Will 64 bit version of arch linux have some speed up?
Hi,
Im wondering to switch to 64 bit system but im not sure. I have amd athlon 64 3000+ 1.5 gb and ati radeon r300 chip. I would switch to 64 bit system if i see at least small performance improvement. I mean, i want to make kde or gnome a bit more snappier so will 64 bit system do at least small improvement in performance? Im asking here because some people say that 64 bit version is a bit snappier, while some people say that its not faster at all, it only uses more ram. Since my desktop usually uses 300-400 mb of my 1.5 gb, i dont care much about ram consuption, because 64 bit system cant use 50% more ram than 32 bit version right?
Cheers
Tyriel wrote:
Yes it is a little faster... around 8-10% faster in general but can be much faster in certain circumstances. For instance code optimised to use 64bit cpu registers you will see big improvements. However this is usually specialised software that is not that common.
So in short it is slightly faster but don't expect huge improvements unless you do tasks that use massive CPU/memory and take considerable amounts of time. For instance for me it became much more obvious compiling large amounts of code or encoding DVD's.
Hope that helps you out but in any case I would encourage you to make the change if you can because the more people you use 64bit systems the more support they will receive which means a better experience for all.
Well, i will be happy if there will be small performance improvement. If my desktop environment will work 8-10% faster then ill be very happy. And yes, i know that devels recommend us to use 64 bit version.
Anyway thanks for help!
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Is there any benefit to 64-bit version when I only have 4GB of RAM?
My laptop only has 4GB of RAM so I am wondering if there is any benefit to installing 64-bit version? Besides I have an AMD Athlon II P340 Dual-Core 64-bit processor which isn't very powerful so I am not even in the best spot to take advantage of 64-bit. For those wondering, I am using Windows 7 64-bit.
Although I am posting this in Photoshop, I am in fact installing most of the Adobe CS6 Master Collection so there is a chunk of space to be saved. Also I don't tend to use plugins, only OnOne which are 64-bit. So should I avoid installing the 64-bit version altogether? or should I install 64-bit and get rid of 32-bit? What is your opinion?That's entirely up to you - if you're SURE you'll not need any 32 bit plug-ins then you're probably going to be okay. The 64 bit version does everything.
I personally DO have some 32 bit only plug-ins and I occasionally do use the 32 bit Photoshop for that reason, so I have them both installed.
The only other consideration I can think of is that occsasionally a system might have a problem (with drivers or something) to where the 32 or 64 bit version will work better than the other. Probably your best bet, assuming you're trying to minimize disk usage, will be to install just the 64 bit version and see how well it meets your needs. You can always go back, uninstall, and install both (or the other).
A "thinking out of the box" alternative... Maybe you could consider getting a big new SSD drive to replace the drive you have, which will both kick performance up and give you a lot of extra space. Of course, this costs $$$.
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this i phone cannot be used please reinstall 64 bit version
which i have allready i have reinstalled i tunes 6 times and it still does not sync or even recognice or connect my devicesmittycdm wrote:
Did you turn off all Windows & other pc-related firewalls, virus and "real-time scanning"? If necessary, d/l all software you need to the desktop and disconnect to prevent any visitors, if you are Level 6 you know all that. But I've found all the problems w/pcs & iphones/itunes have been related to defender, mcafee, etc. And your error message was one I used to get, the other was something about not being authorized even though I was signed in as administrator. Hope that helps, it worked for me.
Thanks for your input.
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Is there no direct help from Adobe?
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New WindowMaker version for Arch Linux
Today I have added a new WindowMaker package (windowmaker-crm-git) to our [extra] repository. It's compiled from the GIT repository of Carlos R. Mafra which is the most uptodate repository for WindowMaker source code. It has bugfixes for know issues and new features like Maximus which is "Tiled maximization". There were several bugfixes for Xinerama setups and some code cleaning.
I will update the package regularly to reflect all the changes in the GIT repo. So if you use WindowMaker and you would like bugfixes and new features, install the new package and report bugs to the wmaker-developer-mailinglist, which is very active at the moment. I have tested the package and it's more usable and stable than the windowmaker-0.92.0 package.toxygen wrote:
Hah! i was just reading about this on the mailing list! thanks!
I'm about to test it. I was just thinking today too how i missed the good ol' days of windowmaker.
I'm looking through the new http://www.windowmaker.info/ sounds like they are doing something a lot of us wish "someone" would have done, making wmaker more modern!
how long has this been going on? and can you give us a summary of what's new?
There were several different steps for a new version of WindowMaker. I have seen a GIT repo which are trying to render the things with cairo instead of the internal lib. But at the moment this is stalled. I don't know how long this has been going on, but at the moment it looks like the development is getting faster and more people are contributing again. Carlos R. Mafra is doing a good job with the new GIT repository to integrate bugfixes and sometimes new features, maybe they will be merged to the main tree sometime, depends on the official WindowMaker developers. As I posted above, the development mailinglist of WindowMaker is very active again and I think this time it could really happen that there is a new release soon...hopefully.
I can't give a real summary of changes, there were lots of bugfixes and some new features. You can have a look here: http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git?a=shortlog It would take too much time to sum-up those commits.
toxygen wrote:edit to add: OT - please do make a tutorial for the "moving pictures" movie! sounds like a fun thing to do with my camera + sound.
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[SOLVED] Ndiswrapper, NetworkManager 0.7 and 64-bit Arch Linux
Hi there!
I am having problems configuring my wireless card. I know I have to use Ndiswrapper, and this is what I have tried to do; however, it didn't go quite well.
This is rather odd because it worked perfectly in the 32-bit version of Arch Linux, but now it doesn't work.
So, here comes the code.
valandil ~ $ lspci | grep Network
0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
I really use ndiswrapper and have already installed what I think is the proper driver (it seems that the list the official ndiswrapper site had has somehow disappeared.
sudo ndiswrapper -l
Password:
bcmwl5 : driver installed
device (14E4:4311) present (alternate driver: ssb)
Here's iwconfig:
valandil ~ $ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
I use NetworkManager 0.7 and have configured properly:
rc.conf:
# /etc/rc.conf - Main Configuration for Arch Linux
# LOCALIZATION
# LOCALE: available languages can be listed with the 'locale -a' command
# HARDWARECLOCK: set to "UTC" or "localtime"
# USEDIRECTISA: use direct I/O requests instead of /dev/rtc for hwclock
# TIMEZONE: timezones are found in /usr/share/zoneinfo
# KEYMAP: keymaps are found in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps
# CONSOLEFONT: found in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts (only needed for non-US)
# CONSOLEMAP: found in /usr/share/kbd/consoletrans
# USECOLOR: use ANSI color sequences in startup messages
LOCALE="en_US.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
USEDIRECTISA="no"
TIMEZONE="America/Vancouver"
KEYMAP="cf"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"
# HARDWARE
# MOD_AUTOLOAD: Allow autoloading of modules at boot and when needed
# MOD_BLACKLIST: Prevent udev from loading these modules
# MODULES: Modules to load at boot-up. Prefix with a ! to blacklist.
# NOTE: Use of 'MOD_BLACKLIST' is deprecated. Please use ! in the MODULES array.
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
#MOD_BLACKLIST=() #deprecated
MODULES=(fuse ndiswrapper fglrx !b44 !mii bcm43xx !snd_pcsp snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-hda-intel soundcore !pcspkr)
# Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM
USELVM="no"
# NETWORKING
# HOSTNAME: Hostname of machine. Should also be put in /etc/hosts
HOSTNAME="cipher"
# Use 'ifconfig -a' or 'ls /sys/class/net/' to see all available interfaces.
# Interfaces to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each interface then list in INTERFACES
# - prefix an entry in INTERFACES with a ! to disable it
# - no hyphens in your interface names - Bash doesn't like it
# DHCP: Set your interface to "dhcp" (eth0="dhcp")
# Wireless: See network profiles below
#eth0="eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
eth0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(lo !eth0 !wlan0)
# Routes to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each route then list in ROUTES
# - prefix an entry in ROUTES with a ! to disable it
gateway="default gw 192.168.1.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)
# Enable these network profiles at boot-up. These are only useful
# if you happen to need multiple network configurations (ie, laptop users)
# - set to 'menu' to present a menu during boot-up (dialog package required)
# - prefix an entry with a ! to disable it
# Network profiles are found in /etc/network.d
# This now requires the netcfg package
#NETWORKS=(main)
# DAEMONS
# Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
# - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
# - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
DAEMONS=(@stbd httpd !network syslog-ng netfs crond alsa hal dhcdbd networkmanager fam gdm)
hosts file :
# /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names
#<ip-address> <hostname.domain.org> <hostname>
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost cipher
# End of file
/etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf:
GNU nano 2.0.9 File: /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf
[main]
plugins=keyfile
[keyfile]
hostname=cipher
I hope you can solve this problem; wireless is really crucial.
Thanks for any help,
Last edited by valandil (2012-05-02 18:27:09)Alleluia!!!
I think I will write a new rule for myself to follow :
Thou shalt never use ndiswrapper again.
Thanks a lot, wonder, and thanks to you too, Xyne.
FYI, I tried to use something else than ndiswrapper before, but it didn't yield satisfying results. Anyway, thanks. -
Crover - generate OS version numbers for Arch Linux
Arch is a rolling distro, but did you ever wish it still had release numbers? So you could check what "version" you currently have installed, and upgrade to the latest "version" if necessary, with a reasonable delay between versions?
Of course you didn't. No sensible person would want to attach pseudo-version numbers to a rolling distro.
https://code.google.com/p/crover/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/crover/
crover returns a version number for Arch Linux based on time elapsed since the distro's initial release (March 11, 2002). The number format is X.Y, with X being years and Y being subdivisions of the current year. By default, the version number is generated for the current date with a subdivision size of one week.
As of this writing, the current version is Arch Linux 12.1. In other words, Arch is 12 years and 1 week old.Hmm, you could actually make this somewhat more relevant to actual update practices if you wanted. Were I to try to accomplish such a task, I would figure out a way to check and see if all the official repos are up-to-date (or just if all the packages the user has installed are up-to-date with `checkupdates`). Then, take the number of seconds elapsed since Arch's release till the last update (which brought that rig up-to-date).
Then, you could grab the user's list of currently installed packages with pacman and take a hash of it. And, by concatenating those two figures together, you could get some semblance of a "version" number. For example, mine would be something similar to the following:
378691200.4c41d609
Not to mention, with this calculation, it would not be difficult to format the time part of the version in a variety of ways. May be worth thinking about
All the best,
-HG -
I have Windows 7 on my computer. I keep getting messages when I want to do various things on my computer which say that I only have a 32-bit version of ???? and I need to update to a 64-bit version of ??? I am not computer savvy and do not understand 32-bit version of what they are talking about; nor, do I know how to update to the 64-bit version. Are they referring to my web browser, or what? And, how do I update to the 64-bit version. Do I have to buy different software, or what? Someone, please help me with this. It happened again today when I wanted to update my Java plug-in. Said I was using 32-bit, so would have to install both 32 and 64-bit version. I am confused.
Firefox is currently only as a 32 bit application available.<br />
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When i try to connect my ipod it just sais i cant because i dont have the 64-bit version.. but i have just installed it and it still wont work.. anybody have a clue what to do here? i need to update my ipod because it have os4.1
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or
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Arch Linux running on Asus Transformer T100/T100TA... sort of.
I'm not really asking for help here (can't find an appropriate place to put this post), but more to show off my accomplishment with this tablet.
As the thread title says, I've gotten Arch Linux to run on the Asus T100TA which is a quite annoying little thing. I haven't documented the steps myself, however, I remember exactly what I have done, and in order to get the live image to at least run on this tablet, here are the steps I did:
(you'll maybe need 2 USB drives, seems to be the easiest way)
1. Create an ISO using the archiso set as you normally would (except you won't really need the ISO itself) OR if you can figure it out yourself, install the base image to the USB drive (either architecture will do, but I recommend i686 since the processor is 32 bit as well)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archiso
This step will be unnecessary as of May, as the live images onwards on the main download site will already contain the 3.14 or newer kernels.
2. After the image building successfully finishes, copy all the contents from (PROFILE)/work/iso/ (except root-image squashfs files) to a FAT32 formatted USB drive (1). This is to simply create a bootloader drive that will allow us for later swapping the USB drives.
3. Download an ia32 version of grub. Any will do as long as it can boot up on the tablet.
http://www.supergrubdisk.org/category/download/supergrub2diskdownload/
This one works, download the standalone IA-32/i386 EFI and paste it in (USB Drive (1))/EFI/boot/bootia32.efi .
(use latest versions, no matter if it's unstable)
4. Now you need to make a grub.cfg. The one I made looks like this
menuentry 'Arch Linux i686'{
echo 'Loading Linux core repo kernel ...'
linux /arch/boot/i686/vmlinuz noefi nomodeset archisobasedir=arch archisolabel=ARCH_201404
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /arch/boot/i686/archiso.img
menuentry 'Arch Linux x86_64'{
echo 'Loading Linux core repo kernel ...'
linux /arch/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz noefi nomodeset archisobasedir=arch archisolabel=ARCH_201404
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /arch/boot/x86_64/archiso.img
NOTE: If you're using a later live image build, I advise to change the date accordingly. It's not necessary to do so, since the mount by label doesn't work, however, I like to keep everything intact.
noefi flag seems unnecessary as well, though I have added it to prevent some kernel panics from happening, for just in case. It works without it, still, however you need the nomodeset flag or else you'll get a black screen!
I'm not entirely sure where the grub.cfg goes, but I've put it in USB Drive(1)/boot/grub/ , /EFI/grub/ and in /EFI/boot/grub/ just to make it sure that it works.
5. Create an ext2/3/4 (recommended ext2 for flash drives, not to wear it out) USB drive (2) and copy the arch folder to the root of the USB drive (2)
---- BOOT PROCESS ----
Before this step, ensure that Secure Boot is set to OFF in the Aptio setup. Otherwise it will throw up an error in a red box crying it's not signed.
6. Plug in the USB drive (1) into a USB port and while powering on the tablet, tilt the escape key to pop up a boot menu.
7. Select UEFI: (your USB drive (1))
8. GRUB 2 will pop up. If you're running the SuperGrubDisk version, you're gonna have to go to Everything and then scroll down until it says something like
(hd0, msdos1)/boot/grub/grub.cfg
and click on it to open the configuration data manually created.
9. Simply select your desired version of Arch Linux live distro to boot.
10. VOILAaa, not really... It'll pop up with a mount error saying it's a wrong FS to mount. This is where you plug in your USB drive (2) in place of the first one.
11. Type in:
# mount /dev/sda1 /run/archiso/bootmnt
# exit
12. Congratulations, you're running Arch Linux on your ASUS Transformer T100TA tablet!
This is as far as I have went into running it. Installing it on a HDD would require mounting the mmcblk partitions, which I haven't looked into yet. For a start, I'd just recommend installing it on a USB drive, though you'd have to own one of the USB OTG converters or a USB hub. The screen is spammed with the mmcblk0rpmb timeout errors though and that is annoying. It stops after a while when it stops trying. Reboot doesn't work either, seems like acpi is broken.
You could do it with a single usb drive, though it requires some knowledge of this tablet's EFI because it disallowed me from running a kernel on another partition other than FAT32. Grub pops up with an error:
can't unload EFI services
or something like that.
I've also tried putting the USB Drive (2) in during grub and it pops up with an error with invalid sector sizes. That was to be expected.
btw I know it's my first post, I'm just here to share this with you. I never had the need to ask for help but when absolutely necessary.
PICS OF IT RUNNING
Some USB devices aren't visible, like the camera.
A custom partition layout without the recovery partitions. Yours may differ.
Last edited by xan1242 (2014-04-13 22:54:46)I haven't tried much other than getting this live image to run on this machine. I'll attempt to install the base image using my desktop computer with the appropriate drivers and see how that goes. (or just install the wifi driver)
That guy really made it to work much better than I imagined it to work at all! I'll see what can be done using the same drivers, though running Ubuntu seems tempting as well. He even got the touchscreen to work, which is really awesome. It seems that he also merged the drivers into the kernel image, which is going to be a challenge in Arch.
Since he's using the 64 bit build of Ubuntu, I'll try it with x86_64 Arch as well to try and use his guide to make the drivers to work.
EDIT: I have successully installed the base to an external drive and booted it on the tablet, however since the base was installed externally on another machine, I need to regenerate initrd. It boots on the fallback ramdisk, but still no wifi and the screen is spammed even more with the timeout errors. I've seen topics on Raspberry Pi having a similar issue and that it was repaired using some kernel flags, but I am not sure if those will work with the tablet. Also, using the bootflags jfwells used on Ubuntu work here as well, and gives full resolution output now. Wifi doesn't work. ip link doesn't give any signs of a wifi card present.
EDIT2: Got Arch up and running relatively nicely on the tablet now. Though it is in the same state as the last edit in terms of functionality, it works I'd say well enough to be considered usable. I couldn't make the wireless card to work, for some strange reason, so I got a RT73 USB card (Edimax EW-7318USg to be precise, had to use 2 USB ports) and installed stuff on to the tablet. I ran X without a desktop manager, and the X apps worked fine, even with the touch screen (emulating a mouse, no right click) and I ran XFCE4 on it without a problem (with compositing).
It simply needs more developed drivers on it, that's mostly it. The state is exactly the same as Ubuntu 14.04 that jfwells made to work (minus the wifi). I haven't played with the sound, either, due to the warning he posted, but I believe it works as it does in Ubuntu.
The steps I made are as follows:
1. Simply made another live ISO with the archiso set
2. dd'd the image to a USB drive
3. On the second USB drive I created two GPT partitions (200 - 300 MB for ESP, everything else ext2)
4. Booted the live archiso USB drive
5. Installed the base to the second USB drive while being mounted like this: ext2 partition -> /mnt and ESP -> /mnt/boot
6. Installed GRUB x86_64-efi to simply generate a configuration
7. Installed wireless utilities as well as everything else needed to make it to work
8. To ensure bootability on the tablet, again, I put the IA32 GRUB to the ESP in /EFI/boot/bootia32.efi
9. I have edited the grub.cfg, can't exactly remember with what, but this is what it looks like
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry 'Arch Linux, with Linux core repo kernel' --class arch --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-core repo kernel-true-(hd0,gpt2)' {
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,gpt1'
echo 'Loading Linux core repo kernel ...'
linux /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sda2 video=VGA-1:1368x768e reboot=pci,force sdhci.debug_quirks=0x8000 rw quiet
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /initramfs-linux.img
menuentry 'Arch Linux, with Linux core repo kernel (Fallback initramfs)' --class arch --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-core repo kernel-fallback-(hd0,gpt2)' {
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,gpt1'
echo 'Loading Linux core repo kernel ...'
linux /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sda2 video=VGA-1:1368x768e reboot=pci,force sdhci.debug_quirks=0x8000 rw quiet
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
I simply added the kernel flags jfwells added. It needs that root flag, or else it will not boot. I can't figure out the UUIDs though. It will reboot, but it will not shut down.
10. Boot up your second USB drive on the tablet and... IMPORTANT - Boot with the fallback ramdisk - or else you're going to experience non functional input
11. After booting it, you'll get the annoying mmcblk timeout spamming the screen. I haven't figured out how to fix it, but to hide it, type in
# dmesg -n 1
12. Generate another ramdisk (forgot the command, but search function should serve you)
13. Reboot with the normal ramdisk now.
14. After setting up the wireless connection, rock on with the pacman!
At this point I installed a bunch of stuff, like Intel GPU drivers, xorg, xfce4, ntfs-3g, gparted, and among other stuff I personally test stuff with.
I couldn't mount the mmcblk partitions to at least somehow be able to edit data on the Windows partitions or the disk as a whole.
Anybody willing to help getting Arch to run on this tablet is welcome.
EDIT3: Internal WiFi working! Simply added "sdhci.debug_quirks=0x8000" flag.
Last edited by xan1242 (2014-04-13 23:35:26) -
[GUIDE] How to get MapleStory working in Arch Linux
MapleStory is a free-of-charge, 2D, side-scrolling massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by the South Korean company Wizet. Several versions of the game are available for specific countries or regions, and each is published by various companies such as Wizet and Nexon. Although playing the game is free, character appearances and gameplay enhancements can be purchased from the "Cash Shop" using real money. MapleStory has a combined total of over 50 million subscriber accounts in all of its versions. MapleStory North America (Global), for players mainly in North America and outside of East Asia, Southeast Asia and Europe, has over three million players.
In the game, players travel the "Maple World", defeating monsters and developing their characters' skills and abilities as is typical in role-playing games. Players can interact with others in many ways, such as through chatting, trading, and playing minigames. Groups of players can band together in parties to hunt monsters and share the rewards. Players can also join a guild to interact more easily with each other.
I am an avid mapler myself, however, I am also an avid archer! For some time, I have wanted to get MapleStory working on Arch Linux in some way, but nothing seemed to work. As you might have guessed by now, recently, while playing around with VirtualBox, I discovered a method to get MapleStory working on it! Though in this method you won't actually have MapleStory running on Arch Linux, you'll have it running on a VirtualBox Windows virtual machine, that is still pretty good compared to other people's experiences.
I hope there are at least a few maplers on this forum, and if there aren't, I hope that someone will port this post over to other Linux, or even MapleStory, forums. Anyways, let's begin.
1. Download and install a version of Virtual Box that is version 3.0+. The reason for this is that, only versions 3.0+ support an experimental DirectX Driver with 3D acceleration that is required for MapleStory to run.
2. Create a Windows Virtual Machine, add a hard disk to it, and install and update Windows on it(preferably Windows XP, as it uses less resources than other contemporary Windows installations).
3. Once you have done all you needed and wanted on that Windows installation, restart it, boot it into safe mode by holding F8 at the boot, and wait until the desktop is fully loaded.
4. After you are at the desktop, go to "Devices" at the top of the menu of the Windows virtual machine, and select "Install Guest Additions...". Wait until Guest Additions finishes installing, and when VirtualBox asks you if you want to mount the disk containing the Guest Additions on the virtual machine, say "Yes".
5. Run the main executable on the disk that doesn't have amd64 or x86 following its name. Follow the instructions it gives you, and when it asks you what components to install, make sure both of the boxes it shows you are checked.
6. After the install is completed, the virtual machine will restart. After it restarts, shut it down.
7. Congratulations! You now have DirectX installed on your VirtualBox virtual machine! Now you need to activate the "3D Acceleration", that enables it.
8. In the VirtualBox main window, make sure you have your machine with Windows selected. Then, click on "Machine", and then "Settings...", at the top. A new window should pop up. On the left hand side, click on the display panel, and in the new settings section, tick Enable 3D Acceleration. Click "OK", to save the settings.
9. Start your Windows virtual machine, install MapleStory just as you would on a normal windows computer, and run MapleStory.
Notes: This way of running MapleStory is slower than by running it normally, on a normal windows computer. Also, try to not interact with your Linux desktop while playing MapleStory, because this can cause HackShield to shut down MapleStory, due to the fact that it believes there is a hacking attempt.
If any of you port this guide to any other place on the web, please, credit me, neovaysburd5.
For any further questions or inquiries, this goes to all of you, please contact me at [email protected].
Last edited by neovaysburd5 (2009-08-19 16:51:31)Alright, I've posted it in the wiki. I don't know if it meets the Arch Linux wiki standards, so if there is absolutely anything wrong with it, please fix it right away. Don't even ask my permission.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MapleStory -
Right to the point, I'm looking for old versions of arch linux for download.
I have a pentium 3 system I'm trying to get it to load onto, and for whatever reason, the most recent version doesn't seem to like some of my hardware and I wondered if an older version might play nicer with it?nomorewindows wrote:You could fill a bug with the kernel developers.
If you just want to use the machinery, and you have other Arch installations that work without the crappy sata drivers, you could just boot the old P3's over diskless nfs root.
I wondered about doing this, actually. I just got back from lunch and upon stuffing my face with nachos, it occurred to me I might want to reel it in a bit and see if there's a solution other than fixing the driver manually. Would I just go to kernel.org to report a bug or is there something arch-specific I should do?
I see what you mean about the diskless booting, but that doesn't fit with my long-term project, which requires local booting.
alphaminer wrote:Any options in the BIOS for configuring the SATA controller?
Not many, actually. It's an adaptec 1210sa which is essentially a long-life software raid card, or jbod card. My application doesn't really need raid, so I'm just using it for jbod purposes. Other linux distros have been playing with it nicely, all with older kernels..I'm fairly certain. -
Today, I enabled kms by default, only editing mkinicpio.
Before kms, I had been totally unable to get a full resolucion frambuffer, even with uvesafb. And i915-resolution didnt even
recognised my card, a Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
But when I first booted with kms, I thought I was in heaven
Also, with this new drivers, that annoying bug in openbox when using rgba + murrine + xcompmgr + openbox(making window borders
use false transparency) is nowhere to be seen n_n.
Last, but not least, because of the x86_64 april's fools day joke, I made the swich to 64-bits in 2 days! And just 10 minutes ago,
I deleted my 32-bit particion n_n
Arch Linux, just rock U_UXFire wrote:No bloat; rolling release; easy to configure system - no other distro seems as easy to configure; everything seems to more or less work after some configuration; just about everything.
What XFire said. I really love Arch because of this - the community is also pretty big behind it, which is a big plus. Just go to the IRC channel and you will be able to speak to archers right away about your troubles and problems - you don't even have to go out and drink them away!
But I also really like that the system does not break as much as Gentoo did for me after a simple system update. Mostly nowadays it is because of Xorg, which usually is easy to fix. In Gentoo everything broke and took a lot of time to do, because of recompilation and stuff. I am really happy that I made the change, and I got myself a fine sticker for my laptop to show off that this system runs Arch.
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