Thread: [Tuxmath-devel] Tux math 's commands doesn't work on Asus eee.

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 I have  french key-board and command doesn't work on Asus eee.
Merci to answer. ina
ps
tTux typing works well

Hi,

On Sunday 24 February 2008 05:48:58 am ina wrote:
>  I have  french key-board and command doesn't work on Asus eee.

What doesn't work? Can you run tuxmath at all?  Is it a problem recognizing 
command-line options.  I can probably help you with more specific 
information.

AFAIK the eee runs an Ubuntu/Debian variant, so tuxmath should certainly work. 

1. what version of tuxmath do you have (did you get it from our Alioth or 
SourceForge pages, or did you get it through your distribution?).
2. when you try to run tuxmath, what actually happens?

> Merci to answer. ina
> ps
> tTux typing works well

That's good to hear!  (It also means your machine has the libs needed to run 
tuxmath).

Cheers,

-- 
David Bruce

Hi Ina,

On Sunday 24 February 2008 01:15:27 pm you wrote:
> http://alioth.debian.org/frs/download.php/2310/tuxmath_w_fonts-1.6.1.tar.gz
> version 1.0.1-1

Do you mean 1.6.1?

> I can run tuxmath.I can go on options,I can choose option but enter
> doen't works.Also  can't type numbers.

Still not quite sure what you are encountering - in tuxmath 1.6.1, you should 
get a menu page with the top entry being "Math Command Training Academy" (if 
your locale is French, it should read "Ecole d'entrainement au Math").

If you click on that entry or select it with the keyboard, you should get a 
list of lessons, the first being "Number Typing" ("Taper un nombre").

If you select that, you should get the easiest lesson in the game itself, with 
the comets coming down.  Look at the screenshots on the Alioth site.

When you enter numbers, they should appear in the penguins LED-style "monitor" 
at the bottom of the screen.  On a regular keyboard, either the numeric 
keypad or the numbers above the letter rows work, and you can use either of 
the two "enter" keys or the spacebar to enter the answer. 

If you get to the game and none of these work, maybe the Asus eee has some 
weird Xorg setup that isn't recognized correctly by SDL, but I really don't 
see how that could be the case if TuxType works, because they both rely on 
the same SDL key events.

Please feel free to post further info - TuxMath is definitely something I 
would like to have work on the eee.  I might not be able to figure much out 
without having access to an actual machine, however.  Maybe I should get one 
for my daughter...

Regards,

-- 
David Bruce

Dear Ina,

On Sunday 24 February 2008, David Bruce wrote:
> Hi Ina,
>
> On Sunday 24 February 2008 01:15:27 pm you wrote:
> > http://alioth.debian.org/frs/download.php/2310/tuxmath_w_fonts-1.6.1.tar.
> >gz version 1.0.1-1
>
> Do you mean 1.6.1?

Could you open a konsole/shell/terminal and type "tuxmath --version"? If so, 
what version does it say is running? (The EeePC seems to run Xandros, which, 
as far as I can tell from the gcc version, is based on Sarge and may be 
running a fairly out-of-date package.)

I would guess that's what happened is that you've downloaded the new version, 
but you would still have to compile and install it. Meanwhile, I bet Xandros 
has put their own (outdated) version of tuxmath on the machine, and that's 
what's actually running when you try to play tuxmath.

If that proves to be the case, then
1. It's a Xandros problem, and should be reported to them
2. If you're brave, and if Xandros has provided up-to-date development 
utilities, you can meanwhile install the latest version. First check to see 
if it's likely to work by going to the command line and 
typing "automake --version". If the first line says something like
  automake (GNU automake) 1.10
then there's a good chance you can compile your own copy of tuxmath. (If this 
doesn't happen, you could check to see if you can install automake 1.10 
packages. If not, then I'm afraid you're out of luck.) Go to the directory 
where you downloaded the tuxmath_w_fonts-1.6.1.tar.gz file and then type the 
following commands (from the command line):
        tar -xzf tuxmath_w_fonts-1.6.1-tar.gz
        cd tuxmath_w_fonts-1.6.1
        ./configure
        make
        make install  (you might need "su" or "sudo" for this)
To provide more detail on the last step: first try
      sudo make install
and if that prompts you for your password, and you type it in and everything 
works, then you're done. But, it also might say something about not allowing 
you to do it (and even something scary-sounding like "this incident will be 
reported", but don't worry about it because it just means that the system 
administrator will learn about it, and if it's your machine then you are the 
system administrator!) If that is the case, then try
    su
and type in the root password, then type
   make install
If it doesn't report any error messages, then you are done!

Someday, we should figure out how to provide binaries for the Linux community 
(although perhaps by the time we get to it, every distro will have a pretty 
updated version anyway).

Best,
--Tim

>
> > I can run tuxmath.I can go on options,I can choose option but enter
> > doen't works.Also  can't type numbers.
>
> Still not quite sure what you are encountering - in tuxmath 1.6.1, you
> should get a menu page with the top entry being "Math Command Training
> Academy" (if your locale is French, it should read "Ecole d'entrainement au
> Math").
>
> If you click on that entry or select it with the keyboard, you should get a
> list of lessons, the first being "Number Typing" ("Taper un nombre").
>
> If you select that, you should get the easiest lesson in the game itself,
> with the comets coming down.  Look at the screenshots on the Alioth site.
>
> When you enter numbers, they should appear in the penguins LED-style
> "monitor" at the bottom of the screen.  On a regular keyboard, either the
> numeric keypad or the numbers above the letter rows work, and you can use
> either of the two "enter" keys or the spacebar to enter the answer.
>
> If you get to the game and none of these work, maybe the Asus eee has some
> weird Xorg setup that isn't recognized correctly by SDL, but I really don't
> see how that could be the case if TuxType works, because they both rely on
> the same SDL key events.
>
> Please feel free to post further info - TuxMath is definitely something I
> would like to have work on the eee.  I might not be able to figure much out
> without having access to an actual machine, however.  Maybe I should get
> one for my daughter...
>
> Regards,

Hi Ina,

If you actually have the very old 1.0.1, maybe the problem is just that you 
need to press 'Escape' to leave the Options screen and actually play the 
game.  IIRC, that wasn't intuitively obvious and was something that got 
changed a long time ago.  The current version (1.6.1) is way better.

As Tim said, you can find out by typing "tuxmath --version" from a command 
prompt.

> 2. If you're brave,

I think "brave" overstates what is involved ;-)

> First check to see
> if it's likely to work by going to the command line and
> typing "automake --version". If the first line says something like
>   automake (GNU automake) 1.10

You don't need automake or autoconf to build from the *tar.gz package.

You will need the SDL-dev libs, which you can get using the Debian package 
manager since Xandros based on Debian. 

First become root (type "su", then the root password when prompted).

Then type: (all on the same line, don't hit "enter" until the end)

apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdlmixer1.2-dev 
libsdl-ttf2.0-dev

and if you're connected to the internet, your machine should download and 
install the needed libs.  Pretty cool, eh?

Then you can build the package like Tim suggested:

> then type the following commands (from the command line):
>         tar -xzf tuxmath_w_fonts-1.6.1-tar.gz
>         cd tuxmath_w_fonts-1.6.1
>         ./configure
>         make
>         make install  (you might need "su" or "sudo" for this)

(P.S. - If you really are adventurous, you could edit 
your /etc/apt/sources.list and add a line for current Debian packages - if 
your system is based on Sarge, there are probably newer versions of almost 
everything available, but be prepared for some breakage if you do a massive 
system upgrade)

Cheers,

-- 
David Bruce

Dear Ina,

On Tuesday 26 February 2008, you wrote:
> Dear Tim,
> I finished to find....It's just because Asus eee is a laptop and on it
> I only have a "numeric line" and Tux Math works only with a "Numeric
> Pad". I download the application  on my IMAC and I finished to
> find....
> Best,
>     Ina
> Ps
> my littles students work with me only on Laptop.

Tuxmath does not require a numeric pad. (I use a laptop, too.) I'm not sure 
what's going on. Could you check the version that you're running according to 
the instructions in the last email, so that we get more insight about what's 
happening? If it's an old version, did you try the "escape" trick that David 
mentioned?

Best,
--Tim

>
> 2008/2/25, Tim Holy <ho...@wu...>:
> > Dear Ina,
> >
> > On Sunday 24 February 2008, David Bruce wrote:
> > > Hi Ina,
> > >
> > > On Sunday 24 February 2008 01:15:27 pm you wrote:
> >
> > http://alioth.debian.org/frs/download.php/2310/tuxmath_w_fonts-1.6.1.tar.
> >
> > > >gz version 1.0.1-1
> > >
> > > Do you mean 1.6.1?
> >
> > Could you open a konsole/shell/terminal and type "tuxmath --version"? If
> > so, what version does it say is running? (The EeePC seems to run Xandros,
> > which, as far as I can tell from the gcc version, is based on Sarge and
> > may be running a fairly out-of-date package.)
> >
> > I would guess that's what happened is that you've downloaded the new
> > version,
> > but you would still have to compile and install it. Meanwhile, I bet
> > Xandros has put their own (outdated) version of tuxmath on the machine,
> > and that's what's actually running when you try to play tuxmath.
> >
> > If that proves to be the case, then
> > 1. It's a Xandros problem, and should be reported to them
> > 2. If you're brave, and if Xandros has provided up-to-date development
> > utilities, you can meanwhile install the latest version. First check to
> > see if it's likely to work by going to the command line and
> > typing "automake --version". If the first line says something like
> >   automake (GNU automake) 1.10
> > then there's a good chance you can compile your own copy of tuxmath. (If
> > this
> > doesn't happen, you could check to see if you can install automake 1.10
> > packages. If not, then I'm afraid you're out of luck.) Go to the
> > directory where you downloaded the tuxmath_w_fonts-1.6.1.tar.gz file and
> > then type the following commands (from the command line):
> >         tar -xzf tuxmath_w_fonts-1.6.1-tar.gz
> >         cd tuxmath_w_fonts-1.6.1
> >         ./configure
> >         make
> >         make install  (you might need "su" or "sudo" for this)
> > To provide more detail on the last step: first try
> >       sudo make install
> > and if that prompts you for your password, and you type it in and
> > everything works, then you're done. But, it also might say something
> > about not allowing you to do it (and even something scary-sounding like
> > "this incident will be reported", but don't worry about it because it
> > just means that the system administrator will learn about it, and if it's
> > your machine then you are the system administrator!) If that is the case,
> > then try
> >     su
> > and type in the root password, then type
> >    make install
> > If it doesn't report any error messages, then you are done!
> >
> > Someday, we should figure out how to provide binaries for the Linux
> > community
> > (although perhaps by the time we get to it, every distro will have a
> > pretty updated version anyway).
> >
> > Best,
> > --Tim
> >
> > > > I can run tuxmath.I can go on options,I can choose option but enter
> > > > doen't works.Also  can't type numbers.
> > >
> > > Still not quite sure what you are encountering - in tuxmath 1.6.1, you
> > > should get a menu page with the top entry being "Math Command Training
> > > Academy" (if your locale is French, it should read "Ecole
> > > d'entrainement
> >
> > au
> >
> > > Math").
> > >
> > > If you click on that entry or select it with the keyboard, you should
> > > get
> >
> > a
> >
> > > list of lessons, the first being "Number Typing" ("Taper un nombre").
> > >
> > > If you select that, you should get the easiest lesson in the game
> > > itself, with the comets coming down.  Look at the screenshots on the
> > > Alioth site.
> > >
> > > When you enter numbers, they should appear in the penguins LED-style
> > > "monitor" at the bottom of the screen.  On a regular keyboard, either
> > > the numeric keypad or the numbers above the letter rows work, and you
> > > can use either of the two "enter" keys or the spacebar to enter the
> > > answer.
> > >
> > > If you get to the game and none of these work, maybe the Asus eee has
> > > some weird Xorg setup that isn't recognized correctly by SDL, but I
> > > really
> >
> > don't
> >
> > > see how that could be the case if TuxType works, because they both rely
> > > on the same SDL key events.
> > >
> > > Please feel free to post further info - TuxMath is definitely something
> > > I would like to have work on the eee.  I might not be able to figure
> > > much
> >
> > out
> >
> > > without having access to an actual machine, however.  Maybe I should
> > > get one for my daughter...
> > >
> > > Regards,

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