Re: [tuxracer-main] problem: penguin is white under Debian unstable

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On Friday 16 November 2001 03:53 pm,  Jonathan Walther wrote:
> I finally got my OpenGL acceleration working with X, and Tuxracer went
> from being a crappy 1 frame per 5 seconds game to a 10-40 frames per
> second game.  Its now my favorite Linux game.
>
> I've spent a fair bit of time skiing, and whoever did the physics,
> kudos.  Its just like skiing.
>
> But Tux is all white. I see in the screenshots he looks like a real
> penguin.  But when I play the game in my latest Debian unstable, the
> penguin is not.  Has this problem come up before?  Any fixes known?
>
> I am using a Matrox G400 AGP video card, with the AMD K6-II cpu.
>
> Jonathan


Read this somewhere:
The white tux is a common problem that is outlined in the docs.  To fix 
it change the parameter in the $HOME/.tuxracer/options file to the 
following:

set use_sphere_display_list false

hth,
-s