Exult Forum

yea i have a few stupid linux questions:

I run my desktop at a high resolution (1152 x1200 or something like that) :
and in turn serpent isle appears very small, even in full screen mode....
is there anything people have gotten to work besides changing your default x resolution? and how do you kill x and stop it from respawning?
also, i cant get those music files to be recognized no mater what
and i cant complie the CVS (theres no makefile.linux)

i know these are dumb questions but any help would be appriciated

also i can get it working fine in BeOS and win XP but i like to keep my ftp up

thank you soooooo much

Karma

Resolution: Exult uses SDL which attempts to set the closest possible physical resolution. Check that your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file (or wherever that is in your distribution) has appropriate modelines for the various resolution. Hunt around on the Internet for low resolution settings (320x200, 320x240, 400x300, 640x400).

Kill X: I assume you want to change runlevel (you should really understand how that works). Go to a console (CTRL-ALT-F1) login as root and run /sbin/telinit x where x is the runlevel you want to change to. Again I don't know what distribution you're running, but check /etc/inittab to see what is going on.

Music files: we need more info here. Maybe you're running the 1.0 branch and you're trying to use OGGs, so it won't work (you need to use the 1.1 branch).
Post your ~/.exult.cfg and Exult version here.

In order to compile from CVS you need to run the autogen.sh script which will build configure and Makefile.in files. Then run configure with the appropriate switches.

My recommendation is that you come into the IRC channel (see the About Us page) when one of Darke, wjp or me are there.

thanks alot for your help, ill run by the IRC with the sound problems

Use the scaling option in the config file. It should be possible to set up a scale factor of x3 or x4...

--Darkstar

Only if you're using point scaling, btw. (Or interlaced, I think?)