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*How do I listen to mp3s? *How do I watch DVDs in Linux? *How do I play mpeg/divx files? *How do I play xmame? *How do I play other emulators? *How do I play PS2 games in Linux? *How do I make a native PS2 executable? *How do I run MS Windows programs? *How do I get Wine to work? *How do I run SETI@home? *Where are some places that can teach me about Linux? *When I first turn on my PS2, my monitor goes crazy for a while. What is up with that? *How do I know if I have a compatible monitor? *How do I install PS2 Linux without a monitor? *How do I run PS2 Linux off a TV? *Ack! Command prompt! They didn't have that in windows! ;> What are some commands I can use? *Why can't I access this file with a long name? *Is there a way to work with more than one prompt at a time? I need to switch back and forth between two+ directories repeatedly. *How do I avoid typing the same line over and over? *As a newbie, I am allergic to command prompts. How do I get to something more graphical? *How do I install rpm's from the cd? *So how do I mound the cd? *How do I unmount it? *How do I get files from my computer to the PS2? *Er, how do I do network file sharing on the PS2 with a Windows machine? *How do I access the Internet? *Where is the PS2 Linux IRC chat? *How do I listen to mp3s? Well, you can try downloading xmms or mpg123. Many other players use x86 asm, which won't work on the PS2. *How do I watch DVDs in Linux? You can't. It is disabled in the RTE. The drive is largely inaccessable while running Linux. You have to use the regular PS2 bios browser to watch DVDs. If you are bored, you can try mounting a usb DVD player. However, normal Linux doesn't have much in the way of DVD programs that actually work. PS2 Linux will have even more problems because any player optamized with x86 code will not work. Basically, you would have to be a Linux guru to get it to work. *How do I play mpeg/divx files? mplayer is working, kind of. I suggest waiting a week or so for someone to make an easy-to-use ps2 binary. You can try smpeg at http://playstation2-linux.com/projects/cfyc, which also requires SDL at http://playstation2-linux.com/projects/libsdl *How do I play xmame? We are working on it. Just wait a bit. :> You want something that can at least pretend to run easily/fast, right? *How do I play other emulators? Well, alot of emulators have x86 asm for speed reasons. Any such program (emu or otherwise) will not work. Any C/C++ only emu meant for Linux might run, but it could be slow. *How do I play PS2 games in Linux? They aren't made to work with Linux, and Linux isn't made to work with them. Remember, the PS2 has only 38MB ram. :P It is impossible. *How do I make a native PS2 executable? More info on that will be available as people mess with the kit. You can make an ELF binary and run it off a memory card with the RTE disk. However, it will never work alone, you need the Linux RTE disk. IOW, you can't make programs to give to all your friends. *How do I run MS Windows programs? In normal Linux, you would use Wine. *How do I get Wine to work? You have to do a massive re-write. :P Unfortunately, Wine depends on being run on an x86 processor. PS2 doesn't have an x86 cpu. *How do I run SETI@home? SETI@home is not an opensource program. You only get to run it if the SETI@home people make a binary for PS2 Linux. Remember, you can't use Wine to make it work. *Where are some places that can teach me about Linux? http://www.linuxheadquarters.com/howto/index.shtml http://www.linuxnewbie.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux http://playstation2-linux.com/ *When I first turn on my PS2, my monitor goes crazy for a while. What is up with that? Assuming that you are using a compatible monitor, that craziness is temporary. The PS2 booting logo always is outputted in a TV formatted signal. When the PS2 starts running the actual RTE(Run-Time Environment) you will get your standard monitor signal. *How do I know if I have a compatible monitor? Well, you can plug it in and see what happens. :> Or you can go check against the online database http://playstation2-linux.com/sog.php *How do I install PS2 Linux without a monitor? http://playstation2-linux.com/files/cfyc/HOWTO_blindly_install_ps2linux.html *How do I run PS2 Linux off a TV? The easy way is to put the TV mode as your default. Edit the file /mnt/mc00/p2lboot.Opt and change: Display=vga to Display=ntsc or Display=pal You also need to start x with startx -- -screen 0 NTSC or startx -- -screen 0 PAL *Ack! Command prompt! They didn't have that in windows! ;> What are some commands I can use? Some basic commands: alias cat cd chmod find grep gunzip kill ls man mkdir more mv ps pwd rm su tail tar vi which Use the manual command to learn about the specific commands. man ls would tell you about the ls command (it lists files/directories). *Why can't I access this file with a long name? Linux is case sensative. Be sure to get the case on ALL letters correct. Tab is a wonderous thing. If you've typed enough of a file name to make it unique (so that only one file would match |
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