Re: a bit offtopic - Lindows is claiming "licensed" DVD player

From: Keith Clark (clarkphotography_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/04/03 

Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 11:34:17 -0700

"J.O. Aho" wrote:

> Keith Clark wrote:
>
> > I started the game and get as far as the first screen, heard the music and got my hopes
> > up. I set up the controls, options etc, I clicked the "apply" button and it crashed
> > with a message about GL drivers. I tried again and only got a black screen.
>
> Sounds like you haven't hardware opengl support, if you have a nvidia card,
> then you must do the installation of the official nvidia driver, which you get
> from www.nvidia.com, if you have a radeon card, then you need the official
> driver from www.ati.com.
>
> Then you need manually edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config file (if you have a bit
> older version of redhat then it's /etc/X11/XF86Config-4), nono of the
> XF86Config editing tools will do the job, they only fix config files using the
> drivers supported by default of XF86.
>
> //Aho

Been there, done that.

Hardware support is working fine, it's some kind of bug in Wolfenstein or I didn't install it
correctly (more likely).

All the GL screensavers are very fast, and I get very good frame rates in Unreal Tournament
2003 on Linux.

Tuxracer and Chromium run extremely well, so there is no problem with anything *except*
Return to Castle Wolfenstein. As I said I probably installed it wrong.

By the way, I took the time this weekend to get Twin View configured in the XF86Config file.
Now Unreal Tournament plays full screen across two monitors, just as fast as ever. This is
fun!

--Keith