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Gamerzilla at GamingOnLinux
by Dennis Payne 20 Dec '20

20 Dec '20

I wrote an article for GamingOnLinux about the current state of Gamerzilla. https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/12/open-source-game-achievements-with-ga… -- Dennis Payne dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com https://social.freegamedev.net/channel/dulsi

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Lap Top with 28 GB HD
by hammerron 10 Dec '20

10 Dec '20

I recently got a Dell notebook/laptop. It is smaller than a typical lap top (notebook?) and is very light in weight. The hard drive is only 28 GB ! It currently runs Windows 10 and has only 4 GB of free space on the hard drive. It seems to just hang, if I try to update the Windows 10. I am thinking of attempting to install Xubuntu to see if it runs. Tried Puppy Linux (a light weight distro) before and think I'd like to go differently. I got the machine for free so will not be disappointed if this goes nowhere. If anyone has any ideas I'm all ears. (I might try to do this install tonight) Ron

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Generic VGA Driver (or other VGA driver)
by gmcaplan＠gmcaplan.org 10 Dec '20

10 Dec '20

Dear WLUG Members, Below is a question that I posted on Ask Ubuntu 8 days ago. I have received no replies, so I am now asking whether any of you might be able to help. BTW, in addition to the Diamond Stealth card, I also have a PCI Mach64 VGA card made by ATI and a PCI VGA card made by STB Systems. The STB one has a big chip made by S3 and a PROM (I think) labeled "NITRO 3D/GX EDO 1.0". Those have essentially the same problem. ************** I have added to my system a very old Diamond Stealth PCI VGA video card. That card can talk to the BIOS and display correctly on a VGA monitor (provided that I tell the BIOS that my primary graphics card is PCI-E not PCI), but it does not work in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I think I need a generic VGA driver. Here is some info from lshw: *-display UNCLAIMED description: VGA compatible controller product: 2000PV [Stingray] vendor: ARK Logic Inc physical id: 5 bus info: pci@0000:03:05.0 version: 00 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: vga_controller configuration: latency=0 resources: memory:fdc00000-fdffffff memory:febf0000-febfffff Also, here is what happens when I try to install fglrx: sudo apt-get install fglrx Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package fglrx I'd appreciate any help or suggestions. Thanks. (P.S. I think I have to set the BIOS to PCI-E because when I sent it to PCI it finds the built-in video port on my AMD CPU.)

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Wlug meeting on Thurs. Dec 10th 2020 @7pm.
by Tim Keller 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

Well, we made it.. The last wlug meeting of 2020! I hope everybody has stayed healthy and safe. The meeting is going to be at our usual virtual hang out.. https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA @7pm. I don't have a topic yet, I suspect something natural will emerge. Later, Tim.

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WLUG meeting November 19th, 2020: Topic: Gamerzilla! Presenter: Dennis Payne
by Tim Keller 22 Nov '20

22 Nov '20

Hey Everybody! We've got a virtual meeting tomorrow Thursday November 19th, 2020. Long time WLUG member Dennis Payne will be giving a presentation on Gamerzilla. http://identicalsoftware.com/gamerzilla/index.html Time: 7PM Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA As usual, expect the banter and usual delve into linux (or not!) related topics. I fully expect as usual it'll go late into the night. See ya there! Later, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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CMYK jpeg
by Dennis Payne 16 Nov '20

16 Nov '20

Anybody know of an easy tool to convert an image into a CMYK color space jpeg? I found an online site that works but would like to do it on my machine. Searching has only found how to do it for tiff files. -- Dennis Payne dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com https://social.freegamedev.net/channel/dulsi

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vagrant on debian 10 (buster) server
by John Stoffel 16 Nov '20

16 Nov '20

Guys, Has anyone played with vagrant on Debian Buster using libvirt as the provider? I can do a 'vagrant up' of a CentOS8 box, but it never finishes since it says it's just waiting for a network. But I have a virbr1 running with 192.168.121.0/24 subnet, and I can ping the new vagrant box at 192.168.121.18 without a problem. I can even fire up a VNC viewer and connect to the console and see that it's up and it's gotten an IP address. All I'm doing is: mkdir /scatch/vagrant vagrant box add centos/7 --provider=libvirt vagrant box add centos/8 --provider=libvirt cd /scratch/vagrant mkdir centos8 cd centos8 vagrant init centos/8 vagrant up I've got dnsmasq running on my server, and it looks to be giving out IPs on that subnet properly. Stupid VM just sits at: root@quad:/scratch/vagrant/centos8# vagrant reload ==> default: Halting domain... ==> default: Starting domain. ==> default: Waiting for domain to get an IP address... And then nothing. The console is fine, I can VNC into it and login as the root user with the password of 'vagrant' and see that the network is up, etc. Going nuts trying to make this work. John

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Hey Everybody! NO MEETING TOMORROW! Meeting next Thursday (11/19/2020)
by Tim Keller 12 Nov '20

12 Nov '20

Our next WLUG meeting is Nov 19th, 2020. I've pushed the meeting out a week because I have a prior engagement and frankly this second Thursday snuck up on me. As an aside, are people happy with the Thursday meeting or would a different day in the week work better for people? I'll let you know more details when I get them. Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Upcoming Online Conferences
by Dennis Payne 10 Nov '20

10 Nov '20

Linux App Summit is this week. I will be giving a lightning talk on Gamerzilla. https://linuxappsummit.org/ This is followed next week by the MiniDebConf. I will be giving another talk on Gamerzilla at that event. https://mdco2.mini.debconf.org/ -- Dennis Payne dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com https://social.freegamedev.net/channel/dulsi

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Reminder: Virtual meeting, October 15th, 2020!
by Tim Keller 21 Oct '20

21 Oct '20

Hey Everybody, We've got a virtual wlug meeting on Thursday October 15th, 2020! Time: 7pm Date: Oct 15th, 2020 Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Topic: As usual TBD. I will show off my CNC machine and where I'm at with it, but besides that, I expect the usual level of banter. Hope to see some familiar faces and new ones as well! Later, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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