Error in running PlaneShift

[brambleclaw]

Ok so I have been following the instructions given in the forum thread http://www.hydlaaplaza.com/smf/index.php?topic=31776.0
After I made the file executable and tried to run it, it told me that the file does not exist.
Here is a link to my terminal screen http://paste.ubuntu.com/756831/
It did the same thing last time i downloaded the game.
  Am still greatly looking forward to playing the game LOL

[brambleclaw]

ok so I just got it to work!! here is an updated paste of my terminal. i moved the file to my "games" folder. WISH ME LUCK!!!

[brambleclaw]

Ok so here's what i got...
brambleclaw@Jonathans-computer:~/Games$ sudo chown -R brambleclaw:users /opt/PlaneShift/
brambleclaw@Jonathans-computer:~/Games$ /opt/PlaneShift/psclient
Your configuration files are in... /home/brambleclaw/.PlaneShift

crystalspace.pluginmgr.loadplugin:
  could not load plugin ‘crystalspace.device.joystick’
X Error of failed request:  BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)     
  Major opcode of failed request:  154 (GLX)                                   
  Minor opcode of failed request:  3 (X_GLXCreateContext)                       
  Serial number of failed request:  97                                         
  Current serial number in output stream:  98                                   
AL lib: ALc.c:1879: exit(): closing 1 Device                                   
brambleclaw@Jonathans-computer:~/Games$ /opt/PlaneShift/psclient
Your configuration files are in... /home/brambleclaw/.PlaneShift

crystalspace.pluginmgr.loadplugin:
  could not load plugin ‘crystalspace.device.joystick’
X Error of failed request:  BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)     
  Major opcode of failed request:  154 (GLX)                                   
  Minor opcode of failed request:  3 (X_GLXCreateContext)                       
  Serial number of failed request:  97                                         
  Current serial number in output stream:  98                                   
AL lib: ALc.c:1879: exit(): closing 1 Device                                   
brambleclaw@Jonathans-computer:~/Games$

does this mean that my computer is not good enough for the game or is there something i can do to fix it?

[Aiwendil]

What gfx card do you have? And more important...do you have the drivers for the cards installed. Not sure, but I think PS doesn't work with the opensource nvidia drivers for example. So for nvidia cards you will need the binary drivers for nvidia. I think most linux distributions offer those in their repositories.

[bilbous]

I wonder why PlaneShift even has a joystick plugin that is enabled by default, do many people use a joystick to play the game?
you might try finding "System.Plugins.joystick = crystalspace.device.joystick" in the psclient.cfg file in the install directory and put a semicolon infront of it. Of course if you actually use a joystick that will prevent it from working.

If you did a system-wide install you might be able to start the game just using the command 'planeshift' as it ought to have installed a wrapper script in /usr/bin. You won't need to be in any particular directory either.

[brambleclaw]

ok so i am rather new to Linux and using terminal commands and all that stuff. i used the "additional drivers" program to install the divers for my card but after i restarted my computer it glitched up real bad. i talked to someone and he said that the symptoms said that i had the wrong driver...
so the question is: how do i find out which drivers i need and how do i get them.

[weltall]

first of all you need to know what is your videocard, then most distributions provide them directly from their repositories

[brambleclaw]

how do i figure out which card i have?

[Aiwendil]

Sorry, best I could find...no ubuntu user here. Hope the second part with the hardware center is still valid. "lspci" should always work...but requires starting a shell.

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-tell-which-graphics-vga-card-installed/

[brambleclaw]

ok so how do i start a shell?

[brambleclaw]

oh LOL i got it

[Aiwendil]

Check the second part of the link...for that no shell is needed. But if you insist on the shell... I think the the terminal in ubunutu is actaully called "Terminal". So look for that in the menu. Once you got that text windows started a "sudo lspci" (with giving a password) should list all (almost) hardware in your computer. Look for stuff like NVIDIA, ATI or intel in that list.


Edit: Hehe

[brambleclaw]

ok here it is. (btw i am running Kubuntu 11.10)

brambleclaw@Jonathans-computer:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce CPU bridge (rev b2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 220/420 Memory Controller (rev b2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 220/420 Memory Controller (rev b2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation Device 01aa (rev b2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce ISA Bridge (rev c3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce PCI System Management (rev c1)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce USB Controller (rev c3)
00:03.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce USB Controller (rev c3)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce AC'97 Audio Controller (rev c2)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce PCI-to-PCI bridge (rev c2)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce IDE (rev c3)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce AGP to PCI Bridge (rev b2)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NVCrush11 [GeForce2 MX Integrated Graphics] (rev b1)
05:06.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface
brambleclaw@Jonathans-computer:~$ sudo lspci
\[sudo] password for brambleclaw:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for brambleclaw:
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce CPU bridge (rev b2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 220/420 Memory Controller (rev b2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 220/420 Memory Controller (rev b2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation Device 01aa (rev b2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce ISA Bridge (rev c3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce PCI System Management (rev c1)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce USB Controller (rev c3)
00:03.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce USB Controller (rev c3)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce AC'97 Audio Controller (rev c2)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce PCI-to-PCI bridge (rev c2)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce IDE (rev c3)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce AGP to PCI Bridge (rev b2)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NVCrush11 [GeForce2 MX Integrated Graphics] (rev b1)
05:06.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface
brambleclaw@Jonathans-computer:~$

[brambleclaw]

ok so would that be this "VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NVCrush11 [GeForce2 MX Integrated Graphics] (rev b1)"?

[Aiwendil]

Yes...but here comes the bad news. That card is too old to play PS with it. Sorry