My struggles and solutions

barbatron · 2007-11-28 21:45:12

My experiences and problems while installing

I,m writing this here in the newbie section, cause I,m a newbie and it might help other newbies ( who use the search option )

The troubles where I ran into:

My new motherboard ( msi p35 neo fi ) has sata and ide connections. but for some reason no linux distro recognised my IDE drive. Windows installed just fine. But I really dont like this cpu consuming product.

I didn,t found a solution for this. So at the end I bought a brand new SATA drive, which worked without any troubles

Of course, I had troubles setting up my videocard. This seems standard for me. I have a nvidia 8500 gt videocard. ´pacman -S nvidia´ did the trick ( in testing )

But then, for some reason Xinerama didn´t work. after some scroogling ( non-commercial break: www.scroogle.org ) this is a known problem between the newest Xorg and nvidia drivers.

But luckily, there was Twinview. I never ever heard of this option. But it works great.

My xorg.conf device section looks lke this:

Section "Device"
Identifier "hiephoi"
VendorName "maakgeenreclame"
BoardName "megavideokaart"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "TwinView" "True"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"
Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024, 1280x1024"
EndSection

I don´t have to setup another device. It just work like this

After launching Xorg from the terminal, I got a nice black screen with a very nice cross pointer. No ~/.xinitrc initialsation, or ~/.profile or what so ever. Kind of frustrating. After a lot of questioning in #archlinux ( irc ) still no solution.

At the end, I found out the xorg-xinit package wasn´t installed. so, now it works.

next problem. Only sound as root: This was an easy one. it´s in the faq on the ALSA wiki Found out I had to put myself in the audio group.

then, cause I´m running arch-64, there´s no flashplayer support from adobe. On the arch wiki, there is a walktrough how to install flash plugin for firefox on 64bit machines. but I DON`T like firefox. I´m a opera fanboy. even paid for my first version, back in the days when it wasn´t free. But I couldn´t get opera running flashplugins.

My solution, bit strange I suppose, but it worked.

Install wine

Install opera for windows via wine
install flasplayer.EXE ( via wine )
And flash in windows-opera is running. !!

For installing wine on x64: there´s a working package in AUR made just for x64
Found it via the forum search option.

pacman -S Eterm didn´t gave me my favorite terminal, so I had to build this myself. But it did without any troubles

The problems I still have:

Wolfenstein enemy territory still doesn´t run.
Kopete doesn´t work ( says segmentation error ) ( ???? )
k-jofol; xmms plugin; doesn´t work
Cannot automount devices. doing pmount /dev/cdrom/ /mnt/zilverplaat/ all the time, gets a bit annoying.
Same for Ipod, usb flash etc. I haven´t toroughly searched on the internet though.
Cannot install real media
cannot let xscreensaver grab a desktop image ( there´s no supported desktop grabber around ? )
ehm....
cannot fly yet....
....

That´s it.

My blender render benchmarks compared to my first fresh windows installation on the same machine:

( http://www.eofw.org/bench/ )

With the blender test.blend file

Windows: 00:00:44.50 = 44.5/6 sec
Arch: 00:00:30.38 = a LOT faster

So, Might somebody know a solution for my leftover problems: You´re very welcome.

Misfit138 · 2007-11-29 00:13:04

Try the Beginner's Guide
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners_Guide

barbatron · 2007-11-29 10:35:48

which section did I miss or looked over ?

thanks

Last edited by barbatron (2007-11-29 10:36:13)

pelle.k · 2007-11-29 16:04:26

But I couldn´t get opera running flashplugins.

Only the new opera (still in [testing]) works with nspluginwrapper and 64bit.

Cannot automount devices.

You haven't told us why you expect automounting to work.

cannot let xscreensaver grab a desktop image ( there´s no supported desktop grabber around ? )

"scrot"?

barbatron · 2007-11-30 08:56:42

thanks

Ok, I go for the opera testing.

Automounting and hotplugging works now. I had troubles with hall and my very strange drive, containing about 20 false partitions and 1 good one And also my ipod. But now I discovered /dev/disk/by-name

I'm going for scrot.

I was searchng for *screen* , *grab* , *root* , the more obvious names

mucknert · 2007-11-30 09:07:36

ET is closed source and does not - I believe - run under a 64 Bit Linux. And a codec for real media can be found in the codecs package. However I do not know whether this is 32 Bit only but I believe it is.

barbatron · 2007-11-30 12:38:07

This forum is like a magic stick. Just wave and all my problems are gone!:lol:

Thanks guys

Last edited by barbatron (2007-11-30 12:38:29)

pelle.k · 2007-11-30 14:39:30

Happy to help!

barbatron · 2007-12-05 20:02:42

I just got enemy territory working!

I'm so happy I forgot to sleep last night while playing.

It's just too simple:

download binary package from some random server ( ausgames for instance )

make it executable ( duh )

and run it as: sudo setarch i686 ./enemy-territory.run ( or whatever name it is )

For sound:

echo "et.x86 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss

as root

And start playing.

So I make this tread as solved

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