On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 11:23 -0700, drew wymore wrote: > On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Michael C. Robinson > <plu...@robinson-west.com> 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 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 PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
