Lynn Mellow

Firestorm Beta 3 doesn't work, as I feared. So I keep Firestorm Beta 2.5 on 64 bit Linux (Ubuntu Natty Narwhal). It misses music streaming, but its multimedia filter displays the streaming address and you can open it with any other streaming capable application, like VLC or some WinAmp clones. 32-bit Ubuntu Lucid Lynx works better: testing this OS on the same machine above, both Firestorm and Viewer 3 works.

> Any ideas? Firestorm viewer, which is based on Viewer 2.5 AFAIK. For now it is the only option left for me, on an old Linux laptop with Intel graphic card. I haven't tried Imprudence and other "minor" 3rd party viewers, maybe they works too. I begun to experience crashes on startup since version 2.5 or earlier, but after a retry, it usually started properly. It newer has been fixed. Instead, after 2.6.9, the 2.7.0 release stopped to work at all, crashing with your same errors. As older releases seems to be forced to update, I'm no longer able to run the official viewer on that computer. The latest Phonenix release crashes on startup as well. Also since version 2.5 Bump Map & Shiny was no longer available on Linux for Intel GPUs. Oddly it still worked on Windows, so I thought it was a macroscopic bug (to no longer have shiny is easily noticeable), but it was never fixed and now it appears a message telling that graphic card is no longer supported. Not only that, but as Firestorm moved from 2.4 to 2.5, it lost the bump & shiny as well. On a computer with AMD graphic card, it works, but I experienced performances drop, as I updated the client to V3. So now I'm using Firestorm on that computer too. Now I'm worried that the next Firestorm release will import these issues too. But for now my "fix" is to use Firestorm 2.5.