On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Michael C. Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 11:23 -0700, drew wymore wrote: >> 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. > > With all due respect, the author of these Linux games worked with me to > troubleshoot them. Troy is working on Dirk Dashing 2 which hasn't come > out yet. What good is an upgrade if all the old software that people > actually have gets broken by it?
I certainly meant no disrespect. At some point software gets old and new things come along in terms of hardware/software and it totally sucks when something that you're used to and also enjoy doesn't work properly especially when you've paid for it. But such is software I guess. Very nice of the dev to work with you to troubleshoot it btw. > > I have been a registered user of vmware workstation, I am not impressed > that Fedora 12 support is poor. If the free products don't work, I am > not even going to consider buying workstation. Fedora is a very popular > main line distribution of Linux, albeit it may be a little too bleeding > edge. CentOS is too much of a dinosaur for anything other than a > server. If only there was a project to continue improving the version > of Fedora behind the current version so that there is a middle of the > road option. > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
