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by the100thmonkey
Fri Oct 20, 2006 10:07 am
Forum: ZSNES Talk
Topic: ZSNES on Fedora Core 5 + nVidia GPU + Twinview
Replies: 18
Views: 9247

s'ok - the nvidia drivers are installed, along with the -devel headers, the question was more about getting SDL to use them than how do i install nvidia drivers... *edit* i'm trying to install the SVN version - the problem is that SDL doesn't point to my nv drivers (i get ~14,300fps in glxgears, and...
by the100thmonkey
Fri Oct 20, 2006 9:33 am
Forum: ZSNES Talk
Topic: ZSNES on Fedora Core 5 + nVidia GPU + Twinview
Replies: 18
Views: 9247

This is why I (and also the only thing keeping me from switching to Linux) don't use Linux. It's too much of a pain in the ass to get any kind of new program working lol. Don't get me wrong though, I'll switch to Linux in a heartbeat if they make installing programs a bit more user friendly... that...
by the100thmonkey
Fri Oct 20, 2006 8:41 am
Forum: ZSNES Talk
Topic: ZSNES on Fedora Core 5 + nVidia GPU + Twinview
Replies: 18
Views: 9247

The reason you're having problems is because you're using Fedora Core. Fedora Core and RHEL both use really old libraries in places. It's highly suggested that you use a distribution that actually tries to be up-to-date. but i like fedora core :'( emotional responses aside (FC4 was the first distro...
by the100thmonkey
Fri Oct 20, 2006 3:38 am
Forum: ZSNES Talk
Topic: ZSNES on Fedora Core 5 + nVidia GPU + Twinview
Replies: 18
Views: 9247

spoon0042 wrote:You probably don't want to be using SVGAlib. You definitely don't want to be using SVGAlib and X together. I think you're making things needlessly hard for yourself.
i think you're right - after a hard reboot, ZSNES now just breaks X.

anyway, i'll uninstall and try a different way. any pointers?
by the100thmonkey
Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:49 pm
Forum: ZSNES Talk
Topic: ZSNES on Fedora Core 5 + nVidia GPU + Twinview
Replies: 18
Views: 9247

ZSNES on Fedora Core 5 + nVidia GPU + Twinview

Well, first: hello :D Like the title says, basically. I've seen a couple of threads on getting ZSNES (yes, I can spell it, and no, I'm not going to ask for ROMs) running on Red Hat and Fedora distributions, and thought I'd add what I've been able to do, i.e. I got it ... "half" running, an...