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Ubuntu 11.10 / Wine 1.3.31 on Dell E6400 laptop - black ship / station graphics (pic linked)
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Chks
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2011-10-25 11:48:55 UTC

Ubuntu 11.10 / Wine 1.3.31 on Dell E6400 laptop (its a core2Duo P8700 with 2Gb RAm and onboard gfx)

To my amazement I have managed to get Eve client running and although I havent done anything hugely complex yet I can log in, undock, fly around and dock up. Pretty chuffed about this tbh :)

One issue : The ship / station and other graphics are almost completely black. I doesnt seem to be affecting playability but obviously looks crap.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/577/screenshot56r.jpg/

I have almost all the graphics set on low / minimum because the laptop is not very powerful.

Question : is this an issue with my setup or have I switched something critical off in the client that makes it look weird.

Cheers big-ears!

Chks
Elegbara
White Wolf Enterprises
Harmonious Ascent
#2 - 2011-10-25 14:18:48 UTC
I believe it's a problem with textures. Does your character portrait look ok? What about previews on different ships and turrets?

Open your eyes. And awaken.
White Jester
S Is Here
#3 - 2011-10-25 16:24:00 UTC
My best bet would be onboard gfx.
Guess it's Intel GMA card (or how's it called) which have problems in wine afaik.
Tried looking on wine appdb if someone had this problem before?
Have you tried older wine version? 1.3.28 or 27
Chks
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2011-10-26 06:22:45 UTC
I had a fiddle last night witrh textuires and unfortunately no change, Character portrait looks fine.

I agree that it is likely related to the onboard graphics drivers in Ubuntu, I will investigate this further. A previous installation under Ubuntu 11.04 with earlier versions of Wine crashed at the login screen (I am pretty sure this was 1.3.27)

To be honest I am happy with it as it is currently as I can do everything, it just looks bad - which I can live.

Last night I flew around a fair bit and visited Jita (!) and the install seem very stable and quite smooth so I am reluctant to change too much however I will be looking again at the onboard drivers when i build ujp confidence!

Thanks to you both for your responses.

Chks
Ravow
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2011-10-26 12:07:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Ravow
You may need libtxc_dxtn library.

This .so file is responsible for managing S3TC texture compression and it's required for EVE with MESA/Gallium drivers.
It may be called differently on your distribution and you may need external repo as S3TC compression is patent infected and lot of distribution don't include it.

You dont have missing icons so it may be something else.
can you open a terminal and paste the result of :

glxinfo | grep OpenGL
Chks
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2011-10-26 19:55:18 UTC  |  Edited by: Chks
Here is the output :

$ glxinfo | grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.11
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
OpenGL extensions:
$

Not sure what to make of this but thanks for your help!

Chks

EDIT / UPDATE : I googled S3TC and Intel GM45 and found and installed a utility called driconf which enabled me to switch on S3TC support and hey presto!

I now have textures, the quality looks poor because I have all the detail turned down but otherwise it looks great :


http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/713/screenshotpn.jpg

I havent done much testing yet but game appears to be playing and looking completely normal. Apparently Ubuntu has S3TC support disabled by default with the onboard Intel GM45 gfx my laptop has.

Thanks a lot to all those who helped me out, if I get any further problems on further testing I will let you know.

Cheers

Chks
Sin Golem
Perkone
Caldari State
#7 - 2011-11-19 19:36:11 UTC
I had the same problem.

Goto winehq.org and look for response "Missing textures under mesa/gallium"

The guy who found the fix uses the following command line in a terminal to open the EVE client.

Quote:
force_s3tc_enable=true wine .wine/drive_c/"Program Files"/CCP/EVE/eve.exe


the above command line fixed the issue for me. Perhaps it will fix it for you.