JiKun Aero

I know that this is a bit late, but since the problem hasn't really been solved, I'll go ahead and share what I've found and how I managed to get SL working on my linux laptop. I was running into the same problem with all second life viewers (and I was also getting errors with any games that ran 3-D). For me, the problem turned out to be a driver issue. I have a compaq CQ62 (AKA: HP G62) with an ATi Radeon Mobility 4200 Graphics Card. ATi dropped support for these cards on the latest fglrx driver for Ubuntu 12.10, and moved the support to fglrx-legacy. However, the current fglrx-legacy driver is incompatible with Ubuntu 12.10 (and all variants). The legacy driver requires xorg 1.12, but the OS requires xorg 1.13 (see: http://askubuntu.com/questions/203232/radeon-hd-2000-3000-4000-on-12-10-quantal-fglrx-legacy-12-6-unsupported-wh). In order to get SL working, I had to downgrade to Ubuntu 12.04 (which also happens to be a Long Term Support version). I backed up my files and did a fresh install of 12.04, then I installed 12.04's standard fglrx driver (the driver for ATi graphics cards). Before the downgrade, I tried several other fixes. I tried downgrading xorg only using a special repository (tutorial). This didn't work for me, and also broke my ability to boot into my computer (I rebooted after attempting to install the legacy drivers, which left my computer without ANY graphics drivers. Fixing this would have required either several hours of poking around config files from a live CD or a complete reinstall.). I tried running different viewers (Exodus, firestorm, vanilla SL) and they all had the same issue. I tried installing a windows version of SL via wine, only to have it crash on continuously on startup. I even tried different versions of 12.10 (Ubuntu and Xubuntu). The only method that even remotely worked for me was the fresh install of 12.04, followed by installing the normal 12.04 fglrx drivers. Best of luck to anyone else with this problem. EDIT: sorry, I forgot to mention that the FINAL piece of the puzzle was also to install "ia32-libs" using the following via terminal: sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install ia32-libs