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OP needs more opensuse.org opensuse 12.3 is a masterpiece

Added openSUSE to the OP. I think we have the most popular distros in the OP now. [editline]5th May 2013[/editline] Also I just noticed that Debian 7 is out now.

[QUOTE=Rayjingstorm;40535727]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?[/QUOTE] using vgaswitcheroo to "OFF" the dgpu and blacklisting the kernel module is how it's done in software iirc.

[QUOTE=danharibo;40536644]using vgaswitcheroo to "OFF" the dgpu and blacklisting the kernel module is how it's done in software iirc.[/QUOTE] I probably won't get to mess with it until next weekend, because trying to do it over steam chat isn't feasible. Just installing Bumblebee apparently messes with the screen resolution, but I'm not sure why.

[QUOTE=nikomo;40533323]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] I'd rather not use a res hack just in case I decide I want to go on Battle.net. [QUOTE=Killervalon;40534244]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.[/QUOTE] VirtualBox scale mode looks promising, however, my problem is I shouldn't have to open up a VM and have an entire second OS running when the game itself runs just fine with Wine.

[url]https://e18releasemanager.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/bigass-update/[/url] looks like E18 will be released in a few months. Its not Enlightenment unless it releases every 10 years! D:

On my Ubuntu Server with vsftpd. Made a custom account for ftp. I have a bit of a problem. When I upload stuff, it's chmod 600 by default? I can change it manually but it pisses me off when I upload stuff.

[QUOTE=Killervalon;40547193]On my Ubuntu Server with vsftpd. Made a custom account for ftp. I have a bit of a problem. When I upload stuff, it's chmod 600 by default? I can change it manually but it pisses me off when I upload stuff.[/QUOTE] Change local_umask to 022.

whats so special about wayland display server?

It throws out a lot of the junk that has found it's way into X over the years, and is generally just a whole lot simpler. There's a lot of information on the "Why" question on the [url=http://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html]website[/url].

[QUOTE=IpHa;40547237]Change local_umask to 022.[/QUOTE] Thanks.. Changed it immediatly but didnt test for a while.

[QUOTE=danharibo;40547560]It throws out a lot of the junk that has found it's way into X over the years, and is generally just a whole lot simpler. There's a lot of information on the "Why" question on the [url=http://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html]website[/url].[/QUOTE] I don't believe Wayland is the answer, but X is definitely the problem.

[QUOTE=Van-man;40548474]I don't believe Wayland is the answer, but X is definitely the problem.[/QUOTE] What is wrong with Wayland?

[QUOTE=danharibo;40548582]What is wrong with Wayland?[/QUOTE] Bit iffy about some things of it, still miles better than X though. And Mir is gonna end up stillborn, due to canonical being cunts once more

I've researched this Wayland thing a bit - I guess with time it'll get better. I will try it some time later, when it supports XFCE.

If I read that E18releasemanager post correctly, it seems that Wayland doesn't have minimize support in its protocol. Seeing as its basically at the final version of the protocol (no major changes from here on out) that's rather..concerning.

[QUOTE=Lyoko774;40550384]If I read that E18releasemanager post correctly, it seems that Wayland doesn't have minimize support in its protocol. Seeing as its basically at the final version of the protocol (no major changes from here on out) that's rather..concerning.[/QUOTE] That's one of the parts that concerns me, although it could've have been put on the backburner for some weird reason and they're still working on it.

I have hit an odd problem and I need advice. I have an assignment that requires me to complete a kernel module for the RS232 interface. To do this, our teacher gave us two VMs that have Ubuntu 6.06 installed with a customized 2.6 kernel with the RS232 module stripped out. I don't want to develop on two old ass ubuntu VMs. I want to develop on my host and build/run the code on the VM. So far, in my VMs, I have mounted the project folder on my host using sshfs. Everything works so far. I can run make, and the app will compile. The problem is that this is a kernel module and it needs to be loaded. To do so, the make command needs to be run as root. To be specific: [code]sudo make run[/code] This spits out the following errors: [code] ift320@ift320-desktop:~/workdir$ sudo make run make: stat: GNUmakefile: Permission denied make: stat: makefile: Permission denied make: stat: Makefile: Permission denied make: stat: run: Permission denied make: *** No rule to make target `run'. Stop. [/code] When I try to stat any of the files in my sshfs mount as root, I get a similar permission denied error. I'm pretty sure sshfs is to blame here, but I'm not sure what I should do. Any ideas? [b]Edit:[/b] This is how the dir is mounted [code]sshfs boris@vmhost:Programming/school/summer_2013/ift320_tp1 workdir[/code]

try mounting as root@vmhost also it might try to pull kernel shit from your host machine's kernel instead of the VM's kernel if you're not going to do it from within the VM.

I fixed my problem. [url]http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7961346/mpd-permission-denied-when-using-sshfs-how-to-change-permissions[/url] Turns out it had to do with my fuse config. I needed to added [code]user_allow_other[/code] to /etc/fuse.conf and I needed to run my mount sshfs command with [code]-o allow_other[/code]

Ubuntu 13.04 seems very weird with icedtea

What's the difference between Xubuntu and Linux Mint Xfce? I did some googling and didn't get much info, except that Mint Xfce comes with some more stuff installed by default.

[QUOTE=ShaunOfTheLive;40567662]What's the difference between Xubuntu and Linux Mint Xfce? I did some googling and didn't get much info, except that Mint Xfce comes with some more stuff installed by default.[/QUOTE] Xubuntu is just ubuntu with XFCE Linux mint XFCE is mint with the XFCE DE. Mint XFCE is basically ubuntu with mint specific changes/additions + XFCE.

So uvesafb apparently doesn't like me [code]nick@shuttlecraft ~ $ dmesg | grep uvesafb [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/kernels/2013-05-02 root=/dev/sda6 net.ifnames=0 video=uvesafb:1600x1200-32,mtrr:3,ywrap [ 1.358196] uvesafb: failed to execute /sbin/v86d [ 1.358273] uvesafb: make sure that the v86d helper is installed and executable [ 1.358396] uvesafb: Getting VBE info block failed (eax=0x4f00, err=-2) [ 1.358474] uvesafb: vbe_init() failed with -22 [ 1.358553] uvesafb: probe of uvesafb.0 failed with error -22 nick@shuttlecraft ~ $ stat /sbin/v86d File: ‘/sbin/v86d’ Size: 25052 Blocks: 56 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 806h/2054d Inode: 4432237 Links: 1 Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2013-05-08 13:47:38.000000000 -0700 Modify: 2013-05-08 13:47:38.000000000 -0700 Change: 2013-05-08 13:47:40.000000000 -0700 Birth: -[/code] Any ideas?

Ubuntu 13.04 was a complete failure and probably the worst upgrade in my opinion. Wouldn't recommend it if you already have a good running system and you're just curious about it. On the other hand, if you're new to Linux or need a fresh install regardless I guess it's okay to try out.

[QUOTE=Moofy;40580186]Ubuntu 13.04 was a complete failure and probably the worst upgrade in my opinion. Wouldn't recommend it if you already have a good running system and you're just curious about it. On the other hand, if you're new to Linux or need a fresh install regardless I guess it's okay to try out.[/QUOTE] What happened?

I hate that typing directly in Nautilus now directly starts to search, but other than that, I have no problems with it.

[QUOTE=kaukassus;40580463]What happened?[/QUOTE] Basically the stuff works and all but generally my icedtea being slow is a pain in the ass. Now I'm running Mint 14 with Cinnamon and my icedtea is still slow, it worked quite well on Xubuntu 12.04 with Chromium but seriously this is just annoying as fuck.

I'm having trouble getting my second monitor to work with Linux. I'm running Linux Mint 14 with MATE and whenever I try to enable my second monitor (which it recognizes), it crashes with this error: [code][ 68.505963] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) [ 68.506029] IP: [<ffffffff81413745>] intel_gtt_map_memory+0x75/0x160 ... [ 68.506255] Call Trace: [ 68.506257] [<ffffffffa01c2f1a>] i915_gem_gtt_prepare_object+0x4a/0x50 [i915] [ 68.506268] [<ffffffffa01ba798>] i915_gem_object_bind_to_gtt+0x278/0x4a0 [i915] [ 68.506273] [<ffffffffa01bd8ff>] i915_gem_object_pin+0x11f/0x1b0 [i915] [ 68.506278] [<ffffffffa01bda18>] i915_gem_object_pin_to_display_plane+0x88/0x100 [i915] [ 68.506283] [<ffffffffa01ce3c6>] intel_pin_and_fence_fb_obj+0x56/0x120 [i915] [ 68.506289] [<ffffffff8167f42d>] ? mutex_lock+0x1d/0x50 [ 68.506292] [<ffffffffa01ced1d>] intel_pipe_set_base+0x7d/0x230 [i915] [ 68.506297] [<ffffffffa00f0f1c>] drm_crtc_helper_set_config+0x78c/0xb10 [drm_kms_helper] [ 68.506300] [<ffffffffa013e027>] drm_mode_setcrtc+0x127/0x5c0 [drm] [ 68.506300] [<ffffffffa01c82c3>] ? intel_crtc_gamma_set+0x63/0x70 [i915] [ 68.506309] [<ffffffffa012e5f3>] drm_ioctl+0x4d3/0x580 [drm] [ 68.506315] [<ffffffffa013df00>] ? drm_mode_setplane+0x380/0x380 [drm] [ 68.506319] [<ffffffff81193909>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x99/0x590 [ 68.506324] [<ffffffff81193e99>] sys_ioctl+0x99/0xa0 [ 68.506326] [<ffffffff81689d29>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b ...[/code] Most of the other stuff was just the contents of the registers. Does Linux dump the error into a log file or something so I can post the whole thing? I'm really new to Linux so I'm not too sure what I'm doing. Also, I tried Ubuntu 12.10 before and I got a similar error when trying to enable the second monitor. The weird thing is that when it's booting it shows the loading screen on the second monitor (with the first monitor blank), but then when it gets to the login screen it switches.

Could someone paste me the hl2.sh that comes with TF2 please?