Ubuntu Linux Fix me

[Brom]

Ok, I loaded Ubuntu on my cousins Laptop, Easy to install, no problems. I downloaded and extracted the files to EL. Ran it and it seems to work after I downloaded a C library I was missing. But now I get some really neat graphics errors. I am 90% sure it is the graphics card, but I am unsure how to update drivers in Ubuntu. Help me out. Ill post a screenie of the strange graphics problems.

Basically Light errors and parts of objects are missing.

 

::Goes to grab screenie

Edited December 1, 2005 by Brom

[Placid]

Brom, make that screenie bigger, you can't see a thing....

 

Secondly, could you provide info about graphics card and current drivers?

Also, whats the output of :

glxinfo | grep -i "direct rendering"

[Kendai]

Hey, that's what my game looked like before it completely broke down! Yep, it's more than likely the video card apparently

[Brom]

Erg, Ill host the screenie on your server if you dont mind.

Let me switch computers and edit this post.

erg! I cannot upload to your server either. As always I need a good host for files.

 

As for the card.

Vendor: ATI Technologies

Device: RV250 5c61 [Radeon Mobility 9200 M9

 

I know little else about it.

 

Output

direct rendering: Yes

 

http://www.geocities.com/helamanrocks/error.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/helamanrocks/error2.jpg

Edited December 1, 2005 by Brom

[Dark_Nightmare]

That kiinda looks like my screen while I'm trading, the floor goes black, outside and indoors. That looks messed up alright, good luck fixing it ^_^

[The_Piper]

Lemme guess, you played with the value of perspective in "advanced video"?

 

The default value for perspective is 0.15, btw, and not 0.50. Thats at least how your picture in Portland docks look like

 

Piper

[Brom]

It defaulted to .30 But yes I changed it. Ive played with the settings to no avail.

[Brom]

Ok, changed the driver from the generic ati to fglrx and that problem was fixed. Next: Why am I getting random Segfaults? Here is the output after running the client on gdb

name@name:~/EL$ gdb el.x86.linux.bin
GNU gdb 6.3-debian
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...(no debugging symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".

(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/name/EL/el.x86.linux.bin
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1213617952 (LWP 9415)]
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
(no debugging symbols found)
[New Thread -1274496080 (LWP 9418)]
[New Thread -1282888784 (LWP 9421)]
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
[New Thread -1291433040 (LWP 9422)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1213617952 (LWP 9415)]
0xb759f133 in __glim_R200TCLDrawArrays ()
  from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/atiogl_a_dri.so
(gdb)

 

Let me know what you think Yes these are the most updated drivers.

Edited December 1, 2005 by Brom

[Placid]

Can I have permission to say ATI on Linux sucks?

 

I think this is a driver issue/limitation. In all honesty, i've no idea :-)

[Brom]

Can I have permission to say ATI on Linux sucks?

 

I think this is a driver issue/limitation. In all honesty, i've no idea :-)

 

I said it while loading Ubuntu. I think the only person who would disagree is Leeloo, but as I have not seen him around... (I think Leeloo was a him, I might be wrong its been a while)

[Brom]

I think Im going to compile a CVS generic build for this Ubuntu laptop. Because something is really wrong with the current one? This is just a bump basically. Anyone know what is wrong?

[Wytter]

It won't work - it's a driver issue. Perhaps it'll be fixed when Mesa 6.4 is merged into xorg...

[The_Piper]

Can I have permission to say ATI on Linux sucks?

 

I think this is a driver issue/limitation. In all honesty, i've no idea :-)

 

Well, i am/was running EL on my laptop which has ATI chips with SuSE Linux whithout any problems.

 

But when i used an Unbuntu Live CD with that laptop, i had some strange effects and the chipset was not detected, which means, no 3D support.

 

Piper

[Brom]

Can I have permission to say ATI on Linux sucks?

 

I think this is a driver issue/limitation. In all honesty, i've no idea :-)

 

Well, i am/was running EL on my laptop which has ATI chips with SuSE Linux whithout any problems.

 

But when i used an Unbuntu Live CD with that laptop, i had some strange effects and the chipset was not detected, which means, no 3D support.

 

Piper

Right, a live CD would do that. It would load the generic driver which would not allow 3d support. I changed to the driver that did. No help. Well, Here is hoping on the driver merge, until then EL might just blink off and on again on my cousins laptop. No fixes or workarounds? It always seems to crash at that line. (Output from gdb above)

[Brom]

Should we just give up on this case? No ATI experts out there that know a workaround?

[Placid]

Should we just give up on this case? No ATI experts out there that know a workaround?

There is no work around

[Nintenduh]

My suggestion is try Kubuntu

[Brom]

My suggestion is try Kubuntu

Actually, Ill do that, though changing from Gnome to KDE will not make that much of a difference. Im thinking I may change Distros on it. My cousin is comming back into town tomorrow, he has been playing and has figured out when it crashes now.

Whenever he sees the underworld (He thinks it is lava)

Whenever it rains/fogs (yes he disabled fog, but it still rains)

 

So, he has been playing so that he is nearly always on DP where it does not rain, or on like maps where it rains little. Either way I think Im going to load a different Distro on it, in hopes that it will fix itself. I just need to find one.