General Linux Chat and Small Questions - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE=Wombo194;23940651]Wubi. Don't install with wubi.[/QUOTE] I know that it's Wubi's fault, I just felt like sharing because I thought it was funny. And it only happened once btw. Besides, I haven't ran into any other problems using Wubi so I really don't give a shit about changing. I've been running Wubi 9.04 on my laptop I'm typing this on for about a month because Vista KSOD'd and I happened to have one installed, and it hasn't caused me any grief.

Just did my first install of Arch outside a virtualbox (with some help from Lego399 and Sirupsen). Is there much of an advantage using nvidia's proprietary drivers, or should I use an opensource one? Using a 8800 GTS and not likely to do something more graphic intensive than say Minecraft (Although there's a slim chance I might play EVE Online or Guild Wars).

[QUOTE=Ibutsu;23957113]Just did my first install of Arch outside a virtualbox (with some help from Lego399 and Sirupsen). Is there much of an advantage using nvidia's proprietary drivers, or should I use an opensource one? Using a 8800 GTS and not likely to do something more graphic intensive than say Minecraft (Although there's a slim chance I might play EVE Online or Guild Wars).[/QUOTE] OS driver should do fine. The proprietary driver will do better with 3D acceleration.

Thank you. :smile:

How does arch tend to work on netbooks? I have an asus 1000HA and while I've installed ubuntu on it before, I'd like to try to install arch. Would I run into a lot of issue with it?

I'm trying arch on a virtualbox and the installing is going pretty well so far.

I bought an old computer (P4 2.8GHz, 512MB, 40GB HDD) a few days ago on eBay just for kicks and got Linux Mint up and running on it just to dabble with a different OS. I really like it so far.

[QUOTE=CaptainQuirk;23962297]I bought an old computer (P4 2.8GHz, 512MB, 40GB HDD) a few days ago on eBay just for kicks and got Linux Mint up and running on it just to dabble with a different OS. I really like it so far.[/QUOTE] That's really awesome, Mint is pretty cool. Runs amazing on a P4 with 512MB RAM.

[QUOTE=FPtje;23962231]I'm trying arch on a virtualbox and the installing is going pretty well so far.[/QUOTE] If you plan on downloading packages from the AUR, (And you do, you just don't know it yet :D) I suggest you [url=http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Yaourt]install yaourt[/url] and use it instead of pacman. Much easier to update everything when you can just yaourt -Syu --aur --devel and get the latest version of everything :>

Here's one question that came up to my mind. I was looking at the thread about a linux gmod server and started looking up how daemons work. Normally daemons should be installed in /etc/init.d/ In Arch I don't have a /etc/init.d/ I have /etc/rc.d/ What I want to know is if every single package that includes a daemon in arch has to be specifically set to send the files in /etc/rc.d/ or is there and environment variable for this? I'd assume there's an environment variable but I'm not sure.

[QUOTE=esalaka;23992969]If you plan on downloading packages from the AUR, (And you do, you just don't know it yet :D) I suggest you [url=http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Yaourt]install yaourt[/url] and use it instead of pacman. Much easier to update everything when you can just yaourt -Syu --aur --devel and get the latest version of everything :>[/QUOTE] I actually prefer Packer.

Just installed KDE 4.5 today. :buddy:

What do I have to do to be able to get H264 streaming properly on debian via VLC, have ffmpeg installed but was reading that I had to compile it with certain settings myself, anyone have any idea?

I'm trying to add a script to /bin to launch ut2004: [code]xinit /usr/bin/games/ut2004/ut2004 -- :1[/code] I'm getting permission denied whenever I try running it as a normal user. Is bash not running it for some reason? [editline]02:09PM[/editline] [QUOTE=esalaka;23992969]If you plan on downloading packages from the AUR, (And you do, you just don't know it yet :D) I suggest you [url=http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Yaourt]install yaourt[/url] and use it instead of pacman. Much easier to update everything when you can just yaourt -Syu --aur --devel and get the latest version of everything :>[/QUOTE] try clyde.

[QUOTE=snuwoods;24013505]I'm trying to add a script to /bin to launch ut2004: [code]xinit /usr/bin/games/ut2004/ut2004 -- :1[/code] I'm getting permission denied whenever I try running it as a normal user. Is bash not running it for some reason? [editline]02:09PM[/editline] try clyde.[/QUOTE] [code] chmod +x /usr/bin/games/ut2004/ut2004 [/code] Why are you using xinit?

edit: I simplified the post: I'm trying to run this code contained in this file, /usr/bin/ut2004: [code]xinit /usr/bin/games/ut2004/ut2004 -- :1[/code] Upon trying to run the script, I receive this message: [code]bash: /usr/bin/ut2004: Permission denied[/code] I've set permissions for anything that could involve it.

This is probably a stupid question but how do I remove the Microsoft fonts without removing the entire "restricted formats" package? I'm using Ubuntu 10.04.

apt-get remove msttcorefonts might work why would you want to remove them?

I don't like having them and I don't require a need for them. [editline]18:22[/editline] It worked, thanks.

Having a bit of trouble with wine, I can get games running fine through it but I don't seem to get sound with either the oss drivers or the alsa drivers. google isn't really helping me here because everything says to use those two drivers. Though the sound was working about a week ago, but when it did it would mute everything except for whatever was running in wine.

[QUOTE=Moreto;24051169]Having a bit of trouble with wine, I can get games running fine through it but I don't seem to get sound with either the oss drivers or the alsa drivers. google isn't really helping me here because everything says to use those two drivers. Though the sound was working about a week ago, but when it did it would mute everything except for whatever was running in wine.[/QUOTE] Do you happen to be using PulseAudio?

[QUOTE=esalaka;24059405]Do you happen to be using PulseAudio?[/QUOTE] I have absolutely no clue what this is, so probably not.

[QUOTE=Moreto;24064331]I have absolutely no clue what this is, so probably not.[/QUOTE] If you're using Ubuntu, you probably [i]are[/i].

I have another issue: when I plug my headset in, sound is still coming from the speakers as well as the headphones.

[QUOTE=robowurmz;24068681]If you're using Ubuntu, you probably [I]are[/I].[/QUOTE] I am using Ubuntu so then I guess the answer to his question is a yes.

I had the Linux ATI driver (fglrx) installed, installed the ATi CCC thing, and then went to the ATi driver page and downloaded the latest drivers, installed them, and then clicked "remove" on the restricted drivers thing. (This is all done in Ubuntu, should you be wondering). This fucked up everything, and I'm now unable to installed or uninstall using the built-in package manager. What do?

How do you blacklist a yum mirror? My vps keeps trying to use centos.aol.in which is complete shit. It switches hosts several times when updating and then it fails 50% of the time to download the file...

[QUOTE=high;24083455]How do you blacklist a yum mirror? My vps keeps trying to use centos.aol.in which is complete shit. It switches hosts several times when updating and then it fails 50% of the time to download the file...[/QUOTE] Not sure how you do it, but this might get you on the right track. In /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo there is a line like this: mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os So it gets the mirrorlist off the internet. If I put that into my browser and fill in the variables so I get this url: [url]http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=i386&repo=os[/url] It gives me this list of mirrors: [url]http://yum.singlehop.com/CentOS/5.5/os/i386/[/url] [url]ftp://ftp.wallawalla.edu/pub/mirrors/centos/5.5/os/i386/[/url] [url]http://mirror.clarkson.edu/centos/5.5/os/i386/[/url] [url]http://centos.mirror.facebook.net/5.5/os/i386/[/url] [url]http://dist1.800hosting.com/centos/5.5/os/i386/[/url] [url]http://mirror.icpl.org/centos/5.5/os/i386/[/url] [url]http://centos-distro.cavecreek.net/centos/5.5/os/i386/[/url] [url]http://linux.mirrors.es.net/centos/5.5/os/i386/[/url] [url]http://mirrors.tummy.com/mirrors/CentOS/5.5/os/i386/[/url] [url]http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/centos/5.5/os/i386/[/url] The mirror you mentioned isn't in there, but there might be some way to manually put those mirrors into the config file. I don't know how though.

Found the answer to my question, thanks for leading me in the right direction.

For some reason the MemTest option in my boot menu which used to run Windows is now actually running MemTest. How do I add Windows to my boot menu?