home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!mmm.serc.3m.com!pwcs!hawkmoon!det
- From: det@hawkmoon.mn.org (Derek Terveer)
- Newsgroups: gnu.chess
- Subject: xboard 2.0 pl22 problems
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.040155.1183@hawkmoon.mn.org>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 04:01:55 GMT
- Organization: Demi-Public System (One of the Eternal Champions); Eagan, MN, 55123-2507, USA
- Lines: 33
- X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
-
- I have compiled xboard 2.0 pl22 as well as gnuchess 4.0 pl58 and when i
- run xboard it pops up a very nice chess board in my xwindows and then
- immediately gives me the error:
-
- hawkmoon:xboard-2.0$ ./xboard
- xboard: can't open pseudo-tty
- No such file or directory
-
- I have tried to figure out what is going on there and it looks like
- xboard is trying to get a psuedo-tty in order to spawn off the gnuchessx
- program, but it is failing. The xboard that comes with XFree86 works
- fine in this regard. The problem i have with that xboard (can't tell
- what version it is) is that when invoked in its default mode, i.e., just
- "xboard", and the five minutes of time expire for black (the computer),
- xboard will put up a message "Black's flag dropped" and go into an
- infinite loop just printing that. I have not been able to figure out a
- way of getting past that point.
-
- I have tried a number of different compiles, including gcc, /usr/ucb/cc,
- cc, various optimizations and load options. All to no avail.
-
- What am i doing wrong here? I would use the older(?) xboard that comes
- with XFree86 but it generally won't get past black's 2nd or 3rd move
- because its time expires...
-
- sigh.
-
- derek
- --
- Derek Terveer Work: derekt@stpaul.gov +1 612 292 6009
- Play: det@hawkmoon.mn.org +1 612 683 0413
- "Big business and big government distract us with entertainment;
- they manufacture our consent while we destroy the environment."
-