Bug 367841

Summary:	games-action/heretic2 opengl problem
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jared B. <nitro>
Component:	[OLD] Games	Assignee:	Gentoo Games <games>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	heretic2-1.06c.diff

Description Jared B. 2011-05-18 01:08:02 UTC

I just installed the Linux version of Heretic II and found that I could not enable OpenGL support.  The game played fine with the software renderer, but immediately crashed after switching to OpenGL.  After a bit of investigation, I found that it's caused by the same GL_EXTENSIONS problem as described in bug 326837 for Return to Castle Wolfenstein.

I've confirmed that the same fix works as well; that is prepending '__GL_ExtensionStringVersion=17700 ' to the exec line in the heretic2 wrapper script.  I've attached a tiny patch for the ebuild to do this automatically.

Also, not to this problem (but not worth filing a separate bug report), shouldn't this be categorized under games-fps rather than games-action?  All other doom-/quake-derived games are classified under FPS with the sole exception of heretic2 and heretic2-demo.   If it's decided to fix this OpenGL issue, it might also be a good opportunity to reclassify if appropriate.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jared B. 2011-05-18 01:09:17 UTC

Created attachment 273743 [details, diff]
heretic2-1.06c.diff

Comment 2 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-05-18 03:22:40 UTC

in portage.  thanks for the bug report and patch