AMD64 and planeshift - one more time... :(

[SchwarzerRabe]

I know several similiar problems were posted often here but nowhere
I can find a solution for my problems.
Not in this Forum nor in the planeshift one nor with google.
And here we go:
I tried for days now to, get planeshift up and running on my AMD64 (2.6.11-gentoo-r9).
First with emerge planeshift... I get an error message while compiling.
Then two times like in the gentoo-tutorial. He always can't find "iSoundManager plugin" after the whole compiling process(Updater works correctly and looks much nicer after upgrading).
Two more times with CFLAGS=-fPIC option in all configure-calls.
Still the same problem.
Then I tried it with a script from so. who ment to be gentoo developer and posted it in the planeshift forums.
It still does not work.. I get an AMOUNT of errors trying to start psclient after compile process.
Any ideas?

[xordan]

Seems wierd because it compiles with no problems on my AMD64. Can you post your 'emerge info' ?

[SchwarzerRabe]

Here it is:

[xordan]

hmm. I have -march=athlon64 in my cflags and not -mtune=athlon64
Other than that I don't see much difference. Can you paste the errors you're getting during compile?

[SchwarzerRabe]

I tried emerging cel with CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -fPIC" emerge cel.
I still get the same errors.
Then I wanted to get the output of the emerge process with emerge cel > file.txt but I do not get the whole output there....
He tells me several times that he fails linking and just copies the files(for example: "failed LinkPlugin mgr_quests.so ... Copy mgr_quests.csplugin CelConfigGen cel-config"), while the compiling itself seems to work...
Ah and the first few files work linking...
If anybody can tell me how to get the WHOLE output copied I could load it up on my webserver and link it...
THX for help so far!

[SchwarzerRabe]

I found out something interesting.
The comp did not automatically install crystalspace, so I tried it myself with emerge crystalspace,
because CEL needs it. He breaks up in configure-process and tells me, my c++-compiler wouldn't be able to create executables... That really fits to my problem with compiling cel!
Any ideas? Recompiling gcc maybe(compiled it once with multilib in useflag to get sth. other to run)?

[SchwarzerRabe]

Well, I reemerged gcc and was able to install crystalspace.
But when I try to emerge cel I still have the same problems...
He just can't link some modules(with others it just works.... )!

[SchwarzerRabe]

Maybe I found the solution now.
I searched around a bit about the 1000th time.
But I found something interesting:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93508
I am not the only one with those problems!
In the comments someone tells that he solved his problems emerging crystalspace with USE="debug" first before emerging cel. That worked for me, too! At the moment I am emerging planeshift itself and we will see...

[xordan]

hmm, that is wierd. The crystalspace devs are getting a 64-bit mac soon so hopefully problems like this should be fixed. Compiling in debug mode means that you get a perfomance hit, but it isn't too bad for now.
If you get any problems running the game (crashes) try compiling everything in debug mode so that you can get a backtrace on the crash in gdb. It'll help us to fix any bugs.

[SchwarzerRabe]

I got it all installed now. The updater is running at the moment...
But I have another question so far:

How do I add /usr/games/bin to the PATH environment variable,
so that it stays there even after reboot?

And at this point once again:
BIG THX for all your efforts! It is great that there are people like you taking the time to help others with their problems!!!

[SchwarzerRabe]

Damn it...
the startup screen appears for a moment and then the application crashes...
What to do now? :CRY:

[xordan]

Ok, this was a possible problem.

First: Do you have a ATI card? If so, then things look grim
Second:

Make sure you have gdb installed. "emerge gdb" will install it if you don't.
Can you 'cd /opt/planeshift'
Next in another console open the file /usr/games/bin/planeshift
Paste the two exports into your first console, I can't remember what they are atm.
Next type: 'gdb psclient'
Then in gdb type 'run'
When it crashes type 'bt' and paste the output in here so I can have a look.

[SchwarzerRabe]

Okay, I first of all:
I reemerged everything with debug-useflag.
The startupscreen did appear for a moment again...
But it was "molecular blue"... heh??? That is the version before the actual one!!!
And i ran updater be4!
So now I am reemerging everything again, crystalspace with "debug"-useflag and everything else normally.

1)Yes, I have a 9800 All-in-Wonder Pro. At the moment I am using the fglrx driver. But there has been released a new official Catalyst driver for Linux by ATI. Shall I install this one?

2)All right, after reemerge and update is finished I will do that.

You said, with a ATI card things look grim. Why? And is there a possibility to let them look better?
This time I wanted to say "goodbye" to windows forever, but if i can't get this to run maybe I will have to setup a dual boot system again... But that would drive me really mad..

Would that game run maybe, if I'd install it as 32bit application?

[xordan]

You need to run planeshift-setup. Then click the skins button and set the skin to default for the proper slash screen to be displayed. Oh, and I assume you did run the updater yes? The game with crash if you don't do that.

And there's a bug in the 64-bit ati drivers which causes the game to crash.(I think so anyway, and if it's causing you to crash then it almost definatly is, and not just my machine.) I did try to report it to ati, but basically got told to get lost. There doesn't seem anywhere on their site which is for bug reports.

If you install it as a 32-bit app then it should work without problems.

[SchwarzerRabe]

Here it is:

[SchwarzerRabe]

And here is the complete output of planeshift:

[SchwarzerRabe]

How to install the game in 32bit? ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" emerge cal3d crystalspace cel planeshift?
linux32 emerge cal3d crystalspace cel planeshift?

[xordan]

hmm, you'd need a chroot to install a 32-bit version, or you can get the binary of www.planeshift.it if there is one.

That crash isn't what I'm having;

Have you run 'planeshift-updater -auto' ?

[SchwarzerRabe]

Yes, I did run it! Here is the proof:

[SchwarzerRabe]

All right, I installed the 32bit version now. I can play, but... I can't really...
My framerate always stays under 2 fps!!!! That is really driving me mad....

[xordan]

Yeah, here's what to do:

I assume that you're using a wrapper script for the game? (like /usr/games/bin/planeshift)
Edit this file and add the line:

export LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH=/usr/lib32/modules/dri

Then save and run it. It should make your fps normal

And no I can't run the game in 64-bit mode I'm the only PlaneShift dev with a 64-bit PC and I'm not a programmer so we don't have very good support for the platform. It will get better eventually, but it's pretty unstable atm. (As you can see )

And that 'other_os' stuff and various warnings is server side only. That message is normal on the client.