Morphix release

[A. Jorge Garcia]

OK, I tried the floppy.img and got it to work in my main lab with 32 Gateway PIII 448Mhz PCs with sound and ATI Rage 128 graphics cards. So everything works fine in that lab.

BTW, I can't get ut2003 to load. How many resources does it need???

Then I went to another classroom lab with 24 Gateway PMMX 231MHZ PCs with GeForce graphics cards. But, I can't get MORPHIXGame to recognize these video cards! Isn't GeForce nVidia? Well, I tried with and without the nVidia driver and just about every cheat code there is, but I get nowhere! What do I do?

BTW, both labs work fine with KNOPPIX 2003.0101 and all PCs have at least 128MB RAM.

Oh, here's another curiosity. When I tried the games CD at home (without boot disk) everything was great. The next time I booted it up, many of the games were very slow (ie quake and bzflag). Does anyone know what causes this?

Regards,

[Alextreme]

UT2k3 only works with nvidia videocards. Don't blame me, i didn't code it (this is one of the reasons i wanted to seperate ut2003 from the mainmodule)

Hmm, with your other classroom: GeForce is nvidia, maybe the xmodule detection didnt work right? using xmodule=vesa might work, dont know if you tried it out yet...

That the games are running slow is an indication that the nvidia xdriver isn't loaded and that software mesa is being used. Maybe you didn't type 'y' on the nvidia prompt? Oh well, this is why it's a Test iso

thanks probono, i'll update it in the next release (hopefully somewhere next week, depending on real life)

[SaS]

Morphix has big troble on my PC!! ;( i`m running on P4 2.0 256 DDR ABIT Siluro TI4200 128
and morphix won`t start X-server (somthing reset by peer) what i must do? or please fix it

[SaS]

And i found new troble ;( morphix don`t working with my USB (wheel optical) mouse!

[Alextreme]

Hmm, which module did you try out SaS? have you tried the vga=normal and xmodule=vesa bootoptions? I havn't seen your problem before, so i'll need a bit more information about it to fix it

The problem with your usbmouse can be solved by the forceusb minimodule, it's on the mirror in the /minimod directory. follow these steps:
http://am.xs4all.nl/phpwiki/index.php/MorphHowTo
in order to add this minimodule to a cd.

Hope this helps, and hope you can find out a bit more info about the first problem. You might be able to take a look at /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and /var/log/XFree86.0.log for more clues...

[A. Jorge Garcia]

Hmm, with your other classroom: GeForce is nvidia, maybe the xmodule detection didnt work right? using xmodule=vesa might work, dont know if you tried it out yet...

That the games are running slow is an indication that the nvidia xdriver isn't loaded and that software mesa is being used. Maybe you didn't type 'y' on the nvidia prompt? Oh well, this is why it's a Test iso

OK, I don't remember if I tried "morphix xmodule=vesa," so I'll try that! BTW, I don't need "knoppix xmodule=vesa" when booting KNOPPIX CDs.

Now, I need the nvidia drivers for the games that run slow - even if I don't have an nvidia graphics card? I think the machine that's running slow has a Riva card? I'll check.

Thanx for all your help!

Regards,

[probono]

How about Geramik for Gnome apps in the KDE version?

[Alextreme]

Geramik has been on my todo list for a long time, too busy working on new features to worry about shiny themes

AJG, i don't know for sure, but aren't the TNT cards also supported by nvidia? don't have one though... i've grabbed the newest knoppix 3.2 release, i'll throw in the new changes, maybe it'll work for your card but i can't guarentee anything

[MichielioZ]

Hello Alextreme,

Yes, it's me again...
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

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 ?!)

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 ?

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.

[ktheking]

WOW
Do I get it right ?
You've made a bootable cd for launching 3D games (which are located on the HD)?
I myself am in the progress of 2 remastering-projects .
One for POS purposes and another for CITRIX client/USB ADSL/Teleworking purposes.(may I say very slowly since I'm a linux newbie ,but for the POS part ,my POS app already works under knoppix 3.2 )
May I say Mr. Knopper and you all have marked a new historical breakpoint with bootable cd's (and soon bootable DVD's ?).
Greetings,
(PS. I think I will soon need your advice on remastering )