Category Archives: Ubuntu

Wine ATI unreadable text in starcraft 2 fix

Posted on August 30, 2010 by admin

All you have to do is add nopat to the grub menu. nano /etc/default/grub Change GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=”" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”nopat” Then save the file, then run sudo update-grub. It works with crossover games too, that’s what I use, which is based on … Continue reading →

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Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty works in crossover games 9.1

Posted on July 30, 2010 by admin

Bought Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty today at gamestop. Seems to work fine in crossover games, it crashes if I change the texture quality to medium, might be my computer though. At first when opening the game the text isn’t … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu enemy territory quake wars sound fix

Posted on July 5, 2010 by admin

If the sound is lagging, or there’s no sound then this will fix it. You can either remove pulseaudio, or better tell enemy territory quake wars to use oss. I used the installer from liflg.org to install the game, so … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu upgrade to latest ATI video driver

Posted on June 28, 2010 by admin

First you should remove the old driver and reboot. You’ll need this script to install it. sudo apt-get remove fglrx fglrx-amdcccle sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.old sudo rm -fr /usr/lib/fglrx sudo rm -fr /etc/ati sudo reboot If you don’t have any … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu using too much memory?

Posted on May 27, 2010 by admin

The solution for me was to download a new kernel, the only problem was getting the ATI driver to work. Make sure you download the linux-headers file too, you need the _all and _arch(i386 or amd64). I got the ati … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 8.10 64 bit how to get serious sam the first encounter to work

Posted on January 14, 2009 by admin

The simple answer is to run ssam_lnx.dynamic, which is in ssamtfe/Bin. Found that on a russian forum, used google translate… Full instructions below. First install 32 bit libraries and linux32. sudo apt-get install ia32-libs linux32 Now go download serious sam … Continue reading →

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Mythbuntu how to update mythtv to svn version

Posted on February 9, 2008 by admin

If you enabled the 0.20.2 fixes build repository, then run the commands below, before upgrading to the svn version. sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mythbuntu-gutsy.list First you need to remove the current mythtv packages, otherwise the svn version will conflict with it. sudo … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 7.10 fuppes SVN 549 package

Posted on December 16, 2007 by admin

Update You can download version SVN-578 with video transcoding enabled here (32 bit). Also you need to remove your fuppes.db, which is under .fuppes in your home folder. Changelog Download fuppes SVN 549 ubuntu package (32 bit) Tested in ubuntu … Continue reading →

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64bit users mplayer support for firefox32

Posted on June 26, 2007 by admin

If you followed the guide how to install 32 bit firefox with flash w/sound and java for AMD64, and now you want quick time videos and other formats to play in your browser then this how to is for you, … Continue reading →

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Stream videos to xbox 360 with patched ushare

Posted on May 25, 2007 by admin

Update 12/13/09 You can install ushare with apt-get or aptitude. sudo aptitude install ushare and to setup you can edit /etc/ushare.conf sudo nano /etc/ushare.conf The config file explains everything. To run you can start the service. sudo service ushare start … Continue reading →

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