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PranQster

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...thanks for updating yourself from official repositories, only to break login to any display manager. I'll say it again... Fuck, I hate Ubuntu. What a pile of mediocrity.

System: Mageia Linux Cauldron, aka Mageia 8

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I recently moved from Linux Mint/Ubuntu which i used for years on my laptop to Win Vista. Go figure... it really has many problems. I must admit i was after program compatibility too though.

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Actually, I've been very happy with Mageia, and Mandriva which preceded it (until the uber-crappy Mandriva 2011 version). But DR is not compatible with the gtk packages which Mageia provides (not since Mandriva 2010.1) and I end up with gtk-related errors in the build process, despite having all dependencies.

I was running Mint 14 for a while to allow running DR. I recently replaced Mint 14 with Mint 15, so that I could install orbweaver's DR 1.8.0 for 'raring' . That was running great for a day or two. I had done all normal updates and everything seemed fine. Then upon my next boot with Mint, it got stuck upon login.

I'm suspecting something with X, since I end up with a blank screen with my custom mouse cursor (KDE). I get the same behavior as root after running startx, so it's neither a user account issue nor a problem with my assigned /home drive. If I login with Cinnamon desktop, it immediately gives an error, hinting that I may have run out of drive space. I have 144GB free on /home, and over 273GB free on / , including /tmp and /var/tmp, which did not get custom partitions.

Fortunately, I'm not useless at a linux terminal and can drop to runlevel 3, but I'm going to have 'fun' with apt until I find which packages need un/re-installing.

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There are times it seems you guys get more joy from playing with the OS than anything you run in the OS :P

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Archlinux works very well for a rolling release distro. If you want to customize your system exactly the way you need and want current software updates as soon (nearly) as they are available, Arch is the way to go.

You have to do everything yourself but it is very well documented and much simpler than other distros.

 

But be aware that, because Darkradiant is not in the repositories, it has to be built again everytime the Arch package manager installs a new version of boost. ;)

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Archlinux works very well for a rolling release distro. If you want to customize your system exactly the way you need and want current software updates as soon (nearly) as they are available, Arch is the way to go.

You have to do everything yourself but it is very well documented and much simpler than other distros.

 

But be aware that, because Darkradiant is not in the repositories, it has to be built again everytime the Arch package manager installs a new version of boost. ;)

Boost indeed has the bad habit of breaking everything every few months. For TDM and Darkradiant I suggest to simply use Wine. It is the best way when the developers are mainly in Windows and the gnu/linux build is manly a side effect.

 

 

There are times it seems you guys get more joy from playing with the OS than anything you run in the OS :P

This is what I think when I see people using Windows...

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Well, DR 1.8.1 pre-release seems to run well with wine in Mageia 4b. I haven't tested it all, but 1 thing I know is broken is audio. When I go to set the snd stuff in location settings, I am missing the button to open the list of sounds. I had checked audio properties in winecfg, and even tried a custom config for DR. That didn't change anything.... Do I need to set any custom libraries option in winecfg, builtin/native?

I'll take a peek at winetricks and see if any openal for windows stuff is in there.

System: Mageia Linux Cauldron, aka Mageia 8

PranQster

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Used wintricks to add both ogg and sdl support to wine. Will try re-installing DR 1.8.1, then 1.8.0 if needed...

 

Other idea... I'll extract all the audio to my ~/Music directory, and set up a custom playlist in either vlc, amarok, or whichever media program lists them the best. I can browse the sounds as I wish and then will just manually type the desired sound names into DR entity inspector.

 

Oh yeah, that works great with Amarok. Though it's even easier and faster to browse in dolphin and play in vlc :)

Mageia 4 now running all I need. I may have just freed up 2 old hard drives to now be used for backups :)

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System: Mageia Linux Cauldron, aka Mageia 8

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