Key things

- I touch on CUDA and trying to get it to work with SLI’d NVidia configuration.. It’s there, just a lot of work to get working, and I didn’t..

- the machine isn’t working with Ubuntu Studio in the realtime kernel like I had expected.. I tried both 64-bit and 32-bit versions of 9.04..

- The realtime kernel gives me all sorts of “DRDY” messages.. Stuff like
[ 90.703396] ata4.00: status: { DRDY }
I think that my deprecated BIOS (XFX dropped support for it) is probably to blaim. So if you get a 750i, get the Core2Duo’s, you’ll probably have a better experience. My next machine may be AMD based.. Seems like AMD has it more together than Intel.

- Got “Mass Effect” running in wine (toward the end of this video).. I’m surprised that the computer was fast enough to capture the video without the audio falling off..

- (not covered in the video) steam wouldn’t install with positive confirmation from wine-doors, but it did anyhow.. IT works.. I downloaded gecko with winetricks, I couldn’t get wine-doors to do it.. I installed Art Rage 2 demo, with Wine-doors (that did install). MASS EFFECT was downloaded over a period of about 10 hours on Friday..

- Art Rage 2 recognizes pressure sensitivity from my Intuos 3, I made no special changes in the X config (I had to do that back with 7.10, but 9.04 seems to support the wacoms better). Someone was asking me if I was able to get it to work because she hadn’t.. So I tested.. And it works.. However GIMP doesn’t seem to work now.. Hmmmm.. Maybe I don’t know how to turn it on. Heard that Canonical is moving away from the xorg.conf and changing the way programs are configured that have to use X. So wacom support now is not from X but from within the Kernel or somewhere in Ubuntu.

- I demonstrate GISH.. After I had trouble getting mass effect to work the first time. BTW, the last time I ran Mass effect, the protagonists face was black (it wasn’t being rendered with a texture). This time was the first time I had seen the faces in full..

- Last, I show off the “super_pi” of the system.. I think a i7 is .68, and Core2Duo is like .88 . So 1.03 is not bad for this machine.. But keep in mind “super_pi” only tests the power of one processor (with a select set of operations) so it’s not a determining factor of the power of the computer.

Duration : 0:45:26