PlaneShift
Support => Linux Specific Issues => Topic started by: Jenya on April 21, 2007, 11:34:45 am
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Hello,
After installing feisty fawn (Ubuntu linux 7.04) The game fonts are messed up.
Any help in regards to this would be appreciated.
(http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/5194/screenshotmo8.png)
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read #7 on this page hope it helps http://vaalnor.mine.nu/psdoc/?q=node/39
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If that doesn't work try sending my the picture of your background.
That should do it <.<
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If that doesn't work try sending my the picture of your background.
That should do it <.<
Me too >.> And the rest of your photo collection.
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Hi After my upgrade to Feisty Im left with the exact same problem.
Ive tried reinstalling mesa like this guide said http://vaalnor.mine.nu/psdoc/?q=node/39
But it didnt work for me. Does anyone have a clue of what might be the problem?
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did you
Solution: Font multitexturing has been broken, try the following:
Open up the file Planeshift3D/data/config/r3dopengl.cfg in a text editor, and find this line:
Video.OpenGL.FontCache.UseMultiTexturing = yes
and change yes to no.
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Yes Ive tried that too, without any luck
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I had no luck either. PlaneShift is the only reason for me not to switch to feisty ;)
Strange thing is that this problem did not occur with my laptop (sis 630). I think it is somehow related to the ati driver.
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Yup -same here. Unfortunately nothing works - waiting for 'cure' ;)
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Try downgrading your graphics drivers if you have the latest now. I know for my nvidia onboard the most recent drivers for it do not work with PS, I am using older ones that do. Fortunately nvidia has theirs older one available but I do not know about ati.
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So the problem is still unsolved... I have Ati card with standard drivers (i didn't install them -they are standard in ubuntu 7.04) so I will never play this game ;/
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I have the same problem. I found a workaround.
If I switch to the ATI driver (fglrx) then the game text on that login page will appear correctly. Unfortunately then you can't use desktop effects.
So it seems like a problem with the open source ATI driver.
Can anyone else confirm this?
Anasazi
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Hello, i've got the same problem with a Ubuntu feisty 7.04, and a Radeon 9100. However i can't try the workaround anasazi proposed, because there is no fglrx driver for my card (in fact, there is one but only with 2D support :'( )
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The same problem here..
ATI Radeon 9250
I need to use the desktop effects applet with AIGLX so I can't try to install the shitty ATI official drivers :(
Please developers, help us, Planeshift is the only game that have to fix this :flowers:
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I"m fairly certain this has something to do with some bugs in the mesa implementation. Some newer mesa doesn't seem to like freetype for fonts, which is something not that many games use. The reason switching to other drivers like the nvidia driver or the fglrx driver work is because they use their own gl implementation instead of mesa. Sure ati's is bad but it works okish.
Now why do you NEED desktop effects? Is it something you simply can't live without?
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Now why do you NEED desktop effects? Is it something you simply can't live without?
Yeah. Something like that :flowers:
Sure ati's is bad but it works okish.
not for me. :(
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@ Induane : i can't use the fglrx driver because it only support 2d for my graphic card. I would gladly use it if it was not worse than the free driver.
Now i suppose all that's left is to wait to get a new version of mesa that works, or a new PC, which won't arrive soon i think :)
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Or a nvidia card :) Unless you're using a laptop.
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If the problem is the new version of mesa you might want to try an older version. You could probably get one from edgy or hoary repositories. It might be a little complicated if you are new to Linux but if you ask on the Ubuntu forums you might be able to get help. Someone here might be able to tell you too but I can't. In theory it should be possible for several versions to coexist and to have PS call the older version that does not have the problem but as I said I don't know how it could be done.
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If that doesn't work try sending my the picture of your background.
That should do it <.<
Me too >.> And the rest of your photo collection.
Yeah and me :whistling:
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This bug is actually a combination of problems. Here's the formula I've seen that affects it so far:
IsMesaInstallBroken? + Mesa Version + Video Card + Video Card Driver (Xorg vs Proprietary) + VideoCardDriverUpToDate? + Patch(if needed) = success/failureIt'd be nice if there were a simple fix that worked for everyone, but it is not the case. Xorg drivers are what usually come with the X Server (ie your linux distro). These drivers should not be your first choice. The Xorg drivers often contain buggy OpenGL code that is fixed in proprietary drivers available at the nVidia or ATI site. In some cases, older ATI cards are not supported by ATI for linux. This is one example where the xorg drivers are probably your only real option. If OpenGL does contain a buggy implementation, it falls on the program (like Planeshift) to patch the problem internally until the Xorg/Proprietary driver team can fix the problem. Having said that, patching such problems without the card is nearly impossible. It would be complete guesswork to find a patch without the card and let's face it, there are a lot of cards out there. Here is a walkthrough solution for patching the code (if that is the issue): http://vaalnor.mine.nu/psdoc/?q=node/44 (http://vaalnor.mine.nu/psdoc/?q=node/44). Good luck! :)
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The problem is not really disabling Desktop effects, but finding a working fglrx driver working for an old Radeon card... As several people said already, ATI doesn't support its old cards, so a working fglrx driver for these is really hard to find.