Ports to a different cpu type are always harder, even for a game thats just a high level language. Tribes2 uses some ASM for floating point optimazation that no compiler can do now (SSE2 stuff is included) Porting asm is a bitch, porting asm to a different cpu is more of a bitch.
Well, actaully, I heard that on the same box, the Linux version is faster, but I haven't seen the guy who did the test latly, so I dont know the numbers
I think the Slackware installer is the best Ive seen. It looks/feels a lot like the kernels make menuconfig (is that lib ncurses?), its console-based, and fairly easy to use
Why not crack SDMI anyway? Find where its week, wait untill after they started to release SDMI stuff, and then post it somewhere. It'l be too late to make any changes, unless they decide to recall every SDMI player and all protected music. Either way it screws them over.
I'm disapointed in Matrox, I, and a couple other people I know, were considering buying a Matrox as an alternative to nVidia or 3dfx. It seems the G540 is closer to my TNT2 then to a GeForce2. Probally could beat up anything 3dfx has for under $400 though.
Ok, what drivers have you installed? did you read the faq from nvidia about their drivers, and did you try #nvidia on irc.openprojects.net?
My TNT2 works fine, I just dont have any Linux games with 3d worth playing
Because of this lawsuit, my next video card probally will *not* be NVidia (note to NV: but thats in a few months, so you still have time for commen sense to seize control), but I know it wont be a 3dfx either. Does anyone have any suggestions as whats good? Also, do either Matrox or ATI have co-ops/interns doing Linux work?
Uhh, one problem here. NVidia can compete, and makes better chips (only bad thing is no open source drivers, which dosent bother me), so this is really bad, cause they dont have much to worry about from 3dfx, especilly since 3dfx's V5 costs about the same as a GF2 (this is a price from EB, not comparing from pricewatch or anything), and aside from Glide, the only difference is open (3dfx) vs closed (NVidia) drivers
This is the same thing 3dfx did to nVidia a couple years ago, market leader suing over a stupid patent. I hope they both somehow manage to loose exclusive patent rights on this...
"Sybase plans to release the code under an Open Source license that will comply with the Open Source Definition (version 1.7), published by the Open Source Initiative"
So it is going to be possible to re-use the source code from the compilers in another program, like GCC
The Linux/X driver started out as just 2d, and was distrubted with X Windows (and still is). Nvidia will probally follow a simular pattern here, a driver from Be thats 2d only, and then nvidia will release an OpenGL driver later.
If you haven't noticed someone else post this by now (about half of the posts ive read so far mention this) nvidia has damn good drivers out, and the drivers are stable. also, you can get help on #nvidia on irc.openprojects.net, and the linux dev guys from nvidia are there a lot
Look at SH3 WinCe machines, and linuxsh.sourceforge.net. You need a cf card to boot (which i havent gotten yet), but the hardware is decent, cheep, has a keyboard, and a PMCIA slot.
Unless Nvidia comes out with better drivers soon, I'm going to put in an old Vodoo2 just so I can have something that works in Linux. The only reason I'm not getting a new 3d card is I spent a lot of money on my TNT2, and I allready had more urgent upgrades planned for over the summer, like a bigger hd. If Nvidia dosen't get their act together soon though, I'm definitly going to get my next video card from someone else
I don't know how I missed this earlyer. If the dev box is running Linux, and it has a GeForce for good graphics accleleration, does that finally mean that I can get Linux/X drivers for my TNT2 that actually let it work as a 3d Accelerator? (I hope I hope....)
I can't really tell what this is going to be? It looks like PC hardware thats supposed to be cheep but pretty decent, it talks about a fre other chips working without recompiling(?!), and its software. Its a little (lot) early and I have two exams, so I'm saving what little ablility to think I have, can someone please explain what this is?
"But she[A Mattel spokesperson] said cphack authors Eddy Jansson and Matthew Skala had signed a contract with Mattel and if there was any deception, "they'd be in big trouble." The agreement with Jansson gives "all rights, if any" to the cphack source and object code and accompanying essay to Mattel. " If any? Looks like Mattel got screwed, they gave themselvs a nice loophole, Mattel dosn't stand a chance of making "big trouble"
I think that the decrypted list's should be used next time the goverment tries to put mandatory filters in schools and librarys. With the lists we have just about everything we'd need to prove they don't work, and a lot of legimate sites that people could need access to are blocked. Two years ago I did a term paper on the internet cencorship bill, and also about filters and requiring their use, and, even then many of the sites about the filters were blocked.
One one hand, NVidia is the only major chipmaker I know of that still makes only chips and not cards. They are the only supplier to card-makers like Creative, Diamond (possibly not any more since they got bought out by S3), and others. But on the other hand they have the worst support in Linux.
translator.infoseek.com is blocked under: Violence/Profanity, Partial Nudity, Full Nudity, Sexual Acts/Text, Gross Dep./Text, Intolerance, Satanic / Cult, Drugs / Culture, Militant / Extremist, Sex Education, Question./Gambl., and Alcohol/Tobacco. Thats about all the catagories it has, except for the Resvered 1 - 4. Its basicly a translater site like babelfish, there is no reason I can think of to block it (as much as I hate to admit it, you can see their reasoning behind blocking sites that have Cphack on it). Can anyone figure this out
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Uhh, I'm a Verizon customer, and I didn't get that email. I did get one that said that my account would be immeadeatly canceled for spamming though.
Ports to a different cpu type are always harder, even for a game thats just a high level language. Tribes2 uses some ASM for floating point optimazation that no compiler can do now (SSE2 stuff is included) Porting asm is a bitch, porting asm to a different cpu is more of a bitch.
Well, actaully, I heard that on the same box, the Linux version is faster, but I haven't seen the guy who did the test latly, so I dont know the numbers
Basicly, it seems like RMS is saying 'dont run Free Software if the driver is closed source?' does that mean i have to stop using my nvidia card?
I think the Slackware installer is the best Ive seen. It looks/feels a lot like the kernels make menuconfig (is that lib ncurses?), its console-based, and fairly easy to use
Why not crack SDMI anyway? Find where its week, wait untill after they started to release SDMI stuff, and then post it somewhere. It'l be too late to make any changes, unless they decide to recall every SDMI player and all protected music. Either way it screws them over.
I'm disapointed in Matrox, I, and a couple other people I know, were considering buying a Matrox as an alternative to nVidia or 3dfx. It seems the G540 is closer to my TNT2 then to a GeForce2. Probally could beat up anything 3dfx has for under $400 though.
Ok, what drivers have you installed? did you read the faq from nvidia about their drivers, and did you try #nvidia on irc.openprojects.net? My TNT2 works fine, I just dont have any Linux games with 3d worth playing
At least NVidia cards work ...
Because of this lawsuit, my next video card probally will *not* be NVidia (note to NV: but thats in a few months, so you still have time for commen sense to seize control), but I know it wont be a 3dfx either. Does anyone have any suggestions as whats good? Also, do either Matrox or ATI have co-ops/interns doing Linux work?
Uhh, one problem here. NVidia can compete, and makes better chips (only bad thing is no open source drivers, which dosent bother me), so this is really bad, cause they dont have much to worry about from 3dfx, especilly since 3dfx's V5 costs about the same as a GF2 (this is a price from EB, not comparing from pricewatch or anything), and aside from Glide, the only difference is open (3dfx) vs closed (NVidia) drivers
This is the same thing 3dfx did to nVidia a couple years ago, market leader suing over a stupid patent. I hope they both somehow manage to loose exclusive patent rights on this ...
Their firewall will only run on windows systems ...
"Sybase plans to release the code under an Open Source license that will comply with the Open Source Definition (version 1.7), published by the Open Source Initiative" So it is going to be possible to re-use the source code from the compilers in another program, like GCC
The Linux/X driver started out as just 2d, and was distrubted with X Windows (and still is). Nvidia will probally follow a simular pattern here, a driver from Be thats 2d only, and then nvidia will release an OpenGL driver later.
If you haven't noticed someone else post this by now (about half of the posts ive read so far mention this) nvidia has damn good drivers out, and the drivers are stable. also, you can get help on #nvidia on irc.openprojects.net, and the linux dev guys from nvidia are there a lot
Look at SH3 WinCe machines, and linuxsh.sourceforge.net. You need a cf card to boot (which i havent gotten yet), but the hardware is decent, cheep, has a keyboard, and a PMCIA slot.
Unless Nvidia comes out with better drivers soon, I'm going to put in an old Vodoo2 just so I can have something that works in Linux. The only reason I'm not getting a new 3d card is I spent a lot of money on my TNT2, and I allready had more urgent upgrades planned for over the summer, like a bigger hd. If Nvidia dosen't get their act together soon though, I'm definitly going to get my next video card from someone else
I don't know how I missed this earlyer. If the dev box is running Linux, and it has a GeForce for good graphics accleleration, does that finally mean that I can get Linux/X drivers for my TNT2 that actually let it work as a 3d Accelerator? (I hope I hope ....)
I can't really tell what this is going to be? It looks like PC hardware thats supposed to be cheep but pretty decent, it talks about a fre other chips working without recompiling(?!), and its software. Its a little (lot) early and I have two exams, so I'm saving what little ablility to think I have, can someone please explain what this is?
In communism you could probally get away with being a computer geek ...
"But she[A Mattel spokesperson] said cphack authors Eddy Jansson and Matthew Skala had signed a contract with Mattel and if there was any deception, "they'd be in big trouble." The agreement with Jansson gives "all rights, if any" to the cphack source and object code and accompanying essay to Mattel. " If any? Looks like Mattel got screwed, they gave themselvs a nice loophole, Mattel dosn't stand a chance of making "big trouble"
I think that the decrypted list's should be used next time the goverment tries to put mandatory filters in schools and librarys. With the lists we have just about everything we'd need to prove they don't work, and a lot of legimate sites that people could need access to are blocked. Two years ago I did a term paper on the internet cencorship bill, and also about filters and requiring their use, and, even then many of the sites about the filters were blocked.
One one hand, NVidia is the only major chipmaker I know of that still makes only chips and not cards. They are the only supplier to card-makers like Creative, Diamond (possibly not any more since they got bought out by S3), and others. But on the other hand they have the worst support in Linux.
translator.infoseek.com is blocked under: Violence/Profanity, Partial Nudity, Full Nudity, Sexual Acts/Text, Gross Dep./Text, Intolerance, Satanic / Cult, Drugs / Culture, Militant / Extremist, Sex Education, Question./Gambl., and Alcohol/Tobacco. Thats about all the catagories it has, except for the Resvered 1 - 4. Its basicly a translater site like babelfish, there is no reason I can think of to block it (as much as I hate to admit it, you can see their reasoning behind blocking sites that have Cphack on it). Can anyone figure this out