In article <eea2b3d4-58a2-48e4-9459-2a803cff21ba@hawaii.rr.com>, david <gnome@hawaii.rr.com> writes:
Well, I just tried your command line here on Debian Bookworm under X
I don't think you understand. Try WITHOUT an X environment, e.g. unset any DISPLAY variable and then try running to disk. This was how I scripted all the FOTD images that are on the archive I just resurrected. I found some more PAR files from 1997 and I wanted to render the images for those using the same scripts I wrote back when Jim Muth was still publishing new FOTD messages. Disk video rendering didn't use to require X, as per the message, but now it does, which makes my scripts fail. I looked at the source code and yes, it unconditionally requires an X11 display now, whereas it didn't before. I think it broke sometime around patch 10. Oh well, just another piece of rot that's seeped into the code. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book <http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline> The Terminals Wiki <http://terminals-wiki.org> The Computer Graphics Museum <http://ComputerGraphicsMuseum.org> Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) <http://LegalizeAdulthood.wordpress.com>