General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. I broke my Arch Install

[iRex]

Okay, thanks!

[lavacano]

[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]

If you're willing to switch a full size computer over as well, and don't mind dicking about with cross compiling, you MIGHT be able to get Gentoo to work well.

Don't cite me as a factual source on this though.

[XxThreedogxX]

Using eOS and my Hot corners broke and I have no idea how to fix them.

[lavacano]

Catalyst, that comes with the proprietary drivers, doesn't it? How do the open source ones compare?

[naelstrof]

[QUOTE=Firecat;42952149]Really new when it comes to Linux, but I recently have been using Mint 15 64 bit, and everything works pretty well. The only problem is that my graphics card isn't really working correctly. I have a AMD Radeon HD 6670, and I tried installing the drivers and have catalyst control center, but I get absolutely horrid fps even when playing single player on Garry's Mod. Any suggestions?[/QUOTE]

Disable multi-core rendering, otherwise that's just AMD's fault. Sorry. :(

[mastersrp]

[QUOTE=Firecat;42952149]Really new when it comes to Linux, but I recently have been using Mint 15 64 bit, and everything works pretty well. The only problem is that my graphics card isn't really working correctly. I have a AMD Radeon HD 6670, and I tried installing the drivers and have catalyst control center, but I get absolutely horrid fps even when playing single player on Garry's Mod. Any suggestions?[/QUOTE]

The open source drivers really should've worked fine with your specific card, it's somewhat odd that it isn't the case. I'm not sure if it's the fault of Mint, or just that I'm wrong, but hopefully following the advice above this post will help you.

[Jookia]

Eudoxia showed me his 'world_date' command, and after tons of tweaking I've finally come up with some monstrosity date translator in 40 lines of bash:

[jookia@jookia-arch ~]% multidate
Sydney   (UTC +11:00) 2013-11-24 Sun 12:06AM
Germany  (UTC +01:00) 2013-11-23 Sat  2:06PM
London   (UTC +00:00) 2013-11-23 Sat  1:06PM
[jookia@jookia-arch ~]% multidate "8pm today" "london"
Sydney   (UTC +11:00) 2013-11-25 Mon  7:00AM
Germany  (UTC +01:00) 2013-11-23 Sat  9:00PM
London   (UTC +00:00) 2013-11-23 Sat  8:00PM

So yeah. I'll post the code sometime soon once I clean it up. Any suggestions?

[Comfy]

[URL=https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/22/439]Kernel 3.13-RC1 is out[/URL]

[shodan]

[QUOTE=kaukassus;42956921][URL=https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/22/439]Kernel 3.13-RC1 is out[/URL][/QUOTE]

[quote]Dave Airlie (3):
drm updates
drm regression fix
DRM fixes[/quote]

wat

[Stonecycle]

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;42957060]wat[/QUOTE]

Hopefully it means the Sandy Bridge graphics drivers are fixed. Kept getting drmi915 problems for the longest time.

[Comfy]

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;42957060]wat[/QUOTE]

I Dunno
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Manager[/url]

[shodan]

I thought that it meant DigitalRightsManagement. I'm so glad I was wrong

[benbb]

[QUOTE=kaukassus;42956921][URL=https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/22/439]Kernel 3.13-RC1 is out[/URL][/QUOTE]

I like how Linus laughs at people who don't send a pull request on time. Linux doesn't stop for slowpokes!

[shodan]

[QUOTE=benbb;42961313]I like how Linus laughs at people who don't send a pull request on time. Linux doesn't stop for slowpokes![/QUOTE]

Gotta go fast

[Comfy]

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;42961433]Gotta go fast[/QUOTE]

The kernel has an incredibly fast development speed.

[TheLolrus]

I've finally gotten my laptop to cooperate with Arch, mostly. I still can't adjust the backlight though. Naelstrom's helpful too

[Unreliable]

my 17" macbook pro successfully has a clean install of mint on it, now. Took forever for me to get it installed with a lot of problems.. had to actually resort to a DVD.

I've started my transition to linux, but I've hit a problem! I hope you guys can help.

I transferred my music from my old HDD which had OSX installed on it. I connected it with a sled to my macbook once I had mint running, and used cp to copy it over. i had to do that as root in order to view the files, etc. now once I'm logged in on mint, I can't view the folder that I copied over. How do i chmod or chown it into my possession so I can read/write/execute it?

[Darkwater]

[QUOTE=Unreliable;42962590]my 17" macbook pro successfully has a clean install of mint on it, now. Took forever for me to get it installed with a lot of problems.. had to actually resort to a DVD.

I've started my transition to linux, but I've hit a problem! I hope you guys can help.

I transferred my music from my old HDD which had OSX installed on it. I connected it with a sled to my macbook once I had mint running, and used cp to copy it over. i had to do that as root in order to view the files, etc. now once I'm logged in on mint, I can't view the folder that I copied over. How do i chmod or chown it into my possession so I can read/write/execute it?[/QUOTE]

sudo chown user:user music/ # change owner and owning group to user
sudo chmod ugo+rwx music/ # change permissions

You probably only need to change ownership to yourself, but thought I'd just include chmod as well since it's really useful to know about. u/g/o stands for user (owner), group, other, and r/w/x stands for read, write and execute.
for example: ugo+r would add read perms for everyone. ug+w would add write perms for owner and group. o+x would add execute perms for other users. (probably includes owner/group as well, not sure tho)
You can also use a minus (eg. go-w) to remove permissions. You can also use a number like 777 or 644, but that's a bit more complicated.

[XxThreedogxX]

So I'm going to switch to Debian, got any tips for me?

[nikomo]

[QUOTE=XxThreedogxX;42970788]So I'm going to switch to Debian, got any tips for me?[/QUOTE]

You'll use stable, realize all the packages are 4 years old, switch to unstable, your sounds won't work because some retard packaged ALSA wrong because of multiarch, and then you'll ragequit.

I'm not even joking about the ALSA thing, I tried testing on my laptop and had massive problems, gave up, two weeks after it I saw a link on reddit to a discussion where they were talking about packaging it for multiarch and it had been broken for fucking ages.

[Stonecycle]

Thinking about making a switch to Fedora. Anything to watch out for, like using yum instead of apt-get?

[nikomo]

It defaults to using free software as far as I remember, so you'll have to do some slight legwork to get shit like Flash.
And you won't be able to use random PPAs meant for Ubuntu etc.

Depends on your use case, I used it on my laptop for a bit and had no problems.

[Stonecycle]

[QUOTE=nikomo;42972706]
And you won't be able to use random PPAs meant for Ubuntu etc. [/QUOTE]

So essentially watch out for PPAs that don't explicitly say they should work for Fedora too? The lack of Flash shouldn't be a problem and would be nice to wean off of it.

[nikomo]

PPAs are built for Ubuntu, you can sometimes use them in Debian, but you cannot use them at all in Fedora.
The entire system is built on top of APT, and Fedora uses a different package manager.

[ipha]

I've never really been happy with any media player other than foobar2000, which sadly isn't available on linux. So after years of 'cd ~/Music/bla/foo; mplayer *' I've finally automated the process!

It gives you a nice colorful list of your music folder and offers to play the contents of your current directory.

[url]http://pastebin.com/MgKexrpR[/url]

and a similar version for videos that lists individual files and has an 'n' command that plays the next video in the list.
[url]http://pastebin.com/7GS3GzJR[/url]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/sIVfvNH.png[/img]

[lavacano]

foobar2000 was the one thing I actually got working OK in Wine. (In Safe Mode, but I think that's some component acting up)

[Leestons]

I use DeadBeeF, close enough to Foobar.

[shodan]

[QUOTE=Stonecycle;42972659]Thinking about making a switch to Fedora. Anything to watch out for, like using yum instead of apt-get?[/QUOTE]

if you want to install non-free(fsf) software you will need to add the RPMfusion repos.

su -c 'yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm'

[Jookia]

[QUOTE=Jookia;42956053]Eudoxia showed me his 'world_date' command, and after tons of tweaking I've finally come up with some monstrosity date translator in 40 lines of bash:

[jookia@jookia-arch ~]% multidate
Sydney   (UTC +11:00) 2013-11-24 Sun 12:06AM
Germany  (UTC +01:00) 2013-11-23 Sat  2:06PM
London   (UTC +00:00) 2013-11-23 Sat  1:06PM
[jookia@jookia-arch ~]% multidate "8pm today" "london"
Sydney   (UTC +11:00) 2013-11-25 Mon  7:00AM
Germany  (UTC +01:00) 2013-11-23 Sat  9:00PM
London   (UTC +00:00) 2013-11-23 Sat  8:00PM

So yeah. I'll post the code sometime soon once I clean it up. Any suggestions?[/QUOTE]

#! /bin/zsh
# Usage: multidate [date] [timezone]

# A table of aliases, used to print and specify as a timezone.
# Alignment is important for the output.
ALIASES="\
  Sydney  ,Australia/Sydney
  Germany ,Europe/Berlin
  London  ,Europe/London"

if [[ "$#" > 2 ]]; then echo "Usage: multidate [date] [timezone]"; exit 1; fi

TIME="$1" # The time to be transformed across timezones.
ZONE="$2" # The timezone TIME belongs to.

if [[ "$TIME" == "" ]]; then TIME="now";            fi
if [[ "$ZONE" == "" ]]; then ZONE="/etc/localtime"; fi

# Some quick tools used on the table when reading rows.
ALIAS() { cut -f1 -d"," <<< $row }
TZONE() { cut -f2 -d"," <<< $row }

# Go through the table and see if ZONE is an alias.
while read row; do
  # Strips alignment and lowers the case of a string, useful for comparison.
  # $1 is the string.
  CLEAN() { sed -e "s/ *$//g" <<< $1 | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]" }
  
  # IF ZONE matches an alias, Set it to the alias' zoneinfo name.
  if [[ "$(CLEAN "$ZONE")" == "$(CLEAN "$(ALIAS)")" ]]; then ZONE="$(TZONE)"; fi
done <<< $ALIASES

# Prints TIME from ZONE, given a timezone.
# $1 is a user friendly alias of the zone, with alignment.
# $2 is the zone's zoneinfo name.
DATE()
{
  # While the manual page states that you can write something like this:
  # $ date --date="TZ=\"US/Eastern\" Jan 1 1970"
  # It doesn't seem to work when it comes to relative things like 'now', so to
  # get around that, calculate the date first then display it using
  # environmental variables.
  ISO_DATE="$(TZ=$ZONE date --iso-8601=ns --date=$TIME)"
  if [[ $? != 0 ]]; then exit 1; fi # Abort if date fails.
  TZ="$2" date --date=$ISO_DATE "+$1 (UTC %:z) %Y-%m-%d %a %l:%M%p"
}

# For each row of ALIASES, run DATE with each of its columns.
while read row; do DATE "$(ALIAS)" "$(TZONE)"; done <<< $ALIASES

Pretty bad, only runs in zsh, etc. Have at it.

[naelstrof]

[QUOTE=IpHa;42972886]I've never really been happy with any media player other than foobar2000, which sadly isn't available on linux. So after years of 'cd ~/Music/bla/foo; mplayer *' I've finally automated the process!

It gives you a nice colorful list of your music folder and offers to play the contents of your current directory.

[url]http://pastebin.com/MgKexrpR[/url]

and a similar version for videos that lists individual files and has an 'n' command that plays the next video in the list.
[url]http://pastebin.com/7GS3GzJR[/url]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/sIVfvNH.png[/img][/QUOTE]

That's awesome that you made something personally for you that works exactly the way you want it!
However, what's wrong with the existing music players?
Banshee, Rhythmbox, Amarok, and VLC are all fully fledged GUI music players. While things like beets and MPD can give you a great cli/daemon player if you need it.

I made a post about different music players here and their features, I included videos and pictures: [url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1326923&p=42930038&viewfull=1#post42930038[/url]

My particular favorite currently is [url=http://farmpolice.com/content/images/e5716fd4.png]Rhythmbox[/url], because it follows my gtk theme the best while having neato notification features that let you pause and play music from the Gnome notification bar,