Linux nerds help!!

[Legion]

As i have been trying to get help for a week soon almost in the other linux thread i'll just start a new as it seems ppl dont see the other one

Anyway, i gotten pe to run as far as i can get to the auth screen, and aparantly i do get logged in aswell, but the screen never changes from the auth.

I'm using wine and after following the tips in the other thread that is how far i got.

I think it's some rendering problem or sorts as when i do the tests in cedega 3d acceleration fails. All other works.

Using ubuntu latest version and latest wine.
gfx card is an geforce 4 mx so shouldnt be a problem to run pe with it..although slow pe

Anyone got any suggestions?

 

[Pirx Danford]

I assume that 3D acceleration works.
But you might want to check this out with "glxinfo",
the output of this should contain "direct rendering: Yes".
If that is not the case you do have a problem.

Next step could be to try and run a game like armagetron to check if the 3D performance is okay.
Be sure to test it at maximum resolution that works and to turn on max. quality settings.
Any other game that uses extensive 3D performance will do too.

A mistake I made was trying to run peass alongside EU, which won't work in linux at all.
Should you try the same then try again without peass.

Else make sure to check on all the DLL files mentioned in the other thread.

I'll ponder about that problem a bit, any input you can give might help to get an idea about the source of the problem.


HTH
Pirx

 

[Legion]

direct rendering = yes so that cant be the problem :/

trying arma now and such.

and i'm only running pe and nothing else.

And all the dll's should be in the correct wine..windows.. etc folder.

 

[Pirx Danford]

Have you installed EU with the same user you are trying to run it as now?
Or in other words, has EU full access to all its folders including write permission?

 

[Legion]

Have you installed EU with the same user you are trying to run it as now?
Or in other words, has EU full access to all its folders including write permission?

only got one user so should be a yes to that question.

 

[Pirx Danford]

Well until I come up with any working idea you might try to make sure that write permission is working how it should.

You can do this with
"chmod -R +w [/path/to/EU]"

To be totally secure everything is right you can do
"chmod -R +r [/path/to/EU]"
too, to make sure read permission is okay

And to be 100% sure the rights are in order do
"find [/path/to/EU] -type d -exec chmod +x {} \;"
so that all directories are executable, which is necessary for accessing them.


On another note:
have you tried to set in the clientloader the lowest resolution and all shaders off and such?

 

[Legion]

would this be the right path?

/home/iller/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/MindArk/Entropia Universe

or just to the mindarkfolder or?

also yep all settings at their lowest.

ok it was not the right path

help plz.. treat me as a complete linux noob

 

[Legion]

ok got a bit of new problems.. gotten so far as to getting the client installed on cedega but now cedega tells me to install directx but i dont know how to install that.

i might not have installed cedega completely right i think or something but is there any way to get around this and fix the dx issue by copying the files somewhere?

 

[SeamusO]

copy em from a windows machine ..

here's what I have in my ~/TransGaming_Drive/windows/system32 directory

d3d8.dll
d3d8thk.dll
d3d9.dll
d3dim700.dll
d3dim.dll
d3dpmesh.dll
d3dramp.dll
d3drm.dll
d3dx9_24.dll
d3dx9_25.dll
d3dx9_26.dll
d3dx9_27.dll
d3dx9_28.dll
d3dx9_29.dll
d3dx9_30.dll
d3dx9_31.dll
d3dx9_32.dll
d3dxof.dll
ddraw.dll
ddrawex.dll
dinput8.dll
dinput.dll
dmusic.dll
drivers
dx7vb.dll
dx8vb.dll
dxdiagn.dll
dxmasf.dll
dxtmsft.dll
dxtrans.dll
mfc42.dll
msvcirt.dll
msvcrt.dll
opengl32.dll
psapi.dll
regsvr32
regsvr32.exe
regsvr32.exe.so
regsvr32.so
stdole2.tlb
stdole32.tlb
wcmd.exe
wcmd.exe.so
winebrowserlink
winebrowserlink.so

use the settings listed in the main linux wine thread to get it started (even though sound works, I disabled it on my clientloader .. the new switzerland tp crashes my client)

 

[Legion]

As i thought.. i'm missing files :/