New Linux Client (r51742)

Though this should work on vanilla FC5/4 as well.



cd /opt
cp SecondLife_1_11_3_1/lib/libexpat.so.1 SecondLife_i686_1_12_0_51742/lib
cp SecondLife_1_11_3_1/lib/libssl.so.0.9.7 SecondLife_i686_1_12_0_51742/lib
cp SecondLife_1_11_3_1/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7 SecondLife_i686_1_12_0_51742/lib
cp SecondLife_1_11_3_1/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0 SecondLife_i686_1_12_0_51742/lib
cp SecondLife_1_11_3_1/lib/libogg.so.0 SecondLife_i686_1_12_0_51742/lib
cp SecondLife_1_11_3_1/lib/libvorbisenc.so.0 SecondLife_i686_1_12_0_51742/lib
cp SecondLife_1_11_3_1/lib/libvorbisfile.so.0 SecondLife_i686_1_12_0_51742/lib
cp SecondLife_1_11_3_1/lib/libvorbis.so.0 SecondLife_i686_1_12_0_51742/lib
cp SecondLife_1_11_3_1/lib/libdb-4.2.so SecondLife_i686_1_12_0_51742/lib

cd /opt/SecondLife_i686_1_12_0_51742/lib
ln -s libssl.so.0.9.7 libssl.so.0.9.8
ln -s libcrypto.so.0.9.7 libcrypto.so.0.9.8
ln -s libvorbisenc.so.0 libvorbisenc.so.2
ln -s libvorbisfile.so.0 libvorbisfile.so.3

exactly!

Also, with the new version, SL frees up somewhere between 'some' and 'most' of the CPU while it's iconified (or under gnome, while you're on another desktop too).

I probably won't submit anything formal until I can more closely test, but in about 8-10 uses of the new client, on 3 occassions the processes kept running after I quit and the client closed (so I still heard sounds and what not). Anyone else get this?

On the other side of the coin, great work... thrilled to see actual progress being made.

--Val

THANK YOU Linden team!

The new Linux client finally recognizes my video and main RAM enabling me to see all the details now. Audio is a brand-new experience too. Great job!

Another thank to Chillicothe Roundfield and others who described the necessary changes to get things running for FC5.

--
Here a suggestion to LL for dealing with the various Linux distributions. Forgive my ignorance in case things are not as feasible as I imagine them (am just a Linux user, not much of a Linux programmer):

All distributions have certain things in common, like kernel versions. Why not gather all code that is distribution independent into a "sl-base" package, compiled for current/popular kernel versions. Then make the source for the remaining code parts available. So packagers of all distributions can grab this remainder and compile it considering their Linux distribution's dependencies. This way you would not give away too much of your code and you save yourself the trouble of dealing with all the Linuxes. So everyone should be happy.

Yes window resizing works but in its current incantation iv had some wierdness, SL tends to die sometimes after a windows resize, or X goes funky.. once somehow i got X to do a virtual desktop with a consecutive resize (no i didnt enlarge it bigger than the default display window).. it decided to...

Still like having presets... makes it easier to keep a good aspect ratio....
thats the problem with windows stretching.;..


-John

Sorry for sucking, but could you paste these commands in? I'm getting
" error while loading shared libraries: libexpat.so.1: cannot open shared object file:"

My 1_10_5_1 launches (so I seem to have got SELinux policy right), but won't let me into SL since that's an old version.

To clarify a bit: I have the old one and the new one in parallel dirs, so I did
ln -s ../../SecondLife_1_10_5_1/lib/libexpat.so.1 libexpat.so.1
inside SecondLife_i686_1_12_0_51742/lib

and now it reports the same error for libssl.so.0.9.8

So I think I can just pop 'em off one at a time like this, but I'm not sure if that's the best way to do it...

Okay maybe not the stark .so but the so.MAJOR should be fine.

For example this build runs fine with old librarys renamed to the new version #, so obviously nothing that changed in libssl between 0.9.7 and 0.9.8 affected SL, so linking to libssl.so.0 would have worked.

Pardon the cynicism, but this is 'incredible'. They fix some big problems that have always been there with the Linux client, but screw the pooch on the rest. The previous versions of the client worked fine on pretty much everything, even nice happy little 64-bit Gentoo x86-linux-emul stuff, so it didn't take a full x86 chroot and lots of hacking to get working. That, of course, changes with this.
It depends on specific arbitrary external versions of packages, some of which aren't even considered stable by most distributions yet, and doesn't bother to include them. It won't even load the old versions of libraries that came with previous versions. It won't load libcurl.so.3 because it's "not versioned". Even if you specifically tell the compiler to not strip it, apparently it's still "not versioned". Great. So, I have to have my computer spend a good 16-30 hours recompiling a full i686 chroot environment, on the off chance that it won't have another braindead seizure and will actually recognize that libraries are installed. Yay. I can just hope they didn't decide to have it depend on GCC 3.4 specifically, either.

Gentoo is rice.

Packages for FC5 are finally up!

http://www.haxxed.com/rpms/secondlife/secondlife-1.12.0.51742-1.i686.rpm

And there's a repo file you can add to yum:

http://www.haxxed.com/rpms/secondlife.repo

Contains all needed symlinks and dependencies!

Well FC5 is my preferred daily distro, so that obviates my question. What do you mean by "gentoo is rice"? Sorry Karjah, but this is probably going to work smoothly only with deb or yum packages in the near future; sounds like you're pretty knowledgeable, though -- have you volunteer to help make an ebuild or something? I used to use a lot of Gentoo, so I'd be interested

Hum, perhaps. I managed to shortcut on a lot of packages and apparently the libcurl thing is non-fatal. Though now I'm getting weird problems about it ignoring my CPU speed (applying slow CPU mask with 2.2Ghz Athlon 64 3500+) and OpenGL extensions, which isn't fatal, but presumably is making it run much slower. I didn't see anything else about things like that. ~.~

And...ebuild, sure, that wouldn't be hard. :b

I will say one thing, though. On quitting or resizing the window, it takes up 100% cpu and freezes the client. The latter gives me a blank black screen. The former removes the window ir freezes there. I can Control-C out of it.

A Gentoo ebuild for this version: http://vel.ath.cx:8080/~zephi/secondlife-1.12.51742.ebuild
It goes pretty well in /usr/local/portage/games-simulation/secondlife, or so. It basically needs x86-chroot on AMD64 (though can install on regular 64-bit side, as long as 32-bit libs that it needs are installed). It also lets you run from anywhere, provided you have /usr/games/bin in your path, though I'd imagine would need extra hacking for multi-user on the same machine (if it even supports that, since it doesn't support separate config in $HOME).



I still need to figure out why the heck it's ignoring my OpenGL extensions/CPU, though.

Edit:
debug_info.log:
SL Log: /usr/share/games/secondlife/SecondLife/logs/SecondLife.log
Second Life version 1.12.0 build 51742
Can't get terse CPU information
RAM: 1578991616
OS: Linux 2.6.17-emission7 #10 SMP PREEMPT Fri Aug 25 22:56:10 PDT 2006 x86_64
GL_VENDOR NVIDIA Corporation
GL_RENDERER GeForce 6800 XT/PCI/SSE2
GL_VERSION 2.0.2 NVIDIA 87.74
Allocated 0 bytes of AGP memory

/proc/cpuinfo:
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 15
model : 47
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 2200.000
cache size : 512 KB
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni lahf_lm
bogomips : 4402.86
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc

glxinfo:
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
server glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_NV_float_buffer, GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float
client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info,
GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_SGI_video_sync,
GLX_NV_swap_group, GLX_NV_video_out, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,
GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_NV_float_buffer, GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float
GLX version: 1.3
GLX extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_NV_float_buffer, GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float,
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 6800 XT/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.0.2 NVIDIA 87.74
OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_color_buffer_float, GL_ARB_depth_texture, GL_ARB_draw_buffers,
GL_ARB_fragment_program, GL_ARB_fragment_program_shadow,
GL_ARB_fragment_shader, GL_ARB_half_float_pixel, GL_ARB_imaging,
GL_ARB_multisample, GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_occlusion_query,
GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object, GL_ARB_point_parameters, GL_ARB_point_sprite,
GL_ARB_shadow, GL_ARB_shader_objects, GL_ARB_shading_language_100,
GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp, GL_ARB_texture_compression,
GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add,
GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_ARB_texture_float,
GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two,
GL_ARB_texture_rectangle, GL_ARB_transpose_matrix,
GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object, GL_ARB_vertex_program, GL_ARB_vertex_shader,
GL_ARB_window_pos, GL_ATI_draw_buffers, GL_ATI_texture_float,
GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once, GL_S3_s3tc, GL_EXT_texture_env_add,
GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color,
GL_EXT_blend_equation_separate, GL_EXT_blend_func_separate,
GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array,
GL_EXT_Cg_shader, GL_EXT_depth_bounds_test, GL_EXT_draw_range_elements,
GL_EXT_fog_coord, GL_EXT_framebuffer_object, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays,
GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil, GL_EXT_packed_pixels,
GL_EXT_pixel_buffer_object, GL_EXT_point_parameters,
GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_secondary_color,
GL_EXT_separate_specular_color, GL_EXT_shadow_funcs,
GL_EXT_stencil_two_side, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap, GL_EXT_texture3D,
GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc, GL_EXT_texture_cube_map,
GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_env_combine,
GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3, GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic,
GL_EXT_texture_lod, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias, GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp,
GL_EXT_texture_object, GL_EXT_texture_sRGB, GL_EXT_timer_query,
GL_EXT_vertex_array, GL_HP_occlusion_test, GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip,
GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_KTX_buffer_region, GL_NV_blend_square,
GL_NV_copy_depth_to_color, GL_NV_depth_clamp, GL_NV_fence,
GL_NV_float_buffer, GL_NV_fog_distance, GL_NV_fragment_program,
GL_NV_fragment_program_option, GL_NV_fragment_program2,
GL_NV_gpu_program_parameters, GL_NV_half_float, GL_NV_light_max_exponent,
GL_NV_multisample_filter_hint, GL_NV_occlusion_query,
GL_NV_packed_depth_stencil, GL_NV_pixel_data_range, GL_NV_point_sprite,
GL_NV_primitive_restart, GL_NV_register_combiners,
GL_NV_register_combiners2, GL_NV_texgen_reflection,
GL_NV_texture_compression_vtc, GL_NV_texture_env_combine4,
GL_NV_texture_expand_normal, GL_NV_texture_rectangle,
GL_NV_texture_shader, GL_NV_texture_shader2, GL_NV_texture_shader3,
GL_NV_vertex_array_range, GL_NV_vertex_array_range2, GL_NV_vertex_program,
GL_NV_vertex_program1_1, GL_NV_vertex_program2,
GL_NV_vertex_program2_option, GL_NV_vertex_program3,
GL_NVX_conditional_render, GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_texture_lod,
GL_SGIX_depth_texture, GL_SGIX_shadow, GL_SUN_slice_accum
glu version: 1.3
glu extensions:
GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess

Suse 10.1 users need to download db42-4.2.52-18.rpm from Yast. It works great after that

Everything about this update is wonderful. Thanks for the hard work. Its good to have sound again!

Has anyone got this going on Debian AMD64 yet? I'm running sid/unstable and keen to try it out.
Got as faras

me@debiansid:~/SecondLife_i686_1_12_0_51742$ ./secondlife
bin/secondlife-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libcurl.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I installed libcurl3 but still see this error.
Only regd yesterday and have not entered SL yet BTW.

Hello Fellow linux users
After making ln -s to the missing fils as suggest at top this thread, I can get a log in screen,
but after I put in the name and password (double checked caps lock etc) it starts but exits with the following warnings about can't find files in the last run log.

Thanks in advance
Wolf Brannan


$ grep WARNING SecondLife_i686_1_12_0_51742/lastrun.log
2006-09-01T07:17:37Z WARNING: LLDir_Linux not fully implemented!
2006-09-01T07:17:37Z WARNING: Couldn't open file /home/mdkeith/SecondLife_i686_1_12_0_51742/SecondLife/user_settings/settings.xml
2006-09-01T07:17:37Z WARNING: LLXmlTree parse failed. Line 1: Couldn't open file /home/mdkeith/SecondLife_i686_1_12_0_51742/SecondLife/user_settings/settings.xml
2006-09-01T07:17:37Z WARNING: Unable to open control file /home/mdkeith/SecondLife_i686_1_12_0_51742/SecondLife/user_settings/settings.xml
2006-09-01T07:17:37Z WARNING: Couldn't open file /home/mdkeith/SecondLife_i686_1_12_0_51742/SecondLife/user_settings/crash_settings.xml
2006-09-01T07:17:37Z WARNING: LLXmlTree parse failed. Line 1: Couldn't open file /home/mdkeith/SecondLife_i686_1_12_0_51742/SecondLife/user_settings/crash_settings.xml
2006-09-01T07:17:37Z WARNING: Unable to open control file /home/mdkeith/SecondLife_i686_1_12_0_51742/SecondLife/user_settings/crash_settings.xml
2006-09-01T07:17:40Z WARNING: VRAM amount not detected, defaulting to 536870912 MB
2006-09-01T07:17:40Z WARNING: VRAM amount not detected, defaulting to 134217728 MB
2006-09-01T07:17:41Z WARNING: Couldn't load font ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3.otf
2006-09-01T07:17:41Z WARNING: Couldn't load font ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3.otf
2006-09-01T07:17:41Z WARNING: Couldn't load font ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3.otf
2006-09-01T07:17:41Z WARNING: Couldn't load font ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3.otf
2006-09-01T07:17:41Z WARNING: Couldn't load font ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3.otf
2006-09-01T07:18:02Z WARNING: Couldn't open file /home/mdkeith/SecondLife_i686_1_12_0_51742/SecondLife/Wolf_Brannan/overrides.xml
2006-09-01T07:18:02Z WARNING: LLXmlTree parse failed. Line 1: Couldn't open file /home/mdkeith/SecondLife_i686_1_12_0_51742/SecondLife/Wolf_Brannan/overrides.xml
2006-09-01T07:18:02Z WARNING: Unable to open control file /home/mdkeith/SecondLife_i686_1_12_0_51742/SecondLife/Wolf_Brannan/overrides.xml
2006-09-01T07:18:02Z WARNING: Couldn't open file /home/mdkeith/SecondLife_i686_1_12_0_51742/SecondLife/Wolf_Brannan/settings.xml
2006-09-01T07:18:02Z WARNING: LLXmlTree parse failed. Line 1: Couldn't open file /home/mdkeith/SecondLife_i686_1_12_0_51742/SecondLife/Wolf_Brannan/settings.xml
2006-09-01T07:18:02Z WARNING: Unable to open control file /home/mdkeith/SecondLife_i686_1_12_0_51742/SecondLife/Wolf_Brannan/settings.xml
2006-09-01T07:18:02Z WARNING: Packet from invalid circuit 66.150.244.151:12036

Wolf, try opening the preferences and reducing the network bandwidth down to 50kbps then log in and inside the game restore the original bandwidth.

It should work, I thoguth it was fixed in this version.

I`m running fairly vanila KUbuntu.

I had to copy [from my previous SL installation]:

1. libdb-4.2.so
   

and one or two of these:

1. libapr-1.so.0
   
2. libboost_regex-gcc-mt-1_33_1.so.1.33.1
   
3. libfmod-3.75.so
   
4. libkdu_v42R.so
   
5. libxmlrpc.so.0
   
6. libaprutil-1.so.0
   

....whichever ones are NOT in the new tarball. I`m sorry, but I don`t remember which. Erm, I *think* that the other library was libSDL-1.2.so.0, as that is the other lib that shares the same timestamp as the lib I`m sure I copied.

Anyway, her`s how I got it to work:

1. I downloaded and extracted the tarball, and tried to run it.
   
2. It griped that a library was missing.
   
3. I found the missing library in the preceeding installation, and copied it.
   
4. Repeat from step 1 until it worked.
   

Thank you everyone!

Toodle-oo!

Correction: Repeat from step *1.5*: Try to run. sorry.

Yoohoo, got audio at last! Thanks a bunch

Only thing: libdb-4.2.so was missing in the package. But after copying it over from the previous version everything was fine. And the application crashes when switching between fullscreen and window mode in the preferences. I'm running SuSE 10.1 on AMD Athlon XP 1800+, 512 MB RAM, NVidia GeForce FX 5200 (128 MB).

Cheers

Thank you all very much for providing a Linux client.

Yay! It worked super on my Debian box without a hitch. I heard sound, and it is nice to know what people are talking about when they react to sounds. So, there we go, we the top-priority in the poll (/263/a5/95049/1.html) is done/beta.

The next one down is Cut & Paste. I personally have been eagerly awaiting this. Any news on whether this is the next thing to come? (Is there I blog I should be reading to find out?) Without it, scripting and teaching are ... difficult, so I have been just giving up and using Windows. The magic text upload hack works so so at best for me. It periodically just drops characters...

Anyway, thanks for advancing the Linux client along.

According to Tofu Linden Copy & Paste is already working on the development client. It will be released with the other OSs clients on Wednesday.

I also copied some of my libs from Fedora to the installation because the client did not find them (Fedora Core 5). Sl had troubles with the ending 0.9.8a (instead of 0.9.8 what it was looking for)

Vinci