On Thursday 16 March 2006 13:51, Nick Rout wrote: > On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:38:21 +1300 > > Steve Brorens wrote: > > Sounds good regards the Xgl stuff, but just be aware: > > > > "This is not an installable version of Kororaa, it is purely a Live > > CD... > > > > (at http://getkororaa.com/) > > yep I got that all sussed now! > > The livecd has failed me so far: > > athlon 1133 with suitable nvidia card has no sse instruction so it fails > (whats with that, my server at work has a later model duron and it has > sse, but no X or even screen and besides i am not booting my mail server > off a livecd and stopping the email going round) > > laptop p3 has sse but no suitable video chipset > > p3 desktop has sse and nvidia card but only 128M Ram (384M needed), and > I suspect its cpu would be a bit light. > > desktops at work have no suitable video card. > > Maybe its time I got a new computer?
Only if you're totally besotted by the sugar-coated video baubles and bling. Strikes me that the Xgl stuff is really just only that. fwiw, the Kororaa demo works well on an AMD-2600+ Barton core Athlon, with an nvidia video card, and failed completely on a 1.8GHz P-4m with an ati card. ( machine re-booted itself continually ) fwiw2, I'm told that the installer conveniently forgets to set up the /boot/grub directory. It is however a possibility that the installer himself forgot some detail in the install process. It was, after all, a first-time attempt with this particular installer for him. -- CS
