johnnyv

Ravages installer worked for me (i do remember install being a bit of a PITA though).

Well.. if you browse the bioware Neverwinter Nights forum, the consensus is that the linux version is faster on the same hardware, resolution, etc. The only thing missing from the windows version is the movies.

 

And then.. there is this link

http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/video_winvslin/

No way. Read a little further. Neverwinter Nights performs shockingly on Linux with few people getting more then 18 fps (I get 11 and I've done everything imaginable).

 

I get about 90 fps in Quake 3 where as Windows gives roughly 150 on the same hardware.

 

What is important to mention, however, is that fps isn't the only factor to consider in perofrmance. So what if the framrate is higher? How does the game engine run under Linux? How long does it take to load? How stable is it? Does it freeze?

 

FPS is just one of the questions. Nobody is going to notice the difference between Quake3 running at 60 fps or 200 fps - although on lower-end systems it might be a bit smoother.

 

As shockingly as NWN runs on my machine, it doesn't freeze, is pretty smooth and loads quickly. I honestly don't even notice the 11fps framerate. I do, however, have to cut down on shadows, dynamic lights, etc.

I usually get from 40 - 80 fps for NWN at 1152 X 864 res 24bit on a amd 1800xp, geforce 4 ti4200 128mb, & 1gig pc2700 ram.

I don't know what is up with your setup that you would get such low fps.

I have a 2500xp, with a gf fx 5600 that i barely use in another room, main reason being that i have no problem playing games on the 1800xp (might change with ut2004, definately will when doom3 come out).

Easy graphical user switching has been around for quite a bit longer, as has the true multiuser aspect that win still doesn't have (no admin rights? log off, and on with the admin account. 'su'? never heard of, is that some kind of sushi?)...

Sort of 'su' = "sushi user"

Thanks for the tips aru!

I am calling the shell commands via php's system_exec() function.

Mainly "antiword -t $filepath", "pdftotext $filepath -", and "cat $filepath"

It's for a search engine spider i have hacked together, and lucky for me thats all the non php stuff i have to deal with ;)

Oh

Ah well, i was just confused because when you do a "dir" you see the \ before spaces but not before & or ( or ) so i though it would be something different.

Cheers

Linux Is Not Ugly Xterm

Linus Is Never Underutilizing XXX ;)

I really don't think there is a good acronym for it, probably LINUs's uniX(like os)

when running scripts i know that if there is a space in a file you escape it with a \

so "blah blah" becomes "blah\ blah".

How do you escape characters like &, (, and )?

I wouldn't want it as it isn't the sort of game i like to play.

instead of ctrl+alt+backspace (which restarts the x server which is why kde is restarted) can you try going to another console ctrl+alt+F2 and log in, then do a killall et or if that doesn't work killall et.x86. ctrl+alt+F7 to get back to your X session.

This way you will still have the virtual terminal from which you started ET, so you can see if there are any error messages.

From my terrible memory i seem to recall that if you have sound problems (a daemon blocking q3 access to /dev/dsp) it can cause freezing in quake 3 based games at startup.

you could try "et +set s_initsound 0" which will disable sound in et and if it doesn't you will know that it is sound related.

Mandrake exclusivley for some time now at work and home.

Enemy territory works fine for me on 9.1 and 9.2

if you type glxinfo in a console do you get a line: "direct rendering: Yes"

If not it is your opengl setup, if so then it is something else probably.

My geforce FX card can't remember the manufacturer had a linux compatible penguin on the box. DSE brand Network cards and pci fax modems(intel ham chipsets) have linux listed as compatable on boxes from Dick Smith electronics stores, there are other DSE examples just cant think of them at the moment.

I found yanc to be the easiest way for me to setup tv-out

http://yanc.sourceforge.net/index-en.html

urpmi kernel.blah.rpm

does update lilo correctly at least it has evertime for me.

I still have to change the default kernel afterwards if i remember correctly but it is trivial to do via mcc.

When you get really bored like that you can write some programs.

If you make them really buggy then you solve two problems at once ;)

urpmi is the command name of the mandrake rpm installer

urpmi for install/upgrade

urpme for uninstall

entered via the commandline.

php-mysql is the php module that contains the mysql functions mysql_query() etc.

mod_php is an apache module that allows your webserver to process .php scripts and serve them.

If you are only using php for command line scripts then mod_php is not needed.

for a start you may need to install the php-mysql module

urpmi php-mysql

if you are using apache you will need mod_php as well.

You have a database and user set up? via webmin?

Hmmm you could hardly be blamed for a hardware failure, and it seems you went beyond the call of duty in your efforts.

There is very little that would get me out of bed early.

you could try Enemy Territory it is a free download, online multiplayer shooter. Really fun game IMO.

http://www.splashdamage.com/download.php?o...wdownload&cid=7

If you like doom 1 + 2 you may like cube which is another free shooter which is much like doom/quake1 in style.

http://wouter.fov120.com/cube/

Of course you could get quake3 as well it is cheap now and has a number of good free mods for it, same with unreal tournament.

But wait theres more! i just can't be bothered writing anymore, shooters is one catergory that linux isn't lacking in really.

Thanks YinYeti this works great!

Andrewski

I have used VNC on a windows client to connect to a linux box before it was a few years ago now but i don't remember it being very hard to setup.

I think it was this client.

http://www.uk.research.att.com/archive/vnc/index.html

Is you adsl a external router of an internal nic?

may be a dns problem

post contents of your resolv.conf file located in the /etc directory

you can use cat from the commandline like so:

[john@bob john]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
search bob.co.nz local
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver 203.109.252.42
nameserver 203.109.252.43

# ppp temp entry
[john@bob john]$

As for your password protection i don't know i like having always on internet. Isn't your login pass good enough? you can always lock your screen when you leave the computer.

I too am running 9.2 with 1 gig ram, i also ran with 1 gig in 9.1 by the "linux vga=0" lilo tip already posted.

You may also be interested in these links:

http://www.obulous.org/index.pl/mandrake_a...n_optimizations

http://home.comcast.net/~jcunningham63/lin...timization.html

What they fail to mention, (and of course they won't) is that around 80% of the worlds web servers run on Linux. Not because its cheaper, but because its proven to be more stable and  reliable.

I think "Not because its cheaper" should be replaced by "Not just because its cheaper" ;)