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

[QUOTE=SteelSliver;44866109]Why are the open source drivers for ATI cards(xf86-video-ati) so chunky with older cards? Runnin' that good ol' Arch and gots me a Radeon 7000 that will only output via VGA and will not acknowledge my DVI or S-video connections. It's quite odd, and I don't like it.[/QUOTE] I might be wrong, but the drivers for 7000-series and above are somewhat sketchy and uncertain. However, for ACTUALLY older cards like my 4670 it works amazingly well, and I get more than 60FPS in, say, Tesseract, which is always fun. Not the most demanding game, but yeah.

[QUOTE=mastersrp;44870922]I might be wrong, but the drivers for 7000-series and above are somewhat sketchy and uncertain. However, for ACTUALLY older cards like my 4670 it works amazingly well, and I get more than 60FPS in, say, Tesseract, which is always fun. Not the most demanding game, but yeah.[/QUOTE] Your 4670 is older than my 7000.....yeah... [IMG]http://frontiernet.net/~adam.d.jones/VGA-DVI-Composite.jpg[/IMG]

oh, [I]that[/I] radeon 7000 fucking hell good luck to you bro i mean jesus christ really

[t]http://i.imgur.com/p2FOUx5.jpg[/t] Thin client stuff! 67 MB ram usage when I'm doing remote desktop stuff and only 20-30% ram usage then. No input lagg and everything works perfectly. I'm thinking of making an installer or something so people can just set up a thin client using a pi with ease.

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;44875591][t]http://i.imgur.com/p2FOUx5.jpg[/t] Thin client stuff! 67 MB ram usage when I'm doing remote desktop stuff and only 20-30% ram usage then. No input lagg and everything works perfectly. I'm thinking of making an installer or something so people can just set up a thin client using a pi with ease.[/QUOTE] I was thinking about using my Raspberry PI to host a Nagios instance to watch over my servers at home. Currently my RPI is still sitting in a corner, catching dust.

I have three and I feel like I need to get another one because they are all being used. 1) A boiler/solar panel monitor (WIP software). It's a programming project I'm doing with my dad 2) Network monitor, used for checking our network speed, latency etc so we can see if we're getting what we are paying for and how many outages there are. It was made because UPC wasn't giving us what we were paying for and we had a ton of internet outages. Now that we have XS4ALL it's just sitting there making neat graphs 3) Thin client distro dev system Kinda wanna get another one for monitoring my servers/the other pi's

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;44875662] 2) Network monitor, used for checking our network speed, latency etc so we can see if we're getting what we are paying for and how many outages there are. It was made because UPC wasn't giving us what we were paying for and we had a ton of internet outages. Now that we have XS4ALL it's just sitting there making neat graphs [/QUOTE] I always wanted to do this. I have a Windows Server 2012R2 running 24/7 and wanted to use it to log the network speed and reliability of it, and make it spit out a graph. I might develop a tool to do this. I always wanted to do something like this with python and then spit out pretty SVG graphs.

[QUOTE=kaukassus;44875765]I always wanted to do this. I have a Windows Server 2012R2 running 24/7 and wanted to use it to log the network speed and reliability of it, and make it spit out a graph. I might develop a tool to do this. I always wanted to do something like this with python and then spit out pretty SVG graphs.[/QUOTE] ours just shat out a csv file a using a python script that dumped the database and another one that ran all the time and pumped data into a sqlite database. To test the speed all it did was download a 10MB file from my external server and checked how long it took to do that. It did that every 30 minutes and we made tons of pretty graphs using excel. The code is really hacky

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;44875861]ours just shat out a csv file a using a python script that dumped the database and another one that ran all the time and pumped data into a sqlite database. To test the speed all it did was download a 10MB file from my external server and checked how long it took to do that. It did that every 30 minutes and we made tons of pretty graphs using excel. The code is really hacky[/QUOTE] I've always loved using SQLite3 either as a backup database, or as the main database, because pumping data in and out of it is the dumbest and most simplest thing in the fucking world. You really just do [code] sqlite3 $db .dump [/code] and it pumps out every single schema and insert and whatever else in the world you could possibly need to reconstruct the database someplace else. On top of that, feeding it the data, or backing it up, is as simple as running [code] $ sqlite3 $main .dump | sqlite3 $backup [/code] and you've got a backup database that you can store wherever, or you could even run [code] $ sqlite3 $main > backup.txt && zpaq e:backup.txt.zpaq backup.txt [/code] and you've got backup, compressed with the "Incremental Journaling Backup Utility and Archiver" called ZPAQ, which is a GPLv3 patent unencumbered system. I fucking love these parts of the world, so hard.

I take it the build process is going well? :v: [t]http://storage9.static.itmages.com/i/14/0522/h_1400790610_8446506_a12c1ca199.png[/t]

atom has a bunch of modules and shit that have to build, yeah. The first time I tried, I ran it with output off and thought it broke because they took so long [editline]22nd May 2014[/editline] Actually, I don't even use atom now that I know gitg exists. It even has a gedit plugin built in! [t]http://i.imgur.com/KgDbyNV.png[/t]

So the Linux version of Witcher 2 came out. Turns out they're just using a wrapper though, not a full OpenGL port. Same guys who did the OSX port. eONprecompiledShaders32.dat witcher2.vpfs VPFS_registry.vpfsdb The performance is pretty bad as a result [editline]22nd May 2014[/editline] Also it doesn't support AMD or Intel

Welp, I'm pretty screwed. I just installed Manjaro Linux and tried to install Nvidia drivers, now it's stuck on a "blinking cursor" after GRUB. Anybody have any idea as to how to fix this?

Cool, Wayland and Weston work on my laptop without problems. [img]http://i.imgur.com/0bltgas.png[/img] Now to wait for XWayland and other stuff to mature.

There's an 11 page discussion about the Witcher port on Steam community. One of the devs called Wine a "windows emulator" and their own wrapper is some kind of middle ground between native and not. What a let down. Better than nothing I guess [editline]23rd May 2014[/editline] The fact that someone was paid to port this game and he doesn't even know what Wine does is just really astounding

[QUOTE=nikomo;44883681]Now to wait for XWayland and other stuff to mature.[/QUOTE] Honestly I'm waiting on that to happen [b]before[/b] I migrate to Wayland.

I'm gonna stick with Xorg for a while, until a distro like fedora adopts it as default. Hell I still don't use UEFI on my systems, but thats mainly because the UEFI implementation on my laptops are worse than Hitler and American ISP's combined. (Thanks Asus).

I have a couple of old desktop with *meh* specs and one laptop with great specs. I want to turn the laptop into something like an openstack [url=http://devstack.org/](devstack version)[/url] server thing but I have to fucking clue how to do this. Heck I don't even know how to do proper iprages (10.0.0.0/24 etc). I spent all night yesterday trying to set it up and gave up at around 2AM. I installed fedora and I even tried centos, modified localrc.conf and ran ./stack.sh. It said it was running (and I believe it) but I couldn't connect to it from my local pc. When I tried to reach the webinterface or any other API etc. I kinda wanna use Proxmox because when I installed that it seemed to work (didn't test vm's) but it costs money. I honestly don't want to pay money for this kind of stuff right now because it's for personal use and I'm not making any money from it etc. Any clue how I could set it up?

[QUOTE=lavacano;44884313]Honestly I'm waiting on that to happen [b]before[/b] I migrate to Wayland.[/QUOTE] Until Wayland and [compositor] becomes an actual drop-in replacement for Xorg, I'll stick with Xorg. That's the way it has to be, because there's just not enough games that support Wayland yet, and never will.

So the biggest problem with xorg is the tight coupling with other software?

[QUOTE=FPtje;44880235]I take it the build process is going well? :v: [t]http://storage9.static.itmages.com/i/14/0522/h_1400790610_8446506_a12c1ca199.png[/t][/QUOTE] The build process of atom is fucking retarded. When the build or install task failes, it's just like "Build task failed" whoopsie! They don't even tell you where the build log file is located (not the NPM error log). Developers, ffs please don't make the build process show no output at all. It's retarded. [editline]23rd May 2014[/editline] I have yet to find the build-error/install-error logfile, if it actually generates one.

[QUOTE=Amiga OS;44885263]Finally, a proper Linux phone with Weyland, QT and no Dalvik bullshit! [t]http://u.cubeupload.com/chrishind10/IMG20140523100428.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] what phone/rom is that

[QUOTE=lavacano;44884313]Honestly I'm waiting on that to happen [b]before[/b] I migrate to Wayland.[/QUOTE] Err, so am I. I was running Weston in TTY2, and Xorg in TTY1. It's pretty unusable without some heavy configuration right now, and seriously, the touchpad is unusable with default settings. But after XWayland is just yet another package, and it's shipped like normal, and that shit works, and input handling isn't a problem, I'll probably move over ASAP.

I'm using my home server to run a little mpd radio station for me and my fiance while we're at work. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/XgIy4vC.png[/IMG] It's the little things in life.

[QUOTE=mastersrp;44884564]Until Wayland and [compositor] becomes an actual drop-in replacement for Xorg, I'll stick with Xorg. That's the way it has to be, because there's just not enough games that support Wayland yet, and never will.[/QUOTE] That's why devs should be using SDL.

I finally did it! :dance: What it looks like to spawn a new vps etc: [t]http://i.imgur.com/svPegM3.png[/t] The hardware (that old laptop) [t]http://i.imgur.com/GQYtqPp.jpg[/t]

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;44888979]I finally did it! :dance: What it looks like to spawn a new vps etc: [t]http://i.imgur.com/svPegM3.png[/t] The hardware (that old laptop) [t]http://i.imgur.com/GQYtqPp.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] Woah hold on, Is this vSphere for linux?

I got a laptop (1st gen i7, 8gb RAM) for all my Virtual Machine needs aswell. But mine runs Windows Server 2012R2 and Hyper-V. I kinda wanted to use Xen or KVM on CentOS, but getting a good solution going without paying for a product is really fucking bothersome. So I just went the easy way I guess. [editline]23rd May 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=benjojo;44889442]Woah hold on, Is this vSphere for linux?[/QUOTE] Looks like Good old VMware Workstation for Linux. [editline]23rd May 2014[/editline] Wait... That looks like vSphere..

Yup that's vsphere 5.1 running on the laptop and I'm using vmware workstation to connect to it. I get free vmware licenses for pretty much everything they make (volume licenses for some reason so if you want one...) I have the iso for 5.5 but that didn't include broadcom drivers [editline]23rd May 2014[/editline] I had to use the vsphere installer by dell because it has broadcom drivers tho...

[QUOTE=Amiga OS;44885263]Finally, a proper Linux phone with Weyland, QT and no Dalvik bullshit! [t]http://u.cubeupload.com/chrishind10/IMG20140523100428.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] How long did you save up for that? You lucky bastard. Also, welcome back?