• Intel 945GME Ubuntu drivers, do they exist?
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I was hoping to play something small like Heroes of Newerth on my netbook but all I get is a K2 error and a complaint about OpenGL, so without any evidence, I figured this custom Ubuntu distro is lacking the drivers for 945GME. Some quick facts: Found graphic chip info by running sysinfo Error given when I try to boot the game: nikomo@nikomo-netbook:~/HoN$ ./hon.sh warning: The VAD has been replaced by a hack pending a complete rewrite K2 - Fatal Error: OpenGL 2.0 not available. I'm using a distro called Jolicloud which is still in beta testing and downloading requires getting an invite for it, but it's Ubuntu under the hood so anything that would work in Ubuntu works in this distro.
Ubuntu has universal drivers
[QUOTE=UNIX_nikomo;17165102]I was hoping to play something small like Heroes of Newerth on my netbook but all I get is a K2 error and a complaint about OpenGL, so without any evidence, I figured this custom Ubuntu distro is lacking the drivers for 945GME. Some quick facts: Found graphic chip info by running sysinfo Error given when I try to boot the game: nikomo@nikomo-netbook:~/HoN$ ./hon.sh warning: The VAD has been replaced by a hack pending a complete rewrite K2 - Fatal Error: OpenGL 2.0 not available. I'm using a distro called Jolicloud which is still in beta testing and downloading requires getting an invite for it, but it's Ubuntu under the hood so anything that would work in Ubuntu works in this distro.[/QUOTE] As far as I know, older Intel gpus like yours don't support OpenGL 2.0 like HoN requires. The newer ones do, like my X4500HD, but it doesn't have the required shaders so I get a white screen with barely visible outlines in the game. HoN really only works on the Nvidia and Ati closed source drivers.
God dang. :(
Heroes of Newerth isn't "small" It's a full 3D game You have a crappy intel chipset I'm pretty sure I have the same chipset in my crappy school PC, i was amazed it even ran compiz
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;17169277]As far as I know, older Intel gpus like yours don't support OpenGL 2.0 like HoN requires. The newer ones do, like my X4500HD, but it doesn't have the required shaders so I get a white screen with barely visible outlines in the game. HoN really only works on the Nvidia and Ati closed source drivers.[/QUOTE] Doesn't even seem to work with the Ati closed source, it's all black and white squares :S.
[QUOTE=Denzo;17198764]Heroes of Newerth isn't "small" It's a full 3D game You have a crappy intel chipset I'm pretty sure I have the same chipset in my crappy school PC, i was amazed it even ran compiz[/QUOTE] I've ran WoW with 20FPS on the chipset. Sure I had to use Windows XP and WoW was on a USB stick but still.
[QUOTE=UNIX_nikomo;17205052]I've ran WoW with 20FPS on the chipset. Sure I had to use Windows XP and WoW was on a USB stick but still.[/QUOTE] HoN really should fall back to an older OpenGL if it needs to. Even Doom3 will if your gpu doesn't support 2.0
[QUOTE=UNIX_nikomo;17205052]I've ran WoW with 20FPS on the chipset. Sure I had to use Windows XP and WoW was on a USB stick but still.[/QUOTE] WoW runs on the Warcraft 3 engine which is a game from 2002 A 7 year old game.
[QUOTE=Denzo;17210196]WoW runs on the Warcraft 3 engine which is a game from 2002 A 7 year old game.[/QUOTE] Pull more shit out of your ass. It doesn't use WC3's engine. And I did it about 2 months ago so I was going with the engine that has been upgraded many times in burning crusade and wrath of the lich king.
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;17169277]As far as I know, older Intel gpus like yours don't support OpenGL 2.0[/QUOTE] I can confirm this for the slightly older i915: [code] $ glxinfo ... OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 915GM GEM 20090712 2009Q2 RC3 x86/MMX/SSE2 OpenGL version string: 1.4 Mesa 7.5.1 ... [/code] Compared to a machine using the proprietary nVidia driver: [code] $ glxinfo ... OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 7600 GS/PCI/SSE2 OpenGL version string: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 185.18.36 OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20 NVIDIA via Cg compiler ... [/code] Note that the i915 is using Mesa 7.5.1... according to the [url=http://www.mesa3d.org/relnotes-7.5.1.html]release notes[/url], "Mesa 7.5.1 implements the OpenGL 2.1 API, but the version reported by glGetString(GL_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used. Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 2.1"
Son of a bitch, 945GME can only do OpenGL 1.4
Sorry to say, you're out of luck. But hey, it's a netbook. You can't be that surprised.
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