Need fast help reconfigureing SL to work for Ubuntu

I need step by step instructions for dummies to get my sl back online...I must get back in world ASAP all help is welcome and apreciated.

All I have done so far is redownload and extract and I dont know what to do next all I know is that its not working and I cant get it to work for wine either.

My wine problems are its not reading my directx and its not finding pixels or somethings.
My Linux problems seem to be everything at the moment I guess

It's not polite to post the same question twice.. but anyway this is what you are looking for:

Make sure you have both the Universe and Multiverse repositories enabled.

do:

sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list_backup
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

and uncomment (remove #) from the universe and multiverse lines.

sudo apt-get update

Then.. here are the commands:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-xconfig linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r`

(note those single inverted commas are back sloping ones (i.e. on my keyboard they are on the top left just under escape). You could alternatively type uname -r on the command line and use the output from that as the last part of the linux-restricted-modules-***

then:

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup
sudo nvidia-xconfig

then ctrl-alt-backspace

Ok I did all that but i didnt do that # thingy i have no idea what i was suspose to do or what that was

they are commented out lines in your apt.sources file.

Just remove the # at the beginning of the lines for the universe and multiverse repositories. You might not need to do this.. it is just so that you can actually download the nvidia drivers (the next step) if that worked, you don't need to worry.

and does this make is so that my computer reads secondlife?

I need help with this as well I actually get an error that states as follows.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-26-386 is already the newest version.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
nvidia-glx: Conflicts: nvidia-xconfig but 1.0+20051122-2 is to be installed
E: Broken packages



Any ideas?

In Ubuntu you don't need to install nvidia-xconfig if you are installing/have installed nvidia-glx. The nvidia-glx package automatically includes nvidia-xconfig and nvidia-settings.

Try that same sudo apt-get install command again, but don't include nvidia-xconfig in the list.

Alrighty, I did all that plus I went through and checked glxinfo to make sure it was loading the nvidia drivers. All is well and good. Second Life STILL refuses to boot. Is there any other things stopping this? I have followed the above instructions to the letter.


I Keep getting this stupid LLDir_Linux not fully implimented error and the whole thing doesn't boot.

Edit: This is one of the messages I get.

2006-08-20T05:27:03Z INFO: Initializing window...
2006-08-20T05:27:03Z INFO: createContext: creating window 800x600x32
2006-08-20T05:27:03Z INFO: createContext: window creation failure. SDL: Couldn't find matching GLX visual



I noticed most people tend to get issues with their video drivers. Mine seems to be unique to what I have seen on the net. Any ideas?

I too are on Ubuntu and getting this error :

2006-08-20T12:15:20Z INFO: createContext: creating window 800x600x32
2006-08-20T12:15:20Z INFO: createContext: window creation failure. SDL: Couldn't find matching GLX visual
2006-08-20T12:15:20Z INFO: Unloading all GL symbols...
2006-08-20T12:15:20Z WARNING: OSMessageBox: Window creation error
2006-08-20T12:15:20Z INFO: Unloading all GL symbols...
2006-08-20T12:15:20Z WARNING: LLWindowManager::create() : Error creating window.
2006-08-20T12:15:20Z WARNING: Unable to create window, be sure screen is set at 32-bit color in Control Panels->Display->Settings
2006-08-20T12:15:20Z INFO: remove_marker_file()

Yours is not unique. Check your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, and see if the "DefaultDepth" line is not set to "24". If it's set to "16" change it to "24" and restart Xorg-X11 (you may have to just reboot).

It was set at 24 from the beginning, still no dice. But wouldn't the problem be a conflict with it trying to force a 32-bit color depth with only 24-bit? I tried putting it to a 32 bit color depth and it killed my whole kernel.

Edit: Or not... It just miraculously worked... I have no idea why it seems changing something to and back again gets this program to work... This isn't the first time I have read someone just left things as they were, rebooted and it worked on a whim.

It could be the reboot that helped. You need to restart X before it will use the new drivers. Rebooting is the obvious way, but ctrl-alt-backspace will also do it.

I do not know if this is useful, but if you have a fresh Ububtu install you might want to quick install some stuff and drivers. I have installed Automatix to help me update my ATI card, it worked until last update, so it could help you too.

http://www.getautomatix.com/wiki/in...lling_Automatix

and

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=138405

"
Capabilities:
1) Installs multimedia codecs
2) Installs all Firefox plugins (java, flash, etc) (except Adobe reader and mplayer)
3) Installs RAR, ACE and UNRAR archive support
4) Installs skype
5) Installs Acrobat reader 7 and firefox plugin for the same.
6) Installs Gnomebaker (CD/DVD burning s/w for GNOME)
7) Installs gftp (FTP client for GNOME with ssh capability)
Installs Frostwire (GPL clone of Limewire)
9) Installs multimedia editors (Audacity (audio), Kino (video), EasyTag (ID3))
10) Installs DVD (dvdrip) ripper
11) Installs Mplayer and mplayerplug-in version 3.05 for Firefox
12) Installs totem-xine, Realplayer, VLC and Beep Media Player (with docklet)
13) Installs Opera Browser
14) Installs Debian Menu (shows all installed applications) (this kills and restarts your gnome-panel without warning u but its a completely harmless operation!)
15) Installs Bittornado and Azureus (Bittorrent clients)
16) Installs Avidemux (Video editing tool) (New version 2.1.0)
17) Enables Numlock on (turns numlock on Gnome startup)
1 Installs Programming Tools (Anjuta (C/C++ IDE), Bluefish (HTML editor), Screem (Web Development Env.) and NVU (HTML editor))
19) Install GnomePPP (Graphical Dial up connection tool)
20) Installs MS true type fonts
21) Configures ctrl-alt-del to start gnome-system-monitor (aka windows)
22) Installs Streamripper and Streamtuner
23) Installs NON-FREE audio and dvd codecs
24) Installs ndisgtk (WiFi configurator Graphical user interface)
25) Upgrades Open Office to 2.0 (final version), installs openoffice clipart and installs OO2 thumbnailer.
26) Adds 3 nautilus scripts (open any file with gedit as root; open a nautilus window as root in any folder; open gnome search tool in any folder (Right click in a nautilus window and look under "scripts"
27) Installs SUN'S JAVA JRE version 1.5
2 Installs SUN'S JAVA JDK version 1.5
29) Installs wine (u need to run winecfg manually after installation)
30) Enables ejection of CD when CDROM drive button is pressed.
31) Installs AMSN 0.95 (MSN client with webcam support)
32) Installs Mercury Messenger (Java based MSN client with webcam support)
33) Installs BUM (Boot-up Manager)
34) Installs DCPP (Linux DC++ client)
35) Installs sbackup (Backup and restoration solution)
36*) Installs firestarter (GNOME firewall frontend) and adds firestarter to GNOME startup
37*) installs gdesklets (GNOME eyecandy) and adds gdesklets to GNOME startup
38*) Gamepads (Makes USB gamepads work)
39*) Turns DMA ON on Intel and AMD machines (needs a restart)
40*) NVIDIA cards (Detects Nvidia cards and installs drivers) (Needs a restart)
41*) Adds midi capability to your Ubuntu box (test by playing a midi file with timidity or pmidi from terminal)
42*) Installs Firefox 1.5.0.3 and its plugins(themes and extensions are not retained, bookmarks need to be copied from backup folder)
43*) Installs Mozilla-Thunderbird 1.5 (US-only version) (no support for non-US-english language packs and enigmail)
44*) Fixes Gnome sound related issues (ALSA and ESD config) (needs a restart) (ONLY FOR GNOME! NOT TO BE USED ON KDE/XFCE)"

Are you kidding !!!

I jumped from XP to Ubuntu on Friday. I was making steady progress Friday/Saturday installling everything I thought I needed, then I spot this post. A couple of hours later - I have a working, (apparently) stable system.

My grateful thanks for your most useful post.

Paul.