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install on 9th
by Jenny Hopkins 01 Jun '02

01 Jun '02

Hi All, Just about to set off for a week's camping in the south of France, so unlikely to make it to June 9th install day - hope it goes well. We had two more enquiries through UK Install Day, to which I sent a response, but as I won't catch email for the next week, perhaps alert Matt Grove to forward enquiries to another alug member for the next week? Cheers, Jenny. Off to stuff passports and toothbrushes into rucksacks now............

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Matrox v NVidia
by Alexis Lee 01 Jun '02

01 Jun '02

I read at http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/02q2/020531/windows_gaming-01.html: At this point, the stage was set for WineX. Instead of starting from scratch, TransGaming decided to use the code from the Wine project, and add support for DirectX. The way they do this is by mapping DirectX calls to their OpenGL equivalents. TransGaming also adds support for some propietary interfaces needed by most games that use copy-protection. Even WineX has limitations. Since good OpenGL performance is required, TransGaming only supports Nvidia graphics hardware. This could change if other graphics card vendors improve their Linux drivers, but for now Nvidia is the only game in town. MJR, You were saying that Matrox have libre drivers. Is the above article correct? Are Matrox cards unusable in WineX, or do they just have crud OpenGL performance so they aren't worth using? Alexis -- "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" - Derek Bok "I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know" - Mark Twain

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Re: [Alug] PPProblems!
by Ricardo Campos 31 May '02

31 May '02

-snip- > mknod -m 644 /dev/ppp c 108 0 > > for future reference, this is char-major-108 (a lot of people inquire about this). I'm sure I saw an error relating to char-major-something on boot- I *was* going to inquire about that too. I'll try it when I get some time at home. Many thanks! Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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PPProblems!
by Ricardo Campos 30 May '02

30 May '02

heh heh. OK so after compiling a new 2.4.18 kernel, I compiled in the ppp parts, rather than as modules. So I rebooted,and modprobe couldn't find ppp deflate (cos they were compiled in! duh!), and ppp wouldn't work. SO I thought what the heck, and moved /var/lib/modules/2.4.18, and recompiled, this time with ppp deflate as a module. So I try to connect... it calls, handshakes, then drops out just at the time it would normally complete the connection. In /var/log/messages I get: tcsetattr:Invalid argument Exit ???? Any ideas? (btw the X locking up when transferring large files thing appears to be an IDE problem- it works fine now in the new kernel... just wish ppp did!) -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] KDE.... (bible study?)
by Ricardo Campos 30 May '02

30 May '02

> > I've just noticed that KDE depends on a program called > > "Bibletime". Scratch my previous comment-it appears to be a package called kde-extras, which, after all, is just a bundle of selected apps. In this case, the maintainer has selected bibletime as well. I'll just have to install all the others manually, one-by one! ;) -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] KDE.... (bible study?)
by Ricardo Campos 30 May '02

30 May '02

> At the moment, I'm compiling KDE3.0.1 > > Far bloody easier than having to wait for the debs to arrive.... Hey- fancy making some .debs with and without bibletime (choice is a fine thing!) and sticking it on CD? You know you want to! ;o) Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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KDE.... (bible study?)
by Ricardo Campos 30 May '02

30 May '02

I've just noticed that KDE depends on a program called "Bibletime". I am not a christian, I would not benefit from this package. Is there any way of removing this dependency from the KDE download (in debian). It is also a hefty sized app (and it's dependencies), specially for a 56k modem. Of course, it begs the question of why no "Qurantime", "Upanishadtime" etc etc. Ricardo (off to ask kde.org about this...) -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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RE: LXF Rune Demo
by Glen Tyler 30 May '02

30 May '02

Adam wrote(29.05.2002): >yeah, that $ prompt looks as though you are not >root... so try installing >it as root and putting it in /usr/local/games/ would >be a more normal >place to put games also, but then /home/games >won't really hurt too much. >HTH >Adam tried as root, but that doesn't seem to make any difference.... full transcript is... "[Root@localhost Rune]# sh rune-demo.run Verifying archive intergrity......OK Uncompressing Rune Demo..... .... ---------------------------- Welcome to the Rune demo ---------------------------- Would you like to read the README for this update [Y/n]: n ---------------------------- Would you like to apply this update? [Y/n]: y Please enter the installation path:[]: /home/glen --------------------------- performing update: ERROR: unable to make path /home/glen/demos/rune-demo The program returned an error code (3) [Root@localhost Rune]#" so that is as far as I can get, I looked up error code 3 and it says ' no such process' - any ideas? glen

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Re: [Alug] initrd, lilo and general weirdness
by Ricardo Campos 30 May '02

30 May '02

> Aside: Only yesterday I had to compile and install >the latest kernel to get NVIDIA's "non-GPL" kernel to >load, but for the chance to run tuxracer faster than >1 frame a second it's worth it! Well, I might consider doing that. Possibly. But first things first. > I just had this same problem yesterday, the trick was to switch the BIOS disk identifiers over(!) I'll try that tonight. > > I had a few problems with a IDE Ultra-2 DMA drive >which wouldn't boot after the debian install (halts >before INIT), but booting a newer kernel (2.4.17) >worked fine. Maybe there's a problem with 2.2.20 and >newer ide controllers? Well, I have my dmesg from the Redhat distro (which doesn't have the problem), so I'll have it to hand whilst compiling, although this is a later kernel than the RH one. I can then compare what's happening. But I do suspect some IDE shenanigans going on. (It's an IDE Ultra-2 DMA drive too) and yes, debian rocks, although it's not flavour of the month until I get this sorted. (note the number of grrrs in my last e-mail!) Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] initrd, lilo and general weirdness
by David Fairey 30 May '02

30 May '02

> 1st off: Adam:- for some bizarre reason, my box booted > into 2.4.18 this morning, even though 3 reboots still > took it to 2.2.19 last night. I simply have no idea why. > > One question: why do people seem to dislike > initrd.img's? I'm gonna have to compile a kernel > anyway cos I got all sorts of unresolved symbols, and > some of the modules I'd prefer to have compiled in > anyway. Not sure why initrd's are disliked other than maybe speed? Aside: Only yesterday I had to compile and install the latest kernel to get NVIDIA's "non-GPL" kernel to load, but for the chance to run tuxracer faster than 1 frame a second it's worth it! > For some reason, lilo won't let me boot to my second > disk. I have a second HD, with a copy of lilo on it > (from previous installation). I would like the lilo on > hda1 to boot onto hdb1, but for some reason it won't > let me do this this morning (it just ignores me-no errors!) my lilo.conf line for it is: > > other=/dev/hdb1 > label=Redhat > alias=2 I just had this same problem yesterday, the trick was to switch the BIOS disk identifiers over(!) Try this other=/dev/hdb1 label=RedHat alias=2 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 > -General Weirdness Section- > > Last night, running on my old kernel, I copied the > kernel source from a CD to my HD. While it did this my > Xserver hung up until it had finished. The same > happened when I un-bzipped it. grrr. > > Adam suggested it might be a h/w problem, so I booted > into RH (which can't do *now*, grrr), and quite happily copied 4gigs from one directory to another, > whilst mucking about with xmms, no lock up. Copied > the kernel source from CD to ~/ and that was fine, > unpacked it, fine. > > Anyone else experience this? I had a few problems with a IDE Ultra-2 DMA drive which wouldn't boot after the debian install (halts before INIT), but booting a newer kernel (2.4.17) worked fine. Maybe there's a problem with 2.2.20 and newer ide controllers? I agree myself that Debian rocks! Cheers David.

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