ruzee.com - Steffen Rusitschka

I’ve played Quake 2 on a beamer once. The resolution was 800 by 600 pixels in those days - which was some really special. But imagine playing Quake 3 at 10240 by 3072. Yes, the numbers are correct. No mistake. Not a zero to much or something. Approx 10K by 3K pixels. On a screen the size of the largest wall in your room. A matter for a heart attack? Yeah, I guess so. Some stupid story from the future? No: This guy is doing it right now. With 24 monitors and 12 Linux servers rendering everything. But hey, if I had these LCDs and machines, I wouldn’t have any other idea what to do with them Well, except viewing my blog at the some-K resolution as well, of course…

Tags: quake, high resolution, gaming

I’ve just setup a new page that gives a howto in German for installing t@x 2006 Linux on a 64bit Gentoo System: You need a 32bit chroot and a more recent Wine version than the delivered one. Figuring that out took some time…

Tags: t@x 2006, tax 2006, linux, amd64, em64t, 32bit chroot, wine

Webcams and Linux always lacked good drivers. One of the main problems was the missing standard for USB cams. Now this standard exists. It’s called “USB Video Class (UVC)” and you can get the spec here.

And a Linux driver is already work-progress. Logitech seems to be the first vendor being compliant to the standard. The Quickcam Fusion, Orbit, Pro for Notebooks, and Pro 5000 are supported. Guess one of the cams is the one I’m gonna buy.

Thanks to the guys from the USB standardization - but to be honest: it was about time

Tags: usb cam, linux, drivers, standard, uvc, usb video class, webcam