You have to install it yourself, from a script, but x.game works perfectly for playing full screen games and being able to get back to the desktop quickly. After you install the x.game script, you just add "x.game start" to the front of your launcher commands such as this:
Then you use ctrl+alt+f7 and ctrl+alt+f12 to pop in and out. Very handy if you need to adjust the volume. Also handy as a boss key! You leave the game, it keeps running, and there is no trace of it visually.
I use it every day for over a year, and recommend it. I got it from an ubuntu forum thread. Here is the link: http://sudan.ubuntuforums.com/showthread.php?t=699332 Just take it from the first post, he edits it and it is up-to-date.
- ask before doing a slow check because of a reboot count. Someone could miss an online game!
- if the / drive needs checking while not mounted, then make it so. Don't make me pull out the cd and type "e2fsk -y/dev/sda1". Is it a security thing or what? It sure kills the experience for regular non-techie users.
Hi, I have a laptop under warrenty with an nvidia 6200M GS. It might be crashing when it gets hot. Yesterday it locked up while I was playing war3 demo in wine, which I have done since ubuntu 5.10 without problem on another computer. When it is hot, sometimes I will see what looks like a mesh of fabric on the LCD. This fabric is grey with a black background.
What do I say to Acer? Do I act dumb or say I know about the GPU's with low temperature soldier balls and they all will fail, and mine is going. ? Do I stand for them wanting me to ship 1000 km from Winnipeg to Toronto? Can't they just ship me another Aspire with 3GB, 250GB, intel core2duo 1.6 and a comparable speed GPU, and 15" LCD, dvd burner, camera, 5.1, stereo mics etc. ? I really just want a motherboard and I can install it myself, but know they won't like that.
I know someone did their quantum physics phd on this, 20 years ago. She used red-shift information on 60,000 galaxies to notice that galaxies are pulled towards near-by universes. The review panel said, we can't verify your work because you used a mainframe to do batch calculations and how can we verify that?
Me and my mate both bought similar price/quality/brand stereos. I spend $9k and got a sub too, and 50 cds. He spent $11k and got no sub too, and no cds. But he did get unbendable cables and interconnects that make the sound harsh. Two years later, I am into the music, and his just sits there collecting dust. monocable.com all the way. I litterally spent only $100 on cables, and ended up with 6 foot, 12 foot, and 25 foot cables for depending on if the room is set up for the wife, movie night, or listening.
>Why are you formatting the first drive with FAT32? Do you just not like your data?
Fine with me, you could explain more if you like. NTFS is only recently documented though, and I have experienced linux borking it up myself, but that was a year ago, and that is ages at the rate linux grows smarter. Then again, I have had lots of good times with it too. Windows, I have no problem with either, and I don't even defrag. I don't do torrents in windows, that would frag you up I bet. Like I said, I use fat32 because otherwise ubuntu 7.10 asks my password everytime I access a fat32, if you know the workaround that would be nice.:-) I use Solidworks, Unigraphics, visual studio, Painkiller, Warcraft etc in windows and it is not crashing from fat32 that I know of.
oh yeah, very important> have wired internet plugged in when you install ubuntu. if not, redo it. Also, if you can't fix grub boot menu with above method, just reinstall ubuntu overtop itself. You can leave your/home partition alone--don't format it.
> - Round those 20GB partitions down to around 15GB or so, they'll still be big enough and it'll halve your cluster size.
Cool, and in fact, XP installs just fine into a 2GB partition as long as you put program installs elsewhere.:-)
> There's actually no need to avoid NTFS anymore
I agree, except it makes me type my password everytime I access a ntfs so I still avoid it. I figured out XP will give you the fat32 option as longer as it is a 30GB part or smaller. You can resizes it later. In fact, you can install it on ntfs and convert it to fat32 no problem... just tried that. Cheers for beers!
Your welcome. After you install XP, go to Add/Remove Software, Windows components, and remove everything there including Internet Explorer. Install Spybot, Zone Alarm, and maybe AVG. If you need IE to download Firefox, just Start,Run, iexplore. Don't do any email in windows, and as little internet as possible... preferably just multiplayer or minimal work stuff.
Do email, credit cards, paypal etc in linux. After you install ubuntu 7.10, download automatix and run it. That fixes your sources. Then click Admin,Sources and uncheck the cdrom. Then Admin,Security,Login Tab and put yourself on auto login. To install software use Add/Remove or sudo aptitude install program-name. --never locks up. Linux puts your email, if you use mozilla-thunderbird, in a hidden folder in your/home folder. Hidden files/folders start with a dot. To make something run that won't, right-click on it and make it executable. You can install MS Office97 in wine in linux. The version of wine shipping to ubuntu can't do warcraft3 multiplayer..., you need to google "pizpot downgrade wine" and read that thread on how to upgrade wine so it works. Virtualbox is cool, you can install XP into linux and I used it to run a major 3d cad program just fine. The webpage uubuntuguide is where you look first for advice, then google and the ubuntuforums second. There is so much to tell... use the force.
How to do your Windows/Ubuntu PC, with 2 hardrives:
drive 1,120GB (operating systems and windows programs) drive 2 200GB+ (linux data)
partition drive 1 into four partitions of this size:
1. 20G - for XP (fat32) 2. 20G - for XP backup (fat32) 3. 60G - for windows data (fat32) 4. 20G - for ubuntu linux / (ext2)
partition drive 2 into 2 partitions: 1. 512 MB for linux swap 2. the rest for linux/home (ext2)
Google "hirens download" for a cd with partition and ghost programs.
Install XP on drive 1 partition 1 and patch it up and install all your stuff. Put games in a folder called "programs" on part 3. Make sure you have a router firewall so XP not get hacked right away.
Install Ubuntu linux (or whatever) to the 4th partition on drive 1, tell it to use the big partition on drive 2 as/home.
Then ghost XP to partition 2 for when it goes to shit. When that happens, just ghost it back from 2 to 1: 5 minutes beats an hour or two.
If you re-install windows, you will lose your boot menu that linux did for you. Just boot to the ubuntu cd, and click Apps, Terminal and then: grub find/boot/grub/stage1 -->it replies with (hd0,3) root (hd0,3) setup (hd0) quit exit
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KDE is cutting-edge.
uhhh, try a fresh install of 8.10...
clean the dust from the fan/heatsink, or re-appy the thermal paste on the GPU.
You have to install it yourself, from a script, but x.game works perfectly for playing full screen games and being able to get back to the desktop quickly. After you install the x.game script, you just add "x.game start" to the front of your launcher commands such as this:
x.game start wine "/media/DATA/programs/Warcraft III/War3.exe"
Then you use ctrl+alt+f7 and ctrl+alt+f12 to pop in and out. Very handy if you need to adjust the volume. Also handy as a boss key! You leave the game, it keeps running, and there is no trace of it visually.
I use it every day for over a year, and recommend it. I got it from an ubuntu forum thread. Here is the link: http://sudan.ubuntuforums.com/showthread.php?t=699332 Just take it from the first post, he edits it and it is up-to-date.
fsck needs fixing.
Perhaps:
- ask before doing a slow check because of a reboot count. Someone could miss an online game!
- if the / drive needs checking while not mounted, then make it so. Don't make me pull out the cd and type "e2fsk -y /dev/sda1". Is it a security thing or what? It sure kills the experience for regular non-techie users.
Neat reply. I got it from the source.ca. :-)
Hi, I have a laptop under warrenty with an nvidia 6200M GS. It might be crashing when it gets hot. Yesterday it locked up while I was playing war3 demo in wine, which I have done since ubuntu 5.10 without problem on another computer. When it is hot, sometimes I will see what looks like a mesh of fabric on the LCD. This fabric is grey with a black background.
What do I say to Acer? Do I act dumb or say I know about the GPU's with low temperature soldier balls and they all will fail, and mine is going. ? Do I stand for them wanting me to ship 1000 km from Winnipeg to Toronto? Can't they just ship me another Aspire with 3GB, 250GB, intel core2duo 1.6 and a comparable speed GPU, and 15" LCD, dvd burner, camera, 5.1, stereo mics etc. ? I really just want a motherboard and I can install it myself, but know they won't like that.
Help!
I know someone did their quantum physics phd on this, 20 years ago. She used red-shift information on 60,000 galaxies to notice that galaxies are pulled towards near-by universes. The review panel said, we can't verify your work because you used a mainframe to do batch calculations and how can we verify that?
p r o p a g a n d a !
I got MA-GS10, PW2200 sub, NAD amp, Adcom. He got B+W805, Bryston, Adcom.
Cheers!
yes I did mean to type monoprice.com, very nice company. shipping is fast and well done.
"...aluminum foil with an adhesive backing."
It is great for correcting the airflow of computer cases, so you can use less and quieter fans.
"...everything else is virtually identical."
Me and my mate both bought similar price/quality/brand stereos. I spend $9k and got a sub too, and 50 cds. He spent $11k and got no sub too, and no cds. But he did get unbendable cables and interconnects that make the sound harsh. Two years later, I am into the music, and his just sits there collecting dust. monocable.com all the way. I litterally spent only $100 on cables, and ended up with 6 foot, 12 foot, and 25 foot cables for depending on if the room is set up for the wife, movie night, or listening.
no, this is the next step: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1nzEFMjkI4
Not crossing might matter if the chip was 2D, but it is 3D.
with ubuntu, if it doesn't just work, good luck. in otherwords, if it is a hp pavillion good luck.
mostly because it did not tell me that upfront and i had no idea.
ubuntu password
>Why are you formatting the first drive with FAT32? Do you just not like your data?
:-) I use Solidworks, Unigraphics, visual studio, Painkiller, Warcraft etc in windows and it is not crashing from fat32 that I know of.
Fine with me, you could explain more if you like. NTFS is only recently documented though, and I have experienced linux borking it up myself, but that was a year ago, and that is ages at the rate linux grows smarter. Then again, I have had lots of good times with it too. Windows, I have no problem with either, and I don't even defrag. I don't do torrents in windows, that would frag you up I bet. Like I said, I use fat32 because otherwise ubuntu 7.10 asks my password everytime I access a fat32, if you know the workaround that would be nice.
oh yeah, very important> have wired internet plugged in when you install ubuntu. if not, redo it. Also, if you can't fix grub boot menu with above method, just reinstall ubuntu overtop itself. You can leave your /home partition alone--don't format it.
> - Round those 20GB partitions down to around 15GB or so, they'll still be big enough and it'll halve your cluster size.
:-)
Cool, and in fact, XP installs just fine into a 2GB partition as long as you put program installs elsewhere.
> There's actually no need to avoid NTFS anymore
I agree, except it makes me type my password everytime I access a ntfs so I still avoid it. I figured out XP will give you the fat32 option as longer as it is a 30GB part or smaller. You can resizes it later. In fact, you can install it on ntfs and convert it to fat32 no problem... just tried that. Cheers for beers!
Your welcome. After you install XP, go to Add/Remove Software, Windows components, and remove everything there including Internet Explorer. Install Spybot, Zone Alarm, and maybe AVG. If you need IE to download Firefox, just Start,Run, iexplore. Don't do any email in windows, and as little internet as possible... preferably just multiplayer or minimal work stuff.
/home folder. Hidden files/folders start with a dot. To make something run that won't, right-click on it and make it executable. You can install MS Office97 in wine in linux. The version of wine shipping to ubuntu can't do warcraft3 multiplayer..., you need to google "pizpot downgrade wine" and read that thread on how to upgrade wine so it works. Virtualbox is cool, you can install XP into linux and I used it to run a major 3d cad program just fine. The webpage uubuntuguide is where you look first for advice, then google and the ubuntuforums second. There is so much to tell... use the force.
Do email, credit cards, paypal etc in linux. After you install ubuntu 7.10, download automatix and run it. That fixes your sources. Then click Admin,Sources and uncheck the cdrom. Then Admin,Security,Login Tab and put yourself on auto login. To install software use Add/Remove or sudo aptitude install program-name. --never locks up. Linux puts your email, if you use mozilla-thunderbird, in a hidden folder in your
broadcom is supported for a while now :-)
been using it since it went out March 28th on MSDN... it is fine.
How to do your Windows/Ubuntu PC, with 2 hardrives:
/home (ext2)
/home.
/boot/grub/stage1
drive 1,120GB (operating systems and windows programs)
drive 2 200GB+ (linux data)
partition drive 1 into four partitions of this size:
1. 20G - for XP (fat32)
2. 20G - for XP backup (fat32)
3. 60G - for windows data (fat32)
4. 20G - for ubuntu linux / (ext2)
partition drive 2 into 2 partitions:
1. 512 MB for linux swap
2. the rest for linux
Google "hirens download" for a cd with partition and ghost programs.
Install XP on drive 1 partition 1 and patch it up and install all your stuff. Put games in a folder called "programs" on part 3. Make sure you have a router firewall so XP not get hacked right away.
Install Ubuntu linux (or whatever) to the 4th partition on drive 1, tell it to use the big partition on drive 2 as
Then ghost XP to partition 2 for when it goes to shit. When that happens, just ghost it back from 2 to 1: 5 minutes beats an hour or two.
If you re-install windows, you will lose your boot menu that linux did for you. Just boot to the ubuntu cd, and click Apps, Terminal and then:
grub
find
-->it replies with (hd0,3)
root (hd0,3)
setup (hd0)
quit
exit