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Well, one more odd problem with Linux. If it keeps like this, next weekend I will format my computer and put win2k in all boxes . I don't mind having problems from time to time, but it's too often. Sometimes, when I open kde I feel in a science fiction movie, with outstanding desktop. Although, sometimes, even with a nice linux distro as Slack, I feel bugged as win95. Sorry.
I've installed Quake 3 Arena, official Linux version in my:
AMD 800
394 RAM
Inbuild Sound card
Nvidia TNT 32
I've played this game before with RedHat 9.0 in another (and way better )machine without problems. Everything was running fine. Thoug, I could not get Quake to run as an user, because it says that I don't have permission to use sound. Cool, then I run as root. No problems, run perfectly. I then closed the game, closed KDE and shutdown -r now to see if it should run as user after a reboot.
To my surprise, I have now an unbootable system. It simply locks after Lilo boots up with:
Booting Linux:.....................
And there it freezes with a nice kernel panic. I kinda prefer "This program performed an illegal operation and will be closed" ratter then ".............."
Any ideas how to fix this? I won't reinstall Slack. I've done it 2 times today and one time with Debian Woody. Feels like it's win2k for me, unfortunately...
Never mind, I quit. I've just tried run Slack 9.0 CD to boot up and see if it was anything I could do. Now it won't boot either. After booting from the CD, I come across a screen were it stands
"CODE: Bad EIP value"
I would love to keep struggling with this, go into my /var/log/messages and keep searching all night here and into google, but I quit. I would like to thank you all who have helped me a lot in this forum, but I've a 2 years old son and a wife who also needs my attention . Currently, seems like Linux is taking more time to get it running, configuring and reinstalling then actually enjoining my computer .
I see you guys someday in a soon future probably, I'm not giving up forever, but I'm studying, working and have a family. It's quite a lot of work to stay playing with Linux under this time.
Come on now... you *know* you secretly love all those little things that don't work. I mean... doesn't it feel great when you solve something completely trivial after tweaking with it for days on end?
But anyway... why not reinstall Slack and then chmod stuff so that you can run Quake (who plays that anyway?) as a user as well? I'm thinking running it as root (BAD BAD IDEA!) prolly changed some stuff you really didn't want to have changed.
But really.. why am I even writing this? Is the guy ever coming back?
Originally posted by Megaman X Well, one more odd problem with Linux. If it keeps like this, next weekend I will format my computer and put win2k in all boxes . I don't mind having problems from time to time, but it's too often. Sometimes, when I open kde I feel in a science fiction movie, with outstanding desktop. Although, sometimes, even with a nice linux distro as Slack, I feel bugged as win95. Sorry.
I've installed Quake 3 Arena, official Linux version in my:
AMD 800
394 RAM
Inbuild Sound card
Nvidia TNT 32
I've played this game before with RedHat 9.0 in another (and way better )machine without problems. Everything was running fine. Thoug, I could not get Quake to run as an user, because it says that I don't have permission to use sound. Cool, then I run as root. No problems, run perfectly. I then closed the game, closed KDE and shutdown -r now to see if it should run as user after a reboot.
To my surprise, I have now an unbootable system. It simply locks after Lilo boots up with:
Booting Linux:.....................
And there it freezes with a nice kernel panic. I kinda prefer "This program performed an illegal operation and will be closed" ratter then ".............."
Any ideas how to fix this? I won't reinstall Slack. I've done it 2 times today and one time with Debian Woody. Feels like it's win2k for me, unfortunately...
Thanks for any help guys
Would be a shame to stop.. although i had some evenings of frustration though. But windows will frustrate as well.. and that will be even worse with all their hidden extra features in automatic update (drm stuff, spyware etc..)
Anyway, the errormessage you get.. you might try to plug out some usb devices (or other devices). like a gamepad or mouse.
I would love to keep struggling with this, go into my /var/log/messages and keep searching all night here and into google, but I quit. I would like to thank you all who have helped me a lot in this forum, but I've a 2 years old son and a wife who also needs my attention .
Sorry dude, but maybe you should quit playing Quake 3 instead.
Spending 1 week configuring and fixing Slackware is not going to take your family away from you. Spending most of your time playing Quake 3 will.
Thanks for you who have been constructive. And I feel sorry that somes who wrote like:
"HAHAHAHAHA GO BACK TO WINDOWS."
sounds still in an age close to puberty.
I'm not saying that I'm quiting, I am saying it's taking too long time getting it to work. I just want to keep coding my python and OpenGL games, playing Quake (My favorite game, together with Megaman, Chrono Trigger and Street Fighter), modeling 3D with Blender and watching "Friends" in the night before going bed . All this is a hobby you know and I've very tight time right now trying to figure why my scanner stopped work or why my joystick won't work using the standard joystick port, but it's fine withing USB one or why a rated 4/5 game from Transgaming/winex3, as Ghost Recon (great game btw ) does not run at all in my machines....
Well, I did as you said. I've unplugged all my USB devices, mouse, scanner and joystick and I still could not boot. I used then the win98 boot disk, booted the computer, took Lilo off, reinstalled Lilo and now it boots.
Just try being more open minded. Jokes are quite cool though, like Bill G sending some cash to me (I wish he did though, but it would be the other way around with the Winslows I have here if you know what I mean.. lol) or that Quake takes too much time playing (that's so true...hehe). I'm not saying that Linux sucks (Slack is my favorite OS) neither that I'll stop using it. Just for the moment, I really am a computer addicted and I've very little time to enjoy it . I also don't dual boot and never will because Linux does not need it. It's good enough to be the only OS in any computer. I just need more clicks and less "man" reading for the next...hmmmm, 6 months . And be sure I will stick around the forums even if I will format my machines and install win2k for the moment .
Anyway, I hope you stick around despite all the nasty problems you keep having. Try to keep in mind to change only one thing at a time, so that you'll you know what it is exactly that is causing your computer to malfunction.
Cool thanks for the tip I really have to install one thing at a time. I still don't know if it was my scanner, my joystick or Quake 3 that screw my Slack-box cause I installed it all together. At least now it's working so I will hold it there, now that it's 100% operational. I hate, hate installing operating system, specially Windows...ghehe
Originally posted by tarballedtux Wow, that was really depressing. He just gave up. He had some 640 posts and he just stopped. Me thinks Billy G slipped some cash into his mailbox.
--tarballedtux
personally i would not be surprised if he did... sounds like billy g's style to me...
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