I no longer have access to a broadband connection, so most of my stuff is old now. Sure, I've downloaded some more important stuff through apt-get, but right now I think a full apt-get upgrade would try to get 200+mb over a 56k modem. Does that sound fun to you? Me neither. So I'm waiting for the official release so I can upgrade everything that needs it.
Does the FSF work to educate legilators in Congress and elsewhere to try to protect free software from the attempts by various industry leaders to make it legally more difficult to produce free software? In other words, is there a part of the FSF that specializes in lobbying Congress?
I have a TNT card. I have installed the NVIDIA drivers (both) from the tar.gz packages.
Everything claims to have installed correctly. The kernel driver is certainly installed and running.
I have created a sym link in my quake3 directory to/usr/lib/libGL.so
It's probably a good idea. To do this, just add that line in/etc/apt/sources.list
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
the type
apt-get upgrade
that should upgrade you to you completely, even getting the XFree86 4.0.1 debs. Of course, how fast this will go depends on the speed of your internet connection.
Could someone take to the time to explain just what must be done to get quake3 working properly with X4.0.1 in Debian?
I have X4 installed properly, and I used a clean install to make sure there were no unnecessary Mesa libs lying about.
For some reason, whenever I try to run Q3A, it kicks me back out to the gdm login screen.
As far as I can tell, everything is installed and working properly.
The only thing that I can add to this is the following:
CompUSA started out supporting games for linux -- Civ:Call to Power was available at the one here for several months, and this is Baton Rouge, LA, not a hotbed for linux users I would think.
But the best place to buy linux games is Electronics Boutique. Apparently, they get all of Loki's games in, without question. The last time I was there, there were at least 4 titles just begging to be bought, and displayed in a prominent place. So find an EB and buy linux games there.
BTW, does anyone know the final sales totals for Q3A for the win, linux and mac versions? I was kinda interested in seeing where they stood at the 6 month mark.
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I'm awaiting the release.
I no longer have access to a broadband connection, so most of my stuff is old now. Sure, I've downloaded some more important stuff through apt-get, but right now I think a full apt-get upgrade would try to get 200+mb over a 56k modem. Does that sound fun to you? Me neither. So I'm waiting for the official release so I can upgrade everything that needs it.
what's interesting to me is the clause, under the criminal penalties section, that
'Only someone who violates the law "willfully and for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain" can be convicted. '
So would this law actually make it illegal to distribute Debian, since it's not done for any commercial advantage at all?
Does the FSF work to educate legilators in Congress and elsewhere to try to protect free software from the attempts by various industry leaders to make it legally more difficult to produce free software? In other words, is there a part of the FSF that specializes in lobbying Congress?
Thanks to everyone who helped. I have it working now.
yeah, In fact, I'm starting from a clean ftp install. the only mesa pkgs are the ones with X4 itself.
I moved everything as suggested and created sym links.
I'm really mystified by this.
I have a TNT card. I have installed the NVIDIA drivers (both) from the tar.gz packages.
/usr/lib/libGL.so
Everything claims to have installed correctly. The kernel driver is certainly installed and running. I have created a sym link in my quake3 directory to
Is there anything else I should do?
Thanks for you help.
It's probably a good idea. To do this, just add that line in /etc/apt/sources.list
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
the type
apt-get upgrade
that should upgrade you to you completely, even getting the XFree86 4.0.1 debs. Of course, how fast this will go depends on the speed of your internet connection.
good luck again!
first of all, make sure that you have the following line in your /etc/apt/sources.list file:
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main
then run "apt-get update"
then run "apt-get install xserver-xfree86"
That should get everything you need since it should find all dependencies. Good luck! Post again if you have any problems.
Could someone take to the time to explain just what must be done to get quake3 working properly with X4.0.1 in Debian? I have X4 installed properly, and I used a clean install to make sure there were no unnecessary Mesa libs lying about. For some reason, whenever I try to run Q3A, it kicks me back out to the gdm login screen. As far as I can tell, everything is installed and working properly.
The only thing that I can add to this is the following: CompUSA started out supporting games for linux -- Civ:Call to Power was available at the one here for several months, and this is Baton Rouge, LA, not a hotbed for linux users I would think. But the best place to buy linux games is Electronics Boutique. Apparently, they get all of Loki's games in, without question. The last time I was there, there were at least 4 titles just begging to be bought, and displayed in a prominent place. So find an EB and buy linux games there. BTW, does anyone know the final sales totals for Q3A for the win, linux and mac versions? I was kinda interested in seeing where they stood at the 6 month mark.