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sangoule
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 Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 11:40 pm Post subject: Second Life Linux Alpha Client |
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| At long last, alpha binary available for download on their site. Google will show you where. Much faster for me than Windows client in Wine (16fps instead of 8fps). Like I said, it's alpha, so don't get all bent outta shape when the sound & some keys don't work. Some helpful info in forums.secondlife.com. Requires free account with Second Life. Have (virtual) fun. |
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munsen
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| Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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| This looks interesting. I will keep my eye on it until there is a stable version or is atleast in portage. |
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Aynjell
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| Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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Same here, when it's good to go I'll play and support it with my monehs. 
A game like this may just show up as a big revenue for linux users. Who knows... maybe that'll show big guys like blizzard that WoW would be great for linux, though I personally believe they are porting it just not saying anything until it's good to go. Anyway... can't wait to play this. 
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| Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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| munsen wrote: | | This looks interesting. I will keep my eye on it until there is a stable version or is atleast in portage. |
Works very well - http://ninjafoo.blogspot.com/ |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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If it's subscription based, I'll wait until it says stable.
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sigmalll
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 11:36 am Post subject: |
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| Aynjell wrote: | | If it's subscription based, I'll wait until it says stable. |
You can get a basic lifetime account for a few $, no monthly subscription etc. |
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Aynjell
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 12:24 pm Post subject: |
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I'll wait till it goes gold. I was a bit scarred after trying Medal of Honor before it went gold. Speaking of which, when are they gonna fix that?
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TheKat
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| Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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I don't suppose anyone has gotten this going on an AMD64 system, compiled in 64bit 
The supplied binary is 32bit only! Has some .. complex looking dependencies. |
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sigmalll
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| TheKat wrote: | I don't suppose anyone has gotten this going on an AMD64 system, compiled in 64bit
The supplied binary is 32bit only! Has some .. complex looking dependencies. |
There isn't a source code release, binary only. It does come will all the libs it requires and works perfectly on my AMD64 install An open source client is on Lnden Labs furure proposals, but thats a long long way off. When the Linux client comes out of alpha, it may be possible to persuade them to release a 64bit build allong side the 32bit.
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| Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 11:27 am Post subject: |
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LindenLab just released their Client as OpenSource, so in case anyone is interested in helping out making the linux client more stable or fixing bugs, follow the link...
http://secondlife.com/developers/opensource/
have fun
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PaulBredbury
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| Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 11:32 am Post subject: |
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| Here are the ebuilds. |
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Aynjell
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Is this a full client that is open source, or is this just some offshoot semi functional program? Can I play the game with this open source software?
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| Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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| derFrank wrote: | LindenLab just released their Client as OpenSource, so in case anyone is interested in helping out making the linux client more stable or fixing bugs, follow the link...
http://secondlife.com/developers/opensource/
have fun
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I wouldn't think about source ebuilds any time soon, though. It doesn't compile with GCC4 and the list of dependencies is fairly long.
| Aynjell wrote: | | Is this a full client that is open source, or is this just some offshoot semi functional program? Can I play the game with this open source software? |
It's (supposedly - I haven't built it yet) the full client. Unfortunately, if you want sound you have to use a closed-source library, and the same if you want fast JPEG2000 decompression (since all the textures are compressed using JPEG2000, this could be an issue). I haven't looked too closely at the licensing on these yet. |
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I got it compiled up to the point that it depends on xmlrpc-epi which doesn't seem to be in portage and the un-official ebuild I found didn't compile,
stuff needed:
dev-libs/apr
dev-libs/apr-util
needs the 1.2.x branches which are hard-masked for testing
couldn't see an ebuild for the src so I'll put some patches here (include paths and gcc4.1 issues);
| Code: | --- llcommon/llsdserialize_xml.cpp.old 2007-01-07 22:50:13.000000000 +0000
+++ llcommon/llsdserialize_xml.cpp 2007-01-10 21:25:31.000000000 +0000
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extern "C"
{
-#include "expat/expat.h"
+#include "expat.h"
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| Code: | --- llcommon/llsys.cpp.old 2007-01-07 22:50:13.000000000 +0000
+++ llcommon/llsys.cpp 2007-01-10 21:26:11.000000000 +0000
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#include "llsys.h"
#include <iostream>
-#include <zlib/zlib.h>
+#include <zlib.h>
#include "processor.h"
#if LL_WINDOWS
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| Code: | --- llmessage/message.h.old 2007-01-07 22:50:14.000000000 +0000
+++ llmessage/message.h 2007-01-10 21:29:52.000000000 +0000
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static F32 mTimeDecodesSpamThreshold; // If mTimeDecodes is on, all this many seconds for each msg decode before spamming
static BOOL mTimeDecodes; // Measure time for all message decodes if TRUE;
- void LLMessageSystem::init(); // ctor shared initialisation.
+ void init(); // ctor shared initialisation.
};
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tab4by
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i have managed it to play it under windows, but now if i try it under gentoo on my amd64, i'm getting this error:
| Code: | | bin/do-not-directly-run-secondlife-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or director |
I then tried to link the libSDL-1.2.so.0 from my libs to lib32, but then i got this error:
| Code: | | bin/do-not-directly-run-secondlife-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL-1.2.so.0: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 |
which seems obvious, because these aren't 32bit libs.
now is my question, how do i get the correct libraries, because i want to play it on my gentoo box
ps: yes i tried to reemerge libsdl with multilibs on, but still nothing |
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lonex
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| Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:12 am Post subject: |
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try app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-sdl
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| Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:21 am Post subject: |
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| thanks, that did the job |
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martigan80
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Thank thank you thank you thank you thank you!
the whole emul thingy did it |
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I try the ebuild with the binary client (1.13.3.2) under x86. First it crash every time I login. After I do my first login under windows its possible to connect with the linux-client, but its completly not useable. It seems like opengl does not work (all graphics are like black, fps are around 5 / minutes!). (I've got a new nividia 7600gt, it work great with other apps.) I try to export LL_GL_NOEXT=x and the others, but always the same. Its better to use the source ebuild? Any other idea? Where can get more information instead of the ("First setup your payment method"-) forum from Linden-Labs? Thanks (and sorry for my bad english).
EDIT: The most error I see in the terminal is like this:
| Code: | [ERROR] tcd_decode: incomplete bistream
[ERROR] read error
[ERROR] tcd_decode: incomplete bistream
[ERROR] read error
[ERROR] tcd_decode: incomplete bistream |
Whats this?
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martigan80
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| Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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| slick wrote: | I try the ebuild with the binary client (1.13.3.2) under x86. First it crash every time I login. After I do my first login under windows its possible to connect with the linux-client, but its completly not useable. It seems like opengl does not work (all graphics are like black, fps are around 5 / minutes!). (I've got a new nividia 7600gt, it work great with other apps.) I try to export LL_GL_NOEXT=x and the others, but always the same. Its better to use the source ebuild? Any other idea? Where can get more information instead of the ("First setup your payment method"-) forum from Linden-Labs? Thanks (and sorry for my bad english).
EDIT: The most error I see in the terminal is like this:
| Code: | [ERROR] tcd_decode: incomplete bistream
[ERROR] read error
[ERROR] tcd_decode: incomplete bistream
[ERROR] read error
[ERROR] tcd_decode: incomplete bistream |
Whats this? |
I think it would be good to start a new thread about this. This one is about the Alpha Client which doesn't require any compiling. |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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isn't second life the mmo where giant penises were attacking people a month or so ago? 
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| Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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| bunder wrote: | | isn't second life the mmo where giant penises were attacking people a month or so ago? |
Yes it is! And even more fun are plethora of SDM areas available too! |
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| bunder wrote: | | isn't second life the mmo where giant penises were attacking people a month or so ago? |
Whut?
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| martigan80 wrote: | | I think it would be good to start a new thread about this. This one is about the Alpha Client which doesn't require any compiling. |
I used the Alpha Client (without compiling), so I think I am right here 
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| Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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Hi folks,
I just wanted to tell those of you who still don't know if they should try it, that I run the client on...
- x86 Intel celeron on Laptop
- win xp on Laptop
- x86 AMD on Desktop
...all with nvidia graphics cards.
All linux systems are up-to-date.
I can really say that there are no differences to me between the linux client and the windows client.
When you start the linux client from a console, you'll notice, that most of the time when the client seems to hang fetching of textures fails.
I would say I have not less hangs on the windows client, so even if I'ts alpha, I think this is already a very nice piece of software and I'm glad I only have to leave linux to use Dreamweaver or Photoshop, which I still do not want to miss.
I would say: Try the binary, it's worth it.
Yours Henri |
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