Spring Crashes on Ubuntu 9.04 x64

[0graham0]

Hi,

I just installed Spring on a machine running Ubuntu 9.04 x64 with an ATI Radeon x300 graphics card. Spring crashes in two different ways:

1. I open SpringLobby with the default settings, choose single player with the map Comet Catcher Redux and mod Complete Annihilation stable-4460, add a bot and click start. I get the Spring loading screen, with a black bar above the loading text but everything generally viewable. The loading process goes on for a little while and then I see what looks like a weird gray version of the map, then Spring exits to the desktop.

2. I opened spring settings in expert mode and unchecked "Run full-screen" I then repeated the process in step 1, however I never made it as far as the loading screen. I got a bunch of video corruption, red and green and pink lines all over the screen, with any keyboard commands unresponsive...nothing after ctrl+alt+F1 or alt+prtscrn+r...

The process I used for installing spring was:

1. Following the instructions at http://springrts.com/wiki/Ubuntu_install I added the http://ppa.launchpad.net/spring/ubuntu repository to Synaptic Package Manager and installed ca-installer, spring, spring-engine, spring-installer, springlobby and spring-maps-default

2. I downloaded the OTA content .zip from the guide cited above, extracted the individual .sdz files and installed them through the Gnome GUI by double-clicking on each extracted file to open through springinstaller, and then clicking install.

3. Opened the CA Installer and installed stable revision 4460

I wasn't sure what logs to post. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Auswaschbar]

Afaik certain AIs tend to crash in amd64. You should try different ones to check if they crash too.

As a log, post ~/.spring/infolog.txt

[YokoZar]

testglobalai shouldn't crash

[jabucko]

I have same problem. Ubuntu 9.04 amd64 and Ati radeon x550. I think, that is problem with 3D drivers. On Ubuntu 9.04 is new X server (1.6), but ATI proprietary drivers do not support him (hopefully, that is only temporary). Installation of fglrx from synaptic will crash of X on the next startup and you need to remove them in text mode. Then don't install it.

Open source driver for ati (in synaptic = xserver-xorg-video-radeon) is default installed and it isn't enough for 3D (Unplayable: OpenArena, Spring, Supertux2 (!) This three games running perfectly on the 8.10 with fglrx. Only America's army running without problems on 9.04 for me).

Solution: If you want play Spring, stay on Ubuntu 8.10 OR change your linux distribution OR wait for ATI, while they make good drivers.

I have always problems with my ATI card in linux, when i go buy new graphics card, it will be NVidia or Intel, but ATI never.

PS: solution for me: i will install fedora 11 2009-06-09
PS2: sorry for my english