Edited By Valczir on 11/06/05 23:09

• -mkdir a directory for NWN (on your home driver perhaps)
  
• -cd into it and run: unzip [cddir]/ data_shared.zip
  
• -then: unzip [cddir]/ data_linux.zip
  
• -unzip [cddir]/ XP1.zip (Replace everything)
  
• -unzip [cddir]/ XP2.zip (Replace everything)
  
• -download the linux client (early post has location)
  
• -tar -zxvf [download-loc]/ nwclient129.tar.gz
  
• -./fixinstall
  
• -Download the patch (mentioned above) and extract. (replace everything)
  
• -Now.. if you want newer soundcards to work properly (like on my T42 laptop) you are going to need to edit the ./nwn script. At this point you have two options, if you simply want audio to work and you don't care about movies follow the following:
  

• -Open the ./nwn startup script and edit
  
• export LD_LIBRARY_PATH = ./lib:./miles:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  
• To read:
  
• export LD_LIBRARY_PATH = ./miles:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  
• -This will tell nwn to use the Ubuntu SDL driver instead of the ancient one included with the installation.
  
• -That's it if you don't want NWMovies.
  

• -First create a new directory in your nwn installation dir called nwmovies
  
• -Now download NWMovies at http://home.woh.rr.com/nwmovies
  
• -Extract nwmovies-latest.tar.gz into this directory.
  
• -If you are going to convert your movies to another format (I recommend) you can use nwnbink2ogm
  
• -Assuming you plan to use that you are going to need to apt-get the following (make sure you have added both the universe and multiverse repositories):
  
• -apt-get install wine autoconf gcc-3.4 gcc-3.4-base mencoder-586 mplayer-586 vorbis-tools ogmtools libasound2-dev
  
• -Once that massive install is done you can download the RAD tools as mentioned in the nwbink tutorial and install it in a separate nwn dir. Now go through the tutorial in doing the conversion, then move the ./movies/*.bik files somewhere else. When all done make sure you can view a movie with mplayer -fs ./movies/BiowareLogo.bik
  
• -Now that the movies are converted we can build and install nwmovies
  
• -Run ln -sf /usr/bin/gcc-3.4 /usr/bin/gcc
  
• -cd into the nwmovies dir.
  
• -Now you need to perform some extra steps that I got from the nwmovies . README.softmix .txt
  
• -mkdir libsdl and cd into it.
  
• -Do an apt-get source libsdl1.2
  
• -cd into the [newly created folder]/ upstream/tarballs/
  
• -tar -zxvf [the only file there]
  
• -cd into the new folder
  
• -vi src/video/SDL_video.c
  
• -do a find for: SDL_WM_GrabInputRaw
  
• -Remove the static in front of the declaration.
  
• -Save and exit
  
• -./autogen.sh
  
• -./configure --enable-alsa
  
• -make (DO NOT INSTALL)
  
• -Now cp src/.libs/ libSDL-1.2.so.0.7.0 [Your NWN dir] /lib
  
• -ln -sf [your nwn dir]/lib/ libSDL-1.2.so.0.7.1 [your nwn dir]/lib/ libSDL-1.2.so.0
  
• -Now setup mplayer to use SDL, open /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf in an editor.
  
• -Change ao= to be ao=sdl
  
• -Now we are ready to compile nwmovies
  
• -cd back into the nwmovies dir and run:
• ./nwmovies_install.pl ../lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0
  
• -This should finish without errors and the nwmovies.so plugin should appear.
  
• -cp ./nwmovies.so ../
  
• -Now one last step!
  
• -Open the nwn startup script in an editor, change it to the following:
  

• -Run ./nwn
  
• -nwmovies will do some very cool magic and exit.
  
• -Run ./nwn again
  

Edited By mountainguy on 11/27/05 08:21

Quote: Posted 12/10/05 13:05:49 (GMT) by BrandonBarker

Well, I was lazy and just copied my entire install of NWN Diamond over from windows and everything works ... but don't worry I still had my share of "fun" getting SDL tweaked on x86_64 linux.

That said I haven't actually tried playing Kingmaker, but it shows up in the menu ... sadly I'm away from my home computer for a few days or I would try firing up Kingmaker to verify.