Winex, Secondlife, and Linux
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Bit Phaeton
Senior Member
Join date: 14 Nov 2003
Posts: 82
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02-18-2004 23:15
If you have an Nvidia graphics card, and all the dependenices necessary for WineX installed, you should be able to get SecondLife running under winex. I've put together an extremely bad, but self-contained hacked winex, that should install secondlife for you, into your home directory. More details are avaliable here: /invalid_link.htmlNear the bottom of the page. If your not totally braindead like me, you'll be able to do a much better job yourself, so don't download this. If you are totally braindead like me, this should get you up and running. Most of the real research/work was done by others, but I figured by posting this I could encourage someone to do a good job of it  I'll keep playing with it on my ATI card, but it seems to not want to work. (Keeps complaining about the bit depth) |
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paulie Femto
Into the dark
Join date: 13 Sep 2003
Posts: 1,098
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bit depth
02-19-2004 11:12
Yeah, SL apparently wants "32 bit" color. Linux's "24 bit" color ain't good enough for it. Heh.
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Dan Rhodes
hehe
Join date: 5 Jul 2003
Posts: 268
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02-19-2004 11:47
This is awesome, thanks for the info Save me some lookup time .. going to play around with it when I get home. |
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Bit Phaeton
Senior Member
Join date: 14 Nov 2003
Posts: 82
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Re: bit depth
02-19-2004 11:59
From: someone Originally posted by paulie Femto
Yeah, SL apparently wants "32 bit" color. Linux's "24 bit" color ain't good enough for it. Heh. The problem is in ATI's FireGL drivers.... I'm going to keep playing with them, though---Maybe it'll start working.... |
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Bit Phaeton
Senior Member
Join date: 14 Nov 2003
Posts: 82
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02-20-2004 15:09
Made some minor configuration file changes.
Wine should be looking in the right places now.
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Jeff Greenstein
Junior Member
Join date: 15 Jun 2004
Posts: 2
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06-23-2004 20:37
having the 32-bit problem with nvidia drivers. 1.0-5336.
it also screws up the color pallete to the point that I have to reboot it.
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Jeff Greenstein
Junior Member
Join date: 15 Jun 2004
Posts: 2
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06-23-2004 20:38
er, restart X. long day.
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Garoad Kuroda
Prophet of Muppetry
Join date: 5 Sep 2003
Posts: 2,989
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07-22-2004 15:41
I had this 32 bit issue too, then again I'd be lucky to get it working in the first place: ATI user.
From the research I did I read that 32 bit support was an X server limitation..which the newer versions might fix.
Has anyone tried doing this with an ATI card?
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WTF is C3PO supposed to be USEFUL for anyway, besides whining? Stupid piece of scrap metal would be more useful recycled as a toaster. But even that would suck, because who would want to listen to a whining wussy toaster? Is he gold plated? If that's the case he should just be melted down into gold ingots. Help the economy some, and stop being so damn useless you stupid bucket of bolts! R2 is 1,000 times more useful than your tin man ass, and he's shaped like a salt and pepper shaker FFS!
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Smuckola Tapioca
Second Life Resident
Join date: 25 Nov 2004
Posts: 8
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I can't reach that url
11-25-2004 01:35
I don't have permission to reach the url included in the original post. Please see my post here: /111/03/13207/1.html#post282928Thanks! |
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Burke Prefect
Cafe Owner, Superhero
Join date: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 2,785
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11-25-2004 01:38
Cool.
Now for a Custom Knoppix Distro that'll fit on a 3" disc.
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Andrew Linden
Linden staff
Join date: 18 Nov 2002
Posts: 692
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SLoppix
11-26-2004 07:42
You know, I've tried to sell the other developers on a SL-centric LiveCD distribution.
It will probably happen someday, but we're not on the fast track.
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