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

I thought about giving GNOME a new try, since the last time I tried it was like, 3.2 Then I saw this on Reddit: [URL]https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698544[/URL] Nope, fuck them. Edit: I couldn't resist sending them a fix for it.

The only thing I've objectively seen getting better about GNOME 3 since it was pushed to the main Arch repos has been that it's started supporting my GPU. Of course, I haven't used it since then, since it initially didn't :v:

[QUOTE=Rayjingstorm;40606044]I really want a modified version of ls which uses a special error message when you try using the -hal flags when you don't have permission to read the folder, something like [code] I can't let you see that, $USER. [/code][/QUOTE] sounds easy enough. You could pull something like that with a shell script.

[QUOTE=kaukassus;40606447]sounds easy enough. You could pull something like that with a shell script.[/QUOTE] Yeah, it just seems a bit ridiculous to [i]actually[/i] do it, because I would be redirecting every call to ls through a bash script :v:

Quick question. If I have 2 hard drives and use the second one to hold most of my files (because the first one is a small SSD), can I install a distro to the second one without losing the files or making them only able to be read by the distro? Pretty much what I want is to be able to keep putting files from Windows onto the HDD and use them but also be able to fire up a distro if I want. I know about partitioning HDDs and putting Linux on the second partition but I don't know if this will work with a secondary hard drive.

[QUOTE=flyboy463;40607718]Quick question. If I have 2 hard drives and use the second one to hold most of my files (because the first one is a small SSD), can I install a distro to the second one without losing the files or making them only able to be read by the distro? Pretty much what I want is to be able to keep putting files from Windows onto the HDD and use them but also be able to fire up a distro if I want. I know about partitioning HDDs and putting Linux on the second partition but I don't know if this will work with a secondary hard drive.[/QUOTE] If the first drive has windows on it, it shouldn't be effected by changes on the second, and vice-versa, so you should be able to choose which OS to run through the BIOS (most have a little menu to choose which boot-able device to use). You should be able to resize the storage partition to make room, and then mount it from both Windows and Linux if you leave it as NTFS.

AMD's drivers are starting to piss me off. One time they give me a error about a missing file. The text file says that my kernel headers are missing, and the other time it just says that I don't have an AMD graphics adapter.

[QUOTE=danielmm8888;40610839]AMD's drivers are starting to piss me off. One time they give me a error about a missing file. The text file says that my kernel headers are missing, and the other time it just says that I don't have an AMD graphics adapter.[/QUOTE] sudo apt-get install generic-kernal-headers I believe? Something along these lines.

[QUOTE=PredGD;40610850]sudo apt-get install generic-kernal-headers I believe? Something along these lines.[/QUOTE] Unable to locate package, but I don't have that problem anymore right now. Now it just keeps saying that my graphics adapter is not supported by this driver.

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) That installs the kernel headers that are required for the module compilation.

So in how bad of a state are AMD's Linux drivers at the moment? Thinking of tossing in my spare hard-drive and installing Linux on my desktop. (which has a 6870 in it)

As far as I know the drivers are usable, but don't expect great performance. [editline]12th May 2013[/editline] I haven't used windows in months... I didn't even have a bootloader entry for it I had to type out [code].com32 chain.c32 hd1 1[/code] this feels wrong =/

[QUOTE=nikomo;40611544]sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) That installs the kernel headers that are required for the module compilation.[/QUOTE] linux-headers-3.8.10-amd64 is already the newest version. [editline]12th May 2013[/editline] Well it decided to start working now.

Silly question, but I have my dvd drive set up in /etc/fstab and it still isn't automounting. [code]/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom auto ro,user,noauto 0 0[/code] Any ideas? Also mounting various USB flash drives require that I add each device name specifically in the file, is there a way to get it to just mount any block device it can find?

[QUOTE=SGI Onyx;40615855]Silly question, but I have my dvd drive set up in /etc/fstab and it still isn't automounting. [code]/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom auto ro,user,noauto 0 0[/code][/QUOTE] Well here's mine and it works (for me) [code]/dev/sr0 /media/optical auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0[/code]

[QUOTE=Van-man;40615869]Well here's mine and it works (for me) [code]/dev/sr0 /media/optical auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0[/code][/QUOTE] Its still sitting like a lemon, and I've reloaded the file with "mount -a" [editline]12th May 2013[/editline] I can manually mount it from the cmdline with no issue, but I'd rather not do that every time I plop a disk in. [editline]12th May 2013[/editline] [code] [ 4375.074523] sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. [ 4526.472065] sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. [ 4553.106934] sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. [ 4579.527516] sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. [ 4598.315280] sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. [/code] Dmesg is outputting this.

Has FF always been slow on Linux? Had to come back to mint because BSOD whilst play Dark Souls. Probably lost my save too.

I've never really had much trouble with Firefox's speed, its just the UI makes me want to puke blood.

[QUOTE=SGI Onyx;40619183]I've never really had much trouble with Firefox's speed, its just the UI makes me want to puke blood.[/QUOTE] Well, Since Firefox 3.something it has been unstable for me. It just crashes after a while.

[QUOTE=Lyoko774;40611769]So in how bad of a state are AMD's Linux drivers at the moment? Thinking of tossing in my spare hard-drive and installing Linux on my desktop. (which has a 6870 in it)[/QUOTE] They seem ok but every now and then they have some funky issues, for example the current 13.4 driver was giving me 1/2 second lag on the display but swithcing back to 13.3 beta 3 fixed that.

So after starting steam I kept getting the error "opengl glx context is not using direct rendering", and it was apparently because I didn't have 32 bit versions of the AMD drivers installed for some reason. So I've read somewhere that I need to do sudo apt-get install libgl1-fglrx-glx:i386, and that pretty much broke my AMD drivers.

[QUOTE=danielmm8888;40621781]So after starting steam I kept getting the error "opengl glx context is not using direct rendering", and it was apparently because I didn't have 32 bit versions of the AMD drivers installed for some reason. So I've read somewhere that I need to do sudo apt-get install libgl1-fglrx-glx:i386, and that pretty much broke my AMD drivers.[/QUOTE] Remove that package and re-install fglrx, what distro are you running?

[QUOTE=danharibo;40622248]Remove that package and re-install fglrx, what distro are you running?[/QUOTE] Debian Wheezy x64 with the 3.8.10 kernel

[QUOTE=danielmm8888;40622388]Debian Wheezy x64 with the 3.8.10 kernel[/QUOTE] If you install the x64_84 driver from the AMD website it should all work, but I've only got steam running on Mint and Arch so no promisses.

Does anyone else encounter slow 2D with fglrx? what can be done? (got ubuntu 13.04 + xorg-edgers(for mesa and stuff) ).

How do you figure out what driver version you have, exactly? I did some fiddling around in Jockey to get drivers for my 7770 until Steam stopped complaining, but allegedly a new version of drivers came out in beta and I want to see if I have them or not.

I tried catalyst 13.4 from amd.com, then fglrx,and then fglrx-updates. at all of these, severe 2D slowness, cant scroll properly on web browsers, move windows, etc.. also input delay at source games, not sure if its related to 2D slowness. or fglrx in general.

[QUOTE=Lyoko2;40628873]also input delay at source games, not sure if its related to 2D slowness. or fglrx in general.[/QUOTE]Input delay in Source games seems pretty common right now as far as I can tell. TF2 has it nearly all the time and CSS if my framerates drop on my 7770. The rest of the Orange Box games work well though.

Just wondering, but are any of you guys having performance issues with the Source games?

[QUOTE=SGI Onyx;40629960]Just wondering, but are any of you guys having performance issues with the Source games?[/QUOTE] I can guess that in fglrx everything is slower than windows, and there is severe input delay, mostly with the mouse, I can't see many nvidia users encountering this.