General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Install Arch
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Well it seems as much as I like Windows 8 my laptop keeps having problems.
Torn between going back to arch, or trying out something simple like Linux Mint Cinnamon. Though I may just go arch then install cinnamon...
Still need some help with my laptop. I installed the base system off the live CD by following this: [url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_Guide[/url]
When I'm running off the live CD, both ethernet and wireless works fine. When I'm running off what I installed, nothing works. When i do "ip addr" i only get the loopback interface. What have I done wrong?
[QUOTE=matte3560;38815971]Still need some help with my laptop. I installed the base system off the live CD by following this: [url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_Guide[/url]
When I'm running off the live CD, both ethernet and wireless works fine. When I'm running off what I installed, nothing works. When i do "ip addr" i only get the loopback interface. What have I done wrong?[/QUOTE]
[code]ip link set eth0 up[/code]
Source:
[URL="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Configuration#Enabling_and_disabling_network_interfaces"]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Configuration#Enabling_and_disabling_network_interfaces[/URL]
[QUOTE=kaukassus;38816034][code]ip link set eth0 up[/code]
Source:
[URL="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Configuration#Enabling_and_disabling_network_interfaces"]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Configuration#Enabling_and_disabling_network_interfaces[/URL][/QUOTE]
Thanks, that fixed it.
Edit: Actually, problem is still there. "wifi-menu eth0" works, and I found my wifi, but for some reason, I can't bring eth0 up.
Edit2: What the fuck, it works now. Ran netcfg <wifi config>, and now its up, despite getting an error saying "nl80211 driver does not support authentication/association or connect commands".
Double Post
[QUOTE=Bonzai11;38815935]Well it seems as much as I like Windows 8 my laptop keeps having problems.
Torn between going back to arch, or trying out something simple like Linux Mint Cinnamon. Though I may just go arch then install cinnamon...[/QUOTE]
I had issues installing cinnamon on arch, couldn't get one of the dependencies to install.
Might give it another shot tonight.
[QUOTE=reevezy67;38819213]I had issues installing cinnamon on arch, couldn't get one of the dependencies to install.
Might give it another shot tonight.[/QUOTE]
Cinnarch?
[QUOTE=nehkz;38819400]Cinnarch?[/QUOTE]
That would be easier, I've already installed everything though.
[QUOTE=matte3560;38816094]Thanks, that fixed it.
Edit: Actually, problem is still there. "wifi-menu eth0" works, and I found my wifi, but for some reason, I can't bring eth0 up.
Edit2: What the fuck, it works now. Ran netcfg <wifi config>, and now its up, despite getting an error saying "nl80211 driver does not support authentication/association or connect commands".[/QUOTE]
eth0 is for ethernet, you need to use wlan0 for wifi.
[QUOTE=neos300;38820212]eth0 is for ethernet, you need to use wlan0 for wifi.[/QUOTE]
Usually wlan0 anyway. Some cards use ath0, ra0 or even wlan1 (even though wlan0 isn't taken)
Some cards use eth1
It's horrible
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Or rather, some drivers do
[QUOTE=esalaka;38821351]Some cards use eth1
It's horrible
[editline]14th December 2012[/editline]
Or rather, some drivers do[/QUOTE]
You know what's even more horrible?
My wireless broadcom-sta drivers use eth0.
Not at all relevant but starting from wlan1 made me think of this xkcd comic:
[IMG]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/donald_knuth.png[/IMG]
[QUOTE=neos300;38820212]eth0 is for ethernet, you need to use wlan0 for wifi.[/QUOTE]
For some reason, both the wireless and ethernet were being named as ethX, alternating every so often. I fixed it with udev rules now though.
Apparently the newest ipw2200 drivers aren't great, but it's working for now. Got it all set up and automated with netcfg.
So I figured I might as well give Cinnarch a go.
Worst decision ever.
Everything is breaking, EVERYTHING.
I couldn't get grub to install correctly so I installed it all manually, went to install grub and pacman was broken.
fml, back to regular arch.
[QUOTE=reevezy67;38826182]fml, back to regular arch.[/QUOTE]
Vannilarch
regularch is best arch.
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Why does steam for linux always crash my internet connection?
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Works for a few minutes, and then *poof* internet gone.
I got minecraft running on my old laptop, but I'm not sure if i have hardware accelerated openGL or not. Is there a command I can use to check this in some way? I'm using xfce4 as my DE.
Edit: Turns out I had acceleration. Found out by uninstalling some driver and breaking everything :v:
[QUOTE=matte3560;38827913]I got minecraft running on my old laptop, but I'm not sure if i have hardware accelerated openGL or not. Is there a command I can use to check this in some way? I'm using xfce4 as my DE.[/QUOTE]
If it's playable then it's probably hardware accelerated.
[QUOTE=kaukassus;38827298]regularch is best arch.
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Why does steam for linux always crash my internet connection?
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Works for a few minutes, and then *poof* internet gone.[/QUOTE]
Poettearch or sysvarch?
[QUOTE=HarryHy;38793413] But you really should try out gupnp-tools and see if you can get a port "forwarded" to you using that, it would interest me for educational reasons.[/QUOTE]
How do i use that?
[QUOTE=FlamingSpaz;38833215][video=youtube;Unfx2qCj6Ao]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unfx2qCj6Ao[/video][/QUOTE]
This video makes me happy for some reason
I'm sorry if this is the wrong thread to post in, but it's a small linux question, so here goes. The EDID on my main monitor is broken, so ubuntu is recognising it as a generic monitor. I have the EDID in .raw format, but I need help editing Xorg.conf. Here's the text from the thread, It just goes into a bit more detail. Sorry if this is out of place.
[quote]I've read over almost everything I could find in order to solve this, but to no avail. I'm having trouble with my main monitor in my dual monitor setup, that has a default res of 1620x1200. However, I'm unable to use this resolution because the EDID on the monitor broke a while back, and Ubuntu is just recognizing it as a generic monitor. I've tried forcing the resolution through other means, but nothing has worked. I've retrieved the EDID from the windows registry as per [url=http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=316985]this[/url] guide (I have a dual boot), and I'm wondering if anyone would be able to help me in using this with my main monitor. I'm pretty new at this, so any help would be appreciated. I'm not sure if this is in the right place, but it seemed like it. Please move it if it's wrong.
[i]Info[/i]
OS: Ubuntu 12.10
Video Card: GTX 560ti
Drivers: Nvidia 310.14 64 bit drivers
Xorg.conf (Pretty convoluted, you can see that I've tried almost everything I found):
[code]# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 310.14 (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-06.nvidia.com) Tue Oct 9 13:03:46 PDT 2012
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "DFP-2"
HorizSync 28.0 - 55.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
Option "CustomEDID" "DFP-2:/etc/X11/AOC_EDID.raw"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true" #NVidia specific, uncomment if needed
Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP-2" #Uncomment and modify if needed
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "PRT VL1918"
HorizSync 31.0 - 83.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device1"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce GTX 560 Ti"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce GTX 560 Ti"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "DFP-2: nvidia-auto-select +0+0; DFP-2: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Device1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "Stereo" "0"
Option "metamodes" "DFP-2: nvidia-auto-select @1920x1080 +0+0; DFP-2: nvidia-auto-select +0+0; DFP-2: nvidia-auto-select +0+0; DFP-2: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0; DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0; DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0; DFP-0: 1280x1024 +0+0; DFP-0: 1280x1024_60 +0+0; DFP-0: 1280x1024_75 +0+0; DFP-0: 1152x864 +0+0; DFP-0: 1152x864_75 +0+0; DFP-0: 1024x768 +0+0; DFP-0: 1024x768_75 +0+0; DFP-0: 1024x768_70 +0+0; DFP-0: 1024x768_60 +0+0; DFP-0: 800x600 +0+0; DFP-0: 800x600_75 +0+0; DFP-0: 800x600_72 +0+0; DFP-0: 800x600_60 +0+0; DFP-0: 800x600_56 +0+0; DFP-0: 640x480 +0+0; DFP-0: 640x480_75 +0+0; DFP-0: 640x480_72 +0+0; DFP-0: 640x480_60 +0+0; DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select @1280x720 +0+0"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0; DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0; DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0; DFP-0: 1280x1024 +0+0; DFP-0: 1280x1024_60 +0+0; DFP-0: 1280x1024_75 +0+0; DFP-0: 1152x864 +0+0; DFP-0: 1152x864_75 +0+0; DFP-0: 1024x768 +0+0; DFP-0: 1024x768_75 +0+0; DFP-0: 1024x768_70 +0+0; DFP-0: 1024x768_60 +0+0; DFP-0: 800x600 +0+0; DFP-0: 800x600_75 +0+0; DFP-0: 800x600_72 +0+0; DFP-0: 800x600_60 +0+0; DFP-0: 800x600_56 +0+0; DFP-0: 640x480 +0+0; DFP-0: 640x480_75 +0+0; DFP-0: 640x480_72 +0+0; DFP-0: 640x480_60 +0+0; DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "Stereo" "0"
Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
Option "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP-2: nvidia-auto-select @1920x1080 +1280+0; DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP-2: nvidia-auto-select +1280+0; DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP-2: nvidia-auto-select +1280+0; DFP-0: 1280x1024 +0+0, DFP-2: nvidia-auto-select +1280+0; DFP-0: 1280x1024_60 +0+0; DFP-0: 1280x1024_75 +0+0; DFP-0: 1152x864 +0+0; DFP-0: 1152x864_75 +0+0; DFP-0: 1024x768 +0+0; DFP-0: 1024x768_75 +0+0; DFP-0: 1024x768_70 +0+0; DFP-0: 1024x768_60 +0+0; DFP-0: 800x600 +0+0; DFP-0: 800x600_75 +0+0; DFP-0: 800x600_72 +0+0; DFP-0: 800x600_60 +0+0; DFP-0: 800x600_56 +0+0; DFP-0: 640x480 +0+0; DFP-0: 640x480_75 +0+0; DFP-0: 640x480_72 +0+0; DFP-0: 640x480_60 +0+0; DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
[/code]
xrandr output (Don't know if this will be helpful, but I'm pretty much throwing everything but the kitchen sink into this):
[code]Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 3200 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384
DVI-I-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-I-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-I-2 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 376mm x 301mm
1280x1024 60.0*+ 75.0
1152x864 75.0
1024x768 75.0 70.1 60.0
800x600 75.0 72.2 60.3 56.2
640x480 75.0 72.8 59.9
HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-I-3 connected 800x600+1280+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
800x600 60.3*+
[/code][/quote]
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Oh god that's huge.
[QUOTE=FlamingSpaz;38833215][video=youtube;Unfx2qCj6Ao]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unfx2qCj6Ao[/video][/QUOTE]
At the beginning, why did they use a browser bar from OS X?
[QUOTE=nikomo;38833462]At the beginning, why did they use a browser bar from OS X?[/QUOTE]
Exactly what I thought. Should've used the latest Ubuntu colorscheme to relate to the Linux community more.
No matter what I do, I can't seem to mark my boot partition as active. I have tried fdisk cfdisk and parted to no avail.
[editline]15th December 2012[/editline]
Fdisk worked now. Syslinux is broken though :(
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Grub it is.
[QUOTE=joshjet;38833379]I'm sorry if this is the wrong thread to post in, but it's a small linux question, so here goes. The EDID on my main monitor is broken, so ubuntu is recognising it as a generic monitor. I have the EDID in .raw format, but I need help editing Xorg.conf. Here's the text from the thread, It just goes into a bit more detail. Sorry if this is out of place.
[editline]14th December 2012[/editline]
Oh god that's huge.[/QUOTE]
try changing all instances of "DFP-2" in your xorg.conf to "DVI-I-3" (I'm assuming that's the target monitor, since it only has "800x600" in the supported resolutions)
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[QUOTE=nikomo;38833462]At the beginning, why did they use a browser bar from OS X?[/QUOTE]
they might just have that as a generic "web browser" graphic
Decided I might try turning redshift off today to see if I really need it still.
[code]$ sudo killall redshift[/code]
[IMG]http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcqfuyywRS1qg898o.gif[/IMG]
[editline]15th December 2012[/editline]
This has been a public service announcement.
[QUOTE=Rayjingstorm;38844317]Decided I might try turning redshift off today to see if I really need it still.
[code]$ sudo killall redshift[/code]
[IMG]http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcqfuyywRS1qg898o.gif[/IMG]
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This has been a public service announcement.[/QUOTE]
Thank you, I will now be using that applications for the rest of my life.
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