johnnyv

have a look at netpanzer

http://netpanzer.berlios.de/

Arrgh i got a "pc to tv" converter after giving up on nvidia ever sorting out the tv-out part of their drivers.

But of couse to get it to work i have to set my monitor as being 1024x768 @ 60 Hz else the frequency is to high for the converter to work.

My monitor is capable of 1600x1200 @ 75Hz, and i normally use 1152X864 resolution, so does anyone know how i could use 1152X864 and force 1024X768 to be at 60Hz?

I would assume this would be by putting in the right modelines in the XFree config file, but i can't figure those online modeline generaters out.

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I had this problem, just now. the only thing i can think of that could of possibly caused this was installing a couple of fonts via kdes font install.

anyway using unix/:-1 as a fontpath didn't work.

so i followed some other directions

edited /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs

changed the "-port -1" to "-port 7100"

edited /etc/X11/fs/config

changed "no-listen = tcp" to "#no-listen = tcp" so xfs would listen for connections over tcp.

edited /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

added FontPath "unix/:7100"

then:

service xfs stop

service xfs start

startx

and it worked

command split

eg) split -b 7168000 name.tar.gz part

will give a bunch of files "partaa partab partac" etc of 7mb size

to rejoin

cat part* > name.tar.gz

prboom works fine for me.

http://prboom.sourceforge.net/linux.html

just use the redhat rpm it works fine in mdk 10

I like kwrite but for writing code not docs.

Don't you mean kword instead?

I use grip on mdk to rip mp3s for my walkman no probs will look at what the command line options are when i get home.

Lol i was sure that this was a joke for a minute there ;)

As mentioned Kpaint is good if you want a simple paint program & The Gimp is great for all you photo manipulation needs.

I can't really help, worked fine first time for me.

The unofficial nvidia for linux forum is here if you haven't seen it.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdispl...p?s=&forumid=14

Maybe more help there, maybe not.

I haven't played bzflag for ages, but i had a go again last night, and i must say it is a truly fun game.

Couldn't find a close server to play on, had to play on a German server.

Four hours gone in what seemed an instant.

Makes a nice change from ut2004 and the like.

Look i have had it too!!!!

And i'm not gonna stand for it, no way, i'm gonna switch as soon as i can!

to mdk 10.1, then most likely 10.2 ;)

It was a stormy night, when i made my first encounter with Mandrake in a dingy alley.....

Oh alright then, mdk 8.0 from dick smith electronics store after hearing about how linux was so stable on the interweb thingy ;). I was administering a small network with an nt server at the time which was a truly awefull experience.

Just saw on linuxgames http://linuxgames.com/ that there are new nvidia drivers, also new ati drivers.

Link

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display...2_1.0-6111.html

http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x...0-6111-pkg1.run

I have been having some problems with my tv-out with the last lot so hope this fixes it.

my FX5600 isn't any slower than my GF4 Ti4200 was...IMHO, it is in fact faster. but that's just my end user experience (I don't really trust benchmarks).

Well i get lower framerates for ut2004 and glxgears with the 5600 compared to the 4200 both 8X agp.

Don't get a 5600 or below a gf 4 Ti 4200 is faster.

run tuxracer from a virtual terminal 'tuxracer'

Does it say anything about not finding the data directory.

I installed tuxracer on my computer and it had that problem was looking in /usr/share/tuxracer instead of /usr/share/games/tuxracer (or something like that im at work now so cant check)

you can change the setting in /home/username/.tuxracer/options file.

Oh i should have reread your thread again before posting it is not what you want but anyway somebody using mandrake might find it usefull if they have this problem.

You status indicate that opengl is indeed working, so your error seems odd, i have no idea sorry.

Maybe you could install another opengl game like enemy territory or that 3d scorched earth game and see if they work.

http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/

Scorched3d is fun too.

Is Mandrake a good choice?

Which version?

How complicated would the setup be?

Yes, very.

Newest stable version, currently 10 OE.

Trivial can install when you install the os or later via "install software" gui or via urpmi command.

Well you can export tables in access to csv format then import into mysql tables using webmin.

Webmin needs tab seperated format to work so you can convert the csv to that format on any decent spreadsheet program even most text editors (find and replace , with a tab).

There is a comercial program that can export from access to mysql server directly but i forgot what it is called, there is a free trial but the software only runs on windows.

The access DB might be working fine internally but if it were used with thousands of customers and starts growing it might be different.

I wouldn't trust access with 10+ users also the more data the worse it gets.

For your needs linux running apache, mysql(or pgsql) and php with webforms for data entry and views.

Will handle many connections with ease.

You have to decide if it is worth it to have a stable robust solution with initial significant learning investment.

FYI my workstation also hosts an intranet search app thats biggest table has over 10 million rows and i don't notice when it is in use.

It doesn't have many examples though, very good technology not promoted enough.

You have to unzip the files into the right directorys there is no installer for the patch

As i had installed in my home directory as a normal user i just unzip into the ut2004 folder.

what is the output of

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status ?

might not be the right path in gentoo though.

For others reference

current patch 3236-1

http://0day.icculus.org/ut2004/ut2004-lnxpatch3236-1.tar.bz2

I just picked up "C++ Black Book" by Steven Holzner for pactically nothing, i think about $6 US equivalent. It's not a bad book for a beginner, as it is pretty verbose. If you can get it cheap then it would be worth it, if not then there would be better books for your money.

For c i would say "c programming in easy steps" is a good starting book on c, cheap too at about $13 US.

New drivers version 6106.

First new drivers since 4496 that work with my tv-out.