wine + fglrx ==> Please

[fermulator]

I'll be flat out honest, I've not had success with wine & fglrx drivers for years since DX9 days.

What does a user with the latest ATI Catalyst drivers have to do to get wine to work?

My Config:
* Ubuntu Jaunty
* wine 1.1.27
* $ fglrxinfo

display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon HD 4870   
OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1.8918)

While this is a general question, if it helps, here is a specific error from WINE output:

X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 136 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent)
Serial number of failed request: 3414
Current serial number in output stream: 3414

[Kano]

I doubt that fglrx will catch up soon - more likely never. Even UT3 runs with a little wine patch very nice with nvidia - as long as you have got a powerfull card - g92 or better.

[fermulator]

What do you mean by "catch up"? -- Using the latest fglrx drivers I'm able to run native linux games without issues (Heroes of Newerth, QIII, UT2K4, DoomIII, etc.) --- what is the difference between "OpenGL 2" working on native apps, and "OpenGL 2" not working in WINE? (I quite honestly don't know) ;-)

[Ant P.]

From what I've read, the WINE devs were using nVidia cards, so instead of writing to standards they went and implemented its 3D stuff using a bunch of nVidia-proprietary GL extensions. Complaining about fglrx "catching up" enough to run WINE would be like complaining that Opera needs to catch up to run the windowsupdate site.

Yeah, let's all just use Windows and IE... it's better!!11</sarcasm>

[storma]

OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1.8918)

whenever you see that, 'unset LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT'

I'm not sure why it drops back, I thought it might of been something that I did in setting up compiz but I could never find it.

[gforum]

whenever you see that, 'unset LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT'

I'm not sure why it drops back, I thought it might of been something that I did in setting up compiz but I could never find it.

hey storma, where do you put that?(unset LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT)

in the shortcut for the program you trying to use or whatnot?

[fermulator]

hey storma, where do you put that?(unset LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT)

in the shortcut for the program you trying to use or whatnot?

This works!

The LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT is an environment variable in your terminal. So before you would run (simplified)

wine $my_game

You'll want to do:

unset LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT

[fermulator]

Actually, could someone from ATI please comment on this "bug"? -- When/How/Why could this environment variable be set?

It has caused at least some of us some grief, and it would be good to figure out how to avoid this for future users.

[storma]

What I've gotten into the habit of doing is creating a wrapper script for my games, so it's just a matter of adding it before the line to start the game.

[fermulator]

What I've gotten into the habit of doing is creating a wrapper script for my games, so it's just a matter of adding it before the line to start the game.

I've done the same thing (I have a master "game_launcher" script which handles lots of stuff like this, including replacing compiz with metacity), but the point is that we shouldn't have to, and it would be interesting to see the reason for this environment variable being present..