Little question, I needed to install the broadcom crystal hd drivers for my netbook. So I went to their website and downloaded it, installed all the compiler libraries but when I tried to extract the drivers themselves and it had this oddball .tbz2 archive format and I can't extract it, I have p7zip and everything installed too. Help?
[SOLVED]Well I tried extracting on my windows pc with standard 7zip, works, just going to move it over on my usb drive.
FYI, it was a .tar.bz2 file (short name). To extract it you simply run:
[code]tar -xvjf yourfile.tbz2[/code]
Going to "play" with Gentoo in a VM.
There's something with some of the latest kernels (a few months ago and up) and the latest udev that hate my laptop.
I've been getting a kernel panic at boot when I'm not plugged in (sometimes). The stack dump refers to libata a few times and happens right after "processing udev events. I've been looking around and it seems like the latest udev might be the issue.
Also, my hp_wmi driver is acting odd. The LED that indicates the status of the rfkill switch blinks when there's an activity. Also, I get a bunch of threads that time out (well always the same one) It's a call from my hp_wmi driver to the wmi driver to acpi and so on.
Maaan I can't decide on a good distro for use on my laptop.
I've tried OpenSUSE, Ubuntu and it's varients, Crunchbang, Debian, Mint..For some reason none of it satisfies me. I guess I'm gonna attempt to fuck around with Arch.
[code]genpatches-2.6.36-7.extras.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ][/code]
I like how emerge winks at you. Who says Gentoo isn't user-friendly?
[QUOTE=Boris-B;27663117]FYI, it was a .tar.bz2 file (short name). To extract it you simply run:
[code]tar -xvjf yourfile.tbz2[/code][/QUOTE]
Huh, that's weird because that's what I thought it was. I renamed it to .tar.bz2 and it still wouldn't do anything but give me a strange file of the same name. Oh well.
[QUOTE=Rocket;27695707]Tried Kubuntu?[/QUOTE]
"[B]Ubuntu and it's varients[/B]"
I hate KDE anyway, it's fugly, laggy, and bloated.
I actually want something where I can use E17..
I think my laptop if failing hardware wise... I've been getting kernel panics and threads related to acpi time out and now I booted into my windows partition (which I never do) and there were two devices "Base system devices" without drivers. I think my bluetooth card is failing.
[QUOTE=Rocket;27698230][url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite17[/url][/QUOTE]
Meh. I think I'm just gonna take my chances with Arch and see if I can get shit working right. First priority - figure how to use the AUR effectively. Does anyone know of any decent Pacman frontends that handle AUR stuff automagically?
yaourt can do that
I would suggest clyde instead of yaourt.
Although, I think you essentially need yaourt in order to install clyde.
Thanks, I'll try both. :)
[editline]27th January 2011[/editline]
They're both pretty much the same, but eh.
What about good GUI frontends for pacman?
I've been out of the Linux swing for 2 months. Any new distros/news/important updates that I should know about?
[QUOTE=Ca5bah;27706017]I've been out of the Linux swing for 2 months. Any new distros/news/important updates that I should know about?[/QUOTE]
Well there was the 200 line speed patch thing,
[url]http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1051348-Linux-Kernel-2.6.38-RC1-released-with-the-quot-200-line-speed-patch-quot-built-in[/url]
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;27702717]Thanks, I'll try both. :)
[editline]27th January 2011[/editline]
They're both pretty much the same, but eh.
What about good GUI frontends for pacman?[/QUOTE]
Look up gtkpacman.
I haven't actually used it, but I remember someone posted somewhere that it's a graphical frontend for pacman.
Okay, udev time
Before you go running out of the room with a gun in your hand, here's my problem - I need to get this one device available to users in the usb group with a udev rule, and the damn thing isn't working.
Here's my rule:
/etc/udev/rules.d/usb-70.rules
[code]SYSFS {idVendor} == "1941", SYSFS {idProduct} == "8021", MODE = "0666", GROUP = "usb"[/code]
Users in the usb group still can't see the device (permission denied). The Vendor and Product ID is confirmed correct, and I've rebooted 50 million times to no avail. Anyone have any ideas?
I have a Windows machine and a Linux machine. I want to be able to have access to all of the files on my Windows box from Linux over my wireless network. What would be the best way to do this?
[QUOTE=Larikang;27710730]I have a Windows machine and a Linux machine. I want to be able to have access to all of the files on my Windows box from Linux over my wireless network. What would be the best way to do this?[/QUOTE]
Samba should let you do this.
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;27710755]Samba should let you do this.[/QUOTE]
I've tried that and it doesn't work the way I want it to. With Samba I can easily transfer files to my Linux machine from Windows, or I can share specific files on Windows and access them from Linux. But I can't access my Windows box's entire hard drive from Linux unless I share my entire hard drive.
But I don't want to share my entire hard drive in Windows. I don't care about any sort of "sharing" because I only need to access the files from one other computer. I think that there's a way to do what I want using ssh, but I was wondering if there were other (perhaps simpler) alternatives.
[QUOTE=Larikang;27711226]I've tried that and it doesn't work the way I want it to. With Samba I can easily transfer files to my Linux machine from Windows, or I can share specific files on Windows and access them from Linux. But I can't access my Windows box's entire hard drive from Linux unless I share my entire hard drive.
But I don't want to share my entire hard drive in Windows. I don't care about any sort of "sharing" because I only need to access the files from one other computer. I think that there's a way to do what I want using ssh, but I was wondering if there were other (perhaps simpler) alternatives.[/QUOTE]
The simplest thing would be to share you entire harddrive (if possible), otherwise just set up a sftp/ftp server and make sure that no one from outside the network can access it? (or if you can make that shit happen: sctp)
I've just recently installed Ubuntu and am finding everything is working alright apart from my DVD's. I insert my DVD (Legal DVDs not pirate copys) and try to play it and it says:
An error occurred
Could not read from resource
Any ideas what i can do to fix this, its pretty annoying having to reboot to my windows partition just to watch a movie.
I've tried using different DVDs and it still gives that error.
[QUOTE=Adzter;27711692]I've just recently installed Ubuntu and am finding everything is working alright apart from my DVD's. I insert my DVD (Legal DVDs not pirate copys) and try to play it and it says:
An error occurred
Could not read from resource
Any ideas what i can do to fix this, its pretty annoying having to reboot to my windows partition just to watch a movie.
I've tried using different DVDs and it still gives that error.[/QUOTE]
[url]https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs[/url]
The gist of it:
Install the libdvdread4 package (no need to add third party repositories) via Synaptic or command line:
[code]sudo apt-get install libdvdread4[/code]
Then open a terminal window and execute:
[code]sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh[/code]
Rebooting may be necessary.
[QUOTE]The gist of it:
Install the libdvdread4 package (no need to add third party repositories) via Synaptic or command line:
[code]sudo apt-get install libdvdread4[/code]
Then open a terminal window and execute:
[code]sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh[/code]
Rebooting may be necessary.[/QUOTE]
Thank you, my dvds are working now
[QUOTE=Larikang;27710730]I have a Windows machine and a Linux machine. I want to be able to have access to all of the files on my Windows box from Linux over my wireless network. What would be the best way to do this?[/QUOTE]
samba
edit:
you could set up an ftpd to work within your lan too
Can I use MythTV/LinuxTV/whateverthehellitis to stream media (DVDs, cable, etc) from a headless machine across the network?
Create a share on the windows box and access it in linux.
What's the best Linux distro for me? I'll be running it in a VirtualBox that I plan on running windowed on my other monitor, I'll be running a Minecraft server for max 4 people and It'd be good if the desktop looked quite nice (it would be on display a lot of the time). Also, what's the best VirtualBox settings to use? I've just tested out Ubuntu 10.10 on it, with 1024MB of RAM and it seems to be alright, would this be fine for me to run a Minecraft server off? I'll be running a few little tasks from it too, just like browsing the web and checking social websites and such.
[editline]28th January 2011[/editline]
also a quick notice: I may be setting it up on a dedicated box down in the basement at some point, pretty irrelevant though, but that would have more dedicated RAM than the max 1024MB on a vb
[QUOTE=zerosix;27715499]What's the best Linux distro for me? I'll be running it in a VirtualBox that I plan on running windowed on my other monitor, I'll be running a Minecraft server for max 4 people and It'd be good if the desktop looked quite nice (it would be on display a lot of the time). Also, what's the best VirtualBox settings to use? I've just tested out Ubuntu 10.10 on it, with 1024MB of RAM and it seems to be alright, would this be fine for me to run a Minecraft server off? I'll be running a few little tasks from it too, just like browsing the web and checking social websites and such.
[editline]28th January 2011[/editline]
also a quick notice: I may be setting it up on a dedicated box down in the basement at some point, pretty irrelevant though, but that would have more dedicated RAM than the max 1024MB on a vb[/QUOTE]
Don't use a server for anything else. Why would you be using it for browsing and stuff too??
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;27715817]Don't use a server for anything else. Why would you be using it for browsing and stuff too??[/QUOTE]
When I have both of my monitors rigged up I would normally have my web browser open on the right window, it wouldn't seem right looking at it any other way but if it will affect the performance of the VB, then I'll just get used to looking at it somewhere else.
Curse my OCD
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