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Anyone here know how to reset the mouse settings in Mint to what they are when you first install? Right now I've got extremely messed up mouse sensitivity and I have no way of getting back to how they were.
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;39684596]I had some issues with Vundle >: I'm using pathogen, are you okay with that?[/QUOTE] Eh, I haven't really researched it. It should be fine I guess.
Looks like I spoke too soon. Now I'm having issues with my color schemes in QT apps. For some reason they randomly reset. And if I change any settings in System Settings it'll just freeze until the system prompts to kill it.. [editline]23rd February 2013[/editline] ..For some reason, having oxygen-gtk installed breaks KDE. Hard. The fuck?
[QUOTE=benjgvps;39684830]Does Linux still have significantly less battery life than Windows? I remember trying Ubuntu on my old laptop about a year and a half ago, though I had to switch back since the battery life was pretty much half what I got in Windows.[/QUOTE] I'd really say it's otherwise. In my netbook (2009-ish) i get 45-60 minutes more in Ubuntu than in Windows 7.
[QUOTE=benjgvps;39684830]Does Linux still have significantly less battery life than Windows? I remember trying Ubuntu on my old laptop about a year and a half ago, though I had to switch back since the battery life was pretty much half what I got in Windows.[/QUOTE] I think some kernel at least had issues with properly reporting battery time and would claim to be using more power than it really was.
Created a linux webserver ( debian wheezy I believe? ) on my Raspberry Pi a few weeks ago. Been configuring the system to kinda do just about everything for me, which has been a lot of fun.
[QUOTE=benjgvps;39684830]Does Linux still have significantly less battery life than Windows? I remember trying Ubuntu on my old laptop about a year and a half ago, though I had to switch back since the battery life was pretty much half what I got in Windows.[/QUOTE] My laptop gets about 6 hours in Windows 8 and 2-3 hours in Ubuntu. That's pretty much one main deciding factor for me w/ linux on my laptop.
I get about the same battery life in both ubuntu and Windows8 on my Zenbook. But I did a lot of optimisations, an changed unity for a lighter one.
[QUOTE=Bellmanator;39690386]Created a linux webserver ( debian wheezy I believe? ) on my Raspberry Pi a few weeks ago. Been configuring the system to kinda do just about everything for me, which has been a lot of fun.[/QUOTE] I'm thinking of doing sort of the same thing when I get mine. I was going to "stick" it to the back of my TV and put it onto the wall at the end of my bed. When that's all done, I was going to stream my films from my external hard drive to it. You probably haven't used yours to watch videos, but do you think it would hold up?
[QUOTE=nehkz;39691362]I'm thinking of doing sort of the same thing when I get mine. I was going to "stick" it to the back of my TV and put it onto the wall at the end of my bed. When that's all done, I was going to stream my films from my external hard drive to it. You probably haven't used yours to watch videos, but do you think it would hold up?[/QUOTE] If you are streaming multimedia I would recommend you make sure to use a hard-float capable distro. All the new raspbian and alarmpi images are hard-float now anyway and it makes playing music a lot smoother.
In arch, I have a custom build of vim that has ruby interpreters enabled. I took the existing pkgbuild from abs and edited it. I built the package and everything went fine. The problem comes up when it's time to do an upgrade. The vim package depends on the vim-runtime package in such a way that the versions must match. To make this work, I had to modify the new pkgbuild to enable that one feature. Is there a better way of doing this?
If you're running Steam for Linux and have gotten the following error message when trying to update: [code]Unable to find package: steam-launcher[/code] Simply stop the process, and run this command in the terminal: [code]sudo apt-get update[/code] then try again. It should now find the package. If that doesn't work, delete everything in the directory "~/.steam" and the directory "~/.local/share/steam" (with the exception of the steamapps folder if you wish to keep it), and reinstall Steam from the Debian package provided by Valve. It should install and update correctly. Cheers!
I hate Broadcom... Got a new router(WNR3500L) that has a broadcom chipset in it. Using OpenWrt wireless <-> lan connections get dropped after a few kb, but lan <-> lan and wireless <-> wan work perfectly. WHY CAN'T YOU HAVE PROPER DRIVERS LIKE EVERYONE ELSE? I don't even know how this makes sense; as far as I can tell wan and lan are the same device but on different vlans.
Can someone here with KDE installed install oxygen-gtk2 and tell me if it outright breaks systemsettings (hangs) when you change any settings with the GTK2 theme set to oxygen? It keeps happening to me. I like the perfect integration it provides though. D:
Just had to redo my whole raspberry pi webserver. I installed upstart on it about a week ago and hadn't done anything on it afterwards to really call for a reboot/shutdown, so I just now noticed this morning that none of the reboot or shutdown commands would work. Tried doing a cold boot afterwards, only to discover that the system would hang on bootup due to the fact that upstart removed a necessary startup file when it was installed.
[url]http://pastebin.com/uFXq3kCv[/url] Bftpd. Why can I only do anon login? No error on anything else, it just doesn't work.
[QUOTE=Tinter;39712838][url]http://pastebin.com/uFXq3kCv[/url]Bftpd.Why can I only do anon login?No error on anything else, it just doesn't work.[/QUOTE] If you want to use existing passwords set[code]AUTH="PAM"[/code]I'm not sure where PASSWORD auth gets it's passwords.
[QUOTE=IpHa;39714104]If you want to use existing passwords set[code]AUTH="PAM"[/code]I'm not sure where PASSWORD auth gets it's passwords.[/QUOTE] I knew it was gonna be some small little thing like that. I actually googled PAM just to see what it was but read like a line and deemed it as not important. Thanks, it works now.
[QUOTE=Tinter;39714881]I actually googled PAM just to see what it was but read like a line and deemed it as not important.[/QUOTE] I wonder what you read, because pam is usually supported by any decent Linux software with authentication.
[QUOTE=gparent;39716475]I wonder what you read, because pam is usually supported by any decent Linux software with authentication.[/QUOTE] Maybe this? [url]http://www.pamcookingspray.com/[/url] =P
I'm at a loose end, I have tried Xubuntu and Ubuntu, and after I install a nvidia driver via terminal it all cocks up and wont work once the laptop has restarted (under Xubuntu it locked me at 640x480/59.9hz and in Ubuntu it gives me a black screen on boot), my card is Nvidia 540m, and I'm trying to run a 64bit version of Linux, can anyone give me a hand as to how I can install the driver? It has been a while since I last used Ubuntu, but I last remembered being able to install drivers through a gui interface rather than through terminal commands, is it still possible to do this? I thought I read that Ubuntu was the simplest to setup/most user friendly to newcomers to linux.
[QUOTE=Sgt Pringles;39726847]I'm at a loose end, I have tried Xubuntu and Ubuntu, and after I install a nvidia driver via terminal it all cocks up and wont work once the laptop has restarted (under Xubuntu it locked me at 640x480/59.9hz and in Ubuntu it gives me a black screen on boot), my card is Nvidia 540m, and I'm trying to run a 64bit version of Linux, can anyone give me a hand as to how I can install the driver? It has been a while since I last used Ubuntu, but I last remembered being able to install drivers through a gui interface rather than through terminal commands, is it still possible to do this? I thought I read that Ubuntu was the simplest to setup/most user friendly to newcomers to linux.[/QUOTE] [url]https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia[/url] There's a GUI called "Additional Drivers" and ways to do it from the terminal. EDIT: Seriously, why can I never post newlines? This is getting annoying.
[QUOTE=Sgt Pringles;39726847]I'm at a loose end, I have tried Xubuntu and Ubuntu, and after I install a nvidia driver via terminal it all cocks up and wont work once the laptop has restarted (under Xubuntu it locked me at 640x480/59.9hz and in Ubuntu it gives me a black screen on boot), my card is Nvidia 540m, and I'm trying to run a 64bit version of Linux, can anyone give me a hand as to how I can install the driver? It has been a while since I last used Ubuntu, but I last remembered being able to install drivers through a gui interface rather than through terminal commands, is it still possible to do this? I thought I read that Ubuntu was the simplest to setup/most user friendly to newcomers to linux.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/ubuntu-quetzal-nvidia.html[/url] Also, Lubuntu is (IMO) superior to Xubuntu. Same concept, but done better and supported officially by Canonical.
Ok, this is just weird. Using openwrt TCP lan -> wireless connections are cut off after exactly 1024 bytes. I've tested it with both the wl and b43 drivers and both do the same thing. Looking at packet captures about a dozen packets with data are sent from lan -> router, but I only get an ACK from the first data packet which contains the 1024 bytes. Seriously. Broadcom. WTF? [editline]27th February 2013[/editline] Packet captures if anyone's interested: (router) [url]http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=EZfnnKuE[/url] (wireless) [url]http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=CU6gLHpJ[/url] [editline]27th February 2013[/editline] I have't tested wireless -> wireless transfers. Maybe tomorrow. 5AM is too late for this.
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;39728903][url]http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/ubuntu-quetzal-nvidia.html[/url] Also, Lubuntu is (IMO) superior to Xubuntu. Same concept, but done better and supported officially by Canonical.[/QUOTE] I'm liking Lubuntu so far, however I think the source of my problem is the fact my laptop uses switchable graphics, as I have seen some people with similiar setups reporting the same issue, I can now install the driver it just now says: You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file (just run 'nvidia-xconfig' as root), and restart the X server. After doing this I am now stuck in 640 x 480 mode, I'll keep searching for a result as I'm not going to give up yet.
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