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lucius Tuque
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Join date: 2 Nov 2005
Posts: 1
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02-09-2006 13:21
I have 1 year of using linux as My alternitive op system of the major distirbutions
mandrivia ,suse ,Fedora and Centos 4.2 which wil give me the best results with fewest problums setting SL up on.I ask this as I want to set up a new install of linux and hoping to have the fewest problums with SL
thank you for your time
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Angel Sunset
Linutic
Join date: 7 Apr 2005
Posts: 636
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02-09-2006 14:31
I can't speak about the others, but the install under Suse Linux 10 was very simple. It worked simply by installing.
No problems with malloc, or gl, or drivers (I DO have the nvidia proprietary driver though).
Please look at my hardware though - NVidia seems to have an easier time of it than ATI, which has an easier time than other graphic cards, apparently.
Just remember, if you install an icon under KDE, that second life should start in a terminal window, because of the text output.
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Kubuntu Intrepid 8.10, KDE, linux 2.6.27-11, X.Org 11.0, server glx vendor: NVIDIA Corporation, server glx version: 1.5.2, OpenGL vendor: NVIDIA Corporation, OpenGL renderer: GeForce 9800 GTX+/PCI/SSE2, OpenGL version: 3.0.0 NVIDIA 180.29, glu version: 1.3, NVidia GEForce 9800 GTX+ 512 MB, Intel Core 2 Duo, Mem: 3371368k , Swap: 2570360k
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KittyFox Mistral
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Join date: 17 Oct 2005
Posts: 51
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02-09-2006 19:17
Worked just fine under Gentoo, too. Unpacked SL and it ran right out-of-the-box. No glibc errors or anything (as a side note, I really don't like how the second version always sets MALLOC_CHECK_=0, even if you don't have problems; I really doubt it's a glibc problem (I've seen this error in other programs, which always turns out to be caused by invalid memory writes by the program itself, eg. writing just outside of an allocated memory area, or by freeing a pointer twice), and doing this is just brute-forcing through a bug.. which can have serious consequences).
I too have Nvidia's proprietary drivers (which you really should have for any Nvidia card; they're great). ATi's drivers do have more problems though, so you may have issues if you have an ATi card.
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Feynt Mistral
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Join date: 24 Sep 2005
Posts: 551
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02-12-2006 21:34
Ubuntu's wiki page has instructions for installing both its own ATI drivers and ATI's published drivers for linux. I followed the instructions for their own drivers and SL's up and running, didn't take more than a few minutes.
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