Morphix release

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Originally Posted by MichielioZ

Hello Alextreme,

Yes, it's me again... 8)

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Hey MichielioZ 8)

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Originally Posted by MichielioZ

I really wanna help the progress of Morphix, but I just can't seem to get a grab on it...
First of all : I cannot seem to remaster the mainmodule...
Maybe something's wrong in the HOWTO, or maybe it isn't clear enough for a dumbass like me ;)

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Hmm, where did you get stuck? Maybe it isn't clear enough, although everyone that tried (and succeeds) always think it's way too easy! ;)
Anyway, the howto (as is morphix) is a work in progress

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Originally Posted by MichielioZ

For HDD installation it might be a really good idea to have a "Nvidia installer" application on the desktop ... maybe something to think about ?
(although the game-mod allready works for me with Nvidia, most people would probably wanna play games and stuff from a HDD installation ?!)

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Hmm, true, i'm thinking about integrating the translucency and nvidia modules into base. The ideas that i saw in the other thread were great, so i'm hoping on not having to install nvidia at all. On the downside, every mainmodule needs some finetuning (as the nvidia minimodule doesn't work for every mainmod, something very un-morphix ;))

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Originally Posted by MichielioZ

I looked all around the internet, but couldn't find any solution to the "SMB-browsing-mp3-preview", so I just turned of "preview SMB" in konquerer... If you can't find a solution, it might be an option for a futute version ?

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The next KDE mainmodule will have kde 3.1.1, i hope it'll fix the smb problem. If it wasn't ready yet i would indeed deactivate it, only sane thing to do :P

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Originally Posted by MichielioZ

Anyway, I'm babling on...
Probably wouldn't have to post so much if I could just remaster Morphix...
Thnx in advance for your reply.

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Just let me know where you stranded, it's no rocketscience ;)

ktheking, yes and no, the 3D games are located on the iso. Speed is actually quite good, good enough for a few rounds of fraggin' ;)
take a look on morphix.org (and the still-in-development website on morphix.sf.net) for more info. Nice work on your own remasterings, good to see everyone busy on their own livecd's btw! If you need a hand just ask, always have (make) time to help out :D

alex, any idea when it would be possible to release the lan party server edition? sorry i've been disconnected given that work calls..

Hey bloodmire, havn't been all that busy on your servers, sorry. I do have a small screenshot of the server module on http://am.xs4all.nl/gfx/server-menu.png
I hope to get to it somewhere next weekend, kinda busy atm :?

Ok Alex, here I go with what went wrong :

First of all : I am trying to remaster from a HDD installation of your KDE 3.1 release.
I was/am trying to make a simple bash-script to remaster the mainmod-bare...
I got the script to make a "Morphix" directory from where it is executed.
Then I got the script to download the tools.tar.gz and the cloop-utils deb from "your" FTP to that directory ... so far so good.
First I get it to install the cloop-utils deb package... gives no errors there.
Then I untar the tools.tar.gz (automatically untars to a "tools" directory in the "Morphix" directory) and after this it untars the cloop-mod and compressloop inside... seems to be no problem.
Here comes the tricky part ;) :

When I try to execute ./cloop-0.66/extract_compressed_fs MorphixMain-bare-0.3-3.mod > ./tempimage.iso
it didn't do anything, so I tried specifying the folders a bit.
I don't really know if it was right after the modification, but at least it gave an output of some sort :?
Major problem comes when I try to : mount ./tempimage.iso /mountpoint -o loop
It just states that the directory /mountpoint doesn't exists...
(may be a really dumb interpretation on my part though ;))
So I made the script to make such a directory beforehand, but it keeps on stating it doesn't exist...
This is how far I've come, maybe I should just try it manually... ?!
(really would like to make a script out of it someday though...)
Thanx again for your reply.

edit : Posting on your "own" forum with the entries of the script now...

Wow, nice script! Havn't really looked into all those scripts that were made for Knoppix, but you are nearly there :)

first: /mountpoint was an example :D you can use any directory to mount the uncompressed iso on
second: you should further make sure you aren't using a '/' before some of the directories, i don't think people will be pleased to find directories made in their root dir! ;)
Anyway, you're nearly there, just make sure you are using the right directories!

Alex,

OK, as per usual, you were right about my "slow" PC at home. I just had to say "y" to the nvidia drivers and everything sped up again. I thought that I hadn't done that the first time I booted MORPHIX, but I guess not!

As to the GeForce PCs at school, morphix xmodule=vesa with or without nvidia doesn't work. I've tried every graphics related cheat code with and without nvidia always with the same result: xfree returns no screen found!

Arrggghhhh! What's going on here?? BTW, KNOPPIX (2003.0101) autodetects the video on these machines no problem, so why not MORPHIX???

What irks me is that MORPHIX works fine on every over machine I've tried (my PCs at home and in 2 other labs), just not in this one lab!

Sorry to bother you so much about this, but I really would like to figure out this problem!

TIA,

same here, weird problems, the recent knoppix 3.2 hardware detection seems to break a few things :?
i could really use the /var/log/XFree86.0.log and /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 files. You _could_ try out the newest knoppix 3.2 iso's on the same computer and see if that works, but only try this if you can't get to the two files, as they would really help ;)

In other news, morphix.sf.net is up and running, morphix.org should point to it soon. Also, MichielioZ has made a nice new mainmodule-unpack script, take a look at http://morphix.sourceforge.net/modules/mydownloads and try it out! :D

So far the only machine I've ran MorphixKDE-3.3 on is goofed up because of the transparent cursor. At times posting on this forum the cursor disapears in the text box, whole words become invisible with cut and paste, and in mozilla and konqueror there are orphan dialog box pieces left on top of the browser window where the transparent cursor was.

It's fine if I don't use the mouse, but we all know how far that'll get you nowdays.

rock

Hmm, remark noted, i'll take a look if i can deactivate it. Personally, i've gotten pretty used to it, but i havn't seen those problems you describe. Then again, having a transparent cursor is pretty useless imho...

Oh, and if the newest gameiso doesn't seem to work you might want to try xvrefresh=60, i think knopper tried to boost the refreshrate, not sure it this will work though...

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Originally Posted by Alextreme

Oh, and if the newest gameiso doesn't seem to work you might want to try xvrefresh=60, i think knopper tried to boost the refreshrate, not sure it this will work though...

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OK, I'm wondering if maybe I'm inputting the cheat codes wrong.

I've tried "morphix xvrefresh=60" is that right or is it just "xvrefresh=60" on the boot line? Also, if I use "morphix xmodule=fbdev" do I also have to specify "fb800x600" or whatever res I need? BTW, if I'm putting more than one cheat code on the boot line, do I say morphix each time, do I use spaces or commas too?t

BTW, I see in your dpkg for the MORPHIXgame iso that you have kde and gnome games? How do I run these when using icewm?

Thanx,

Alex,
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Regarding the transparent cursor problem, it's only on the computers at school, edit which have i740 AGP graphic cards.

I'm home now and everything is OK here with my tnt vanta card! So it may not be a problem worth dealing with.

Thought I should let you know,

rock

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Originally Posted by A. Jorge Garcia

OK, I'm wondering if maybe I'm inputting the cheat codes wrong.

I've tried "morphix xvrefresh=60" is that right or is it just "xvrefresh=60" on the boot line? Also, if I use "morphix xmodule=fbdev" do I also have to specify "fb800x600" or whatever res I need? BTW, if I'm putting more than one cheat code on the boot line, do I say morphix each time, do I use spaces or commas too?

BTW, I see in your dpkg for the MORPHIXgame iso that you have kde and gnome games? How do I run these when using icewm?

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It's always first the label (morphix) then zero or more arguments like xvrefresh=60 and xmodule=fbdev seperated by a space, like: morphix xvrefresh=60 xmodule=nv
don't know if the kde/gnome games have been added to the menu, otherwise you'll have to use 'em good ol commandline. Restructuring the menu's isn't high on my todolist, want to have it all crystalised out first...

Oh well, keeps ya busy ;)

kay, thanks for letting me know rock, if it does cause problems it can be turned off...

I guess my question is, can you run kde and gnome games without kde and gnome? I seem to remember some gnome games in the menu that don't run....

Regards,

As always, if something doesn't work i would like to hear what isn't, but most games should work (kde and gnome arn't installed, a lot of lib's are)

OK, we've got the MORPHIX-game CD working in one lab (ati rage128) and at home (riva?) without a problem with the multiplayer games I want working well. This suits my needs for now. I just can't figure out the GeForce lab for my life!

However, I'll have to get back to you about which games don't start-up. If memory serves, all the x games work, some of the kde games work and few of the gnome games work. By working I mean, just start up. What happens is, when I click on a "non-working" game, the CD starts up like we're decompressing the program and the load graph on the task bar spikes and then everything stops and the game never comes up. I can still start other games after that. I'll have to do a systematic test to make you a list of the problem games....

Regards,

you are not the only one with that problem, seems as if there are a number of things 'different' in knoppix 3.2. I'll try to update them in the next release to the official knoppix 3.2, if that doesn't work we can always fall back on the old knoppix 3.1 hardware detection files ;)

Trying out a few gnome/gtk games now, they seem to work pretty well. Just note that there are a few servers inbetween the games. Wouldn't need a systematic test of everything (bah, too much work :D) but if something doesn't work try it in a terminal first to check what is happening.

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Originally Posted by Alextreme

Yes, you now have a transparent, mouseshadowed
mousecursor you either will hate or love...
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Hi Alex,
How should you hate it, if you don't see it?

Can you tell me, how to change it, because it's nearly invisble, if you don't know where it is exactly.