{"id":612,"date":"2007-08-12T02:56:56","date_gmt":"2007-08-12T07:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/12\/colin-pichot"},"modified":"2007-08-12T02:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-12T07:57:00","slug":"colin-pichot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/12\/colin-pichot","title":{"rendered":"Colin Pichot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not having played a game since Prince of Persia (and we&#8217;re talking the original game, with block-like graphics, on some ancient hardware, back in 1990), I decided to try out Second Life today. Surprisingly, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getdeb.net\/release.php?id=1241\">getdeb<\/a> folk have this for Ubuntu, even in its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getdeb.net\/release.php?id=1241\">64-bit<\/a> variety. Installation was simple:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><tt>sudo dpkg -i secondlife-install_1.18.1.2-1~getdeb1_amd64.deb<\/tt><\/li>\n<li>Realise that I&#8217;m missing a dependency, so install <tt>lib32asound2<\/tt><\/li>\n<li>Attempt to start secondlife<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And fail, of course. I got a <b>Window Creation Error<\/b>. Not content with this, I started it up from a terminal, and looked at the error messages pass by. Finally found the rather telling line:  <b>WARNING: createContext: window creation failure. SDL: Couldn&#8217;t find matching GLX visual<\/b>. It seems that its all got to do with the bit-depth of colour, so a quick replace of the <tt>DefaultDepth<\/tt> in <tt>xorg.conf<\/tt> was in lieu (it originally was DefaultDepth 16 but its now <tt>DefaultDepth 24<\/tt>).<\/p>\n<p>Restart X, and I launched Second Life with success! Now signing up was a bit of a chore as I had to find a new name and so on. A lot of ideal names are taken up, so I settled with <b>Colin Pichot<\/b>. One of the things I quickly changed was how much bandwidth SL was allowed to use &#8211; quick reduction to 50kbps from its usual default (of like 700kbps+). I joined the Linux Australia group, I&#8217;ve not developed anything in SL, and I haven&#8217;t given them my credit card details (yet). It seems to create a group, you need to fork out $100 Linden Dollars.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll play with this after midnight I guess, when we&#8217;ve got more &#8220;off-peak&#8221; quota to utilise, but initial impressions are its a pretty impressive environment in 800&#215;600. I&#8217;ve not met anyone, I&#8217;ve added a friend (I think), can&#8217;t for the life of me figure out how to put a photo in my profile, and here&#8217;s hoping that eventually, I understand what all the fuss about SL is.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/second%20life\" rel=\"tag\">second life<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/secondlife\" rel=\"tag\">secondlife<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/sl\" rel=\"tag\">sl<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ubuntu\" rel=\"tag\">ubuntu<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/window%20creation%20error\" rel=\"tag\">window creation error<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/glx%20visual\" rel=\"tag\">glx visual<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/colin%20pichot\" rel=\"tag\">colin pichot<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/alter%20ego\" rel=\"tag\">alter ego<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Colin%20Pichot&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2007%2F08%2F12%2Fcolin-pichot&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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