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

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[QUOTE=Shotz;44552551]So, my nan who plays flash based bingo and checks her banks on her laptop constantly complains how flash keeps crashing and has literally put in the bug reporter box for Firefox "fuck off" when it asks her too. She has a piece of shit net book running bloated MSI Windows 7 Starter, so I was thinking to at least dual boot a Linux distro on it, thing is, I'm unsure which would be best for a 70 year old grandmother. So what Distro would be best and most "compatible" for her? I was thinking Mint but I'm unsure how well it will run on that Netbook, should I try MATE instead of Cinnamon if I do go with Mint? Another lightweight option I had in mind would be Lubuntu but I'm unsure how she'll feel on it. So what do?[/QUOTE] Linux will be [b]a lot[/b] faster, but the part that worries me is sometimes Flash can run a bit slower on Linux, it might be ok with scrabble though

[QUOTE=djjkxbox360;44553663]Linux will be [b]a lot[/b] faster, but the part that worries me is sometimes Flash can run a bit slower on Linux, it might be ok with scrabble though[/QUOTE] For me programs are slower to start for the first time than on windows. It's really annoying.

[QUOTE=FPtje;44554239]For me programs are slower to start for the first time than on windows. It's really annoying.[/QUOTE] for me it has usually been the other way around. most of the performance issues I'm having with linux must be related to games and flash

[QUOTE=Shotz;44552551]So, my nan who plays flash based bingo and checks her banks on her laptop constantly complains how flash keeps crashing and has literally put in the bug reporter box for Firefox "fuck off" when it asks her too. She has a piece of shit net book running bloated MSI Windows 7 Starter, so I was thinking to at least dual boot a Linux distro on it, thing is, I'm unsure which would be best for a 70 year old grandmother. So what Distro would be best and most "compatible" for her? I was thinking Mint but I'm unsure how well it will run on that Netbook, should I try MATE instead of Cinnamon if I do go with Mint? Another lightweight option I had in mind would be Lubuntu but I'm unsure how she'll feel on it. So what do?[/QUOTE] Put on Arch, use a light window manager like Openbox, and a light dock like Plank. Tint2 is a good panel. Arch will give you better performance and less bloat [editline]15th April 2014[/editline] And if you're using Flash, [B]don't use the Linux version[/B]. Use Pipelight: [url]http://fds-team.de/cms/pipelight-installation.html[/url] Flash on Linux is unsupported now and slow as fuck. Pipelight uses the Windows version, and it's much faster.

[QUOTE=rilez;44555062]Put on Arch, use a light window manager like Openbox, and a light dock like Plank. Tint2 is a good panel. Arch will give you better performance and less bloat [editline]15th April 2014[/editline] And if you're using Flash, [B]don't use the Linux version[/B]. Use Pipelight: [url]http://fds-team.de/cms/pipelight-installation.html[/url] Flash on Linux is unsupported now and slow as fuck. Pipelight uses the Windows version, and it's much faster.[/QUOTE] While this is possibly true, I never really had any issue with it. I'm running Arch Linux with KDE on a ATi Radeon HD 4670 and I can view YouTube videos in Flash through Firefox at 1080p just fine. Even back when I had GNOME and XFCE it worked just fine. I am using the open source drivers by the way.

I need some help guys. I threw together a media PC from some parts I had laying around, and installed Debian on it. There are two problems: 1. Sound over HDMI doesn't work. The graphics card is an HD 4770. I've got firmware-linux-nonfree, libgl-mesa-dri and xserver-xorg-video-ati installed. The card shows up in the sound settings (I'm using gnome 3), but it there is no sound when it's selected as the output device, and when I run a speaker test in the sound settings menu, there is no sound either. 2. Flash videos in chomium play at really high speed. This happens both on youtube and on twitch.tv. I've installed pepperflashplugin-nonfree from the testing repo. Do you guys have any suggestions? I can live without HDMI audio, but I really need flash video playback to behave correctly. Edit: The video playback issue is not restricted to flash. It also happens in html5 video and the default video player that gets installed if you select desktop environment when installing debian. Edit2: Issue #2 only happens when HDMI audio is selected, so the two seem to be related. Edit3: I fixed it. Apparently HDMI audio is disabled by default, because it can break video on some systems. I added radeon.audio=1 in the grub config, and that did it.

[QUOTE=mastersrp;44555156]While this is possibly true, I never really had any issue with it. I'm running Arch Linux with KDE on a ATi Radeon HD 4670 and I can view YouTube videos in Flash through Firefox at 1080p just fine. Even back when I had GNOME and XFCE it worked just fine. I am using the open source drivers by the way.[/QUOTE] You can view them, sure. The Linux version has higher CPU usage. It has nothing to do with your GPU as far as I'm aware. Linux Flash brings Firefox scrolling to a crawl. Pipelight doesn't. If you're on a netbook, this is a big deal. I'm on a fairly powerful desktop and it was pretty bad.

[QUOTE=rilez;44555062]Put on Arch, use a light window manager like Openbox, and a light dock like Plank. Tint2 is a good panel. Arch will give you better performance and less bloat [editline]15th April 2014[/editline] And if you're using Flash, [B]don't use the Linux version[/B]. Use Pipelight: [url]http://fds-team.de/cms/pipelight-installation.html[/url] Flash on Linux is unsupported now and slow as fuck. Pipelight uses the Windows version, and it's much faster.[/QUOTE] Chrome's pepper plugin is still maintained and supported too, IIRC.

That too, but he said she used Firefox. Not sure he'd want to switch her browser. [editline]15th April 2014[/editline] Piplight also has the added benefit of Silverlight. I know Netflix uses it. TWC also uses it for TV streaming. So there's that too.

[QUOTE=rilez;44556047]That too, but he said she used Firefox. Not sure he'd want to switch her browser. [editline]15th April 2014[/editline] Piplight also has the added benefit of Silverlight. I know Netflix uses it. TWC also uses it for TV streaming. So there's that too.[/QUOTE] I didn't think Netflix would work due to DRM.

Moonlight doesn't support DRM, Pipelight does. [editline]15th April 2014[/editline] Pipelight also supports Unity3D now, I forgot.

[QUOTE=rilez;44556367]Moonlight doesn't support DRM, Pipelight does. [editline]15th April 2014[/editline] Pipelight also supports Unity3D now, I forgot.[/QUOTE] And you only shared this knowledge with us now because?

I've never heard of Pipelight before, have to give it a try now that I know about it

Welp, I gave her a go on Linux Mint and the flash crashing problems she got on Windows still occur so she said "I'll just have to put up with this then" :(

I'd put sleeping pills in her evening drink and silently install Arch Linux and make it look the same as Mint, and then install Pipelight and Firefox. No one has to put up with faulty things.

Anyone running with a high DPI display? If so, in general, what is the software support like?

[QUOTE=ben1066;44560540]Anyone running with a high DPI display? If so, in general, what is the software support like?[/QUOTE] Last time I checked, Gnome 3 does a good job in DPI Scaling. KDI is good too.

Alright, so this might be a bit urgent or whatever, but I've been googling for too long now and it has to stop. So I have some sort of Access Database on my desktop machine that I need to convert to ANY other format for reading. Now, I've tried LibreOffice, OpenOffice in Wine, and I couldn't find any solution to this problem on the net. I do NOT have access to a Windows machine. Any takers?

[QUOTE=mastersrp;44561727]Alright, so this might be a bit urgent or whatever, but I've been googling for too long now and it has to stop. So I have some sort of Access Database on my desktop machine that I need to convert to ANY other format for reading. Now, I've tried LibreOffice, OpenOffice in Wine, and I couldn't find any solution to this problem on the net. I do NOT have access to a Windows machine. Any takers?[/QUOTE] try [url]http://sourceforge.net/projects/mdbtools/[/url] or [url]http://jackcess.sourceforge.net/[/url]

[QUOTE=Little Donny;44562271]try [url]http://sourceforge.net/projects/mdbtools/[/url] or [url]http://jackcess.sourceforge.net/[/url][/QUOTE] As I wrote, I had already searched on Google for this issue. Jackcess is a library, and I'm not a java programmer. As far as I can tell, the first one only opens MDB files. To clarify, I'm stuck here with a ACCDB file.

[QUOTE=kaukassus;44560665]Last time I checked, Gnome 3 does a good job in DPI Scaling. KDI is good too.[/QUOTE] I don't currently use either Gnome or KDE for my DE, I use i3 and a few things. I know that Chrome is broken I think which is the biggest issue for me currently.

[QUOTE=mastersrp;44562376]As I wrote, I had already searched on Google for this issue. Jackcess is a library, and I'm not a java programmer. As far as I can tell, the first one only opens MDB files. To clarify, I'm stuck here with a ACCDB file.[/QUOTE] so I'm assuming you've seen [URL]http://askubuntu.com/questions/342925/opening-an-accdb-file-in-ubuntu[/URL] given that it's the third result for me under "ACCDB linux" and there's a reason why you couldn't use the first answer's solution?

[QUOTE=Em See;44563442]so I'm assuming you've seen [URL]http://askubuntu.com/questions/342925/opening-an-accdb-file-in-ubuntu[/URL] given that it's the third result for me under "ACCDB linux" and there's a reason why you couldn't use the first answer's solution?[/QUOTE] It doesn't seem to be working. I tried it, and it crashes when I tried.

Hey kaukassus where you at Been messing with that AUI script you posted. It suggests I run pacman -Syu first. If you do that from the LiveCD, file systems aren't recognized, and I can't install from AIS. If I run AIS first, some things seem to not work (most importantly, its not putting my boot partition in fstab) Any idea? Is there a way for me to restart the LiveCD without discarding the updates?

Is your installation medium up-to-date? Just wondering. I tried with "archlinux-2014.04.01-dual.iso" and it worked fine. [editline]17th April 2014[/editline] So according to the Ubuntu Roadmap, the Ubuntu 14.04 Release should be out today. Looking at the Daily builds, I wonder if those are the final builds for 14.04 [url]http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/[/url] I need to know this, because today I have to migrate some Servers from 8.04 to 14.04, and it would be nice if I could do this today. Can anyone tell me if those are the final builds, or if I can upgrade to the Final release once it's out? [editline]17th April 2014[/editline] Ah I messed up, those are the desktop builds. Looks like the Server builds are still from 2014.04.16 [url]http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-server/daily/current/[/url]

Yeah, this ISO is new. Did you run SYU before the script? If i uodate, it updates the kernel which doesnt recognize the new file systems. I can get the script to install if I don't, but some things don't work. It doesn't recognize my boot partition, and doesn't install the bootloader correctly because of that. If I fix that and boot into the install, my wired connection doesn't work. Disabling/enabling dhcpcd.service doesn't work. Ive also tried installing Arch manually, which still works, then running the AUI script afterwards. After certain steps it tries to "update packages" which sits and never actually does anything. Can't tell if this is something I'm doing wrong or a bug or what

Every time I use the AUI after the base install Pacman always freaks out because it can't find the right dependancies.

Every time I install Arch manually like a manly man, it works fine.

I still don't get why people go though the effort of installing it manually.