SL Linux Support Thread

Okay Trub, I don't think that any of the above should be fatal.
Some suggestions, to try in this order:
1) Upgrade to the latest nvidia graphics drivers (these are what I run)
2) remove your Profiles/*/Application Data/SecondLife/ directory
3) Upgrade to a later version of wine (the one you use should probably be okay, but I use CVS myself)
4) Try a clean SL re-install
5) Use winecfg to set the windows version to windows XP
6) Use winecfg to try a different audio driver

Ok, I'm a new user and have been reading through all the info to see what the best way to get this working on linux is. I've seen a lot of posts about what it does/doesn't work with, but I don't know which ones are accurate/up to date. So what is the best setup to run this (I've heard cedega 3.2 or wine, would like to know which currently works best though). So far I haven't managed to get it to work in anything myself and I'd hate to have to fix my windows partition just to run it.

I can't say what's 'best' - I've only used it in plain WINE with the patch.

My turn to get SL to work on Linux. I'll be using Ubuntu 5.10; The Debian net installer didn't even detect my wireless card, which disappointed me as I've used Debian for the past five years or so. I have a AMD XP-2400+ (2Ghz) with a Geforce FX5700 (256MB) along with 1024 MB RAM. I've been reading this thread. Is it true you only need Wine for this? That'd rock.

I'm posting this under Ubuntu
Can't say I ever tried running SL on it though... good luck.

I ended up getting it running with wine (with the patch earlier in this thread) but it crashed pretty soon after. I also wasn't getting any sound during. Part of the problem may be my wine isn't configured, I get a segfault whenever I try to run winecfg (tried multiple installations, both CVS and release).

Hmmm, I keep getting the following error:
C:\1_6\linden\indra\llrender\llimagegl.cpp(682):ERROR Texture bind failed!
Anyone know how to fix that one?

Need more information.
When does the error occur (eg. before login, during the game)?
Do you have to do anything specific to make it happen?
What setup are you using to run SL under linux? eg.
Wine (version? are you using the patches from this thread)
WineX/Cedega (version?)
Version of X (eg. Xorg 4.8.2)
Make/model of video card and version of drivers used (eg. nVidia GeForce4 nvidia binary driver v1.0.7676)
Which distribution and version (eg. Gentoo, Debian Sarge, Mandrake 10)
Any other information that may be relevent?

Error occurs shortly after login (within 5-20 secnonds of actually connected/loaded). Nothing speicifc that I do, just happens (I think its a problem with trying to load certain textures). I'm running Wine 20050830 from CVS with the SL patch listed earlier in this thread.
Using Gentoo Linux AMD64 (full 64 bit environment) with Nvidia 6600 and the 7676 binary drivers. Running on Xorg 6.8.2-r2 and kernel 2.6.13-ck1.
Let me know if any other info would be helpful.

AMD64 eh? Unfortunately you are too advanced for me

About the only thing I could think of would be to compile wine as a 32bit application in order to force things into 32bit mode prior to trying to launch SL.

Do you run any other open GL games (eg. Doom3) and if so do they run ok?


As an aside, how is Gentoo on AMD64 generally, I'm thinking of upgrading.

Don't think I've run any other OpenGL games (only other game I play anymore is Star Wars Galaxies and thats directx through cedega). I've been trying to get away with not having to set up a chroot 32 bit environment... I may have to break down and do it though (wine is compiled as a 32 bit app now, it just uses the emul libraries instead of normal libraries).

As far as Gentoo and AMD64 goes, its been working great for me. The only problems I've run into are:
No flash for firefox (you can get a 32 bit binary of firefox and install flash for that though)
Have to get a 32 bit binary of mplayer to play quicktime, wmv, rm, or other 32 bit windows codecs.
Some things take a bit more poking/prodding to compile, but its usually not too bad.
Have to use binary version of openoffice, doesn't compile so well in 64 bit mode.

Transgaming Point2Play with WineX 3.3.2 (i think + NVidia 6600 GT with NVidia drivers + Fedora Core 4 works for me. Though I had to mock a bit with the system security and prelinking settings, as mentioned in the Transgaming forums.
Also, I needed a settings.ini with fullscreen set to OFF, because SL doesn't run fullscreen, only in a window (((

This is pretty much what I'm using.. WineX 3.2.something with nVidia binary drivers on Gentoo.
I ran into the same problem but fixed it by installing SL1.4 which will run fullscreen, changing it to Windowed, then upgrading.
I think this is no-longer an issue as the latest version of SL defaults to Windowed.

Oh yeah, and I had an ATI card, too, but that would NEVER work for me in WineX, not even with ATI drivers...

Sold the card since then, NEVER ATI for me anymore!

hmm, I tried winex-3.3 and I got the same error as before... I may try re-installing SL and seeing if its some kind of file corruption problem.

AMDK7, Nvidia Kernel, Ubuntu Hoary, and wine 20050725.

Installs ok, when I try to run it from a terminal window it throws up a Welcome window, a "Cant find DirectX 9.0b" window (which Is in fact installed), and then it gives me:

INFO Initializing window...
WARNING No ARB WGL render texture extensions
WARNING Error after wglChoosePixelFormatARB 32-bit
INFO Opening help/window_creation_error.html
INFO ShellExecute failure with 31
WARNING LLWindowManager::create() : Error creating window.
WARNING Unable to create window, be sure screen is set at 32-bit color in Control Panels->Display->Settings
fixme:avifile:AVIFileExit (): stub!

I Have winecfg set up for 32-bit, Desktop is 24-bit (previous posts say it should work ok this way). Help, Please?

Either use Wine CVS and the patches in this thread, or find a copy of WineX 3.3 and use that (If you are using WineX then you will be able to run SL but not install it! Use the copy installed with your existing version of Wine instead)

I start mine with a command like this:
winex3 -winver win2000 "/home/lum/.wine/fake_windows/Program Files/SecondLife/SecondLife.exe" -ignorepixeldepth

The -ignorepixeldepth is important, it wont work without it.

has anyone else had problems running 1.7 preview (crashes before even getting to login screen), even though 1.6 runs relatively fine under the same setup? i'm worried that when 1.7 goes live, i'll be locked out and forced back to windows till the linux client arrives.

i'm using ubuntu, winex3

I have not tried it, but this is a very worrying development and would appreciate it if you could keep us informed as I do not have the option of returning to Windows

Have you tried the Wine CVS + patches from this thread as an alternative way of running it.

I am aware that Linux is not a supported platform and LL have no obligation to test it under Linux/Wine[X] but at the same time I have no obligation to continue paying them $9.95 a month for a product that no-longer works on my computer. I'll be back to a basic account to wait it out.

i'm rather new to linux (just a month or so now), and i've heard from some others that 1.7 preview is running fine for them, so it may be just me, and something i'm doing wrong. for what it's worth, i'm using the latest video drivers and such that *synaptic/apt* found. i tried installing the latest from nvidia's site, but it wanted me to compile them, which is an activity i have little/no experience with as of yet. i assume most of you know a few more tricks than i do that may fix this sort of issue. all the same, if anyone else has run into this and knows something that may fix/workaround it, i'm all (kitty)ears!

and yerf, i'll keep you updated if i figure out anything outside this thread

hey, can sumone send me the winex rpm @ [email]phoenixbyrd@gmail.com[/email] ... plz?

I just got done trying to install with cvs... totally screwed it up and idk howto uninstall it.

I'm having the same problem (Ubuntu, 1.6 runs fine, 1.7 crashes badly). I'm also afraid of the same thing, I think we have to step up and start flooding Linden Labs support email with these issues (of course only 1 email per person, not a real flood).

Besides, 1.7 is already 1-3 months late, and even though Linden Labs promised to support Linux around 1.7-1.8, I dunno... I'm not holding my breath

I will test the latest 1.7 beta tonight, maybe, though.

Gentoo Linux, AMD 1.1GHz Athlon-TBird, 256MB RAM, Geforce 2 GTS w/ 64MB VRAM, Wine 20050930, manually changing the line as it shows in the patch, and it works good. There is some sound stuttering sometimes though, and I seem to get a bit of packet loss on occasion (seems to happen usually when I get heavy disk access and/or it's loading a lot at once), and I seem to have the avatar problem as well (face/head color is the same as my hair, face always has a thinned beard texture and thinned unibrow, my upper body doesn't show clothes (it's the skin texture) and is the same color I set as my shirt.. luckily I still have my pants). Anyone found a fix for this yet? :/

Oh, and if you're thinking about trying SL yourself on such a system, make sure you have a DMA-enabled drive and it's turned on! For some reason, even though my drive and motherboard support it, and the kernel is set to turn it on when available, my HD was in PIO mode and trying to play SL was completely useless because it would halt up whenever the drive was accessed. I turned on the drive's DMA manually, and it's 100x better.

Another data point for people trying to run non-native SL under Linux: The patched WineHQ Wine still fails for a friend, but he managed to get SL running under Transgaming's binary-packaged WineX-3.3.1 - precisely that version, not newer/older.

I hope that helps someone.

I didn't find a fix, but a workaround I found was to wear a full-body skin tattoo, which supercedes the unibrow guy.

Eventually I went for the 'other' workaround of playing a nonhuman character with head-obscuring attachments.

I don't know if this problem also exists in WineX. I see how it would not be satisfactory to many people.