naraku9333

We need to see your xorg.conf and the output of lspci -v.

You can post the whole thing, although uploading it would be best. Also can you post the exact error you get when you run startx.

It's etc not ect.

Maybe that livecd doesn't use Xorg, what version of the livecd do you have? Can you post the output of ls -al /etc/X11/?

I should have been clearer, xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log are text files while lspci (list pci devices) is a command. You can open the text files for reading and writting with sudo nano -w /etc/X11/xorg.conf (Iam assuming the live cd has sudo installed). Lspci may be in /usr/sbin instead of /sbin.

I still wonder about the livewires packages, I had to change all instances of color to colour with my version.

You may be able to install it with wine, but there is a very good chance it wont work. From alittle googling it looks like the protocol documentation hasn't been released and unless it is or someone reverse engineers the protocol a linux client is unlikely.

Can you log into a terminal? If you can post /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/xorg.0.log (may be diferent name). Also please post the output of /sbin/lspci -v

I get the same error in windows as well. Are we using different versoins of livewires?

I get this error when running on linux with python-2.4.3, pygame-1.6.2, and livewires-2.0 Traceback (most recent call last): File "pong.py", line 119, in ? main() File "pong.py", line 114, in main Ball(screen = my_screen, x = SCREEN_HEIGHT/2, y = SCREEN_WIDTH/2, speedy = y_speed) File "pong.py", line 72, in __init__ dy = speedy, image = Ball.image) TypeError: init_sprite() got an unexpected keyword argument 'dx' Exception exceptions.AttributeError: "Ball instance has no attribute '_gone'" in <bound method Ball.__del__ of <__main__.Ball instance at 0xb7cb59ec>> ignored

I'm not really big on pc gaming (thats what the Gamecube and DS are for) but I thought I'de check this game out and it is pretty cool (though I've only played for about 15 minutes) and runs very well on my system (amd64 3700 and geForce 6800). I would definately recomend this to any gamer (windows or linux) that has a hardware accelerated video card.

Here is a link to the livewires module http://www.livewires.org.uk/python/files/LiveWires-2.0.tgz (direct link) which is needed to run. Also there are several references to images I dont have, maybe you can zip the package and attach.

I've used Firestarter in the past.

IMO the primary problem with windows is the implamentation of the security model (as previously stated in this thread) which I am hoping is remedied with vista. If it is, that alone could drasticly reduce spyware/adware etc, but only time will tell. But in the end I still give the security win to linux (and the bsd's) because nature of OSS is software scrutiny. Every application vulnerability I 've seen was patched very quickly. As opposed to Microsoft who quite often wont acknowledge a vulnerability untill a patch is ready(security by obscurity?)

I was thinking more along the lines of explicit warnings (very visible) of possible objectionable material in forum subtitle. IMO a "family friendly" policy in regards to art wont work, who decides what fits the criterea? I'de rather be more selective on what gets pulled then what gets posted, ie: everything stays except blatently pornographic, racist, and sexually graphic material. Either way it would be nice to see members' tastes in art.

Personally, I like the idea; I am most definately an art lover. But I do have a concern. Art is subjective and as such there will eventually be a member who is offended by a work. I don't believe in censorship of art in anyway and feel we should be careful not to do so. Overly offensive pieces can be handled democraticly with (for example) a mod/staff poll with majority rule.

I edited my previous post with the fix.

If your on ubuntu why not install through apt? sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev should solve the problem.

The rtl8180 driver may work. Im not sure what you meant by "its not allowing you access to xdm", can you stop it? /etc/init.d/xdm stop Does the memory usage steadilly increase until all memory is full? Does the system become totally unrespnsive? Is it memory or CPU usage that is the problem, IIRC changing niceness doesn't affect mem in the least.

SuSE9.1 is old at this point as well, get the latest ubuntu. If you dont have broadband you can order a disk free from them.

I saw Klik the other day in a kde-apps rss feed. It is an application that allows downloading and running of software without installation. All you do is install the client wget klik.atekon.de/client/install -O -|sh and select an app to run from the site. There are a few requirements, crypto-loop and cramfs must be enabled and rpm must be installed. I've only installed realplayer10 (picked at random) but it runs flawlessly so far. Im interested in everyones opinion on this app, seems like a very cool idea to me. Ubuntu users need to run sudo apt-get install binutils libstdc++5 rpm gnome-abou

I didn't find it incredibly informative although it does mention a few orginizations I hadn't heard of before (BetterDesktop, openusability,etc...). I do like that it (IMO) does show linux in a good light, and they describe some of the varying uses of the OS (desktop, server, embeded,etc...). My only problem with the article (that comes to mind) is that it is pretty broad in topic.

Those are recomended minimums, and if xp was any indicator it should run ok with less memory. Do you expect Microsoft to support extremely old hardware so anyone with a 98 box can run vista? What is the point of software and hardware advancements if none of it is utilized? The prices of computers these days are very low (considering what they where a decade ago) so it isn't an outrageous idea to upgrade if your running such an old system (and Im far from wealthy, plus I live in NY (highest COL in the country)). FWIW KDE is (from what Ive read) porting to windows starting with the eagerly antic

Will that key work on my copy of XP Pro???lol Who would want to download it that many times when it takes hours now? Signed >>> Rip Van Winkle Download once install on 10 boxen with one cd key. It is a beta, the idea is to find the bugs.

I believe thats less then previous releases but Im not certain. Im guessing the size is due to binaries being built with debbuging info and an increase in the nessecary libraries to run all the new "goodies". The last vista release I tried was when it was still longhorn, Ill give this beta a try. The new parental controls look very interesting, hopefully people will actually use them.