Second Life Linux FAQ
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Hey! You! Don't you know Linux users can run Second Life? Started last year with the Alpha release, and it's getting very good!
This is an UNOFFICIAL FAQ. If you haven't read the README from the Second Life archive yet, do so now.
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Common questions
Who's this Tofu?
Tofu Linden. He's the head Linux Client developer at Linden Labs, put in after a looooooooong lull and much breakage of the Linux client. Some say the creation of the SL Linux Live CD helped push for it.
What's the SL Linux Live CD?
It's a LiveCD you can boot off of that runs Linux and Second Life. It's made by Drake Bacon. The first, NVidia-only Knoppix version, is available at http://libsecondlife.org/sl/
A second version that's more universal (NVidia, ATI, Intel) is in development. See below!
Frequently Tripped Traps
SL doesn't run!
Scroll through the log for any ERROR's or WARNING's. They're your clue as to finding out what's wrong.
Do I need drivers to run SL?
You need the accelerated drivers for your card. AMD/ATI has the fglrx drivers, NVidia has the nvidia-driver series, and Intel has open-sourced their drivers.
The Mesa OpenGL driver for non-accelerated cards will fail.
WARNING: createContext: window creation failure. SDL: Couldn't find matching GLX visual
You're not running with a bit depth of 24. Edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and look for a line similar to this:
DefaultDepth 24
If it reads 16, change it to 24.
I'm running very slow! I have an Intel video card...
You need to edit the "secondlife" script and change this line:
export LL_GL_BLACKLIST=j
Make sure you remove the "#" at the beginning of the line!
Intel video cards, however, are still a bit unstable from what I've heard. YMMV.
I'm running an ATI card, and it crashes.
Try this line like the Intel cards above:
export LL_GL_BLACKLIST=l
First Look
It keeps crashing! It sometimes freezes up when I try logging in.
Put this line in the secondlife script:
export LANG=en_us.UTF-8
That should solve most of the crashing issues due to Mozilla being integrated into SL.
