• General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Install Arch
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Oh wow. I tried installing arch for 2 hours now... (Ive done many arch installations) everything installed fine, and then when Im about to install the bootloader, it fails. "grub could not be installed" so I thought I'd install syslinux... "failed to install syslinux" FUCK! chrooted into installation, done "grub-install --recheck /dev/sda" worked... reboooted.. "ERROR 17!" Goddamnit booted from livecd again, chrooted into installation again and tried to install syslinux. I had to "syslinux-install_update -iam" to install the bootloader All went fine, but then I got the message "ABORT! couldn't install mbr to /dev/sda" FUCK FUCK FUCK then installed the mbr via dd dd bs=440 count=1 conv=notrunc if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda restarted, and it works! Hardest arch installation in my entire life
I hate when HDDs decide to have a mind of their own. I had two IDE drives on one ribbon cable and for some reason they would not want to work together unless they were on separate ribbons. Unfortunately, that also means the DVD drive is gone for that machine.
[QUOTE=Niteshifter;36696732]I hate when HDDs decide to have a mind of their own. I had two IDE drives on one ribbon cable and for some reason they would not want to work together unless they were on separate ribbons. Unfortunately, that also means the DVD drive is gone for that machine.[/QUOTE] master/slave settings. fuck with some jumpers
[QUOTE=Niteshifter;36696732]I hate when HDDs decide to have a mind of their own. I had two IDE drives on one ribbon cable and for some reason they would not want to work together unless they were on separate ribbons. Unfortunately, that also means the DVD drive is gone for that machine.[/QUOTE] That is definitely screaming master/slave to me. There's jumpers. The drive on the end should be on "M" or "Master". In middle of the cable "S" or "slave" Usually they come in "Cable Select" mode which is supposed to do that for you but really I prefer to be specific, it's nerdier
I already had the master/slave settings proper. For some reason, it would either work fine, then disconnect after a while or one of the hard drives wouldn't even connect.
What is the best Linux for a media center PC? The main focus is going to be media output via XBMC. The core tenets of the distro should be low resource usage, high stability. Curious about small, high-performance distros, I gave Elementary OS a shot; it's crazy fast, and has an incredibly attractive GTK theme, but it's quite a bit unstable, with various user interface bugs. So I need a distro that will give me the best performance with something like a dual-core mid-tier processor and minimal RAM, has the audio and video codecs needed to play Blu-Rays, and I also hear LXDE is a pretty slim desktop environment, so that might be a boon as well.
XBMC is a desktop environment, so you won't be needing LXDE. I'm running a server in my basement with Arch on it. It's running apache and XBMC just fine. And of course the Arch Wiki has a great article on how to install and run it: [url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xbmc[/url] Just know you can use other computers or even Iphones/android devices to control xbmc.
I do rather enjoy having access to a terminal and various package managers without needing a remote or anything. This enables easy support by me. I can always end the XBMC session and move to a familiar environment to troubleshoot in. It's insurance for anyone I might build such a setup for.
Decided to install X again because why not. I installed awesome first, but I didn't remember it being such a pain to configure. I got fed up with it and decided to install dwm. Best decision regarding X so far. Simple configuration for a simple wm. And it's just one single executable with ~2000 lines of code and a short configuration header. I'm never going back to awesome. [editline]10th July 2012[/editline] In fact I might end up using this more than tty+dvtm... It is just like a virtual console only more organized and I can launch X-reliant applications without any wait :v:
[QUOTE=Rayjingstorm;36715326]Decided to install X again because why not. I installed awesome first, but I didn't remember it being such a pain to configure. I got fed up with it and decided to install dwm. Best decision regarding X so far. Simple configuration for a simple wm. And it's just one single executable with ~2000 lines of code and a short configuration header. I'm never going back to awesome. [editline]10th July 2012[/editline] In fact I might end up using this more than tty+dvtm... It is just like a virtual console only more organized and I can launch X-reliant applications without any wait :v:[/QUOTE] I do like both DWM and awesome I use DWM on my netbook, because its the most lightweight WM I've ever used, And I use arch on my desktop, because I like Lua, and the features it brings. Currently I'm rewriting my awesome config from scratch.
The Enlightenment team (read: the one guy who actually seems to DO anything on the team) unveiled a new terminal using EFL..kinda nifty looking. [url]http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/terminology&l=en[/url]
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;36734492]The Enlightenment team (read: the one guy who actually seems to DO anything on the team) unveiled a new terminal using EFL..kinda nifty looking.[url]http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/terminology&l=en[/url][/QUOTE] Kinda cool, but I don't really want/need my terminal to do all that.
[QUOTE=IpHa;36739472]Kinda cool, but I don't really want/need my terminal to do all that.[/QUOTE] Currently I use urxvt. Its simple, lightweight, and it only does, what a terminal emulator should be doing in the first place.
[QUOTE=kaukassus;36739942]Currently I use urxvt. Its simple, lightweight, and it only does, what a terminal emulator should be doing in the first place.[/QUOTE] Same. Still, nice that Enlightenment's finally getting a decent terminal emulator..
Oi, just noticed I haven't followed this thread for a while. Also, I use Sakura as my terminal. I like the fancy features. Sue me. :saddowns:
I use the one that comes with KDE. The profiles come in handy because I can have a red background when I'm working as root. Also, tabs.
Where'd the Steam for Linux thread go? IIRC somebody said that Steam would be out for Linux on the holiday sale.
So should I use systemd or systemv in my distro? I'm leaning towards systemd because it's newer and has faster boot times, but I want some people who have experience with this to give me some input. [editline]12th July 2012[/editline] screw it this looks to complicated, back to sysv
Our very own section got removed, fuck this shit we are special!
[QUOTE=Moofy;36743402]Our very own section got removed, fuck this shit we are special![/QUOTE] I don't think it really got enough posts to warrant keeping
I have a problem with DWM. I originally set up some "default" applications to be started in .xinitrc and simply moved them around using the Rules array in config.h. This array relies on the class of the application, and since I was using xterm it was simple to change the class ( xterm has a -class option ). However I just decided to add a background image and realized xterm doesn't support any sort of transparency natively. No problem, I thought, I was meaning to replace xterm with something more lightweight anyway. So I went to rxvt-unicode first but the transparency was not working with that either. I ended up at aterm, which is crazy small without any dependencies so far as I can tell. The pseudo-transparency just works and I have no other gripes; but you can't set the class of an instance. So, I need some way to move around my terminals to their "default" tags at startup without relying on user-defined classes. The next best option is -title but I don't know how to tell DWM to move windows based upon their titles. Any help would be greatly appreciated. [editline]12th July 2012[/editline] I should have read some code before I posted. One glance over the applyrules() function and I realized that each rule contains an instance and title field as well...
WHAT Oh well, this was really the only active thread in the forum, but we should probably have merged the sticky into this.
[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;36743459]I don't think it really got enough posts to warrant keeping[/QUOTE] still . subforums would be nice
Going to post this question here, since this is the Linux thread. My question is regarding Linux. I'm very new to it so keep in mind I do not know anything really about it. Anyways, I got my Raspberry Pi today and put Debian "Squeeze" on it. I've gotten use the the desktop and all. I went back to my humble bundle games and downloaded VVVVVV (.deb). I double clicked it, nothing happened, and now theres a shortcut in my games for VVVVVV. When I click it nothing happens. Help?
I don't think there is a version of VVVVVV compiled for ARM so it won't work. Same probably goes to all the humble bundle games.
Heh, I recompiled E17 from source the other day and I just now noticed that it has a physics module using bullet. Its useless but amusing to watch your desktop windows bump into eachother..
[QUOTE=FlamingSpaz;36750021]I don't think there is a version of VVVVVV compiled for ARM so it won't work. Same probably goes to all the humble bundle games.[/QUOTE] You probably could compile VVVVVV for ARM given the relevant libraries would work. But only the dev can obviously do this.
[QUOTE=esalaka;36752075]You probably could compile VVVVVV for ARM given the relevant libraries would work. But only the dev can obviously do this.[/QUOTE] I'm not so certain on this. Isn't it coded in flash? So all it takes is a flash player for ARM, and then some simple decompilation of the executable that embeds and runs the flash files in VVVVVV, right?
The latest version, I believe, is C. Not sure of this, though.
[QUOTE=esalaka;36753191]The latest version, I believe, is C. Not sure of this, though.[/QUOTE] Yes. In one of the later updates (VVVVVV 2.0 they called it, I believe), they recoded it in C/C++.
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