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With my limited knowledge, this is how I would do it:

Disk 1: Divide this between root, home and swap space, your swap partition should be double the size of your RAM, so if you have 128MB RAM then:

partition 1 = about 740MB, with / mount point.

partition 2 = about 1000MB with /home mount point.

partition 3 = about 260MB with /swap mount point

Then use the second disk for your /usr and /nfs points.

That's how I would do it, if most of the space is required for apps. :wink:

Yeah, the problem with linux sales being reflected is that the two most popular Linux games (Quake3 and Unreal Tournament) are not sold as _Linux_ games, but as Windows games with the option of being played via downloadable binaries. ID software (for example) has no idea as to how many people are playing Quake on windows and how many are playing on Linux.

The problem with South Africa (where I live) is that nobody is stocking native Linux games, I have to order on the Internet and pay in dollars (ouch!) to get them.

I would like to make a suggestion for this forum: Let us build a resource listing all available native Linux games (not the small stuff, only games like Quake, UT, etc.) for newbies to access. People's eyes need to be opened to the possibilities available under Linux and stores need to see that it would be worhtwhile to stock Linux products...

My Direct Rendering is perfect, that's not what I'm asking.

There are three ways to run quake (1) on Linux:

1. The first set of binaries runs good old quake the way it was first produced.

2. The second set of binaries runs quake in a Window on your X system.

3. The third set of binaries are the way God intended it to be: Quake with souped-up Open GL support.

Now, the problem is that OpenGL Quake was written in the old days when a Voodoo card was king and I want to know if it'll run with my Geforce.

At least, this is the way I understood it. Take a look at the How-To on www.linuxquake.com

I don't see the need for a convuluted install if there are perfectly good binaries available...

I bought Heavy Metal F.A.K.K 2 back in my windoze days, but I would like to play in under Linux. I know that there is a Linux version available, but surely there must be a way of getting the other version to work?

I know it runs on the quake 3 engine, so I am going to experiment with the quake 3 binaries, would I be wasting my time?

I do not want to play it (or anything) under winex, I don't think people realize the damage they are doing to the future of Linux gaming by supporting winex...

So I want to install OpenGL Quake on my box and I have found several tutorials for doing this, I have a few quesions though, especially since I want to install it with OpenGL capabilities.

Firstly: I found the tut on The Mandrake Experience, does this install OpenGL Quake? Or just the old regular flavour?

Secondly: I found another tut that was written in '98 on happypenguin.org and in it was mentioned that in order to run OpenGL Quake you needed a Voodoo card. Does anyone know if the old binaries support nvidia cards?

I don't understand the complicated process of getting the twilight engine pumping if their are binaries available?

Please help me sos I can get fragging on my favourite 1st person eva.

Ok... obviously the easiest of the two options was to unplug my monitor & plug in my TV, but this doesn't allow for dual displaying, so I'll follow the directions in the tut.

Just scared of #*@&!ing up my X, but if you don't take risks, you don't learn anything.

Will post the results....

My Geforce 4 card has a video out port and I can't figure out how to get it working in Linux.

I have heard two stories about this:

1. At present, the linux video drivers from nvidia do not support video out.

2. It is possible to get it going (the people who say this can't tell me how though :? )

So if anyone can help me get my video out running, please do so. I have the latest nvidia drivers up and running like a dream (minus the video of course...) and I use Mandrake 9.0 (exclusively).