Regnum refuses to start with ATI Radeon Mobility HD 2600 in Kubuntu Hardy Heron now.

[SilverDrake3]

Alright, here's the scoop.

I've been able to play the game quite happily after the last time I had to deal with the error:

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.

The first time, all I had to do was install the drivers off of http://ati.amd.com/ and I was fine. Second time, there were no new drivers for my card, so I just waited for the next update. This time around, there ARE new drivers, which I believe are installed.. but it's been a week and I'm itchy to start playing again.

lspci says this about my VGA controller:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M76 [Radeon Mobility HD 2600 Series]

Now, when I installed the new drivers, aticonfig --initial gave me some errors... but when I called customer support, all they told me was, "We dun' support Linucks... get help frum yer community."

Anyway, any help would be appreciated. I want to get back to gaming.

[arlick]

Post the output of:

glxinfo | grep direct && glxinfo | grep version

[SilverDrake3]

direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose)
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
server glx version string: 1.2
client glx version string: 1.4
GLX version: 1.2
OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.0.3-rc2)

could no direct rendering be my problem? if so, how do I fix it?

[arlick]

Originally Posted by SilverDrake3

direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose)
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
server glx version string: 1.2
client glx version string: 1.4
GLX version: 1.2
OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.0.3-rc2)

could no direct rendering be my problem? if so, how do I fix it?

Yes of course

You are not using the ati driver.

post the output of that now:

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

[SilverDrake3]

it doesn't output anything...

I just tried aticonfig --initial... and it actually worked rather than gave me an error message this time. O.o

Strange.

[arlick]

Originally Posted by SilverDrake3

it doesn't output anything...

I just tried aticonfig --initial... and it actually worked rather than gave me an error message this time. O.o

Strange.

mmm... i need to know what system are you using and how do you installed the driver. (from repository, executing the binary, generating the package?)

Try uninstalling the driver if you know how do it.

Then reinstall it and use:

aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf

[SilverDrake3]

Don't worry, I figured it out on my own.

Turns out that, contrary to the instructions on the website, after uninstalling the old driver and running the file, I need to restart before using aticonfig --initial, then restart again.

Phew. I feel stupid now, haha.

Thanks for the help!