[dundee] new member

[Nistur Effee]

First of all
To Arron: If people are willing for me to try and do something about Cedega then I can try, but all the information is on their website so I see a lot of talks I could do, like Cedega, as being a little obsolete. Anyway, I can't next time because I'm going home for a week then.

Next, to chris:
I had several issues with Cedega, copy protection, python, dbus, hardware acceleration (OpenGL) but I have it working with two games so far (them being Need For Speed Underground and the original Unreal Tournament) but I'm fairly confident that I could get a few more games running.
If a game you want is officially supported you will have no problem to get it running, don't worry.

As for messing up your kernel. there's nothing a good kernel recompile won't fix *smile*. Speaking of which I finally need to get around to compiling a kernel for my laptop, it still has the annoying on board speaker beep as you probably noticed on thursday plus there are WAAAAAAAAAY too many modules installed... too much bulk *glares at Ubuntu*

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "chris wyllie" <cgwyllie at googlemail.com>
> To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: [dundee] new member
> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:19:57 +0100
> 
> 
> Hey, although you claim to have no experience or much knowledge, I'd beg to
> differ. You mention that you've got a working cedega plus games! Erm, what
> games may I ask?
> 
> This is something I'm quite interested in (making cedega work). So far I've
> only ever tried the CVS version which I know is a bit behind the commercial
> version and I've never had any luck. I just downloaded the time demo for
> 5.13 the other week but when updating my graphics drivers, managed to break
> them...
> 
> It has something to do with the kernel but I'm outta my depth fixing it,
> time for a quick reinstall methinks. (I run elive which, according to the
> site, has a few variations on the kernel and using stuff not outta their
> repos can damage it. The suggestion on their site is a reinstall.)
> 
> But anyway, there's only one game I want to make work with cedega, and
> that's guildwars. It's even officially supported heheh.
> 
> Maybe you'd reply or consider talking a little about what
> distros/drivers/cedega versions/games you've found successful? Or even both
> :) (Sorry I realise you said you're currently on ArchLinux).
> 
> Looking forward to hearing from you,
>   Chris
> 
> On 30/03/07, Nistur Effee <nistur at karate.com> wrote:
> >
> > Ok, I've been to the last(/first) 2 meetings and enjoyed myself. I was the
> > guy with the redhat the first time.
> > Anyway, I don't feel I have enough experience in many matters to give a
> > talk on much unfortunately, but I am willing if anyone thinks I know
> > anything.
> > I just thought I'd give a little background info though as I have got a
> > bit of knowledge about the different distros.
> > I started in (counts back the years) December 2003 with my first ever
> > linux install. I used Mandrake 9.2 (with the KDE desktop environment)
> > since then I have switched to Fedora Core (hence the hat) and have used FC2,
> > 3, 4, 5 and a small amount of 6. Mostly I have used the Gnome desktop as I
> > found it more to my liking than KDE (ie dies less)
> > I also attempted during that time to install Suse but failed as I couldn't
> > get it to not want to repartition my entire harddrive.
> > I have also built two working Linux from Scratch builds and gone further
> > with one to try and install an X server (no luck, need more practice)
> > Recently, while starting university I have also used my girlfriends Gentoo
> > install and also set up our new router (800MHz Compaq box) using, to start
> > off with leaf bering linux and then changing it to Gentoo when we found it
> > difficult to get the speedtouch modem working.
> > I have also myself recently switched from FC5 to ArchLinux for the main
> > reason I found FC too bulky. There was a lot more than I needed and I found
> > Arch Linux easy to get along with. I now have it installed on both my laptop
> > and my PC.
> > I have had a limited exposure to Ubuntu (no more please!) and I am not so
> > keen on "the bells and whistles" in terms of eye candy so I can't say Mint
> > holds too much interest for me.
> >
> > I think that's about it. I currently have a Cedega subscription and have a
> > few games working under it, although on my PC, which has a nVidia card (my
> > laptop has ATI *sigh*)
> >
> > If anyone feels I can in some way contribute to the society then please
> > tell me and I will do my best. I have had a lot of success with Linux,
> > mainly thanks to LinuxQuestions.org so I have a few subjects I can at
> > least help with.
> > ----------------------------------
> > Signing off
> >
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