[GLLUG] State of Gaming machines in the Computer lounge atPenguicon

[Eduardo Cesconetto]

I tought Bery/Compiz used the GPU for acceleration, not CPU.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Caleb Cushing 
  To: Charles Ulrich 
  Cc: linux-user at egr.msu.edu 
  Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 10:10 AM
  Subject: Re: [GLLUG] State of Gaming machines in the Computer lounge atPenguicon






    I respectfully disagree. Matt Arnold has a saying that summarizes my
    feelings on this, "Awesome minus some is still awe." Even if we can't 
    have the full 6-station gaming rig as envisioned, it would be a good
    idea to attempt something instead of just leaving an empty table.
    Aren't there any recent single-player that Cedega runs well? Even
    failing that, there are a variety of entertaining open source and/or 
    free games that can be demoed.

  we still have 1-2 machines so I guess we can do that.... 
   


    I'm personally excited about being able to show off the fact that Linux
    currently has better eyecandy than any other desktop OS at the moment,
    even OS X and Vista. The most recent release a Beryl runs great on my 
    dual-head Sempron 2600, which is not exactly a "modern" machine these
    days. Many contend that Linux on the desktop is already as good or
    better overall than the proprietary competitors, but few in the general 
    population seem to have taken notice yet.

  Jason  informed me last night that there are some known conflicts with beryl and running games although some cedega beta tester's have done it (rick?) that it's not necessarily the easiest thing to do. I tried getting it running on my machine but it crashed fluxbox back to gdm. probably something misconfigured somewhere because I had compiz working before beryl existed but it sucked 90% of my cpu. If you have a machine that has it working charles, that could make 3 machines. 



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  Caleb Cushing 


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