Greetings.
I am trying this game out again. (Tried for 25 minutes before but for some reason I left). Anyway. I am running Ubuntu 9.10 on a Toshiba Satellite M35-S456 laptop with an added 1GB's of RAM. I am on a 3 mbit down, 756 kbit up connection.

I start up the game no problem. I log in, select my character, press play and I get the "Entering Universe..." message (with a cancel button below). Nothing more happens. Just stays that way. I left it for 10 minutes and still nothing. Any ideas?

EDIT: I Posted my error log below.

Same problem.

Ubuntu 9.04

I went looking into the vendetta files and found the error log :P
Here it is:

wtf!archive returned 0
[Sat Sep 5 15:14:12 2009] Found driver: "Open Sound System driver". Type 1, Version 8.1. Load @0x08e246c8
[Sat Sep 5 15:14:12 2009] Instantiate address: 0xb6e946c0
[Sat Sep 5 15:14:12 2009] Found driver: "OpenGL Reference GKGL driver". Type 5, Version 78.0. Load @0x08e250a0
[Sat Sep 5 15:14:12 2009] Instantiate address: 0xb6e61ba0
[Sat Sep 5 15:14:12 2009] Found driver: "ALSA driver". Type 1, Version 8.1. Load @0x08e26030
[Sat Sep 5 15:14:12 2009] Instantiate address: 0xb6cc8ea0
ALSA initialized: 44100Hz, 16bit stereo, 92ms latency (16 periods x 256 samples)
[Sat Sep 5 15:14:13 2009] load_sample_ogg: Couldn't open sound/mission.updated.ogg (mission.updated)
[Sat Sep 5 15:14:13 2009] load_sample: Couldn't open sound/mission.updated.ogg (mission.updated)
[Sat Sep 5 15:14:13 2009] load_sample_ogg: Couldn't open sound/nfz.warning.enter.ogg (nfz.warning.enter)
[Sat Sep 5 15:14:13 2009] load_sample: Couldn't open sound/nfz.warning.enter.ogg (nfz.warning.enter)
[Sat Sep 5 15:14:13 2009] load_sample_ogg: Couldn't open sound/nfz.warning.leave.ogg (nfz.warning.leave)
[Sat Sep 5 15:14:13 2009] load_sample: Couldn't open sound/nfz.warning.leave.ogg (nfz.warning.leave)
/dev/js0: No such file or directory
/dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
/dev/js1: No such file or directory
/dev/input/js1: No such file or directory
/dev/js2: No such file or directory
/dev/input/js2: No such file or directory
/dev/js3: No such file or directory
/dev/input/js3: No such file or directory
Found 0 joystick(s)
[Sat Sep 5 15:14:25 2009] Flight-Assist mode enabled.
[Sat Sep 5 15:14:25 2009] Auto-Aim enabled.
Welcome to Vendetta Online.

[Sat Sep 5 15:14:37 2009] Welcome to Vendetta Online.

[Sat Sep 5 15:14:37 2009] Welcome to Vendetta Online.
[Sat Sep 5 15:14:42 2009] [100] *** Channel 100 is active.
[Sat Sep 5 15:14:44 2009] You are entering Itan M-14
[Sat Sep 5 15:14:44 2009] *** You have used 0h 35m of your 8-hour trial.

After I actually read the error log. ROFL. I now understand that it seems to be loading everything fine but the interface. The error log even shows what is said in chat... Sooo. Maybe a graphics problem? Will continue tinkering.

There seem to be issues with the training sectors at the moment.

http://vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/1/21906

Maybe that's what you are seeing. If it isn't already it will probably be fixed soonish .. they are usually pretty good about that.

It is working now. Thank you very much. :)