[i945] (Jaunty) Eschalon Book I runs only in windowed mode and it's terribly slow with Intel video cards
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xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: xserver-
Eschalon Book I is a very good native commercial Linux game that should run well on computers with poor video cards and poor overall specs. This is the homepage: http://
My computer is a Thinkpad x60s with Intel L2400 cpu, 1G of ram, intel 945 chipset with intel 950 video card.
On my computer running a live of jaunty (a daily build: 2 feb 2009) from a usb stick, with the game loaded on my regular hard drive (with intrepid of course), the game runs ONLY in windowed mode. When it runs it is slow to the level you cannot even play it, the game does not crash but you are forced to quit because it become unresponsive.
If I try to run it in full screen all I get is a black screen with no music and no loading in the background.
In this other bug https:/
Of course the game runned well on Hardy, didn't run at all on Intrepid, and now runs poorly on jaunty.
[lspci]
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub [8086:27a0] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:2017]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a2] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:201a]
tags: | added: resolution |
Hi again Axx83,
I attach the files from bug 321401 here as well for convenience. I saw basiliskgames. com/forums/ viewtopic. php?f=11& t=2080# p16840 :
you got a reply from the Eschalon developers at
http://
"I'm afraid it's a known issue. Intel's current linux drivers do not
support the texture compression which the game needs. Basically,
unlike nVidia and ATI, Intel decided to put the texture compression in
software. But because the algorithm is patented, it can't be
implemented in free drivers."
I'm a bit puzzled by this. Especially since it ran well in Hardy. basiliskgames. com/forums/ viewtopic. php?f=11& t=1951# p15771
While something goes wrong in mesa in the case of Intrepid, it looks
like it somewhat works for Jaunty although not very well. In this post
http://
it seems that one of the Intel driver developers, Eric Anholt, would
be happy to talk to the Eschalon developers about how they can improve
the performance. If this also results in a patch for the intel driver,
I guess that can also be included in Ubuntu.
I think the only way to get something done about this if the Echelon p.org which is where bugs for
developers get on the boat. It would be nice if they could comment
here, but as Eric said that it was not working working very well with
his developer's stack, this will really have to be solved upstream. I
searched for Eschalon on bugs.freedeskto
xorg (including the Intel driver) are registered, but it didn't give
any hits. Maybe you can try and get the Eschalon developers to talk to
the Intel driver developers, and if they already did, give some
details about what the problems were and if they can be solved?
Geir Ove