Well, the Fedora group needs to get busy and tune the system up. I am having major speed problems and I had to do something quite strange to get Dirk Dashing and Rick Rocket working with sound. I had to uninstall a pulseaudio alsa backend rpm. I also had to install an obnoxious number of debuginfo rpm packages. Do delete all the SDL libraries from the game directories. Another tip on Rick Rocket, add /usr/lib to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the rickrocket script.
Vmware player 3 doesn't work at all on Fedora 12 unless you rename /usr/lib/vmware/resources/mozilla-root-certs.crt. Sadly, it appears without this certificate in the right place with the right name that it is impossible to update vmware tools. My Windows 2000 VM created using VMWare Workstation 6.5 is obnoxiously slow on Fedora 12 under VMWare Player 3.01. Apparently, workstation 7 doesn't work any better than the player. I upgraded from CentOS 5.4 because CentOS is too far behind for a desktop system. Unfortunately, Fedora 12 seems to be shaky at best. I have a 3.06 Ghz P4 with 1.5 gigabytes of ram. This isn't the fastest personal system on the planet, but it shouldn't crawl either. I realize that I probably need to go 64 bit and multi core soon, but that looks too costly at the moment. Sun VirtualBox on the other hand seems to work fine on Fedora 12. Now then, if only there was a converter to go from vmware to virtualbox... I think they don't care, the folks who produce vmware. Go google search for trouble running vmware player on Fedora 12 and people are saying that a new release of everything is needed. Does anyone know if the company that produces vmware virtualization software has essentially given up on Fedora? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
