Then buy another card or get different drivers. A lot of those "features" that you get in Windows are useless Creative Labs software effects and things.
Plus, ALSA is a bit immature right now, but development is moving fast. You claim that the routing in ac97/i2s is messy in Linux, but I've got totally different experiences. Maybe its just that I've got a different card and driver set than you do (not to mention that I use the OSS API instead).
http://zborgerd.freeshell.org/mixer.png
As for EAX, such things exist in Linux. They just aren't used because nobody cares at this moment. We need more games before we need them to support such things. OpenAL and OSS do support these things, though.
The Alsa Soundcard Matrix lists all of the cards that support hardware mixing. And card indicated with a (4) next to it should support hardware mixing.
http://alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/
An alternate approach is to buy (yes, I said buy) some drivers from 4-Front at http://www.opensound.com. They have a real-time software mixer that works with ALL chipsets. Latency is nonexistent, as far as I can tell. I use it with a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz card (I have the PRO upgrade with advanced recording) and it works great. However, when kernel 2.6 becomes mainstream, I may switch. The ALSA drivers have hardware mixing for the Santa Cruz cards, while the OSS drivers do not.
A final alternative is to buy a Soundblaster Live or Yamaha YMFPCI card. They have great support and mixing, regardless of the driver set. Even the simple kernel OSS drivers can handle it with those cards.
"You've got all of these guys and it looks like the whole world is coming against SCO. It's really IBM that has wired in all of these relationships," he said. "That's why it looks like they're sitting back and not doing anything. It's us fighting a whole bunch of people that they put on the stage."
Fuck off, McBride. You've got an entire community of angry developers and end-users that are pissed because you refuse to cooperate in resolving this issue. Instead of giving us proof to back up your ludicrous claims, you just sit back and say "Give us money!". Do you really think that we are all that stupid? Nobody is going to give you shit (except, perhaps, for Micrsoft) until you produce some solid evidence... We're ALL going to be after your ass, in some form or another. If the courts find that you have no solid proof, after all, then I'll personally be among the first to jump into a class-action lawsuit against you and your cronies.
IBM hasn't wired shit for relationships. You're just too goddamn stupid to admit that you're digging your own grave. Better bail out while the stocks are high, bucko.
The bottom line. You're going to crash and burn. You're pissed because your company was unable to adapt and your products were bested by FREE alternatives. There's nothing left for you to do except blow smoke up everyone's asses.
You're going to ultimately have every Linux company in the world after you... Doesn't that feel great?
Well, there's no reason that you shouldn't buy nVidia, but you may be trying a few different versions of the driver in order to find one that doesn't hard-lock the machine. I guess that it's not as much of a common problem if you aren't using Gnome2.
ATi cards are generally pretty well supported, in most cases. With the exception of the newest cards, you should be able to find a driver set that works. As noted in a post below, ATi was holding a closed beta test for XF86 4.3 drivers. So, provided you can wait for a driver release, we will more than likely recieve some quality XF86 4.3 drivers in the next month or two, but I can't guarantee that. Otherwise, the 4.2 drivers are supposed to be pretty good, but they don't seem to work on 4.3 machines. The Gatos project is working on R300 drivers as well.
Matrox has parhelia drivers, but I couldn't tell you how well they work. Most Matrox users have been really impressed with the drivers for their older cards though.
You may be able to try the "xrandr" command along with the "-d" flag, that lets you resize a particular display (e.g. 0 or 1, in most instances. Check your XF86Config file). If it works, then you can add it to your Gnome "sessions" startup options (assuming you use Gnome on RedHat).
nVidia's recent Linux driver sets have been utter trash this year. Why don't you explain the "best in the business" stuff to those that have had continuous system lock-ups on Gnome 2 desktops because nVidia treats its "Linux customers" like test subjects for its Windows driver base.
You may not realize it, but ATi's drivers are more stable than nVidia's on Linux. Shoot, even the lowly PowerVR is writing Linux drivers that are far more reliable than nVidia's. The fact that nVidia updates their drivers frequently is nice, but they can't seem to refrain from breaking something new each and every time that they do it. Don't believe me? Check out all of the Gnome 2 message boards out there.
The fact is, you're going to pay for it in some form of stability problem when you start running wonky drivers with non-standard features and rendering code. The nVidia drivers don't draw off of the DRI mechanism either, which is unfortunate. Their proprietary rendering mechanism is likely the cause of many of the strange instability problems. We see this problem every day, on a support forum, in which some user claims that they are having problems with desktop hangs and rendering anomalies. Nine times out of ten, it's a problem with the closed-source nVidia binaries. Asking someone to test the "NV" driver instead of the "NVIDIA" driver almost always corrects the problem.
I'm not trying to flame nVidia. I like their products... But until they straighten out their driver problems on Linux (their Windows drivers are quite good), I'm not buying one of their cards.
ATi isn't much better, however. Their commerical drivers haven't been updated since November, though the FireGL and Gatos drivers are good, alternate choices in many cases, though they sometimes lack features. ATi, however, has often been pretty generous with providing documentation about some of its products for some features of the chipsets. And, though ATi's commercial driver options have been limited of late, what they do have is typically quite solid on Linux. I'm holding out for a unified driver update for XF86 4.3 though, before I even consider one of their cards.
I really feel that these companies that have to deal with piracy. It's not fair to them, though a large amount of users seem to not have a problem with stealing programs. However, I feel that this is also a good reason to use free (as in speech) software that is less likely to have spyware included. The code is clearly visable to all. While it's not possible to have a free (as in beer) alternative program to the most typically pirated Windows apps, one can still limit this by using those legitimately free programs that are available...
I've got a friend that makes jokes at me about using Linux, but the majority of his software is all pirated, aside from the occasional game that he purchases. Which is a better choice? I don't advocate software piracy, and that's one reason that I choose Linux. Of course, Darl McBride might argue that some of us are using illegitimate software after all.;)
I don't know, but that software just "screams" WINE or WINElib. It doesn't look like a native Linux program at all. I could be wrong, but it seems to have all the makings of a WINE app.
Their "Linux Support" certainly does look questionable.
Blaster can't reproduce on NT4 machines, even though they are effected by the worm. Only 2000/XP machines are capable of propagating the virus (according to Symantec).
I saw this as well. The fact that they quote lines of code without sourcing their location is not going to stop us from tracking these things down inside the kernel sources.
That fact is that they've still proven nothing, and their claims are worthless at the moment. They can lie all they want, but there will still be an army of geeks that will sift through the source code and verify its time of implementation (and author) by means of the Internet archives. Google has 20 years worth of archives of real information.
You can also enter it into the config file in $HOME/mohaa/configs/
There is a section in the middle with various options, for mouse, soundrate, etc. Add the line in the format, matching the other stuff. Put quotes areound the number "1" as was done in the other examples.
What we have here is an amazing console that will have some top-quality games.
Why settle for "Quantum Redshift" and "Dead or Alive" when you can have even better titles, like "Sonic Speedsters" and "Bikini Karate Babes?" Team Ninja is going to be so jealous.
If you think that's extreme gaming, then wait until you see which titles really tap the power of the Phantom.
Actually, Nintendo profit was down 37%. This is largely due to the large amount of first party games that they're investing in, while waiting for more third-party software to hit the machine. Still, they were profitable, overall, unlike the XBox division of Microsoft, which has been steadily going downhill since its creation. It's a good thing that Microsoft has a lot of money to blow on the project.
I did. Enable your console in the game's options. Then, while in the game, pul your console down with the "`" key. (That's next to your number one key, also used for the tilde character).
In the console, type:
"in_mousegrab 1"
This fixed the problem on my machine. You may need to do it each time you play, at least until this beta is updated.
Actually, you *DON'T* need the Windows version to be installed. Icculus wrote that before Ravage wrote an installer, as I noted a few posts above yours.
I've played it a bit offline and online, and so far, it's pretty good. It seems to be a tad bit faster and smoother than the Windows version... However, there is still one problem. As Icculus noted, the sound is still borked. He had to rewrite the Miles Sound System code to use OpenAL instead. That code is not yet complete, but the rest of it seems to be running great. Sound does work, but panning effects seem a bit off (often too loud). Some stuff loops longer than normal as well. This is just a beta though, released only because people couldn't wait for Icculus to finish it.
If you want to use it, I suggest using Ravage's MOH:AA installer. It worked like a charm for me. It includes the biaries as well, and it seems to patch it to the recent version.
If you play in single player mode, subtitles are a must. Sound gets skipped sometimes, since the sound code isn't perfect yet.
Ravage's installer didn't require a CD key. That's quite interesting, actually, because I was playing online without a CD key. I wonder if the Linux beta has been programmed to not make use of one.
I care. This was THE peice of software that I didn't want to ditch when I ditched Windows almost 2 years ago. It's an incredible game, and it's loads of fun online.
Oh yes, I'm drooling with envy. I've always wanted a desk that was straight out of the Jetsons. The furniture in these pictures look like that modern crap that came out of the '60s, and quickly died, except for the fact that it's not a nasty orange color.
Most Windows users will know that something is wrong when "svchost" constantly crashes, prompting for a reboot. The hits on port 135 cause it to bork out. My mom, who is quite "computer illiterate", knew that something was wrong, and called me about it. We corrected the problem by upgrading her virus definitions (which were only a week out of date), and installed ZoneAlarm Free on her machine to stealth the ports from now on.
GRISoft's AVG Antivirus, and ZoneAlarm, are two great and free tools that can fix and prevent these things.
A year or two ago, I wouldn't have thought that firewalls were so essential for dial-up users. Now, it's important for all users to have them, regardless of the OS.
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Then buy another card or get different drivers. A lot of those "features" that you get in Windows are useless Creative Labs software effects and things.
Plus, ALSA is a bit immature right now, but development is moving fast. You claim that the routing in ac97/i2s is messy in Linux, but I've got totally different experiences. Maybe its just that I've got a different card and driver set than you do (not to mention that I use the OSS API instead).
http://zborgerd.freeshell.org/mixer.png
As for EAX, such things exist in Linux. They just aren't used because nobody cares at this moment. We need more games before we need them to support such things. OpenAL and OSS do support these things, though.
When you buy a card with a hardware mixer...
The Alsa Soundcard Matrix lists all of the cards that support hardware mixing. And card indicated with a (4) next to it should support hardware mixing.
http://alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/
An alternate approach is to buy (yes, I said buy) some drivers from 4-Front at http://www.opensound.com. They have a real-time software mixer that works with ALL chipsets. Latency is nonexistent, as far as I can tell. I use it with a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz card (I have the PRO upgrade with advanced recording) and it works great. However, when kernel 2.6 becomes mainstream, I may switch. The ALSA drivers have hardware mixing for the Santa Cruz cards, while the OSS drivers do not.
A final alternative is to buy a Soundblaster Live or Yamaha YMFPCI card. They have great support and mixing, regardless of the driver set. Even the simple kernel OSS drivers can handle it with those cards.
Fuck off, McBride. You've got an entire community of angry developers and end-users that are pissed because you refuse to cooperate in resolving this issue. Instead of giving us proof to back up your ludicrous claims, you just sit back and say "Give us money!". Do you really think that we are all that stupid? Nobody is going to give you shit (except, perhaps, for Micrsoft) until you produce some solid evidence... We're ALL going to be after your ass, in some form or another. If the courts find that you have no solid proof, after all, then I'll personally be among the first to jump into a class-action lawsuit against you and your cronies.
IBM hasn't wired shit for relationships. You're just too goddamn stupid to admit that you're digging your own grave. Better bail out while the stocks are high, bucko.
The bottom line. You're going to crash and burn. You're pissed because your company was unable to adapt and your products were bested by FREE alternatives. There's nothing left for you to do except blow smoke up everyone's asses.
You're going to ultimately have every Linux company in the world after you... Doesn't that feel great?
Well, there's no reason that you shouldn't buy nVidia, but you may be trying a few different versions of the driver in order to find one that doesn't hard-lock the machine. I guess that it's not as much of a common problem if you aren't using Gnome2.
ATi cards are generally pretty well supported, in most cases. With the exception of the newest cards, you should be able to find a driver set that works. As noted in a post below, ATi was holding a closed beta test for XF86 4.3 drivers. So, provided you can wait for a driver release, we will more than likely recieve some quality XF86 4.3 drivers in the next month or two, but I can't guarantee that. Otherwise, the 4.2 drivers are supposed to be pretty good, but they don't seem to work on 4.3 machines. The Gatos project is working on R300 drivers as well.
Matrox has parhelia drivers, but I couldn't tell you how well they work. Most Matrox users have been really impressed with the drivers for their older cards though.
You may be able to try the "xrandr" command along with the "-d" flag, that lets you resize a particular display (e.g. 0 or 1, in most instances. Check your XF86Config file). If it works, then you can add it to your Gnome "sessions" startup options (assuming you use Gnome on RedHat).
Well, had they used OpenGL, a Linux *AND* MacOS port would have been a simple task... Even a little profit is still profit.
Wow! Thanks for the link to that Catalyst thread. I may very well be buying an ATi card soon. ;)
That's just the news that I wanted to see. I'm glad that they're still serious about Linux drivers.
Not so...
nVidia's recent Linux driver sets have been utter trash this year. Why don't you explain the "best in the business" stuff to those that have had continuous system lock-ups on Gnome 2 desktops because nVidia treats its "Linux customers" like test subjects for its Windows driver base.
You may not realize it, but ATi's drivers are more stable than nVidia's on Linux. Shoot, even the lowly PowerVR is writing Linux drivers that are far more reliable than nVidia's. The fact that nVidia updates their drivers frequently is nice, but they can't seem to refrain from breaking something new each and every time that they do it. Don't believe me? Check out all of the Gnome 2 message boards out there.
The fact is, you're going to pay for it in some form of stability problem when you start running wonky drivers with non-standard features and rendering code. The nVidia drivers don't draw off of the DRI mechanism either, which is unfortunate. Their proprietary rendering mechanism is likely the cause of many of the strange instability problems. We see this problem every day, on a support forum, in which some user claims that they are having problems with desktop hangs and rendering anomalies. Nine times out of ten, it's a problem with the closed-source nVidia binaries. Asking someone to test the "NV" driver instead of the "NVIDIA" driver almost always corrects the problem.
I'm not trying to flame nVidia. I like their products... But until they straighten out their driver problems on Linux (their Windows drivers are quite good), I'm not buying one of their cards.
ATi isn't much better, however. Their commerical drivers haven't been updated since November, though the FireGL and Gatos drivers are good, alternate choices in many cases, though they sometimes lack features. ATi, however, has often been pretty generous with providing documentation about some of its products for some features of the chipsets. And, though ATi's commercial driver options have been limited of late, what they do have is typically quite solid on Linux. I'm holding out for a unified driver update for XF86 4.3 though, before I even consider one of their cards.
I really feel that these companies that have to deal with piracy. It's not fair to them, though a large amount of users seem to not have a problem with stealing programs. However, I feel that this is also a good reason to use free (as in speech) software that is less likely to have spyware included. The code is clearly visable to all. While it's not possible to have a free (as in beer) alternative program to the most typically pirated Windows apps, one can still limit this by using those legitimately free programs that are available...
;)
I've got a friend that makes jokes at me about using Linux, but the majority of his software is all pirated, aside from the occasional game that he purchases. Which is a better choice? I don't advocate software piracy, and that's one reason that I choose Linux. Of course, Darl McBride might argue that some of us are using illegitimate software after all.
I don't know, but that software just "screams" WINE or WINElib. It doesn't look like a native Linux program at all. I could be wrong, but it seems to have all the makings of a WINE app.
Their "Linux Support" certainly does look questionable.
Blaster can't reproduce on NT4 machines, even though they are effected by the worm. Only 2000/XP machines are capable of propagating the virus (according to Symantec).
Canopy Group *does not* own TrolTech.
Read...
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They have but 5.7% stake in the company. Canopy does technically control SCO, on the other hand. So, who's the real enemy here? Canopy, or SCO?
I saw this as well. The fact that they quote lines of code without sourcing their location is not going to stop us from tracking these things down inside the kernel sources.
That fact is that they've still proven nothing, and their claims are worthless at the moment. They can lie all they want, but there will still be an army of geeks that will sift through the source code and verify its time of implementation (and author) by means of the Internet archives. Google has 20 years worth of archives of real information.
You can also enter it into the config file in $HOME/mohaa/configs/
There is a section in the middle with various options, for mouse, soundrate, etc. Add the line in the format, matching the other stuff. Put quotes areound the number "1" as was done in the other examples.
What we have here is an amazing console that will have some top-quality games.
Why settle for "Quantum Redshift" and "Dead or Alive" when you can have even better titles, like "Sonic Speedsters" and "Bikini Karate Babes?" Team Ninja is going to be so jealous.
If you think that's extreme gaming, then wait until you see which titles really tap the power of the Phantom.
Actually, Nintendo profit was down 37%. This is largely due to the large amount of first party games that they're investing in, while waiting for more third-party software to hit the machine. Still, they were profitable, overall, unlike the XBox division of Microsoft, which has been steadily going downhill since its creation. It's a good thing that Microsoft has a lot of money to blow on the project.
I did. Enable your console in the game's options. Then, while in the game, pul your console down with the "`" key. (That's next to your number one key, also used for the tilde character).
In the console, type:
"in_mousegrab 1"
This fixed the problem on my machine. You may need to do it each time you play, at least until this beta is updated.
Actually, you *DON'T* need the Windows version to be installed. Icculus wrote that before Ravage wrote an installer, as I noted a few posts above yours.
I've played it a bit offline and online, and so far, it's pretty good. It seems to be a tad bit faster and smoother than the Windows version... However, there is still one problem. As Icculus noted, the sound is still borked. He had to rewrite the Miles Sound System code to use OpenAL instead. That code is not yet complete, but the rest of it seems to be running great. Sound does work, but panning effects seem a bit off (often too loud). Some stuff loops longer than normal as well. This is just a beta though, released only because people couldn't wait for Icculus to finish it.
If you want to use it, I suggest using Ravage's MOH:AA installer. It worked like a charm for me. It includes the biaries as well, and it seems to patch it to the recent version.
If you play in single player mode, subtitles are a must. Sound gets skipped sometimes, since the sound code isn't perfect yet.
http://icculus.org/~ravage/mohaa/
Ravage's installer didn't require a CD key. That's quite interesting, actually, because I was playing online without a CD key. I wonder if the Linux beta has been programmed to not make use of one.
I care. This was THE peice of software that I didn't want to ditch when I ditched Windows almost 2 years ago. It's an incredible game, and it's loads of fun online.
Oh yes, I'm drooling with envy. I've always wanted a desk that was straight out of the Jetsons. The furniture in these pictures look like that modern crap that came out of the '60s, and quickly died, except for the fact that it's not a nasty orange color.
Was I the only one that read "micromoog" in "microorganism"?
Most Windows users will know that something is wrong when "svchost" constantly crashes, prompting for a reboot. The hits on port 135 cause it to bork out. My mom, who is quite "computer illiterate", knew that something was wrong, and called me about it. We corrected the problem by upgrading her virus definitions (which were only a week out of date), and installed ZoneAlarm Free on her machine to stealth the ports from now on.
GRISoft's AVG Antivirus, and ZoneAlarm, are two great and free tools that can fix and prevent these things.
AVG Anti-Virus
Zone Alarm
A year or two ago, I wouldn't have thought that firewalls were so essential for dial-up users. Now, it's important for all users to have them, regardless of the OS.
This lawsuit just gets more and more rediculous every single day.