Minetest on Rasbpberry Pi

[Trenton]

I was wondering... is it possible to launch and play Minetest on a Raspberry Pi?

like, plug a keyboard and mouse, a screen and play the game.

Actually I'm only into Arduino but I'd like to get a Raspberry Pi too.

[XCalibur54]

I'm no expert on Raspberry Pi, but I think it would work.

[Trenton]

I was thinking at something like putting a tiny Linux distro on it and install Minetest and the keyboard/mouse.

but maybe it's not the only way

[etwas]

Well, the minetestserver works, wit the the pandaboard on ubuntu i run my private minetestserver on it for a few player
http://pandaboard.org/
i think that the client works, too. but i don't try this. so that it is possible to launch it on the raspberry pi too

[crafty]

I have a raspberry pi, I have tryed to run the game on it but with no success. The games will work on the device but it is not play able, The FPS is between 0 - 1. The game does run i little better with the older versions of the game. but even the menu is slow selecting a box to tick it take about 4seconds before showing its ticked.

I hope this helps in some way.

raspberry pi was overclocked as well.

CPU: 850MHz
RAM: 440MHz
GPU: 350MHz

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[cisoun]

crafty : What about as a server ?

[cosarara97]

I have a raspberry pi, I have tryed to run the game on it but with no success. The games will work on the device but it is not play able, The FPS is between 0 - 1. The game does run i little better with the older versions of the game. but even the menu is slow selecting a box to tick it take about 4seconds before showing its ticked.

I hope this helps in some way.

raspberry pi was overclocked as well.

CPU: 850MHz
RAM: 440MHz
GPU: 350MHz

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azahtc@gmail.com

Maybe it was using software renderer instead of opengl?

[crafty]

I tryed it once as a server it runs but there is a little lag some times. So yes you can use it as a server for minetest.

As for what cosarara97 said as far as i know it was using opengl, It did say at the top of the window OpenGL 2.1.

Add me on skype username: crafty3000

[srothe]

Amazing!

Raspberry Pi as Minetest-Server. Crafty, I think we share a hobby (Arduino and Raspberry Pi). I do not have one yet, but I am waiting for it :-)

Stefan

[Jeija]

I also got a raspberry pi but I think performance of the minetest server ist horrible.
I deleted mapgen mud flowing and the anti-cheating-code to make it a little faster.
Still, I don`t think it is a good idea to run mods on the RasPi...

[etwas]

try out the pandaboard as a minetestserver

[4aiman]

For some reason latest git refuses to run under raspbian on a raspberry pi, claiming there's no glx support (which is somewhere near the truth). Anyway, back then it worked, it had 2 fps max.
Minetest on Pi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCbnF9OAne4
Minecraft on Pi: http://www.mojang.com/2012/11/minecraft ... pberry-pi/ (probably trolling, IDK)

[4aiman]

Edit: minetest under raspbian wants mesa-swx11 package. After installing that, minetest opengl will work.
Tested that yesterday's night and got 4-7 fps with 32x texturepack on a server.
Maybe this will bring some hopes

[Casimir]

I know there are some servers already running on a Pi. I would be nice if someone starts an article in the wiki on how to do it on a Pi (what minetest.conf, building without irrlicht etc.).

[rubenwardy]

A RPI is just Linux.

[Casimir]

I know that Linux thing. I get some error when running.

Code: Select all

ERROR: An unhandled exception occurred: Failed to create socket

In thread b635d000:
/home/pi/freeminer/src/main.cpp:1863: int main(int, char**): Assertion '0' failed.
Debug stacks:
DEBUG STACK FOR THREAD b635d000:
#0 int main(int, char**)
(Leftover data: #1 Dedicated server branch)
Aborted

[AgentNagel42]

Sorry to resurrect this "Minetest on Pi" thing, but the Raspberry Pi 2 has been released with 1g RAM, A quad core running at 900mhz and a 656mhz video processor, could we port it to the RPI 2?

[Sokomine]

Sorry to resurrect this "Minetest on Pi" thing, but the Raspberry Pi 2 has been released with 1g RAM, A quad core running at 900mhz and a 656mhz video processor, could we port it to the RPI 2?

AFAIK it's just a matter of compiling, plus a lot of patience? Those Rasperry Pi computers do seem to have their own "store"/repository. Getting a pre-compiled version up there might be a good idea. As far as games/subgames go, anything that works on Android devices might also be of intrest here as it would run on weak hardware.

[Dartmouth]

The most common RPi OS is Raspbian, which is basically a Debian system. It uses apt as its package manager. I'll probably pick one up this week to try this :)

[Ivà]

I own an RPI 1and compile the minetest git version quiet often (maybe once a week or so).
If it's of interest to somebody I can submit the compiled binary into the corresponding forum subthread.

EDIT: I use raspbian and compile only the server without the client part.

[Dartmouth]

Did you have to do any tweaking/what depedencies did you install? I have a RPi 1 and would be interested in trying. But I guess the RPi 2 would have a bit more processing power, and 1GB RAM is probably better too...

[Ivà]

I installed the dependencies listed on http://dev.minetest.net/Compiling_Minetest plus the libgmp-dev library, and download and compiled the last stable luajit.

RPI is slightly tweaked to use 800 MHz CPU frequency but nothing else, and it's usable as a minetest home server. With a pregenerated map and an external USB (or a good internal SD card) do the job surprisingly well :-)

Someone owns a public server that runs on a RPI, but I don't remember the server's name...

[Dartmouth]

So RAM usage isn't much of a problem when just hosting a small server?

[jp]

Did you have to do any tweaking/what depedencies did you install?

You will have to compile Irrlicht 1.9 with OpenGL ES support, and then compile MT pointing your own-built Irrlicht.

Good luck !

[Ivà]

So RAM usage isn't much of a problem when just hosting a small server?

Not at all, IMHO the bottleneck is the CPU. And sometimes RPI freezes a bit when it writes to the SD card (but this is not related to minetest), using an external USB disk improves this point.

I noticed that with the GIT version crafting was improved alot too. :-)