More sudo fun

Yes, I had more problems.

After I setuid'ed "sudo", it told me that it still had the incorrect permissions set. Thankfully, it told me what octal permissions it was set to, and what it should be, so it was very easy to satisfy that.

Just in case that didn't work, I wrote a tiny program called "Clarus" (named after the Dogcow). It's just a simple setuid program that launches a root terminal, after warning that this is a bad thing to do. If sudo doesn't work, then Clarus will.

However, sudo worked the next time.

But then I discovered that Xorg actually wasn't installed. Apparantly, when I removed the unneeded Xorg drivers from the Copland chroot, it also removed Xorg itself. This took me quite a while to figure out.

FINALLY I got Copland running to a desktop, albeit as root as the GDM login screen kept crashing. I'm hoping that GDM is crashing because of the insane settings I gave it, not because of the modified Zenwalk login theme I chose. Of course, I had forgotten to put my custom XFCE settings into the /root directory, so it looked exactly like Xubuntu. My bad.

On the good side, Pythoncard works; I ran the AIFF Interchange program (I didn't put an AIFF through it - the computer is REALLY too slow to run Copland from disc let alone do anything that would require putting audio files into RAM). That was the one bit that I was really worried about, and it worked perfectly.

I've made the changes that I am going to make for this next Release Candidate (I call all my development masters "release candidates", because if everything works perfectly I'll release it!). Tomorrow I'll build another CD image and see what happens.

Good news: I think I found out how to stop the Xubuntu splash screen from appearing on startup, and this only involves a simple edit to the Yaboot.conf file. Kernel arguments.

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Yesterday, I went to Big W and had a look at their Windows games. There was one there for $5, called International Golf Pro. Someone on Ubuntu Forums had lately been talking about how there's no real golf game for Linux (real golf, not mini golf), and I'd remembered how much I liked PGA Tour Golf 2 for Mac, so I decided to buy it and see if it would run on Wine.

It didn't run on Wine; well, it crashed before the actual game started. So I tried running it on Windows. Guess what? BSoD. I tried it again; same result. Windows told me to run Chkdsk, so I did. Tried the game again: BSoD.

I tried every variation of installing, uninstalling, and setting options for the game, but nothing worked UNTIL I ran the game under "Windowed Mode". This DIDN'T result in a BSoD, but the graphics went really weird and a box popped up telling me that there was a problem with my video card drivers. Bingo! I updated them and that fixed the problem.

Unfortunately, after all that work, the game wasn't really very good. Graphically, it's better than PGA Tour Golf 2. In terms of gameplay, it's nowhere near. Good for a $5 game though, and it (along with a live Ventures album that I have) kept me occupied during those long Copland bootups.