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

Just installed Xubuntu 14.04 onto my 2011 Macbook Pro. I am really surprised on how painless it was. It was even more painless to install than a normal install on my Asus Laptop. (Fucking UEFI).

Clean wipe seems easy enough, but on my 2008 I couldn't be assed to set up dual boot with rEFInd or whatever On my model specifically there are important files on the OSX partition for things like the camera to work, so I cant just wipe the drive (apparently)

What are the preparations to get ready for dual booting?

[QUOTE=Original User;44900836]What are the preparations to get ready for dual booting?[/QUOTE] set up partitions and/or multiple drives, probably section off your actual data into its own partition, then add a few lines in GRUB if you don't install windows before linux you're gonna need a livecd to reinstall grub but that's relatively painless

[QUOTE=lavacano;44901069]set up partitions and/or multiple drives, probably section off your actual data into its own partition, then add a few lines in GRUB[/QUOTE] I don't know about what distro he and/or she plans to install, but most of that stuff is generally taken care of in at least in *Ubuntu. In that case, all he and/or she would need to do is just back up their data for safe measure and select the "Install alongside ___" option when prompted in the installer. That is also the default selection.

GRUB takes care of it so long as you have os-prober installed

Neither of those handle this though: [QUOTE=lavacano;44901069]if you don't install windows before linux you're gonna need a livecd to reinstall grub but that's relatively painless[/QUOTE] because if you install Windows after Linux it overwrites the boot loader otherwise yes

When you want to dualboot Windows with Linux, usually install Windows first, and then install Linux. When you do it like this, you can prevent 80% of all problems that come with dualbooting. [editline]25th May 2014[/editline] Also, if you use Windows 8 or newer, with dualboot, disable hybrid boot in Windows. This can be a problem when you want to access the windows partition from Linux.

Is there a program like Connectify Dispatch for Linux? The program in question combines multiple internet connections to provide a single faster connection and I was able to improve my Steam download speed from 800 KB/s to 1.4 MB/s using it. It would be great if I could do the same on Linux.

[QUOTE=Matoking;44912480]Is there a program like Connectify Dispatch for Linux? The program in question combines multiple internet connections to provide a single faster connection and I was able to improve my Steam download speed from 800 KB/s to 1.4 MB/s using it. It would be great if I could do the same on Linux.[/QUOTE] Are we talking multiple network connections (As in ex. two ethernet (or Wifi+LAN) connections to the same router) or multiple providers (As in two ISPs / 3G + Ethernet, etc)? Both are supported in Linux without any software, but there are different ways to achieve them.

[QUOTE=Anderen2;44913186]Are we talking multiple network connections (As in ex. two ethernet (or Wifi+LAN) connections to the same router) or multiple providers (As in two ISPs / 3G + Ethernet, etc)? Both are supported in Linux without any software, but there are different ways to achieve them.[/QUOTE] Different providers (eg. tethered 3G connecction + Ethernet connection). After some googling I found out about ispunity, although I haven't given it a try yet.

I am trying to set up KVM pass through and it's a pain in the ass. Fuck. Has anyone here done this before???

was thinking of installing Arch again, but then I remembered how much problems I had when I got my SSD. I eventually got used to the installation process with that, but now I've got a new motherboard which is UEFI (old wasn't), new GPU and new CPU. :v: can't wait to inevitably wipe both of my drives clean

I didn't bother with my Macbook (Macbook AND *EFI) and just went with Xubuntu. Great DE and everything works out of the box.

(Didn't know Witcher 2 was mentioned for Linux) What was used to port the game? Could it be used on other games easily?

They outsourced it to some company that made their own in house wrapper, called eON. It works a bit like Wine, translating DirectX functions into GL. But according to them, it is compiled "per game" with specific settings for each. It sucks big time, and Wine runs the game better. So there's really no point to using it for other games. Cdprojekt should have done it themselves [editline]26th May 2014[/editline] Like, hey Valve! Heard you like Linux! Mind showing us how togl works so we don't have to use some shitty wrapper? Thanks!

[QUOTE=rilez;44916263]Like, hey Valve! Heard you like Linux! Mind showing us how togl works so we don't have to use some shitty wrapper? Thanks![/QUOTE] [url]https://github.com/ValveSoftware/ToGL[/url] The source code is available, but it really doesn't apply to anything but the Source engine, because they've actually modified the engine and rendering themselves to better work with the translation layer.

[QUOTE=nikomo;44921586][url]https://github.com/ValveSoftware/ToGL[/url] The source code is available, but it really doesn't apply to anything but the Source engine, because they've actually modified the engine and rendering themselves to better work with the translation layer.[/QUOTE] It also makes some assumptions that only apply to Source. I wonder if Source 2 will have a better layer, and if that'll be released. They've already said that they for example use a stricter hlsl syntax that they can directly convert to glsl, rather than going via some bytecode representation. Shall be interested to see if OpenGL is implemented side by side as opposed to a wrapper though.

According to what I saw somewhere a long time ago, Source 2 has native OpenGL, without any funky wrappers.

I sure hope so

[QUOTE=nikomo;44936738]According to what I saw somewhere a long time ago, Source 2 has native OpenGL, without any funky wrappers.[/QUOTE] "native OpenGL"? As opposed to what?

Crap. I'm a big time Linux noob and i've been setting up a web-server slowly over the past month or so, but I managed to lose all the notes i've been taking on what i've installed/done so far. Where do I go from here? I've just been following tutorials but I was taking notes on every single step of what I did so I could go back and look at what i've done. Now i'm somewhat fucked because I don't know what i've done and I don't know how enough about Linux to figure it out :( What do should I do? Just start back at ground 0 and re-do everything? I had no actual content, just securing the vps/setting up Apache/flask/fail2ban amongst other things which I can't remember because i've lost my notes.

welp, apparently you need to boot into some sort of UEFI wizardry when installing Arch on a UEFI system, but when I do that it won't boot anymore and is stuck on "triggering uevents". at least I've "finished" the install, just need to get the bootloader in place which I need to boot into UEFI mode for, but that doesn't work. any clues?

[QUOTE=Hng;44938781]Crap. I'm a big time Linux noob and i've been setting up a web-server slowly over the past month or so, but I managed to lose all the notes i've been taking on what i've installed/done so far. Where do I go from here? I've just been following tutorials but I was taking notes on every single step of what I did so I could go back and look at what i've done. Now i'm somewhat fucked because I don't know what i've done and I don't know how enough about Linux to figure it out :( What do should I do? Just start back at ground 0 and re-do everything? I had no actual content, just securing the vps/setting up Apache/flask/fail2ban amongst other things which I can't remember because i've lost my notes.[/QUOTE] What distro are you using? And what have you already installed/setup? If on an debian-based distro (ex. Debian and Ubuntu) then all you need to get a working webserver is to type "sudo apt-get install apache2" and put some content in /var/www/ The same goes with python-flask and fail2ban (Though some configuration in /etc may be nessesary). You could also read the file .bash_history in your homefolder (less ~/.bash_history) to see all the latest commands you've typed in to see if you remember more then or google those you don't remember. If you are new to linux servers, and wants to learn the system I would however recommend you read some of these links to get a better picture of how linux servers work: Linux filesystem (Explains why and what the root folder is, aswell as /etc, /dev, /proc etc) [url]http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/c23.html[/url] Learning the shell [url]http://linuxcommand.org/lc3_learning_the_shell.php[/url] What an package manager is: [url]http://www.howtogeek.com/117579/htg-explains-how-software-installation-package-managers-work-on-linux/[/url] How to use the package manager in Debian/Ubuntu Server: [url]https://help.ubuntu.com/13.10/serverguide/package-management.html[/url]

[QUOTE=Jookia;44938637]"native OpenGL"? As opposed to what?[/QUOTE] Bullshit that comes from a translation layer.

[QUOTE=nikomo;44939864]Bullshit that comes from a translation layer.[/QUOTE] It doesn't really mater how they get to the OpenGL calls, what matter is how well it works.

[QUOTE=ben1066;44936644]Shall be interested to see if OpenGL is implemented side by side as opposed to a wrapper though.[/QUOTE] I would be surprised if Source 2 uses DirectX at all. At GDC two years ago Valve said that with new products they are going to focus on OpenGL and port to DX as necessary.

[QUOTE=Larikang;44940713]I would be surprised if Source 2 uses DirectX at all. At GDC two years ago Valve said that with new products they are going to focus on OpenGL and port to DX as necessary.[/QUOTE] There's no real drawback to using OpenGL in terms of compatibility tbh.

Does Xbox support OpenGL? That's the only issue I can think of

No, it doesn't. [url]http://www.gamedev.net/topic/449529-opengl-on-xbox-360/[/url]