I almost hate to take the bait like this, but what the hell....
Praedor: Why'd you switch to 8.0 anyway? To get the latest, the greatest,
right? But most any distro that puts out a new major version is going to have
the cutting edge stuff - which is likely always going to be fairly buggy. So
you can switch off to any other distro, and then when that distro comes out
with the newest and bestest, you'll upgrade and likely have more problems. Or
you could join the ranks of those who don't take 7.0 but wait for 7.1 and 7.2,
and who don't take 8.0 but wait for 8.1 etc.
But whatever, and good luck getting those games going! Have fun :-)
j
--- Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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?
> --
> Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.
>
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