WoW and ati graphics card

jagrave · 11-09-2008, 11:06 PM

I know this question has been asked many times, but nothing seems to help, or its not specific to my graphics card. I have an ATI x1200 series graphics card, and I'm running Ubuntu 8.10. World of Warcraft will not play, and i couldn't make it work when i had 8.04. The screen just goes black. The glxgears works, but when i move the mouse it gets kind of choppy. it says direct rendering is yes, and fglrxinfo shows the right card. Any ideas?

thanks.

Shadow_7 · 11-10-2008, 04:45 AM

Did you swap out the mesa3d.org stuff for ATI's libs?

dpkg-divert --list

There's a libGL.so lib provided by ATI that does NOT install into a usable location by default. Assuming that you did a distro specific install. i.e. ./ati-install.... -buildpkg Debian/stable && dpkg -i *.deb

If that's the case, then just replace the /usr/lib/libGL.so.* with the corresponding ATI version(s). Which should be listed with dpkg-divert. Then restart X and things should be better. Although that really depends on your card, what version of the driver, what version of X, and any oddities you might be using. 3D acceleration does not work with compiz/beryl stuffs. AIGLX and Xinerama should probably be disabled in your X config. And a host of other ATI-isms. But you can adjust your brightness and contrast with amdcccle.

/usr/lib/libGL.so == Mesa3d.org default location
/usr/lib/fglrx/* == ATI's default location

X looks for /usr/lib/libGL.so* so put ATI's libs there. And don't forget to backup Mesa's version in case you opt for a different video card. Or otherwise want to try out the open source versions. And don't forget to redo all of this when you upgrade your ATI driver.

farslayer · 11-10-2008, 08:56 AM

Theres a lot of info at the WOWonWine wiki.

http://www.wowwiki.com/Wine_(software)

there is also Ubuntu Specific documentation available for WOW on Wind on Ubuntu..

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WorldofWarcraft

A guy at work here was having issue until I referred him to that first wiki and whatever he found there fixed his graphics issues.

best of luck !

Jonaz · 12-28-2008, 04:14 PM

Hello everyone.

I'm new to this forum and was guided here by a guildie in WoW to this site.
I'm a complete newbie to Linux, and it seems that I have the same trouble as the poster here ( though I'm not sure -mind I'm a noob

).
I've read those both articles (and tons more + I added the .dll files and more)about Wine+WoW but I get stuck att glxinfo | grep rendering and get a error there.

Code:

glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
X Error of failed request:  BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  143 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
  Serial number of failed request:  10
  Current serial number in output stream:  10

It seems to me I have some issue sorting the driver(s) out for my graphic card (ATI Radeon X1950 pro)
I think from what I've read that it's all about Name of display: :0.0 that's not correct but I have no clue how to change it, when I did try all drivers got ruined and I almost had to boot in Win *can't stand Win XP anymore*

I haven't played WoW in 6 months, and not to bothered if I cant - but I see it as one of my Linux challenges to get it running

Im using Kubuntu 8.10 KDE 4.1 and Wine 1.1.10 (can't build from source yet :S ) but I from what I've read 1.1.10 "should" work.

Very happy for any help as I don't want to boot to Win for anything more then when I ¤%&@ up Linux and have to access forums/info for help

Best regards and happy new *buntu user

Edit; forgot to say what my trouble was :S ... install is fine, launcher run, but when I try to start "play"/access the game, it just won't start.

Jonas