By all indications, it appears to me that the combination of Mandrake 8.0 and
KDE 2.1.1 is the most game-unfriendly combination I have ever come across in
the linux world.
I have Terminus, Myth II, and Heretic II, all linux games. Not a single one
of them will play properly under Mandrake 8.0 but they did play VERY well
under 7.2.
With Heretic II and Myth II, you have a choice: play the games without
soundfx (because artsd will not release /dev/dsp so anything else can use it)
OR kill artsd, which prevents the games from starting at all (don't ask me
why this is).
With Terminus, who know WHAT the problem is. I even tried deleting the whole
thing and then reinstalling the game from scratch. No dice. The problem
here is that the game wont produce ANY informational content at all. No
error messages, nothing. No CPU activity of any kind. It is as if one is
starting an empty binary, but this isn't the case. Under Mandrake 7.2, all
three of these games played flawlessly.
Among the problems that people have been coming across with the latest
Mandrake release, add "linux games don't work worth a damn in Mandrake 8.0".
If this cannot be corrected in 8.0, then I will have to go to another distro
(seriously). I specifically bought linux games to specifically support linux
gaming and help drive further development of linux games (and to enjoy the
games, of course). Please tell me there is a fix for this problem?
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Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.
