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

I feel like wrecking my clean Xubuntu just to try out Ubuntu 13.04

[QUOTE=FlashStock;40488123]I heard that there was a bug with HDMI sound not working with nVidia cards and Ubuntu, which can be solved by updating the kernel.. Or, you can go into sound settings and click on the 'hardware' tab and select the HDMI profile (it's at the bottom).[/QUOTE] Oh.. I think I remember doing this before. Something to do with "apt-get install linux-headers" and maybe the core... Or something like that.

[QUOTE=Lerlth;40482927]Thanks! You wouldn't happen to know how to get the HDMI sound output to work, would you? Thanks![/QUOTE] oh my fucking god, the shit I had to go through to get this working under arch was indescribable

[QUOTE=Generic.Monk;40495509]oh my fucking god, the shit I had to go through to get this working under arch was indescribable[/QUOTE] Could you describe it for me?

[QUOTE=Moofy;40491023]I feel like wrecking my clean Xubuntu just to try out Ubuntu 13.04[/QUOTE] Do it. It's so much faster than 12.10. You won't regret it, telling you that as someone who complained about 12.10 a lot.

[QUOTE=Naelstrom;40474450]You need to set your QT theme too, not just your GTK. XFCE's default themes come with both QT and GTK themes, make sure your Orion has them both too.[/QUOTE] Audacious and Evince aren't Qt applications. Furthermore, the few Qt packages I have look fine.

Ah, sorry. I don't know what's wrong then.

[QUOTE=Stonecycle;40496488]Do it. It's so much faster than 12.10. You won't regret it, telling you that as someone who complained about 12.10 a lot.[/QUOTE] The ONLY problem I've had with this install of 13.04 was that Steam acted sometimes like a bitch, but that's now fixed.

[QUOTE=Rayjingstorm;40495585]Could you describe it for me?[/QUOTE] actually no, it was that convoluted I've forgot most of the steps

I can tell you what I had to go through to get AMD Hybrid Graphics working in arch: 1) Install Linux Mint.

[QUOTE=danharibo;40507342]I can tell you what I had to go through to get AMD Hybrid Graphics working in arch: 1) Install Linux Mint.[/QUOTE] Thing is it was possible to get my nvidia hybrid graphics working on arch but it was so ridiculously finicky and unreliable I just lost interest

[QUOTE=Amiga OS;40507459]My bastard Audigy 2ZS is refusing to cooperate in Loonix again. I had the thing working years ago, you just enabled analog/digital output in alsamixer, only it doesn't work now. [editline]3rd May 2013[/editline] Also, Loonix can't into internal floppy drives, I mean I can write images to the floppy, but nautilus and disk-utils bitch about the drive being empty.[/QUOTE] Are you sure that pulseaudio doesn't have the driver? It has my xonar dg.

Why the hell can Fedora's generic video drivers output to 3 monitors (2 dvi, 1 hdmi) at once with my single 5770 while the AMD drivers (on both linux and windows) can't? I was under the assumption that it was a hardware limitation that it could only do two at a time but apparently it's not...

Wait, really? Now I'm pissed off, I have a TV that I've been wanting to use as a third screen with my 5770, but can't because I have 2 screens with DVI, and I would have to apparently get an active DisplayLink adapter for it.

[QUOTE=nikomo;40509141]Wait, really? Now I'm pissed off, I have a TV that I've been wanting to use as a third screen with my 5770, but can't because I have 2 screens with DVI, and I would have to apparently get an active DisplayLink adapter for it.[/QUOTE] Yeah that's what I thought too but when I first booted into the live cd to install to a partition on my hard drive the status bar/login screen wouldn't show up so I was like "wtf" Turns out it was on my TV (which was plugged in via HDMI but was set to COMP showing TV)

I had [URL="http://overviewer.org/"]Minecraft Overview[/URL] eat my VPS alive when it ran on its cronjob. Is there some way of limiting the amount of RAM and CPU it can use?

Not sure about straight-up limiting usage, but you could give it a really low priority with like, I think it's nice -n 15 COMMAND

My PC has the Intel HD Graphics thingy but I never ever experienced any problem installing video drivers. Just installing xf86-video-ati did the job perfectly. However, I want to remove the open source driver and install the proprietary one. Sadly, I have to downgrade xorg-server to 1.14.0, and when I do that, pacman cries because of some dependency issues. I don't really remember what the dependencies were, but I just installed the open source drivers again. How would I go to on to install the proprietary driver? I'm surprised how well the open source drivers work on my ATi Radeon HD5670; it runs Kerbal Space Program quite smoothly, only with a few hiccups here and there, but it's no big deal. However, what annoys me is that when I put [url=http://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/TT18-A_Launch_Stability_Enhancer]this[/url] part on my ship (multiple entities of it, mind you), pan the view so I see all of them, the whole desktop freezes up for a few seconds. Then it becomes a blank screen with a few artifacts for a second or two then everything becomes visible again. Mouse input is still recorded though. If I don't pan the view away from those parts while the screen's blackened out, I will suffer the same cycle. Is this a driver issue?

[QUOTE=Amiga OS;40507459]My bastard Audigy 2ZS is refusing to cooperate in Loonix again. I had the thing working years ago, you just enabled analog/digital output in alsamixer, only it doesn't work now. [editline]3rd May 2013[/editline] Also, Loonix can't into internal floppy drives, I mean I can write images to the floppy, but nautilus and disk-utils bitch about the drive being empty.[/QUOTE] Friends don't let friends use Loonix. Just say no to Loonix. [sub]Unless it's Xubuntu.[/sub]

Loonix? Loonix. What is Loonix? Sounds like some fancy use of wordplay. Linux.

Proprietary software is the spawn of all evil [sp]and Microsoft[/sp] [editline]3rd May 2013[/editline] [sp]Ignore the fact that I use a proprietary OS[/sp]

As mentioned [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1267523&p=40500615&viewfull=1#post40500615"]HERE,[/URL] I have had nothing but problems trying to install Proprietary ATI drivers so I can use more than the shitty Intel one that's part of my laptops hybrid-GPU setup. Tried all kids of guides, driver versions, ways of installing and even the most ancient driver supporting it, to the latest beta. And none of it worked. Even made a "fresh" install on a separate USB drive, made a image of it after updating packages, and then used that image as a base for testing. Yet still no success, Xorg just doesn't like it. Long story short, I need help from someone with experience with such GPU setup & Linux.

[QUOTE=Van-man;40513938]As mentioned [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1267523&p=40500615&viewfull=1#post40500615"]HERE,[/URL] I have had nothing but problems trying to install Proprietary ATI drivers so I can use more than the shitty Intel one that's part of my laptops hybrid-GPU setup. Tried all kids of guides, driver versions, ways of installing and even the most ancient driver supporting it, to the latest beta. And none of it worked. Even made a "fresh" install on a separate USB drive, made a image of it after updating packages, and then used that image as a base for testing. Yet still no success, Xorg just doesn't like it. Long story short, I need help from someone with experience with such GPU setup & Linux.[/QUOTE] It was a while ago but I had to enable the xorg-edgers ppa and install fglrx from there, then it worked once I used aticonfig to switch to the dgpu.

Portal Beta and Left 4 Dead 2 Beta have been added to Steam for Linux.

Super Meat Boy is giving me headaches. I installed it from the humble bundle V page, but when you try to run it, console reports [quote]Super Meat Boy: Installed in '.'. Super Meat Boy: Using amd64 version. X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 150 (XFree86-VidModeExtension) Minor opcode of failed request: 10 (XF86VidModeSwitchToMode) Value in failed request: 0x25f Serial number of failed request: 141 Current serial number in output stream: 143 [/quote] Is there any fix known for this?

It looks like it's trying to change to a resolution that you don't support/X thinks is nonsense. try deleting reg0.dat (that's where it looks like it keeps that setting), or if it has commandline args for setting resolution, use those

Speaking of resolution bullshit I'm running StarCraft Brood War in Wine. The game itself runs fine, however, it only runs in 640x480 due to it being a very old game. I can't run the game in fullscreen, because while it comes to my monitor at 640x480, it seems to be drawing to a 1280x960 area and then zooming in on 640x480 at a time (and starts panning around when I hit the edges, not exactly helpful in an RTS game). I can run the game in a "windowed mode" (Wine virtual desktop), however, if I resize the window to something larger than 640x480, it only renders in the top-left 640x480 and leaves the rest of the window size unused. So I need to do one of two things: - Resize the Wine virtual desktop in such a way that Wine believes the window size is 640x480 and renders accordingly, when the actual window size is approximately 1280x1024 - Make 640x480 fullscreen stop doing that 1280x960 render area bullshittery and be true 640x480. How would I do either? I'm using KDE and the proprietary NVidia drivers.

I'd try installing one of those resolution-hacks that float around for old games like that. I Google'd brood war resolution hack and a few interesting results popped up, but I haven't tried any of them.

[QUOTE=lavacano;40533159]Speaking of resolution bullshit I'm running StarCraft Brood War in Wine. The game itself runs fine, however, it only runs in 640x480 due to it being a very old game. I can't run the game in fullscreen, because while it comes to my monitor at 640x480, it seems to be drawing to a 1280x960 area and then zooming in on 640x480 at a time (and starts panning around when I hit the edges, not exactly helpful in an RTS game). I can run the game in a "windowed mode" (Wine virtual desktop), however, if I resize the window to something larger than 640x480, it only renders in the top-left 640x480 and leaves the rest of the window size unused. So I need to do one of two things: - Resize the Wine virtual desktop in such a way that Wine believes the window size is 640x480 and renders accordingly, when the actual window size is approximately 1280x1024 - Make 640x480 fullscreen stop doing that 1280x960 render area bullshittery and be true 640x480. How would I do either? I'm using KDE and the proprietary NVidia drivers.[/QUOTE] I tried running it with Wineskin on Mac.. Selecting some special units made it lag and the menu lagged too.. :S Now I'm runnning it in Virtualbox but I can't for the life of me scale the window.

Finally got a reluctant friend to try Ubuntu, and he had an old Windows 7 laptop on its last legs (which he had diagnosed as a hardware issue) which we brought back up to speed with Ubuntu 13.04 :v: The only catch is it has Optimus graphics, so it won't come back from Suspend... since he wants more battery life I would like to try to disable the discrete graphics completely and just run the Intel integrated. I haven't taken a closer look at the BIOS but it doesn't seem to be in there. What's the most sane way to get the same effect in software?