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Second Life on Netbooks

Submitted by shirleyearley

I have managed to get Second Life to run on a couple of Linux-based EeePCs (701 and 901) it is a bit laggy - but can be handy if you are trying to catch up with someone in world, or check something out.

However I was finding that sometimes Second Life would freeze, this seemed to always happen on teleporting and on other occasions. I was looking into installing other viewers, but I hadn't found one that stopped the freezing. Then I did something I should have done a long time ago, I read the file README-linux.txt, it says:

PROBLEM 2:- My whole system seems to hang when running Second Life.
... As a last resort, you can disable most of Second Life's advanced graphics features by editing the 'secondlife' script and removing the '#'  from the line which reads '#export LL_GL_NOEXT=x'

I have now done this and have yet to have system crash, it is still a bit laggy, and some of the scenes are not as flashy as on the desktop machine.

Second Life on the EeePC