[Wine] Newb here.Ubuntu 9.10, ATI Adeon x1270, trying to run Steam.

[A. Tres Finocchiaro]

Wayne,

I love your post for two reasons, first is you still play quake 2, and
second because you represent most people trying to move to linux:  advanced
enough to troubleshoot but dangerous enough to blow it all up. :)

I have half-life 2 installed on 9.04 and it works ok.  It runs for about 5
minutes and then crashes.  I haven't tried running it on 9.10 yet.

The fact that opengl works illustrates your video card is set up properly.
I had to lower the directx level using the "dxlevel" command.  I found that
suggested on many forums.  Have you tried this yet?

-Tres

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:10 PM, waynefoutz <wineforum-user at winehq.org>wrote:

> Sick of Vista, don't want to give MS another $200 for another bloated
> crappy OS. My old laptop had Ubuntu 8.04, but it was incapable of running
> Steam games, so I'm new to this Wine stuff. So here it goes, I've been away
> from linux for the last 2 years, but when 9.10 came out, I decided it was
> time to come back and give it another look. I have everything up and
> running, with the drivers that come out of the box with 9.10.  Wine is
> installed, I have a bunch of older games, Quake 2 for example, and they run
> great. OpenGL seems to be working fine, and linux native openGL games run
> great. I can turn on and use all the desktop effects, but I have to turn
> them off to get Quake2 to run in WINE. When I do...NICE! But I install
> Steam, load up Half Life 2, it looks good through the splash screens and
> logos, but when the game loads, I can't read the menus, and there is a
> noticeable diagonal line through the middle of the screen, from top right to
> bottom left. The only difference I can think of is Half Life 2 is a directx
> game, not opengl. Anyhow, I can't get this stupid game to run.
>
> I've tried installing ATI drivers, but it breaks my install...by the way,
> where in the hell did xorg.conf go??? WTF? According to ATI, the last
> version of of Catalyst that supports my card is 9.2, which is incompatable
> with Ubuntu's new Xserver version. Tried downgrading that, then installing
> the 9.2 ATI, everything got hosed. Tried the older open source drivers, no
> 3d at all.  I'm kind of at a loss here, not sure where the xorg.conf went.
>
> My level of expertise with linux is pretty much copying and pasting lines
> into the terminal, that was enough a couple years ago, when I was running
> 8.04, everything worked....
>
> Anyone have any suggestions? I just want to play Team fortress without
> having this 25 gigabyte monster called Vista on my system!
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- Tres.Finocchiaro at gmail.com
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