Hi again Axx83, I attach the files from bug 321401 here as well for convenience. I saw you got a reply from the Eschalon developers at http://basiliskgames.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2080#p16840 :
"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. 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://basiliskgames.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1951#p15771 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 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.freedesktop.org which is where bugs for 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 ** Attachment added: "lspci.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/22003916/lspci.txt ** Attachment added: "Xorg.0.log.1.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/22003917/Xorg.0.log.1.txt ** Attachment added: "Xorg.0.log.2.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/22003918/Xorg.0.log.2.txt -- (Jaunty) Eschalon Book I runs only in windowed mode and it's terribly slow with Intel video cards https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/324292 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
