On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Michael C. Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
How old are those games? You can't really blame the distro if things like ALSA and OSS are deprecated for something better like Pulse Audio. > > 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 haven't had trouble so far but I have yet to try vmware, I avoid it like the plague unless I have to. Virtualbox is much better > 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? > I doubt they've given up but the free stuff they release doesn't make them money .. I'm sure they focus more on the money making products > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
