Well, I decided to try out i3 as my first tiling window manager. It's okay, but I think I'll stick to Gnome.
[QUOTE=jatoskep;31661307]I'm running Arch Linux (with 3.0 kernel), and awesome WM and I cannot seem to get good video playback with 720P MKVs. It's nothing to do with my hardware, the software I have tried is mplayer, smplayer w/ mplayer2, and VLC. Standard def AVIs will play fine but whenever I try to play a high def video it has horizontal tearing and has very skippy playback.
I'm using Nouveau with my Nvidia 460M, I'm thinking giving the proprietary driver a try might do it, but I'd rather use Nouveau if possible.[/QUOTE]
The proprietary Nvidia driver supports hardware accelerated video playback.
You go into smplayer preferences and on the video tab, you set the output driver to vdpau and it offloads your video to you gpu and it should run pretty smooth.
But, your CPU should be fast enough to at least play 720p without accelerated gpu.
What is your output driver in smplayer? Try xv if you haven't already.
[editline]11th August 2011[/editline]
I can even play 1080p on my laptop fairly well and it has a Core 2 and an Intel X4500HD gpu. Granted, the Intel Linux driver is more mature and better supported than the Nouveau driver.
[QUOTE=jatoskep;31670520]Main reason I want to stick with Nouveau is because I can get the full resolution terminal when not in X. But I suppose if that's the problem I'll go ahead and switch.[/QUOTE]
[url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uvesafb[/url]
It like VESA (so it works with just about every gpu) but runs at my native res!
I have a full res terminal and full res X with this thing.
[QUOTE=BrainDeath;31672945][url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uvesafb[/url]
It like VESA (so it works with just about every gpu) but runs at my native res!
I have a full res terminal and full res X with this thing.[/QUOTE]
...Shit, really?
Will this allow me to get audio over HDMI with the EN210 I have in my little PC downstairs?
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;31676584]...Shit, really?
Will this allow me to get audio over HDMI with the EN210 I have in my little PC downstairs?[/QUOTE]
wat
vesa and its extensions are video drivers, they have nothing to do with audio.
All this does is extend vesa so you can have native res terminals and do some other things with refresh rate/colour depth..
[QUOTE=BrainDeath;31677618]wat
vesa and its extensions are video drivers, they have nothing to do with audio.
All this does is extend vesa so you can have native res terminals and do some other things with refresh rate/colour depth..[/QUOTE]
Sorry, wasn't thinking right.
I meant that I can't install the nVidia drivers and get the native res and as such, can't get HDMI audio without running X which I'd rather not do for now. I was wondering if I could install the propietary nVidia drivers but use this to use my native res on the TV, while still having the HDMI audio drivers installed..
Welp, seems like FreeBSD is the next logical step after Arch, so yay for downloading the 2.5gb image!
Welp, it seems like everyone here gives a damn.
[QUOTE=q3k;31665849]old 6600 with Nouveau - glitches, barely usable
old 6600 with NVidia drivers - 1080p playback in real time
Sometimes you just have to use proprietary software.[/QUOTE]
Wait wait wait... do tell more. I have a computer connected to a HDTV with a 6600GT... any info you can give on 1080p playback would be much appreciated.
[QUOTE=Nipa;31687596]Wait wait wait... do tell more. I have a computer connected to a HDTV with a 6600GT... any info you can give on 1080p playback would be much appreciated.[/QUOTE]
Unless the TV takes in DVI, you'll need a DVI-HDMI adaptor (these are cheap as the two are signal compatable). After that just install the nvidia X drivers and you're set.
[QUOTE=Artemis;31685077]Welp, seems like FreeBSD is the next logical step after Arch, so yay for downloading the 2.5gb image![/QUOTE]
BSD isn't Linux, though.
As if that wasn't obvious :v:
[QUOTE=esalaka;31689283]BSD isn't Linux, though.
As if that wasn't obvious :v:[/QUOTE]
Clearly he should've gone with LFS.
Oh my god, how am I supposed to get a netinstall image for Debian?
I just want a simple ISO. Instead I get a directory thrown at me that doesn't make one bit of sense.
Holy shit, I actually found a regular download.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;31689979]Oh my god, how am I supposed to get a netinstall image for Debian?
I just want a simple ISO. Instead I get a directory thrown at me that doesn't make one bit of sense.
Holy shit, I actually found a regular download.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst[/url]
Small CD, choose your architecture.
And have fun with over 9,000 extra games... Fuck. Oh, and two image scanners, a phone program, and two image editors.
Does anyone here actually like or use Unity? Imo it's fucking horrible.
I've tried it on the live distro, I quite like it.
[QUOTE=Artemis;31685077]Welp, seems like FreeBSD is the next logical step after Arch, so yay for downloading the 2.5gb image![/QUOTE]
FreeBSD is a more of a logical step from Gentoo since the whole Portage system is based off FreeBSD Ports.
[QUOTE=Nipa;31687596]Wait wait wait... do tell more. I have a computer connected to a HDTV with a 6600GT... any info you can give on 1080p playback would be much appreciated.[/QUOTE]
I connect a computer with a 6600 graphics card to my TV (via VGA, as my TV has an input, but DVI/HDMI should work, too). That's... about it. I run Arch, with NVidia proprietary drivers and XBMC slapped on, and bam, instant media centre.
[QUOTE=ThatLuaCoder;31690861]Does anyone here actually like or use Unity? Imo it's fucking horrible.[/QUOTE]
It's mysterious... I hated it so much that I made a comic about how bad it was (which is not available at the moment unfortunately).
Some time later I receive a free Ubuntu 11.04 DVD by mail, pop it in, and actually quite like the interface.
-snip-
Connecting it to the TV was the easy part (through component, if my TV actually had a HDMI input I have a better PC lined up for it), but I could never get hardware accelerated 1080p working. I'll try it next time I have a chance to install Arch on there (it's running Windows on there right now for Silverlight)... the closest thing I got to working was 720p video, which it worked with, alright-ish.
I started having a look around at different distros and so far I like #! the most and would like to boot it off usb with it being persistent yet can't figure out how to, I know you can edit the option liveboot but would like to have it just start up and have a log in screen. Any idea's how to?
I shall also be trying ArchBang shortly (unless my internet goes down; download it now).
A flash drive is a type of hard drive. Just use it normally when you install, IIRC.
Well not all computers support USB boot do they?
New ones should though. You might have to go into BIOS but I may be ass-talking
Pretty much every computer made in the last half decade should support it.
Well... you never know how old his computer is
I like how two posts ago you posted from a Windows PC and now it's Linux
Yous were right I can do that, thanks. Although now I need to get a new USB as my ones only 2gbs and crunchbang takes up nearly all of it. I'll try ArchBang on it I guess.
apt-get moo
[QUOTE=snuwoods;31687555]Welp, it seems like everyone here gives a damn.[/QUOTE]
Go fuck yourself.
Don't forget that installing to a USB will probably wipe your main HDD's bootloader.
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