Rise of Nations, not working under Debian.

[DRNewcomb]

This may be a dumb one. For some reason I switched from Fedora 8 to Debian 4. In each case I was running Wine 0.9.58. Same machine with same geForce NV18 video chip. The Rise of Nations: Thrones & etc. demo worked (as I recall) under Fedora but does not run under Debian. The game tells me that the video card is not supported. I checked the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and it seems to have IDed the video chip OK. Not a clue what's different.

[Paul Johnson]

On Friday 02 May 2008 08:35:38 pm DRNewcomb wrote:

This may be a dumb one. For some reason I switched from Fedora 8 to Debian
4. In each case I was running Wine 0.9.58. Same machine with same geForce
NV18 video chip. The Rise of Nations: Thrones & etc. demo worked (as I
recall) under Fedora but does not run under Debian. The game tells me that
the video card is not supported. I checked the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and
it seems to have IDed the video chip OK. Not a clue what's different.

Have you installed the nvidia drivers from nvidia.com or the appropriate
nvidia-[kernel|glx] packages from Debian? If not, you probably need to take
a look at this: http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers

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Paul Johnson
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[DRNewcomb]

Thanks Paul. Is this one of those issues where Debian's philosophical leanings end up mostly complicating life for the average user? How many more of these will I run into? I'm wondering if I should just chuck it and try a different distribution? I've only been running Debian for a week.

[DRNewcomb]

Nvidia driver problem is fixed. Rise of Nations runs. Now we start looking for the next problem.

[Dan Kegel]

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 5:54 AM, DRNewcomb <[email protected]> wrote:

Thanks Paul. Is this one of those issues where Debian's
philosophical leanings end up mostly complicating life for the average user?

No, graphics drivers are just a pain no matter where you go sometimes.

I'm wondering if I should just chuck it and try a different distribution?
I've only been running Debian for a week.

If you do switch, Ubuntu is a good flavor of Debian
that is very good at holding beginners' hands.

But that's off topic for this list...

[DRNewcomb]

But that's off topic for this list...

Sad but true. I'm downloading Ubuntu now. I think I'll give it a shot. (I need to reconfigure my hard drive to accommodate some of the requirements of ReactOS any way.) I seem to have been doing nothing but fighting with my Debian install since I loaded it. We're adults. I anticipate an amicable separation.

[Paul Johnson]

On Saturday 03 May 2008 05:54:27 am DRNewcomb wrote:

Thanks Paul. Is this one of those issues where Debian's philosophical
leanings end up mostly complicating life for the average user?

No, this isn't a Debian problem; to blame Debian is to shoot the messenger.
It's an nVidia problem. This is nVidia refusing to open up complicating
things.

How many more of these will I run into?

You probably won't. Most vendors aren't so uncooperative with the free
software community.

I'm wondering if I should just chuck it and try a different distribution?

You'll only find yourself disappointed.

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Paul Johnson
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