Fuck arch, I'm installing Debain. I somehow failed and screwed something up, so I'm just going to screw around with Debain as soon as I download the iso.
[QUOTE=Chezhead;31962066]Fuck arch, I'm installing Debain. I somehow failed and screwed something up, so I'm just going to screw around with Debain as soon as I download the iso.[/QUOTE]
You'll want to note that all Linux distros are the same OS, but with differently configured settings. So if you want to go for one distro, then you should go for it and solve it's problems rather than distro hopping until you find one that works better.
[QUOTE=Niteshifter;31962224]You'll want to note that all Linux distros are the same OS, but with differently configured settings. So if you want to go for one distro, then you should go for it and solve it's problems rather than distro hopping until you find one that works better.[/QUOTE]
Debain has an easier installation, so I'm going with that for now.
You could try crunchbang its like archbang (afaik).
The thing you messed up about arch is probably related to the default GRUB menu.lst that still wants to use kernel26 settings instead of vmlinuz-linux and initramfs-linux.img
[QUOTE=JimJam707;31938089]I'm off to download Ubuntu again but before I go take this.
[IMG_THUMB]http://i.imgur.com/YKc2R.jpg[/IMG_THUMB][/QUOTE]
That cola is pretty shit
Ok, I replaced Ubuntu with Fedora 15, I was getting bored. Now I can at least change my backlight brightness, but only 3 levels, the rest are max brightness. Can anyone help? Im using the Noveau drivers, the nVidia one makes the screen go blank for me, and requires a workaround which makes the Backlight not work anymore.
[QUOTE=esalaka;31968437]The thing you messed up about arch is probably related to the default GRUB menu.lst that still wants to use kernel26 settings instead of vmlinuz-linux and initramfs-linux.img[/QUOTE]
Aren't the kernel26 file symlinked to the linux-3.0 files when you install linux-3.0 through pacman? My grub settings still point to the kernel26 files, which are symbolic links to the linux-3.0 files.
[QUOTE=kukiric;31982207]Aren't the kernel26 file symlinked to the linux-3.0 files when you install linux-3.0 through pacman? My grub settings still point to the kernel26 files, which are symbolic links to the linux-3.0 files.[/QUOTE]
They are, but it's still recommended to check all the config files that arch shows during installation to make sure they're proper. Especially the fstab and menu.lst.
[QUOTE=kukiric;31982207]Aren't the kernel26 file symlinked to the linux-3.0 files when you install linux-3.0 through pacman? My grub settings still point to the kernel26 files, which are symbolic links to the linux-3.0 files.[/QUOTE]
In my experience theyr'e only symlinked if you updated from kernel26 and the ISOs haven't been fixed to either symlink or change the names yet.
So I used an Ubuntu boot cd when my windows hard drive was acting all crazy... I absolutely love it! Too bad the gaming/driver support isn't all that great (unless I'm totally wrong).
GNOME3 is growing on me, It's actually not too bad once you get used to it.
[QUOTE=FlamingSpaz;31986725]GNOME3 is growing on me, It's actually not too bad once you get used to it.[/QUOTE]
I've gotten far too used to the whole "moving your mouse to the corner of the screen to do ANYTHING"-thing, which isn't bad, but when you're going to be using WIndows 90% of the time.. It's not great D:
[QUOTE=Fenriswolf;31986687]So I used an Ubuntu boot cd when my windows hard drive was acting all crazy... I absolutely love it! Too bad the gaming/driver support isn't all that great (unless I'm totally wrong).[/QUOTE]
The nVidia drivers are good, (the licensed ones not the open source ones). ATI? Not so much.
WINE runs lots of games well already: Crysis 2 runs perfectly in dx9 mode (dx10/11 don't work in WINE yet).
I find that for me the ATI drivers run minecraft beter then windows by about 10fps
Well, I've successfully installed Debian on Virtualbox without any problems, and messed around with installing packages by using aptitude, adding sources for repos, and configuring the Terminal's start-up stuff. Making headway!
Now I'm installing Arch while keeping an extra-close eye on the tutorial/guide for it so I don't screw up again with the configuration.
In the configuration part, check that GRUB menu.lst has vmlinux-linux and initramfs-linux.img instead of vmlinuz26 and kernel26.img
[QUOTE=esalaka;31993775]In the configuration part, check that GRUB menu.lst has vmlinux-linux and initramfs-linux.img instead of vmlinuz26 and kernel26.img[/QUOTE]
That's probably my problem, I'll go through the installer again. Thanks!
[editline]28th August 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=esalaka;31993775]In the configuration part, check that GRUB menu.lst has vmlinux-linux and initramfs-linux.img instead of vmlinuz26 and kernel26.img[/QUOTE]
Those were already there and edited, so this is my third unsuccessful attempt.
I'm getting some sort of X error when running a basic test file from SFML (I'm not running the sfml libraries from the repository because I get an error that shouldn't appear). I did some searching and I switched from ati to vesa drivers, but that didn't work. The error is this:
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lijnk sfmltest % ./myfile
X error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 1 (X_CreateWindow)
Serial number of failed request: 30
Current serial number in output stream: 32
[/code]
In Windows there are Power Options like "Balanced", "Power Saver" and "High Performance". Is there something similar for linux?
[QUOTE=sim642;32003345]In Windows there are Power Options like "Balanced", "Power Saver" and "High Performance". Is there something similar for linux?[/QUOTE]
ondemand, powersaver and performance. You can set clock speeds too.
That's only cpufreq governors, though. I think he's asking for something that changes settings systemwide depending on power profile.
I'm not sure, but you might want to look into laptop-mode.
Does anyone have a link to where I can find "Archy"? It's that thing that you can pop up in the terminal to show an ASCII image of the distro logo along with some statistics. I can't find it anymore for the life of me even though I had it installed on Debian.
[QUOTE=joemomma53;32013177][url=https://github.com/djmelik/archey]Archey github repo[/url][/QUOTE]
Archey, not archy! That was the problem.
Thanks!
I have two Western Digital external usb hard drives (WD1200B015) that I'm trying to hook up to a laptop running Arch, but I can't find the drivers anywhere. Can anyone help me?
Unless you have some sort of auto-mounter, you need to manually mount them with something similar to this command. Make sure you replace 'xy' in 'sdxy' with the actual hdd and partition as well as replace the 'hdd' in '/media/hdd' with whatever name you want as a mount point. After that, you should be able to access the hdd through that mount point. Check the manpage of mount for some more info on it.
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mount /dev/sdxy /media/hdd
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[QUOTE=Niteshifter;32016860]Unless you have some sort of auto-mounter, you need to manually mount them with something similar to this command. Make sure you replace 'xy' in 'sdxy' with the actual hdd and partition as well as replace the 'hdd' in '/media/hdd' with whatever name you want as a mount point. After that, you should be able to access the hdd through that mount point. Check the manpage of mount for some more info on it.
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mount /dev/sdxy /media/hdd
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The drive is detected as /dev/sdc, but the partitions aren't being detected. I also get an error about an unrecognized disk label when trying to partition the drive.
[QUOTE=_Twitch_;32017118]The drive is detected as /dev/sdc, but the partitions aren't being detected. I also get an error about an unrecognized disk label when trying to partition the drive.[/QUOTE]
What are the filesystem(s) of the partitions in the drive?
[editline]30th August 2011[/editline]
Actually, post the output of this command.
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fdisk -l /dev/sdc
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