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Myth Homewood

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Join date: 5 Jul 2007

Posts: 2

10-17-2007 02:02

Now when I say Linux newbie I mean it. I'm clueless. I'm a complete Windows muppet used to just clicking a couple of buttons and watching the magic machine do it's thing. But I finally got fed up enough with windows that I caved in to DH and said if I could get SL to work I would switch. I'm happy to spend the following months learning all about the ins and out of Linux but in the meantime I want to play SL!
I tried half a dozen different Distros (see I learned a new word!) and while I'm sure someone more knowledgeable would have been fine I wasn't - it was mostly the Nvidia driver and all that 'enter this and type that' and without the driver I couldn't get SL to work. ENVY by the way was pretty impressive, with that I was able to load SL on a couple of distros and play for all of 60 seconds before it crashed. I was doing something wrong, something newbieish.
So I came to Sabayon.
All I did was go to it's Portato and do a search for nvidia - DH said "click that" and I clicked nvidiaclock (it was something like that, it wasn't nvidia settings and that was the only other thing that came up in search)
Loaded up SL and played. And played. It was wonderful and so easy with hardly any scariness involved at all.

Now the technical bits.
My machine
2x intel core 2 duo CPU E6750@2.66ghz
main memory 2gb
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS
OS Sabayon Linux - http://www.sabayonlinux.org/

Second Life
Plays like a dream - better so far than with XP.

Preferences/shaders - Only enable bump mapping and shiny is not grayed out
Avatar rendering - only normal is clickable.
Music works fine but I havn't tried video yet.
Inventory search works fine.

Remember - Newb. But if I left anything out let me know.
Hope this helps someone.

Edit.
Oh and it works fine with Sabayon on DH's computer too
Intel Pentium 3.4Ghz
512 DDR
160 GB
Nvidia GeForce FX5500

WiLLuMPJuH Gausman

Debianishly Dorkish ;P

Join date: 16 Oct 2007

Posts: 69

Fyi

10-17-2007 03:17

From: Myth Homewood

Preferences/shaders - Only enable bump mapping and shiny is not grayed out
Avatar rendering - only normal is clickable.

Try uncommenting the # in line 21 before the 'export LL_GL_BASICEXT=x' in 'secondlife.sh' ... you will have no greyed-out options after that...

Myth Homewood

Registered User

Join date: 5 Jul 2007

Posts: 2

10-17-2007 07:45

From: WiLLuMPJuH Gausman

Try uncommenting the # in line 21 before the 'export LL_GL_BASICEXT=x' in 'secondlife.sh' ... you will have no greyed-out options after that...

OK that would be wonderful

Newb question - where would I find secondlife.sh? I've searched my secondlife folder and can't see it?
Thanks.

WiLLuMPJuH Gausman

Debianishly Dorkish ;P

Join date: 16 Oct 2007

Posts: 69

10-17-2007 23:35

Err... my bad ... it's 'secondlife' btw .. not 'secondlife.sh', located inside the Secondlife-folder. Edit it instead of running it.

Sabayon + Linux newbie = success
Myth Homewood Registered User Join date: 5 Jul 2007 Posts: 2	10-17-2007 02:02 Now when I say Linux newbie I mean it. I'm clueless. I'm a complete Windows muppet used to just clicking a couple of buttons and watching the magic machine do it's thing. But I finally got fed up enough with windows that I caved in to DH and said if I could get SL to work I would switch. I'm happy to spend the following months learning all about the ins and out of Linux but in the meantime I want to play SL! I tried half a dozen different Distros (see I learned a new word!) and while I'm sure someone more knowledgeable would have been fine I wasn't - it was mostly the Nvidia driver and all that 'enter this and type that' and without the driver I couldn't get SL to work. ENVY by the way was pretty impressive, with that I was able to load SL on a couple of distros and play for all of 60 seconds before it crashed. I was doing something wrong, something newbieish. So I came to Sabayon. All I did was go to it's Portato and do a search for nvidia - DH said "click that" and I clicked nvidiaclock (it was something like that, it wasn't nvidia settings and that was the only other thing that came up in search) Loaded up SL and played. And played. It was wonderful and so easy with hardly any scariness involved at all. Now the technical bits. My machine 2x intel core 2 duo CPU E6750@2.66ghz main memory 2gb Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS OS Sabayon Linux - http://www.sabayonlinux.org/ Second Life Plays like a dream - better so far than with XP. Preferences/shaders - Only enable bump mapping and shiny is not grayed out Avatar rendering - only normal is clickable. Music works fine but I havn't tried video yet. Inventory search works fine. Remember - Newb. But if I left anything out let me know. Hope this helps someone. Edit. Oh and it works fine with Sabayon on DH's computer too Intel Pentium 3.4Ghz 512 DDR 160 GB Nvidia GeForce FX5500
WiLLuMPJuH Gausman Debianishly Dorkish ;P Join date: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 69	Fyi 10-17-2007 03:17 From: Myth Homewood Preferences/shaders - Only enable bump mapping and shiny is not grayed out Avatar rendering - only normal is clickable. Try uncommenting the # in line 21 before the 'export LL_GL_BASICEXT=x' in 'secondlife.sh' ... you will have no greyed-out options after that...
Myth Homewood Registered User Join date: 5 Jul 2007 Posts: 2	10-17-2007 07:45 From: WiLLuMPJuH Gausman Try uncommenting the # in line 21 before the 'export LL_GL_BASICEXT=x' in 'secondlife.sh' ... you will have no greyed-out options after that... OK that would be wonderful Newb question - where would I find secondlife.sh? I've searched my secondlife folder and can't see it? Thanks.
WiLLuMPJuH Gausman Debianishly Dorkish ;P Join date: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 69	10-17-2007 23:35 Err... my bad ... it's 'secondlife' btw .. not 'secondlife.sh', located inside the Secondlife-folder. Edit it instead of running it.

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