[H-GEN] Re: NWN-linux

[Joel Michael]

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On Sun, 2003-04-20 at 21:03, Sandra Milne wrote:
> NVidia XFree kernel/GLX. Latest as of a few weeks ago. I could try and see 
> if there's a later version of the drivers available I supppose, but I've 
> got a TNT2. Somehow I doubt the drivers for this card are going to change 
> much any more. Seems that most ppl with the problem have TNT2 cards as 
> well. 

Hm, this sounds like a rather interesting and important data point.  Is
it "most" or "all"?  If possible, temporarily swap out the TNT2 for the
GF2, and see if it works.

> Unfortunately the GeForce2 resides in my fiance's machine, and he 
> won't be able to play NWN in windows if I take possession as his cpu is 
> only a 450.
> 
NWN doesn't take much CPU horsepower, it depends a lot more on graphics
card power.  However, the TNT2 isn't exactly well known for its superior
processing horsepower...

> Yup it's 1.29. Updated it two days after it came out. I'm not really sure 
> what to do with md5sums (please don't hurt me!), 
md5 sums are quite a nifty thing, in a nutshell they cryptographically
ensure that the source file is probably the same as the destination
file.  Great for when you are downloading ISO's :-)

run 'md5sum <filename>' to generate the md5 of that file, then compare
the generated sum with the supplied sum.  If they match, your files are
OK, if not, the files are corrupt.

The man page explains more.

> but the fixinstall script 
> seems happy with the files as they are.
> 
>From what I've seen, the fixinstall script only renames files,
lower-casing the file extensions.  That was for beta 3, tho.  It may
have changed.

> Considering I spent 3 hours this afternoon playing it in windows, I'm cool 
> with it :-) It's only a 3 day week for work so I'd love to get it working 
> ASAP. Of course I'm supposed to be spending next weekend doing TAFE work, 
> but I'm sure I can do both ;-)
> 
Fair enough then.  Don't forget that there's quite a few 3-day weekends
coming up ;-)

> I'm grateful you're willing to troubleshoot with me, and I'll take the 
> discussion off-list if requested. I just thought others might be interested.
> 
I don't have a problem with troubleshooting on the list, as it IS under
the list charter (getting software running under Linux), but if others
would rather not see this then by all means I'll take it off-list.

(others: Please email me privately if this is the case!)
-- 
Joel Michael

A. Because we read from left to right and from top to bottom!
Q. Why should I place my response below the quoted text?


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