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

Wow, Arch is a bitch to install on this laptop. Fucking Nvidia Optimus. Curse you! I don't want to fuck around with xorg.conf files. :/ [editline]30th July 2014[/editline] And somehow my Fan turns into a tornado when using Arch.

[QUOTE=kaukassus;45544428]Wow, Arch is a bitch to install on this laptop. Fucking Nvidia Optimus. Curse you! I don't want to fuck around with xorg.conf files. :/ [editline]30th July 2014[/editline] And somehow my Fan turns into a tornado when using Arch.[/QUOTE] I used to have the tornado issue on my 6850. pretty sure it's because of missing drivers, so the GPU goes kind of insane not knowing what to do with the foreign object it has which is the fan.

Screw it, im gonna try out Linux mint 17.

[QUOTE=Maximum Mod;45544303]I spontaneously installed Arch on an old laptop the other day (All I've ever done before is try out mint and ubuntu), is there anything I should do/know? Also, are there any good monospace pixel fonts? I'd like to use one in the terminal.[/QUOTE] Dejavu sans mono

Droid Sans Mono

Thanks, but what I meant was more like this: [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5606926/facepunch/akarin-sugoi.png[/img] I've searched for "lemon 7" but I have'nt been able to find it

Font: [url]http://tobiasjung.name/profont/[/url]

is it possible to temporarily disable PulseAudio and strictly use ALSA (if even possible) for sound? I'm trying to figure out if my insanely low sound issue is related to either ALSA or PulseAudio, so would be nice if I could disable PulseAudio and use ALSA temporarily if that even works [editline]30th July 2014[/editline] think I've discovered why it's so low. I've always been under the impression that I should use the front speaker jack when using stereo stuff with only 2 drives, but I decided to try the other jacks which gives me a much louder and clear sound. have I lived a life full of lies, always been under the impression you should use the front speaker jack with only 2 drives, should I or is there an error in my ALSA configuration? I've checked PulseAudio's settings and they're set to use stereo sound, so I'm not sure why it's outputting to the center, side, sub and front.

[QUOTE=kaukassus;45544494]Screw it, im gonna try out Linux mint 17.[/QUOTE] Coming from a Mint 17 user, don't do it [editline]30th July 2014[/editline] My laptops brightness keys suddenly only work when I've connected a second display, and the scaling on my desktop is completely screwed up. This release has been horror

[QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;45545646]Coming from a Mint 17 user, don't do it [editline]30th July 2014[/editline] My laptops brightness keys suddenly only work when I've connected a second display, and the scaling on my desktop is completely screwed up. This release has been horror[/QUOTE] Installed, upgraded kernel to 3.16, and did upgrade some packages. So far I don't have any problems. brightness is not a concern for me, since I haven't changed the brightness of my Laptop(s) display for like 5 years.

[QUOTE=Maximum Mod;45544752]Thanks, but what I meant was more like this: [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5606926/facepunch/akarin-sugoi.png[/img] I've searched for "lemon 7" but I have'nt been able to find it[/QUOTE] [url]https://github.com/phallus/fonts[/url]

[QUOTE=Maximum Mod;45544752]Thanks, but what I meant was more like this: [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5606926/facepunch/akarin-sugoi.png[/img] I've searched for "lemon 7" but I have'nt been able to find it[/QUOTE] [url=https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130912]Termsyn[/url], the best of Terminus and Tamsyn. Definitely readable at smaller sizes. [img]http://i.imgur.com/ejs2cLT.png[/img] [editline]e[/editline] Probably misread that one post and thought you were still looking for other choices and not just Lemon.

I need some help with Samba on my Pi using Webmin I followed [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPrKAZ9Y7ZA"]this[/URL] video on how to do it, but for some wierd reason I can't seem to modify files from any device (My Android tablet and my Windows PC) on my Pi NAS; this error: [IMG]http://puu.sh/axRVr.png[/IMG] help

I'm thinking root owns the folder you're trying to copy files to, but you're logging in as some other user.

[QUOTE=nikomo;45547215]I'm thinking root owns the folder you're trying to copy files to, but you're logging in as some other user.[/QUOTE] Well, Samba is set to: [img]http://puu.sh/axWcb.png[/img] and I assume all my devices are guests, I tried chmodding 777 but that didn't work.

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;45546538][url]https://github.com/phallus/fonts[/url][/QUOTE] thank you very much good sir

I've got a few pixel fonts [url=http://novaember.com/misc/fonts.tar.gz]here[/url]. I never use them, I don't know how I got them, I just remembered I had them. (The archive has no root directory, unpack directly in ~/.fonts/)

I'm trying to figure out cross compiling for Windows on Linux and now I want to die.

Use MXE: [url]http://mxe.cc/[/url] Makes compiling for Windows almost easy.

I'm cross compiling an SFML game, which pulls in a lot of libs. That's the annoying part. Everything's compiling fine but I can't get stuff to statically link properly. I'm using Mingw-w64.

[QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;45545646]Coming from a Mint 17 user, don't do it [editline]30th July 2014[/editline] My laptops brightness keys suddenly only work when I've connected a second display, and the scaling on my desktop is completely screwed up. This release has been horror[/QUOTE] It seemed to work fine when I upgraded my dad's laptop yesterday. Granted, he has a Gateway M-285 (8 years old) and I had to do a clean install since he was still on Mint 14. Actually, I was more glad that not a lot changed since he just got used to Cinnamon.

So it's my first time configuring an Apache2 server and I've been having some issues. Most of it I figured out but I can't for the life of me access it externally. Although I did try setting it up with Mint 17 so I stumbled a little bit and will try again tonight with Ubuntu. Stuff like html default folders etc I got right, but since my ISP blocks the 80 port I tried to set it up with port 61669. Canyouseeme.org sees my service but I cannot access some html page I put in there with Motion and cambozola. Am I supposed to alter only the listen port located in \etc\apache2\ports.conf and add Listen 61669? Should I keep Listen 80? I'm also able to access it locally, is this right?

You need to configure the listen port in your apache sites-configuration. It's most likely located in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/default There should be something like "listen: *:80 or something like that. Then just change the 80 to the port you desire.

EDX Course has officially started: [url]https://www.edx.org/course/linuxfoundationx/linuxfoundationx-lfs101x-introduction-1621[/url] Go and learn Linux guys. It's worth it

this is gonna be the easiest A+ i've ever gotten

[t]http://i.imgur.com/iFIrJz4.png[/t]

is KF5 standalone or not? I've tried to install the newest KDE thing but whenever I try to log into the environment I just get a black screen. am I supposed to install KDE4 first, then install KF5 on top of that? how does this work? [editline]2nd August 2014[/editline] huh, looks like the new KDE doesn't work at all if launched through GDM. it works using KDM

does it work if you use a different sane display manager? e.g. lightdm? try also ye olde startx method (should just be "exec startkde" or something similar)

[QUOTE=lavacano;45569671]does it work if you use a different sane display manager? e.g. lightdm? try also ye olde startx method (should just be "exec startkde" or something similar)[/QUOTE] I tried startkde in xinitrc but apparently that's not the command for the new stuff. haven't tried lightdm yet, could try that

[t]http://i.imgur.com/N3YZx0D.png[/t] How the fuck are you going to create a pull request if you don't know the basics of how the internet works? Use a local network? Send USB sticks to the maintainers? How are you going to contribute [I]anything[/I] to Linux if you don't know what the internet is?