-wide.

[Caggio]

Thank you for the help!!! I've tried what you suggested me and, when the game crashes, command line write hundreds error lines...
I tried to run the game from the source, but this is the result:
-------
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./FretsOnFire.py", line 38, in ?
from GameEngine import GameEngine
File "/home/caggio/Scrivania/FoFAlarian/src/GameEngine.py", line 31, in ?
from OpenGL.GL import *
ImportError: No module named OpenGL.GL
-------

I'm not sure if you and the topic creater have the same issue

I think we've the same problem, because when the game locks up, i can't press any key and i received this output:
-------
(E) Loading error:
(D) 9 phrases taught.
(D) 10 phrases taught.
(N) Connection lost.
(D) View: Push: MessageScreen
-------
thank you for help!!!

[Lysdestic]

You either don't have pythonopengl installed, or your video card drivers need to be updated to 3D accelerated ones.

What video card do you have?

[Caggio]

ati radeon x9550! you're right, my driver aren't up to date! I updated them, before format and i haven't thought to update now!!

[Lysdestic]

That may or may not fix the issues, regardless, they do need updating.

Check in ubuntu's package manager for python-opengl, that, I believe is your problem.

[Caggio]

I did what you told me but the latest version doesn't work again, but I've tried the 3.017 and it works!!!!
Thank you a lot! And thanks to Azzco too!!

[laskolainen]

I dont have that problem anymore,i changed to 3.100beta :---D but thanks anyways !