ERROR: Unsupported video card

[xKalex]

Hello.

Recently, I installed 32-bit Ubuntu 10.04(lucid), Kernel 2.6.32-24-generic on my PC. Then I installed Regnum Online and tried to run it. When I clicked on "Log In" an error message appeared saying that I have an unsupported video card.(take a look on screenshot below)

My video card: Intel Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07).

The game worked fine when I had Windows 7(64bit).

I was wondering if there is any way of fixing that. I am quite new to Linux.
If anybody can help me, I'll be really glad.

Thank you!

[Lord_Latem]

I had the same problem after upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04. I simply went back and reinstalled the video driver. I realize that is was not an eloquent fix, but it worked.

As an aside, after the upgrade I could not use a compositing window manager either. I check xorg.conf and it was fine. Something was not being loaded properly upon boot.

[xKalex]

I was thinking...maybe I don't have driver installed, but I don't know how to check if the driver is installed (new to linux). And I tried downloading driver from Intel website, but I couldn't find any driver for Linux. And my laptop driver CD seems to not work on Linux OS. None of the applications/files open, or maybe I don't know how to open them.

So, are there any linux experts out there who are willing to help?

Thanks a lot!

[Awrath]

Might be worth checking out this post:

http://www.regnumonline.com.ar/forum/showthread.php?t=56251

[xKalex]

Might be worth checking out this post:

http://www.regnumonline.com.ar/forum/showthread.php?t=56251


Can you explain me a little what the person who wrote that meant in the 1st part?

I wrote all those commands on terminal and the lines were the same as in the post, but I don't know how does that help.

[Lord_Latem]

Can you explain me a little what the person who wrote that meant in the 1st part?

I wrote all those commands on terminal and the lines were the same as in the post, but I don't know how does that help.

If you are refering to the 'apt-get' statement, the command gets and installs the file noted as the last argument of the command. I would imagine that you would require root privledges to do this. Subsequently, when working from a non-privleged account, preface the command with 'sudo'. Therefore, the comand becomes the following:

# sudo apt-get install libtxc-dxtn0

[xKalex]

If you are refering to the 'apt-get' statement, the command gets and installs the file noted as the last argument of the command. I would imagine that you would require root privledges to do this. Subsequently, when working from a non-privleged account, preface the command with 'sudo'. Therefore, the comand becomes the following:

# sudo apt-get install libtxc-dxtn0

This is what I get when I run that command:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package libtxc-dxtn0

:(

[Pakos]

it's in debian multimedia repo, however you can easy compile it

[xKalex]

it's in debian multimedia repo, however you can easy compile it

Help me with that, please? I am really new to Linux.

[Arafails]

The stuff about libtxc-dxtn0 should be unnecessary anyway.
Unfortunately Mashu's summary post is not objectively useful, so. Can you please post the output of the command
glxinfo | grep '^OpenGL\|s3tc'

[xKalex]

The stuff about libtxc-dxtn0 should be unnecessary anyway.
Unfortunately Mashu's summary post is not objectively useful, so. Can you please post the output of the command
glxinfo | grep '^OpenGL\|s3tc'

Here's the output:
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset GEM 20091221 2009Q4 x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
OpenGL extensions:

[Klutzine]

I looked around a bit in the Ubuntu forums, and it seems that chipset isn't supported too well; or rather Intel doesn't put much effort into the Linux base. Are you running Ubutnu from a laptop? If so, it might be easier if you posted the make and model. Maybe that will be of some help. There seem to different versions of that chipset 4.

[xKalex]

I looked around a bit in the Ubuntu forums, and it seems that chipset isn't supported too well; or rather Intel doesn't put much effort into the Linux base. Are you running Ubutnu from a laptop? If so, it might be easier if you posted the make and model. Maybe that will be of some help. There seem to different versions of that chipset 4.

Yeah, I got DELL Inspiron 1545 laptop.

I also installed WINE yesterday, and then DirectX 9.0 (i thought it will kinda help), but I still get the "unsupported video card" message. I don't know what's wrong because it worked fine when I had Windows 7.

[scooterx3]

I looked around a bit in the Ubuntu forums, and it seems that chipset isn't supported too well; or rather Intel doesn't put much effort into the Linux base. Are you running Ubutnu from a laptop? If so, it might be easier if you posted the make and model. Maybe that will be of some help. There seem to different versions of that chipset 4.

I have the exact same problem and I got the exact same output when I ran the glxinfo. I have a Toshiba Satellite A305. I looked up the specs:
Mobile Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD with 128MB-
1759MB dynamically allocated shared graphics memory

Is there anything I can try to make mine work?

[Arafails]

As far as I can tell, it should be sufficent to force s3tc to be enabled without software support.

So, if you try
sudo apt-get install driconf
to ensure driconf is installed, and then run driconf from a terminal, you'll get a nice pop-up window. Go to the "Image Quality" tab, underwhich there should be an option "Enable S3TC texture compression even if software support is not available" — Set this to "Yes."

[provolik]

Hi to all, same problem here but a bit stranger.

Yesterday all worked well, today I have this problem. No new installation in the middle :-\

[Hally]

if you run driconf again do you have S3TC activated ?
I do have similar set up and materials (except that I have a 64bit version) and the only thing that I need is S3TC activated in driconf.

Dont forget also to check "forced save mode" in the game option.