I don't think they'll be much help.
The first launch and associated update yielded this: http://pastebin.com/74YFpXtR
The second launch with no update yielded this: http://pastebin.com/LqSYPGBB
I tried to update my graphics drivers, but I think AMD's installer was broken, it gave an error, but left nothing in the error log.
I'll keep trying to update the graphics drivers and will report back if it starts to work.
Okay, I reinstalled again.
First launch, with update: http://pastebin.com/hfrWNNMJ
Second launch: http://pastebin.com/Gq2k73gw
I think I managed to update the AMD drivers, but had the exact same behaviour.
I'll be poking around for other versions of the drivers to try, but I think I should try uninstalling PulseAudio as well.
I tried uninstalling the PulseAudio system and trying again, though it didn't solve anything.
(I also forgot to copy the logs this time. I can try again later and save the logs if needed)
Hmm, I really want to help you but I don't see any clues of why the game isn't running in the logs. Okay let's try this, open a terminal and paste the command found at the end of launcher.log:
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.26/jre/bin/java
-classpath
/home/dvanhumb/spiral/code/config.jar:/home/dvanhumb/spiral/code/projectx-config.jar:/home/dvanhumb/spiral/code/projectx-pcode.jar:/home/dvanhumb/spiral/code/lwjgl.jar:/home/dvanhumb/spiral/code/lwjgl_util.jar:/home/dvanhumb/spiral/code/jinput.jar:/home/dvanhumb/spiral/code/jshortcut.jar:/home/dvanhumb/spiral/code/commons-beanutils.jar:/home/dvanhumb/spiral/code/commons-digester.jar:/home/dvanhumb/spiral/code/commons-logging.jar
-Dcom.threerings.getdown=true
-Xmx256M
-XX:+AggressiveOpts
-XX:SoftRefLRUPolicyMSPerMB=10
-Djava.library.path=/home/dvanhumb/spiral/native
-Dorg.lwjgl.util.NoChecks=true
-Dsun.java2d.d3d=false
-Dappdir=/home/dvanhumb/spiral
-Dresource_dir=/home/dvanhumb/spiral/rsrc
com.threerings.projectx.client.ProjectXApp
Remember you have to make this a single-line command, so replace all the line breaks with spaces. An error of some kind should appear in the console after doing this.
Try open source mesa drivers instead of fglrx.
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates
It is slower than proprietary, but less buggy and you can send report, if you have a question.
Or you can play with catalyst configs and turn off "catalyst a.i" and vertical refresh. It must help, cuz I have same problem on java with Minecraft. (SK using lwjgl too)
@lufte: The only message it printed out is the following:
Aborted
@asukafag: I tried using the Mesa drivers, but something didn't work and wouldn't let me start the X server, so I had to go back to the fglrx drivers.
I then disabled Catalyst A.I, but couldn't find the vertical refresh option, and still nothing.
However, I found out I wasn't using the latest driver version (11.6) but was using a fairly old version (8.661).
Using the new version seems to have made no difference, though.
I'm running out of answers here :/
Okay, let's try this. First, go to windows and verify what version of the drivers you are using there, and if it's not the same as your linux's then try to install that version on it. Secondly, is the game trying to start in full screen mode? If so, try to start it in windowed mode. For this, edit the file located at ~/.java/.userPrefs/projectx/prefs.xml, specifically these options:
entry key="fullscreen" value="false"
entry key="display_mode" value="1200, 675, 0, 0"
Put a false in the first one and choose a resolution for the second one, like 800, 600, 0, 0.
Okay, it turns out it was the fglrx drivers, and I'd tried to uninstall them incorrectly.
I used the Ubuntu Additional Drivers program and removed the drivers that way, and the game ran fairly well.
(I did have to use compatibility mode for the graphics, but it does work now)
Thanks for your help guys!
Good to know. Enjoy the game now ;)
I'll probably fiddle with different fglrx driver versions to see if one of them works.
If I do find a version that works, I'll update the Wiki to make note of the versions that do work.
I understand there are several problems with ati graphics card, although I didn't find any with that specific model. Are you sure you have propetary drivers installed? If so, and they are updated, try installing previous versions. Log files are located in the installation folder, you should paste the contents of projectx.log.