trying to play ET on Kubuntu

[Guest]

Ok, second try to type this.... first try was mysteriously lost...

I am playing ET for a couple of years and found out that Kubuntu would be a better platform to play on. It should be faster and that is something everybody that plays ET likes So I am a total newbie to Kubuntu, but am eager to learn...

I have 2 hdd's in my computer (both 500 Gb) and managed to set it up so that it starts up to V1St4 when I let it go and when I choose the other hdd to startup from in my bios (hitting f8 while starting up) makes it start up in Kubuntu..
So far no problems.... but....

Logitech G16 keyboard
Occasionally my numeric keypad 5 key changes to regular 5 key, now that is quite annoying because I made a bind to key5 that does /kill (commiting suicide that is ). I worked around by changing the behaviour of key 5 to the same behaviour that my numpad key 5 has, but could it be that there is a solution for this?

Logitech G9 mouse
It works... the basics that is... I can't get the sidebuttons to work. I tried about everything I could find on the net, but no result...
When I use xev I do see the buttons, but like this
state 0x10, button 11, same_screen YES
state 0x10, button 11, same_screen YES
while the regular buttons give this:
state 0x10, button 1, same_screen YES
state 0x110, button 1, same_screen YES
If anybody has an idea... if you need more info like xorg.conf or xorg.log please let me know.
Also I think that the driver cannot handle two mousebuttonpresses at the same time... Is that normal?

Nvidia 8800GTS
When I play ET normally and go into console mode (using ~) I find myself in a screen that is bigger then my original ET screen (some of the desktop is on the left and bottom edges), ET continues to run, but I can't access it anymore. Mouseclicks do noting and I have to use ctrl-alt-esc or ctrl-alt-backspace to end it and run it again.
Now there was a script on the website of the server I play a lot (www.kernwaffe.de) that was recommended to me, but I have no idea what I am doing. It should be a minimizer. I managed to get ET running from konsole by using it, but the minmizing thingy doesn't work at all and I can't get it to run from a scriptfile..

this is the script.. Can anybody tell me what steps i need to take to get it running (remember I am new to this, so please include things like chmod +xyz ou and so on... This is still kind of a puzzle to me

#!/bin/sh -u
### The path to the ET-Installation:
ET_PATH="/opt/enemy-territory" modified that to /usr/local/games/enemy-territory

### Get X-Socket on VC:
1MIT=`xauth list | grep 'unix:0' | head -n 1 | grep -o 'MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE.*'`xauth add :1 $MIT
cd "$ET_PATH"

#For Example, start kw1:
xinit "$ET_PATH/et.x86" +connect 83.141.24.110 "$@" -- :1 &
xmodmap -display :1 "$HOME/.Xmodmap"

Any help would be much appreciated!!

Bimmer (with a couple of hickups )

[Guest]

Re: trying to play ET on Kubuntu

nobody?

[lmilano]

Re: trying to play ET on Kubuntu

Keyboard and mouse: there is a section in System Settings for those. Have you tried there? In particular, check for num-lock, will that help?

Script. Open kate, copy the script in there, and save it in a convenient place. Then, open Dolphin, go to that directory, and open a terminal (I think it is F4 or something, it's in the menues). From the terminal, do "chmod +x my_script.sh". Then you run it as "./my_script.sh"

You may need to run as super user, in which case you need to add "sudo" to both commands.

[Master Chief]

Re: trying to play ET on Kubuntu

Ha, I feel your pain Bimmer. Kubuntu hates my Saitek Cyborg for whatever reason, loves to randomly cosmetically turn the num and caps lock LEDs on and off. I say cosmetically, because it doesn't actually change the status of the locks, just the LEDs. So when I boot it up or log in and out, there can be any number of combinations between caps on and off, num on and off, and the LEDs for both being on and off. I just find out when I start typing.

Once I toggle them twice they work perfectly normal though, so I'm not sure whats going on there. Anyway it's not an issue that needs fixing really, I don't mind it. Just find it amusing.