XGL can kiss it- how ATI and XGL are killing me
So, I was trying to get some games running under wine. Now, with the new xserver, XGL is enabled automagically (this is Ubuntu Gutsy, btw), so you don’t need a special session. Fine. Cool. Now, I managed to install Dawn of War and Il-2 Sturmovik 1946. Il-2 ran fine. Dawn of War kept giving me a “spooge driver” missing error and suggesting directx wasn’t installed.
Finally it bubbled to the top of my brain that I had similar issues with games under XGL before, with or without beryl/compiz. Yeah, supposedly you can disable XGL from starting, but whenever I switched to metacity from compiz, it killed hardware acceleration anyway.
So I nuked it. Only way to be sure. This did cause me some issues. For whatever reason, metacity didn’t get set as the window manager, so my first reboot caused me to just not have a window manager. For those in a similar spot, open a terminal and use metacity –replace & to start metacity. I’m hoping it’ll stick, but if not I’ll be back with how to make sure it does.