June 2002 - main - earth.li

xdm
by Ricardo Campos 01 Jun '02

01 Jun '02

This is probably really simple.... I wish to display an .xpm in the background of xdm. I put in the line: xpmroot /graphics/front.xpm in my /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 file, but to no avail, it doesn't display it. Is the howto I have out of date, or am I missing something? My default display is 1024x768, and the xpm is that large... could it be anything else? (The file is chmod 666'd) Ricardo (Finally got his debian testing box all hunky-dory!) -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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install on 9th
by Jenny Hopkins 01 Jun '02

01 Jun '02

Hi All, Just about to set off for a week's camping in the south of France, so unlikely to make it to June 9th install day - hope it goes well. We had two more enquiries through UK Install Day, to which I sent a response, but as I won't catch email for the next week, perhaps alert Matt Grove to forward enquiries to another alug member for the next week? Cheers, Jenny. Off to stuff passports and toothbrushes into rucksacks now............

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Matrox v NVidia
by Alexis Lee 01 Jun '02

01 Jun '02

I read at http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/02q2/020531/windows_gaming-01.html: At this point, the stage was set for WineX. Instead of starting from scratch, TransGaming decided to use the code from the Wine project, and add support for DirectX. The way they do this is by mapping DirectX calls to their OpenGL equivalents. TransGaming also adds support for some propietary interfaces needed by most games that use copy-protection. Even WineX has limitations. Since good OpenGL performance is required, TransGaming only supports Nvidia graphics hardware. This could change if other graphics card vendors improve their Linux drivers, but for now Nvidia is the only game in town. MJR, You were saying that Matrox have libre drivers. Is the above article correct? Are Matrox cards unusable in WineX, or do they just have crud OpenGL performance so they aren't worth using? Alexis -- "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" - Derek Bok "I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know" - Mark Twain

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