Re: Quake(1) on RH8
On 21 Jan 2003, Donald G Wilson Jr wrote: > I know its an old game but... has anyone here gotten quake to run on RH > 8. I've never installed these syle games on Linux and frankly am afraid > of fessing up my install. I read the how-to, and several sites, but all > are outdated and leave me wondering if i can/should do it on my sys. > > (RH8 w/ AMD XP2100+, GeForce4 mx420, nvidia drivers.) > > no rtfm style replys please, though if someone says they did it by the > how - to thats fine, i was just scared of changing so many files via out > dated information. > > :-) > > dw Quake 1, your best bet if you have the original cd is quakeforge, this is a complete port of quake1 for linux with 3d excelerated graphics and is easily installed from sourc, quake2, the best method is to download the quake2 installer from icculus.org, this is another full linux port which will install and setup quake2 from the original cd, quake3, with either the windows or linux cd version you should download the latest linux patch from ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com//idstuff/quake3/linux/linuxq3apoint-1.32b.x86.run and run it, then copy the pack files from the cd or a windows install to /usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3. Have fun :) /dTd Perl 6 will give you the big knob. - Larry Wall -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: does NFS with nohide option work?
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 11:54:10 -0700 "Randall J. Parr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to use NFS to transfer data between a RH 7.3 (s7) and an RH > 8.0 (s8) system. > > I have tried the following on both system (ie coming from both directions). > [only the names have been changed to proected the innocent] > > /etc/exports: > - > /[servername](rw,sync,no_root_squash,nohide) > > /etc/fstab > - > servername:/ /servernamenfsnoauto,noac,intr,timeo=15 /etc/exports should be: /dir_you_want_to_share name.ofmachine.toshareto(rw,otheroptions) example of this: /mnt/shared/ wifes.machine.lan(rw) /etc/fstab should read: name_of_server_sharing:shared_dir mountpoint_to_mount_share nfs some options exmple of this: main.machine.lan:/mnt/shared /mnt/shared nfs timeo=14,intr -- /dTd Perl 6 will give you the big knob. - Larry Wall
Re: How should i make my computer with another OS make my Linux-box connect to internet with ppp?
On 20 Oct 2002 15:02:01 +0200 Kent Nyberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > lör 2002-10-19 klockan 20.16 skrev Jesse Keating: > > On 19 Oct 2002 20:08:24 +0200 > > Kent Nyberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > # I want my linuxbox that connects to the internet with pppd to be able > > # to share the connection with my other computer running windows xp. > > # I think i can manage to use masq and that stuff to share the > > # connection when it is upp and running but i want to make it so that > > # the other computer can "tell" my linuxbox to connect (and disconnect). > > # Can some one post some information about where to read more about > > # this? I have never done this before and have no clue about what to do. > > > > I've heard you can do this with "dial-on-demand" scripts. I've never > > done it though. > > > > Well, i know i can make my system dial on demand. I have looked a little > bit in wvdial documentation but did not find much about dial on demand > but i know it should work. But i realy want the window-machine not to > make my Linuxbox dial on to internet every time it lookes up something > on the internet. I want it to pop ups some kind of "Do you realy want to > dial to the internet?" and some way to disconnect the connection from > the windows-machine. My ISP is very expensive and i do not have > broadband. :( > I saw a package on freshmeat designed to do just this, I have forgotten it's name, but a quick search for "demand dial" should get you some results. As a side note, you can set an idle option to pppd that will drop the connection after a certain amount of time. Not ver helpfull but hey it's a start. :) -- /dTd Perl 6 will give you the big knob. - Larry Wall
Re: Compilation of avifile
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 08:50:40 +0200 Michael Schwendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 19 Oct 2002 23:29:27 +0200, Jurgen Kramer wrote: > > > I have been trying to compile avifile (from CVS) but it always fails > > with a message similar to this: > > > > rm -fr .libs/libdha_vid.la .libs/libdha_vid.* .libs/libdha_vid.* > > (cd . && ln -s libdha.lo libdha.lo) > > (cd . && ln -s mtrr.lo mtrr.lo) > > (cd . && ln -s pci.lo pci.lo) > > (cd . && ln -s pci_names.lo pci_names.lo) > > (cd . && ln -s mmi.lo mmi.lo) > > (cd . && ln -s ports.lo ports.lo) > > ar cru .libs/libdha_vid.al libdha.lo mtrr.lo pci.lo pci_names.lo > > mmi.lo ports.lo > > ar: libdha.lo: Too many levels of symbolic links > > make[3]: *** [libdha_vid.la] Error 1 > > make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/avifile-0.6/drivers/libdha' > > make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > > make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/avifile-0.6/drivers/libdha' > > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/avifile-0.6/drivers' > > make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > > > > Is this purely a RH8/GCC3.2 thing? Any solutions? > > I don't see where GCC3.2 is involved in your example at all. > > Look at the top of your quote where the links are created. > Linking a file back to itself doesn't look like a good idea. > > Didn't I read there was problems with the CVS for avifile on their website recently and not to use it yet? -- /dTd Perl 6 will give you the big knob. - Larry Wall
Re: Mozilla with Anti Aliasing
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 17:23:48 +0100 "Tom Coady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Michael Fratoni" > > You can install MS "core fonts for the web" via rpm. > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/font-tool/ > > Install both the cabextract and xf86-corefonts packages, > > Oh my god, thank you thank you. Finally I have beauty in both mozilla and > the rest of RH8 :) > > > then execute > > /usr/X11R6/bin/core_font_install.sh > > Funnily enough I omitted this step - just restarted mozilla. > > If you are interested to see what happened, > > This is what my screen looks like before: > > http://www.aovt15.dsl.pipex.com/snapshot1.png > > after: > > http://www.aovt15.dsl.pipex.com/snapshot2.png I must be weird, I like the before shot better :) -- /dTd Perl 6 will give you the big knob. - Larry Wall
Re: Mozilla with Anti Aliasing
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 12:56:46 -0400
Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 02:56:27PM +0100, Tom Coady wrote:
> >
> > I just clicked the link which opened the ftp site in konqueror. Select
> > all, right click, install packages, they are automatically downloaded,
> > dependency checked and installed while the old RPMs are automatically
> > removed. This is just getting better and better. Having said that I cannot
> > see any difference so far, except that it has restored mozilla as my
> > default browser. Frankly the fonts in konqueror look much prettier still,
> > but perhaps I need to select different ones to the default?
>
> If it is like the non-RH mozilla-xft builds, you have to configure it
> separately for AA.
>
> Look for /usr/lib/mozilla-*/defaults/pref/unix.js:
>
> // TrueType ///
> pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true);
> pref("font.freetype2.shared-library", "libfreetype.so.6");
>
> // if libfreetype was built without hinting compiled in
> // it is best to leave hinting off. try it both ways to see.
> pref("font.FreeType2.autohinted", true);
> pref("font.FreeType2.unhinted", false);
>
> // below a certian pixel size anti-aliased fonts produce poor results
> pref("font.antialias.min",10);
> pref("font.embedded_bitmaps.max", 100);
> pref("font.scale.tt_bitmap.dark_text.min", 64);
> pref("font.scale.tt_bitmap.dark_text.gain", "0.8");
>
> // sample prefs for TrueType font dirs
> //pref("font.directory.truetype.1", "/u/sam/tt_font");
> //pref("font.directory.truetype.2", "/u/sam/other/tt_font");
> pref("font.directory.truetype.1", "/usr/share/fonts/truetype");
>
>
> Look for that section, and season to taste. You do have to turn it on,
> and tell it where the fonts are at a minimum. You then have to select
> the appropriate fonts in the Mozilla appearance/fonts configuration
> using the ones that are upper cased. Again, assuming it is like the
> standard builds. There is no click and go feature AFAIK. There is
> still some small glimmer of hope, I guess. Hinting made a big
> difference here too.
>
> --
> Hal Burgiss
>
Very cool, it works for the pheonix nightlies too :)
--
/dTd
Perl 6 will give you the big knob. - Larry Wall
Re: Mozilla with Anti Aliasing
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 15:28:31 -0400 Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 03:02:04PM -0400, dTd wrote: > > > > Very cool, it works for the pheonix nightlies too :) > > Double cool :) Do they have proxy support yet? ... guess I should > ckeck it and see. Absolutely, pheonix is my only browser now, I love it, last night was the last hurdle, the option to select cookie sites is in. This great stuff. -- /dTd Perl 6 will give you the big knob. - Larry Wall
Re: How should i make my computer with another OS make my Linux-box connect to internet with ppp?
On 20 Oct 2002 21:57:42 -0500 David Krider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 10:21, dTd wrote: > > I saw a package on freshmeat designed to do just this, I have forgotten > > it's name, but a quick search for "demand dial" should get you some > > results. As a side note, you can set an idle option to pppd that will drop > > the connection after a certain amount of time. Not ver helpfull but hey > > it's a start. :) > > I can't believe that no one has nailed this down yet. It's very simple > to do, and everything you need is already in the distribution. If you > already have your main box connecting with pppd, there's just two things > left to do on the pppd side. > > You must properly configure both network sides of your Linux box, you > must ENABLE IP FORWARDING (this one's easy to overlook), and you must - > as you said - enable masquerading through iptables. > > (In 7.3, there was a GUI to configure everything you want. It was called > rp3-config. I don't know if it's there in RH 8 as I have regressed to > 7.3 again because I have issues with the font situation. I'm sure > there's an equivalent, though it will probably be called > `redhat-config-something'.) > > Anyway, all it did was configure `ifcfg-pppX' scripts in > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. The options you need are "DEMAND=yes" > and "IDLETIMEOUT=XXX". > sure but that's not what he asked for. He wants to be able to control his ppp connection from a lan box with a graphical app. Like a remote kppp, so he can bring the connection up and down. -- /dTd Perl 6 will give you the big knob. - Larry Wall
Re: Mozilla with Anti Aliasing
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:51:14 -0400
Bill Nottingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hal Burgiss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
> > If it is like the non-RH mozilla-xft builds, you have to configure it
> > separately for AA.
> >
> > Look for /usr/lib/mozilla-*/defaults/pref/unix.js:
> >
> > // TrueType ///
> > pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true);
> > pref("font.freetype2.shared-library", "libfreetype.so.6");
>
> These don't look right. As I understand, earlier versions could
> use freetype directly, which is what this sort of config would be for;
> what the new patch enables is use of Xft and fontconfig.
>
> Bill
>
Now you tell me. And here I was thinking it worked great. :)
--
/dTd
Perl 6 will give you the big knob. - Larry Wall
Re: What WM and how to change?
On Sat, 26 Oct 2002 11:57:06 +0200 Tobias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I run RH8.0 > > I really dont like KDE nor Gnome. They look to much as Windows and similars. > I would like something alot less "amature-looking" (as in not alot of fancy > animations and such shit). The WM should not take too much space on the > desktop with large frames around windows and such. > > Any ideas? > > > How do I switch between theese WM's? I want them to aoppear in the list when > I log in. > switchdesk windowmaker As always, I vote windowmaker :) -- /dTd Perl 6 will give you the big knob. - Larry Wall
Re: OT: mail clients was Re: ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 conversion
On 31 Oct 2002 15:11:37 -0800 Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It sorts by thread, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm want the > logical display of threads, like this: > http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/info/fancy.html Thank you Thank you thank you I love pine, now I can start using it again. I didn't really need fancy threading untill i subscribed to about the 4th mailing list, now I can use my favorite mua again. Though sylpheed has been very good to me ;) -- /dTd Perl 6 will give you the big knob. - Larry Wall
Re: problem with redhat 8.0 ?
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 01:02:19 -0500 (EST) "Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > >Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:44:01 +0100 > >From: Michael Schwendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > >List-Id: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Psyche) > >Subject: Re: problem with redhat 8.0 ? > > > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:25:58 +, Malcolm Hunter wrote: > > > >> On Tuesday 29 October 2002 06:27, faisal gillani wrote: > >> > Well all of a sudden my xwindows wont start > >> > after few attemps to start it gives our error & ask me > >> > for an root password ,then i tries to configure but it > >> > fails ... now wat can i do ? Xconfigurator not present > >> > here ... :( > >> > help !!! > >> > >> To get X Window (no 's') working, try redhat-config-xfree86. > > > >It's "X Windows" and "The X Window System". > > Actually, if you want to be pedantic It is "X", "X11", or > "The X Window System". It is _not_ "X Windows". "X Windows" is > common slang, but pedantically is incorrect. Common enough slang > that various XFree86 source code files actually used it until > recently when someone corrected all occurrances of this. ;o) > Hrmm, let's see, who could that have been ;) -- /dTd Perl 6 will give you the big knob. - Larry Wall
Re: Too much antialiasing
On 31 Oct 2002 11:31:59 -0600 Jason L Tibbitts III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "KL" == Kevin Lisciotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > KL> I'm experiencing the same problems. I've looked at Bugzilla #76057 > KL> which supposedly addresses this issue, but haven't tried any of > KL> them as of yet. > > 76057 doesn't seem to apply to what I'm seeing; the complaint there > seems to be that non-AA fonts are ugly. I'm not having a problem with > the quality of the outline generation; that looks fine (and even > better once the bytecode interpreter is turned on and the webfonts are > in place). > > Instead I'm having problems with freetype not snapping vertical > elements to the pixel grid. For example, a lowercase ell (which is > just a vertical line of pixels in the font I'm using) is not snapped > to either a one or two pixel width; instead it has a non-integer width > which is approximated by drawing one black line and one grey line next > to it. A sample is at > http://www.math.uh.edu/~tibbs/rh8-poor-fonts.gif Absolutely, I hate antialiased fonts, they give me a headache and eyestrain to the max. One of the main reasons I can surf and work in linux 10 times longer than I ever could in windows. I only recently realized it was the antialiasing of fonts that was causing it. Though using and enabling tt fonts has beautified my system immensly :) -- /dTd Perl 6 will give you the big knob. - Larry Wall
Re: Resolution Help
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 00:57:55 -0500 (EST) "Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There are several tools for configuring XFree86 that exist inside > XFree86, and externally from XFree86, some of which are rather > obsolete, and some of which are no longer shipped for one reason > or another in Red Hat Linux. Since a lot of these configuration > utilities have similar names, people very very often get them > mixed up, or spell them incorrectly. > > xf86config - ancient original commandline based question and > answer config tool that has been part of XFree86 for > ages. This is entirely text commandline based and > sucks majorly. It is included in RHL 8.0 still more > or less because it got missed by my axe. Most > likely this will die painfully next release. The > cavemen still using this can feel free to complain > to /dev/null when this happens. > > XF86Setup - First GUI based config tool included with XFree86 > itself. It is TCL/TK based, 16 color vga, > horrendously ugly, non-intuitive UI, unmaintained, > and obsolete. It is included still in XFree86 > source code, but it is disabled and most likely > contains many bugs. Hasn't been in RHL for quite a > while. > > xf86cfg- New GUI/TUI config tool that first appeared in > XFree86 4.0. It supports a GUI mode implemented > in using Xt/Xaw/whatever (shudder), and also has a > text mode which is ncurses based (which most people > are unaware of also). While the GUI is an > improvement over the other older caveman tools > above, it is only marginally better IMHO. This was > in RHL up until 7.3, but was removed from RHL 8.0 > intentionally, and will not be returning. I made > this a spec file conditional build time thing to > satiate any complainers. > > Xconfigurator - The text mode Red Hat XFree86 config tool which > has been the default X config tool for ages, > but is now obsolete and removed from the distro > in 8.0. Xconfigurator originally was > basically a newt based front end glued on top of > xf86config which was kludged and abused more and > more over time into the unmaintainable mess that > it is today. A new config tool was needed which > is more modern, user friendly, etc. and > continuing to kludge things into Xconfigurator > simply wasn't scalable or maintainable, so it was > dropped for 8.0, and redhat-config-xfree86 was > born in its place. It won't return. > > X -configure - The X server itself can generate a config file >in a pinch which can be used as is in many cases, >or can be tweaked by hand if necessary. > > redhat-config-xfree86 - The current supported XFree86 config tool > in Red Hat Linux 8.0 and future releases. > It is python+gtk based, and is the only > officially supported X config tool. > > This tool will be enhanced over time to try and provide the most > useful configuration tasks that end users really need to have. > The goal of the tool is to be end-user friendly, and to minimize > the amount of configuration required. As many things that can be > sensibly autoconfigured generally will be. Complex config items > will likely not be supported in the tool, or will only be > available with some -advanced option or somesuch - if anything. > A lot of the things that have traditionally _needed_ to be > configured before, are starting to gain autodetection support in > the X server. As more and more things go towards autodetection, > etc. - the need to explicitly configure them in the config file > becomes less and less of a need. The tools become simplified, > the users don't run away in fear, and life is good. > > Be sure to report bugs that occur with this tool, as well as > feature enhancement requests into Red Hat bugzilla. > > > Hope this helps. > > > > -- > Mike A. Harrisftp://people.redhat.com/mharris > OS Systems Engineer > XFree86 maintainer > Red Hat Inc. May I suggest that this email be added to one of redhats webpages and that a link be made pointing new users to it :) Mike, you da man. -- /dTd Perl 6 will give you the big knob. - Larry Wall
Re: Script to copy files to all users?
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 09:14:59 +0800 (WST) John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Put it in /home/shared and tell everyone it's there. make a symlink to it in each home dir for convenience. -- /dTd Perl 6 will give you the big knob. - Larry Wall
Re: Is your video card Built/Powered by ATI, and why should you care...
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 08:47:27 -0500 (EST) "Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However, you'll notice that within one single day of this > occuring, ATI responded very quickly and politely by updating > their drivers on their website to also now support "Powered by > ATI" support. Now *THAT* is what *I* call damned dedicated > customer support. It wasn't even 48 hours. Considering Linux is > somewhat of a niche market, a hardware vendor response like that > in such short notice is just amazing. How many other vendors > would respond to their customers like that in such incredibly > short time, especially to support a product that they did not > actually produce, but just licenced the technology so that > someone else could produce a product? > > I don't know about others, but if I didn't have a mountain of > video cards already, and I was in the market for one, I know > exactly where my money would be going. It'd be going to a > company that supports Linux very well, both with open source > support including major source code contributions, friendly > engineers to help with problems, and access to technical > specifications to XFree86 developers, as well as now supporting > customers with an alternative - binary drivers, and with 2 day > response times to customer concerns. > > Spend your money wherever you think you'll get the best support > for Linux. My money would be going to ATI, and I'll bet many > others who have followed this thread will be also. > > Once again, hats off to ATI for their support of the Linux > community. > > $0.02 You all know where I stand, but Mike, you just may have converted me to the ATI side. I congratulate you for keeping your cool, and ATI for this quick update. -- /dTd Perl 6 will give you the big knob. - Larry Wall -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: playing a DVD using freshrpms rpms
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002 07:41:51 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5 Oct 2002, Patrick wrote: > > > Iirc, RH8 uses OSS sound drivers so when ogle tries to access alsa > > it crashes because there is no alsa active on RH8. Try using OSS > > sound drivers or playing without sound to see if it works then. > > > > Cheers, > > Patrick > > ok, i don't know enough about sound configuration to know how to > do this, but i did figure out that ogle comes with a system-wide > config file, /usr/share/ogle/oglerc, which is an XML file in four > sections, one of them being "audio": > > > > > > > ... section skipped ... > > > > alsa > /dev/dsp > > default > > > > 2 > 0 > 0 > > > 1.5 > no > > > odelay > no > 0 > > > > ... remainder of file skipped ... > > > > > so, any suggestions for what i would change for RH 8.0? > i have an inspiron with ESS/maestro3. guess it's time to start > reading even more docs. > > rday > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list oss -- /dTd Perl 6 will give you the big knob. - Larry Wall
Re: libasound.so.1
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002 18:04:13 +0200 Andreas Schlueter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Why do you want to install xine ? > Take Mplayer and you don't have any trouble. This is not always the case. I have trouble with sound syncing on all dvd playback with MPlayer and not so with xine, xine has a much more sophisticated metronome system just for this reason. I might add that I have an awe 64 gold sound card (that I'm not parting with) that is limited to 44100hz and most all dvd is 48000hz thus sound needs to be resampled and resynced for my hardware. MPlayer soes resample if you pass it a command line parameter, but then in the gui it gets disabled again, and it doesn't resync. -- /dTd Perl 6 will give you the big knob. - Larry Wall
Re: Pysche and DVD
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 15:41:38 -0400 "MW Mike Weiner (5028)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i know i know i knownow why does everyone think that movie was SOOO > lame?!?!? My wife and i actually enjoyed it when it came out, and love > watching it again, when we can. I guess it's just their opinion, of course I share it with them :) -- /dTd Perl 6 will give you the big knob. - Larry Wall
