Why will supertux not run?

**Veli** · 12-03-2005

I've tried running supertux on an old machine running DSL. When I first tried I got this message:

Code:

Datadir&#58;/usr/share/games/supertux
Warning&#58; Unable to open the file "/homw/dsl/.supertux/config" for read!!!

Then I made an empty textfile called config and placed in the directory.

Then supertux started, but when I tried to begin a new game it closed ,and I got this message:

Code:

Datadir&#58;/usr/share/games/supertux
open /dev/sequencer&#58; no such device or address
Warning&#58; No joysticks are avaiable
Killed

What does this mean, and how do I fix it?

I've looked in /dev and there is somethig called "sequencer". Could it be because the hardware is too old?

200MHz Pentium MMX, 40MB RAM, ~1GB harddisk, Dual boot with DSL and Win95

**deltaflyer** · 12-03-2005

do you have sdl installed? one of the things supertux needs to run. you can get it here

http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.0.php

or from your distro disks
andy

**Veli** · 12-04-2005

thanks. I tried installing it, but it still doesn't work. It gives the same error message. I noticed that the memory gauge fell a lot, and when it reached 15% free supertux was killed. Could it be the lack of memory that causes the problem?

**Veli** · 12-05-2005

I found out that it wasn't the free memory it measures, but the used, and this time it fell even further.

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