A new interview for everyone to look at:
http://www.twolofbees.com/cheesetalks/protektor1.php [External Link]
http://www.twolofbees.com/cheesetalks/protektor2.php [External Link]

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Looks like Larabel is a little late to the party, guess he managed to clear his head enough of beer to read his inbox:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTkyOA [External Link]

And you should be happy Liam, no mention of Steam for Linux this time.

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We've got plenty more games coming, some never before on Linux, so much to look forward to.

http://www.desura.com/groups/linux-gamers/news/desura-linux-beta-launch [External Link]

:D

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Was there any doubt? I mean, they have an old Loki guy as their main coder...

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It is nice to hear a Ubuntu user saying that. Still, checking on their blog, there seems to have been a Desura Linux post we missed:
http://www.desura.com/groups/desura/news/linux-game-lead [External Link]

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They have improved their website a bit since I last saw it. And they have finally got some coverage on some none Linux *cough* *phoronix* *cough* or Russian gamer websites.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/07/28/black-gold-oil-rush-is-surprising/ [External Link]

Granted, it is Rock, Paper, Shotgun so it is not hard to get mentioned there, but still a step in the right direction. :)

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Sent you an email elaborating my experiences with the new build. Suffusive to say, it works. :)

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All right, downloaded new binary, installed it, crashed it, email sent to you with the ddlog.txt. I hope it helps.

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Sorry Troy, no go on R600 for me on my Fedora 13 machine:

[hamish@griffindor ~]$ cd /home/hamish/.games/DirkTest/DirkDashing2Trial
[hamish@griffindor DirkDashing2Trial]$ ./dirk2
dirkdashing2: radeon_texture.c:687: radeon_store_teximage: Assertion `dstRowStride' failed.
./dirk2: line 35: 10930 Aborted (core dumped) ./dirkdashing2
[hamish@griffindor DirkDashing2Trial]$

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I just tried it out on our living room computer running Fedora 14 which is also using the free classic mesa radeon driver supplied with the system.

[hamish@ravenclaw ~]$ cd /home/hamish/DirkDashing2Trial
[hamish@ravenclaw DirkDashing2Trial]$ ./dirk2
dirkdashing2: radeon_texture.c:700: radeon_store_teximage: Assertion `dstRowStride' failed.
./dirk2: line 35: 25194 Aborted (core dumped) ./dirkdashing2
[hamish@ravenclaw DirkDashing2Trial]$

As you can see, I encountered the same error. It is interesting that you mentioned lighting though, as in both Doom3 and Penumbra I had to turn off certain lighting and shadowing related settings, otherwise I would get display distortions. The games would run fine, but would not look quite right. If this is related to the problems with Dirk 2, I am pretty damn sure it would be fixed if I was using Fedora 15. Just have to wait for the disk to come down to make sure though.

Here are the living room computers specs:
Operating System: Fedora 14 Linux
Video Card: ATI Radeon 7500
Memory: 1 Gigabyte
Processor: Intel Celeron 1300 MHz
Hard drive: 250 GB

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