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

[QUOTE=Anderen2;43687552]Hmm, I'm really not sure. I just used the out-of-the-box drivers bundled with Kubuntu 13.10. After what I've understood the R900 drivers is an subset of the default AMD driver package. I have not tested Killing Floor, but I've tried Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, CSS, Portal and Garrys Mod, all with the highest settings and the performance I've got is very similar to Windows. Did you try the opensource drivers with the kernel you have now?[/QUOTE] yup. I have a feeling something is kinda wrong. whenever I start steam it gives me an error saying that direct rendering is not enabled and something yada yada about OpenGL. I can't launch L4D2 either since it complains about not finding the required OpenGL entry point. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/OjpY0ZO.png[/IMG] Planetary Annhilation won't launch at all, neither will Natural Selection 2. so I'm gonna bet there is something up with OpenGL?

[QUOTE=PredGD;43687592]yup. I have a feeling something is kinda wrong. whenever I start steam it gives me an error saying that direct rendering is not enabled and something yada yada about OpenGL. I can't launch L4D2 either since it complains about not finding the required OpenGL entry point. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/OjpY0ZO.png[/IMG] Planetary Annhilation won't launch at all, neither will Natural Selection 2. so I'm gonna bet there is something up with OpenGL?[/QUOTE] Hmm, I think I had that problem with Natural Selection 2 myself. I think that there are some missing OpenGL extensions that is not implemented yet in the opensource driver which NS2 requires.

[QUOTE=Anderen2;43687683]Hmm, I think I had that problem with Natural Selection 2 myself. I think that there are some missing OpenGL extensions that is not implemented yet in the opensource driver which NS2 requires.[/QUOTE] huh, last time I messed around with Arch I was playing some NS2. the performance wasn't all that great, but it worked. think I'll skim through the wiki page and see if there's anything about this issue. [editline]27th January 2014[/editline] hmm no, can't seem to find anything about OpenGL issues. ughh

Try installing the 32-bit counterparts of the drivers. lib32-ati-dri lib32-mesa lib32-mesa-libgl ... and so on.

[QUOTE=supervoltage;43687847]Try installing the 32-bit counterparts of the drivers. lib32-ati-dri lib32-mesa lib32-mesa-libgl ... and so on.[/QUOTE] are those for the catalyst drivers though? [editline]27th January 2014[/editline] [I]apparently[/I] I had forgotten to install lib32-catalyst-utils... :v: that explains why stuff didn't work properly!

It looks like Valve is still working on porting CS:GO to Linux: [url]http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTU4NDU[/url]

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;43686342][/QUOTE] Kinda meant more specifically, what bootloader, what partition type (MBR vs GPT)... Also made the mistake to build XBMC on a C2D box, just a little bit slow.

Alright Linux newbie here. So I am currently running Windows 8, but am ordering a second hard drive for Windows 7 since my drive is finnicky about downgrading. As such, I need to make use of the original drive somehow, so I figure I may as well stick a Linux distro on there. My question is, what would be the best distro for me? I plan on using it for watching movies, searching the web, and some word processing and other office tasks, and will be using it semi-heavily. I have already tried Ubuntu on an old laptop but it feels a bit plain to me :v:

I recommend steering way clear of Ubuntu anyway, I feel Canonical's decision making has gone down the tubes recently. You could have a go at Linux Mint, which I believe is an Ubuntu fork, or maybe openSUSE if that's still a thing. As for it feeling plain, you can always install a bunch of things to spice it to your personal preferences.

[QUOTE=lavacano;43695085]I recommend steering way clear of Ubuntu anyway, I feel Canonical's decision making has gone down the tubes recently. You could have a go at Linux Mint, which I believe is an Ubuntu fork, or maybe openSUSE if that's still a thing. As for it feeling plain, you can always install a bunch of things to spice it to your personal preferences.[/QUOTE] I'll have to do that, cool now I got something else to look forward to tomorrow :dance:

I got a SSD the other day, but it's only connecting at 1.5 Gbps while my existing hard drive connects at 3.0 Gbps. I've tried swaping the cables and ports, but the SSD always connects at 1.5 Gbps. Anyone know what's going on? [editline]27th January 2014[/editline] Tried it in my laptop and it connected at 3.0 Gbps.

[QUOTE=jonnymad;43695114]I'll have to do that, cool now I got something else to look forward to tomorrow :dance:[/QUOTE] Yknow if Debain is your thing, theres a Linux Mint for Debain.

[QUOTE=smileykiller447;43696241]Yknow if Debain is your thing, theres a Linux Mint for Debain.[/QUOTE] I didn't want to recommend Debian because I wanted him to have relatively recent packages without him having to dick around in sources.list to get unstable [editline]28th January 2014[/editline] i didn't know Mint had a Debian flavor though

[QUOTE=jonnymad;43695043]Alright Linux newbie here. So I am currently running Windows 8, but am ordering a second hard drive for Windows 7 since my drive is finnicky about downgrading. As such, I need to make use of the original drive somehow, so I figure I may as well stick a Linux distro on there. My question is, what would be the best distro for me? I plan on using it for watching movies, searching the web, and some word processing and other office tasks, and will be using it semi-heavily. I have already tried Ubuntu on an old laptop but it feels a bit plain to me :v:[/QUOTE] I'd say fedora because it just has most of the stuff you need out of the box. You only need to run one (long) command to set it up 100%. [code]sudo 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; yum install xnoise gnome-tweak-tool steam git wget nano weechat weechat-curses clang gcc gzip bzip p7zip p7zip-plugins tar gstream*plugin*{.x86_64,.noarch} -y; wget "https://raw.github.com/Mechazawa/DotFiles/master/bin/unpack" ; chmod 755 unpack; chmod +x unpack; mv unpack /usr/bin/; '; echo "### Woop woop it's done! ###" ;echo "I installed a ton of codecs, an excelent media player (xnoise), steam, an unpack command etc etc etc"[/code] [editline]28th January 2014[/editline] you might want to use [url=http://satya164.deviantart.com/art/Numix-GTK3-theme-360223962]Numx (theme)[/url] and [url=http://deviantn7k1.deviantart.com/art/Nitrux-293634207]Nitrux (icons)[/url]. [code]unpack numix*; mkdir ~/.themes; mv Numix ~/.themes/[/code] The same for nitrux but instead of .themes use .icons and change the file name etc

[video=youtube;LeGHzhL24O8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeGHzhL24O8[/video] Here you guys go. Thought you'd find this interesting. Just got it today. 2Gb of DDR2.

So for some reason I can't increase inotify's max_user_watches on my ubuntu server vps. Does anyone have an idea how this could happen? [img]http://novaember.com/s/607988649.png[/img]

Installing Linux Mint on my laptop, made space on my SSD, and selected "Install alongside Windows". For some reason it went and [B]formatted the hard disk with all my data on instead[/B] and left the boot drive alone, FUCK. This after my desktop's PSU went bang today. Is there any chance I can recover my NTFS partition? I didn't let the installation complete beyond a few percent.

/g/ is currently making a wiki. It has a ton of usefull stuff but it needs more content. I've been contributing a lot and I think you guys might like it [url]http://wiki.installgentoo.com/[/url]

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;43704590]So for some reason I can't increase inotify's max_user_watches on my ubuntu server vps. Does anyone have an idea how this could happen? [img]http://novaember.com/s/607988649.png[/img][/QUOTE] Could have the unmodifiable bit ( chattr +i ) applied to something it needs to edit, or your harddrive could be full, but otherwise I don't know.

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;43704590]So for some reason I can't increase inotify's max_user_watches on my ubuntu server vps. Does anyone have an idea how this could happen? [img]http://novaember.com/s/607988649.png[/img][/QUOTE] Is it running on OpenVZ?

[QUOTE=IpHa;43706120]Is it running on OpenVZ?[/QUOTE] Yeah, is that an OpenVZ restriction?

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;43710266]Yeah, is that an OpenVZ restriction?[/QUOTE] Yes, with OpenVZ you share the same kernel with multiple other VMs. You cannot change any kernel parameters when you use OpenVZ.

[QUOTE=r0b0tsquid;43705013]Installing Linux Mint on my laptop, made space on my SSD, and selected "Install alongside Windows". For some reason it went and [B]formatted the hard disk with all my data on instead[/B] and left the boot drive alone, FUCK. This after my desktop's PSU went bang today. Is there any chance I can recover my NTFS partition? I didn't let the installation complete beyond a few percent.[/QUOTE] I think that depends on what you mean by "formatted". If it just changed the partition table, your data might still be intact. If it actually started making new file systems, you are probably out of luck.

[QUOTE=Larikang;43713819]I think that depends on what you mean by "formatted". If it just changed the partition table, your data might still be intact. If it actually started making new file systems, you are probably out of luck.[/QUOTE] He's not. Most formats do a quick format and don't actually wipe the data off of the hard drive in a secure manner, so the data could easily still be there. However, writing more data on the drive decreases this possibility.

Got my UEFI problem fixed by using BIOS instead. I installed Arch Linux quit easily after that, although I had a problem with what I think might've been overlapping drivers so I reinstalled Arch yet again and got it right this time. I'm still figuring more things out by thinking of new things to do and figuring out how to do them. Figured out bash scripting and some Linux commands as well. I'm actually thinking of adding a new partition with the Arch installation media on it and making a bash script that automatically installs Arch for me should the need arise, if this is even possible. I think it'd be handy to have around. Besides that, I'm still fussing over the small details and adding new things.

Quick question about power usage here. When I boot up powertop, I see an audio codec called "hwCOD1: Conexant" using up a constant 100.0% of my power. Other processes like chromium are significantly below that in power draw. My current power draw is ~29W. This cuts my battery life down to about 50 minutes from a full charge of battery, with the screen fully dimmed. Also, my laptop itself is quite hot. How can I/should I disable this hwCOD1: Conexant audio codec? I already added it to the blacklist.conf to no avail.

so played a round of some KF just now as a sharpshooter. and to my big surprise, the scopes doesn't render :v: [t]http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/597027342397109211/D446954CFA001560AB99F09FB1FB338B71A26E56/[/t] any clue what could be wrong?

[QUOTE=PredGD;43728819]so played a round of some KF just now as a sharpshooter. and to my big surprise, the scopes doesn't render :v: [t]http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/597027342397109211/D446954CFA001560AB99F09FB1FB338B71A26E56/[/t] any clue what could be wrong?[/QUOTE] What video drivers are you using? The shader version their using could be unsupported. Check the console for messages like [quote]scopevertexshader.vert: 0:1(10): error: GLSL 1.30 is not supported. Supported version are: 1.10, 1.20 and 1.00 ES[/quote] You can probably track down and edit the shader yourself to fix it, assuming it is actually a shader problem that isn't embedded into the program.

[QUOTE=Naelstrom;43729209]What video drivers are you using? The shader version their using could be unsupported. Check the console for messages like You can probably track down and edit the shader yourself to fix it, assuming it is actually a shader problem that isn't embedded into the program.[/QUOTE] using the latest catalyst drivers with downgraded xorg. will look for that next time I play some KF, thanks!

[QUOTE=thirty9th;43727358]Quick question about power usage here. When I boot up powertop, I see an audio codec called "hwCOD1: Conexant" using up a constant 100.0% of my power. Other processes like chromium are significantly below that in power draw. My current power draw is ~29W. This cuts my battery life down to about 50 minutes from a full charge of battery, with the screen fully dimmed. Also, my laptop itself is quite hot. How can I/should I disable this hwCOD1: Conexant audio codec? I already added it to the blacklist.conf to no avail.[/QUOTE] Powertop isn't very good at giving estimates about what is using power. What laptop do you have? It's probably something else using the power.