Running WoW on Edgy with ATI

[myname]

Has anyone had any luck with ATI cards, WoW, Wine 0.9.24 and Edgy?

I have an ATI X1600 with 512 megs of RAM, and with a default install of Edgy, installed the ATI Drivers by following the information here:

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubu..._Edgy_Manually

Then installing Wine via Synaptec.

WoW launches, but as soon as I go in, I start getting graphic anomolies and the system will lock up in about 10 seconds.

If anyone has any information on this, that would be great. If I am doing something wrong during the installation of one or all of the software above, please let me know.

Thanx.

--Kevin

[Ferrat]

Has anyone had any luck with ATI cards, WoW, Wine 0.9.24 and Edgy?

I have an ATI X1600 with 512 megs of RAM, and with a default install of Edgy, installed the ATI Drivers by following the information here:

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubu..._Edgy_Manually

Then installing Wine via Synaptec.

WoW launches, but as soon as I go in, I start getting graphic anomolies and the system will lock up in about 10 seconds.

If anyone has any information on this, that would be great. If I am doing something wrong during the installation of one or all of the software above, please let me know.

Thanx.

--Kevin

Im running WoW on Edgy with Wine 0.9.24 and ATi card..

First have clean install of Edgy

The install wine deb from this link http://www.ubuntusociety.org/garyu_w...Eft_deb.tar.gz ( all creds to reiki for figuring out how to make a working .deb for Edgy and to Garyu for making one thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=290761 )

The get the ati-driver-installer-8.30.3.run from ATi's homepage and install it bu using

NOTICE: some things like module-assistant is in Multi och Univers resps so make sure you got them added and active (you can fix that in synaptic)

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install module-assistant build-essential

sudo apt-get install fakeroot dh-make debconf libstdc++5 linux-headers-$(uname -r)

Now you got all you need to build

the do

sudo mv /bin/sh /bin/sh.old

sudo ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh

This will make sure you don't get an error trying to create your ATi .debs

To creating and installing

CREATING:

sudo sh ati-driver-installer-8.30.3.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/6.10

this will output the ATi .debs
Now you need to run sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add this to the end of the file

Section "Extensions"
	Option	    "Composite" "0"
EndSection

Now you need to edit sudo gedit /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common and make sure it says

DISABLED_MODULES="fglrx"

in the end of the file.

Now install the deps by just opening them with GDebi Package installer, you should have that option when you click on them.

if you can't install something it will say why, for ex. xorg-driver-fglrx might be installed (shouldn't but just incase it is, just make a complete removal in synaptic on that package.

Now build the Kernel

sudo rm /usr/src/fglrx-kernel*.deb

sudo module-assistant prepare

sudo module-assistant update

sudo module-assistant build fglrx

sudo module-assistant install fglrx

sudo depmod -a

some cleanup

sudo mv /bin/sh.old /bin/sh

That should install the kernel and now run winecfg to setup wine

now restart you computer and wo'la you should be able to run wow and even in some places get a preformance boost and overall IMO it runs more smooth then in Dapper with 0.9.23

I don't think I forgot anything but I've might have so if it doesn't work say so here, might be that I forgot to meantion something =)

[dbd]

wow, I just used your howto to install the new drivers to replace the xorg-driver-fglrx and my fps in fgl_glxgears went from 675ish to 975ish! Thats incredible, thank you!

[myname]

Thanx for the detailed instructions, however, after doing a fresh install of Ubuntu Edgy 32, then installing wine by downloading from your link and double clicking the .deb file, I went to install the ATI drivers per your instructions.

I received the following:

kevin@homepc:~/download/drivers/ati$ install fakeroot dh-make debconf libstdc++5 linux-headers-$(uname -r)
install: target `linux-headers-2.6.17-10-generic' is not a directory

Not sure what I did or didn't do right. Any help would be appreciated.

--Kevin

[Ferrat]

wow, I just used your howto to install the new drivers to replace the xorg-driver-fglrx and my fps in fgl_glxgears went from 675ish to 975ish! Thats incredible, thank you!

ohh my bad sudo apt-get got lost ^^ fixed now

[myname]

Thanx, however, now when I issue the following:

sudo module-assistant build fglrx


I get the following error:

│ Build log starting, file: ↑
│ /var/cache/modass/fglrx-kernel-src.buildlog.2.6.17-10-generic.1162602899 ▮
│ Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 20:14:59 -0500


pardon my n00bness for this.

Now install the deps by just opening them with GDebi Package installer, you should have that option when you click on them.

Should I have double clicked the debs, or should I have continued on with your command line installations?

The reason why I ask is, I've seen a hundred different ways to install the ATI drivers, and I'm not sure which way is better than the others.

--Kevin

[Ferrat]

Thanx, however, now when I issue the following:

sudo module-assistant build fglrx


I get the following error:

│ Build log starting, file: ↑
│ /var/cache/modass/fglrx-kernel-src.buildlog.2.6.17-10-generic.1162602899 ▮
│ Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 20:14:59 -0500


pardon my n00bness for this.


Should I have double clicked the debs, or should I have continued on with your command line installations?

The reason why I ask is, I've seen a hundred different ways to install the ATI drivers, and I'm not sure which way is better than the others.

--Kevin

the error is cause it's not installed, just right-click the debs and select open with GDebi Package installer

[myname]

Thanx, I did that.

Now a couple of things. glxgears -printfps gives me uber fast FPS numbers, however, the following happens:

1) when I drag windows on the screen they are REALLY slow at redrawing
2) ati$ glxinfo | grep render
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
direct rendering: No
GLX_ATI_pixel_format_float, GLX_ATI_render_texture
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect

3) fglrxinfo
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.5.1)


Should #2 be YES for direct rendering, and should #3 be ATI FGLRX drivers with Opengl?

--Kevin

[Ferrat]

Thanx, I did that.

Now a couple of things. glxgears -printfps gives me uber fast FPS numbers, however, the following happens:

1) when I drag windows on the screen they are REALLY slow at redrawing
2) ati$ glxinfo | grep render
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
direct rendering: No
GLX_ATI_pixel_format_float, GLX_ATI_render_texture
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect

3) fglrxinfo
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.5.1)


Should #2 be YES for direct rendering, and should #3 be ATI FGLRX drivers with Opengl?

--Kevin

Ahh your right, I forgot one step, Dbd prolly didn't need to since he had tried installing the xorg-fglrx =)

Try running

aticonfig  --initial

just to make sure re-do the step about xorg.conf and reboot, then check again =)

[reiki]

The install wine deb from this link http://www.ubuntusociety.org/garyu_w...Eft_deb.tar.gz ( all creds to reiki for figuring out how to make a working .deb for Edgy and to Garyu for making one thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=290761 )

Glad to be part of teh solution. However credits to Nick Law and AlanJ over at WinHQ as I really just put some pieces together but they did all the hard work