• General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Install Arch
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I want it, no matter what it is. [editline]18th September 2012[/editline] Even though you can do something less advanced in Minecraft already :v:
[QUOTE=Confuzzed Otto;37710422]Alright, that worked. Thanks. Trying to get my fingerprint reader to work. I don't know wich one it is but I know the name of my laptop is TravelMate5730, does anyone know if it's possible?[/QUOTE] fprint works for me.
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;37684127]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] This just happened to me. Not using btrfs on my home drive ever again.
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;37710811]This just happened to me. Not using btrfs on my home drive ever again.[/QUOTE] I only use EXT 3/4 or ZFS (kernel module) JFS with -O option if it's a windows program running in wine, or Garrysmod server with lots of addons.
[QUOTE=Van-man;37710838]I only use EXT 3/4 or ZFS (kernel module) JFS with -O option if it's a windows program running in wine, or Garrysmod server with lots of addons.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I'm using Sabayon 10, so I just recovered the data and mkfs.ext4'd the drive, and all was good.
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3ooXrFi88s&hd=1&t=30m10s[/url]
I've never used sabayon. does its packet manager have up to date/bleeding edge packages, and can you use portage like on gentoo alongside with it?
[QUOTE=kaukassus;37714693]I've never used sabayon. does its packet manager have up to date/bleeding edge packages, and can you use portage like on gentoo alongside with it?[/QUOTE] Yes, to all of those. [editline]18th September 2012[/editline] It comes pre-installed with a binary package manager called "entropy" with the command-line frontend "equo". It also has portage with emerge and layman.
Tried Fprint, was stupid enough not to backup the common-auth file before changing it. Somehow I'm locked out of the system, trying to fingerscan doesn't do any difference. Even when you've done it 5 times and it asks for password, when it asks for password and I write it in it says that it's the wrong password. I use the same password for root as for my user. Tried to go into recovery mode->root->sudo nano /etc/pam.d/common-auth and remove the rows saying that you need the fingerprint to login, but when I try to overwrite it, It says the file is read only, even when I try to open it with root. I have alot of schoolwork files and programs on the system, so I can't afford losing them. Help?
try booting into a live CD and editing that way if that works then recovery mode is mounting / as read only (for some ass backwards reason). alternatively i'm sure there's a way to change mount options so you can remount / as read/write but I can't think of what it would be
Uh, how exactly do I boot into a LiveCD? Do I need a disc for that?
[QUOTE=Confuzzed Otto;37721843]Uh, how exactly do I boot into a LiveCD? Do I need a disc for that?[/QUOTE] Yes. You need to take a live CD ISO (I prefer [url=http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/]Ultimate Boot CD[/url] myself), burn it to a disc, then leave the disc in the drive when you reboot
Got an answer on AskUbuntu, was supposed to do [code]mount -o rw, remount /[/code] to make me able to edit, then just open the file with nano as I did before. Thanks for the help though!
[QUOTE=lavacano;37721824]try booting into a live CD and editing that way if that works then recovery mode is mounting / as read only (for some ass backwards reason). alternatively i'm sure there's a way to change mount options so you can remount / as read/write but I can't think of what it would be[/QUOTE] wouldn't a simple chmod solve his issue?
[QUOTE=Confuzzed Otto;37721924]Got an answer on AskUbuntu, was supposed to do [code]mount -o rw, remount /[/code] to make me able to edit, then just open the file with nano as I did before. Thanks for the help though![/QUOTE] see I knew there was a command to do it but I couldn't remember for the life of me what it was
Another question probably caused by my noobiness. I have QtSixA and PCSX, trying to emulate a few nice games. After alot of tweaking I got my Ps3 controller to work via USB, and that's enough. The only thing I can't get to work is the joysticks. In the settings for the controller, the joysticks are activated. Anyone know what it could be?
Is there any good way to automate ftp stuff (with the proper login stuff being provided in the script) with bash? (Since the ftp command just opens up a shell)
Consider using scp if possible.
Scratch that, I'll just write it with python (since I need some python experience anyway) [editline]19th September 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=esalaka;37726948]Consider using scp if possible.[/QUOTE] Not possible, it's from a web host and I'm not able to access it directly (it's my dads account, I don't really want to go bug him to set it up for me)
What is generally the best audio player? Rythmbox uses a tad too much memory for me
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;37726976]What is generally the best audio player? Rythmbox uses a tad too much memory for me[/QUOTE] Generally? That depends on your general opinion :v: My general best audio player is mpd + ncmpcpp/web browser, but that's what I use. It's also nifty for playing my music on any device whatsoever.
mpd is probably the best "general" audio player seeing as it's really a server and you get to choose your own client that ranges from Rhythmbox-like (Ario) to a CLI curses GUI (ncmpc) to a bare command line interface (mpc)
mpd can also be embedded in many ways, so it's really the best general audio players, yes. It can function as a backend for graphical frontends or whatevers, and can function with portable configurations.
So, are the latest proprietary nVidia drivers in line with the current kernel and Xorg server in Arch? I'm hoping they're a bit better than Catalyst..
Normally, in arch, all the packages should "work" with one another. If nvidia drivers are available in the repos, then they should work with the kernel and Xorg in the repos. That of course, is if no one fucks everything up and no one spots it while it's in testing. With popular packages, this will pretty much never fucking happen.
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;37729765]So, are the latest proprietary nVidia drivers in line with the current kernel and Xorg server in Arch? I'm hoping they're a bit better than Catalyst..[/QUOTE] I don't know how it works in Arch, but in Gentoo the worst that's ever happened is I've had to wait before I can get the very latest Xorg server. I'm never more than one minor version behind though so it's not so bad.
I want to replace Windows with a Linux distro so bad but games :v: reality is cruel [editline]19th September 2012[/editline] I mean why did MS have to end up being the only corporate owned for sale OS? Like Linux can't be that because of FOSS, and OSX is Mac only, why is there no other OS that could be installed on any PC that got popular? Windows is seriously the worse OS, yes even OSX is 1000x better :suicide:
[QUOTE=The Baconator;37732887]I want to replace Windows with a Linux distro so bad but games :v: reality is cruel [editline]19th September 2012[/editline] I mean why did MS have to end up being the only corporate owned for sale OS? Like Linux can't be that because of FOSS, and OSX is Mac only, why is there no other OS that could be installed on any PC that got popular? Windows is seriously the worse OS, yes even OSX is 1000x better :suicide:[/QUOTE] How about you dualboot? you can keep windows for games, and use linux when you don't want to play games.
[QUOTE=kaukassus;37732985]you can keep windows for games, and use linux when you don't want to play games.[/QUOTE] I switch my mind between not wanting to play games, and wanting to play games about every 5 minutes, that would get really annoying for me.
Virtual machine? Hasn't performance with VMWare gotten far better lately?
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