Most games (sans quake, ut, & nwn) need wine or cedega and will take a 10-30% preformance hit. So gaming and linux don't do will together. However linux has much more and being able to play a game real quick between work is really nice. Just don't get your hopes up.

Expect a little instablity for ...

From the grub manual
Support multiple filesystem types
Support multiple filesystem types transparently, plus a useful explicit blocklist notation. The currently supported filesystem types are BSD FFS, DOS FAT16 and FAT32, Minix fs, Linux ext2fs, ReiserFS, JFS, XFS, and VSTa fs

So yes you can have ...

You may want to try a previous release just to see if it works. Sometimes regression happens. Try like 2005.1 Please fill a bug report if it does work.

If that doesn't work just use Knoppix to install it, instructions

If Knoppix & gentoo live CD's don't work you have hardware issues.

Good luck ...

Just a FYI for all who care.

To expanding a partition is trivial in linux. However if it goes south so does your data. There are a couple of popular options I will summarize. They both do the same thing.
1 - Use GNU parted
# parted /dev/hda
# resize
2 - Use the any partition tool and then have ...

Thank you, I think I can get this working now. I will post back with the final config just in case somebody else wants to do the same kind of thing.

I love RTS games and play them fairly regularly. Often I like to change hotkeys from there defualt, some games don't have a native way to do this. In windows there are a couple programs to remap keys. But for the life of me I can't get anything like this to work in linux.
I would be a pig in shit if ...

lxdvdrip is pretty much install/configure, excute, done. As for a guide I don't know what to say except I had to install streamdvd. And edit /etc/lxdvdrip.conf line #37 dvdbrenner=/dev/scd0 to dvdbrenner=/dev/dvd

echo "media-video/lxdvdrip ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
echo "media-video ...

m707: Thanks for your comment.
Like the orginal poster I realize that lxdvdrip (or other programs/scripts) are a cleaner/better solution to backup up dvds. I guess I should of just said that too like everybody else instead of realizing that the orginal (and my) instructions are more for education ...

Great guide, exactly the type of info I was looking for. Thank you so much, you saved me hours upon hours I am sure.

For people complaing about space req. using pipes like the below commands will get it to a min.
BTW, I am just posting to spread information, I don't really want to help people with ...

Gaming in linux is great for me. I like a *nix based system for my work and its just nice to play a quick game of something for a break every once and a while without haveing to reboot my computer.

Here are some general tips and stuff I picked up:
- Buy all your games, trying to use a cracked ...

Just an FYI, I had some major problems with installing and running ut2k4. It turned out to damaged media in the end, although the problem was harder to find in windows than linux.
Atrai will not replace your media after 90days or even allow you to buy replacements at a discount. So if you can, get ...

I would stick with nvida.

It is know to work and work well, plus you won't have to change your current drivers (if you are using nvidia's already).

Sounds about right!
I had trouble installing it, and I copied all the pk4 files (never thought anything of it)

I will try it again when I get home.

doom3 loads great however I don't get sound!
I have searched the forums for as long as I could bear but couldn't find anybody with a similar probllem (or solutioin).

I have a audigy 2, oss and alsa work in xmms.

From the console
----------- OSS Sound Initialization -----------
opened sound ...

I really enjoyed it, I started on normal and realized it sucked. Switch up to nightmare and it was great. I played it for the fear, lights out, sound loud, and death near (no quicksave pussy here). The key is only use quick save if you get stuck or have already died somewhere. If its not hard what ...

listed in order of what I would try:

it may be faulty hardware, dirty mice do that, try a different known working mouse (get a buddy to loan you his for 10 minutes).

is it wireless? that could be a big problem, get a good corded mouse instead for gaming, cordless mice have always become shoody for ...

For a good (if long) faq on linux & gaming check out
http://icculus.org/lgfaq/
Look around a bit for what games have native ports, its the best list I have found.

For non-native games I have been very pleased with cedega(winex), however please don't rip it (I moved to linux to stop doing that). If ...

I had this problem too.

Excutive Summary: I think it is caused by the kernel firewire ethernet driver being assigned eth0, and thus your nic gets eth1. I think two ways to fix this are disable firewire (IE1394) network stuff in the kernel or change boot scripts to use eth1. Heres the quick and ...

Valheru: Thanks but I already have twinview enabled and working like that

hds: Thanks you, nvtv sounds like exactly what I am looking for, hopefully I will find some documation some where. BTW, I had a cheap (99¢ cheap) s-video cable that would only show b/w, try swaping w/ a known good one, maybe ...

I have two monitors running at 3200x1200 (1600x1200 each) . I also have the my home theater hooked up also. I can get the TV to work with twinview when it is just that and the first display, but that requires me to restart my xserver :(
EDIT: I require 2 monitors + a TV

I figure there maybe 3 ways ...

tried the cd installer, doesn't work gives above error messages on running ut2004

I could try re-installing ut2004 (again) if you think it may help. I installed ut to /opt/ut2004 and a sys-link to /usr/games/bin

... I will check that the ut2004's Disc linux_installer does work... again everthing ...

Thank you for your reply.
I took my time and 'play tested' the game in windows extensively without error (the whole single player game). Well I did have EAX problems but that was fixed by updating a driver.

I thus find it _unlikely_ that it is the media, being that it will install successfully in ...

yup checked your computer manual, you sure don't have a screen button.

I would check in window's display setting under advanced then look for something to the effect of 'monitors' 'digital display settings' 'advanced' then the 'scaling tab'. It will be buried pretty deep. As for my Dell 8200 the ...

I emerge ut2004 everything seemed fine untill I ran it:
$ ut2004
<start up screen comes up and crashes>
(something like...) Error... this may be caused by a bad install or overheated hardware

So I am like ok bad install, I re-emerge (I was intoxicated the first time anyway) only to get the same ...

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