i've just installed media-gfx/aqsis to try it out. It just does nothing on startup. Doesn't eat cpu. Reproducible: Always Actual Results: I've done a strace to try to understand, but this doesn't speak much to me: ..... arch_prctl(ARCH_SET_FS, 0x2b91270c9230) = 0 mprotect(0x2b9126e89000, 8192, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x2b9126c2e000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x2b9126a22000, 16384, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x2b91265d6000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x2b912633c000, 24576, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x2b912614a000, 24576, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x2b9125e29000, 90112, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x2b912590e000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x616000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x2b91256ed000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 munmap(0x2b91254f0000, 290348) = 0 brk(0) = 0x618000 brk(0x639000) = 0x639000 open("/etc/aqsisrc", O_RDONLY) = 3 dup(3) = 4 fcntl(4, F_GETFL) = 0x8000 (flags O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=609, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x2b91254f0000 lseek(4, 0, SEEK_CUR) = 0 brk(0x65c000) = 0x65c000 read(4, "Option \"display\" \"string file\" ["..., 4096) = 609 ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0x7fff855d4450) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device) read(4, "", 12288) = 0 read(4, "", 16384) = 0 ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0x7fff855d2fe0) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device) close(4) = 0 munmap(0x2b91254f0000, 4096) = 0 close(3) = 0 open("/home/orzel/.aqsisrc", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(".aqsisrc", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("_def_.slx", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/aqsis/shaders/_def_.slx", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) dup(0) = 3 fcntl(3, F_GETFL) = 0x8002 (flags O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0600, st_rdev=makedev(136, 60), ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x2b91254f0000 lseek(3, 0, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek) read(3, (and nothing more than that until i ^-C) Not sure if this matters: linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff835fe000) libaqsistypes.so.1 => /usr/lib/libaqsistypes.so.1 (0x00002b482774c000) libaqsis.so.1 => /usr/lib/libaqsis.so.1 (0x00002b4827975000) libshadervm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libshadervm.so.1 (0x00002b4827ecd000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00002b48281b6000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00002b48283b4000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00002b4828635000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00002b4828743000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00002b4828a89000) libtiff.so.3 => /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3 (0x00002b4828c8d000) libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0x00002b4828eea000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002b4827530000) libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0x00002b4829000000) Portage 2.1.4 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.7-r1, 2.6.23 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.23 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ Timestamp of tree: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:16:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.3 dev-lang/python: 2.5.1-r5 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.svn/share/config /usr/kde/4.svn/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" 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fftw flac font-server fortran freebox freetype gd gdbm gif git glitz gnutls gpm gsm gstreamer gtk hal ical iconv ilbc imap innodb ipv6 irda isdnlog jabber java jingle jpeg jpeg2k kde kdrive lame latex live lm_sensors lua mad matroska midi mikmod mmx mmxext mng mozilla mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia obj-gc objc objc++ odbc ogg oggvorbis opengl openmp pam pch pcre pdf perl perlsuid pic png pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection rtc rtsp sasl sdl session speex spl sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl stream subversion svg tcpd theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vim-syntax vlm vorbis wifi wmf wxwindows x264 xcb xcomposite xine xinerama xorg xpm xv xvid xvmc zeroconf zlib zrtp" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en fr it" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vga vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Have a look at /usr/share/aqsis/content/ subdirectories. There are some render.sh files, which should show you how to use the binaries. No problems here.
