Lan Barnes wrote:
On Mon, January 29, 2007 10:05 am, Gus Wirth wrote:
Lan Barnes wrote:
I have made my son's machine a dual boot. Win98 SE and FC5. The video
card
is a G-Force nVidia "NV18 GeForce4 MX 4000 8x".
The FC5 found it and installed the driver. Every M$ driver I download
says
no nVidia chip found, then exits.
I'm tired and disgruntled.
The idea is, he can do his flight simulators on the M$ side, web surf on
Linux. When I let him surf in M$, in a few weeks the machine is foobar
from downloads that do evil.
Any idea what is happening or where I might find the correct driver?
What is the flight simulator program? I do a lot of messing around with
WINE <http://www.winehq.org> and would be interested to see if the
simulators could be made to run under Linux with WINE, thus avoiding the
whole M$ problem altogether.
Perhaps an Installfest project?
Gus
I struggled with Wine on this, including the pay version, and concluded
that it is, at best, alpha SW. I don't want this to be a big project,
having many other ways to waste my time productively.
He's got a dual boot and he's got to accept that ;-)
I was thinking of more along the line of wasting my time, not to drag
you into it. I just want to know what the program is so I can see if
it's something I want to mess with. The WINE guys are very interested in
reports of what works, what doesn't and are sincere in trying to make
thinks work. They have made some extraordinary progress in the last
year, especially with the Direct3D stuff used for games. The latest
commercial release of Crossover Linux from Code Weavers
<http://www.codeweavers.com> has good support for World of Warcraft, for
example.
Gus
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