Ububtu Dapper on oldish laptop complete fail

Dell C800 Latitude
256MB RAM
NVIDIA Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 Go] 32MB vidcard
Running legacy drivers, current drivers do not work on my machine
Ubuntu Dapper Drake

Files are extracted to dir secondlife in my home dir.

Running the sh in console provides the following mess: http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/27393/

Any help would be very much appreciated. I am a total linux noob, please be gentle.

If I missed out any info let me know and I will happily supply it.

Geez, unless you are very patient with your machine configuration will not get good performance if SL runs at all.

"48. 2006-10-19T23:35:54Z INFO: createContext: creating window 800x600x32
49. 2006-10-19T23:35:54Z INFO: createContext: window creation failure. SDL: Couldn't find matching GLX visual"


You need OpenGL GLX support to run SL. If you can´t make recent drivers to run I am afraid you will not be abe to run SecondLfe inside Linux.

YOu can try doing this:

$sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-legacy
$sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Scroll down to Drivers and replace driver nv for nvidia (Correct me if it is not nvidia I use ati) then restart X.

try a
$glxinfo

and see if you have the support installed.

You may not have the right setup, though, for SL. Geforce 2's are at the low-end of what SL supports, and even then it's picky about them. I always recommend a Geforce 4 or better.

http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/27547/

I have already got what I feel is the best I am going to out of my Geforce2, I have the legacy drivers installed and they work very well, I can run Celestia and other such programs quite nicely.

I got SL to run on this machine under windows, but I've since gone completely Ubuntu.



The Geforce2 is the best video card that will run on my laptop, no other card higher seems to be compatible,

Looks like I may have to look for a replacement for Second Life that has less system requirements and is more Linux friendly. Anyone know anything about this IMVU?

First, check to see if you can get 24-bit color as the DefaultDepth inside your /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I belive it defaults to 16-bit color.

If that doesn't work...



Yeah, there's not much you can do about the card in the laptop. If you want SL, you'll probably need another laptop (you can't swap 'em out that easy) and finding a good one w/Nvidia graphics is a bit of a mess. I'm looking for one myself. What I consider a good setup from Dell is going to cost me almost $3000 US!

Umm... a replacement for Second Life? Wouldn't that transpose you out of one community and into another? There can be no direct replacement for SL, since you'll lose contact with everyone you know there.

As for other online 3-d platforms in general, I'm pretty sure SL is the only one to ever bother giving us a Linux port. Correct me if I'm wrong, but of the other options I'm aware of (TSO, Active Worlds, There, are there others?)

I tried getting SL to run on my ATI Mach64... got direct rendering after a hassle, but no 32-bit colour. Ah well, that's what the desktop is for.

I have officially given up on using Second Life until:

- I have enough money for a new computer.
- Second Life is a faster and less buggy system.
- Linden Labs puts as much effort into the Linux client as they do into the Windows one.

Thank you all for your assistance, and see you in 2020.

I also think that the C800 laptop may just not be up to spec for second life, but I thought I would point out that the "nv" driver is the open-source nvidia driver. The proprietary driver for nvidia cards is "nvidia", and that driver (if working properly) should give you much better 3d graphics. I am also not much of a linux guru, but I would suggest checking /etc/X11/xorg.conf to ensure that glx and dri are turned on. If you're nervous about editing your xorg.conf, try running

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xorg-xserver

from the command line. This will offer you a chance to change the driver and to check that dri and glx are turned on. Remember to make a backup copy of xorg.conf, in case something we suggest or you try messes up your X (enough fiddling is sure to mess up your X config, but it might just cure it, too!)