Following your instructions has Ubuntu running BlitzMax the best that it has so far, Craig - thanks! It still doesn't have hardware acceleration on my ATI Radeon 9600 Pro. Digesteroids (which I've been using as a test in various Linux installs) runs better with these video drivers: the explosion when the ship is destroyed is still much jerkier than in Windows with acceleration, but is smoother than previous Linux attempts. It also lacks sound, though Ubuntu itself has it.
BlitzMax gives me 'Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".' in the console (glxinfo confirms this and also has "direct rendering: No." Synaptic doesn't include "XFree86-DRI." One thing that I read somewhere in my previous questing for hardware accel is that "ATI" and "Radeon" might be considered two different things, where "ATI" = ancient ATI cards while "Radeon" = 8500-ish and later.
Any ideas? This is where I've run into trouble before, installing a driver from the ATI website ( https://support.ati.com/ics/support/KBAnswer.asp?questionID=1176 ) or elsewhere (and then editing .conf files), with the result either being that Blitz stops working or Gnome gives errors about mis-configured files or conflicts, or plain refuses to start in graphical mode.
Does Ubuntu have anything like XP's system restore capability, so that you can save a snapshot of your working system which can be restored if you install something that breaks it? That would be a handy thing to have while messing around with all this.
BlitzMax gives me 'Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".' in the console (glxinfo confirms this and also has "direct rendering: No." Synaptic doesn't include "XFree86-DRI." One thing that I read somewhere in my previous questing for hardware accel is that "ATI" and "Radeon" might be considered two different things, where "ATI" = ancient ATI cards while "Radeon" = 8500-ish and later.
Any ideas? This is where I've run into trouble before, installing a driver from the ATI website ( https://support.ati.com/ics/support/KBAnswer.asp?questionID=1176 ) or elsewhere (and then editing .conf files), with the result either being that Blitz stops working or Gnome gives errors about mis-configured files or conflicts, or plain refuses to start in graphical mode.
Does Ubuntu have anything like XP's system restore capability, so that you can save a snapshot of your working system which can be restored if you install something that breaks it? That would be a handy thing to have while messing around with all this.