All suggestions are welcome as this will be an evolving document. 

This will be a book page as Garreth, myself, Grasen, Aidin, and Delirium are done tearing it apart (and it will look nicer.)

All information provided has been referenced by the sources referenced through the document and as can be seen I can confirm that they work.  These instructions are for Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid, however they should work fine with Ubuntu 9.04 after release.  I might play-test and find out.

Something rarely mentioned by people who support OpenSource is the large amount of End-User work (that’s you) it takes to make a Linux-based system function the way you want it to.  If you do not consider yourself at least ‘moderately’ tech-savvy, take a long moment to consider your options before making the conversion to Ubuntu.  (aka, if the following words mean nothing to you, Ubuntu isn’t for you unless you have guild/family/friends to help.  ‘Mozilla’, ‘Torrent’, ‘manual install’, ‘drivers’, ‘dual-boot’, ‘regedit’, ‘refresh rate’.  Not all of them, but if you’re looking at one of the seven than Ubuntu probably isn’t for you.)

*Note* Currently Blizzard does not support Mouse-Hardware properly while using OpenGL.  In Windows when your system lags, your mouse does not.  In Linux, your mouse will lag when your system lags.  (aka: Wintergrasp, 25man Raiding, Malygos, etc) Please visit the Macro’s and Recommended AddOns page for more information and suggestions.

If you see something wrong, PLEASE post!

This is the Linux x86 and Linux x86_64 Drivers Released 03/24/2009

ATI has recently developed the Catalyst software support for Linux and it is very much appreciated but is not quite enough to work perfectly right off the bat.

The ATI Drivers only support video cards series 2400 and greater.  If you have an ATI card prior to series 2400 DO NOT GO FURTHER.

This is WineHQ 's World of Warcraft page.  Most of the information below will be coming directly from this page.

Please read this section for a quick overview before commending on ‘issues’ that might be unable to be corrected. (aka: mini-map is white while indoors, mouse-lag, etc)

http://www.wowwiki.com/Wine

Wowwiki's Wine Page

http://www.wowwiki.com/Wine_miscellaneous_info

Wow-Buntu 3.1 ScreenShot: Where's Pitbull? 

Table of Contents

Step 1: Planning and Setup

Step 2: Installing and Configuring Ubuntu

Step 3: Installing and Configuring Wine

Step 4: Installing and Configuring World of Warcraft

Step 5: Installing and Configuring Sound / Ventrilo

(Under Future Construction because Garreth ran me through it to fast and I don’t remember what he made me do……)

Step 6: Macro’s and Recommended AddOns

(Under Future Construction because to be frank, I’m a Tankadin and don’t need that wide a variety of macro’s.)

Step 7: Troubleshooting and current known issues

(Under Future Construction. I am not a Linux/Ubuntu guru.  I learned everything and setup my system over a period of three days.)

If you are on Vent...  You should do this!

Vent Normalization makes every bodies voice the exact same volume. In essence, you won't blow your ear's out or have difficulty hearing people.

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Here's how:

- Go to Setup

- Enable Direct Sound

- Select the SFX Button

- Select Compressor and click Add.

- Under Compressor Properties use the following settings

- Gain = Adjust for how loud you want people to be. (I use 15)

- Attack = 0.01

- Release = Around 500

- Threshold = Around -30

- Ratio = 100

- Pre delay = 4.0

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What the settings do - Copied and pasted from page 8

Gain
How much volume you feed into the compressor. Not really relevant unless everyone is too quiet, then you can turn this up a little; turning it up too much will sound EXTREMELY *%*%ty.

Attack
How fast volume change will happen. example: setting this to 500 means that any-
thing coming in will only be dropped in volume after a half a second. for vent this should
be set as low as possible.

Release
how fast the compressor stops changing things. not really that relevant with vent, setting it around 500 is good for voice material.

Threshold
This sets the point where we actually start changing what?s coming in. Whereas 0 is the absolute loudest you can have for an input, -60 is super quiet. Average users will probably come in somewhere around -25 to -15, with the occaisional few being really quiet, which is why I have this set so low.

Ratio
How much any sound below the set threshold gets compressed and/or modified in the volume department.
If you still want to hear SOME volume variation then set this lower (2-4)... the higher you set it the closer in volume everyone will be.

Pre delay
Mostly just deals with processing; with computer and digital processors they can look ahead a few milliseconds to see what needs to be dropped in volume or changed before it actually comes through the speakers. Highest is ideal.
 

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