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Darth Jason - Student  |
I am thinking of switching to mandrake linux, Will i stillbe able to runJA _______________ I have seen EP3 now I can die happy and complete. Happy Star Wars Completion day everyone!!!! |
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tarpman - The Tarped Avenger 
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That's too bad. If you want to give it another try, add me to MSN and I can walk you through getting a decent gaming setup going. _______________ Saving the world, one kilobyte at a time. |
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Darth Jason - Student 
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The experiment is done, to long away from actual play, to much head ache rewriting files and trying different configs. now back to (not so) good ol windows _______________ I have seen EP3 now I can die happy and complete. Happy Star Wars Completion day everyone!!!! |
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tarpman - The Tarped Avenger
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Cedega free of charge? I doubt it, and if it's true, then it's a bad idea, not to mention immoral. Also, it's more likely to be an older version. Cedega <4.0 has problems with JKA, CD checks in particular. The newest version does the CD check properly on my machine. And FiZZe is a lazy n00b, because JK2 doesn't even have copy protection.  FiZZe: the same thing I have to tell everyone. Plenty of Windows games use OpenGL for graphics, yes. That doesn't change that they use DirectSound for sound (OK, JKA uses a port of OpenAL), DirectInput for input, and DirectPlay for networking (not in the case of Q3 games). Decent DirectX support is still a necessity. _______________ Saving the world, one kilobyte at a time. |
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Fizz of Belouve - Student 
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'grats  just check out wether Xorg or Xfree servers support ur gfx card, and use that one, then. also check out your gfx drivers, if there aint binary drivers for your card, there might most possibly be DRI drivers available. like I said, my old radeon can sport JK2 in linux fine. without cadega. _______________ One of the Belouve boys, founder of the mighty FiZZsters Midbie council #20 - Fizz - #1933 - Jan '03 - Aug '04 "Renfield, you idiot!" |
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Darth Jason - Student 
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I have been doing a little research. At present I am running Mandrake 10. I have found that there is openGL support as well as a few sites to down load cadega f.o.c. I am using grub(lilo caused a lot of prob.) and after re configuring my xf86 config file i got my x window system to work _______________ I have seen EP3 now I can die happy and complete. Happy Star Wars Completion day everyone!!!! |
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Fizz of Belouve - Student
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Quote: Wine as far as I know doesn't have the level of DirectX support required. 100% correct, lucky enough that JK games run on opengl, which is just nice, in linux. trust me, the only thing keeping the game from running nice is the sissy CD-check, and some whacky X-server settings, probably. _______________ One of the Belouve boys, founder of the mighty FiZZsters Midbie council #20 - Fizz - #1933 - Jan '03 - Aug '04 "Renfield, you idiot!" |
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(Jedi)Obi-JK - Student 
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dude grub rules! _______________ Silent Bob (Kevin Smith): You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you. -Steve (Obi) |
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tarpman - The Tarped Avenger 
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The newest version of Cedega runs JKA with no problems except a few pixelly sprites. CD checks and everything are working fine for me. Wine as far as I know doesn't have the level of DirectX support required. If you don't want to pay for Cedega, I recommend dual-booting between a small (say 30GB) Windows partition and Linux with GRUB (far better than LiLo). And the best Linux distro for every one from n00bs to power users is definitely Gentoo. </plug>  _______________ Saving the world, one kilobyte at a time. |
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(Jedi)Obi-JK - Student
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If you a new to Linux and you wanna try it, this would be my suggestion. 1.) I assume your cmputer already runs windows Buy another HD. I mean really how much can a 20GB HD cost (can you even buy those retail anymore) Use the bios to switch to booting from that hard drive. Install Linux play around, when you are done, switch back using the bios. You can then use Lilo to choose which disk to boot off. Default to Windows. This way your two OS are seperate of each other, and you wont mess up your windwos drive _______________ Silent Bob (Kevin Smith): You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you. -Steve (Obi) |
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Fizz of Belouve - Student
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yeah, and if u set it to 0 the monu wont be noticed by anyone. but if u press a key before it comes up, u can actually go to linux. easy game. well, JA doesnt really run in Linux. You need a no-cd-patch, because the CD-check stuff wont work. I myself am able to play JK2 quite nice, just some really small flaws. but then, I dont use cadega. mandrake is nice :thumbsup: _______________ One of the Belouve boys, founder of the mighty FiZZsters Midbie council #20 - Fizz - #1933 - Jan '03 - Aug '04 "Renfield, you idiot!" |
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solitude - Jedi Council 
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there probably is a way. sorta. set it up to dual boot with lilo so u can choose linux or windows. and change the timer so that if nobody chooses within 5, it automatically goes to windows _______________ Joined 16 October 2004 | Retired 10 April 2005 | Returned 05 June 2008 | Made Staff 27 June 2008 | Made Council 18 January 2009 Padawan To Odan-Wei Belouve | Adopted into the Belouve family | Twin to xAnAtOs | Owner of the 4th Quesi sexy badge Brother To Roan Belouve, Nomad, Majno, Silkmonkey, Kensei and Jarhok Belouve
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Bail Hope of Belouve - Student 
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and I guess there is no way that I can install Linux /whatever distro there is, without making anyone else notice that this computer can run Linux? _______________ Visit the Belouve Family Website! Quote: I try to have fun with my friends and try to make a difference as best I can. What does making a difference mean? Well, it can be as simple as saying hello, answering a question that seems obvious or heck, just talking. -- Vladarion
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Darth Jason - Student
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Sortin your head around command line interface can be a headache but there are tons of sites with super documentation _______________ I have seen EP3 now I can die happy and complete. Happy Star Wars Completion day everyone!!!! |
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solitude - Jedi Council 
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can depend on the distro. but if you start with something like mandrake or suse with a nice GUI you can get going pretty easily  _______________ Joined 16 October 2004 | Retired 10 April 2005 | Returned 05 June 2008 | Made Staff 27 June 2008 | Made Council 18 January 2009 Padawan To Odan-Wei Belouve | Adopted into the Belouve family | Twin to xAnAtOs | Owner of the 4th Quesi sexy badge Brother To Roan Belouve, Nomad, Majno, Silkmonkey, Kensei and Jarhok Belouve
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Bail Hope of Belouve - Student 
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you know, I've always wondered is Linux hard to use? Edit: for a computer n00b _______________ Visit the Belouve Family Website! Quote: I try to have fun with my friends and try to make a difference as best I can. What does making a difference mean? Well, it can be as simple as saying hello, answering a question that seems obvious or heck, just talking. -- Vladarion
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Lancer007 - Student 
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well wing it dude and see if it works. |
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solitude - Jedi Council
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you need to buy the cedega gaming emulator unfortunately (but it def works). wine *may* run it. but otherwise use LILO and dual boot _______________ Joined 16 October 2004 | Retired 10 April 2005 | Returned 05 June 2008 | Made Staff 27 June 2008 | Made Council 18 January 2009 Padawan To Odan-Wei Belouve | Adopted into the Belouve family | Twin to xAnAtOs | Owner of the 4th Quesi sexy badge Brother To Roan Belouve, Nomad, Majno, Silkmonkey, Kensei and Jarhok Belouve
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Darth Jason - Student
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Thank you I will probably do the dual boot thang but if not anyone know a good place to pick up the emulator _______________ I have seen EP3 now I can die happy and complete. Happy Star Wars Completion day everyone!!!! |
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Scythus Aratan - Student 
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Or you can dual boot Windows and Linux... Not that I have any experience in Linux ._______________ Padawan to the great Jacen Aratan! <Setementor> Scythus is a genius! Claimer of the 5000th post in the Count thread [Solitude] scy rocks [Casual] good point scythus, you're really smart |
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Bail Hope of Belouve - Student
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Quote: you will need an emulator like cedega ro run ja on linux excuse his english he means "to run JA" on linux _______________ Visit the Belouve Family Website! Quote: I try to have fun with my friends and try to make a difference as best I can. What does making a difference mean? Well, it can be as simple as saying hello, answering a question that seems obvious or heck, just talking. -- Vladarion
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solitude - Jedi Council
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you will need an emulator like cedega ro run ja on linux _______________ Joined 16 October 2004 | Retired 10 April 2005 | Returned 05 June 2008 | Made Staff 27 June 2008 | Made Council 18 January 2009 Padawan To Odan-Wei Belouve | Adopted into the Belouve family | Twin to xAnAtOs | Owner of the 4th Quesi sexy badge Brother To Roan Belouve, Nomad, Majno, Silkmonkey, Kensei and Jarhok Belouve
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