chess

[David Curtis]

On Tuesday 18 November 2008 12:48:12 Tony Arnold wrote:
> Norman,
>
> norman wrote:
> > I decided to have a look at the chess game in the Games menu and to
> > switch to 3D view. I had an error message which said I had No Python
> > OpenGL support and No Python GTKGLExt support. Could someone 
please tell
> > me whether this a hardware or software fault? I run 8.04 on a desktop
> > and 8.10 on a laptop both of which show the same error.
>
> Install two packages: python-opengl and python-gtkglext1 using synaptic
> or your favourite package manager!
>
Also you need a 3d capable card and the 3d drivers for it. 

Also see Dreamchess for 8.10, very beautiful, seems to be lighter on 
resources, and you can configure it to be quite beatable if, like me, you 
haven't played in ages.

Dave