General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. I broke my Arch Install - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE=IpHa;42927838]Graysky did a comparison of vanilla vs -ck a year ago and found a very slight improvement on -ck for certain work loads. Whether or not that still holds, I don't know. [url]http://repo-ck.com/bench/cpu_schedulers_compared.pdf[/url][/QUOTE] [quote] Intel i7-3770K | 2.7% faster [/quote] Eh, the results are not really that overwhelming for me to attempt it on my main system. Probably gonna do it out of fun on a virtual machine.

I'm pretty sure that if you're benchmarking CPU schedulers in a VM, you'll basically end up at the mercy of the CPU scheduler on the host OS.

Fonts broke in Arch Linux, for Facepunch. Here's how to fix: [code]# cd /etc/fonts.d/conf.d # rm 30-metric-aliases.conf # pacman -S ttf-liberation # ln -s ../conf.avail/30-ttf-liberation-mono.conf # ln -s ../conf.avail/30-ttf-liberation-sans.conf # ln -s ../conf.avail/30-ttf-liberation-serif.conf[/code]

3.12.1 is out. Driver updates, an ALSA fix, and a couple of networking fixes.

So I updated my Kernel and ever since everything has been just a little bit laggy? It seems to be getting better over time but what might be causing that?

[QUOTE=nikomo;42933409]3.12.1 is out. Driver updates, an ALSA fix, and a couple of networking fixes.[/QUOTE] I've been waiting for the networking fixes. They managed to break my wifi drivers in 3.12 :/ Also this has been bothering me for a while. My mouse sometimes dissapears one my desktop (Dual monitors) when I log in and gnome launches. The only way to seemingly fix this is to restart X. Also sometimes gnome doesn't even launch on my laptop. It just kicks me back to the login screen untill I reboot. But it boots gnome when I log in as root using "log in as another user". Are there any fixes?

Ubuntu did a "what the christ" thing today. Yesterday, it apparently went to standby [i]while[/i] shutting down. Today I got my laptop out of my bag only to find it was on standby. I'm absolutely sure I shut it down yesterday. When I pressed space to get to work, I was welcomed with the "shutdown" screen. The shutdown process was literally paused by a standby. It continued shutting down when it woke up. This is nonsense.

I don't really like the sounds in Ubuntu, possible to change that?

[QUOTE=Naelstrom;42925284]You might want to check this out: [url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Setting_the_framebuffer_resolution[/url][/QUOTE] Should I do that on the livecd? or?

[QUOTE=Jookia;42933387]Fonts broke in Arch Linux, for Facepunch. Here's how to fix: [code]# cd /etc/fonts.d/conf.d # rm 30-metric-aliases.conf # pacman -S ttf-liberation # ln -s ../conf.avail/30-ttf-liberation-mono.conf # ln -s ../conf.avail/30-ttf-liberation-sans.conf # ln -s ../conf.avail/30-ttf-liberation-serif.conf[/code][/QUOTE] Shit, when did this happen? I just updated and restarted 3 hours ago, and everythings fine.

[QUOTE=nehkz;42935734]Should I do that on the livecd? or?[/QUOTE] You can do it in your normal Linux installation. You should have access to your boot loader configuration in either /boot or /boot/efi depending on if you're using UEFI or not. [editline]21st November 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Mega1mpact;42934329]I've been waiting for the networking fixes. They managed to break my wifi drivers in 3.12 :/ Also this has been bothering me for a while. My mouse sometimes dissapears one my desktop (Dual monitors) when I log in and gnome launches. The only way to seemingly fix this is to restart X. Also sometimes gnome doesn't even launch on my laptop. It just kicks me back to the login screen untill I reboot. But it boots gnome when I log in as root using "log in as another user". Are there any fixes?[/QUOTE] I used to have my mouse disappearing too, but it only happens when I plug in a second monitor. Which version of Gnome are you using? We should submit a bug report.

[QUOTE=Naelstrom;42936349]You can do it in your normal Linux installation. You should have access to your boot loader configuration in either /boot or /boot/efi depending on if you're using UEFI or not. [editline]21st November 2013[/editline] I used to have my mouse disappearing too, but it only happens when I plug in a second monitor. Which version of Gnome are you using? We should submit a bug report.[/QUOTE] 3.8.4 on fc19 using linux kernel 3.12

The current version of Gnome is 3.10.2.1, try updating.

[QUOTE=Jookia;42933387]Fonts broke in Arch Linux, for Facepunch. Here's how to fix: [code]# cd /etc/fonts.d/conf.d # rm 30-metric-aliases.conf # pacman -S ttf-liberation # ln -s ../conf.avail/30-ttf-liberation-mono.conf # ln -s ../conf.avail/30-ttf-liberation-sans.conf # ln -s ../conf.avail/30-ttf-liberation-serif.conf[/code][/QUOTE] I just upgraded... no issues here. Do you have some non-standard font config?

[QUOTE=Naelstrom;42937882]The current version of Gnome is 3.10.2.1, try updating.[/QUOTE] Gnome doesn't seem to have an update avalible on fc19. is there a repo I can get the newest one from?

Is there any way to "disable" part of your screen from being used at all? Got a netbook for freebie, but the catch is that 1/3rd of the screen at the right side is dead after meeting a coffee table at high velocity. And while I "could" just buy a new screen off ebay and replace the damaged one with, but that's not free.

[QUOTE=Van-man;42939158]Is there any way to "disable" part of your screen from being used at all? Got a netbook for freebie, but the catch is that 1/3rd of the screen at the right side is dead after meeting a coffee table at high velocity. And while I "could" just buy a new screen off ebay and replace the damaged one with, but that's not free.[/QUOTE] Through some configuration, it should be possible to limit Xorg to only use a certain resolution, starting at a certain offset. I can't remember how though.

[QUOTE=FPtje;42934686]Ubuntu did a "what the christ" thing today. Yesterday, it apparently went to standby [i]while[/i] shutting down. Today I got my laptop out of my bag only to find it was on standby. I'm absolutely sure I shut it down yesterday. When I pressed space to get to work, I was welcomed with the "shutdown" screen. The shutdown process was literally paused by a standby. It continued shutting down when it woke up. This is nonsense.[/QUOTE] My windows laptop did the same, if you set to sleep on lid close, then you hit shutdown and closed the lid too soon, it would just sleep, then continue to shut down when you wake it up again.

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;42937987]Gnome doesn't seem to have an update avalible on fc19. is there a repo I can get the newest one from?[/QUOTE] I don't know, sorry. I'm running Arch Linux.

[QUOTE=Venom Mk III;42939628]My windows laptop did the same, if you set to sleep on lid close, then you hit shutdown and closed the lid too soon, it would just sleep, then continue to shut down when you wake it up again.[/QUOTE] I actually had a Windows Vista laptop once that went into standby halfway through a Windows Update shutdown.

[QUOTE=mastersrp;42936220]Shit, when did this happen? I just updated and restarted 3 hours ago, and everythings fine.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Larikang;42937956]I just upgraded... no issues here. Do you have some non-standard font config?[/QUOTE] I use ttf-dejavu and ttf-liberation. What happened was 30-metric-aliases decided it'd be better if I used a crappy font from gsfonts instead of ttf-liberation.

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[QUOTE=Darkwater124;42946883][img]http://dev.novaember.com/s/13-11-22_16-14-37_707685670.png[/img] er[/QUOTE] System suspend?

I have no idea what you mean.

Hey guys, I'm building a laptop using a Raspberry Pi in a lunchbox, and I was wondering what the best distro is for using a Pi somewhat regularly? (OC'ing isn't a problem because I have heatsinks and a fan and shit on the way) The most intensive thing I'd be doing is Browsing the web and/or using open office or something. [editline]22nd November 2013[/editline] (I know that a Pi isn't a proper computer, it's mostly for shits and giggles and to confuse teachers. And It's cool. Oh and it's a B model, so 700mhz processor [probably gonna be OC'd} and half a gig of RAM)

I'm probably going to switching over to Linux Mint soon. I just need to figure out how to get a few of my games running on it perfectly fine, mainly Guild Wars 2.

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[QUOTE=iRex;42947483]Hey guys, I'm building a laptop using a Raspberry Pi in a lunchbox, and I was wondering what the best distro is for using a Pi somewhat regularly? (OC'ing isn't a problem because I have heatsinks and a fan and shit on the way) The most intensive thing I'd be doing is Browsing the web and/or using open office or something. [editline]22nd November 2013[/editline] (I know that a Pi isn't a proper computer, it's mostly for shits and giggles and to confuse teachers. And It's cool. Oh and it's a B model, so 700mhz processor [probably gonna be OC'd} and half a gig of RAM)[/QUOTE] Arch sounds great because it doesn't come with shit you don't want (afaik)

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;42947556]Arch sounds great because it doesn't come with shit you don't want (afaik)[/QUOTE] Normally I would also recommend Arch, but it could be complicated by Arch not officially supporting ARM. See [url]http://archlinuxarm.org/[/url] and [url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Raspberry_Pi[/url] It might work just fine, but I have no experience with it myself.

[QUOTE=Larikang;42948051]Normally I would also recommend Arch, but it could be complicated by Arch not officially supporting ARM. See [url]http://archlinuxarm.org/[/url] and [url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Raspberry_Pi[/url] It might work just fine, but I have no experience with it myself.[/QUOTE] It worked well when I first got a Pi, but if I recall correctly they didn't support the hardware floating-point unit on the Pi for some time, so it was slower than Raspbian. I think this has been resolved (or I might have had this backwards), so it should be just as snappy now.