Uplink on RedHat 9 (Linux)

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JohnWho
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Postby JohnWho » Sat Apr 05, 2003 11:56 am

I installed RedHat 9 yesterday and noticed that Uplink now runs without the special RedHat 8 patch. You still have to apply the 1.31 patch, but you don't need further patches.
Just thought i'd tell you ;)

Still doesn't run with sound on my machine, though (SDL_mixer doesn't open my sound card... but that might just be a peculiar thing with the intel810 chip of my notebook...)

I also tried the Linux demo of Uplink, but it doesn't work (I guess it would need some of the fixes from the 1.31 patch).
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Postby Dr Know » Sat Apr 05, 2003 7:16 pm

Well it is nice to know 9.0 is better than 8.0.
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Postby JohnWho » Sun Apr 06, 2003 1:53 am

Well, in 8.0 they replaced the glibc with a newer version I believe, which is not backwards compatible. Not that bad though, since you can simply recompile most programs (configure, make, make install... has become quite easy).
Now, in 9.0 I heard that they switched to posix threads, which is bound to cause the same kind of compatibility issues, but who knows. I think they also put some pre-patches into the kernel, at least the keyboard fix for keybounce on Toshiba notebooks ;)

But I think the Uplink bug with RedHat 8.0 was something about some library. Seems that this works better, now. Anyway, it installed cleanly without any problems, everything working, even tv-out, etc.
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