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Post by Truth Unknown on Jan 30, 2007 18:38:57 GMT -5
Once thats done, we should advise users to prefix their post topics like [Win] and [Nix].
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amano
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Post by amano on Jan 30, 2007 19:14:28 GMT -5
A little report from Debian based Ubuntu 6.10: Double-clicking the executable did nothing. So I searched for the "gtk opengl" file in the repositories, mentioned above. And found libgtkglext1 (1.0.6-2.1ubuntu1), installed it und got the language selector to come up. No matter, which language I choose, nothing happens then (psx.ini is created. I give my user account full file permissions). After creating the bios subfolder und copying a bios in there, the gui appears (with all white content). So far great work. I load my favourite pSX game (FF VII). I can hear the sound of the starting sequence. I can even go fullscreen with Alt-Enter, but the screen remains white. I didn't try to get ingame. And I hope that helped BTW, the intro sound of FF VII is soo wonderful. Never realized before ;D I forgot to mention my Graphics card: Geforce 4 Ti 4200 and using the official Nvidia linux graphics drivers (3D accelerated). And I succeeded loading a cdz image.
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Post by Ultima on Jan 30, 2007 19:29:31 GMT -5
Hm, since I need G++ for my computer science class, and pSX is starting to get tested on Linux, I'm starting to be tempted into installing some Linux distribution onto my computer... It's a shame I just reformatted/reinstalled Windows two days ago, and it's nice, fast, and squeaky clean... makes me not want to install Linux (I don't want to dual-boot, as my computer has very limited hard drive space, I've no external drive to mess around with, and virtualization is too slow for my tastes ) /me ponders over what to do...
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Post by Sune on Jan 30, 2007 20:13:38 GMT -5
You could buy,steal or scavenge an old 10GB Harddisk.
I installed Linux Mint on my secondary harddrive which already had an NTFS partition on it. I used Partitionmagic to resize the existing partition (which was scary - fortunately there was no power outage or other nasty accidents) - afterwards, booting from the CD, with a little help, the Linux installer did the rest.
Now whenever I want to boot up Mint, i press F8 while the PC boots up, which brings up a menu that's built into the BIOS, and select the second harddrive as boot device. This setting isn't retained, so when I want to start XP I just start the computer normally.
I can also set the secondary harddrive to always be booted from in the BIOS. Then GRUB (Linux bootloader) asks me if I want to run XP or Mint, by default it starts Mint if I don't make a choice. It can easily be changed to start XP instead, by editing grub.conf.
I prefer to use the F8 menu, this makes it easier for my wife and her son to use the computer. In fact nobody will suspect that Linux is installed on this computer unless they go to the device manager and notice that there are 44 GB missing from my 200GB harddrive.
*Stealth Mint*
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nightmareci
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Post by nightmareci on Jan 30, 2007 21:31:28 GMT -5
Sune_S, on my desktop I also have a Windows/Linux setup (each OS on its own HDD, either HDD could be ripped out and the HDD left could still boot), but instead of switching OS's with BIOS I have a GRUB menu that lists Windows first (so if the timer runs out, Windows starts, easy for my mom and sister) and the various Ubuntu choices after. Getting the Windows menu entry to work was a little bit of a chore (had to write it myself from scratch), but it gets the OS going fine. It may be too troublesome for you to do a menu like that, because it involves a little learning of what you can do with GRUB (and keeping a live CD Linux on hand in case of unbootable settings), but I prefer it to changing BIOS settings, and it looks much more elegant when being used.
And pSX Author, do you NEED to use OpenGL for video, or are there problems with just using regular X11 (or something else) to do the rendering? If you did it with X11 it'd work on many more platforms, even those without acceleration, but I don't know if the performance hit of X11 would be too great to make it usable. SDL could maybe work, but again, no idea if it'd be good for your purposes.
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Post by Sune on Jan 30, 2007 22:01:28 GMT -5
I very rarely use Linux anyway, so I prefer it the way i have it set up.
When I had Fedora installed (until it fell apart during a Nvidia driver upgrade :-) I had it working the way that you say, booting from the secondary harddrive with Grub starting Windows XP on the primary harddrive if no key was pressed. For me it wasn't too difficult to set it up, I found a website that explained everything so I just did a bit of copying and pasting and that was it.
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Post by patrickp on Jan 30, 2007 22:17:13 GMT -5
I prefer having my data and operating systems separated, so if I have a couple of drives (as on this machine), I'll have Windows and Ubuntu dual booting on one drive, and save all my data to the other. I also have a FAT32 partition for swapping between them; Ubuntu can read, but not write to my NTFS partions, and Windows, of course, just can't handle any of the file systems that Linux usually uses... I actually stuck to the Windows boot menu for dual booting: there's a handy little app called BootPart that will enable you to set this up on an NT based OS (NT, W2K or XP). I prefer doing it this way because, as yet, Windows is still my default OS. I'm working on it. On my other machine, where I'm dual booting with Windows 98 SE, I have to use Grub.
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hanman
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Post by hanman on Jan 31, 2007 0:14:28 GMT -5
well, on my 64bit ubuntu box at home, the best i can get pSX to do is bring up the language selection dialog box, then it promptly segfaults. i can see the window border getting drawn briefly beforehand. this shows up in the console:
(pSX:1977): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. Error: scsi status=2 sense=72 0b 47 00 00 00 00 0e 09 0e 00 00 00 00 00 00 Error: scsi status=251 sense=00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Error: scsi status=2 sense=72 0b 47 00 00 00 00 0e 09 0e 00 00 00 00 00 00 buffer_time=341315us buffer_size=15052 offset=882 period=21333us period_size=940 (dir=1) pad=0 Jess Tech USB 4-Axis 12-Button Gamepad: id=8c2001af js=/dev/input/js0 ff=(null) Segmentation fault
not sure what the local error at the top is about, as this is the output of the locale command:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL=
anyway, i don't think that's related to the segfault, but i could be wrong. honestly, all this may be the result of my install being hosed somehow, though i'm having no trouble otherwise. i try to find time this weekend to reload. at least it sees my joypad! ;D
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Post by Sune on Jan 31, 2007 14:40:01 GMT -5
Try updating the..eh.. C library thingies for GTK.
I saw some when I installed the OpenGL support I mentioned previously.
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Post by markos on Feb 3, 2007 14:29:20 GMT -5
Can you please compile a version for PPC Linux
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Post by pSX Author on Feb 3, 2007 14:54:59 GMT -5
Doing a version for PPC is more difficult - the recompiler is x86 specific at the moment. I am thinking about doing one though (I have a G5). It won't be ready for v1.11 though (I want to concentrate on getting the x86 Linux version working fully first).
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Post by Ultima on Feb 3, 2007 15:33:15 GMT -5
Grr... I'm trying to figure out how to get pSX to recognize my CD-ROM, but any amount of mounting/unmounting of the drive doesn't help... And it doesn't help that " dd if=/dev/cdrom of=cd.iso" throws an input/output error at me, so I can't even make an ISO... Edit: Hm, I wonder if conv=noerror would help while using dd... Edit: So yeah, that got it to create the ISO for Final Fantasy VIII (correct size too, IIRC), but erm... it didn't work with pSX Edit: Grr... was probably a corrupt rip... Trying to use GnomeBaker to rip the ISO instead now ;o Edit: Failure... Edit: Trying this now. lol progress report FTW! Edit: Ehehehehe... In all... wonderful work pSX Author The only missing dependency was libgtkglext1, but that's easily solved with Synaptic (for those of you using an apt-get based distro anyhow). As far as emulation goes, it appears to be working just the same as on Windows (even speed-wise), but I can sense that a tiny bit of polish might be needed... - pSX crashes when the cue sheet is invalid -- I'm not sure if that's normal behavior on Windows, but yeah, just mentioning it in case it isn't (I sorta mistook the .TOC file generated by cdrdao to be the cue sheet xD).
- pSX throws a "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" error at exit. The funny thing is, even though it creates a core dump, it gets removed immediately, so it's not of much use O.O (yep, hanman already reported this before too )
- My disc drive wasn't being detected, so I had to jump through a bunch of hoops to create the BIN file (yes, you already know about this ).
- Preferences aren't saved upon exit (probably related to the segfault on exit).
- Pausing when not focused doesn't appear to be working -- it only pauses when I have the configuration dialog open.
- When configuring the controller, after setting a key, it jumps to the next field to the right instead of the one below, which forces me to click the one below manually.
I'm using a nVidia Geforce GO FX5200 with the non-free nVidia drivers... Edit: Heh just noticed that most of what I wrote above have been mentioned before...
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Post by Sune on Feb 3, 2007 20:54:40 GMT -5
So you don't get wrong colours like I do?
What drivers do you use with your Nvidia card?
/edit
Damn, how could I miss that!
What does "non-free drivers" mean, are those the drivers that Nvidia make themselves?
If so, I'm using the same as you. Must be something else then. I'll try downloading pSX again.
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Post by Truth Unknown on Feb 3, 2007 21:01:36 GMT -5
I'm using a nVidia Geforce GO FX5200 with the non-free nVidia drivers... Maybe something you missed? lol
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Post by Ultima on Feb 3, 2007 21:58:24 GMT -5
Indeed Sune: Nope, it all seems fine to me... Unless I'm losing my color perception, I'm pretty sure it looks fine here... Have you redownloaded the package from the first post? It seems it's been getting (silent) updates.
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