[FAQ] Ryzom in Linux (The Unofficial HOW-TO)

[nofftz]

But it works sort of, i've done a preliminary writeup here

OK, seems really to work, but I only get filled boxes instead of any characters, so text isn't readable. Any ideas?

[zyrom]

OK, seems really to work, but I only get filled boxes instead of any characters, so text isn't readable. Any ideas?

My guess is that you are trying to runn it with D3D, try to switch over to OpenGL

[nofftz]

My guess is that you are trying to runn it with D3D, try to switch over to OpenGL

Yeah, my client.cfg has been wiped out. Game runs slowly, but runs. Nice!

Hopefully, we have a well running game with sound back soon... :S

[zyrom]

.... Game runs slowly...

Then my guess is that its not loading the correct OpenGL libraries.

Your can check what libraries are loaded by running

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$ ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/glxgears

On my system ( FC4 NVIDIA latest...) the output looks like:

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 $ ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/glxgears 
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x0067e000)
        libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 (0x0069d000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00d51000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00c7b000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00101000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00c3a000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00b0e000)
        libGLcore.so.1 => /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 (0x03824000)
        libnvidia-tls.so.1 => /usr/lib/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.1 (0x00aab000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00c60000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x0032b000)

[nofftz]

Then my guess is that its not loading the correct OpenGL libraries.

No, that's all fine. I'm talking about the strange lags you already have been written about.

[zyrom]

another small update:
in the pursuit of a nother problem i whent and recompiled Wine making sure that the compiler used the proper cpu setup, in my case thats pentium4
that had a definite speedup effect... nothing dramatic but noticable

I'l put up description when i got i cooked down...

[zyrom]

Right!, in this cold, dark and depressing times we need something to highten our spirits!

So why not wander over to these guys and start doing some "free cuddliing"

[cloudy97]

So...

Ryzom isn't working in Linux/Cedega anylonger? I haven't booted Windows for weeks now, but it means no Ryzom...

[nofftz]

So...

Ryzom isn't working in Linux/Cedega anylonger? I haven't booted Windows for weeks now, but it means no Ryzom...

Just wrote another ticket today and get something like an answer. The support contact person at Nevrax has already asked the devs about this but hasn't get an answer jet. They are however working on this problem. Seems that there will be an official statement or even better a patch soon...

[nofftz]

Here is the official statement:

In order to resolve an obscure problem in the Ryzom client efficiently the dev team have used a solution based on 'coroutines'. The Windows implementation of coroutines uses the 'FIBRES' API that our linux players are having trouble with.
See http://www.nevrax.org/tikiwiki/tiki-vie ... p?blogId=9 for Sonix's blog where he discusses coroutines.