[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Mac OS X installer is not working...

[Nathan Brazil <nb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It sounds like a problem w/ an Finder-invisible file, .civclientrc, located in your home directory.  It would appear that at some point in the past, you tried to tell the game client to use ESD as your sound engine.  However, as the log says, the only available options are "none" and "sdl".

You can simply delete that file, at which point the game client will create another one w/ default values, or you can try correcting the problem.

If you open that file in a plain text editor, you probably will see a line that says

    default_sound_plugin_name="esd"

Change the string in quotes to sdl if you want sound, or to none if you do not.  Save the file, and try running the game again.

But do remember that the file needs to be in plain text format, not rich text or anything fancy.

Let me know how it goes for you.

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On Aug 4, 2005, at 7:09 AM, Rene Raphael wrote:

Hello,

  First congratulations for the new version of Freeciv !

I have downloaded the latest version of Freeciv for Mac OS X : vfreeciv-2.0.4.dmg

The application died just after launching. X11 is launched.

I tried to find the problem.

The log give me an hint about a error about a missing X11 library. I fixed it when i reinstalled X11 from the Mac OS X Tiger DVD.

But the startup still failed.

In the Console application, the console.log file finished with :

12244  ??  S      0:00.35 /Applications/freeciv/FreecivClient.app/Contents/MacOS/Freeciv Client (GTK2) -psn_0_49545217

11949  p4  S+     0:00.36 -bash

11861  p6  Ss+    0:00.03 bash

2005-08-04 15:16:04.649 Freeciv Client (GTK2)[12244] Process finished.

0: Plugin 'esd' isn't available. Available are [none, sdl]

The compilation from sources failed too ^_ ^

Yours,

  Mac RRaph