[05:13] <bts3685|vps> ChinnoDog: $newjob1 has already starded, $newjob2 starts monday :)
[05:14] <andrew> darnit wine, stop crashing. I hate investing countless hours into a game, just to have it crash out of the blut
[05:14] <andrew> blue*
[05:25] <mikedep334> andrew: yeah, I've given up on wine
[05:27] <andrew> Honestly, I'm not blaming wine for this issue
[05:28] <andrew> Wine keeps me satisfied for hours with age of empires 2
[05:28] <andrew> But this game has a setting to autosave every x minutes, and it keeps the last three autosaves
[05:29] <andrew> always crashes during an autosave, so I've set the time to autosave every two minutes (most recent autosave will crash if I load it, so I have to go back one)
[05:29] <mikedep334> andrew: right
[05:29] <mikedep334> but can it run crysis?
[05:29] <andrew> Untested theory: turn off all autosaving, won't crash? Dunno, but there isn't much other way to save progress, so I'm hesitant to do so
[05:30] <mikedep334> andrew: right
[05:30] <andrew> mikedep334: Possibly: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=10107
[05:30] <PennBot> Title: WineHQ - Crysis Crysis 1.x (at appdb.winehq.org)
[05:31] <mikedep334> andrew: ahh, yes. I remember the greatly inconsistent reports on compatibility in appdb.winehq.org
[05:32] <mikedep334> when I do use wine, I try to stick with the stable version
[05:32] <mikedep334> speaking of which, wine 1.2.3 was released 2 days ago
[05:34] <mikedep334> 26014  Printing produces garbled output, characters rotated and sliced.
[05:34] <mikedep334> lol
[05:34] <mikedep334> I need to keep a list of funny bug(fixe)s
[05:35] <mikedep334> I remember hearing that during beta testing of C&C tiberian sun, the GDI orca that could carry vehicles around could actually pick up enemy vehicles
[06:04] <andrew> alright, trying with autosave off
[07:47] <andrew> (and it crashed on a manual save, go figure)
[14:12] <ChinnoDog> mikedep334: does the MX have an ARM version of the repositories available?
[14:47] <mikedep334> ChinnoDog: the Efika MX uses the ports.ubuntu.com repository for main, restricted (which is empty btw), univers & multiverse
[14:47] <mikedep334> http://ports.ubuntu.com/
[14:47] <PennBot> Title: Index of / (at ports.ubuntu.com)
[14:47] <mikedep334> ports.ubuntu.com hosts the armel & powerpc versions of the 4 main ubuntu repos
[14:48] <mikedep334> PPA's are however (almost) non-existant
[14:48] <mikedep334> genesi supplies their own repo for hardware support on the efika mx
[14:48] <mikedep334> http://packages.efikamx.info/
[14:48] <PennBot> Title: Index of / (at packages.efikamx.info)
[14:49] <mikedep334> I don't think I've found any 3rd party apt repositories
[14:49] <mikedep334> backports does have some updates, like chromium
[14:50] <mikedep334> ChinnoDog: unless there's something wrong with my unit that it causing it to perform slower, I am not satisfied with the performance on my efika MX, even if it does cost $130 + $10 shipping
[14:50] <mikedep334> however, when video acceleration is fixed, it should be good at that (it's supposed to even do 720P playback)
[17:10] <mikedep334> ChinnoDog: simply put, even if my efika mx can have its performance issues fixed, there's a lot of rough edges. I would mainly recommend it for someone who wants to tinker. The smartbook is better for less technical people because you don't have to fiddle with making monitors & TVs work properly; its screen "just works" AFAIK.
[17:10] <mikedep334> ChinnoDog: also, simmply put, ARM devices are a whole different ballgame
[22:52] <ChinnoDog> mikedep334: but even the smartbook lacks 3D acceleration?