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

Okay, small question. So I just updated to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on my compaq nc6400. The problem is is that it's saying WIFI is disabled by a hard ware switch, but mine is refusing to work. I searched around and found that "sudo rfkill unblock all" should fix it, so I put that in but when I go into "rfkill list all", the wireless card that's stock with the laptop gives back "softblocked: no hardblocked: yes", but the usb one returns no to both, but I still can't connect to wifi through it. Any one have any idea what to do? I can elaborate more if needed.

Compiled new kernel, ripped out grsec and added some out-of-tree optimization patches. And I ran UnixBench on both old and new kernel. Before: [code] ======================================================================== BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3) System: Iris: GNU/Linux OS: GNU/Linux -- 3.14.1-2-grsec-nikomo -- #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Apr 26 04:42:44 EEST 2014 Machine: x86_64 (unknown) Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8") CPU 0: AMD E-450 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics (3294.4 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, AMD MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, AMD virtualization, SYSCALL/SYSRET CPU 1: AMD E-450 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics (3294.4 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, AMD MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, AMD virtualization, SYSCALL/SYSRET 08:10:06 up 2 days, 7:58, 2 users, load average: 0,96, 2,12, 4,40; runlevel unknown ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: la touko 10 2014 08:10:06 - 08:38:30 2 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests System Benchmarks Index Score 209.5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: la touko 10 2014 08:38:30 - 09:06:58 2 CPUs in system; running 2 parallel copies of tests System Benchmarks Index Score 424.8 [/code] After: [code] ======================================================================== BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.3) System: Iris: GNU/Linux OS: GNU/Linux -- 3.14.2-1-nikomo -- #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat May 10 07:08:46 EEST 2014 Machine: x86_64 (unknown) Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="UTF-8", collate="UTF-8") CPU 0: AMD E-450 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics (3294.2 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, AMD MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, AMD virtualization, SYSCALL/SYSRET CPU 1: AMD E-450 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics (3294.2 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, AMD MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, AMD virtualization, SYSCALL/SYSRET 09:11:12 up 1 min, 2 users, load average: 2,05, 0,66, 0,23; runlevel unknown ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: la touko 10 2014 09:11:12 - 09:39:16 2 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests System Benchmarks Index Score 305.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: la touko 10 2014 09:39:16 - 10:07:21 2 CPUs in system; running 2 parallel copies of tests System Benchmarks Index Score 606.0 [/code] 50% increase in single-core performance, almost same in parallel tests.

And why aren't these patches official?

[QUOTE=FPtje;44770567]And why aren't these patches official?[/QUOTE] have most likely some drawbacks

Installed Linux Mint on an SSD, what settings do I have to do to not wear it down? [editline]10th May 2014[/editline] Also I thought I'd just try to upgrade from mint 15 to 16 on a different PC through apt-get, noone warned me, I'm 2 hours into dependency mumbojumbo now. [editline]10th May 2014[/editline] Namely I need to locate the SWAP file on my HDD not on my SSD, I use Matlab quite a lot and sometimes I need to get more memory than my 4GB.

[QUOTE=kaukassus;44770608]have most likely some drawbacks[/QUOTE] It would be ideal as a patch for the kernel used in raspbian etc. Can I get the patch? I want to compile it and run some tests on my pi.

I don't seem to have the applets dialogue in the system settings. Any ideas?

I finally got Linux working, don't know why it says I'm on windows though. The only problem now is that grub will not find Windows on my other partition. Any ideas? (I did update-grub)

[QUOTE=josm;44771415]I finally got Linux working, don't know why it says I'm on windows though. The only problem now is that grub will not find Windows on my other partition. Any ideas? (I did update-grub)[/QUOTE] what distro?

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;44771469]what distro?[/QUOTE] [url="http://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php"]Linux Mint, Debian testing version.[/url]

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;44771081]It would be ideal as a patch for the kernel used in raspbian etc. Can I get the patch? I want to compile it and run some tests on my pi.[/QUOTE] The patch isn't massively useful for ARM architectures, the patch just modifies the Makefile and tells GCC to generate code for a specific CPU family, instead of generic x86/x86_64. [url]https://raw.githubusercontent.com/graysky2/kernel_gcc_patch/master/enable_additional_cpu_optimizations_for_gcc.patch[/url] Might be worth a try patching it in and setting the option to "native" though, maybe GCC has settings for the Pi CPU.

I wanna buy a decent laptop soon to play around with Arch. Should I just install Archbang or manual install Arch?

[QUOTE=Original User;44780793]I wanna buy a decent laptop soon to play around with Arch. Should I just install Archbang or manual install Arch?[/QUOTE] Jusging from previous expierience, Plain arch runs better in the long run than Archbang

Installing Arch manually will teach you more and you will appreciate it more

[QUOTE=rilez;44781457]Installing Arch manually will teach you more and you will appreciate it more[/QUOTE] Manjaro if you can't be arsed. I know I can install Arch, but I don't have the time. Majaro to me is pretty much the perfect solution. That said people should try to install Arch. It's a cool thing to do and you learn a lot from it.

Is this the part where I'm supposed to chime in with an "I HATE ARCH" post?

A scientific study produced by nikomo has recently proven that people that don't use Arch Linux have tiny testicles, and a pathetic penis.

The University of Lavacano Seattle Campus is requesting a research grant to look into why nikomo was studying people's testicles to begin with.

The Society for Telling Lavacano to Stop Being a Pussy and Install Arch is looking for private funding in order to tell lavacano to stop being such a pussy and install Arch.

And here I just sit in my CentOS camp laughing at all other people. [editline]12th May 2014[/editline] And eating popcorn.

Dying of old packages.

Gnome didn't learn from the past mistake of the whole women project that they almost went bankrupt over. They are doing it again and they are paying 42 women 5500 each (700 starting money and the rest over two months) for doing nothing. The last time all the project did was waste a ton of money and almost made them bankrupt. The people who participated last time only did three small things; update some docs, greek translations and a small widget in the calendar app for todo's that does not work yet. [url]http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTY4NzA[/url] [url]http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=100101[/url] If women don't want to get into programming then we should not start programs to lure them in Do you ever see outreach programs to get more male nurses? I'm still waiting for outreach programs to get more women into coal mining, construction, electrician and trash collection etc because of the unequal distribution of genders(99.9% men).

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;44787219]Gnome didn't learn from the past mistake of the whole women project that they almost went bankrupt over. They are doing it again and they are paying 42 women 5500 each (700 starting money and the rest over two months) for doing nothing. The last time all the project did was waste a ton of money and almost made them bankrupt. The people who participated last time only did three small things; update some docs, greek translations and a small widget in the calendar app for todo's that does not work yet. [url]http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTY4NzA[/url] [url]http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=100101[/url] If women don't want to get into programming then we should not start programs to lure them in Do you ever see outreach programs to get more male nurses? I'm still waiting for outreach programs to get more women into coal mining, construction, electrician and trash collection etc because of the unequal distribution of genders(99.9% men).[/QUOTE] The first respone in the thread sums up my opinion on the whole "Getting Women into Tech": [quote] I've got some ideas: How about we destroy the entire program, stop treating women like frail little things that have to be goaded into the "men's world" of programming, and just let those who want to code do it. There shouldn't be any gender seperation in programming (or design): Good Code is Good Code, no matter who it's written by and a Good Design is a Good Design no matter who it was thought up by. I'm fully expecting a huge backlash for this, but I don't understand why we treat women so differently in the tech world... (P.S. another example is "Women in Tech Day". Like wtf, why do we have that? Do we have a "Men in Tech Day"? No? Then we shouldn't have the former either) [/quote] [editline]12th May 2014[/editline] I hope the whole thing crashes again, but this time leaves Gnome in such a bad state to remind everyone around it, that this was a terrible idea.

[QUOTE=kaukassus;44787232] I hope the whole thing crashes again, but this time leaves Gnome in such a bad state to remind everyone around it, that this was a terrible idea.[/QUOTE] I like gnome but I feel that sacrifices should be made to show people that this is a retarded thing to do.

The entire outreach program makes me feel bad for liking GNOME3 on my desktop. Ugh.

Gnome's a nice DE but they're just making the worst decisions for their development. I need to learn how to set up openbox one day.

[QUOTE=MasterFen006;44787528]Gnome's a nice DE but they're just making the worst decisions for their development. I need to learn how to set up openbox one day.[/QUOTE] It's pretty simple. Basic XML files to configure everything. Tint2 or use XFCE/LXDE panels. Arch wiki basically talks you through it. Menus are a pain though (Every time you install a new application you have to make your own menu item) so you might want to use a pipe-menu for xdg-menus. obconf is useful too.

What if you just used dmenu in Openbox? I'm pretty sure that thing works standalone.

[QUOTE=nikomo;44788027]What if you just used dmenu in Openbox? I'm pretty sure that thing works standalone.[/QUOTE] Alternatively, install lxpanel and you've got a super lightweight desktop that has both a window manager with basic compositioning, and a panel system that works pretty much like XFCEs one does, only it is even lighter on resources. This is my setup anyway, and it has served me pretty well these past months I've been using it. [editline]12th May 2014[/editline] lxpanel + openbox, is what i meant, just to avoid confusion. [editline]12th May 2014[/editline] You can even use lxde-session to session management, and still be pretty small. I don't recall openbox having an actual session manager, however both of these kind of do lack the fantastic flexibility you get from using a scripting language for session management.

I'd have hopped over to the whole Arch/Ubuntu Minimal bandwagon and been a WM tinkerer if not for the fear of having to protect all the Windows partitions on my laptop's hard drive for emergency cases. Seriously, you guys make WMs seem cool and sexy.