General Linux Chat and Small Questions - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE=Pery;26797780]The opensource radeon drivers are terrible even at 2D acceleration in games (GNOME runs great), almost freezes the OS, Revenge of the Titans has terrible FPS. What to do? I even tried using the experimental drivers from the repo (Mesa experimental). I'm running on a Radeon X1250 so I can't use the propertiary ones.[/QUOTE] Revenge of the Titans works well for me with the open source drivers. I have a 4850 though.

The most useful keystroke available: [code] For physical terminals (physical access): ALT + Sys Rq (the Print Screen key) + C For remote terminals (SSH): echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger [/code] For bonus points, don't google what it does before you do it For pussies, [sp]it forcefully panics the kernel without syncing your drives[/sp]

I recently tried setting up minecraft on a VPS I bought, however I'm having some worries/problems When I start minecraft using [I]java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui[/I], the memory usage pops to 1.1GB instead of 16MB Also when putty disconnects, the server closes itself. How do I keep it running? Thanks.

Use screen to keep the MC server running. As for your ram issue. From what I see when you launch minecraft you tell it to use 1024MB of ram. I would say it's behaving normally.

[QUOTE=Boris-B;26834759]Use screen to keep the MC server running. As for your ram issue. From what I see when you launch minecraft you tell it to use 1024MB of ram. I would say it's behaving normally.[/QUOTE] "Use screen"? :raise: [B]Edit:[/B] Did 'info screen', reading about it now. Thanks.

Any docs I find about the open source nvidia drivers, is pretty obscure. Question 1. Just how poor is the 3D support? Question 2. Do I stand a chance with a 400 series card? Simply put for 90% of my games I'll boot to win anyway, but Nvidia in an almighty dick move has removed older OpenGL support which has shit all over one of my favourite games that I still play regularly Neverwinter Nights. Thoughts?

my brother has assigned me the task of finding an appropriate linux distro and installing it onto his netbook. i've never dealt with linux, i'm moderately good with windows machines (building, troubleshooting ect.) my brother is not computer retarded and would be able to do some simple things. first of all i need advice on what distro to get, i need one that's lightweight, good for web browsing (with support for PDF, flash ect. and virus resiliant) has a good text program. it must also have features for netbooks, such as power saving. it must have ipod support as well. it will not be used for gaming at all, and another problem is that it lacks a DVD drive to boot off, it's currently pre-loaded with a bloated windows 7 install. some distro suggestions and links to tutorials would be great, seeing as im a first time linux installer.

Cluckyx: At least back when I dabbled with gaming on Linux on my 8400GS, it was actually better than Windows. MMV. Nerdrage: I suggest Xubuntu.

[QUOTE=nikomo;26850025] Nerdrage: I suggest Xubuntu.[/QUOTE] or Linux Mint XFCE do NOT pick the ubuntu netbook remix, because unity is buggy as hell and isn't a good choice atm imo

[QUOTE=Tools;26834454] When I start minecraft using [I]java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui[/I], the memory usage pops to 1.1GB instead of 16MB[/QUOTE] Why would it be 16mb? The command line parameters you gave it allows it to use 1gb of memory. Java likes to fill it's entire memory space. [editline]21st December 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=Cluckyx;26846988]Any docs I find about the open source nvidia drivers, is pretty obscure. Question 1. Just how poor is the 3D support? Question 2. Do I stand a chance with a 400 series card? Simply put for 90% of my games I'll boot to win anyway, but Nvidia in an almighty dick move has removed older OpenGL support which has shit all over one of my favourite games that I still play regularly Neverwinter Nights. Thoughts?[/QUOTE] I played Neverwinter Nights on an Intel GPU which uses Mesa for OpenGL just like the open source Nvidia driver. So I know Mesa can run it, but I don't know how well supported the Geforce 400s are, but this might help: [url]http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix[/url] The NVC0 column is for the Geforce 400 series.

[QUOTE=Nerdrage;26847410]my brother has assigned me the task of finding an appropriate linux distro and installing it onto his netbook. i've never dealt with linux, i'm moderately good with windows machines (building, troubleshooting ect.) my brother is not computer retarded and would be able to do some simple things. first of all i need advice on what distro to get, i need one that's lightweight, good for web browsing (with support for PDF, flash ect. and virus resiliant) has a good text program. it must also have features for netbooks, such as power saving. it must have ipod support as well. it will not be used for gaming at all, and another problem is that it lacks a DVD drive to boot off, it's currently pre-loaded with a bloated windows 7 install. some distro suggestions and links to tutorials would be great, seeing as im a first time linux installer.[/QUOTE] Linuxmint.com. Download the mainstream version, that is the easiest distribution you can get. I've used Mint for a long time and I think it's a great OS. In my humble opinion XFCE is a bit too simplistic for a beginning user.

What's the correct way to use openbox under XFCE on Arch? I installed XFCE and Openbox (with all the config files), ran killall xfwm4 ; openbox & exit, and it just kills the terminal and keeps XFCE open. What's going on?

Is there any way I can resize my windows partition when it has bad sectors?

Depending on where the bad sector is, yes. Once you resize the thing make sure that run run chkdsk on windows to make sure that it marks the bad sector as bad so the OS doesn't use them.

Problem is Gparted won't even let me resize, it's all just greyed out and I can't even drag the sliders.

[QUOTE=MasterFen007;26865089]Problem is Gparted won't even let me resize, it's all just greyed out and I can't even drag the sliders.[/QUOTE] Is that partition mounted? Try right clicking on it and selecting unmount.

Messing around with Openbox. Goddamnit, the volume keys don't work. I can install fucking volwheel but that doesn't add the keyboard shortcuts. Also openbox doesn't fucking support dead keys (or there is no option anywhere to set this, fucking searched for hours now) Edit: Got the volume working. I just want the default keyboard layout to be: US international with dead keys. like, I press ', then I press E and I get an E with an accent (which I can't make now because it doesn't work) How do I do this? Edit: I figured the proper layout would be intl. How do I set the keyboard layout to intl? This doesn't work: [code][falco@falcolaptop ~]$ setxkbmap intl Error loading new keyboard description [/code] [b]Finally, after hours of searching. I finally found (in the man pages) the -layout argument of setxkbmap.[/b] Thank google for [b]not[/b] finding this. There's something with the fonts in openbox, they look nicer I guess.

[QUOTE=nos217;22982864] don't say to Windows users that they suck etc, it makes the Linux community look bad. But I'm sure you won't do that :). Again, welcome![/QUOTE] But Windows is a pile of shit. It crashes on my Downloads that have 1% to go that take 5 Hours. [editline]22nd December 2010[/editline] Also, Ubuntu won't partition. [editline]22nd December 2010[/editline] Know any partition Managers that support Linux Partitions.

Get gparted.

[QUOTE=FPtje;26874187]Messing around with Openbox. Goddamnit, the volume keys don't work. I can install fucking volwheel but that doesn't add the keyboard shortcuts. Also openbox doesn't fucking support dead keys (or there is no option anywhere to set this, fucking searched for hours now) Edit: Got the volume working. I just want the default keyboard layout to be: US international with dead keys. like, I press ', then I press E and I get an E with an accent (which I can't make now because it doesn't work) How do I do this? Edit: I figured the proper layout would be intl. How do I set the keyboard layout to intl? This doesn't work: [code][falco@falcolaptop ~]$ setxkbmap intl Error loading new keyboard description [/code] [b]Finally, after hours of searching. I finally found (in the man pages) the -layout argument of setxkbmap.[/b] Thank google for [b]not[/b] finding this. There's something with the fonts in openbox, they look nicer I guess.[/QUOTE] For the audio shortcuts and any other shortcuts get Obkey-git from the AUR then add your shortcuts.

man pages are seriously underrated. I use it for system programming all the time.

im in dev mode on chorme os trying to install java - i have the proper bin downloaded but what command do i use to install ? I used wget to download it Posting in here as surely somebody can help me

[QUOTE=ineedateam1;26892979]im in dev mode on chorme os trying to install java - i have the proper bin downloaded but what command do i use to install ? I used wget to download it Posting in here as surely somebody can help me[/QUOTE] chmod +x file.bin ./file.bin

[QUOTE=IpHa;26894672]chmod +x file.bin ./file.bin[/QUOTE] How do i find out were it saves the file?

wget saved in the current directory. Unless you give it some odd options and what not. do [code] ls -la [/code] to see what's in the current dir.

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thanks guys ima try to install java and see if it plays

Hey so I just chucked Ubuntu on an old computer and i'm hearing alot about "building - up" Arch from the base, what exactly are you adding on? Also what distro would be the best to start with if I want to learn Linux and what is the best way to learn?

[QUOTE=Sake;26903805]Hey so I just chucked Ubuntu on an old computer and i'm hearing alot about "building - up" Arch from the base, what exactly are you adding on? Also what distro would be the best to start with if I want to learn Linux and what is the best way to learn?[/QUOTE] With Arch you add pretty much everything. Window manager, audio, programs. You should (imo) start with something more simple as Mint, and then when you have a basic understanding, you can try messing around with Arch.

[QUOTE=Sake;26903805]Hey so I just chucked Ubuntu on an old computer and i'm hearing alot about "building - up" Arch from the base, what exactly are you adding on? Also what distro would be the best to start with if I want to learn Linux and what is the best way to learn?[/QUOTE] Debian, starting from a netinstall. Installing all the shit you need (programs/Xorg/whatever) isn't hard, and you'll learn much by doing this. I advise running one in a virtual machine to familiarize yourself with it.