Demo crashes - audio problem [ubuntu]

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Could that be it? The website says "If you are not experienced doing this, we recommend that you get precompiled packages from one of the many Linux distributions." - where do I get one?

According to the hpl.log you already have the Mesa drivers installed, but it's not version 8.0.1. Configuring the X server is not a fun task. If you're not used to doing it, i wouldn't mess with it.

I remember having some issues with the X server on my desktop once, that was a royal pain in the ass. I'd like to not have to do that ever again...

The reason is this line from the logs.

Texture compression S3TC: 0

You have no S3TC. You have to either compiled & install the libdxt_txcn library or (for more recent distributions) do some mojo to enable S3TC in the open source driver

Is there any (sort of) simple way to get this done?