map display shows fonts instead

[Puntif]

As it did under the 0.9.9 client, the 1.0.0 client for me (linux slackware 9.0 ATI radeon using Mesa drivers) instead of showing the map when I press the tab key I see the fonts file "fonts.bmp". After 0.9.9 I had been playing with a patched version of the client that re-issued some of the GL calls in order to be able to use the map (and the autowalker feature).

 

The 1.0.0 client does not show the other (presumably related) symptom I reported under 0.9.9 where the icons were being displayed using images from the wrong files.

 

I still blame the drivers, but I wanted to document my problem here because:

1) someone else might have the problem.

2) someone understanding the changes made in 1.0.0 and/or subtleties of openGL might have an idea of a clean way to modify the client to make it work for me instead of the hack job I did to the 0.9.9 client.

 

I still plan to attempt the upgrade my system in order to get more up-to-date kernel, Xwindows, and drivers. That may solve my problem. Or maybe not.

[Entropy]

Gimp->resize the maps to 256x256, see if it works.

[Puntif]

I resized the Naralik and Morcraven map BMPs to 256x256. There was no change.

 

I didn't really expect that this would work since last release I was able to get the maps and all the icons to display using the correct textures by patching the client to add some redundant openGL calls. I couldn't find my patched source so I may decide it's easier to try upgrading to the newer Slackware release which contains kernel upgrades and X upgrades which might help.

 

Also, I've installed EL on my server so it's not as much a priority to get it working on the laptop.

[Entropy]

The ATI drivers are kind of shitty (for Linux). Next time you find a problem, please submit a patch, so we can fix it for everyone.