Running EQ under LINUX

[Treats]

Have you two tried the fix here:

http://www.project1999.org/forums/sh...ad.php?t=48157

[regatta]

Yes that fix works.

[cadiz]

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

Cadiz: I have tested your settings, separately and the whole file, no success.

I have tried using the overwritten URL and no luck either.

I now get really washed out colours on the background and still get shadows instead of textures.

After trying to run EQ on VirtualBox and getting the same result, I think that the issue is caused by my ATi drivers. I am going to try going back to my old nvidia card and the onboard one to test.

I'll let you know.

If I can't get it working, I will try installing CentOS 6, which should work with the Fedora packages.

It's really annoying as I am a sysadmin by trade, but Wine is the one thing I have NEVER managed to get working properly.

Cool, let me know if it works for you. ATI cards can be a bit of a pain. CentOS6/RHEL6 is based on Fedora 12 (2.6.32*) and those packages are built for Fedora 14, they may still work however.

[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.]

[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!

[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.

[trafik3535]

Thanks a lot...