wine users - Dec 2010 - ATI FireGL v5200 and Guild Wars

I'm at my wit's end here. I have an IBM T60p with an ATI FireGL v5200
graphics card, I'm running kubuntu 10.04, and the radeon open source drivers
for the graphics card. 3D works great when I run glxgears. I can even use wine
to open Guild Wars--the login screen works great. The character select screen
works wonderfully. The actual game...looks like something the cat yakked up. I
get a completely white screen, with only bright red, yellow, and black edges. As
if someone took the background or the pictures and posterized them.  The UI
overlays look and work fine, as does the full screen travel map. I can see
character names, and even player dialogues. Just not the toons or the
backgrounds.

All the searching I've done seems to indicate that this particular card fell
through the cracks--that it's not supported by the ATI linux drivers--in
fact, it really seems like ATI is hoping it just dies in a fire somewhere. ATI
cards don't seem too popular with Wine anyway...am I left with no other
recourse, then?

Anyone with any help, tips, or pointers has my deepest thanks.

Jen

I have good news, bad news, and very ugly news.

First of all, it IS supported by fglrx, its basically a x1600.

First lot of bad news, they dropped support for those cards back with catalyst
9.3, which only supports xorg7.4/ x-server 1.5.x, and unless you want to go
retro with your xorg, it just isnt going to work

Clicky: Heres the driver if you feel like using a distro from feb 2009.
(http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Legacy/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.4.1&product=2.4.1.3.12&lang=English).

2nd lot of bad news, the OSS drivers, ie the radeon one, with Mesa, generally
suck hard for wine, you are luck that it works at all.

The kinda ugly news, you MAY be able to get it going.

Now, a few notes before we start, first of all these sets may nuke your
wineprefix (thats your .wine folder) ie make it unstable/etc, to fix it you may
need to give it a good rm-rf'ing, (aka delete it) so be warned that you may
lose other programs/configs you have done in wine.

Maybe make a new wine prefix, maybe make a backup of your .wine folder, just be
warned!

First first of all, tell wine to run programs in a virtual desktop, you can do
this in the grathics tab in winecfg, set it to your screen size, or whatever you
size you want.

You can also do this on a per app basis via the command line, eg

$ wine explorer /desktop=800x600 gw.exe

will run guildwars in a 800x600 virtual desktop.

If that makes everything work, then ignore the rest of this very long post and
have fun ig ;)

First of all, you need to turn of GLSL, as your drive has no hope in hell of
working with it.

Clicky here and grab this (http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks)

Now you have winetricks, make it executable and run it, from the window that
loads up, select glsl-disable.

Once that has run, give it a try, if the gods of OSS drivers like you, the stars
may align and things may work, if not, lets keep trying.

Try running guildwars with the -dx8 command line switch.

eg, from inside the folder that has the gw.exe

$ wine gw.exe -dx8

if that works, woo!

if not, lets keep going.

now lets try

$ wine gw.exe -noshaders -dx8

works? Woo!

No help? Boo! lets keep going

run winecfg from the terminal, and go to the Grathics tab, and untick
"Allow Pixel Shaders"

Try now, if no help, go back into winecfg and the grathics tab and set
"Vertex shader support" to none, and try again.

If its still not working, you can try running winetricks and choosing the d3dx9
option and seeing if that helps.

If it still wont work, then it seems you need to 

1) try updating your grathics drivers, maybe theres a PPA or you can try kubuntu
10.10

if that doesnt help, or if you dont want to (dont blame you)

Then it seems that you are out of luck :(