Problem loading client with Ubuntu Dapper

Hey all//

I've been patient, checking the list, loading, linking and trying not to waste everyone's energy with my problems, but I still can't get the linux client running.

My rig : Sony portable with a ATI Radeon 7500 running Ubuntu 6.04 Dapper (that is up2date). I suspect that the problem is with my graphics drivers and openGL subsystem. I can't get ATI's drivers, nor the fglrx drivers loaded correctly, so I'm using Ubuntu's default Radeon drivers. The 3d subsystem seems broken, glxgears grinds to a halt.
When I try to load ./secondlife, I get the following (from where it starts going bad) :
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2006-05-18T19:54:54Z INFO: Loaded OpenGL symbol 'glMap1f'.
2006-05-18T19:54:54Z INFO: Loaded OpenGL symbol 'glMap2f'.
2006-05-18T19:54:54Z INFO: Failed to find OpenGL symbol 'glVertexAttribPointerARB' in '(default OpenGL library)
2006-05-18T19:54:54Z INFO: Failed to find OpenGL symbol 'glNewObjectBufferATI' in '(default OpenGL library)
2006-05-18T19:54:54Z INFO: Failed to find OpenGL symbol 'glUpdateObjectBufferATI' in '(default OpenGL library)
2006-05-18T19:54:54Z INFO: Failed to find OpenGL symbol 'glFreeObjectBufferATI' in '(default OpenGL library)
2006-05-18T19:54:54Z INFO: Failed to find OpenGL symbol 'glArrayObjectATI' in '(default OpenGL library)
2006-05-18T19:54:54Z INFO: Failed to find OpenGL symbol 'glVertexAttribArrayObjectATI' in '(default OpenGL library)
2006-05-18T19:54:54Z INFO: Loaded OpenGL symbol 'glXGetCurrentDisplay'.
2006-05-18T19:54:54Z INFO: Loaded OpenGL symbol 'glXQueryExtensionsString'.
2006-05-18T19:54:54Z INFO: Loaded OpenGL symbol 'glXGetProcAddressARB'.
2006-05-18T19:54:54Z INFO: Couldn't initialize mipmap generation
2006-05-18T19:54:54Z INFO: Couldn't initialize GL_EXT_paletted_texture
2006-05-18T19:54:54Z INFO: Couldn't initialize GL_NV_vertex_array_range
2006-05-18T19:54:54Z INFO: Couldn't initialize GL_NV_fence
2006-05-18T19:54:54Z INFO: Couldn't initialize separate specular color
2006-05-18T19:54:54Z INFO: Couldn't initialize anisotropic filtering
2006-05-18T19:54:54Z WARNING: Invalid control RenderUserFarClip
2006-05-18T19:54:54Z INFO: remove_marker_file()

Can anyone confirm my suspicions or give me any advise? Thanks in advance.

//Kliger

it won't work until you get the proprietary ati drivers working.

And even then it won't work right either, because of bugs in the Linux SL implementation:

fglX11AllocateManagedSurface: __FGLTexMgrAllocMem failed!!
fglX11AllocateManagedSurface: __FGLTexMgrAllocMem failed!!
fglX11AllocateManagedSurface: __FGLTexMgrAllocMem failed!!
fglX11AllocateManagedSurface: __FGLTexMgrAllocMem failed!!
fglX11AllocateManagedSurface: __FGLTexMgrAllocMem failed!!
fglX11AllocateManagedSurface: __FGLTexMgrAllocMem failed!!
fglX11AllocateManagedSurface: __FGLTexMgrAllocMem failed!!
fglX11AllocateManagedSurface: __FGLTexMgrAllocMem failed!!
fglX11AllocateManagedSurface: __FGLTexMgrAllocMem failed!!
fglX11AllocateManagedSurface: __FGLTexMgrAllocMem failed!!
fglX11AllocateManagedSurface: __FGLTexMgrAllocMem failed!!
fglX11AllocateManagedSurface: __FGLTexMgrAllocMem failed!!

Google around for these errors, they're all application-specific.

I'm getting 1,900+ fps in X normally, using glxgears -printfps as well as 3D games like bzflag (100+fps there in 1600x1200 mode).

With SL, I get about 8fps, max. Its painful, and the longer I stay in, the errors above scroll exponentially faster. Its great for about 60 seconds after first joining, then it all goes downhill until SL can't even redraw a single pixel without 5 million of those errors above scrolling past.

My fglrx configuration is solid, but SL can't play nice with it. I wish they'd fix it..

Hi! I`m running Kubuntu Dapper myself. I dunno if it`ll help, but Yet Another Newby Needing Help is how I got my system working.