Edit the second: It's ready for download here through LibSecondLife. Thanks, folks! Now to let the Lindens know.
EDIT: Scratch the below. IT'S READY! Just need to find hosting.
I'm this >< close to releasing a Linux live CD. It's based on the Knoppix 5.0.1, with a ton of stuff thrown out to be a useable CD yet have room enough for the NVidia drivers.
Changes:
* 24-bit color fixed in template xorg.conf
* Wrote SLRun.pl to set up SL initially w/proper graphics settings.
* Modded the main page that's pulled up on boot into KDE
* Modded the isolinux.cfg to make sure the NVidia module that was compiled in was put in.
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Drake Bacon
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Cazzj Brearly
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08-12-2006 20:39
Thats freakin awesome! Please keep us posted on your progress.
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Drake Bacon
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08-12-2006 21:14
Fixed two items. Will need to write a new Knoppix HTML page for the CD, muck with the isolinux setup, and it'll be ready to go.
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otakup0pe Neumann
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08-12-2006 21:17
Damn that's cool. If I can take a look at the image you have now, I may be willing to seed a bittorent of it. I've thought of this before, it is a brilliant idea. How is it working so far ?
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Drake Bacon
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08-12-2006 21:57
Damn that's cool. If I can take a look at the image you have now, I may be willing to seed a bittorent of it. I've thought of this before, it is a brilliant idea. How is it working so far ? Working great! Drop me a line to drake over at stalag99.net, and we'll get together Sunday to get you a copy of the ISO. |
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Jinsar Eponym
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08-13-2006 09:56
Is it upgradeable? SL releases a lot of versions, seemingly once a week or more. Its useless if its not.
As for the drivers, did you also include dri for integrated adapters and the ATi drivers? |
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Eddy Stryker
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08-13-2006 10:05
libsecondlife.org should be able to host this, how big is the ISO?
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Drake Bacon
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08-13-2006 10:10
600 Megs max.
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Aaron Levy
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08-13-2006 10:14
I could host a mirror at Rezzations.com
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Baba Yamamoto
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08-13-2006 10:27
Should have two mirrors up in about 30 min
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Greg Hao
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Antonius Misfit
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Submit it to DistroWatch, Drake!
08-13-2006 16:56
A Linux distribution that's specifically tuned to running SL deserves to be put on the DistroWatch page. Their submission form is not working as I'm writing this, but you can drop them an email at [email]distro@distrowatch.com[/email]
Thanks, Drake! |
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Emzy Enzyme
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08-14-2006 03:41
Second German/European Mirror at:
http://space.oeste.de/Knoppix-SL-LUG-V5.0.1-EN.iso Unlimited Traffic. |
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Theora Aquitaine
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08-14-2006 06:53
Any feedback yet? I'm interested to know how this runs.. What is the RAM use like etc? What are the min specs?
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Panthar Orlowski
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Drake Bacon
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08-14-2006 10:38
Is it upgradeable? SL releases a lot of versions, seemingly once a week or more. Its useless if its not. As for the drivers, did you also include dri for integrated adapters and the ATi drivers? The CD uses SLInstaller and my own SLRun scripts. The DRI is already included for NVidia chipsets. ATI drivers clashed w/NVidia, and thus are not included. |
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Jinsar Eponym
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08-14-2006 11:24
The CD uses SLInstaller and my own SLRun scripts. The DRI is already included for NVidia chipsets. ATI drivers clashed w/NVidia, and thus are not included. I've seen distros come with drivers for both nvidia and ati. Is the DRI compatible with Intel i915s, etc? |
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Baba Yamamoto
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08-15-2006 08:06
I hope we can get drivers for both ATI and nvidia on a SL/Linux Live CD soon ;0 Maybe Gentoo ;0
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Jinsar Eponym
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08-15-2006 08:30
I hope we can get drivers for both ATI and nvidia on a SL/Linux Live CD soon ;0 Maybe Gentoo ;0 We also need the dri to be compatible with integrated adapters like Intel. I've played SL on my laptop in Linux which has an intel and its obviously playable. Limiting it solely to Nvidia drivers makes this a rather targetted CD. |
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magic Horsefly
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08-16-2006 03:14
i feel kind of left out with this
 i was looking forward to it, but having a ATI video card, i guess ill bever be able to try it out... any future support for ATI? |
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Theora Aquitaine
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08-16-2006 05:59
We also need the dri to be compatible with integrated adapters like Intel. I've played SL on my laptop in Linux which has an intel and its obviously playable. Limiting it solely to Nvidia drivers makes this a rather targetted CD. This is really interesting info. I did not know this was possible. Could you post a howto on getting the accelerated intel drivers installed, and SL working? I know a lot of people would find this useful. I had been saying it was not possible without NVidia or ATI cards.. |
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Jinsar Eponym
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08-16-2006 08:38
Installing Dri for the Intel card is pretty easy. I've done it a couple of times for my laptop.
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building That is the step by step on it. I usually don't build Mesa 3D from CVS and just get the latest stable from the Mesa 3D website. Once that is all done, run glxgears to test it to make sure it worked and then fire up SL. |
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Baba Yamamoto
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08-16-2006 08:45
Good feedback here ;0 I'd like to see ATI and intel graphics solutions for this as well.
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08-16-2006 11:55
Do we have screenshots of SL on Intel cards?
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