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  1. Modifying fstab

    in Hardware

    Posted

    I have two other harddrives apart from my linux partition which I am getting sick of continuously mounting everytime I log on. I tried to edit fstab but it sort of scared me off. Both the drives are fat32, one is at /dev/hda5 the other at /dev/hdb1 and their mount points are /mnt/media and /mnt/share respectively.

     

    I would also like to create shortcuts to them from my /home directory, if you could also tell me how to do that, it would be good B)

     

    Thanks!

  2. Counter-Strike "Pro Mode"

    in Games

    Posted

    Not sure if youve seen it but there is a group of people at ukterrorist.com thinking about putting out a server side patch called pro-mode. It contains several fixes, patches and changes to counter-strike's appearance and gameplay.

    From Ukterrorist.com pro-mode

    What are the problems that it should fix?

     

    * Radar transparency - a long standing problem. cl_radar_transparency as a value from 0-100 which would relate to a transparency % for the RADAR. A selection of radar background colours would also perhaps be suitable. Possible even in inbuilt toggle so people can change radar at a keypress.

     

    * Weapon recoils - less recoil period, and decreased recoil for firing while moving. In particular with rifles and pistols. If deagle recoil were improved, its power would have to be decreased somewhat or its rate of fire decreased, otherwise it would be overpowered. However, that change would be preferable to the randomness we have now

     

    * Removal of jumping slowdown - an unnecessary change brought in to combat bunny hopping which had been largely stopped in 1.3 with the restricted air accelerate, to a degree where bh was no longer an issue anyway

     

    * Removal of weapon switch delay - a change that was totally in favour of making the game easier for new people to play. Well done valve, people have bought the game now, so it is not needed

     

    * Removal of shield - nice idea Valve, but we don't want it

     

    * Decreased rate of awp fire - there's nothing worse than someone getting an initial fair awp shot off, then unscoped shooting 2 people who jump past him out of pure luck. The weapon was never designed to be used this way and while it's nice to get those kills, it's a detriment to the game because it's just another random factor

     

    * HLTV - combine it with a higher quality voice transmission so that commentators can be talking about the game as it's happening and players can choose to have ineyes view of the commentator, so they can see what the commentator is talking about. Also fix the sound issues regarding HLTV and make it a more accurate representation of ineyes viewing

     

    * Game scoring - reintroduce CO rules with a few changes. Every time the bomb is planted, both the current round timer and the game timer is frozen. This would make eco rounds viable in CO, giving the Ts a chance to plant and incentive to do something other than a lemming rush. If a player suicides, he gets no money in the next round.

     

    * Standardised server settings - enforce maxrate 25000, minrate 8000 (for isdners). updaterates 101 and 40 (again, for isdners). Set round times, 2 minutes or so.

     

     

    Less vital changes

     

    * Removal of dead bodies - I don't want them sitting on a floor and I certainly don't want them floating through floors to the depths of the earth. What was wrong with bodies just disappearing?

     

    * Change of commands for zooming and silencer - it's nice to zoom, it's irritating to put the silencer on at the wrong moment

     

    * Variety of crosshair choices - let's face it, nobody likes the current one

     

     

    Other issues with cs

     

    * Flashbang bugs - unflashing yourself yadda yadda

     

    * Sound bugs - grenade switches cutting out awp sounds

     

    * Model bugs - players not looking in the direction they are really facing

     

    * Hitbox bugs - only really appear on some servers, the majority of "hitbox bugs" are just random recoil not hitting who you are aiming at, or screwed around interp settings

     

    * FPS bugs - let's face it, recording demos should not lead to such huge fps drops, it never did in the past

     

    Personally I think there are some good points about it, but the majority is basically a bunch of people who cant accept the game and the way it works. Things like decreased awp fire rate, no shield, removal of jumping slowdown sound to me like the sort of things a noob who thinks they are l33t would say should be changed. There are many ways to counter awps and shields, and the jumping slowdown stops bunny-hopping, something which noobs used to do back in 1.3.

    Then there are the things like bugs (sound, demo, hitbox etc.), radar transperancy etc. which sound like a great thing to do. And Ive got no problem with that. Optional stuff like changing of silencer/scope buttons, disappearing dead bodies etc. can be selected by the user, everyone has an opinion. I have personally never had a problem with putting on a silencer instead of a scope, and I enjoy the bodies being there, it gives you an idea of where the killer could be, and makes the whole thing seem cooler :D

     

    What does everyone else think! Is pro-mode CS cool or uncool!? :juggle:

  4. Your distro history?

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    Just wondering what everyone's history with distro's has been.

    What did you start with, what have you used since, why have you switched, and what do you use at the moment?

     

    I started with mandrake 9.1, dropped for debian in an effort to be linux hardcore, but I couldnt figure it out, then I switched to fedora core 1 out of curiosity. Its been great so far! Im looking forward to mdk10 full release :D gnome 2.6 is purrdy :headbang:

  5. LinuxBios

    in Hardware

    Posted

    I might actually try this on a reasonably old motherboard I have. It needs a BIOS flash (the current one is corrupt) and Im having trouble finding the BIOS image for a no-name brand motherboard.

     

    Might check out the compatibility list

  9. Configuring other distros

    in Other Linux and Unix Distributions

    Posted

    Just in reply to your saying that mandrake felt newb-ish and debian felt too expert-ish. I tried mandrake first then debian and had the same experience.

     

    I just installed fedora a couple of days ago and its running beautifully. Doesnt feel too newb really, yet its setup is very intuitive. It has equivalents to the MCC and urpmi too!

     

    If you want to read up about its features and windows equivalents go to -> http://www.johnmunsch.com/articles/FedoraC...GettingStarted/

  10. New to Mandrake : Please help!

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted · Edited by plati

    Getting a bit heavy-handed there veedubb :P

     

    Believe it or not but there is a noon-destructive way to get a winmodem to a better place.

     

    With a bit of help from www.linmodems.org I was able to track down this driver here.Intel Developer

     

    This is perfect except for the fact that its only compatible with kernel versions 2.2.12 to 2.2.18. So you cant use that (the kernel for 9.2 is 2.4)

     

     

    Now by the looks of it that modem you have there is actually quite old (v.90), hence the end of its support at kernel v.2.2.18. So probably my recomendation would be to overhaul that modem and put a newer (v.92) modem. Internal modems are only about $15 here is Australia so if youre in the US it would be even cheaper.

     

    Now the advantage is if you end up with the newer intel chipset modem then driver support will be easy. Intel saw fit to provide us with a driver for the MD5628D-L-B chipset (the newer v.92 one) @

    this page

     

    A v.92 modem would probably be faster and/or have better packet manager than a v.90 if my memory serves me correct.

     

     

    My 0.02cents,

    plati

     

    PS. If you get a new winmodem email me @ avenger_1900@hotmail.com if you ned help getting it working.

  13. middle-aged kid needs new game

    in Games

    Posted

    If youve never played Half-Life I would recommend you do! It has a great story line, still decent graphics (with openGL drivers) and.........its an awesome game!

     

    I would also recommend RTCW, its a great shooter too and your system should handle it fine.

     

    if youre looking for a more deathmatch-y experience, go for unreal tournament or unreal tournament 2003, unreal tournament 2004 should even be available in the US by now, its only in magazine review stage here in australia sadly.

     

    ET is great, but I never really got in the XP Points and ranking side of it. Horses for courses I suppose, so give it a try. Otherwise, if you want an online game with a large player base, you cant go past Counter-Strike and Day of Defeat. Both will run decently over a dialup connection and are modifications of Half-Life.

  16. NVIDIA display driver install error

    in Hardware

    Posted · Edited by plati

    The kernel is 2.4.22-10mdk

     

    I am not sure which kernel source, I just followed the FAQ which said to urpmi kernel-source

    Tried checking rpmdrake and searched kernel-source, but nothing came up. Sounds like maybe the kernel-source didnt install, even though uh.... it said it did.

     

    The driver file name is NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run Which sounds like version 4496 to me.

     

    hope this helps

     

    EDIT: ran a rpm -q on kernel-source and binutils. Results are:

    kernel-source-2.4.22-26mdk and

    binutils-2.14.90.0.5-2mdk

  17. NVIDIA display driver install error

    in Hardware

    Posted

    im following the FAQ posted about installing the NVIDIA Display drivers but I keep hitting the same error.

     

    I exit X, login to root and urpmi binutils and kernel-source. I already had binutils but not kernel-source, so the package downloaded and installed. I kept following the steps and it was all fine until after the license agreement.

     

    The logs in /usr/var/nvidia-installer.log show the following:

     

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

     

    Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface

    -> License accepted.

    -> No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; would you li

    ke the installer to attempt to download a kernel interface for your kernel f

    rom the NVIDIA ftp site (ftp://download.nvidia.com)? (Answer: Yes)

    -> No matching precompiled kernel interface was found on the NVIDIA ftp site;

    this means that the installer will need to compile a kernel interface for

    your kernel.

    -> Kernel include path: '/usr/src/linux/include'

    -> Cleaning kernel module build directory.

    executing: 'cd ./usr/src/nv; make clean'...

    rm -f nv.o os-agp.o os-interface.o os-registry.o nv-linux.o nv_compiler.h *

    .d NVdriver nvidia.o

    -> Building kernel module:

    executing: 'cd ./usr/src/nv; make nvidia.o SYSINCLUDE=/usr/src/linux/include

    '...

    echo \#define NV_COMPILER \"`cc -v 2>&1 | tail -n 1`\" > nv_compiler.h

    cc -c -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wp

    arentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -Wno-multichar -O -MD -D__KERNEL__ -

    DMODULE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -DNTRM -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D_

    _KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNV_MAJOR_VERSION=1 -DNV_MINOR_VERSION=0 -DNV_PATCHLEVE

    L=4496 -DNV_UNIX -DNV_LINUX -DNV_INT64_OK -DNVCPU_X86 -DREMAP_PA

    GE_RANGE_4 -I. -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wno-cast-qual nv.c

    cc -c -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wp

    arentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -Wno-multichar -O -MD -D__KERNEL__ -

    DMODULE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -DNTRM -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D_

    _KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNV_MAJOR_VERSION=1 -DNV_MINOR_VERSION=0 -DNV_PATCHLEVE

    L=4496 -DNV_UNIX -DNV_LINUX -DNV_INT64_OK -DNVCPU_X86 -DREMAP_PA

    GE_RANGE_4 -I. -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wno-cast-qual os-agp.c

    cc -c -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wp

    arentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -Wno-multichar -O -MD -D__KERNEL__ -

    DMODULE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -DNTRM -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D_

    _KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNV_MAJOR_VERSION=1 -DNV_MINOR_VERSION=0 -DNV_PATCHLEVE

    L=4496 -DNV_UNIX -DNV_LINUX -DNV_INT64_OK -DNVCPU_X86 -DREMAP_PA

    GE_RANGE_4 -I. -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wno-cast-qual os-interface.c

    cc -c -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wp

    arentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -Wno-multichar -O -MD -D__KERNEL__ -

    DMODULE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -DNTRM -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D_

    _KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNV_MAJOR_VERSION=1 -DNV_MINOR_VERSION=0 -DNV_PATCHLEVE

    L=4496 -DNV_UNIX -DNV_LINUX -DNV_INT64_OK -DNVCPU_X86 -DREMAP_PA

    GE_RANGE_4 -I. -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wno-cast-qual os-registry.c

    ld -r -o nv-linux.o nv.o os-agp.o os-interface.o os-registry.o

    ld -r -o nvidia.o nv-linux.o nv-kernel.o

    -> done.

    -> Kernel module compilation complete.

    ERROR: Unable to load the kernel module 'nvidia.o'. This is most likely

    because the kernel module was built using the wrong kernel header files.

    Please make sure you have installed the kernel header files for your

    kernel; on Red Hat Linux systems, for example, be sure you have the

    'kernel-source' rpm installed. If you know the correct kernel header

    files are installed, you may specify the kernel include path with the

    '--kernel-include-path' commandline option.

    -> Kernel module load error: ./usr/src/nv/nvidia.o: unresolved symbol

    init_mm_Rb238dcab

    ./usr/src/nv/nvidia.o: unresolved symbol __pollwait_R5cddb06a

    ./usr/src/nv/nvidia.o: unresolved symbol irq_stat_R346aa8e2

    ./usr/src/nv/nvidia.o: unresolved symbol change_page_attr_R1078ca32

    ./usr/src/nv/nvidia.o: unresolved symbol devfs_register_chrdev_Ra82ebff9

    ./usr/src/nv/nvidia.o: unresolved symbol devfs_unregister_Rfe126b72

    ./usr/src/nv/nvidia.o: unresolved symbol remove_proc_entry_Rf05ffaa5

    ./usr/src/nv/nvidia.o: unresolved symbol create_proc_entry_R74d25774

    ./usr/src/nv/nvidia.o: unresolved symbol proc_root_driver_R25661860

    ./usr/src/nv/nvidia.o: unresolved symbol devfs_register_R3cc4735c

    ./usr/src/nv/nvidia.o: unresolved symbol mem_map_R25c9af1e

    ./usr/src/nv/nvidia.o:

    Hint: You are trying to load a module without a GPL compatible license

    and it has unresolved symbols. Contact the module supplier for

    assistance, only they can help you.

    ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file

    '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details. You may find suggestions

    on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux

    driver download page at www.nvidia.com.

     

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

     

    The problem here is that I have got the kernel-source installed etc. yet it is reporting that it isnt installed.

     

    Any help greatly appreciated, dont know how long I can go without counter-strike :wall:

     

    plati

  23. Removing window borders of aterm in GNOME

    in Software

    Posted

    Just trying to achieve a "look" for my desktop, and realised aterm with window borders would be really sweet. I tried man aterm but couldnt find anything of the sort.

    Any startup parameters or config files I have to alter, Im a bit of a n00b so plz keep it simple :oops:

     

    Running Mdk 9.1 with GNOME btw.

     

    plati

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