ERROR: Unsupported video card

[xKalex]

Originally Posted by 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'

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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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.