General Linux Chat and Small Questions v.2 - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE=Niteshifter;32017266]What are the filesystem(s) of the partitions in the drive?[/quote] My Windows machine shows it as "exFAT" [quote][editline]30th August 2011[/editline] Actually, post the output of this command. [code] fdisk -l /dev/sdc [/code][/QUOTE] [code]root@shiba:~# fdisk -l /dev/sdc WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdc'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted. Disk /dev/sdc: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xe9864810 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 1 14594 117220823+ ee GPT[/code] Looks like we're getting somewhere! What I'm getting from this is that it's detecting everything fine, but it uses an unsupported partition table, so I'll just have to wipe it and set up a new table?

No, Linux understands GPT just fine; it's just fdisk that doesn't. You can use GNU parted (as the message suggests) or, if your distribution has it available, "gdisk" (which is a little more like fdisk). Linux doesn't support exFAT well, though. According to Wikipedia there's a driver being developed, but it's not likely to become a standard part of the kernel because AFAIK it's not legal to implement exFAT without a license from Microsoft. (I think there are patents involved.)

Does anyone here have a nVidia 8800 GTS with 320 mb vid ram? I've been Googling for the last day about the stupid compositor repainting + the nvidia corruption bug and I have only found ONE other person who has the same issue as me, and he has the same exact card and monitor setup; so I'm starting to think its the graphics card itself with an issue with the driver. If anyone could help, that would be great. The other guy who is having the issue's post is right here, [url]http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=163140[/url]

I have an 8800GTS 320MB and have absolutely no issues with the proprietary or open source drivers

You know I posted that picture of Ubuntu cola a while back? [url]http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/08/ubuntu-cola-sale-waitrose/[/url]

[QUOTE=Wyzard;32020080]No, Linux understands GPT just fine; it's just fdisk that doesn't. You can use GNU parted (as the message suggests) or, if your distribution has it available, "gdisk" (which is a little more like fdisk). Linux doesn't support exFAT well, though. According to Wikipedia there's a driver being developed, but it's not likely to become a standard part of the kernel because AFAIK it's not legal to implement exFAT without a license from Microsoft. (I think there are patents involved.)[/QUOTE] I've got it working now. I feel rather silly about over-complicating things and looking in all the wrong places when the real problem all along was the exFAT. Thanks for the help Niteshifter & Wyzard!

[QUOTE=ButtsexV17;32022759]I have an 8800GTS 320MB and have absolutely no issues with the proprietary or open source drivers[/QUOTE] Are you using a compositing window manager?

[QUOTE=Prefan;32025473]Are you using a compositing window manager?[/QUOTE]no but I use xcompmgr

[QUOTE=sim642;32003345]In Windows there are Power Options like "Balanced", "Power Saver" and "High Performance". Is there something similar for linux?[/QUOTE] KDE has settings where you can set up when the screen dims or shuts off, and when it goes to sleep. You can have different settings based on if your laptop is on AC power or on batter power. I'm sure Gnome has something similar, but I don't know what you'd do with anything else. [editline]30th August 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Prefan;32025473]Are you using a compositing window manager?[/QUOTE] I had a 320mb 8800GTS I used with Kwin just fine.

I've spent most of today installing linux on my eeepc. Specifically linux mint 11 LXDE. I've ran into a lot of problems with lxde, mainly in the audio mixing department. Eventually I had to install pulseaudio and use it's mixer, but it's not comparable with the volume control applet (which handles hotkeys too), so only the default alsa device works with it. Also, the system tray applet is really buggy, with multiple system update icons showing up and large spaces in between the icons sometimes. There are no proxy settings I can find either, so I had to use google chrome's launch parameters to specify a proxy. Things work the way I want them to for the most part, and LXDE is pretty damn fast. I guess I just miss the extra functionality of gnome and xfce. woo a rant, I feel better now

[QUOTE=raccoon2112;32035593]I've spent most of today installing linux on my eeepc. Specifically linux mint 11 LXDE. I've ran into a lot of problems with lxde, mainly in the audio mixing department. Eventually I had to install pulseaudio and use it's mixer, but it's not comparable with the volume control applet (which handles hotkeys too), so only the default alsa device works with it. Also, the system tray applet is really buggy, with multiple system update icons showing up and large spaces in between the icons sometimes. There are no proxy settings I can find either, so I had to use google chrome's launch parameters to specify a proxy. Things work the way I want them to for the most part, and LXDE is pretty damn fast. If the problems I've had get fixed over time, I might not need gnome after all. woo a rant, I feel better now[/QUOTE] Audio shouldn't be a problem with LXDE; it has to do with something else. Make sure that everything isn't muted on the alsamixer (everything is usually muted by default for some reason). The multiple system update icons would have to do with the system update program rather that the system tray itself (multiple instances maybe?). As for the large spaces, that could be because there's an icon there, but it doesn't render it's icon on the system tray for some reason. I've had a similar problem when running steam through wine. The icon would sometimes appear and sometimes not but I could still access it properly. Post a screenshot so we can get a better look.

[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;32032187]KDE has settings where you can set up when the screen dims or shuts off, and when it goes to sleep. You can have different settings based on if your laptop is on AC power or on batter power. I'm sure Gnome has something similar, but I don't know what you'd do with anything else. [editline]30th August 2011[/editline] I had a 320mb 8800GTS I used with Kwin just fine.[/QUOTE] Are you using twinview? That could be the issue as well. Me and the guy have the same exact monitor and graphics card setup; so it could be a combination of both. Twinview is really the only way for nvidia cards to properly dual screen :(

[QUOTE=Niteshifter;32035680]Audio shouldn't be a problem with LXDE; it has to do with something else. Make sure that everything isn't muted on the alsamixer (everything is usually muted by default for some reason). The multiple system update icons would have to do with the system update program rather that the system tray itself (multiple instances maybe?). As for the large spaces, that could be because there's an icon there, but it doesn't render it's icon on the system tray for some reason. I've had a similar problem when running steam through wine. The icon would sometimes appear and sometimes not but I could still access it properly. Post a screenshot so we can get a better look.[/QUOTE] It's the fact that the mixer that comes with LXDE (gnome's alsa mixer) isn't powerful at all, you can't even select a default device. And the system tray gap thing fixes itself over time for some reason, after about an hour of having it on all of the gaps have collapsed

Just use alsamixer and a widget of some sort for generic setting of volume

I'm using crunchbang now, and I think this is the one I'm going to install on my 2nd hard drive partition. It's sleek right out of the box, has everything I really want, and is running smooth as ever. My only complaint is that it doesn't have some character sets, such as Japanese characters, but that can easily be fixed.

[QUOTE=Chezhead;32044353]I'm using crunchbang now, and I think this is the one I'm going to install on my 2nd hard drive partition. It's sleek right out of the box, has everything I really want, and is running smooth as ever. My only complaint is that it doesn't have some character sets, such as Japanese characters, but that can easily be fixed.[/QUOTE] Well i guess you can change it to JIS or something. Though that's beyond my knowledge as the only time i did change the character set was so i could have accented characters on FreeBSD. P.S. I think Shift JIS only has Half-Width Katakana in it.

[QUOTE=Chezhead;32044353]I'm using crunchbang now, and I think this is the one I'm going to install on my 2nd hard drive partition. It's sleek right out of the box, has everything I really want, and is running smooth as ever. My only complaint is that it doesn't have some character sets, such as Japanese characters, but that can easily be fixed.[/QUOTE] They don't normally have these in by default because certain character packs are so large. For example, ttf-hannom, which contains Chinese and Vietnamese characters, is about 50MB.

[QUOTE=Niteshifter;32048272]They don't normally have these in by default because certain character packs are so large. For example, ttf-hannom, which contains Chinese and Vietnamese characters, is about 50MB.[/QUOTE] How the ass can a character pack have such a bizarre file size?

[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;32054734]How the ass can a character pack have such a bizarre file size?[/QUOTE] Both languages contain thousands of unique characters.

I'm not sure about Vietnamese, but Chinese has about 106.000 characters.

When Fedora 15 boots, why does the cursor fanny about at the bottom right somewhere instead of being in the centre like a normal X cursor?

Got this Linux-powered bad boy 2 days ago: [img]http://thenokiaguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/N900hardresetmethode4_thumb.png[/img] I'm still learning the ins and outs of it, but so far, I love it! [editline]2nd September 2011[/editline] Does anybody here on FP own one of these??

[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;32074904]Got this Linux-powered bad boy 2 days ago: [img]http://thenokiaguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/N900hardresetmethode4_thumb.png[/img] I'm still learning the ins and outs of it, but so far, I love it! [editline]2nd September 2011[/editline] Does anybody here on FP own one of these??[/QUOTE] I wanted one of those but they're not sold here anymore. Okay, well in one place, but it's not the Finnish version and TBH I don't know if I want to trust a company selling Middle Europe versions of Nokia phones, especially if the company itself is Finnish :/

Wasnt sure if this is more for here or for the creation corner, basically is there any kind of vector graphics tool that resembles flash'es drawing? I dont know why but I just lovee how flash is setup in terms of how its setup. I have tried inkscape but I dont really like it myself

[QUOTE=esalaka;32075876]I wanted one of those but they're not sold here anymore. Okay, well in one place, but it's not the Finnish version and TBH I don't know if I want to trust a company selling Middle Europe versions of Nokia phones, especially if the company itself is Finnish :/[/QUOTE] Seeing as they're not built anymore, I'd say take the plunge and go for it... you might regret it!

[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;32077540]Seeing as they're not built anymore, I'd say take the plunge and go for it... you might regret it![/QUOTE] It's also stupidly expensive (OVER 400€)

[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;32077540]I'd say take the plunge and go for it... you might regret it![/QUOTE] What?

[QUOTE=nos217;32089406]What?[/QUOTE] What I meant is that if one wants a true Linux system in your pocket, that phone would be a great choice... too bad it's pretty fucken expensive.

school starts in two days -- i want to write notes for the year on my shitty laptop i'm thinking arch with openbox and some text editor that lets me do stuff like highlighting (open to suggestion) i'd use windows but i dont think my laptop is capable, and i'd like to reserve the xp partition for my brother to use privately. i'm not that much of a linux idiot (set up webservers, gameservers etc on debian, arch, centos) but never something for home computing. does anyone have a suggestion for ide replacement or programs that i should know about?

[QUOTE=Kwaq;32097864]school starts in two days -- i want to write notes for the year on my shitty laptop i'm thinking arch with openbox and some text editor that lets me do stuff like highlighting (open to suggestion) i'd use windows but i dont think my laptop is capable, and i'd like to reserve the xp partition for my brother to use privately. i'm not that much of a linux idiot (set up webservers, gameservers etc on debian, arch, centos) but never something for home computing. does anyone have a suggestion for ide replacement or programs that i should know about?[/QUOTE] For that text editor get the LibreOffice office suite, its like Microsoft office only free and a ui that isn't responsible for rage-murders.