Posted by Gran on 2013-02-16 20:21:26

Java. I've played with both old and new client on a 800MHz/500MB machine running Lubuntu. It's a bit slow at times, but other than that no issues.

Posted by Garion on 2013-02-16 20:46:13

Some people have problems that are fixed by turning in game sound off.

Posted by blader4411 on 2013-02-16 21:38:54

Make sure to install Sun's version of Java, since I had some funny experiences with OpenJDK, the version bundled with most Linux distributions.

Posted by Grod on 2013-02-16 22:30:43

When you say "small", if you are talking about one of those eee pc style laptops, you may find the screen too small to fit the client. Otherwise all you need is to have Java installed, preferably the one from Oracle rather than OpenJDK (although OpenJDK should still work). Due to licensing issues, you can't install this directly through Ubuntu Software Center any more. The best site explaining how to install it is

http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/install-oracle-java-jdk-7-in-ubuntu-via.html

If you prefer to stick with the open source version that is maintained by Ubuntu directly, you need to install it by running

sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre

from the command line.

Once you have installed java, just start a game from the fumbbl website as per normal.

Posted by Greedy on 2013-02-17 00:53:13

and to rezise the screen if your resolution is too small you can use this code:
Changing screenresolution on netbook with ubuntu:
For the 1024x768 launcher, enter the following in the Command text box
Code:

xrandr --fb 1024x768 --output LVDS1 --panning 1024x768

Enter the following in the 1024x600 launcher's Command text box
Code:

xrandr --fb 1024x600

Posted by blader4411 on 2013-02-17 00:55:20

This makes me wonder; can you run FFB on a Chromebook?

Posted by Red7394 on 2013-02-17 03:04:35

I'm having a problem where for some reason Java isn't opening FumBBL.
It opens the Icedtea webapp, downloads the .jar and resources.jar, then does nothing.

Posted by Floi on 2013-03-08 00:47:29

Red, I think you need Oracle's Java. I couldn't get it to work with openjdk either and had the same problems...