Old winblowz games on SuSE

[The Beatles]

Have you tried looking for ATI packages in Yast?

Also, I must show you how to add other useful repositories one of these days.

[windhound]

meh. it said ATI drivers for SuSe 10

are you sure the right drivers would be in the default repos beatles?
mandrake, fedora, ubuntu.. none of them could legally include the right drivers for my ATI mobility radeon 9600. now, they had drivers that worked fine with the card, but no 3D accel, so no games
I had to add repos.. I dont remember for mdk, but linva.org for fedora and I think it was the universal repo(s) for ubuntu.. ubuntu was odd in the sheer amount of repos it had..

[The Beatles]

I don't remember exactly, but I do remember that it /was/ working out of the box for NVIDIA, without me having to add repos or anything. IIRC it downloaded some nvidia.sh and executed it, which downloaded & compiled the driver.

[Slasher]

Have you tried looking for ATI packages in Yast?

Nope I haven't just yet but I'll give it a try tonight after work...

[Slasher]

well that was good *laughs* I found it by doing a cmd line in konsole then got me monitor settings up same as from YAST apart from it had a 3d accel. box... so i ticked that and rebooted...... now i cant even get to the login screen!!! i get a gimpy BSOD type thing with a yes or no *laughs*... .i can login via command line but god knows what to do *laughs*


<span style='font-size:30pt;line-height:100%'>HELP *laughs*</span>

[The Beatles]

http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_ ... positories

You can add the repositories for ATI cards there. Or did you already install the ATI drivers?

[Slasher]

well im gonna reformat my whole laptop anyways as the hard disks are almost full, 3% on one and 5% on the other two free so i think it sorta needs it

[Slasher]

Erk..... screw SuSE.............. MS joined with Novell

[windhound]

thats not nessisarily a /bad/ thing for SuSe

Fedora and Ubuntu are both excellent distros though
if you feel like putting actual effort into an install slackware and gentoo are supposed to be good

edit: however, I do not sugguest Kubuntu yet.. its.. not quite there imo.
Fedora will let you install KDE or Gnome, but will default to Gnome if you choose default

[The Beatles]

I'm unhappy as anyone about that, but being rather ignorant of the legal implications, I am awaiting further instructions from RMS. =D No really, I do want someone knowledgeable in the FSF to speak up with advice for SUSE users.

[bjornredtail]

Hey, it's not it's like the first time Microsoft has been makeing odd deals with a Utah Linux distribuator... What was that company out of Lindon, UT again?