running Regnum on Kubuntu Hardy Heron with ATI Radeon graphics card

[SilverDrake3]

I would LOVE to have some assistance with this. I've been pulling my hair out for the past couple of days over it.

First of all, I used the installer found at the following thread:

Regnum Online Linux Installer (beta) (http://www.regnumonline.com.ar/forum/showthread.php?t=15225)

It seemed to install alright, but when I went to run it, I got this message:

Unsupported video card!

There are three possible causes for this error:
1. Your video card is too old
2. You haven't installed the latest available drivers
3. You haven't installed the latest DirectX version

Like I said in the topic, my card is an ATI Radeon.. here are the specs according to lspci

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M76 [Radeon Mobility HD 2600 Series] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device 3fd5
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
I/O ports at c000 [size=256]
Memory at fdef0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at fdec0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0
Capabilities: [a0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-


I've seen this problem happening a lot with the NVIDIA cards, but I've seen nothing about ATI Radeon.

It's a brand new computer, so I understand it might not be supported yet... I hope you guys can help me, though.

Thanks,
SD (aka: Amberose)

P.S. I'm only an amateur with Linux, so please be patient with me.

[arlick]

post the output of this please

clear && echo "Juntando informacion" && echo "++++++CPU+++++" > pp && cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep model >> pp && cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'cpu MHz' >> pp && cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'cache size' >> pp && echo "++++++Distro+++++" >> pp && uname -a >> pp && cat /etc/`ls /etc/ | grep version` >> pp && ls /etc/ | grep version >> pp && cat /etc/issue | grep -m1 "" | cut -d\\ -f1 >> pp && uptime >> pp && echo "++++++Placa de video+++++" >> pp && `locate lspci | grep -m1 'n/lspci'` | grep VGA >> pp && glxinfo | grep direct >> pp && glxinfo | grep OpenGL >> pp && glxinfo | grep s3tc >> pp && echo "++++++MODULES++++++" >> pp && cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep Load >> pp && echo "++++++RAM+++++" >> pp && cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemTotal >> pp && echo "++++++sensores+++++" >> pp && sensors >> pp || echo "No hay sensores" >> pp && mv pp $HOME/Desktop/diag.txt && echo "informacion disponible en el escritorio. " && echo "Detallando informacion a continuacion " && echo "" && echo "" && echo "" && cat $HOME/Desktop/diag.txt

copy and paste it in a console

[SilverDrake3]

Only some of that seemed to work...

Juntando informacion
The program 'glxinfo' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install mesa-utils
bash: glxinfo: command not found
informacion disponible en el escritorio.
Detallando informacion a continuacion



++++++CPU+++++
model : 104
model name : AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-68
model : 104
model name : AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-68
cpu MHz : 800.000
cpu MHz : 800.000
cache size : 512 KB
cache size : 512 KB
++++++Distro+++++
Linux Al 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 12:47:45 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
lenny/sid
debian_version
Ubuntu 8.04
15:41:31 up 34 min, 1 user, load average: 0.10, 0.40, 0.44
++++++Placa de video+++++
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M76 [Radeon Mobility HD 2600 Series]
No hay sensores


want me to get glxinfo now?

[ArcticWolf]

Install the glxinfo. Since you're in kubuntu, just do a:

sudo apt-get install mesa-utils

And run the script again.

[SilverDrake3]

Here we go:

Juntando informacion
informacion disponible en el escritorio.
Detallando informacion a continuacion



++++++CPU+++++
model : 104
model name : AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-68
model : 104
model name : AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-68
cpu MHz : 800.000
cpu MHz : 800.000
cache size : 512 KB
cache size : 512 KB
++++++Distro+++++
Linux Al 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 12:47:45 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
lenny/sid
debian_version
Ubuntu 8.04
15:55:16 up 48 min, 1 user, load average: 0.49, 0.33, 0.35
++++++Placa de video+++++
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M76 [Radeon Mobility HD 2600 Series]
direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose)
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.0.3-rc2)
OpenGL extensions:
No hay sensores


I'm also trying something else atm.. Some instructions from this wiki (http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Open_source_drivers) on open source drivers. If it doesn't work, I'll just restore xorg.conf from a backup (again)

EDIT: Nope, that didn't work.

[ArcticWolf]

We found out your problem, the 3D acceleration isn't working. I don't know if Arlick is online, he uses a ATI, so he can help you more than me (I use an nVidia).

Why don't you use the fglrx drivers?

Check this out, it MAY help you: http://www.infoleg.gov.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/15000-19999/16546/texact.htm#17

Install those drivers, that should work :D

The problem is that Mesa doesn't implement all of the OpenGL extensions, which sucks big time and won't let you run the game as far as I know.

[SilverDrake3]

I'll try that.

Too bad I can't read Spanish >.<

[ArcticWolf]

I'll try that.

Too bad I can't read Spanish >.<

Sorry, wrong link :S

Here's the correct one: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=423584

Sorry :(


EDIT: I'll save you some research work:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-generic restricted-manager
sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx
sudo depmod -a

That should install the drivers.

[SilverDrake3]

Hehe, that's okay.

[Anpu]

Hi I m using Kubuntu and when i started, i had same problem. I posted here step by step what I ve done etc. Since then, after all OS upgrades, still all works normally. Hope this will help.
http://regnumonline.com.ar/forum/showthread.php?t=12422

[SilverDrake3]

Well, I downloaded and installed the packages:

fglrx-control
xorg-driver-fglrx

However, I'm not quite sure how to get those drivers to work :/

sudo aticonfig --initial only seems to get me this error:

Device section "Configured Video Device" must have a Driver line.
aticonfig: Parsing the configuration file failed.
The above error messages are reported from XFree86 and may assist you in
diagnosing the problem with your configuration input file. Try use -f option
to generate a new configuration file.

What am I doing wrong?

EDIT: Just saw your edit, Xeph. Did every command... gonna restart x now, then try aticonfig again.
EDIT AGAIN: Grr, same problem.

[ArcticWolf]

Waaait!!!! Don't give up!

Could you please give us some infomation?


cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep Driver


And:

glxinfo | grep direct

[Mikan]

fglrx is kind-of outdated, ATI created a new portable driver core for Catalyst (http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeon.html) and uses it on all OSes now.
So you could try that if you still can't get the fglrx packages to work [properly]. :)

Regards.

[SilverDrake3]

Xeph: alright

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep Driver
Driver "kbd"
Driver "mouse"
Driver "synaptics"

glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose)
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect

Katie: I'll look into that too.

Heh, I have a headache now.

EDIT:
Katie, I tried the package you linked to. That seems to have cleared up the aticonfig problem!

sudo aticonfig --initial

Uninitialised file found, configuring.
Using /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Saved back-up to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.original-0


Can't restart the computer right now (doing important stuff) but I'll update soon.

[ArcticWolf]

Try adding this to the xorg.conf file:

Driver "fglrx"

Under the Section "Device" part.


EDIT: I FORGOT SOMETHING!!!!

BACKUP YOUR CURRENT XORG.CONF FILE!!!

You can do it with this command:

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup

If you can't start the X11 server (desktop), then switch to pure console mode (alt+ctrl+F1), login with your user and pass and then do:

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup /etc/X11/xorg.conf

That will restore the backup.

[SilverDrake3]

silly Xeph :) I've had a backup xorg.conf since I first installed Kubuntu.

[SilverDrake3]

Katiechan's solution seems to have worked!!!

Thank you, everyone, who helped me!