Nexuiz...Linux!!??

[Dokujisan]

ok, I got sound working by reinstallling those vorbis libraries.
Downloading works fine. I downloaded a map earlier with no problem.

Now I'm at the point where I can't seem to get my screen settings right. When I am using 800x600 screen size, it won't fill the screen. It's a little box with a big black border around it. It's true 800x600 on my 1400x900 screen. In Windows, I used 800x600 zoomed to fill my screen. Any suggestions for that?

[KadaverJack]

Now I'm at the point where I can't seem to get my screen settings right. When I am using 800x600 screen size, it won't fill the screen. It's a little box with a big black border around it.

You said you have a nvidia card? If you have a TFT (i guess that's the case since that would be a pretty odd resolution for a CRT), put

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Option   "FlatPanelProperties"  "Scaling = aspect-scaled"

under Section "Device" in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf

You also need to add (if it's not already there) the resolution you want to use in Section "Screen". Just apend

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"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

to every line that starts with "Modes" in that section.

After restarting X, Nexuiz should be scaled correctly. But you should cnsider using 1200x900 or 600x450 in Nexuiz (because these resolutions will scale without interpolation),

[Dokujisan]

awesome! Thank you. I will try that.

[Dokujisan]

ok, that worked! Thank you very much.

How do you setup Nexuiz to use 1200x900 or 600x450?

[esteel]

vid_width 1200
vid_height 900
...

[Dokujisan]

I was playing last night and every 20 minutes or so, my FPS would drop to 3-5 and my hard drive light would flash a lot. This would last about 5-8 seconds. Obviously, some sort of process is going on in the background. I didn't have this problem a few days ago when I first starting playing on this linux system. It must've been something that I installed over the past couple of days. Problem is, I have installed lots of little things using apt-get and synaptic as I'm trying to set my computer up to do web development. I followed various instructions mostly from ubuntuguide.org.

Do you have any suggestions for how I should pinpoint the process that is causing this? Is there some kind of activity log? Hopefully, it was a one-time incident and it will jsut go away

[tZork]

I was playing last night and every 20 minutes or so, my FPS would drop to 3-5 and my hard drive light would flash a lot. This would last about 5-8 seconds. Obviously, some sort of process is going on in the background. I didn't have this problem a few days ago when I first starting playing on this linux system. It must've been something that I installed over the past couple of days. Problem is, I have installed lots of little things using apt-get and synaptic as I'm trying to set my computer up to do web development. I followed various instructions mostly from ubuntuguide.org.

Do you have any suggestions for how I should pinpoint the process that is causing this? Is there some kind of activity log? Hopefully, it was a one-time incident and it will jsut go away

Settin up yer system for web development i guess you have installed varios server, like apache and mysql. i eould not be suprized if one of thise where the directly, or indirectly responsible. It may simply be that you are running out of ram with thise new services hogging memory in the background so the system needs to swap.

you could try :

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apache2ctl stop
mysqladmin shutdown


before plying nexuiz. to start thise servers again use :

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apache2ctl start
/etc/rc3.d/S20mysql start   (this could be a bit diffrent dependning on your system)


[esteel]

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/etc/rc3.d/S20mysql start   (this could be a bit diffrent dependning on your system)


the 'real' scripts should be in /etc/init.d/ probably /etc/init.d/mysql start/stop/restart ..

[KadaverJack]

I don't think apache or mysql are to blame for that. The flashing hdd led makes it sound a lot like it was an updatedb cronjob
(updatedb indexes files on your hdd, so you can perform quick searches with "locate")

Fix: either uninstall the package "findutils" or become root, open /etc/cron.daily/find with a text editor and put "exit 0" in the second line.

[Dokujisan]

ok, I have this in /etc/cron.daily/

0anacron apt bsdmainutils logrotate slocate sysklogd
apport aptitude find.notslocate man-db standard

I edited find.notslocate and put exit 0 in the second line.

Should I do anything with the rest?

I haven't setup MySQL, PostgreSQL or Apache yet on this computer. I've just setup things like ie4linux, pixel32, java sdk, eclipse, ruby, and some video codecs.