Running EQ under LINUX

[Mcbard]

It's actually the other way around. RHEL is the upstream distribution, and the red hat team releases Fedora for non server platforms, whereas CentOS is a community driven repackaging of an as close to possible RHEL.

[necrosaurio]

I finally got a successful installation on Ubuntu with the old Nvidia card I had laying around. My tests indicate the following:

ATi, propietary drivers - Only shadows, no textures
ATi, free drivers - Not working at all (missing 3D capabilities)
nVidia, propietary drivers - Works fine
nVidia, free drivers - Not working at all (missing 3D)
Intel 945 (onboard) - Not working, all I get are spots of colour on the "agree to the EULA" and server selection page, no text, nothing.

Thanks a lot for your help [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I had to tweak the configuration a bit, as enabling HW Texel and HW shaders or Advanced Lightning makes the game really slow and not respond.

One final issue I have is that the game crashes whenever I minimise the window but I can live with that [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Next, I will be installing CentOS alongside, to see what happens [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[cadiz]

Originally Posted by necrosaurio [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I finally got a successful installation on Ubuntu with the old Nvidia card I had laying around. My tests indicate the following:

ATi, propietary drivers - Only shadows, no textures
ATi, free drivers - Not working at all (missing 3D capabilities)
nVidia, propietary drivers - Works fine
nVidia, free drivers - Not working at all (missing 3D)
Intel 945 (onboard) - Not working, all I get are spots of colour on the "agree to the EULA" and server selection page, no text, nothing.

Thanks a lot for your help [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I had to tweak the configuration a bit, as enabling HW Texel and HW shaders or Advanced Lightning makes the game really slow and not respond.

One final issue I have is that the game crashes whenever I minimise the window but I can live with that [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Next, I will be installing CentOS alongside, to see what happens [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'd also add that you should disable any windowing effects while you play, I've found this really slows things down if you don't.

I'm running things great on an Thinkpad T510 (Intel 950 onboard I think - uses i915 module) on Fedora 14 x86_64.

[necrosaurio]

The Fedora 14 RPMs do not work in CentOS due to missing dependencies (liberation-narrow-fonts and similar).

I've left wine 1.3 patched and compiling and installing to /opt. I will check it when I get home.

I plan on creating a standalone RPM of wine-EQ for CentOS 6, with a SPEC file that should allow you to upgrade to the latest version without doing much work.

[cadiz]

Originally Posted by necrosaurio [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The Fedora 14 RPMs do not work in CentOS due to missing dependencies (liberation-narrow-fonts and similar).

I've left wine 1.3 patched and compiling and installing to /opt. I will check it when I get home.

I plan on creating a standalone RPM of wine-EQ for CentOS 6, with a SPEC file that should allow you to upgrade to the latest version without doing much work.

The problem with this is the way Fedora/RHEL builds wine, it's a set of modular packages. It seems like a lot of work and slightly inflexible to combine them into one RPM but if you're up for it by all means - building a new spec should work fine it's just a lot of effort.

-=>>rpm -qa | grep wine | wc -l
38

I'm curious, any reason why you wouldn't just run Fedora or a more progressive distribution with newer libraries, or do you have a specific reason to stick to CentOS?

[cadiz]

Originally Posted by necrosaurio [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The Fedora 14 RPMs do not work in CentOS due to missing dependencies (liberation-narrow-fonts and similar).

I've left wine 1.3 patched and compiling and installing to /opt. I will check it when I get home.

I plan on creating a standalone RPM of wine-EQ for CentOS 6, with a SPEC file that should allow you to upgrade to the latest version without doing much work.

Do you have the EPEL repos installed? Looks like they are available there

[sereal]

Originally Posted by necrosaurio [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I finally got a successful installation on Ubuntu with the old Nvidia card I had laying around. My tests indicate the following:

ATi, propietary drivers - Only shadows, no textures
ATi, free drivers - Not working at all (missing 3D capabilities)
nVidia, propietary drivers - Works fine
nVidia, free drivers - Not working at all (missing 3D)
Intel 945 (onboard) - Not working, all I get are spots of colour on the "agree to the EULA" and server selection page, no text, nothing.

Thanks a lot for your help [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I had to tweak the configuration a bit, as enabling HW Texel and HW shaders or Advanced Lightning makes the game really slow and not respond.

One final issue I have is that the game crashes whenever I minimise the window but I can live with that [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Next, I will be installing CentOS alongside, to see what happens [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Has anyone had luck with ATI cards? It's been one thing after another with ATI stuff under linux. Got a 6950. It might be time to buy a nvidia card just for linux *sigh*

I really like ATI but man is their shit broken in linux. I had to buy a cheap nvidia card for my xbmc system since boblight wouldn't work with ATI's closed drivers and the open drivers were too slow for xbmc.

The closest I got was mucked up models someone else had - where the bodies were all wacky looking. I got the models showing up completely black too.

[Joroz]

turn of vertex shader option in ini and try this for ati cards. Might work on other cards aswell. Shouldn't need to recompile or use any hacked dll's.

* Start wine regedit
* Create key "HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/wine/Direct3D", create string "UseGLSL", set value to "disabled"

[necrosaurio]

Originally Posted by Mcbard [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's actually the other way around. RHEL is the upstream distribution, and the red hat team releases Fedora for non server platforms, whereas CentOS is a community driven repackaging of an as close to possible RHEL.

This is not correct. RedHat base RHEL on a previous version of Fedora (RHEL 6 is based off Fedora 12 + bits from 13 and 14), which they freeze and tweak and, more importantly, certify for some applications and offer support for a lonnnnng time.

CentOS base their releases on the RHEL sources and mirror as closely as possible the upstream packages.

It works like this Fedora -> RHEL -> CentOS

You can usually install Fedora packages on CentOS but only if they were released near the same time.

You can check here for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux

[Mcbard]

Originally Posted by necrosaurio [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is not correct. RedHat base RHEL on a previous version of Fedora (RHEL 6 is based off Fedora 12 + bits from 13 and 14), which they freeze and tweak and, more importantly, certify for some applications and offer support for a lonnnnng time.

CentOS base their releases on the RHEL sources and mirror as closely as possible the upstream packages.

It works like this Fedora -> RHEL -> CentOS

You can usually install Fedora packages on CentOS but only if they were released near the same time.

You can check here for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux

Cool info, I definitely didn't know Fedora was upstream from Redhat, although now that I think about it, it makes pretty damn good sense. Cheers!