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medsouz
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Hello, I recently moved from Ubuntu to Debian and I am trying to install Morrowind through Wine. It installed fine other than it shows random characters as the font (if anyone has a fix for this too it would be appreciated). When I try to run the game however it gives me this error.
err:winediag:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo Direct rendering is disabled, most likely your OpenGL drivers haven't been installed correctly (using GL renderer "Mesa DRI Mobile Intel\xc2\xae GM45 Express Chipset GEM 20091221 2009Q4 ", version "1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.7.1)").
Anyone know how to fix this? :D
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Post by medsouz »

Whoops, forgot to say that my graphics card is Intel Graphics Media Acceleration 4500M... I think.
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Post by lahmbi5678 »

If that string describes your version of the intel drivers, then they are really old ("2009Q4"). You probably need newer drivers, if there isn't a repository for your Debian, then you'll need to compile yourself, as described for instance:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... rs-912512/

Unfortunately it's quite probable, that you will have issues because of too old kernel, xorg server, etc, nevertheless it might be worth a try.

Alternatively you could use Debian testing or sid, or just get some packages from testing, but you probably should first ask in a Debian forum how to do that.
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