I'm goin out of my mind here.
I got steam, and half life working in wine.
Originally I tried the ATI 3d proprietary drivers as that's what i thought would be needed. However I got terrible FPS and couldn't play. So I thought why not give the open3d MESA / radeon driver a try and ..
wallah
FPS seem good I need to do more testing (playing

) but have too much important stuff due tomorrow
this is just awesome though the open 3d graphics drivers working how they should be.
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Steve
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