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I had hoped to get it running now and buy my graphics card later is all. Well I guess I'll play with it a it more and see if I can get it to work right. I've got it working enough to change skills, even if everything in the hanger is pitch black and everything in space is eye-bleed white. Now that I change skills getting this working is less pressing.

EDIT: Is there some way to check my shading language stuff that was mentioned? how about updating it? It can't hurt worse then reinstalling the OS and that was fairly painless.

Waruiko - what drivers version are installed ?

to see what video card installed-
lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Cayman PRO [AMD Radeon 6900 Series]

all devices
lspci

for ATI - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI
for NVIDIA - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia

or - search in google - how to install proprietary driver for your video card .

mmh ok if you plan to keep using linux for more than browsing the web or using libreoffice, it a good idea to learn the skill to learn to google your problems, because I don't know by heart how to fix every issue (neither do most other people) but I simply google stuff.

As for the s3tc libraries I did find this

Classes generally don't help that much. Practice helps way more, you have to look for issues and just set yourself to fix it or find something that you would like on your computer and set out to make it so (particular desktop, particular services, ...).


You require more practice and reading , but in al seriousness, I understand that most of that is gibberish to you, but it's better for you to go through the gibberish and try to dissect the various solutions. Look up the parts that are proposed in the solutions that you don't understand. When you totally can't figure it out then you ask questions related to the part(s) you wanted to follow but you didn't understand. Unfortunately the learning process always involves "wasting" time by making mistakes and occasionally getting frustrated.

The problem you discribed is (or at least used to be) a standard problem that I had to deal with when I started playing eve and I fixed it with the solution I proposed to you, so try the following:
sudo apt-get install libtxc-dxtn driconf
driconf
then find the enable s3tc_texture_compression option somewhere and tick it.

If you get the error that libtxc-dxtn or driconf can't be found in the repositories then it could mean that the packages have a different name than I posted here (different distro's sometimes give slightly different names to packages). Either figure out how to do proper package searching through apt-get or use the synaptic package manager which you can launch somewhere from the main menu. Personally I would go for the synaptic approach because it's very easy to search and find the package you want/need and install it at the same time. (I hope synaptic still exists or that there is a replacement)


Easier ways tend to come at a price but seeing as your computer can run eve I'm somewhat confident that the fix I proposed should do the trick.

ps: "wasting" time trying to fix an issue on linux is rarely a true waste of time,

Well how about that I got a Radeon HD 7870 as a gift and it looks like a it'll run eve if I'm reading the box right, but it doesn't seem to want to work. I've got the card in my system and everything seems to be working ok, but I can't get the login to display. The launcher is running fine and it does it's check for update stuff, but when I hit the play button I get a message that the program had to be closed because of a 'serious error' and it won't even tell me what it is thats wrong... at least not in plain language. I can't makes heads or tails of the error info in when I ask for it.

I've not had any luck tracking down how to fix this myself so far. If this gives me too much more trouble I'll likely just wipe and reinstall. I'll need to just to get back to my botched display if I can't fix this in the next week or two to change skills if nothing else.

maybe I'll try to figure out how to do both windows and ubuntu so I can just boot into windows when I want to play and into ubuntu for everything else. That feels like giving up though.

well I'm obviously still doing something wrong here. When I run winecfg dx11.dll isn't listed on my overides under the library tab and if theres some universal off switch to dx11.dll that I need to flip it doesn't seem to be visible in the GUI. I can confirm that I have 1.5.20 though. I guess if I can't figure this out the next step is learn how to uninstall both wine and eve so I can try this all over again with 1.5.19...

nope doesn't do anything. even the launcher is crashing now when it tries to update... I'll set up for both ubuntu and windows this weekend so I can chip at this problem bit by bit without time being an issue I guess.

Thanks for all the help though. I feel like I've learned a bit from all this.

According to your terminal output you're not running a script, you're saving some stuff into a script.

Basically the "echo 'stuff' > ~/bin/eve1" bit saves stuff into the file eve1 that is located in the ~/bin/ folder (the > sign means the output of the command before it will be redirected into the file after the sign).

Personally I don't see why anyone would put that stuff in a script when you can simply put it in your bashrc as an alias. There is nothing out of the ordinary in that command to start the client. Anyway it's up to you to figure out what you would like the most, but I'd suggest to browse some of the older threads here to find other and more elegant solutions for startup scripts (iirc this threads has some examples).

For now try to see if the client runs with the following command:
WINEPREFIX=~/.wine wine explorer /desktop=EVE1,1366x768 "C:\Games\CCP\EVE\eve.exe"
if all is well then the client should run.

but the download process for eve didn't even start??

On a side note , whats the optirun command for eve?

Added the obvious steps of installing eve:



And added this picture to show how to do that: http://i.imgur.com/Qh6D1.png