Planeshift with Xgl

[scatha]

I've been trying hard to get Planeshift running under Xgl but it always said "indirect rendering", that means: unplayable because of low performance
I hear that it's recommended to use AIGLX instead of Xgl but I haven't tried that yet.
However, I found one solution - the famous "nonXgl" script that temporarily sends the output to Display directly

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=176636

it would help with other OpenGL based games, too, and you would start with
nonXgl planeshift
or
nonXgl bzflag

[Wired_Crawler]

Hehe  .



(the original screenshot size was 1280x1024)

Running Beryl. Neither Xgl nor AIGLX is used, it is special "NVidia mode". No particular preparations are needed.

[Noldir]

It actually runs great in Xgl.(atleast in my case). I ran it without problems, it is just a matter of setting your drivers up correctly.

P.S.: If you use Ubuntu, there are tons of guides on how to do it on the Ubuntu forums. Good luck.

[mb2love]

you all have Nvidia video cards, but I'm not so lucky
I got a pretty good ATI 9800 Pro , but it's ATI .... not going well with Linux
so I can't play 3dgames in Beryl.
at least I know what my next card will be...

[Finira]

Do you use the proprietary ATI driver ('ati' in xorg.conf) or the xorg-supplied 'radeon' driver? With the latter it should work.

Cheers,

- Finira -

[hook]

Do you use the proprietary ATI driver ('ati' in xorg.conf) or the xorg-supplied 'radeon' driver? With the latter it should work.

I'm thinking of switching to the open-source Radeon DRI driver in order to get AIGLX working. How does PlaneShift perform on these drivers?

[Xordan]

The open-source drivers are all pretty dodgy when it comes down to 3d stuff, so they may work/not work every so often as we make updates.

[mb2love]

Do you use the proprietary ATI driver ('ati' in xorg.conf) or the xorg-supplied 'radeon' driver? With the latter it should work.

Cheers,

- Finira -

I use Proprietary ATI drivers ...only this works for me
the drivers supplied with ubuntu don't work well for me
and the configuration with radeon drivers don't work either
so if I want to play I stay off beryl

[hook]

The open-source drivers are all pretty dodgy when it comes down to 3d stuff, so they may work/not work every so often as we make updates.

Ah, poop.
Well, no Beryl for me for a while then. 
AIGLX doesn't cope (at the moment) with the proprietary ati drivers, the open-source ones supposedly do, but not really with PlaneShift. And with XGL I just don't have much luck right now (plus XGL seems like a rather inefficient solution).

[Finira]

Well, I use the xorg radeon driver and it's working fine. I have to use a patched gldrivers.xml (see this thread) since the last client update, though.

Cheers,

- Finira -

[hook]

Hmm ...that sounds rather promising. Later today I managed to get Beryl working with XGL and it was quite a disappointment really - not handling as a WM as I would want it plus very unstable and rather choppy.

I might try the AIGLX way a bit later on ...although I'd have to use r300 drivers which are supposed to be less mature then r200.