Vulkan
development. So I started by reading
a Vulkan Tutorial. It’s rather detailed and actually it takes a
long time before you see your first shaded triangle (about 900 lines of
code!). The Vulkan Tutorial has some software requirements on
Linux, which are explained in detail in the Development environment for
Linux. In order to make things easier for openSUSE users here
is the package list you need to have installed. Just install them via
zypper
.
Since the tutorial is using C++ …
Vulkan packages
Shader Compiler glsc
for generating SPIR-V
binaries
GLM
library needed for linear algebra operations (not included by Vulkan, but also popular on OpenGL)
GLFW
library for window handling, etc. used by the Tutorial (Vulkan is platform-agnostic!)
Other needed packages since mentioned in the sample Makefile of the Tutorial
And now have fun with the Vulkan Tutorial ! :-)
]]>nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed
and kernel-firmware-nvidia-gspx-G06
packages.
Installation instructions since Leap 15.5/SLE15-SP4 and Tumbleweed:
Find supported Turing/Ampere/Hopper GPUs here. Check with inxi -aG
. Use hwinfo --gfxcard
on SLE.
nvidia-video-G06
, nvidia-gl-G06
and nvidia-compute-G06
packages are
available via NVIDIA’s openSUSE/SLE repositories, which
then can be used together with NVIDIA’s Open GPU kernel modules above.
Installing Display Drivers on Leap 15.x/Tumbleweed/SLE15-SPx
With that - after installing nvidia-compute-G06
(contains libcuda) - you can experiment with CUDA. Install CUDA stack from NVIDIA’s webserver.
Installing CUDA on Leap 15.x/Tumbleweed/SLE15-SPx
Let’s have a first test for using libcuda.
These CUDA Packages
and Proprietary:X11:Drivers
repositories on the picture right above are hosted on the NVIDIA
server.
What happens is that package cuda
requires package cuda-runtime
(both in CUDA packages
repo), which again requires cuda-drivers
. The last one is provided by our nvidia-compute-utils-G06
package in Proprietary:X11:Drivers
repository. It has higher priority than the cuda-drivers
meta package from CUDA Packages
repository, which would require in addition the display driver packages nvidia-video-G06
and nvidia-gl-G06
with all kind of dependancies we would like to avoid for a CUDA Minimal Installation
. Our nvidia-compute-utils-G06
package in Proprietary:X11:Drivers
requires nvidia-compute-G06
(same repository), which again requires nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed-kmp
package included in our openSUSE/SLE distributions or nvidia-driver-G06-kmp
package in Proprietary:X11:Drivers
repository. Last but not least kernel-firmware-nvidia-gspx-G06
package is required by nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed-kmp
.
Example for installation on openSUSE Leap 15.5:
If you have questions, comments and any kind of feedback regarding this topic, don’t hesitate to contact me via email. Thanks!
]]>Dracula
and Frankenstein
.
When testing the language support I noticed, that it has been originally developed by a company in Spain called Alcachofa Soft S.L.
, so additional to English it also includes speech in Spanish. Subtitles are available in English, German , French, Italian and Spanish. Therefore I decided to try improving my Spanish language skills and began to play this Adventure. And although the game is from 1996 I enjoyed it a lot!
I figured out that if you press SPACE
while a character is speaking, the sentence will be interrupted (apart from the voice part). And by pressing SPACE
again the game continues. Which was rather useful for me in order to have more time for reading and understanding the subtitles. Press F7/F10
to load/save the game.
You can find drascula and scummvm packages in the games repository of the openSUSE Build Service.
Installation instructions for openSUSE Leap:
Then just run the command drascula
, select your language (via xmessage
- isn’t this retro?) and enjoy!
And in case you struggle - Walkthroughs are available on Youtube - also in Spanish. :-)
In case you’re using Windows, MacOS, etc. There are precompiled executables of the ScummVM
program availabe for download on the ScummVM Download Page, which you can easily install on your machine. Don’t forget to download also the Drascula datafiles. You will need: Freeware Version (English), Freeware Version (Music Adon, OGG format) and Freeware Version (Updated Spanish, German, French and Italian AddOn). Extract all of them in your favorite directory (readme.txt
can be overriden), then run scummvm
, press Add Game
and Choose
the directory, into which you installed the Drascula
datafiles right before. Now select Graphics
, enable Override global graphic setting
, set Scaler
to HQ
and 3x
and enable Fullscreen mode
. Now select Audio
, enable Override global audio setting
and set Text and speech
to Both
. Press Ok
. Then press Start
to start the game. Have fun!