TheReduxPL wrote:
That's a very comprehensive guide, thank you! On a side note, that just shows why Linux is far from being ready for gaming in general. Swapping kernels and video drivers, generally diving deep into the terminal just to get this game run as well as on Windows, where it's pretty much "install and play"...
Even though I'd like to try that. But I have a couple of questions before I get started:
- I actually forgot what kind of driver I have installed on my Kubuntu. "fglrxinfo" says "OpenGL version string: 4.5.13416 Compatibility Profile Context 15.302" so I guess it's fglrx (the fact that this command actually exists also seems to give that away...). At this point, what's the proper method of installing the driver from padoka's PPA?
- Once I do switch to padoka's mesa driver, is it safe to follow the "Simple installation" method for XanMod kernel?
EDIT: I almost forgot. My PC is running Kubuntu 15.10 x64. My CPU is Intel Core i5-3350P and GPU is Radeon R9 280X,
It could depend on the hardware, but on both of my computers; a standard osu! install with default conditions (standard kernel, no messing with alsa or pulse, etc) works fine.
As for the other questions, yeah if fglrxinfo works, you have fglrx (but to be certain it's actually being used; run
glxinfo | grep 'renderer' and it should show either fglrx/Catalyst, Gallium, or llvmpipe).
To use padoka's PPA, you'll want to fully remove Catalyst first.
These instructions should work fine for that (should work on Ubuntu 15.10 and other versions even though it says Trusty). After that, you can add padoka's PPA, refresh software sources, and then dist-upgrade and reboot. Can use this command below (copy/paste into Terminal as a single line):
sudo add-apt-repository 'ppa:paulo-miguel-dias/mesa' -y && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade && sync
As for XanMod; I just download the archive, extract it, and run
sudo dpkg -i *.deb in the folder. I believe one of the packages are optional, but I don't really care :p (it was a headers package I think). After that, I also do a
sudo apt-get autoremove && sudo update-grub to clean up any old Ubuntu kernel images (it'll keep the last/latest stock kernel though) and fix GRUB.