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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.

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

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

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

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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crafty : What about as a server ?

crafty wrote: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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Maybe it was using software renderer instead of opengl?

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

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

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...

try out the pandaboard as a minetestserver ;)

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-is-coming-to-the-raspberry-pi/ (probably trolling, IDK)

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 ;)

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.).

A RPI is just Linux.

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

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?

AgentNagel42 wrote: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.

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 :)

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.

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...

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...

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

Dartmouth wrote: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 !

Dartmouth wrote: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. :-)

@jp, Thanks for the hint, I'll do this once I get the RPi

Hi !
Is there any news about Minetest client and Raspberry Pi 2 ?
I hav tryed to compile, it's works with 1-6 fps .... too slow to play ....
Is minetest could be ported with OPENGL ES ?
Thanks again

julienrat wrote:Hi !
Is there any news about Minetest client and Raspberry Pi 2 ?
I hav tryed to compile, it's works with 1-6 fps .... too slow to play ....
Is minetest could be ported with OPENGL ES ?
Thanks again

I don't think minetest needs to be ported with OPENGLES since minetest already works with OPENGLES (as example the android minetest version).

I think the issue here is to compile irrlicht with OPENGLES. At the moment irrlicht 1.9 with OPENGLES support can be found at http://svn.code.sf.net/p/irrlicht/code/branches/ogl-es/ (from where is downloaded by minecraft android build script), I have tried to compile irrlicht 1.9 with OPENGLES support for raspberry pi 2 with no success, tho.

Have anyone compiled irrlicht 1.9 with OPENGLES support for raspberry pi 2 successfully?

I have an Rpi2, I could try building MT from source. I don't do much with it, it pretty much just sits around with Drupal running on top of Apache, so it wouldn't matter if it Sat there for a couple days compiling.

:3 Why do I not have any devices?
I have a windows laptop and a borrowed wintop(almost but not quite TM), I thought that was good, until I saw people with 5 wintops, one with each server on them, and 3 macbook pros, rooted and overclocked, and then they have 2 phones, one they use for gaming, and the other for calling, and their wallet has a touchscreen and password lock.
And they have a desktop Lubuntu with rooted MacOSX dualboot.
And also their house is scattered with circuit boards and transistors.
Welcome to my disappointing