Anyone try to get egoboo to work with new linux drivers?

[leech]

This is quite annoying.... I had Mandrake 9.1 installed and the first time I booted egoboo up, it worked great. In fact it was running SUPER fast (500FPS). But then every other time I've tried to boot it up, it just shows 000 FPS, and sometimes there is a loud sound POP. The thing is that it doesn't just crash, (well, I had it lock my whole system once...) but instead it allows me to swirl the camera all around, which it does rather fast. If I keep hitting keys to move, then eventually my character moves about one frame, then stops again, and won't move anymore.

I currently have an ASUS P4PE, 3.06ghz P4, SBLive 5.1 (alsa drivers 0.9.2-1+libranet-custom.1, well, at least that's the package name, go figure why I have alsa-base 0.9.3c-1....., but it's not that, I already tried killing Alsa and using the 2.4.20 kernel driver emu10k1)

Any other ideas would be great. Or if it's even running ok on anyone else's systems.

And on a side note, the forums just suggested to update the SDL runtime to the latest, which is 1.2.5, which is what I currently have installed.

Leech

P.S. I'm using Libranet 2.8 with the SID stuff from normal Debian

[The PIT]

Try Windows much more reliable.

[GNEP]

Good suggestion Gurmie

[The PIT]

I couldn't resist it. Still linux is a good toy to have a laugth with.
Redhat's latest kernal has broken three machines at work and in totally different ways. Funny there the same hardware and set up.

[leech]

As I've said before, I hate Red Hat.

Though I've had an interesting thought.... I think when people review any new OS/Distro that they should rate it on an "As is" basis. For instance, if you were to install Windows XP on the EXACT same hardware as Red Hat 9 or Mandrake 9.1, (assuming of course that the hardware is well supported under all) Which OS would you get more out of, as is. Without having to download a ton of different programs. Granted each will have to have their updates/fixes installed.

My problem of course is that I am NEVER happy with the As is situation...... For instance, MDK 9.1 only has Abiword version 1.0.4, which is old and GTK1. Red Hat 9 doesn't even have an MP3 or MPG player installed by default, and there isn't even an MP3 player on any of the CD's!

Windows XP of course doesn't have a lot of the tools that are NECCESARY for a decent OS. Archivers being my main concern. Also you'll have to purchase and/or install an office suite seperately.

MDK 9.1, I will say was pretty smooth on the installation. An old woman could get that thing installed with NO problems. It even detected and set up my printer with out me even intervening at all.

The reason I don't like Red Hat 9 and MDK 9.1 is because if you wan to have more up to date packages, like the above mentioned Abiword, then you have to search and find them on the net (which admittedly isn't too hard) but then you run the risk of using third party RPM's that screw everything up, and not to mention that they usually don't have a very good versioning system. (At least MDK 9.1, since their package manager would let me install libxine 1.0-beta12 and xine-ui-beta4 without complaining a bit. The only reason I noticed the problem is because xine itself would say it was built with a different library than the one I had installed! So if you have several different rpm repositories set up, and they have the same program, but different numbers, it doesn't set the dependancies right.

Now let's go to what I DO like. Libranet/Debian. Debian's Apt is still WAY better than the rpm port of it. Mainly because the Debian maintaners rigorously test and improve their packages, and set the dependancies correctly (well most of the time, there was the gpdf package that wouldn't install because they had set the dependancy of libpopt0 to the wrong one, but the fixed package was up the next day.) With Libranet it's quite easy to install. You have a general or specific list of packages to install and it's super fast. It's a pretty good as is system. Though of course I just changed the repositories from Debian/Sarge to Debian/Sid to get all the newest stuff, but most of the Gnome2.2 stuff is already in the Libranet Repositories and isn't much older of a version than the SID stuff.

Anyhow, enough rambling....

Leech

[leech]

Originally posted by The PIT
Try Windows much more reliable.

Actually I'm trying to work on getting as far away from windows as possible. With all the various crap that MS is trying to pull, I would like to go totally with linux.

The only thing really holding me back is that I use my webcam over the net, and for the life of me am cursed about getting gnome meeting to work through my firewall. (actually I think it goes through my firewall just fine, it's on the other side that it's blocked somehow... :-( )

Windows XP WILL be the last Microsoft Operating system I'll ever use.

Leech

[Byock]

With Longhorn and all the DRM crap MS is trying to pull, I don't blame you.

[runderwo]

"The only thing really holding me back is that I use my webcam over the net, and for the life of me am cursed about getting gnome meeting to work through my firewall. (actually I think it goes through my firewall just fine, it's on the other side that it's blocked somehow... :-( )"

H.323 is unfortunately a really unfriendly protocol. If you have a NAT gateway there is all sorts of extra configuration necessary, but it is possible to get it working.