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hi noob here - I want to put HLDS on a pentium 3 450mhz with 384 ram. I was advised to get an up-to-date linux distro that wil work with those specs. I tried Q4OS and antix linux but they wudnt install right. can anyone suggest what I might do from here?
In what way or with what issues did they not install right?
With a Pentium-3 you will most likely need a 32-bit distribution has all packages compiled to the i686 (or even i386) standard. You MIGHT get an old Debian image for that, but the only ones I know that really support it are anti-X and alpine. Even with those, make sure you get the image that supports old 32-bit.
I do not know EVERYTHING, so there may be some others, but these days the pickings are slim. Many distributions have gone so far as to ONLY support X86_64 (and possibly ARM-64) and have dropped support for those older processors.
For reference
Quote:
HLDS may refer to:
Half-Life Dedicated Server, a computer programming framework
Hitachi-LG Data Storage, a joint venture between Hitachi and the LG group
Hoek van Holland Strand railway station, in the Netherlands
I assumed you meant Half-Life Dedicated Server. Is that correct?
If so, two things strike me: 1. You would need (I believe) STEAM, and I am not sure it will run on that device. 2. If it does, I would not expect to be happy with the performance.
If someone has experience with this and I am totally off base, please correct me.
hi wpeckham - yep its Half-life dedicated server I shud hav said that. thanx for your reply.
u dont need steam - my aim is just to hav it as a lan server for half life for like 8 players.
here's some info on it
screen blanking options terminal command in antiX 21 is
Code:
xset q
Good luck.
Code:
inxi -zv8
gives out system specs in posts.
hey rokytnji - where do I put that - when it finishes loading files the screen goes blank so I cant see the terminal. I presume u mean at the initial options?
Being low spec means probably some extra time to load might be the cause.
Moving the cursor brings my screen up when it blanks out.
Those are terminal commands I gave you. The xset command gives out options on time before screen blanking.
Code:
$ xset -q
Keyboard Control:
auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000000
XKB indicators:
00: Caps Lock: off 01: Num Lock: off 02: Scroll Lock: off
03: Compose: off 04: Kana: off 05: Sleep: off
06: Suspend: off 07: Mute: off 08: Misc: off
09: Mail: off 10: Charging: off 11: Shift Lock: off
12: Group 2: off 13: Mouse Keys: off
auto repeat delay: 660 repeat rate: 25
auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf
fadfffefffedffff
9fffffffffffffff
fff7ffffffffffff
bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100
Pointer Control:
acceleration: 2/1 threshold: 4
Screen Saver:
prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes
timeout: 600 cycle: 600
Colors:
default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0x0 WhitePixel: 0xffffff
Font Path:
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,built-ins
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 600 Suspend: 600 Off: 600
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is On
Back when I 1st started learning this stuff. I LEARNED how to use midnight commander in cli boot up. Make a text file and save it.
Edit text files and save them in cli boot.
It was good thing to learn when I was in your situation. I AM ON MY MOTORCYCLE SHOP DESKTOP wifi COMPUTER presently. Caps lock turn on accidentally because that key sits right above shift key.
Once it boots can you open an alternate terminal? ALT-F3 for example should open TTY3in text/terminal mode and allow you to log in on that terminal to use command line commands for troubleshooting and investigation. ALT-F1 on my system would send you back to the GUI, but it may be ALT-F6 on yours. It ccan be different for different configurations used in different versions or distributions.
thank u all for your help! I put antix 21 cli version for i386 on the pc. then I put HLDS on it from this page https://files.steamlessproject.nl/category.php?id=16 and it works great! gud use for an old machine
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