[EBUILD] BlackIsle RPGs (currently hibernating)

Voltago · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 4:02 pm Post subject:

If a PS:T setup isn't too different from other IE games, it should be quite easy to create an ebuild. My latest notion of GemRB is that it isn't quite ready for prime time, but slowly getting there. Another option would be to try and install the game via its Windows installer directly using wine, but I'm not sure in how far InstallShield is functional with the current release.
I don't own a copy of Torment and don't plan to get one during the next three months (boring real life stuff...), and it is not that interesting for my installation method since there is no modding activity I'm aware of. But if you want to learn a little (or even better already know a little) about ebuilds, you can do it yourself quite easily.

totencham · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 10:31 pm Post subject:

mpendragon · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 7 Location: USA

im getting some weird error and im not really sure what it means.

sorry if i'm being a noob

Voltago · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 2:50 pm Post subject:

Um... buggered if I know what that means...
Can you please 'fingerprint' your game and send me the result? Section 2 of the HowTo tells you how.

mpendragon · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 7 Location: USA

just realized i should have read better.
Could that be because I was tryin to use the 5-cd version?

lynxnyl · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 6:37 pm Post subject:

Those wierd chars are bash color codes. Aliases don't expand in scripts though.

Voltago · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 10:50 pm Post subject:

mpendragon · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 7 Location: USA

Thanks, I guess i'll have to try it on BG2 and IWD instead.

Voltago · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 9:50 am Post subject:

Yonathan · l33t Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 662

da mein englisch nicht ausreicht, um mein problem zu schildern, versuche ich es auf deutsch, in der hoffnung, dass du mich verstehst....

ich habe nach der auf der ersten seit beschrieben anleitung das spiel bg2 installiert. es klappte auch gut mit dem cd-wechseln und alles.

nun, nach der installation gebe ich in die konsole: bg2 ein und ich bekomme den fehler: command not found

wenn ich wine /opt/bg2/bgmain.exe eingebe, so bekomme ich in der konsole folgende meldung:
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".

und ein kleines popup öffnet sich mit der meldung:
An Assertion failed in Chitin.cpp at line numer 1636
Programm says: Error initialising key table, bad key file

ich habe hier fast alle posts gelesen und versucht zu verstehen, wo mein fehler liegt, aber ich habe nix gefunden.

nun hoffe ich auf deine hilfe.
vielen dank.

yona
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Voltago · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:25 pm Post subject:

Yonathan, are you a member of the 'games' group? (Ich möchte das hier lieber mal auf englisch halten...)
Check it with

Yonathan · l33t Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 662

yes, i am
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Voltago · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:33 pm Post subject:

What does

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Voltago · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:46 pm Post subject:

Hmm...
'/usr/games/bin' really should be in your PATH variable...
Type

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Voltago · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:57 pm Post subject:

Basically by typing

Yonathan · l33t Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 662

lol?

Voltago · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:05 pm Post subject:

The 'source /etc/profile' command restores your PATH variable to its original value, so don't use it _after_ 'export PATH=...'. Actually, you don't need it at all. Himmeldonnerwetternochmal. :wink:

Yonathan · l33t Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 662

i entered my bg2 cd1 in my cdrom-device an typed bg2

it started but then i got an error calling:
wir finden kein cd-rom-laufwerk in eurem rechner. ihr könnt aber das spiel bg2 nicht ohne cd-rom-laufwerk spielen

i mounted the cdrom-device first an there was no problem O_o
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Voltago · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:20 pm Post subject:

In your home directory, in ~/.wine/dosdevices/, is there a symlink to your cdrom drive? If not, Windows software run with wine cannot use a cdrom.
Create one using

Yonathan · l33t Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 662

ok... works well.

but i can start bg2 only start as root.
if i type bg2 as user, nothing happens.

next problem: i have no sound
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Voltago · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:43 pm Post subject:

Ok, we're getting there... slowly...
Please post the contents of the file '~/.iegames/bg2/profiles/default/bgmain.exe.wine.log' from your non-root-user's home directory.
As for sound: In section 4 of the HowTo, there is a sample wine config file, you can see the entries below [WinMM] there. Find the correspondig entries in your ~/.wine/config file (or use the example file) and uncomment the wine sound driver line appropriate for your system. This would be 'winearts.drv' if you use KDE, and most likely 'winealsa.drv' or 'wineoss.drv' otherwise.

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Voltago · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 9:12 pm Post subject:

Um... OK. Looks like a permission thingy. Why you don't have read permission for these files I do not know. But to sort it out do this (as non-root-user if not stated otherwise):