Gehn under Linux

[ofperkins]

Can anyone help me here? I use Fedora 17 with Wine 1.5 and am not having very much luck with Myst under Linux. When I installed MOUL, it installed cleanly, did the huge update OK, but gave me one of those awful stack dumps just after I logged in. Gehn installed and updated clean as well, but I got a very generic error message after logging in (I hate generic error messages... )

Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone has had any more success than I had with Uru under Linux, and if so can they help me? Here's a few more specifications if it helps...

• I'm dual-booting with Windows XP. I have more success with Gehn there, but it's a bit iffy. Sometimes it gives me an error whilst loading saying that it couldn't find a file, and sometimes it links me to my Relto OK but gives the error when I try to link to a particular place (I had this trouble linking to Kirel, Ae'gura and Gahreesen in one night before I gave up). MOUL works OK under XP.
• I'm installing MOUL and Gehn to an external 1.5TB USB hard drive partitioned into an 850GB NTFS partition for XP and a 650GB EXT4 partition for Fedora.
• Despite the fact that I just bought a new graphics card, GNOME runs in fallback mode because of the drivers (presumably).
• On a separate machine, I have Windows 7 installed, and I have absolutely no problems running MOUL, Gehn or indeed anything with that.

Can anyone help me?

[Paradox]

Despite the fact that I just bought a new graphics card, GNOME runs in fallback mode because of the drivers (presumably).

This is a problem. Without drivers, you probably can't create a hardware accelerated 3D context, so wine won't be able to run Uru.

There's a simple test app called glxgears that should let you check whether your OpenGL is hardware accelerated.

[ofperkins]

Where can I find this test app, and more importantly where can I find drivers for my graphics card (which is a Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 series (I think) if it helps) for Linux?

[Paradox]

You should be able to find nvidia drivers, I would expect them to be in one of the Fedora repositories.
glxgears should also be in there, in the glx-utils package.

[ofperkins]

Found and ran glxgears OK simply by typing "glxgears" into the terminal window. I have yet to install the Nvidia drivers, but will test again once I have. Here's what it looked like:

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Is that OK? I can't tell.

[ofperkins]

OK, I've installed the Nvidia drivers, but the computer is still using the old onboard driver that forces GNOME into fallback mode. How do I tell Fedora to use the Nvidia drivers (or is this a topic for the Fedora forums)?

[Paradox]

OK, I've installed the Nvidia drivers, but the computer is still using the old onboard driver that forces GNOME into fallback mode. How do I tell Fedora to use the Nvidia drivers (or is this a topic for the Fedora forums)?

That's better suited to a Fedora forum, but this should help you get started: http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2012/fedora-17-nvidia-guide/

[ofperkins]

Those instructions look horribly familiar... I've tried to use these instructions before, and it completely stuffed up my OS. I had to reinstall. Maybe I did something wrong following the instructions, I don't know.

Anyway, I posted my problem on the Fedora forums today, so I'll see what comes of that.

Edit: Love those Fedora forums... got a helpful reply about 15mins after posting. Have yet to implement changes but will post again as soon as I do.

[Branan]

Have you had a chance to try things out yet? I'd like to know for sure whether I need to spin up a Fedora system this weekend for debugging

[ofperkins]

Sorry Branan, I've been a bit busy lately...

Should be able to try it out today with a bit of luck.