Sheer desperation driving to WINE

Okay people.....when I say WINE I don't mean alchohol.

I have Wine 0.9.13 installed, along with Winetools, I have managed to run the SL installer fine.

When I try and run SL after installation I amd getting a box popup saying:

'Secondlife is unable to detect DirectX 9.0b or greater' continue or quit

So I press continue.... then my screen goes all muticolured and unreadable, but the system is not crashing completely, and I can just make out another error box thats says:

'Can't activate GL rendering context.'

Can anybody help me out as I know some of you are running fine under Wine.

Cheers in advance.

Several bugs that affect SL are present in wine 0.9.13. You'll probably need to use at least 0.9.14 to successfully run SL. What distribution of linux are you using?

Strange, in gentoo I've been successfully running SL in Wine since at least 0.9.12, might have been .11.

Ditto on the gentoo system.

Humerously, I have the same problem Marco does. I expected it was an interaction issue with my ATI GL drivers and wine, so I never worried much about fixing it.

In Debian there is a package called libwine-gl which you need to install (or alternatively build wine from sources). Alterntatively, it may be as Major Senior suggests.

Please ignore the comments about using the latest wine though. It works fine with 0.9.11.

Marco I get similar results. Either I get a multicolored screen as you said with the exact same warning, or it goes completely black. Either way, I must restart X to get rid of either situation. Oddly, as I have indicated before, if I run open source radeon drivers and mesa-cvs (but with a twist) instead of the binary ati-drivers, then SL runs in wine for me (although with a lot of sound clicks and dsound overrun errors and yes I am using the most up-to-date wine version at this point). I too am running an updated gentoo system. If you get it working, would like to know what you did to resolve it all.

Apply Mack's audio stabilization patch to resolve those sound issues.

http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2006-April/046683.html

Since I started using this patch (for the last several releases of WINE) sound (both streaming and other sounds) are completely normal and functional for me.

--Val

Thought I was reading somewhere in these forums that patch is now part of wine proper. Is that correct? Or?

No, as far as I know the patch floating around for some framrate improvements was made part of the official release a couple releases back. The audio patch still isn't, I don't think.

--Val

The alternative to getting reasonable sound, apart from adding the patch, is setting sound output to oss in winecfg and set driver emulation tickbox for direct sound (and maybe hardware acceleration to emulation)

I'm running SL v1.10.1.0 under Wine with only a few problems.

System is:
Intel P4 1.7 Ghz, 512MB ram
nVidia GeForce 4 MX440 64MB graphics card
Mandriva Linux 2006.0 official
Linux kernel version 2.6.12-12mdk
Wine v0.9.11
nVidia drivers x86-1.0-8762 (latest version)

Known problems:
Avatar design mode fails to display colours and clothing correctly
Occasional lockups when changing screen size.
Lots of clicking noises from the speakers (looking at patch for this soon)

I gave up on the Linux Alpha client as it is too unstable at the moment. I think the longest I stayed logged in for was 30 minutes, with anything above 5 minutes being rare. Most logins lasted under 30 seconds, if I could log in at all.

With Wine and the Windows version, no problem. Was logged in constantly for at least two hours last night.

Wine doesn't seem to render Second Life's dynamic content fast at all, as for the patch its pretty straight forward if you're not a newbie like me, you get the soruce and build dependencies, apply the patch, and compile. Works great!


Let's hope the new patch today works well!

SL v10.1.10.2 seems to fix all the issue I had. It's now stable enough to run as my client, instead of running the Windows version under WIne.