That said, I had a few issues in getting it all set up and so I thought I would share...
I would formerly play the game on Mac, and what I did there was use Disk Utility to create a disk image file (*.img) so I could just mount that on the desktop and Myth II would be happy and not pester me to insert the CD. This was a long time ago.
I figured I could just burn that to a CD-R and then use that to do the Linux install, and you can, but there's a trick... you first have to use Disk Utility to "convert" it. Turns out these *.img files are a really ancient format. Wasted about a half day trying to figure this out... it let's you burn the CD from the older img file format but Linux won't recognize it, at all. Do the "convert" and then it works great on Linux.
In fact, you don't even need to burn the CD if you did it my way, you can just copy the converted image file over to Linux and then mount it using:
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mount MythII.cdr /media/cdrom -o loopAfter it installs you might have permission problems. I installed it as root and then was so sad to see I couldn't play it cause it was complaining about missing tags. But I just installed the tags! GHOLS!!! Well no, it isn't ghols, it's because the tags only allow the user who did the install to read them you see. So either install as the user who will be playing, or use chown/chmod on them (or even the whole directory) so you can read the tags.
On a 64-bit system you'll probably have issues with getting SDL to work. propagandhi's comment here fixed this for me, to repeat...
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emerge emul-linux-x86-sdlA couple of further points, but only applicable for certain installations. I play on a netbook, using the trackpad for selecting units and doing gestures. My trackpad has two buttons that of course work fine for left-click and right-click, but that's a bother (it's a cheap netbook, and they're clunky buttons and not positioned all that well).
You can do it all just using the trackpad alone. Assuming you have the synaptics driver installed and properly configured in your xorg.conf file (or xorg.conf.d directory), you can issue the following command:
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synclient LockedDrags=0 LockedDragTimeout=100 TapAndDragGesture=1And of course, these settings aren't good for everything I do on the netbook so I just put together a short script that does the synclient stuff and then executes the game client and it's like I'm one of these computer scientist dudes you read about in the paper.
The other thing is, I'm using ratpoison as my window manager. In ratpoison, everything is full screen (the way it should be!
) but I was initially disturbed to find that the usual prefix keys that allow you access to the window manager commands were being filtered by Myth II. What you do in this case is select windowed mode! Since it's ratpoison and forces everything to be fullscreen, you're still playing fullscreen, but now your prefix keys go through to the window manager, which was a great relief to see.So wow, I'm just ecstatic over this setup... my favorite game ever, you guys did a beautiful job with it and I just couldn't be happier! Who says Linux isn't for gaming? I'm playing Myth II baby...
