General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Install Arch
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[QUOTE=nikomo;37677785]Anyone have an idea why the AMD proprietary drivers have the wrong resolution set on Ubuntu 12.04 before login screen?
Sure, it only affects like an entire 3-second moment, but I'm a bit curious.
Before I installed the drivers, it had the proper resolution during that whole Ubuntu logo thing with the dots under it, but now it looks like 640x480 that has been stretched.[/QUOTE]
Proprietary drivers don't support Kernel Mode Setting, they just inherit the resolution from BIOS afaik
[QUOTE=matrix_1995;37677813]So hey, uh, I partitioned my HDD and installed Fedora on it from a Live CD. However, I don't have rEFIt, or any other bootloader for that matter. Can I do without it? If no, should I have installed it prior to installing Fedora, or can I just do it now?[/QUOTE]
You should have installed grub during installation, unless you specifically deselected it (which you hopefully didn't).
Although you are posting from a Mac so I'm not sure.
Trying Chromium, holy fuck it's so much smoother on my netbook.
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;37678445]Proprietary drivers don't support Kernel Mode Setting, they just inherit the resolution from BIOS afaik[/QUOTE]
Are there any specific reasons for this? If not, then that sounds pretty lame.
Well, linux boot is usually fast, so for 1-2 seconds you can handle seeing a 640x480 screen.
[QUOTE=neos300;37678510]You should have installed grub during installation, unless you specifically deselected it (which you hopefully didn't).
Although you are posting from a Mac so I'm not sure.[/QUOTE]
I'm quite certain I haven't specifically deselected anything, but I don't recall seeing Grub mentioned during install either - Assuming that I don't have it, can I install it now, or do I have to start over and re-install Fedora?
[QUOTE=matrix_1995;37679620]I'm quite certain I haven't specifically deselected anything, but I don't recall seeing Grub mentioned during install either - Assuming that I don't have it, can I install it now, or do I have to start over and re-install Fedora?[/QUOTE]
It should not have mentioned it unless you went looking in the advanced settings stuff - it installs it by default iirc.
Why don't you try restarting your computer and see if you can get into grub?
If not, we can reinsert the livecd and install grub.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/9IRuV.jpg[/t]
I feel like this should make up for the bad font rendering on some pages, just wish it ran a bit better
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;37678985]Are there any specific reasons for this? If not, then that sounds pretty lame.[/QUOTE]
ATI/NVIDIA don't just wanna implement it I guess. Both companies seem to hate Linux. I THINK Intel's drivers support KMS though.
[QUOTE=neos300;37680264]
Why don't you try restarting your computer and see if you can get into grub?[/QUOTE]
Excuse my blatant cluelessness, but how would I go about bringing up Grub? My laptop just boots normally, am I supposed to bring up Grub with a keyboard shortcut or something?
Giving linux another chance (Mint w/ MATE)
It's so fast.
Even my browser just seems to do things infinitely faster than what Win8 can achieve, even under extreme de-bloating
[editline]16th September 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=matrix_1995;37680996]Excuse my blatant cluelessness, but how would I go about bringing up Grub? My laptop just boots normally, am I supposed to bring up Grub with a keyboard shortcut or something?[/QUOTE]
Feel free to prove me wrong, but you should set your primary boot disk as whichever one you installed it on
[QUOTE=matrix_1995;37680996]Excuse my blatant cluelessness, but how would I go about bringing up Grub? My laptop just boots normally, am I supposed to bring up Grub with a keyboard shortcut or something?[/QUOTE]
My bad, I meant linux. Can you get into linux, or does it force you into windows?
Set up my first CUPS server, and beyond my own ineptitude (got the wrong driver, then forgot to edit for sharing the server) everything works well.
[QUOTE=neos300;37681208]My bad, I meant linux. Can you get into linux, or does it force you into windows?[/QUOTE]
I should clarify that I'm doing all of this on a Mac. But yeah, it forces me to boot in OSX in the sense that it doesn't let me choose on start-up.
How should I go about configuring MPlayer?
I haven't ever used anything but MPC so it's a bit obfuscated to me
[code]$ mplayer YourFile.avi[/code]
MPlayer should be able to guess how to configure itself from there.
Well it wasn't able to, had to enable hardware acceleration and some other tiny things before it actually worked :v:
But to be fair MPC nor WMP can play things off of the bat for me.
VLC plays stuff straight away but oh jesus it sounds like a billion cats dying and the artifacting is hilarious
Does anybody else have the problem where you install the Nvidia graphics driver and then xrandr just will not handle both monitors? (And yes I've uninstalled xrandr and just used nvidia-settings. It still doesn't.)
Wow, linux is seriously a breath of fresh air.
Even my sound card works instantly. It took me 7 reseats and a billion workarounds to get it working under WIn7/8
[QUOTE=matrix_1995;37681309]I should clarify that I'm doing all of this on a Mac. But yeah, it forces me to boot in OSX in the sense that it doesn't let me choose on start-up.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=272643[/url]
Sounds like you need to follow the steps on the third post of that thread.
I'm sorry I can't help you myself, I don't know much about Linux and macs.
[editline]15th September 2012[/editline]
Or maybe you just need to hold down the option key while rebooting and click the windows icon, I'm not sure.
fuck the btrfs filesystem on my media drive got all fucked. I can't mount it or do anything with it except run btrfs-restore which just copies off data to another location. I don't really know why it works but mounting won't. I'm very slowly recovering my 700gb of movies/tv shows.
I think once I reformat I'll go back to trusty old ext4.
[QUOTE=neos300;37682393]
Or maybe you just need to hold down the option key while rebooting and click the windows icon, I'm not sure.[/QUOTE]
I did this and it [I]did[/I] bring up a menu, only it gave me the choice between 'Macintosh HDD' and 'Recovery 10.8.1'. I assume I don't want to press 'Recovery 10.8.1'.
Going to check out that thread you linked and see if it helps.
[QUOTE=matrix_1995;37687389]I did this and it [I]did[/I] bring up a menu, only it gave me the choice between 'Macintosh HDD' and 'Recovery 10.8.1'. I assume I don't want to press 'Recovery 10.8.1'.
Going to check out that thread you linked and see if it helps.[/QUOTE]
AFAIK the OSX bootloader isn't able to boot a Linux OS.
I think you need a different bootloader or something like that.
Thinking about making a liveusb since I have a spare lying around, what are some good distributions that are under 1GB? (Not arch - I don't want to have to fiddle with X every time I go to a different computer)
I was thinking about #! but I want to hear your guy's opinions.
[QUOTE=neos300;37687438]Thinking about making a liveusb since I have a spare lying around, what are some good distributions that are under 1GB? (Not arch - I don't want to have to fiddle with X every time I go to a different computer)
I was thinking about #! but I want to hear your guy's opinions.[/QUOTE]
Linux Mint, Sabayon, SystemrescueCD, tinycore, crunchbanglinux...
[QUOTE=neos300;37687438]Thinking about making a liveusb since I have a spare lying around, what are some good distributions that are under 1GB? (Not arch - I don't want to have to fiddle with X every time I go to a different computer)
I was thinking about #! but I want to hear your guy's opinions.[/QUOTE]
Well, I'm a total rookie with all things Linux, but for what it's worth, I think TAILS sounds really cool, and I've heard good things of it.
[QUOTE=kaukassus;37687463]Linux Mint, Sabayon, SystemrescueCD, tinycore, crunchbanglinux...[/QUOTE]
In the case of Sabayon, it's only true if there's no X system. Otherwise you're done for with a LiveCD no-save system.
[QUOTE=kaukassus;37687463]Linux Mint, Sabayon, SystemrescueCD, tinycore, crunchbanglinux...[/QUOTE]
I'm not really interested in messing with Sabayon, and I just found a 4GB usb stick.
I think I'll go with crunchbang and customize it.
Unetbootin makes a persistent image right (meaning I can change stuff in crunchbang and it will load on the next run)
Okay, so I'm trying to make GrUB work properly as instructed in this post: forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1531249&postcount=3
I boot my MacBook with Cmd+S, but when I do mkdir /media/root it just says the /media directory doesn't exist. Wat do?
mkdir -p /media/root
Or just create the media directory ahead of time?
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