TORCS Problem

[Klaidas]

Hello :)
I'm pretty new to gaming on Ubuntu.
To try out, I installed TORCS. But... I can't run it!
klaidas@ubuntu:~$ torcs
Visual Properties Report
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Compatibility mode, properties unknown.
WARNING: ssgLoadTexture: Cannot determine file type for './(null)'
torcs-bin: indirect_vertex_array.c:1359: __indirect_glTexCoordPointer: Assertion `a != ((void *)0)' failed.
/usr/games/torcs: line 52: 15851 Aborted $LIBDIR/torcs-bin -l $LOCAL_CONF -L $LIBDIR -D $DATADIR $*
klaidas@ubuntu:~$


What is the problem? :-|

[gard]

Hi,

I am running in to the same problem. I started TORCS, configured a player with one of the default cars, selected new race, made sure my player had the focus, and tried both new race and practice. Both times, I can see it loading the players and cars etc., and then the Torcs screen goes away. If I run it from a terminal, I see the following:


Visual Properties Report
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Compatibility mode, properties unknown.
freeglut (/usr/lib/torcs/torcs-bin): Unable to create direct context rendering for window '/usr/lib/torcs/torcs-bin'
This may hurt performance.
WARNING: ssgLoadTexture: Cannot determine file type for './(null)'
OpenAL backend info:
Vendor: OpenAL Community
Renderer: Software
Version: 1.1
Available sources: 1024 or more
Available buffers: 1024 or more
Dynamic Sources: requested: 1003, created: 1003
#static sources: 21
#dyn sources : 1003
torcs-bin: indirect_vertex_array.c:1359: __indirect_glTexCoordPointer: Assertion `a != ((void *)0)' failed.
/usr/games/torcs: line 52: 16010 Aborted $LIBDIR/torcs-bin -l $LOCAL_CONF -L $LIBDIR -D $DATADIR $*


I am running Ubuntu 6.0.6. Thanks for any assistance,
gard

[meixiang]

I had the same problem with 6.0.6 too, a new version of Mesalib fixed it. The default MesaLib with 6.0.6 should be 6.4.1. I downloaded version 6.4.2, compiled it, copy the libGL.so.1.5.060402 to /usr/lib. relink the symbol link /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 to libGL.so.1.5.060402. When run torcs again, it does not abort. Hope this help!