Audigy & GF 4 on Linux? Linux on top of 2K?

[kaishiden]

Im wondering, has anyone gotten an Audigy to work on linux as Creative has no drivers. I know the GF4 probably will as soon as NVIDIA releases some new drivers. Also, anyone tried using VMware and putting linux on top of 2K? I want to know cause i just want to fool around with it and get around w/o having to reboot when i wanna play a game or two. Thaks

 

[fivepesos]

ive heard nothing about audigy drivers on linux yet unfortunately. if u can find any old sound card, linux will likely support it though.

geforce4 support should be there already, nvidia drivers are always top-notch and quick to be released.

vmware cant realy be used for gaming unfortunately. the only real option for gaming under linux are native games (quake3, unreal tournament, tribes2, etc) or perhaps transgaming's wine implementation (www.transgaming.com). i used it briefly for counter-strike and performance was decent but definitely slower than im accustomed to (altough i was running it on my lowend linux workstation, dual cel 500s and gf2mx). you might have more like if your system is more powerful.

my 2 cents on linux gaming, if it aint native, its not worth playing under linux unfortunately. linux is great for a tremendous amount of things but gaming support isnt there yet. quake3, ut and tribes2 are great under linux. absolutely no complaints. id recommend a nice dualboot setup between win2k/xp and 2.4 linux distro (pick one you like). reboot for games, its worth it. or u could buy a KVM switch and use two boxes (but that costs $).

 

[fivepesos]

ive heard nothing about audigy drivers on linux yet unfortunately. if u can find any old sound card, linux will likely support it though.

geforce4 support should be there already, nvidia drivers are always top-notch and quick to be released.

vmware cant realy be used for gaming unfortunately. the only real option for gaming under linux are native games (quake3, unreal tournament, tribes2, etc) or perhaps transgaming's wine implementation (www.transgaming.com). i used it briefly for counter-strike and performance was decent but definitely slower than im accustomed to (altough i was running it on my lowend linux workstation, dual cel 500s and gf2mx). you might have more like if your system is more powerful.

my 2 cents on linux gaming, if it aint native, its not worth playing under linux unfortunately. linux is great for a tremendous amount of things but gaming support isnt there yet. quake3, ut and tribes2 are great under linux. absolutely no complaints. id recommend a nice dualboot setup between win2k/xp and 2.4 linux distro (pick one you like). reboot for games, its worth it. or u could buy a KVM switch and use two boxes (but that costs $).

 

[kaishiden]

no going linux on top of 2K using VMware so win 2K is the base and just have linux on teh background, and when i want to play games just minimize the linux partitoin.

 

[NorthenLove]

<< Im wondering, has anyone gotten an Audigy to work on linux as Creative has no drivers. I know the GF4 probably will as soon as NVIDIA releases some new drivers. Also, anyone tried using VMware and putting linux on top of 2K? I want to know cause i just want to fool around with it and get around w/o having to reboot when i wanna play a game or two. Thaks >>



Go to http://www.opensound.com for the Audgiy drivers. As far as the VMWare question goes, you can get W 9.xx-ME, W2K, and Win-XP working and all it's just that I don't think that using DIrectX for 3d is supported though.