Linux Ubuntu Noob

[BreakingIce]

Hello, I am trying to play Hexxit on my computer running Ubuntu 13.4. I just downloaded the launcher and when I try and play I get a white screen. I just downloaded Minecraft and have not messed with anything, so I don't know what the problem is. I played Minecraft extensively, but on a Windows machine, and circumstances forced me to change over to Linux (because its free, and I need an HDD wipe) so I don't know how a lot of this stuff works, and I am trying to learn as much as I can, so please excuse my ignorance. Any help I get to make this work will be very appreciated, thank you.

[BreakingIce]

Oops, forgot to really say my problem. I downloaded the launcher, and I clicked to play on Hexxit and it seemed to load all the files for me. Then I click launch and FML does its thing and then I get a white screen. So I have no idea why, or what to do about it. Thank, again.

[BreakingIce]

Sorry, Bump. I really want to play Hexxit. =/

[weirleader]

I'm sure you really want to play.... wish I could help you. Since I can't, I'll just give you some advice: use the edit link instead of triple posting.

oh, and read this.

[BreakingIce]

Oh, well that sure makes me look bad huh XD. I'm terribly sorry, I should have read that. I'm pretty new here, as you can probably tell, but I'll make sure to follow the rules better, thanks for the heads up.

[Hammerson]

Sounds like a graphics card issue. What graphics card do you have, and have you done the stuff to get the official drivers? (they don't come by default for NVidia as I recall).

[BreakingIce]

Yeah I have the proper drivers (I believe) I can play vanilla Minecraft fine. I have a AMD ATI radeon HD 6450 GPU, if that helps.

[Hammerson]

Do you get a white screen as you click on hexxit and try to launch it, or is it the launcher itself which whites out on you?

[BreakingIce]

It will go white when launching. Here, I have a screen recording of when I was describing the problem to my friend on Skype.

[miniboxer]

You need to manually update LWJGL. This is a known problem on linux

[BreakingIce]

Hm, could you point in the direction to start? I have no idea what LWJGL is...

[miniboxer]

Hm, could you point in the direction to start? I have no idea what LWJGL is...

Download 2.9 from their website, you can find the website via Google very easily.

Extract it

Copy all the files in jars folder into a separate folder, named bin

In bin, make a new folder called natives, no caps, all lower case.

Copy the Linux natives from the LWJGL download, they are in native/Linux, and are .so files.

Paste them into the natives folder in bin

Open the terminal and type

cp -r <path to bin> ~/.technic/*/bin

You will have to run that after a new modpack is installed. Only that line.

[BreakingIce]

Ok, I did all you said, but when I put that line into the terminal, it said that there was "No such file or directory" I don't think that I have a .technic file, so that's probably the problem. Should I make one myself, if so where should I make it? I also don't have a .minecraft either, and I'm used to having one when playing on Windows, but I don't know if that's relevant.

*EDIT* Ok, I found out how to do it, thanks a whole lot everyone for helping me, I wouldn't have been able to figure it out myself. I really appreciate it =D

[miniboxer]

Ok, I did all you said, but when I put that line into the terminal, it said that there was "No such file or directory" I don't think that I have a .technic file, so that's probably the problem. Should I make one myself, if so where should I make it? I also don't have a .minecraft either, and I'm used to having one when playing on Windows, but I don't know if that's relevant.

*EDIT* Ok, I found out how to do it, thanks a whole lot everyone for helping me, I wouldn't have been able to figure it out myself. I really appreciate it =D

You probably didn't subsitute in the path to the bin folder. You do have a .technic though, it is in your home directory. You have to show hidden files, most of the time the hotkey is ctrl+h. In most linux file managers, hidden files are designated by putting a . in the front.