General Linux Chat and Small Questions

[faillord adam]

[QUOTE=nos217;22982864]Sure thing, and welcome to Linux ;). By the way, ignore elitist dicks, fanboys who tell you you are only using Linux to look cool/be different etc. Also, try not to be a fanboy yourself, e.g. 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]
Thing is, all Windows users I know are elitist dicks, even my dad. Not trying to insult Windows users, but that's my experience.

[editline]26th February 2011[/editline]

I've Unmounted my DVD Drive. How can I Remount it?

[Lyokanthrope]

[QUOTE=faillord adam;28304464]Thing is, all Windows users I know are elitist dicks, even my dad. Not trying to insult Windows users, but that's my experience.

[editline]26th February 2011[/editline]

I've Unmounted my DVD Drive. How can I Remount it?[/QUOTE]
Reminds me of that kid in my CIS class that keeps saying "Windows XP sucks they should install Ubuntu!!" and shit like "yeah I'm gonna lock myself in a terminal all weekend so I can learn more about linux commands". It's rather annoying, to say the least.

[Chipset]

[url]http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1064074-Cheap-PCI-SATA-controller-for-Dell-Dimension-2350-which-one[/url]

[faillord adam]

So, is Arch Linux just like the Linux Kernel with nothing added?

[POWA KILLERDeux]

[QUOTE=faillord adam;28305862]So, is Arch Linux just like the Linux Kernel with nothing added?[/QUOTE]

No, it's a distribution which basically is an operating system based of the kernel. If you REALLY want a kernel with only real basic stuff, Linux From Scratch.

[EEvilMuffin]

[QUOTE=POWA KILLERDeux;28306556]No, it's a distribution which basically is an operating system based of the kernel. If you REALLY want a kernel with only real basic stuff, Linux From Scratch.[/QUOTE]

I still have nightmares about my LFS box. I messed up something with the SATA's settings in the kernel and all hell broke loose. :ohdear:

[butre]

[QUOTE=faillord adam;28305862]So, is Arch Linux just like the Linux Kernel with nothing added?[/QUOTE]

not even close. Arch Linux is very barebones, but is far far from being just the kernel. even Gentoo, which is even more minimal, is far from being just kernel.

hell you need some of the coreutils to build LFS these days

[faillord adam]

I'm trying out Ark. Is it any good?

[editline]27th February 2011[/editline]

And I'll dual boot it with Arch. Can both OS' share the same swap?

[nikomo]

I cannot see why they could not.

I haven't done it myself though.

[editline]27th February 2011[/editline]

Power just got cut for 15 minutes.

Goddamn it, those fuckers are going to pay for my uptime.

[butre]

[QUOTE=faillord adam;28318511]Can both OS' share the same swap?[/QUOTE]

yes

[editline]27th February 2011[/editline]

[QUOTE=nikomo;28319269]I cannot see why they could not.

I haven't done it myself though.

[editline]27th February 2011[/editline]

Power just got cut for 15 minutes.

Goddamn it, those fuckers are going to pay for my uptime.[/QUOTE]

>not on a ups

[nikomo]

give me a couple thousand euros

[Baldr]

They aren't that expensive, see some as cheap as 50 euro. 79,90 euro for one that lasts 34 minutes.

[Eudoxia]

So, here I am, after installing Crunchbang 9.04 on my new amd64... Now the resolution is fubared: The only options xrandr and the other tool show are 800x600 and 640x480 :saddowns:

I know I'm very ignorant, but can someone tell me how I fix this?

Also, my xorg:

[QUOTE]Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection[/QUOTE]

No "Modes" SubSection.

:arghfist::saddowns:

[Baldr]

Installed your graphics driver?

[Eudoxia]

[QUOTE=Baldr;28335870]Installed your graphics driver?[/QUOTE]

Please excuse my retardation. I'm used to having Ubuntu hold my hand through the process.

So I ran lspci and the VGA-compatible PCI (That's the graphics card right?) is:

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0ca3 (rev a2)

How does one exactly install the driver for that? Or do I just download "nVidia Display Drivers" from the site?

EDIT:

ERROR: Unable to find the system utility `ld`; please make sure you have the 
         package 'binutils' installed.  If you do have binutils installed,     
         then please check that `ld` is in your PATH.

:downs:

I'm going to try a repository install if I can.

EDIT:

ERROR: If you are using a Linux 2.4 kernel, please make sure
       you either have configured kernel sources matching your
       kernel or the correct set of kernel headers installed
       on your system.
       
       If you are using a Linux 2.6 kernel, please make sure
       you have configured kernel sources matching your kernel
       installed on your system. If you specified a separate
       output directory using either the "KBUILD_OUTPUT" or
       the "O" KBUILD parameter, make sure to specify this
       directory with the SYSOUT environment variable or with
       the equivalent nvidia-installer command line option.
       
       Depending on where and how the kernel sources (or the
       kernel headers) were installed, you may need to specify
       their location with the SYSSRC environment variable or
       the equivalent nvidia-installer command line option.

:silent:

-> Kernel source path: '/lib/modules/2.6.28-13-generic/build'
-> Kernel output path: '/lib/modules/2.6.28-13-generic/build'

These two I found in the log. Do I need to get the sources of that particular version of the Linux kernel and dump them in those directories?

EDIT: They are already there. And my uname -a returns the same kernel version and these filepaths.

[ipha]

Have you tried doing this: [url]http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/nvidia[/url]

[Eudoxia]

[QUOTE=IpHa;28336689]Have you tried doing this: [url]http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/nvidia[/url][/QUOTE]

Will try it now. Thank you, I assumed it had no "automated" interface for such things.

EDIT:

[IMG]http://i54.tinypic.com/x4jals.png[/IMG]

No comment.

[Baldr]

[url]http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers[/url]

[Eudoxia]

Okay guys, I got it:

Downloaded and installed NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.36.run from the geforce site, and it works! Even the login screen went back to normality!

Thank you all so much! I gotta write all this down so I don't fubar it again :rolleye:

[nikomo]

Nvidia:
Download drivers from site, install, everything works fine.

AMD:
Download drivers from site, install, X won't start up.

I should have just gone with a laptop that had an Intel chipset, bleargh.

[PvtCupcakes]

[QUOTE=nikomo;28341597]Nvidia:
Download drivers from site, install, everything works fine.

AMD:
Download drivers from site, install, X won't start up.

I should have just gone with a laptop that had an Intel chipset, bleargh.[/QUOTE]

Why don't you use the open source radeon driver? It works just as well as the Intel driver.

[Baldr]

My ati card worked out of the box with Debian Squeeze, with Lenny I only needed to install fglrx and was ready to go.

And I finally got my laptop :neckbeard:.

[T3hGamerDK]

[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;28341883]Why don't you use the open source radeon driver? It works just as well as the Intel driver.[/QUOTE]

For gaming, I found that the closed drivers worked better for me. For everything else, the open source did it's job way better.

[nikomo]

Installed closed-source, tried WoW with OpenGL.
5fps.
Fuck it, uninstalled, installed open-source instead.

If I want to play WoW or SC2 at school, I can just boot into Windows.

[Cuel]

I want to format my ubuntu partition on my laptop because of a fuck-up. Can probably be solved but I'd like a fresh start. Would it be as easy as when I installed it? Just put ubuntu on a flash drive and delete the ubuntu partition and then install ubuntu? It shouldn't fuck up my Windows partition right?

[butre]

[QUOTE=nikomo;28335357]give me a couple thousand euros[/QUOTE]

mine was $120 and lasts an hour

[nikomo]

everything costs a hundred times more in finland

[Baldr]

Learn2import.

And see it as a tax for living in Winland.

[T3hGamerDK]

[QUOTE=Cuel;28360965]I want to format my ubuntu partition on my laptop because of a fuck-up. Can probably be solved but I'd like a fresh start. Would it be as easy as when I installed it? Just put ubuntu on a flash drive and delete the ubuntu partition and then install ubuntu? It shouldn't fuck up my Windows partition right?[/QUOTE]

Yeah, pretty much, except you shouldn't choose to install alongside the OS only, you should do as you said: remove old Ubuntu partition and use it to install.

[faillord adam]

I hoped Xubuntu would detect the Arch partition I just installed, it didn't. As I have no knowledge of Linux Partitioning, I cancelled the setup and deleted the VHD.