KyleOr

Here are my observations: Before I found this posting, I downloaded the new client from the www homepage link, moved my .elc to elc-backup, and ran the new client. 1. Most 3D textures were missing. No fire, no trees, no rocks, just some grass and people displayed. 2. After finding this posting I removed the data directory from my stock el.ini 3. I did: $sudo aptitude install libpng12 libpng12-0 libpng12-dev libpng3 libpng3-dev + My libpng3 was not installed (I'm not sure if this was important) 4. The client runs perfectly now, all eyecandy, textures, normal sound, seems to work just fine. The new client works well for me. (Debian Stable, all updates, KDE 3.5.5, GeForce 7800) Next, I walked to Portland storage to check an old bug that has always plagued my linux system: framerate drops in Portland Storage. In the past I had to turn down particles to prevent lockups in Portland Storage. This bug is gone! Thank you. When I enter Portland Storage I do get the following (non-important error messages). These were present in the 1.33 client and are still present now: You entered William's storage! Too many sounds. Too many sounds. Too many sounds. Too many sounds. Too many sounds. Too many sounds. Too many sounds. Too many sounds. The stock el.ini should probably not have a data directory enabled. Thanks again!

I recently decided to create a desktop file for all users on my multi-user kde workstation. Along the way I discovered that my linux install of EL has no icon. Some guildies have provided stock game icons because they are not included in the linux tarball. My attempts at uncompressing the windows installer to get them were not successful. In your file browser, convert the icons to png format (KDE allows you to right click->Actions->Convert To->png. Copy them to the proper location: $ ls icon.png $ sudo cp icon.png /usr/share/pixmaps Note: Use whatever name you want for icon here. If you want an Eternal Lands icon in your KDE menu for all users, 1. copy the text below to a file: Eternal-Lands.desktop 2. Change the Exec to the proper location for your machine +Note: /usr/local/games/el is a good choice for multiple users +Select an icon. 3. and copy this Eternal-Lands.desktop file to: /usr/share/applications 4. Change the ownership to root:root with +r for users, groups, other It should look like this when done: /usr/share/applications$ ls -l E* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 248 2007-03-04 11:59 Eternal-Lands.desktop Special Warning: Multi-users from one IP must follow all the rules! ========Eternal-Lands.desktop========== [Desktop Entry] Comment= Exec='/usr/local/games/el/el-133.x86.linux.static' GenericName= Icon=icon Name=Eternal Lands Path= Categories=Game StartupNotify=true Terminal=0 TerminalOptions= Type=Application X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false X-KDE-Username= I see that others are working on a linux installer. It would be nice if future linux installers copied a menu .desktop file to this location and put a png icon in the proper place.

My NVidia card works perfectly with EL. The NVidia drivers can be broken by numerous things, the most likely being a kernel upgrade or XOrg update. The solution is simple however. Navigate to http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html to download the most recent drivers, boot to runlevel 3 (method varies by platform) and run the installer. You may have to change the driver from "nv" to "nvidia" in xorg.conf - then all should boot and work as expected. Kyle

The linux client works so well for me! Thank you for the build. One minor note, upon start up I get an error like this: $ ./el.x86.linux.bin I/O warning : failed to load external entity "languages/en/Encyclopedia/Skills.xml" Strangly, the skills.xml exist in the proper location. UPDATE: While writing this message I noticed that the "skills.xml" file is not what the build is looking for. I changed the filename from skills.xml to Skills.xml and all works perfectly now. Please change the download to include Skills.xml and resolve this error! Thanks again for the wonderful linux client!

I have just been bitten by this bug. ctrl-right-click works but left click does not. Left-click works for everything else, but normal click-to-walk in game. My system: 2.4 GHz Intel 845G Mainboard Fedora FC4 (every available update including kernel) ATI Radeon 9200 (newly installed, problem appeared after install) ATI drivers freshly installed and verified in other clients. More detail: $ uname -r 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 $ ./fglrxinfo display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9200 DDR Generic OpenGL version string: 1.3.1010 (X4.3.0-8.16.20) Oddly enough, the ATI card does not like shadows in-game. If shadows are turned on I get an immediate segfault. I dont know if that is a related issue or not. UPDATE I removed the fglrx driver and the click-walk issue went away. Framerates remained very low however. FIX The fix was simple. I took my ATI card back to the store and returned it for a GeForce 6600. Now I have 50-100 fps and all works as expected. I also deleted everything and reinstalled from scratch - but I'm sure the ATI driver was at least the majority of my problems. Kyle