I've started an proposal for fixing the main issues of the linux client:
* file upload
* streaming media support
* cut/paste from/to editor window
Please support my proposal for a beta living with linux!
(Vote url will follow...)
Cheers,
Tsu
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Tsu Hao
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Join date: 13 Jul 2006
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08-13-2006 03:43
Hi!
I've started an proposal for fixing the main issues of the linux client: * file upload * streaming media support * cut/paste from/to editor window Please support my proposal for a beta living with linux! (Vote url will follow...) Cheers, Tsu |
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Tsu Hao
Registered User
Join date: 13 Jul 2006
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Fixing the Linux client: Proposal No. 1791
08-13-2006 03:47
Please yote for my proposal #1791 at:
http://secondlife.com/vote/vote.php?get_id=1791 (direct link) Main Linux in-world Groups: * Linux Users * Linux Client Users * German Linux (Client) Users * Linux Furries * Linux Masters * #alt.linux You can reach me in the first three groups for related help. Tsu |
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Stephen Zenith
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Join date: 15 May 2006
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08-14-2006 01:22
Please yote for my proposal #1791 at: http://secondlife.com/vote/vote.php?get_id=1791 (direct link) Main Linux in-world Groups: * Linux Users * Linux Client Users * German Linux (Client) Users * Linux Furries * Linux Masters * #alt.linux You can reach me in the first three groups for related help. Tsu Sorting out the system memory detection issue would make a massive difference for me. |
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Seg Baphomet
Fedora Developer
Join date: 1 Oct 2005
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08-14-2006 18:54
By "streaming media support" do you mean "audio support, period"?
Maybe someday they'll move to ogg-vorbis-theora video streaming, which would make video streaming support in Linux a bit easier than using quicktime would... Also: Stop logging to syslog. (This would be a trivial fix.) And: Allow systemwide installation, store user data in ~/.SecondLife |
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Angel Sunset
Linutic
Join date: 7 Apr 2005
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08-15-2006 09:20
Sorting out the system memory detection issue would make a massive difference for me. Agreed!!!!! Even if there was an "override" switch for system memory in settings.xml, THAT would be SO GOOD  _____________________
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Tsu Hao
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Join date: 13 Jul 2006
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08-15-2006 11:43
Sorting out the system memory detection issue would make a massive difference for me. As long as this is fixed by editing a simple text/xml file, it's not worth a riot... How often do you install fancy gaming software on a linux box where you can't find out the Graphics Mem? By "streaming media support" do you mean "audio support, period"? I don't know, how important that is, since I never saw a video in 2ndlife.  But just writing the urls of the audio streams into a fifo (at ~/.SecondLife/playme.m3u) would be a piece of cake. Running a script (slstream.py) as root with uncontrollable input from all around the world is not making me happy. Maybe someday they'll move to ogg-vorbis-theora video streaming, which would make video streaming support in Linux a bit easier than using quicktime would... Also: Stop logging to syslog. (This would be a trivial fix.) And: Allow systemwide installation, store user data in ~/.SecondLife Whoa. Didn't know about the logging. I second that. Tsu |
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Stephen Zenith
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08-16-2006 02:10
As long as this is fixed by editing a simple text/xml file, it's not worth a riot... How often do you install fancy gaming software on a linux box where you can't find out the Graphics Mem? I'm not talking about graphics card memory, I'm talking about system memory. There is no way of getting SL to recognise more that 1Mb of system memory, either automatically or via the settings.xml file that I'm aware of. |
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Seg Baphomet
Fedora Developer
Join date: 1 Oct 2005
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08-16-2006 11:41
Detecting system ram size is as easy as parsing the first line of /proc/meminfo, thats what the 'free' command does. I can't find anything about detecting VRAM size though. OpenGL doesn't want you to know. You might be able to get X to tell you. (It gets printed in Xorg.0.log...)
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Hewee Zetkin
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Join date: 20 Jul 2006
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08-16-2006 11:57
Detecting system ram size is as easy as parsing the first line of /proc/meminfo, thats what the 'free' command does. I can't find anything about detecting VRAM size though. OpenGL doesn't want you to know. You might be able to get X to tell you. (It gets printed in Xorg.0.log...) There's a method posted for detecting the amount of video memory posted in one of the stickies in this forum, I believe. If I am recalling that correctly (I'm being too lazy to go check, but you probably should if you are passionate about it) then it shouldn't be THAT difficult to do it programmatically.... |
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Stephen Zenith
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08-17-2006 01:20
At least you can tell SL how much video memory you have by tweaking the config file. There's no option to do the same for system memory. The whole thing is a bit odd considering how simple it is to find out how much memory the system has.
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