The Drunken Lizard Pub

Thanks for the reply micks.

Did you adjust the cooling settings in the bios? Because I do not know of any tool to adjust settings for the Intel GMA 945 card in Linux.

I always start the game from the command line, the problem is that the crash takes the whole system with it. Perhaps I could log whatever output with a tool of some kind, or perhaps it is already logged somewhere within /var/log.

Edit:
Ran the game within gdb. No output of interest. It only logged ...

It crashes elsewhere in the game as well with a new character. Seemingly random. Only solution is to reboot.

It seems that Lenovo T61 and Eschalon: Book 1 are incompatible.

Or perhaps it's the current intel driver that is causing all the trouble.

The driver I'm currently using is: xf86-video ...

The crash appears on both Arch and Mint at the exact same place. The crash is so severe that the magic Sysrq does not appear to even work.

OT: Interestingly after trying to get out of the crash on mint with Sysrq, Mint lost my country specific keyboard settings and video is now acting wierd and is ...

Yes, it would be strange if the problem is not local somehow.

Should I mail the savegame + 'lshw > hardware.log' to info_at_basiliskgames_dot_com ?

Thanks

I like games like eschalon, so I was thrilled when I saw there was linux version and bought the download. The problem is that the game crashes hard and a cold boot is needed every time. This crash appears at the exact same place every time, so the question is; is this a bug with the game code or ...