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TehSt1g
3rd May 2009, 06:33
I recently switched over to linux from vista and I'm very excited that I got lfs to work! :thumb:

granted I still have dual boot for certain games, but it makes me happy to know that lfs works great!

http://www.dapcwiz.com/misc/lfs-linux.png

(sorry its a huge screenshot, lol) It was actually pretty simple... just a tiny bit of fiddling with wine. fps in windows are like 90+ normally... and mostly in the 50-70 range under 'nix... but still very playable.
samjh
3rd May 2009, 06:35
I've been playing LFS on Linux from the beginning. No problems at all, except some minor shadow and mirror artefacts.
TehSt1g
3rd May 2009, 07:11
awesome ^_^
frokki
3rd May 2009, 08:46
Gimme G25 support and I might go for a few laps again...
bunder9999
3rd May 2009, 08:54
Gimme proper G25 support and I might go for a few laps again...

fixed that for you... g25 does work in linux, it's force feedback that's bunk... wine's directinput implementation blows chunks. :shrug:
JohnUK89
3rd May 2009, 11:56
There's a patch for FFB support AFAIK, although I've never tried it...
bunder9999
3rd May 2009, 12:11
There's a patch for FFB support AFAIK, although I've never tried it...

what, this (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9221)? they added that, or something like it to wine 1.0. it's still bunk. :shrug:
JohnUK89
3rd May 2009, 12:14
what, this (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9221)? they added that, or something like it to wine 1.0. it's still bunk. :shrug:

Meh, it figures really...of course, Wine will never be perfect and we can't expect it to be :shrug:
TehSt1g
3rd May 2009, 14:30
what, this (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9221)? they added that, or something like it to wine 1.0. it's still bunk. :shrug:

ah really? I hadn't tried my g25 yet... was just playing w/ mouse steer, lol. Imma hook it up soon and see how it goes...
bunder9999
3rd May 2009, 14:53
ah really? I hadn't tried my g25 yet... was just playing w/ mouse steer, lol. Imma hook it up soon and see how it goes...

you'll need some hacks. first you need a recent kernel, 2.6.25 or newer... and to patch (http://vdrift.net/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=412) the hid-ff.c file. i don't know if they ever added the g25 properly to newer kernels, but it's not hard to check the file if you have the source unpacked. :thumb:

usbtool (http://vdrift.net/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=866) - this program tells the system to turn on 900degree mode, enable the clutch pedal and shifter... you'll want this for sure.

cheers
master_lfs.5101
3rd May 2009, 15:34
Hey, can you post a tutorial on how to do that? Ive been trying to for weeks.
bunder9999
3rd May 2009, 16:17
there really isn't much to do... edit the file, re-compile the kernel (editing the config as necessary)... reboot. run usbtool using the script i wrote and that's pretty much it. :shrug:
jaykay3000
28th July 2009, 14:41
sweet. glad i did a quick forum search.

I took have recently got linux so it's nice to know this game runs under it as it's the main game i currently play.

I straight away went off and tried it after reading this post. I assume the multiplayer works online too but it's pretty cool. Even runs proper full screen if you let linux handel the window manager else I found with the duel menu of gnome it was getting stuck in between. Two buttons on my playstation 2 controller do not work in linux. Thankfully they are X and O but i can still map the buttons. There probably is a different driver out there I can or need to use.

Overall, cool :D