On Thursday 16 November 2000 02:45 pm, Marcia wrote:
> As far as the questions for the Hearts game. I am not sure what X
> version would be used in 7.2. How can I check for sure? What config
> file would that be in 7.2? Is there a way to check on versions
> through the console?
type 'X -version', if that doesn't work type 'XFree86 -version'
>
> My video card/driver is a S3Virge and is setup exactly like it was
> in 7, I believe.
No not exactly, it can't be, because you have a newer kernel, X
version, and many, many other changes with 7.2.
It is an extended Super VGA, 800x600 at 60hz
> ,640x480 at 72hz. Vert refresh is 55-90 Video Ram is 2048 Default
> color depth-16.
just 2 megs on the card is borderline. 800x600x16 is 'bout all it
wants.
The Hearts game worked fine in 7 with this setup. My
> display and X seems to be fine in 7.2 except for this Hearts game. I
> am not sure how to answer the closed source driver question.
It's using a generic VGA driver so that becomes sort'a academic. What
I was fishin for is many times with hardware that uses closed source
drivers, upgrade Linux and the hardware quits workin properly.
I am a
> relatively new newbie.:) I tried the hearts-0.90-1.i386.rpm
an ftp search for this rpm turned up -0-
> then I tried hearts-0.0.13-1.i386.rpm
ftp for this one turns up lot's, but they're all only 4.6k ??
I downloaded a couple and they were all invalid. So, I searched
hearts-0.0.12-1.i386.rpm and got a lot at 234k, d/l one and
installed...
yep, no faces.......
so I searched hearts-0.0.13.tar.gz and got a bunch of 4.6k files
again. I d/l'd hearts-0.0.12.tar.gz (224k) and it failed on
configure, not the right headers/libraries.
I have not tried different resolutions or color
> depths and do not really know how to do that in 7.2.
>
Like anything else in Linux there's lot'a ways, easiest for a
newcomer with 7.2 would prob'ly be DrakConf | Change Screen Res.
But if you have set up both 640 and 800, first try <Crtl+Alt, +/- on
the numpad> to toggle the different resolutions on the fly.
But I don't think this is the road to go anyhow, I believe the
app's just not gonna run right under the new kernel/libraries.
> If someone can help me solve this I would be grateful since this game
> is the one thing that helped my husband accept Linux.
I'm out'a ideas, 'cept for the first one I gave you. The app has
fallen behind, and without a rewrite, prob'ly isn't gonna work right
with the newer 7.2 kernel (2.2.17), X, KDE2, libs, etc.
Buying another old computer, or makin a new partition on the one
you've got, and loading Mandrake 7.0 with Hearts (and faces) would
probl'y be a lot cheaper than a divorce ;>
--
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
