General Linux Chat and Small Questions

[PvtCupcakes]

If you want to try the open source driver, you'll need to remove fglrx. The open driver is probably already installed, but the packages are:
xserver-xorg-video-radeon
libgl1-mesa-dri or libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental

[sir whoopsalot]

*sigh*

      Minecraft has crashed!      
      ----------------------      

Minecraft has stopped running because it encountered a problem.

If you wish to report this, please copy this entire text and email it to [e-mail].
Please include a description of what you did when the error occured.



--- BEGIN ERROR REPORT a1dce528 --------
Generated 11/22/10 6:44 PM

Minecraft: Minecraft Alpha v1.2.2
OS: Linux (i386) version 2.6.35-22-generic-pae
Java: 1.6.0_20, Sun Microsystems Inc.
VM: OpenJDK Server VM (mixed mode), Sun Microsystems Inc.
LWJGL: 2.4.2
[failed to get system properties (java.lang.NullPointerException)]

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Only one LWJGL context may be instantiated at any one time.
	at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:846)
	at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:784)
	at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:765)
	at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.a(SourceFile:201)
	at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(SourceFile:563)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)
--- END ERROR REPORT 7cbd5797 ----------

[Boris-B]

It's a step forward. It seems like it's trying to run more than one instance of the game library notch uses.

I don't know why this is happening.

Did you reboot after installing the driver?

[sir whoopsalot]

[QUOTE=Boris-B;26225948]It's a step forward. It seems like it's trying to run more than one instance of the game library notch uses.

I don't know why this is happening.

Did you reboot after installing the driver?[/QUOTE]

The packages were already there so I assume it used those.
And yes, I did reboot afterwards, do not take me for a fool.

[Lego399]

[QUOTE=HTF;26204666]This is a great app if you are running on a laptop: [url]http://grano.la/[/url][/QUOTE]

powertop is also really useful.

[POWA KILLERDeux]

Hey guys, ever thought about using tiling WM's such as DWM in a office environment? Do you think this would increase productivity?

[Jookia]

Can you run it from the terminal if you're not already?

[butre]

[QUOTE=POWA KILLERDeux;26234889]Hey guys, ever thought about using tiling WM's such as DWM in a office environment? Do you think this would increase productivity?[/QUOTE]

I think it would decrease productivity.

[nikomo]

I hated CentOS for its lack of packages.
Then I found rpmforge.
Now I'm jelly.

[bye]

[QUOTE=POWA KILLERDeux;26234889]Hey guys, ever thought about using tiling WM's such as DWM in a office environment? Do you think this would increase productivity?[/QUOTE]

if you have multiple screens and tiling is set on one of them, yes
tiling on its own, probably not.

[Doritos_Man]

I <3 fedora

[butre]

[QUOTE=Doritos_Man;26236918]I <3 fedora[/QUOTE]

fedora is bad you should feel ashamed

cool wallpapers though.

[PvtCupcakes]

[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;26237097]fedora is bad you should feel ashamed

cool wallpapers though.[/QUOTE]

Fedora is better than whatever you use.

[Doritos_Man]

[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;26237097]fedora is bad you should feel ashamed

cool wallpapers though.[/QUOTE]

Why is it bad?

[Boris-B]

I've been seeing a lot of hate towards fedora and I don't get why.

Usually when I ask someone will answer "RPM Sucks!" without giving any reasoning behind anything.

Why does fedora suck. And give me details.

[butre]

anecdotal but in my experience RPM mirrors are way too slow

[editline]23rd November 2010[/editline]

[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;26237276]Fedora is better than whatever you use.[/QUOTE]

better than gentoo no way

[Doritos_Man]

Is the the only reason Fedora sucks?

[butre]

the only reason I don't like it. straight up fedora with gnome and all always felt slow to me too, but I suppose the xfce spin might be nicer.

[editline]23rd November 2010[/editline]

oh and it would always panic with my old video card, no idea what that was about. worked fine if I used integrated. they were both the same series so I don't think it was the drivers.

[PvtCupcakes]

[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;26237483]anecdotal but in my experience RPM mirrors are way too slow

[editline]23rd November 2010[/editline]

better than gentoo no way[/QUOTE]

You got me. I use Gentoo too. :saddowns:

[butre]

I am good at this

[Boris-B]

I have tried Fedora and CentOS (a little) and the only thing that I don't like about them is the mass open source circle-jerking that every other "Big/User friendly" distro seems to take a part in. This is mostly the lack of proprietary software without having to add a repo.

I also have a problem with CentOS. LVM cannot be configured using the text-based install. How fucking hard can it be to make a fucking CLI interface that allows you just that. Every other feature is there, why not LVM?

[nikomo]

I got my email server working.

WOOP
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It uses 600mb RAM. Fuck.

[bye]

is this some kind of triumph? been struggling?

[nikomo]

I kept wondering for about a fucking month why I could send email to the outside world, but not receive.

It took me a damn month to remember that /var/log/maillog exists.
Policy error.
Google.
Graylisting.
Disable graylisting.
Email arrives instantly.

[PvtCupcakes]

[QUOTE=Boris-B;26238407]
I also have a problem with CentOS. LVM cannot be configured using the text-based install. How fucking hard can it be to make a fucking CLI interface that allows you just that. Every other feature is there, why not LVM?[/QUOTE]

Really? I could have sworn you could. CentOS 6 should have it for sure though. :v:

[Doritos_Man]

I think Fedora hates me
I try to boot it in VirtualBox and it freezes

[humpalump]

Hi guys.
Is there anyway to patch my kernel?
I've heard about that 200-line kernel update, and I was wondering if I could patch/edit mine.
Linux Mint 10 i386.

[PvtCupcakes]

[QUOTE=humpalump;26248040]Hi guys.
Is there anyway to patch my kernel?
I've heard about that 200-line kernel update, and I was wondering if I could patch/edit mine.
Linux Mint 10 i386.[/QUOTE]

You have to recompile the entire kernel, which is quite a lot of work if you've never done it before.
The safest way would be to get the exact kernel source code that Mint/Ubuntu uses, and use their exact configuration file and then patch and recompile.

You'll need to repeat this process every time there is a kernel update unless you stick to your custom kernel.

[Ayra]

[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;26249324]You have to recompile the entire kernel, which is quite a lot of work if you've never done it before.
The safest way would be to get the exact kernel source code that Mint/Ubuntu uses, and use their exact configuration file and then patch and recompile.

You'll need to repeat this process every time there is a kernel update unless you stick to your custom kernel.[/QUOTE]

It's not really that big a deal. There's plenty of documentation on doing these things, and generaters for autoconfiguring the kernel (I wouldn't recommend that though)

[RELAXiN]

What linux distro would be best for mainly music, msn and Internet?

I used Ubuntu for a while but I want something else now.