Installing ET on Linux Box

(SJ_Frankenstein) #21

v41…not sure what i’m going to do at this point. i’ve been playing a lot lately and doing some other projects at the moment.

go to say i luv this game a lot! v57!

but will definetly be playing sometime soon on a linux system too!

franky

(duke'ku) #22

v41…not sure what i’m going to do at this point. i’ve been playing a lot lately and doing some other projects at the moment.

go to say i luv this game a lot! v57!

but will definetly be playing sometime soon on a linux system too!

franky[/quote]

open up xterm, and go to the directoy where you downloaded the et installer. then, type in ./et-linux-2.56-2.x86.run. it will start up the installer.

(Nehle) #23

  1. Download NVIDIA Drivers from nvidia.com

  2. Switch user to root and go to /etc/. In there, open inittab with you favorite editor, and edit runlevel to 3

id:5:initdefault:

should be

id:3:initdefault:

This will tell the computer to start up without X (You don’t want it running when you are installing new graphics drivers )

  1. Restartt the computer

  2. login as root, or run su as soon as you have logged in

  3. cd to the drivers you downloaded and chmod 755 <the file with the drivers>

  4. run ./<the file with the drivers> and follow the installation process

  5. When done, cd to /etc/ and open inittab with your favorite non-X based editor (vim, pico …) and switch the runlevel back to 5

  6. Restart the computer

  7. Become root and cd to /etc/X11. Open the file XF86Config-4 with your favorite editor.

  8. Find the line that says

Driver		"nv"

change that to

Driver		"nvidia"
  1. Restart X (hit ctrl+alt+backspace)

There, you’re done

As for ET …just type “et” in the command console, and it should run nicely (if you installed it correctly. Remember to install it as root)

(SJ_Frankenstein) #24

sweet! i’m going to try that v43…

(SJ_Frankenstein) #25

Being the UberNoob that I am, I sure needed the help with getting ET to run on my Linux box. Late last night I finally made it home and was able to get the drivers installed with a lot of mistakes at first but it has been a while since I’ve had to use the command line to install anything, LOL, let alone Linux commands. So, I would like to say thank you for helping me get started but once there I think I will play around with it more.

Any suggestions as to where I can get drivers? I’m not finding a lot of support from the mfg websites. For example, Logitech, ASUS mobo onboard sound etc.

Thanks again for the help everyone! :banana:

(pgh) #26

Should play around and just install Xp/2k. :]

(SJ_Frankenstein) #27

but what fun would that be? LOL. I have 3 machines running XP just thought I would fool around with Mandrake is all. Had a spare drive laying around so I installed 9.1 for giggles.

(BondyBoy007) #28

but what fun would that be? LOL. I have 3 machines running XP just thought I would fool around with Mandrake is all. Had a spare drive laying around so I installed 9.1 for giggles.[/quote]

and I bet it’s a laugh a minute too

(SJ_Frankenstein) #29

not exactly :slight_smile: but i did want to see what all the fuss is about linux. and i’ve learned a lot in the last few days or so.