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Anyone have an idea of how to fix this little issue I'm having with my mouse? For some reason holding middle mouse to scroll hasn't been working, so I went and used gpointing-device-settings to emulate it, and while it works, it seems to completely ignore the settings I saved after a restart. Like they appear to be fine in the GUI interface but for some reason I gotta redo them to get anything to work. In case you need to know I'm running Ubuntu 12.10.
[QUOTE=nikomo;38464243]So, elementaryOS Luna beta 1 got released today, and I installed it. All I can really say is, wow, it's fucking amazing. [url]http://elementaryos.org/journal/luna-beta-1-released[/url][/QUOTE] im liking this so far its so smooth
Elementary OS does look nice. Although I won't be using it, I think it breaks the myth that Apple has somehow cornered the market on style and usability. For those of you who are using it, keep us updated if you can because elementary seems like a great OS for those coming from Mac and Windows.
[QUOTE=sam6420;38470211]Aw man, I really want to try Elementary OS but I just finished making ubuntu how I want it.. [editline]16th November 2012[/editline] Let's see if I can get a dualboot going..[/QUOTE] virtual machine.
[QUOTE=sam6420;38470211]Aw man, I really want to try Elementary OS but I just finished making ubuntu how I want it.. [editline]16th November 2012[/editline] Let's see if I can get a dualboot going..[/QUOTE] Chroot?
Finished installing eOS beta 1 on my netbook yesterday, but it was late so I went to bed instead. It's really really fast and smooth, and everything seems to work just fine out of the box. I had trouble installing Ubuntu alongside my Sabayon system, but for some .. obscure reason I suppose, it works fine with eOS.
[URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+bug/1079590"]Looks like I'm going back to the open-source drivers.[/URL]
[QUOTE=nikomo;38472621][URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+bug/1079590"]Looks like I'm going back to the open-source drivers.[/URL][/QUOTE] I'm amazed how well the open source drivers work with my 6290 integrated AMD "card". I'll have a go at HDMI sometime and see how well it turns out.
I use a Radeon HD 4890 and have been following the FOSS drivers since 2.6.32 when they were less usable. No matter how many problems I've had, they've always worked better than the proprietary ones.
nvidia drivers have always been a pain for me... either the package fails to open or the install goes absolutely fine and on restart there's no graphics loaded, just system prompt. also, Vurtual... you're a faggot :v:
[QUOTE=Brandy92;38473140]nvidia drivers have always been a pain for me... either the package fails to open or the install goes absolutely fine and on restart there's no graphics loaded, just system prompt. also, Vurtual... you're a faggot :v:[/QUOTE] Nvidia driver problems are nothing compared to AMD driver problems. Also, I never really had any Problems with open-source/proprietary Nvidia drivers.
When it comes to AMD drivers, either they just refuse to install or they install, and everything looks fine and then you just get random-ass glitches that crash programs.
Installed eOS beta 1 on my desktop as well, running a HD 4670 w/1GB dedicated RAM. System runs VERY well on the open source drivers, although I have yet to test any of my machines with games on this platform. [editline]16th November 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=nikomo;38473755]When it comes to AMD drivers, either they just refuse to install or they install, and everything looks fine and then you just get random-ass glitches that crash programs.[/QUOTE] I've never had any problems with the open or the closed source drivers on any of my machines, except with Sabayon <10. Installing Gentoo manually though, works fine.
So MPD has failed me. Can somebody suggest a good music player that will allow me to ignore it for the most part but also bring it up fairly quickly from a keybind?
[QUOTE=Jookia;38473887]So MPD has failed me. Can somebody suggest a good music player that will allow me to ignore it for the most part but also bring it up fairly quickly from a keybind?[/QUOTE] How has MPD failed you? There might still be hope, because that's probably the best music player system I have ever used. Otherwise I'd suggest Noise, but it still has some issues.
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;38473911]How has MPD failed you? There might still be hope, because that's probably the best music player system I have ever used.[/QUOTE] Well two major features are broken: Playing multiple songs in sequence (it stops between them), and going back a song (it removes whatever song it's playing from the playlist once done.) It's 1:23AM and googling doesn't fix it so I really don't care at this point.
[QUOTE=Jookia;38473923]Well two major features are broken: Playing multiple songs in sequence (it stops between them), and going back a song (it removes whatever song it's playing from the playlist once done.) It's 1:23AM and googling doesn't fix it so I really don't care at this point.[/QUOTE] If I recall correctly, then the second issue it the "consume" feature. In ncmpcpp you would press shift+r (R) to toggle this. But as I mentioned, the only other player I've used that works well, and isn't Banshee or whatever Ubuntu uses these days, is Noise which seems to crash after ~20 minutes of playback in the background. [url=https://bugs.launchpad.net/noise/+bug/1078284]source[/url]
[QUOTE=sam6420;38474153]the one Ubuntu uses was pretty good for the short amount of time I was using it.[/QUOTE] Looked it up again, it's [url=http://projects.gnome.org/rhythmbox/]Rhythmbox[/url].
I'd recommend giving clementine a go as well. Sucks Vmware doesn't seem to want to tackle hardware acceleration (or is not telling anyone they are ) on Intel 4000 cards. Back to Windows 8 with my old arch install converted to a virtual machine. I wish it would be the other way around, but without acceleration a Windows 8 vm is a pain.
The only problem I ever had with drivers on either system were nVidia ones with 2.6. In the 3.6 kernel I have no problem.
[QUOTE=Jookia;38473923]Well two major features are broken: Playing multiple songs in sequence (it stops between them)[/QUOTE] Like a short pause between songs? Try setting gapless_mp3_playback to on and if that's already set, try playing around with buffer settings (buffer_time <time in microseconds>, 500000 is default) so it gets loaded in earlier.
fuck how do I get back after installing a driver manually? Everything is greyed out for me. [t]http://ubuntuone.com/5VTRxo3REfvAg60NYpX2x6[/t]
Try uninstalling the driver "nvidia-installer --uninstall" then reboot.
Looks like fglrx really, really breaks Mutter-based WMs, according to elementaryOS's launchpad. Guess that means it's not going on my desktop yet.
[QUOTE=IpHa;38476253]Try uninstalling the driver "nvidia-installer --uninstall" then reboot.[/QUOTE] worked like a charm
[QUOTE=Brandy92;38473140]the install goes absolutely fine and on restart there's no graphics loaded, just system prompt.[/QUOTE] Run nvidia-xconfig as root and restart X (which may mean reboot)
so I've been trying to install gmod in wine. I launches but stucks on the loading... screen at startup. also this [code] err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x110060 "heap.c: main process heap section" wait timed out in thread 0074, blocked by 006e, retrying (60 sec) err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x110060 "heap.c: main process heap section" wait timed out in thread 007c, blocked by 006e, retrying (60 sec) err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x7bcb6964 "loader.c: loader_section" wait timed out in thread 00d5, blocked by 0017, retrying (60 sec) err:shell:SHGetFileInfoW pidl is null! (spams) [/code] is it garrys fault or something on my end?
[QUOTE=nikomo;38476287]Looks like fglrx really, really breaks Mutter-based WMs, according to elementaryOS's launchpad. Guess that means it's not going on my desktop yet.[/QUOTE] I thought this was common knowledge since the days when Gnome 3 was first released? :v:
[QUOTE=Techbot;38478119]so I've been trying to install gmod in wine. I launches but stucks on the loading... screen at startup. also this [code] err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x110060 "heap.c: main process heap section" wait timed out in thread 0074, blocked by 006e, retrying (60 sec) err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x110060 "heap.c: main process heap section" wait timed out in thread 007c, blocked by 006e, retrying (60 sec) err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x7bcb6964 "loader.c: loader_section" wait timed out in thread 00d5, blocked by 0017, retrying (60 sec) err:shell:SHGetFileInfoW pidl is null! (spams) [/code] is it garrys fault or something on my end?[/QUOTE] That happens to me too. I'm downgrading from 1.5 to 1.4 to see if it works, but I think it's related to the last update.
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;38478546]I thought this was common knowledge since the days when Gnome 3 was first released? :v:[/QUOTE] I had no knowledge of this, nor have I ever had any trouble with it. I guess I've lived under a rock while being super lucky?
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