Obviously it helps when you’re messing with multiple native zones for some reason (I don’t know, like a seperate zone to develop and test software), but I was more thinking about BrandZ. Things like Google Earth or maybe Unreal Tournament for Linux. I’d figure the overhead of TCP would screw up framerates a lot. Right now I’ve only tried Google Earth, I’ve yet to look for a demo of a Linux port of some commercial game (at least one that’s not worth a whole CD-R).

Anyway, that’s how it goes during runtime. Might want to tweak your vfstab accordingly if you want it to be permanent:

pfexec mkdir /pathtoyourzone/root/tmp/.X11-unix
pfexec mount -F lofs /tmp/.X11-unix /pathtoyourzone/root/tmp/.X11-unix
xhost +

Sadly, you need to disable access restrictions on X11 to make it work. Since listening on TCP/IP is disabled by default, it’s no biggie. If you do have your X server listen on it tho, you may want to tighten up your firewall rules accordingly to why you’re doing it.

Update: Games fly right out of the window. I’ve tried to get Enemy Territory: Quake Wars to run. The game fails to start properly because quite a few OpenGL features are missing. The reason they’re missing is that the GL client library, both Mesa and NVidia ones, can’t do Direct Rendering.

In the case of the Mesa client library, I can still somewhat understand. But in the case of the NVidia one (the Linux version matching the version number of the Solaris one, expecting ioctls to be the same), I’m not sure. I’ve ended up forwarding the /dev/nv* device nodes to the zone, did nothing. Then I’ve installed a native zone for a change, to ensure it’s the expected client library (i.e. the Solaris one), forwarded the NVidia nodes plus things like /dev/fb*, /dev/fbs/*, /dev/mem and god knows what, practically putting everything I’d expect it to consume on a platter, still it doesn’t want to enable Direct Rendering.

So commercial games in BrandZ is currently a no-go. I guess the only way to make this work is a megashim running in the global zone. What I mean by that is a ld-linux.so.2 mapping calls in the way BrandZ does, but without the zones and tweaked to run standalone.

Google Earth still works fine, tho.

Then again, I’ve never really cared about drawing until now. Geometric shape doodles while bored at school maybe, but that’s it. First tries don’t really look good. Like drawing my car from my head. Looks like this:

(Random internet photo of my car model)

Or even drawing an avatar for my TF2 nick General Whatshisface ended in too much grief that necessary.

I guess I have to keep trying…

Anyway, the tablet’s really nice. Writing with the pen on its surface feels like writing on paper, i.e. the rough feeling. But there’s also a drawback to this, the plastic nib of the pen wears down rather quickly. The surface of that thing is roughly as large as an DIN A5 paper page. The Bamboo Fun comes in two variants, sized A5 and A6. Looking at both, I went the safe way and got the larger one, expecting more movement freedom.

Compared to the Aiptek whatever model my dad bought, this thing is waaaaayyyy more accurate. I guess people recommending Wacom isn’t just simply brand recognition. The pen also doesn’t require a battery since it gets its juice via induction. This results in a slim and comfortable pen, unlike that bulky Aiptek thing.

As far as using this thing goes, I’ve rarely drawn at all in the past. Trying to coordinate pen to screen is a rather brain damaging process currently. Trying to quickly sketch in short strokes has them go off into unexpected directions more often than not. Additionally to that, I still unwillingly bring mouse semantics into this.

Even if I can’t manage to improve my drawing skills considerably, being able to write stuff down on my computer allows me to get rid of that mountain of notes on my desk.

A 700MB Live CD with installer, based on build snv_101, more stable, more hardware support, with more applications on the repository.

For days now I’m trying to find actual real world pictures of the upcoming Logitech Illuminated Keyboard, yet whatever exclusion search I try, I keep running into these silly “reviews”, saying the same thing everywhere and just offering the press release images. Why are these faggots even calling it a review if they didn’t even touch the actual hardware (that’ll hit market next month only)?

Seriously, fuck you guys for polluting Google and co even more.