Minecraft on 12.04

[HavoK360]

Hey guys! Yet another bump for the day, so here it goes.
I decided to upgrade to 12.04 Beta, so I could look for some bugs myself, and so far, there aren't any! Except one. I have both OpenJDK6 and 7 from the Software center, but only Java 7 comes up as an application. When I use it, it WILL log me into minecraft, but after the "Updating Minecraft" screen, it goes black and doesnt do anything. I know that this isnt a video card error (I Use a Nivida GeForce GFX Card), and all the advanced drivers are up and running. Any suggestions? And please don't suggest the Bash script, all that does is force it to use Java automatically, not run the initial program. Thanks!
-BW

(If theres any questions on my computer, its an AMD Athlon64 X2 AM2+ running 2 GiB of ram, for the puny wattage on the computer.)

[memzak]

Error codes? Could you post what you get, if anything at all?

[regor210]

I know that Oracle Java 7 works with Minecraft but you have to manually update LWJGL

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Tu...s/Update_LWJGL

If you don't you get a black screen.

Note. Looks like Mincraft is still using sun Java 6 by default.

[memzak]

It could be a completely different error causing the problem... but it's always good to update, go for the 2.8.1 (stable) version. 2.8.3 version has an error in it (If I remember correctly) where you can't click things properly.

You can update it here. (make sure you replace all the files to do with lwjgl in the bin folder)

[clj3]

ok i got the same problem and this is the error report(i found the lwjgl files and updated the correct ones) :

[clj3]

sorry the link is:
http://postimage.org/image/g49wz8caf/

[regor210]

You may be missing an OpenJDK plugin. Heres the wad I install.

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install ca-certificates-java icedtea-7-jre-cacao icedtea-7-jre-jamvm java-common libatk-wrapper-java libatk-wrapper-java-jni libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libgnome2-0 libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common openjdk-7-jre openjdk-7-jre-headless openjdk-7-jre-lib ttf-dejavu-extra tzdata-java

[clj3]

no, the minecraft window says the same thing

[regor210]

[failed to get system properties (java.lang.NullPointerException)]

bad video card drivers? Failed to find accelerated OpenGL mode?

http://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/606524-mi...ers?qid=259416


lets look at your 3D drivers.

Try these

# update
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade

$ sudo apt-get install mesa-utils

# video driver 3D test FPS
$ glxgears

#video card and driver information
$ lspci -vmk | grep -A 8 -B 2 VGA

And post what you get.

[ThePinion]

Once you've ran it once, follow the instructions on this page: http://modifyubuntu.com/12.04/#minecraft