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  • audiodude
    Rookie
    • Oct 2014
    • 11

    Screen is garbled/garbage on Ubuntu 14.04

    Hello,

    I'm trying to get vanilla Angband running on Ubuntu 14.04. I have done:

    $ sudo apt-get install angband

    And it seemed to work fine. But when I start the game ($ angband) the screen is garbled and I can almost make out any number of warnings flitting across it.

    Just wondering if this is a known issue. Should I just compile from source?

    Thanks,
    -Travis
  • audiodude
    Rookie
    • Oct 2014
    • 11

    #2
    Just want to be clear, I'm starting the console/curses version. And it's just special characters of all different colors everywhere. hitting keys on the keyboard makes it jump around randomly.

    I'm assuming there is something wrong with my curses profile?

    If it helps, the server is headless and I am connecting via ssh.

    Thanks,
    -Travis

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    • quarague
      Swordsman
      • Jun 2012
      • 261

      #3
      This is clearly not the proper way to solve this issue, but I've run the windows version with vine in ubuntu without problems.

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      • debo
        Veteran
        • Oct 2011
        • 2402

        #4
        Originally posted by audiodude
        Just want to be clear, I'm starting the console/curses version. And it's just special characters of all different colors everywhere. hitting keys on the keyboard makes it jump around randomly.

        I'm assuming there is something wrong with my curses profile?

        If it helps, the server is headless and I am connecting via ssh.

        Thanks,
        -Travis
        I would try building from source -- it should be relatively simple, Nick et al have done a good job of the build tools.
        Glaurung, Father of the Dragons says, 'You cannot avoid the ballyhack.'

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        • audiodude
          Rookie
          • Oct 2014
          • 11

          #5
          Originally posted by debo
          I would try building from source -- it should be relatively simple, Nick et al have done a good job of the build tools.
          Okay I'll try that. Just download the source for 3.5.0, it links to http://rephial.org/wiki/Compiling which gives me a 404.

          Any other secret compiling instructions available? I'm going to try the old standby of ./configure; make; sudo make install

          I would love to leave behind X windows support, since this is a headless server in the cloud.

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          • audiodude
            Rookie
            • Oct 2014
            • 11

            #6
            In case anyone is following along at home, I found the compilation instructions here: http://trac.rephial.org/wiki/Compiling

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            • audiodude
              Rookie
              • Oct 2014
              • 11

              #7
              Looks like it works, I've got the game running in curses mode!

              Just FYI the way to "not have X11 support" was to simply not have X11 installed on my machine.

              That was actually quite easy!

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              • debo
                Veteran
                • Oct 2011
                • 2402

                #8
                There's a flag you can use that will disable X11 compilation (actually, I think it's a flag that you have to not pass to make -DX11 or something), but uninstalling X before configure will also work I guess
                Glaurung, Father of the Dragons says, 'You cannot avoid the ballyhack.'

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                • MattB
                  Veteran
                  • Mar 2013
                  • 1214

                  #9
                  Originally posted by audiodude
                  And it's just special characters of all different colors everywhere. hitting keys on the keyboard makes it jump around randomly.
                  No, I'm afraid Angband's supposed to look like that.

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                  • Magnate
                    Angband Devteam member
                    • May 2007
                    • 5110

                    #10
                    Originally posted by MattB
                    No, I'm afraid Angband's supposed to look like that.
                    Was the character hallucinating??

                    I'm alarmed to hear that the Ubuntu package is no longer working, but since it's 3.3.2 it's perhaps better for me to concentrate on packaging 3.5 instead of worrying about it ...
                    "Been away so long I hardly knew the place, gee it's good to be back home" - The Beatles

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                    • myshkin
                      Angband Devteam member
                      • Apr 2007
                      • 334

                      #11
                      Originally posted by audiodude
                      If it helps, the server is headless and I am connecting via ssh.
                      Just curious...what terminal program are you using to run the ssh client? I had problems after an upgrade when connecting from iTerm2 via ssh to a screen session on Ubuntu 14.04, but eventually got it resolved after fiddling with iTerm2 and TERM settings.

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                      • audiodude
                        Rookie
                        • Oct 2014
                        • 11

                        #12
                        I had the problem in both iTerm 2 as well as gnome-terminal. But I think maybe in both cases I was inside of a screen session.

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                        • myshkin
                          Angband Devteam member
                          • Apr 2007
                          • 334

                          #13
                          Originally posted by audiodude
                          I had the problem in both iTerm 2 as well as gnome-terminal. But I think maybe in both cases I was inside of a screen session.
                          For some reason, I'd added a termcapinfo line to my .screenrc to modify the ti and te settings. Disabling that line did most of the work, if I remember correctly.

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