BzFlag does not work - Halt all Fedora Development Work!!!

[Dwaine Garden]

During my testing.  I have noticed that bzflag does not work any more.   8*)

I'm using the newest version 1.10.8 and it's compiled source code.   
Bzflag compiles just fine with no warning or errors.   Make install 
works too.  Sync'd to the latest development tree for Fedora

Now the good stuff.....

Bzflag finds all the server in the server list, but you can not connect 
to any servers.  The game just dies.  I did check the firewalls rules 
and it's completely turned off. (Using hardware router firewall).   
Double checked my router, it's fine.  Both UDP and TCP ports are opened.

If I run bzflag from an application launch icon in kde, the video is 
working fine.  But I still can not connect to any servers without crashing.

If I run bzflag from a terminal window in KDE, then the video is all 
speckles and garbage.   For the life of me, I can not figure out why 
this would happen.  I could always run it from an launch icon and or 
terminal window.

It smells like something with the Fedora kernel (541) which is causing a 
problem.  I can not debug it further, since it kills the X session.   
There is one error message in message.log

Oct 10 04:10:55 www kernel: application bzflag uses obsolete OSS audio 
interface
Oct 10 04:11:08 www gconfd (root-13090): Received signal 15, shutting 
down cleanly
Oct 10 04:11:08 www gconfd (root-13090): Exiting
Oct 10 04:11:08 www gdm[12846]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X 
error - Restarting :0
Oct 10 04:11:08 www gdm(pam_unix)[12846]: session closed for user root
Oct 10 04:11:08 www udev: removing device node '/dev/vcs7'
Oct 10 04:11:08 www udev: removing device node '/dev/vcsa7'
Oct 10 04:11:09 www udev: creating device node '/dev/vcs7'
Oct 10 04:11:09 www udev: removing device node '/dev/vcs7'
Oct 10 04:11:10 www kernel: agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device 
at 0000:00:00.0.
Oct 10 04:11:10 www kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 
0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
Oct 10 04:11:10 www kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 
0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
Oct 10 04:11:10 www kernel: agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device 
at 0000:00:00.0.
Oct 10 04:11:10 www kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 
0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
Oct 10 04:11:10 www kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 
0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
Oct 10 04:11:11 www udev: creating device node '/dev/vcsa7'
Oct 10 04:11:11 www udev: creating device node '/dev/vcs7'
Oct 10 04:11:11 www udev: removing device node '/dev/vcsa7'
Oct 10 04:11:11 www udev: creating device node '/dev/vcsa7'


I'm tying to figure out if it's the OSS emulation in ALSA, or something 
to do with udev.

We have to fix this.  We can not expect the community to keep testing 
out the development work if they can not run BzFlag....  8*)

Dwaine.