[EBUILD] BlackIsle RPGs (currently hibernating)

[Korthing]

I had the problem with the mismatched version of "english", fixed by renaming the directory.
I also sent you fingerprints of IWD2 and IWD + HoW, so watch for email from Korthing at gmail dot com.


edit:
also, I get "Assertion failed in ChDimm.cpp at line number 605, Programmer says: Unable to Open BIF:data\GUIfort.bif" with "wine iwd2.exe", any idea why?
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[Voltago]

Thanks Korthing!
Your error sounds like there is no symlink to a parent directory (any parent directory will do) of iwd2.exe in '~/.wine/dosdevices'.

[fca]

I'm happy to report that the WeiDU problem with amd64 has been fixed, see
this thread

[Gauss_Cleric]

Hi there Voltago... trying your ebuild again.

After untarring the overlay (version ieoverlay-20050309.tar.bz2) in my portage overlay if I try to emerge iescripts I get this:

[Voltago]

Hi Gauss_Cleric!
Portage has stricter ebuild checking now, hence the flood of digest/Manifest errors. Using

[MagusWizardo]

Ok, I just installed bg2 (which I prefer to Icewind Dale anyway), and it seems to be working well sofar. One minor annoyance, though (and probably just something in my Wine config) - is it possible to hide the system cursor in-game, and show only BG2s little hand-thing?

[Gauss_Cleric]

The output of 'ls' in the directory where CD2 is mounted is normal I think:

[Voltago]

OK, I've worked on the game ebuilds and made available a preliminary release. Use it together with the present release, since it contains no new iescripts ebuild:

[Gauss_Cleric]

Hi Voltago, a little feedback...

With this last (pre-)overlay of yours I "sucessfully" instaled bg2. With this I mean the emerge run ok and "bg2 config" runs ok. When I try to run the game it asks me to put CD2 in drive d:. No problem... I mount the CD2 image in d: (/mnt/tmp) and try again. The game starts...shows the introducing videos and... quits!! Leaving no messages or logs. I don't know what happening but here's some clues...

I think my CD4 is corrupt since during the emerge a couple of files could not be copied. The files are: creanim1.bif , guimosc.bif, movhd0.bif, npcsocd3.bif, npcsound.bif and movend.bif (this last in the movies directory) Maybe those files are essential in some way for the game to start? I'm currently trying to get those (don't worry I HAVE a original copy of BG2) through the internet. Whenever I get them and give it a try I'll let you know of any change.

The game starts without any sound. I've already checked if the sound device is acessible and it is. I configured wine's system.reg acordingly to your sample in the first page of this topic. It doesn't work with any of those sound drivers: neither winealsa, neither wineoss, nor any of the others. (BTW is it normal to get my system.reg overwritten everytime I run bg2?)

What else to try now? I have the wine of your overlay installed.

Cheers,

P.S. At least the cd issue is gone heh? Good work Voltago!

[Voltago]

Hi Gauss_Cleric!
Thanks for the feedback. Could you run your game until it quits, and then post the contents of '~/.iegames/bg2/profiles/default/bgmain.exe.wine.log'?
As for the missing files, I'll try to simulate your defective cd by simply removing them and running BG2. I'll post the outcomes shortly.
Concerning wine: First, I have no idea what wine is up to with its configuration files. Second, you shouldn't configure ~/.wine/system.reg, but ~/.wine/config to get sound (there may be a way to configure wine sound output through system.reg, but I don't know how). Made a note of this in the HOWTO. Maybe your system.reg was recognized invalid and replaced with a boilerplate version.
Bye!

EDIT: Tried to remove the files you mentioned, and got on start a message telling me that the CD was removed from the drive and that I should put it back... so clearly you can't start the games without these files.

[gardenian]

8)great

[Gauss_Cleric]

Hi, I couldn't put my hands in those files yet, but ASAP I'll post the results. I'm not home until wed-01/06 so it will take a couple of days.

Cheers,

EDIT:
Back and already testing... no sucess (although we're making progress). I've put what you requested in the .wine/config file but when I run bg2 it quits imeadiatly and this is the log:

[Gauss_Cleric]

Voltago, are you all right man? Not willing to put pressure but it's been a while. Are you testing or something?

Cheers,

[Voltago]

Uh, sorry, had some other things on my mind for the last week or so... now, let's see...
I have noticed I had missed out this at the beginning of config file I give as an example (thanks for pointing me towards this):

[lodgey]

I have tried running bg2tob without success. When I run bg2, the game comes up and asks me to put the expansion cd in the drive. The cd is already in the drive, it just doesn't believe me.

The cdrom is visible to wine. If the drive is empty, I get a message box saying there is no cd in the drive, with a cd in the drive, the game loads and asks for the expansion cd.

I have tried the config file that you posted here earlier, no change.

[Voltago]

Hi lodgey! That's a mysterious cd problem you have there, haven't seen something like it yet...
I'm afraid I've got no legal workaround for you.
Under no circumstances, go to liflg.org, get their ToB installer, execute it from shell with an argument '--target ~/loki', in '~/loki', don't find a file 'bg2_tob_26498_eur.tar.gz', don't extract it, and don't copy 'BGMain.exe' to '~'.
I also strongly discourage you to execute these commands afterwards (only this is not afterwards, because you didn't do the first step, right?)

[Gauss_Cleric]

Hi Voltago. I feel obligated to tell you this: after so much time and effort... it worked!!! I don't believe it....hahaha. The problem wasn't quite what you sugested though, so I'll tell you what I did.

The situation was the same: if I use the .wine/config found in the first page of this topic, the game quits imediatly with wine complaining that the config file isn't valid. If I just try to run without it the game logs a weird sound realted error and also quits. So I copied over my config file from cedega and although it didn't work it stoped complaining about the vality of that file. After a line by line inspection I changed things a little and the game worked flawlessly. Load games ok, sound and music ok, speed ok... Also, I think I now why I got that error in the config file. I think there is an error in sample you provided (again, first page of this topic): there you've put [wineconf] [/wineconf] instead of <wineconf> and </wineconf>.
Now I just need the ToB and the mods so I can recover my saved game. I'll let you now if that works out. Thank you for this outstanding ebuild, for you efforts and your welcomed attention. Now to the game...

Cheers,

P.S. I think I'll post my config file here... maybe someone with the same error can give it a try. It's a little long and I guess much of it can still be trown out.

[Voltago]

I'm glad it works now, Gauss_Cleric! The square brackets issue seems strange to me, I have them in my config file and wine doesn't complain... but what the hell, it works now, best not to fiddle further with the config file because then it might break again...

[Gauss_Cleric]

Yes, I stoped right away...

Well I emerged bg2tob but if I run bg2 it works as if there was only SoA installed. Even the main menu is from SoA. Must I do something else? Maybe a new profile?

Also, there is this officialpatch-bg2tob ebuild. Must I emerge it also? The strange is that the description from emerge says it is the official patch from IWD2. Just a misstype I guess?

Cheers,

[Voltago]

Yes, a new profile is necessary if you newly installed an add-on. The officiapatch-bg2tob should also be installed, the description text shouldn't worry you (but thanks for pointing it out, fixing it right away...).

[Gauss_Cleric]

Sorry for beeing a pain in the a** but I can't emerge weidu-1.75 since it can't download it from weidu.org and that's because they are already at weidu-1.82. I'll try to fix the ebuild, but just to let you know...

Cheers,

EDIT: I noticed many of the mods are outdated, so I'm emergeing them by downloading the latest version and putting in the distfile directory under the outdated version name. I guess since the merge procces just extracts and puts it in another directory I guess it will not notice the dirfference. If you ever need help in keeping it up to date just let me know.

[Voltago]

Working on it, working on it... expect a release tomorrow...

EDIT: OK, it is tomorrow and the release is out to wreak havoc on Gentoo machines everywhere. On fca's request I added the amd64 keyword, but to be honest I have no idea if it will work.

Oh, and if some of you could fetch their second Neverwinter Nights CD, build biounzip-1.0, extract the .bzf file from the CD, do the same again for biounzip-1.1_beta and tell me how it went, I would be ever so grateful...

[lodgey]

Voltago, I have sent off that fingerprint you asked about.

Baldur's Gate 2 works correctly now. I don't know how many times that I tried it last night, but I boot up today and it works first time, wthout doing anything at all. I thought it was windows that needed to be rebooted every five minutes? Oh well, I'm off to play Baldur's Gate 2 for a while

[lynxnyl]

Great, I hope I'll have the time to try it soon. My family in Kuldahar must think I have a heart of winter!
Once I get to it, I should be able to make a fully functional prereqs script too.

[Voltago]