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Apparently, if you go to the program files\creative\sblive\surroundmixer\ directory and go into compatibility options for "ctsurmix.exe" and change it to emulate win2000, then the speakers option will work correctly

Well at least the 3dfxunderground version doesn't lock up the computer. And OpenGL worked in Q3A ... perfectly ... even though it claims to be using a Voodoo 3.

Installing the 1.04.01 beta Win2K drivers for the Voodoo 5 got OpenGL and Direct3D working on mine (RTM 2600, latest BIOS flash for the V5), but Glide would result in a system display freeze, and although everything is still running you won't be able to get back to the Windows desktop OR play the game... it'll just be blank.

He's a crazy loser trying to get some attention. Anyone remember his "Project X"? And his silly insistence on writing everything with ASM ... UGH.

That's the very point isn't it? Linux just doesn't cut it for me as a desktop OS. I'll be one of the first in line to buy a copy of Windows XP, and I run a Linux computer!

Who said I was using rivafb? I use vesafb for all my fb console needs... and if I were ever to break down and use the ugly kludge they call the NVidia linux drivers, vesafb at least doesn't have any problems. I know my stuff, and knowing my stuff I stay the fsck away from X.

So I'm supposed to lock myself into that same sort of upgrade and pay cycle you said Microsoft was bad for? ... NO THANKS In any case, since I use Debian, all I need do is stick the "unstable" tree into my /etc/apt/sources.list, type apt-get update, then type apt-get dist-upgrade ... voila, instant upgrade. Plus, since Linux is supposed to be "free", companies don't actually make any money writing and releasing Linux software under GPL or BSD, and a variety of other licenses, since anybody can go out there and get it for free. (Let's not even get into the fact that if you ever paid taxes, a not insignificant portion of that money probably went into UNIX, Linux and/or BSD development of some kind) While "free" software being free is good for you, temporarily, it can't possibly last. Red Hat recently became the first "free software" company to actually turn a profit. That isn't from selling software or CDs, by the way, but by providing support for that software-for a price. And a rather hefty one, at that. Red Hat aside, there are many "free software" companies out there that are floudering. Witness the recent demise of Eazel. And VA Linux cutting its hardware production side (which also is its profitable side -- so wtf, heh). The rest of them are subsidized by other, bigger companies, which in turn makes their money off of consumers-- again, people like you and me. And as for documentation ... lets see you find a HOWTO for devfsd, or an up-to-date framebuffer console document. Both issues I had to overcome purely through help from people on IRC when I was recompiling my kernel (which I got the final size down to about 700K, by the way, and trimmed the external modules for down to an absolute minimum). This sort of external help costs nothing, and you can obtain basically the same kind of support from any windows-using community.

Quote: I am an IMO, domain admin, and computer spe[censored]t, and I have trouble with Linux. Make my life a little more simple and I'll use it, so will many others. Linux is plenty simple enough (for being a server). It's just not very good for desktop usage.

Right, so I can watch my framerates drop while running Half-Life through wine. No thanks. And you're complaining about bloat in MS OSes? ... Mandrake and Red Hat are true bloatsville. My current Linux system (web server, ftp, shell box, net gateway): Debian GNU/Linux "Sid" with the 2.4.5-ac22 kernel Intel Celeron 300@338 Memory: 191312K total, 169060K used, 22252K free, 24440K swap used TNT2 Pro AGP Despite all your claims, Win2K on my "Linux system" (way back when) ran faster than XFree86 4.1 w/ Gnome, w/ KDE, w/ Wmaker, w/ Blackbox ... you name it (lets not even talk Enlightenment). Perhaps it had something to do with Red Hat being utter crap. Mandrake 7.2 wouldn't even install (crashed right out of package selection). This is supposed to be stability? My (current) Win2K system: T-Bird 1GHz 1GB PC133 Voodoo 5500 64MB AGP (I had actually installed XP RC1, then downgraded once I found out about the sad state of 3dfx support)