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

ALSA should work fine out of the box. Make sure your volume levels are correct though. Maybe installing Pulse didn't go smoothly? For monitor setup I just put an xrandr command in ~/.config/openbox/autostart.

With Windows, I can run one of my monitors off my Intel GPU and 2 on my nVidia GPU so I can get 3 monitors (lack of ports on GPU), is there anyway to do this in Linux, I'm on Xubuntu 14.04 if you're wondering.

[QUOTE=Shotz;44600920]With Windows, I can run one of my monitors off my Intel GPU and 2 on my nVidia GPU so I can get 3 monitors (lack of ports on GPU), is there anyway to do this in Linux, I'm on Xubuntu 14.04 if you're wondering.[/QUOTE] I tried this about 5 months ago, unless something has changed the answer is no, unless nouveau is acceptable.

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;44600434]I installed arch. Now I just need to figure out the following. Why isn't audio working even though I installed ALSA and Pulseaudio How the fuck do I set up my 2nd monitor!? misc Properitary drivers seem to work for my videocard and I just compiled wine for pipelight. It litterly took 2 hours to do that... [editline]21st April 2014[/editline] [code]ls /home/shodan -a . .. .bash_history .bashrc .bzr.log .cache .config Desktop .dircolors .dircolors_256 Documents Downloads .esd_auth .gnupg .gstreamer-0.10 .local .mozilla Music .nanorc Pictures proc <- WTF is this doing here Public Templates var <- WAIT WHAT Videos .wine-pipelight .Xauthority .xinitrc .yaourtrc [/code] :suicide:[/QUOTE] For audio, what DE/WM are you using? Also, make sure your master channel is unmuted in alsamixer. 2nd monitor depends on your graphics card and DE/WM. I only use one monitor, so try here: [URL]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xorg#Multiple_monitors[/URL] Pipelight has Arch Linux repositories, so you didn't really need to do that [URL]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unofficial_user_repositories#pipelight[/URL] proc is for system processes and var is for temporary files. I know Arch puts the pacman and ABS cache in var for example.

I can't for the life of me, figure out how to install the VMWare Vsphere client plugin under Arch. The original .bundle file expects you to be using init.d. I thought I found a script, but half of them go to the wrong directories, and even then, it still doesn't work. Compounding on top of the fact that I don't fully understand system.d. Its mind boggingly infuriating, and there's so little documentation out there on installing the plugin on Arch, its astounding (a grand total of one forum post, and an PKGBUILD file). I'm giving up and just installing a Windows VM for this. Its just going to save me the headache.

Install and run pavucontrol, probably have master channel muted in PulseAudio.

I reinstalled arch again and this time I managed to break the video card drivers by installing the catalyst drivers. The easy part is installing arch. The hard part is configuring it.

Stop hating freedom and use the open drivers. Unless you really need the 3D performance.

I'll give it another shot tomorrow. Don't feel like wasting another day on it today

[QUOTE=nikomo;44603843]Stop hating freedom and use the open drivers. Unless you really need the 3D performance.[/QUOTE] Unless it's nvidia. The nouveau drivers are terrible. just moving windows makes the machine lag.

[QUOTE=rilez;44601754]For audio, what DE/WM are you using? Also, make sure your master channel is unmuted in alsamixer. 2nd monitor depends on your graphics card and DE/WM. I only use one monitor, so try here: [URL]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xorg#Multiple_monitors[/URL] Pipelight has Arch Linux repositories, so you didn't really need to do that [URL]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unofficial_user_repositories#pipelight[/URL] proc is for system processes and var is for temporary files. I know Arch puts the pacman and ABS cache in var for example.[/QUOTE] Yeah but why are var and proc in his home directory...

[QUOTE=rilez;44601754]proc is for system processes and var is for temporary files. I know Arch puts the pacman and ABS cache in var for example.[/QUOTE] But those shouldn't be in his home folder. My only guess is that some custom build script had its prefix set to his home dir. Odd.

I have no proc or var in my home folder, because I installed my OS by hand, like a man. A manly man.

[QUOTE=ben1066;44604127]Yeah but why are var and proc in his home directory...[/QUOTE] Oops, yeah those shouldn't be there

[QUOTE=nikomo;44605738]I have no proc or var in my home folder, because I installed my OS by hand, like a man. A manly man.[/QUOTE] So did I... I found out what the issue was though. I messed up a yaourt install

Real manly men use makepkg -s and pacman -U

A little late but here is my setup. [IMG_THUMB]http://i.imgur.com/2Ah5zSe.jpg[/IMG_THUMB] WM is Awesome, modified theme from awesome-copycats.

[QUOTE=rilez;44607329]Real manly men use makepkg -s and pacman -U[/QUOTE] makepkg -si

[QUOTE=Larikang;44607920]makepkg -si[/QUOTE] You can do this, but sometimes I check the package before I install it (pacman -Qlp)

[QUOTE=Larikang;44607920]makepkg -si[/QUOTE] If you're just blindly making and installing the package then there really is no difference to yaourt, packer, pacaur or whatever you want to use... I use pacaur simply because it's easier, but you can still view and edit the PKGBUILD if you want/need to. It also makes getting the dependencies easier.

[QUOTE=rilez;44608644]You can do this, but sometimes I check the package before I install it (pacman -Qlp)[/QUOTE] What is the reason for doing this? All the problems I've had with AUR packages are caught during build or install.

[QUOTE=Larikang;44613349]What is the reason for doing this? All the problems I've had with AUR packages are caught during build or install.[/QUOTE] Maybe you need to rebuild certain other AUR packages if you've just updated a library? [editline]22nd April 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Demache;44602057]I can't for the life of me, figure out how to install the VMWare Vsphere client plugin under Arch. The original .bundle file expects you to be using init.d. I thought I found a script, but half of them go to the wrong directories, and even then, it still doesn't work. Compounding on top of the fact that I don't fully understand system.d. Its mind boggingly infuriating, and there's so little documentation out there on installing the plugin on Arch, its astounding (a grand total of one forum post, and an PKGBUILD file). I'm giving up and just installing a Windows VM for this. Its just going to save me the headache.[/QUOTE] There's no SysV compatibility layer for systemd?

[QUOTE=lavacano;44616832]Maybe you need to rebuild certain other AUR packages if you've just updated a library? [editline]22nd April 2014[/editline] There's no SysV compatibility layer for systemd?[/QUOTE] I think there is. Problem is, I have to try and figure how to decipher how it would be installed with sysV. I'm probably retarded or something. :v:

I got mad at the fact that if you want OSS redirection worth a damn, you have to use a script like aoss or padsp. So I made a bullshit script to fix that. I'm posting it here because someone else is going to have this fucking problem sooner or later. /usr/local/bin/oss-redirection-script: [code]#!/bin/bash [ -z $OSS_REDIRECT ] && OSS_REDIRECT="aoss" PROBABLE_TARGET=$(which -a $(basename $0) | sed -n "2 p") $OSS_REDIRECT $PROBABLE_TARGET "$@"[/code] Setup for a particular program (using xgalaga as an example): [code]root # cd /usr/local/bin root # ln -s oss-redirection-script xgalaga[/code] then assuming /usr/local/bin is in your path, it takes the [b]second[/b] line of "which -a xgalaga" and runs that with arguments. set OSS_REDIRECT in your shell rc and/or export it if you want to use something other than aoss (like padsp). Not perfectly transparent but it works.

My Internet connection becomes really unstable when I download games using Steam. When that happens, the download speed in the Steam client drops and most of the other connections timeout. Even if I stop the download, it takes a while before the Internet connection starts working again. I use this kernel module for my WiFi dongle: [url]https://github.com/dz0ny/rt8192cu[/url] I use it because the out-of-the-box kernel module in Linux Mint for the rtl8192cu chipset tends to die randomly, which means I have to physically unplug and plug the WiFi dongle back in. Since I thought the problem could have something to do with the driver being unable to handle multiple connections/requests at once, I tried downloading a torrent from what appears to be over 50 peers at the same time, and I'm not seeing any issues with stability.

ok so in the past few days i have managed to run StarCraft Brood War, Photoshop, Silverlight/Netflix and Oblivion all in Wine with acceptable-to-perfect results. Last month I would have told you that Brood War would work [b]maybe[/b]. I'm finally a believer in Wine, man.

My XUbuntu is in a quantum state between 13.10 and 14.04. The installation fucked up halfway and the system still boots. Half the packages appear to be updated, the other half are still 13.10. My laptop thinks it's 14.04, *shrug*. I'm afraid to update, though. I don't have the time to fix shit.

[QUOTE=lavacano;44621158]ok so in the past few days i have managed to run StarCraft Brood War, Photoshop, Silverlight/Netflix and Oblivion all in Wine with acceptable-to-perfect results. Last month I would have told you that Brood War would work [b]maybe[/b]. I'm finally a believer in Wine, man.[/QUOTE] and then lavacano became an alcoholic

[QUOTE=Lyokanthrope;44621199]and then lavacano became an alcoholic[/QUOTE] stumbling into banks asking what a guy has to do to get a sno-cone around here

Trying out Mint. Which desktop environment should I try? KDE, XFCE, Cinnamon. I liked Gnome, but it seemed buggy to me.