General Linux Chat and Small Questions

[butre]

gentoo

[sa2fan]

Just a reminder, my computer is very old. A light weighted Linux distro would be appreciated.

[nikomo]

[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;26068569]gentoo[/QUOTE]
oh you
[QUOTE=sa2fan;26069066]Just a reminder, my computer is very old. A light weighted Linux distro would be appreciated.[/QUOTE]
arch

[butre]

[QUOTE=sa2fan;26069066]Just a reminder, my computer is very old. A light weighted Linux distro would be appreciated.[/QUOTE]

Mandriva

[nikomo]

Arch Linux

[Boris-B]

I just discovered the Circular scrolling feature of the Xorg synaptics driver. I love it!

[Nautsabes]

I just installed Linux Mint 10 on my netbook. I have my desktop monitor connected to my monitor because the screen on the netbook is broken. Now I just installed Mint and it defaults to 800x600. I go into Monitors and it's set to mirror the same image on all screens. The only resolutions I can choose is 800x600 and 600x480. I turn off mirror image on all screens and it detects my desktop monitor and I can choose from a large list of resolutions. I select my monitors native 1600x900 and click apply but this is where I run into my issue.

The resolution changes, but only the top left corner of the screen is displayed.
[IMG]http://imgur.com/XOzHp.png[/IMG]

That is what is displayed in the top left corner, everything else is black.

This is basically my first time using linux too so I'm not really knowledgable with everything...

[butre]

xrandr that bitch

[Nautsabes]

[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;26084121]xrandr that bitch[/QUOTE]

Thanks, I fixed it using the info you provided.

[BlkDucky]

Installed Fedora today, but my CPU fan seems to be running at 100% constantly. The noise is really, really annoying. Under Windows I used Fourengine.exe or something similar to keep the fan quiet. I've googled it but I don't really know what I'm doing. Help? :saddowns:

[Boris-B]

I've been looking at how ssh worked and I found out how the public key scheme works.

I've been reading up on the arch wiki article about SSH.

I was wondering why I needed to give the server my public key. After reading up on Wikipedia I saw that to communicate you need the public key of the other and then you can encrypt a message they can decrypt. So far so good. The one thing that I didn't understand is that the arch wiki mentioned that it was preferable to passphrase the key pair you generate. I don't understand how this passphrase fits in the whole process.

Also, could someone explain to me (or link me) how the ssh communication works. On Wikipedia I have seen many ways of communicating with public keys but that doesn't tell me how ssh does it.

[editline]15th November 2010[/editline]

I love how I have this ability to answer my own questions only after I posted them on forums. I found out why we need the passphrase. It's to prevent people from taking your private key. If some random ass steals my laptop. He won't be able to get the key because of the passpharse.

[editline]15th November 2010[/editline]

[quote=gitHup Help]
But using a key without a passphrase is basically the same as writing down that random password in a file on your computer. Anyone who gains access to your drive has gained access to every system you use that key with. This is also a Very Bad Thing™. The solution is obvious, add a passphrase.[/quote]

[PvtCupcakes]

If you want to be lazy about typing in your ssh key's password, use ssh-add. It will unlock your ssh key for as long as you're logged in and you don't have to keep typing it in.
Useful if you're using scp or rsync a lot.

[Boris-B]

I did read about ssh-add and ssh-agent. I don't think I need to worry too much about having a passphrase.

[caesium]

I've started up a new Arch install in vmware, but I'm having difficulty getting Alsa to work.

I've added my user to the audio group, tried alsaconf via root & confirmed that the Master & PCM channels are unmuted via alsamixer. Been using [url=https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_Guide#Part_III:_Install_X_and_configure_ALSA]this[/url] guide to get me through. At the moment i've skipped that for now and gone ahead and installed X & GNOME.

Any ideas how to get sound working?

[nikomo]

How can I get have the system run a command after it's done booting up and loading critical stuff?
I installed CentOS 5.5, but it doesn't launch GDM automatically, so I have to login and then type gdm to get a GNOME session going. I'd rather login through GDM.

[sir whoopsalot]

Jesus christ, nearly pissed myself.
Wanted to switch distros so I formatted the 3 partitions with my linux partitions. Big mistake! Ended up in the grub rescue prompt. So I did the obvious thing, I booted from a Live USB I had, went to the Ubuntu forums and made a thread.
Issue was determined and fixed within 15 minutes.

[nikomo]

The problem was that you deleted your bootloader.

[Ayra]

[QUOTE=nikomo;26098680]The problem was that you deleted your bootloader.[/QUOTE]

How can you end up in the grub rescue prompt if you deleted the bootloader??

[nikomo]

The rescue prompt is written in the MBR.
I think.

[Ayra]

[QUOTE=nikomo;26100247]The rescue prompt is written in the MBR.
I think.[/QUOTE]

Which is where the bootloader is installed AFAIK?

[nikomo]

I'm not a GRUB-guru, but GRUB is installed on partition you define.
I think there's a small bootloader installed in MBR that then boots GRUB. If it fails to boot, it kicks you into rescue mode.

That's why this section gets the casual "Hey I installed Ubuntu on an external drive and I can't boot without it connected" once in a while. GRUB got installed on the external.

[Lego399]

iirc, GRUB can't fit in the MBR, thus needing to be installed to a partition. Which by standard in most distros end up being the main partition.

[nikomo]

I just checked, the MBR is 512 bytes.
That'd have to be a pretty lean and clean bootloader.

[hugg]

Anyone else here have problems running minecraft with a 5000 series GPU? I just get this error

Problematic frame:
# C [+0x424] __kernel_vsyscall+0x10

[butre]

[QUOTE=FlashStock;26123445]Anyone else here have problems running minecraft with a 5000 series GPU? I just get this error

Problematic frame:
# C [+0x424] __kernel_vsyscall+0x10[/QUOTE]

5xxx cards are problematic under linux

[punkrjp]

Any of you guys got any experience with fixing this? [img_thumb]http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/5108/20101117230658.jpg[/img_thumb]
Got this while trying to boot Ubuntu on my Toshiba Satellite.

[Rashy]

What would be the best linux distro to run on an old laptop with 96mb of ram and a pentium 3?

[butre]

[QUOTE=Rashy;26142340]What would be the best linux distro to run on an old laptop with 96mb of ram and a pentium 3?[/QUOTE]

you could try Antix, I've been wanting to try it for a while, just haven't had a chance (or excuse)

[Boris-B]

Today in my OS class we saw vi, well vim. I'm really starting to like it.

[wlzshroom]

[QUOTE=punkrjp;26135521]Any of you guys got any experience with fixing this? [img_thumb]http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/5108/20101117230658.jpg[/img_thumb]
Got this while trying to boot Ubuntu on my Toshiba Satellite.[/QUOTE]

From CD or off the HDD?