If you really want a free cookie, goto your local Millies Cookies, get a member card thingy, and then go up there a week later and tell them its your birthday and show them the card. They give you a free cookie or 3

A free cookie, is just like a regular cookie, except, its free. Just like the one below

Gotta love that dial going up to 1001 An auto gearbox though?

spsamsp, yes it is under Linux. It says that in the screenshot Its an experimental window manager I'm running, thats what I'm offering a free cookie to guess.

My shiny uncluttered desktop My desktop was getting that messy I just stopped displaying icons. A free e-cookie to the first person to guess what desktop I'm using.

7. So you don't look like a complete prat when replying to a 4 page thread after only skim-reading the 1st 3 posts.

Any PS2 wheel should work on a PC, with a £5 adapter? Except for the rumble affects. Espically cheaper-designed wheels like that where the pedals/steering are just mapped to the analog axis's.

Maybe you could get a DFP, and use a "Frex" adapter kit to fit a more suitable wheel.

That wheel from Joytech looks rubbish. I mean sure it resembles an F1 wheel, but it'd be horrible to drive. Look at the travel on the pedals and the cheap materials used.

Try skipping the setsebool command. Its only required if Fedora configures SELinux, I can't remeber if it does it by default or not.

To see if you have the drivers enabled, run the following command in a console:

glxgears

And tell us how many fps it renders. For your card it should be a couple of thousand. If its only a couple of hundred its likely the drivers aren't correctly installed.

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I'll agree with you on Ubuntu feeling rather sluggish tbh. It is a nice system to just slap on, but 'tis rather slow. People tend to say that Ubuntu is Debian configured properly. I'm starting to disagree; although its configured nicely, I wouldn't say that its still quite right; and I'm definately going off the way gnome is heading (although I still like the GTK "feel", Qt is much nicer to work with ).

At the end of the day, I guess you just use what you're happy with Hell its all just the same thing packaged slightly differently by the time it hits your screen. But you should still be using something debian based imho (I'm a Debian lover, if you hadn't noticed )

Out of interest, how is Fedora these days? I've been told its all slow since Mono's been introduced...

I would agree Ubuntu is a good system to just "slap on", but I don't think its there yet like you say. Espically the newest release - theres a lot of pretty major bugs in it, but they chose to get it out the door anyway. The installer in particular has some nasty bugs I encountered. And they're gonna be supporting this release for 3 years, I'm sure it'll be fun times for them. To be fair they sent me free CD packs for the last release which included the installer & live CD, which I gave to people at college to have a play around with.

I don't much get on with Gnome these days - feels a bit overweight, I don't like the concept of gconf, and even though it feels heavyweight, its not all that adjustable. I'm very much liking the new Enlightenment WM - its blazingly fast, infinately adjustable, but it still looks nice, and is very functional. Only catch is the CVS gets broke once in a while, and there's no "stable" release yet.

Personally I used to be pretty loyal to Debian - in no small part because it was rock solid, new packages very rarely caused problems, and apt-get is very nice. Fedora has advanced a lot over the last couple of years though - I now think yum is on par with apt-get, its just a bit slower. Fedora has got a lot of things right, including the defaults for most things, and it feels pretty snappy. Upgrades are handled just as easily as Debian as well. If your not careful though it will still quite happily install 7 text editors and 4 web browsers Having Mono in a default install is actually quite nice - applications written using it are not noticably slower than regular GTK ones. And C# is a very nice language to tinker around with, espically compared to the mess of combining Glade with C++. QT wins hands down on the development side in my opinion, GTK is a complete mess by comparison. The Fedora community are also pretty helpful (www.fedoraforum.org).

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In that case, once you've followed my instructions above for adding extra package sources, follow this excellent guide:

http://www.fedorafaq.org/#radeon

First, you should install the gui to the package manager. To do this, open up a console, and type:

su -
(enter root password)
yum install yumex

Then when its all done look for it in the system menu (called Yum Extender).

Fedora's "yum" seems to use a more complex file management than Apt (which is what Ubuntu uses, and what I'm used to). To set up extra file sources, run the following commands in a console (as root):

rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-5.rpm
rpm -ivh http://sps.nus.edu.sg/~didierb ... repo-1.0-1.fc5.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/f ... lease-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm

Then run yum extender from the menu, and it will update its info on the extra sources. Then from there you can choose to install new software, search for it (e.g. "kmod-nvidia" for nvidia drivers), add it to the que, and then process the que to install them.

You still haven't said which graphics card your using, if you tell us that then I can advise on which packages you need to install.

Have a look here for some helpful hints on Fedora:

http://www.fedorafaq.org

To be honest I don't have a clue on your printer. I don't even own a printer - always leech off the college ones

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I still use 90. I've experimented with having it lower, but never been able to get used to it, my timing gets messed up on everything. Maybe i'll give it a go again, it did look more accurate at 70 or so.

Yes it will let you reformat the Linux partitions. It will also reinstall grub for you (which has a nice shiny splash compared to Ubuntu's ).

Once you have Fedora installed, if you like I can post my configuration file for the package manager (called yum) which has extra sources added for non-opensource stuff like drivers, flash, java, etc.

Personally I've always been partial to Redhat/Fedora, maybe because I started with them back in RH5.2 days Lots of people get on with Ubuntu though. As a note, you should *never* run your desktop as the root user, its very easy to bugger the system up doing this, and leaves the system much more vunerable when its on the web.

The way I installed Fedora, was to do a net-install. I would not recommend this because your new to Linux, and you likely don't want your computer sitting there useless for a few hours.

You can install from an iso on your HD, you just need to type "askmethod" at the CD boot prompt. You will need to know the folder where the files stored on the HD, and the partition ID (e.g. hda1, hda2 etc. If your unsure, the 1st logical partition on the 1st HD is always hda5, followed by hda6, non-logical partitions are hda1-hda4). You may need to tell it the drive is "vfat", which is the name of the driver for FAT32.

You should be able to get away with just downloading the DVD iso, and this iso:

http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/fedo ... /i386//os/images/boot.iso

Burn that one to CD and boot off it, when prompted like I say type "askmethod" and follow the prompts.

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To be fair, getting drivers straight from the source is common pratice on Windows, so its natural to assume thats where someone unfarmilar with the process will start. Additionally, you can make them work quite easily, although its more hassle than its worth in most situations.

wheel4hummer, what video card do you have?

Installing the drivers is a simple thing, once you know what to do. The guides on the Ubuntu Forums should still work fine, although they are now out of date.

Btw I use Fedora, I used Ubuntu for a few a while but didn't like how unresponsive it felt, never was able to figure out why. I also didn't like the way it handled root privilages.

hmm..using regular wine builds, I have successfully unlocked & raced online. I didn't encounter any problems like transparent cars, only performance issues, and never got my DFP working with Wine.

wheel4hummer, have you installed the ATI/Nvidia drivers for you card yet?

Hey it works, nice!!

I'll have a tinker around with it as well. I've been wanting to learn to use C# for a while so it should be an interesting way to learn.

I did hit a snag in compiling it,

[Task:File=/home/rtsbasic/gtkfrontend/gtkbrowseforspeed/MainWindow.cs, Line=52, Column=4, Type=Error, Description=Cannot implicitly convert type `int' to `bool'(CS0029)

Does it run on your end or is it not yet finished enough to compile?

Looks impressive Nice work. Any chance of a Linux release? You written the library in Monodevelop so you must have considered it. Do you have the entire application ported or just the library? If its all there, any chance of a release of that, so I can see if there's any worthwhile servers to join without rebooting.

If you only have the library compiling in Monodevelop, I could possibly knock together a GTK# front end for it.

I tell ya what, if you really need to bring the framerate down a bit, I'd be willing to accept one of the cards as a donation.

Seriously though, I very much doubt your gonna be able to drag the framerate down in LFS I have a single 6600GT and with everything maxed out its still delivering 70-90fps all the time (except full grid starts, 40-50fps for a few secs there).

Can't wait till one of you guys release a new texture pack to play with Currently using Kristiansen's, which is a nice improvement.

Bleh..my old Micra had a rubbish radio/tape and well erm that was it. Good for listening to sport results on, and sod all else. The family car (Citroen C4) has a suprisingly nice factory cd player, but still sounds muffled compared to a proper setup. More than adaquate for a family car though. I helped a friend install a new sound system into his Audi Quattro, and to be honest I wasn't impressed. It came out sounding all distorted (to me), but he seems chuffed with it, I suspect maybe because it was very base heavy. Half the boot space was took up by a custom base box.

My home stereo I like a lot..Panasonic SA-AK520 unit with matching speakers and seperate sub. For under £200 it sounds very nice and clear.

There are data recovery tools out there that will get data back if its not been overwritten, most of them offer a free demo that shows you a preview of what it can recover.

Letting Suse create its partitions next to the Windows one is perfectly fine. I would make the swap 1GB though. Also you should use ext3 instead of ReiserFS, it has better performance on very small files and doesn't loose some of your data in a crash.

If you get Linux Format over in the US, I believe they have the Suse DVD on the cover this month. Saves a lot of downloading.

One nice thing about the design of LFS, is once you have a seperate partition to the O/S, you can keep LFS on there, and on a reinstall, all you have to do is create a new shortcut and re-unlock. I don't think I've ever had to reinstall LFS because I do it like this

And very nice the Act Labs kit is too Chris, cheers mate

A random few I listen to while driving:

3 Doors Down - Ticket To Heaven
3 Doors Down - Dangerous Game
Coldplay - Speed Of Sound
Kaiser Chiefs - I predict a riot
The Killers - Mr Brightside
Stereophonics - Pick a part thats new
Goldfinger - 99 Red Balloons
Goo Goo Dolls - Slide
Puff Daddy - Come with me
The Lost Boys - Ain't Nothing Gonna Stop Us Now
Prodigy - Breathe
Kutless - Your Touch
Rammstein - Adios

All depends on the mood really. On single seaters I'm too focused to have music on, but with road cars I feel more relaxed with some on.

If your using BeatrIX, you may have trouble finding a prepackaged Wine. Its generally best to use a 3rd party package specific to your distro, so thats where I'd start.

LFS runs in Wine, or did last time I tried, but performance is not acceptable. I was getting approx half the Windows framerate, and had to turn most of the visual options down. The biggest problem is I never got my wheel working with Wine, and using the mouse sucks big time.

Which bootloader was you using though? What happens when you try to boot off the HD? If you install Suse it will install the grub bootloader, which, assuming your partition table and your data is still in tact, will let you boot Windows.

Lol. Made even funnier by the fact a lot of cars in my street have england flags out the top of the windows already.