Installing Linux

[Trunks]

I've recently been trying different ways to get my horrible laptop to be able to play League of Legends and I've had no success. It has vista on it now, main reason why it's so crappy. So I'm going to try to install linux on it, because I hear it's a lot faster than windows.

I plan on running Linux Ubuntu, most popular one I've found and read about.

Anyway, I have a question about the drivers for my hardware. I have a Toshiba laptop, and it's pretty picky about driver versions, so picky I wasn't able to install XP on it because none of the drivers were available for xp, and the vista ones would not work. So I'm assuming at the same problem will happen with Linux. So I was planning on running Linux beside vista so I could keep all my drivers and what not, will this choke the Linux OS in any way?

I've never ran dual OS before or Linux in general, so I'm not sure if Vista still runs in the background while Linux is up or if it's off completely.

[LiNuX]

Depending on how you install it, you can only run on OS at a time, so if you're on Linux, then Vista is booted off and vice versa. You'll be able to select what to boot into.

And Linux is pretty smart now so it should auto detect and install all drivers, although I've never ran it from a Laptop so I can't say, I've only used Linux (with a GUI) on my custom built desktops so I never really had to worry. And all my web servers don't have any GUI so I don't have to worry too much about drivers besides it having to recognize the mobo, cpu, hdd, and PSU.

I also don't have any machines that run Windows + Linux. I have a dual booted PC at home (XP & Win7) and another at work (XP & Win7 also). I plan on triple booting my old machine (Win7, Win8 (beta), and Fedora) as soon as I can get a new hard drive for it.

Let me know how things go.

[CraeSC111]

I run Ubuntu 10.04 and installing was pretty simple. The OS detected all my hardware properly and installed all of the correct drivers, although from reading around I have learned that the driver for Intel graphics cards isn't the best. If you are missing any drivers the OS will allow you to install proprietary drivers, so you should be covered no matter what. Ubuntu definitely boots faster and runs many programs faster than Windows 7 on my computer, although it seems that I have lost the ability to use multi-touch stuff with my touch pad. This could probably be fixed by one program or another though. The newest version of Ubuntu is 12.04, which is a long term support release like 10.04, but I don't know much about it since it was only 2 days old when I switched to Ubuntu and had a ton of problems (Also I like the gnome GUI which 10.04 uses more than the Unity GUI 12.04 uses).

I don't know if you can run two OS's at the same time, since installing two on my computer would only allow me to choose one at a time. You could always install a virtual windows OS which would run in Ubuntu, but it would be limited in its uses. Quite a few Windows programs will run through a program called Wine. A separate program called PlayOnLinux contains scripts that will install games for you using optimal settings. League of Legends currently has some issues running through wine, details on LoL here (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=19141), and I myself was unable to get it running which was apparently due to my using an Intel graphics card. I would keep in mind that my graphics card is fairly low end.

[Trunks]

Well messed with Ubuntu 12.04 last night a little bit. All the drivers seemed install right and everything was running fine. So I installed wine, and was installing things through the terminal that I would need to run league. For some odd reason I wasn't able to install Inet, since I've never messed with linux or anything apple I have no clue on any tricks of this system lol. So the only other thing I could come up with was using -q before it, and that obviously didn't work lol.

I'm going to have to see if there is a way to download inet manually instead of through the terminal. I reformatted again though and I'm just going to run Linux, because it seems so much faster on my laptop than vista was. Plus the only games I use to play on it was Minecraft and that has a linux client anyway. So I reformatted last night, still have to install linux, first day of class is today, so not sure how much time I'll have. I'll update if I get LoL working or have any problems.

[CraeSC111]

Try installing playonlinux. It has an install script for LoL so it should set up everything for you

[Trunks]

Finally had some spare time to mess around with my laptop again. Have Ubuntu installed with Wine and Playonlinux. Playonlinux is installed League of Legends now, but I didn't see any install script, but I just noticed that I don't have the up to date version. I just went through it manually, hopefully it works, there isn't any status bar on how much I have left. Hopefully everything is running right, if not I'll update and see if it has the script for it.

One thing that was annoying me, I was trying to install everything through terminal and it kept saying archives are locked and it wouldn't download. I even tried forcing it, which I'm starting to feel is useless because it never works. I did " Sudo apt-get install playonlinux -f " I got wine to install during it, but a license page came up in the terminal and I couldn't do anything to get past it, so it never completed. Not a big deal I guess, since I did it through the software center, but still really annoying.

I'll let you guys know if I ever get it to play.

[CraeSC111]

I'm sure there will still be problems with 12.04, which is probably why you had trouble with the terminal, but there's always the software center or the package manager for installing programs. The install script for LoL should be under the testing section. You can probably find the page on the playonlinux website which will tell you about all the LoL related bugs. If you can't get it to work you could always try downgrading to 10.04, which is my current favorite version.

[Trunks]

Well, I got everything installed and league runs. But when I go into an actual game, everything is black except my hud. So it's unplayable. Going to try reinstall everything, but league through terminal if it will left me. Going to take a break from it for now though.

[CraeSC111]

Yes that is the exact same problem I had. You probably cannot run the game because of your graphics card, which I'm guessing is an integrated Intel chip. Reinstalling will not change anything, but I you could go stalk around the internet a bit if you don't believe me :p

[Trunks]

After a couple of hours of smashing my computer I finally got it to work.

First I tried installing and running League without PlayonLinux, so I installed everything needed for that, inet still wouldn't install. So I finally found a equivalent that would work and installed libucurl. Opened the game and everything ran, except none of the textures loaded again.

Then after a while of searching for a fix, I found that if you install libtxc-dxtn0 it works. supposedly it takes the stress off your graphics card and puts it on your CPU. Got it from here, Index of /pool/aportes/i/ia32-libs-libtxc-dxtn0 (http://paquetes.canaima.softwarelibre.gob.ve/pool/aportes/i/ia32-libs-libtxc-dxtn0/) I installed the .deb one and everything worked fine. Only problem is that it seemed to have lowered my FPS, still playable, but it's not like playing on my desktop.