Just heard of Nexuiz i'm gonna check it out

http://www.alientrap.org/nexuiz/inde...dule=downloads

I will have to look into getting UT and Return to Wolfenstein

here is another one.
http://www.cubeengine.com/

Explain please. What's the game support like for linux? Can I play Madden?

Go somewhere else. I've provided links to videos and descriptions of Xgl in action. And no, you can't play Madden.

I can play Counterstrike just fine with the Link I provided Earlier

Its great

OK, this is driving me nuts. I have three sets of Steam install instructions for Linux and nothing works. I have the tahoma.ttf font in the windows/fonts folder. I have the moxcontrol dll installed. I have run STeamInstall.exe. Everytime I try this I get invisible fonts and a non-functional steam file. When i go to program files there is no steam directory there even after I run the steaminstall completely..

I have tried removing wine and reinstalling it but nothing has changed.. This is really pissing me off.

I have been fighting with wine as well, haven't got anywhere with it.

what seems to be the issue

LOL! I will say that I just probably haven't tried enough honestly. I have had one piece of software act like it installed, but can't find it on the system. Other then that, everything else I have tried has failed completely, mostly for good reason though.

Thanks for the help Slag. Solved my problem.

Upgrading the Desktop to 10.1 Tonight

Wish me Luck

Found this out for those that are now on 10.1

about beagle indexing


I'm uninstalling it

http://en.theweeklyrant.com/modules/...php?storyid=11

SHIT!!!!!!!!
installing those Nvidia drivers was a chore.....

On my laptop i am going through another battle trying to get DVD/AVI/MPEG playback going

SHit

Why Suse Linux and Not FreeBSD?

I run FreeBSD on all my servers but Linux on my desktop/laptop simply because of hardware/driver support.

I am looking at installing a BSD/Postfix mail forwarder here at work.

I currently dont have any servers.... but the hardware support was one of the reasons I dumped Mandrake 6.0 Not enough Hardware support..

I tried Ubuntu and it was OK it didnt scream Leave windows like Suse did,


If I had a server it would probably run FreeBSD/OpenBSD or Linux of some flavor-

Whats the Deal with Gentoo?

If you have note Tried XMOTO do it NOW!!!

AWESOME GAME

The homepate site seems to be down.

Hunh...

:shrug:

ROFL Homepage:banghead: for Xmoto. It is not loading for me.

Check in your Games Folder.....


or see YAST

I run Postfix with virtual domains using Postfix Admin/MySQL. I tie it up with Amavisd-new and ClamAV/SpamAssassin. Drop a little Courier IMAP and set up TLS and you're golden. Bastard runs all day, every day, forever. It's wonderful.

Have you Checked out Xmoto?

Also Wine Bedfellow's Check out this link

WINE TOOLS

I installed 10.1 on my work machine and it seems everytime I am in YAST and make a configuration change the machine freezes, and I just get a black screen.

I'm Guessing you might have an NVIDIA based Gfx Card... You may have to reinstall the video drivers...


Does Fail Safe fix the issue?

Need more details.. can you log into an console screen... ?

dont be alarmed it is probably the normal boot up process..

try it again without interrupting... see how it goes... it wont harm your system

Ok, I'll try again real quick before I'm off to work.

There ya go, fouling everything up again. ROFL

More then you know; my monitor is now fried.

anyone have any luck with Mepsis -


Im looking for a distro that has a LiveCD that wont require more than 128 ram. that has KDE

Im downloading mepsis right now but any other suggestions?

I've had pretty good luck with MEPIS, though you can also try Knoppix.

MEPIS i think required more memory - because Knoppix is running smooth as silk

thanks for the suggestion

my latest problem is when trying to install the NES or SEGA emulators it says SDL 1.2 is not installed when Other programs installed (Xmoto) are ok with it

when i download the SDL RPM it wants to remove xmoto and other programs and i dont want it to.

any other suggestions?

also on one of the emulators when i do Make it give me a wierd code

i wonder if i should go back and uninstall GNOME

i think some KDE stuff is messed up from it

anyone?

Couldn't say, I never install more than the Gnome libraries. You might just try reloading KDE.

As for the make errors, take a look at emu.c file, it looks like you have an open paren somewhere that never got closed properly. Start at line 893 and move backwards. You can use Kate or Kedit and setup formatting for C and it will "color code" that stuff for you.

Yeah I tried to remove GNOME from YaST and it gave me alot of Crap.

so i tried SMART i think "Remove Software" - the new feature in 10.1 i think-

anyway

I said Reove GNOME and now i have no KDE anymore

im about to try and repair now

Slackware 11.0 came out a couple days ago!

You've been using Linux long enough, I think it's time to move to a less bloated distro.

I somewhat agree-

but I also almost have it set up the way I want it-


Maybe I should try a Slax live CD.

P.S.

I need to know if anyone has had any luck running a wireless media server with linux that will work w/ the D-Link Media Lounge DSM-320

Thanks

Myth TV?

Not a problem. (http://www.mythtv.org/)

Don't know what your D-Link Media Lounge product is though.

I have been using the D-Link with windows Media Connect but I need something to do the same thing but from linux


here is a discription of windows media connect

Try GeeXboX or Roku. Don't do media streaming, but have head good things about GeeXboX.

I think i will try it..

does it reconizie the Nvidia drivers unlike Suse?

just wondering

Im goin to start it now

7 hrs to dl 3.64 gigs.. not bad... coming from using a 2400 baud dial up in 1992 (born in 84 remember)



its done..

here i go

Jeezuz, I was born in '72. I was actually using a computer when you were hatched.

heh

your old


nelson


HA HA

/nelson

ok now im on slack ware

how do i get it to log in with a certin user every time and how do i have it startx everytime

My mouse wheel is not workig and neither is my Sound

Under /etc/X11/xorg.conf make sure you have the ZAxis line referenced below...
As root, try running alsaconf to congire the soundcard. Let me know if that doesn't work.

For a graphical login, edit the /etc/inittab file and change runlevel from 3 to 4...
As far as automagical logins, I have never tried to do that, and would never recommend it.

TI-994A Baby!!!

:D

Man, you were spoiled rotten. All I had was a Sinclair 1000.

hahaha

It was my Dad's, but I ended up using it more than him. Parsec with the voice modulator rocked! Was stoked when we got the C64 though. Car Wars was probably the best text based game I've ever played.

Ok the ZAxis did not fix my mouse wheel problem- but the alsaconf did fix the sound-but now no mixer shows up on start up?

a few other things i am notcing- My DVD's wont play do i need the libcss or something like i did in suse?

also when i plug in my thumb drive it is not automatically reconized like it was in suse-

also- My NTFS partitions are locked to be accessed by root and not by anyone else any suggestions on this? i will probaby stick with slackware if i can work out these bugs-


where is Slackwares version of YaST? or is there not one?

jsut curious?/

thanks

Chris

ttt

What protocol are you using for your wheel mouse?

Check this line...
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"

Yes, you need libcss just like SUSE.

You need to mount drives manually (which incidentall you needed to do under SUSE in order to get full asynchronous speeds (or at least I did)). Here's what I usually do...

mkdir /mnt/flash
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash

when done using,

umount /dev/sda1

For your shared partition, edit your /etc/fstab file something like this...

/dev/hda6 /shared vfat auto,rw,umask=000 1 0

As far as YaST. Nope. None available. You can try using the normal KDE control center if you like. I don't use it for anything other than configuring my desktop settings, so couldn't tell you if it's any good.

For a mixer, from a CLI run "alsamixer", and save your settings. Then you should be able to use KMix in KDE like you normally do.

Oh forgot.

Updating packages. Slack doesn't have a built-in product like SUSE Watcher for updating. There are several options in the "/extras" directory though. Most recommend slapt-get (supposed to be like apt-get for Debian) or slackpkg or swaret. You can google them for reviews etc. The one thing you MUST do, is ALWAYS read the CHANGELOG for the patches. Slack updates MUCH less frequently than other distros (mostly because it includes a lot less installed software), so reading the changelog is simple.

One of the most popular choices a Slackware user makes, is that they compile there own software/kernels, rather than relying on a distro or someone else. I mean, come on, is...

rpm -i --force file.rpm

...really that much more difficult than...

tar -zxvf file.src.gz
./config
make
make install

???

(OK, I am an unabashed Slackware bigot)

Anyways, while I always do the source compile, I also always use the "checkinstall" tool (also available under /extras). Change the last command like so...

tar -zxvf file.src.gz
./config
make
checkinstall

...and it will create a .tgz "package" (similar to an RPM) for use in the Slackware package manager. Then if for any reason you need to uninstall/reinstall, you can use an "rpm-like" command...

installpkg file.tgz
removepkg file.tgz

Also run "pkgtool" for a simple package manager utility.

Also, if you NEED to install an RPM (yes, I hate to admit that not all software people make source tarballs available, those bastage), you can use a simple utility to convert it to a .tgz package...

rpm2tgz file.rpm file.tgz

OK, two more things I forgot to mention that should help...

www.linuxquestions.org has a great forum community with separate fora for each of the most popular distros. Great info there for SUSE and Slack users.

Also, if you prefer using packages rather than compiling your own apps, www.linuxpackages.net is a great site. Since 11.0 just came out, you may not find a whole lot just yet, but they grow quickly. Hell, compile and use checkinstall to create some packages and upload for others if you feel generous.

I checked, but libdvdcss is only available for 10.2 and below, so feel free to make one for 11.0 and submit it.

Found these two links today, will give you the Linux Equiv to Windows software...

http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html
http://www.linuxeq.com/

Thanks Morphius for those links they are going in my Bookmarks now...

:thumb:

btw

i'm going to install suse 10.1 onto this P.O.S iMac DV i forgot about

i keep y'all posted

Wow, nice find Morphius.

if anyone out there knows right about now

on the install with the mac it looks like everything installed right but there is a problem loading X

i used the rescue CD to boot and then changed the default init level to 3 so i can boot w/o cd and work within the console

when x starts the screen gos black

the start up sound plays fine

i have run a sax2 -a but it did resulted in the black screen as well

based on a opensuse.org i have edited the /etc/X11/xorg.conf with this


any suggestions?









FIXED


info to fix was found here

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-75604.html

Thinking about trying out the SUSE LiveDVD (again) in the startup screen it gives me the option to load the following:
LiveCD-KDE or LiveCD - GNOME

Which is most advisable or does it matter? :shrug:

KDE is most windows-like ...

try them both and see what one you like more...

thats the fun of linux... pick what one you like...

also i reccomend the knoppix live CD as well as the PCLINUXOS will be releasing soon

Thanx bud! :thumb:

Trying GNOME right now; it's pretty neat! Not experiencing any of the negetive results from last time. :D

This right here is the beauty. If there's something you don't like about your computer, just change it to another one.

I'm using KDE right now and do believe that I like it best between the two.

I just compiled the new 2.6.16.2 Kernel and my Comptuers faster!! awesome

Nerd.


;)

ROFL

If any one gets a chance give the windows manager Beryl a look, I have been showing it off and everyone is impressed with it. It adds a 3D cube effect to your virtual windows, and lots of other pretty effects as well. I'm running it on top of KDE.

If you are running fedora and KDE all you have to do is type in
yum install beryl-kde
for gnome:
yum install beryl-gnome

http://www.beryl-project.org/

Here is a cool video showing what Beryl looks like and some of the special effects it adds.

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I did XGL/Compiz on Suse, looks much like Beryl.

...and yeah, it makes those Vista losers crap their pants, especially when they see how little hardware it takes me to run it. :)

I love that stuff. Just have no need for it.

Everytime I try Linux, several by the way, I keep coming back to Windows. I just don't care for the customization. Plus, they have nothing even close to Money 2005 which I use religiously.

I'm running a term server on my XP box that I log into for outlook and misc other Winblows crap like that. If I had another gig of RAM I'd probably just run MS in a VM for the few things that I need.

Which Linux are you using? My problem is this, Linux always seems to have these delays when I click on things. For whatever reason the response time just seems a tad slower than Windows. When I click on say, Firefox, it feels like it takes more time for it to start up in Linux than in Windows. Got very frustrating for me.

As far as my windows programs go, I have to have Money. I also have Half Life 2 which will not run on my computer under Linux through Wine but runs like a champ under windows. The problem here is that the emulator used in Linux eats up enough of my resources that HL2 can't utilize everything it needs to run smoothly.

Then pick better games :P

Honestly I couldn't make a full change either. Too many kids games and stuff is tied to MS still.

I'm running Fedora Core 6 on a 3.0 Ghz Intel with 1G of RAM with no pause at all. The way I figure it is that I will use it as much as I can till I don't need to use MS anymore. Sure it is down the road, but I really would like to avoid Vista.