In MSWIN10, GOG “X Rebirth” freezes after about 3-10 mins. I can’t get anywhere. 
How do I install “X Rebirth” in OPENSUSE Leap 42.3? Also, I have the two downloaded modules.
Need help…
There is a linux version of X-Rebirth. Are you using the correct download?
GOG downloads
x_rebirth_en_4_30_16978.sh main file
x_rebirth_home_of_light_dlc_en_gog_3_16977.sh module
x_rebirth_teladi_outpost_dlc_en_gog_3_16977.sh module
I tried on the command line in superuser mode, using the above lines, higher permissions needed. Enter superuser mode. Same result. ??
./filename.sh same result. ??
./x_rebirth_en_4_30_16978.sh
Verifying archive integrity… All good.
Uncompressing X: Rebirth (GOG.com) 100%
Collecting info for this system…
Operating system: linux
CPU Arch: x86_64
trying mojosetup in bin/linux/x86_64
USING en_US
(mojosetup:3765): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: “murrine”,
(mojosetup:3765): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: “murrine”,
(mojosetup:3765): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: “murrine”,
(mojosetup:3765): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: “murrine”,
(mojosetup:3765): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: “murrine”,
(mojosetup:3765): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: “murrine”,
(mojosetup:3765): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: “murrine”,
(mojosetup:3765): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: “murrine”,
(mojosetup:3765): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: “murrine”,
(mojosetup:3765): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: “murrine”,
(mojosetup:3765): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: “murrine”,
(continues)
I really wouldn’t recommend running shell scripts you downloaded from the internet as root unless you want to bork your system
nothing wrong there just some warning messages related to the gtk theme you use you can always change the grk theme and/or ignore those messages
did the download come with a readme file?
do you have enough space in your /home and/or / partitions as you ran that shell installer both as ordinary user and root it could be the redistributable files are over compressed and need a lot of time to decompress or you could be running out of space?
just run the shell installer as an ordinary user and wait, the waiting time will depend on your hardware
sh x_rebirth_en_4_30_16978.sh
I installed in normal user mode and the install works. I clicked on the icon and it showed an error. I opened a terminal window from the icon properties. When I started ‘start.h’, I received this output.
> sh start.sh
Running X: Rebirth
Language detected: English
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/home/username
Games
Rebirth’: Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/home/username
Games
Rebirth’: Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/home/username
Games
Rebirth’: Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/home/username
Games
Rebirth’: Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/home/username
Games
Rebirth’: Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/home/username
Games
Rebirth’: Permission denied
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/home/username/GOG Games/X Rebirth/game/support/drdump/drdump.ini': No such file or directory
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/home/username
Games
Rebirth’: Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/home/username
Games
Rebirth’: Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/home/username
Games
Rebirth’: Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/home/username
Games
Rebirth’: Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/home/username
Games
Rebirth’: Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/home/username
Games
Rebirth’: Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/home/username
Games
Rebirth’: Permission denied
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/home/username/GOG Games/X Rebirth/game/support/drdump/drdump.ini': No such file or directory
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/home/username
Games
Rebirth’: Permission denied
Elephant Memory Manager Initialized with 0MB
Elephant Memory Manager Name And Callstack Base Address is 0x142a2b9
Elephant Memory Manager Mode: Resizable Mode, Has small heap: No, 64bit, Version: 1.7.3
Heap Resize Generic 0x0x7f48c774e000 to 0x0x7f48d174dfc0
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File I/O: Could not find file './etc\xml\catalog'
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FileIORequest::WaitForResult() Failed './etc\xml\catalog' with 3
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XLib::XMLInputOpenCallback(): Failed to open the file: etc/xml/catalog
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File I/O: Could not find file './t\0002'
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FileIORequest::WaitForResult() Failed './t\0002' with 3
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XLib::XMLInputOpenCallback(): Failed to open the file: t/0002
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Error parsing text file t/0002 with libxml2
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./testandlaunch: line 32: 8297 Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped) ./$cmd "$@"
the above errors suggest install didn’t finish successfully ’
the mkdir error suggest a permission issue I’m guessing you are trying to install the game in your home folder and not in another user’s home ?
There is only one user, myself. I block external logins. I tried to install to my home directory, not in superuser mode. I have a ‘GOG games’ directory in my home directory.
a google search reveals this
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2870/discussions/0/613957600538517966/?ctp=4#c521643320356863036
apparently it’s a driver/mesa issue
that’s an old thread as LEAP comes with mesa 17.0.5
it’s probably a video card/driver issue what driver do you have?
I’m testing it on my 10 year old laptop, opensuse 42.3, and with a video card. It too slow for any game newer than 10-15 years old. I’ll assume it’s using mesa. I might be able to run empire earth gold edition.
My tower is not working. So, I can’t test with a modern video card.
a 10 year old laptop iprobobly has an external gfx as I don’t think cpu’s with build0in gpu’s wore out back then
if it’s an nvidia card then install the nvidia driver the G03 should work with 10 year old machines, I’m running a 10 year old 240GT with the G03 driver (they still make and sell GeForece 210)
noveau has broken 3d acceleration and I’m guessing that’s your issue
I’m not sure about ati cards but the opensourced radeon driver should work fine you should check the Radeon wiki for more info
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Radeon
what’s your gfx
sudo lspci | grep VGA
• ATI RadeonTM
X1200 128MB-319MB dynamically allocated shared
graphics memory
Sound
• Built-in stereo speakers
• Sound Volume Control Dial
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS690M [Radeon Xpress 1200/1250/1270]
Morrowind is unplayable. “X rebirth” won’t be playable either. However, it’s good test platform for XR. FYI, it’s builtin video card. So, I can’ t put in a new one.
that card is supported by the opensource Radeon driver
https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:AMD_video_cards#Supported_hardware_by_open-source_Radeon_driver
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Radeon
but
the game needs a newer gpu
http://gamesystemrequirements.com/game/x-rebirth
I doubt you’ll ever get it running on that machine
The x1200 was underpowered when it came out. I just need a test linux machine…
lsmod | grep radeon
radeon 1597440 12
i2c_algo_bit 16384 1 radeon
drm_kms_helper 167936 1 radeon
ttm 110592 1 radeon
drm 397312 15 ttm,drm_kms_helper,radeon
is the driver installed?
glxgears gives a not found message.
from the above I’d say yes the driver is installed
you can do some tests like running glxgears
see
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Radeon#Testing_the_driver
newer games require more then just a driver your graphic card is simply not supported by that game
the minimum system requirements for that game for Linux are
https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/X_Rebirth#System_requirements
the x1200is is just too old and unsupported
So, I can’t test it on this laptop. It’s too old. OK. 
Also, empire earth won’t run with wine either.
Thanks for the assist…