Thought I'd reply on here for the archives,.
Justin replied to me and this is the result:

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Justin Emmanuel
<justinemmanuel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hard to read, strange thing going on with the transparency?
> This sounds to me not like a 64bit problem, but that you are running Compiz.
> Croquet doesn't like Compiz

Nope, I'm running gentoo and xfce - no compiz.

However, that reminded me that there is a "compositing" setting in
XFCE ("Window Manager Tweaks" settings manager) and when I turn it
off, the image is fine.

Thanks!

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Brad Fuller <bradallenfuller at gmail.com> wrote:
> I sent the following msg to the Croquet users list, with no response
> (yet). Thought someone here might give me a clue:
>
> What's the best way to run croquet on a 64-bit Linux computer? I downloaded the
> SDK and just ran the croquet shell and the text and graphics were hard to read.
> I was wondering if this had something to do with 32bit squeak and 64bit opengl.
> Does it?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Brad Fuller
>



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Brad Fuller