Hey, just wondering if any of you guys have used FreeBSD (8.x) on your computer in the past or present.

I'm curious if it is possible to play runescape on it in OpenGL mode.

 

I typically run a Linux desktop (arch linux) for browsing the web / playing runescape because everything just works.

 

However on the FreeBSD platform certain libraries do not appear within the cache download.

 

Example on linux:

$ ls ~/.jagex_cache_32/runescape/*.so
/home/punk/.jagex_cache_32/runescape/libhw3d.so
/home/punk/.jagex_cache_32/runescape/libjaclib.so
/home/punk/.jagex_cache_32/runescape/libjaggl.so
/home/punk/.jagex_cache_32/runescape/libsw3d.so

 

And obviously those are *.dll files on windows. But no such thing will exist in FreeBSD so you can only end up playing on "safe mode".

 

My main question is to ask whether anybody has managed to run runescape on FreeBSD in the OpenGL mode? I also use a nvidia card and have drivers installed.

 

I'd love to know how to get it working (if it is possible) :wall:

I, uh, think I tried running PC-BSD in a virtual machine once. It didn't work very well.

 

Strange thing is, Mac OS X is basically FreeBSD, so it shouldn't be too hard...? You're probably not running Darwin though. Or was it OpenBSD?

Ye PC-BSD is built ontop of the FreeBSD base system. I've had no luck getting anything more than safemode on that too.

 

From what i understand,

libjaggl.so = library for jagex's version of "jogl" aka java bindings for opengl

libsw3d.so = most likely for software mode

 

I'm wondering if the client launcher simply fails to detect the operating system so throws an exception, dropping to safemode because jagex probably haven't compiled the libraries for FreeBSD..?. And while those files do not exist, the game cant enter software/opengl modes.

 

...annoying.

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OS = FreeBSD 8.1

 

Port i am using:

java/diablo-jre16

 

Which is the:

Diablo Latte JRE 1.6.0-7 (I realise the licensed JRE for FreeBSD is quite old, but i don't think that is the problem.)

 

Browser:

Firefox 3.5 (not 3.6 because it requires a higher build version of java)

 

I have just noticed however from when i installed java there was no working OpenJDK port for FreeBSD at the time....

Just looked on the handbook, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html#Firefox ... It mentions a port and small instructions to work OpenJDK with Firefox 3.6.

 

I will give that a try once FreeBSD 8.2 is released this month... i could do with a reinstall.