i will install Nexuiz in Linux...but it doesn't work....because Linux say i have no rights to Install "nexuiz-linux.sh"...any ideas?

You have two possibilities:
1) run sh nuxuiz-linux.sh
or
2) set chmod u+x nexuiz-linux.sh
and then execute it like ./nexuiz-linux.sh

Are you sure it says you have no right to install nexuiz-linux.sh? Did you maybe mean start? Because the permissions should be ok after extracting the files. Could you copy the whole error message?

Hey!!! I finally got my laptop wireless setup with Linux using the ndiswrapper. Currently Suse 9.3, but that is because that is what I had on here already from a while ago when I last experimented with Linux on this computer. I will probably wipe this install and install OpenSuse 10.2 tomorrow night or over the weekend.

So Nexuiz runs and I can hear sound, but there are severe performance issues. I can barely even navigate the menu system, and the music is very choppy, struggling to play in the background. I launched a map and started flying through it. It was about 2fps. I then went outside the map and looked at the black area, and it went to 30-50 fps (because it wasn't rendering anything).

This is the computer that I have. http://reviews.cnet.com/HP_Pavilion_zd7 ... ml?tag=nav

I am guessing that I need to install a proper video driver for this card. I am going to follow these instructions http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-ins ... HOWTO.html

Wish me luck!!!!

Actually, I may be installing the latest Ubuntu instead.

Yeah you will need those nvidia drivers to get 3d acceleration but thats rather easy

Well, I successfully setup Ubuntu 6.10 and I was able to get my WLAN to work as well as my Nvidia drivers. I Don't have the best video card, but it does okay at 800x600 with the lowest settings. Tonight, I played Nexuiz a bit on a minstagib server. Man, I have to say that it really feels sluggish compared to running it on windows. It's not necessarily a fps thing because the video it didn't seem "choppy". Though I didn't check the actual fps. I'll do that tomorrow night. It really felt like there was a slight delay when I tried to move. Of course, this type of thing is more noticeable when playing minstagib. I could probably get away with playing CTF and still have fun. Hmm...

I didn't do any xorg.conf tweaking. I simply installed followed the instructions on www.ubuntuguide.org for installing Nvidia drivers.

My sound is also not quite working. I can only hear certain sounds in the game, but it's not the gunshots and it's not the players. I can hear some ambient noises and I can hear when I land a shot. It's very strange. It's like selective-mute.

Is it more like you do not hear your own sounds? Maybe the sound driver does something wrong with the distance stuff.. i once had similar problems with windows..

Dokujisan wrote:My sound is also not quite working. I can only hear certain sounds in the game, but it's not the gunshots and it's not the players. I can hear some ambient noises and I can hear when I land a shot. It's very strange. It's like selective-mute.

Make shure you have libvorbis and libvorbisfile installed. And while we are at it: if map downloads don't work install libcurl (3). You'll find these libs in your distros package manager...

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?

Dokujisan wrote: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),

awesome! Thank you. I will try that.

ok, that worked! Thank you very much.

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

vid_width 1200
vid_height 900
...

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

Dokujisan wrote: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)


tZork wrote:

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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 ..

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.

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.

Dokujisan wrote:Should I do anything with the rest?

You can do the same thing with slocate (or uninstall slocate)...

Thank you very much for your help!

Great...I finally get Linux up and running on my laptop and then my DC Power adapter dies.

Another one is on the way. I won't be on the Nexuiz servers for a few days.