General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. I broke my Arch Install

[Van-man]

Yeah, ATI/AMD Linux drivers are quirky at best.

[danharibo]

[QUOTE=Lyoko2;40630141]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.[/QUOTE]

Have you tried 13.3 beta 3? the input lag stopped with that version.

[Prefan]

[QUOTE=Terin7;40628919]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.[/QUOTE]

Turning off vsync and catalyst AI fixed this problem for me.

[stringy]

I've never had any input lag, but the first TF2 betas did heat up my CPU pretty bad. To be honest though it gets hot in Windows as well, it was just harder to monitor.

[Ol' Pie]

Seems Garry's is having problems with it's cursor not showing on Ubuntu. I'm not sure why I didn't ever have a problem with Ubuntu but everyone has one. Maybem old hardware, I dunno.

[Van-man]

[QUOTE=Ol' Pie;40643273]Seems Garry's is having problems with it's cursor not showing on Ubuntu. I'm not sure why I didn't ever have a problem with Ubuntu but everyone has one. Maybem old hardware, I dunno.[/QUOTE]

It wouldn't surprise me if it's the work of unity.
Although is that straight-on the desktop, or running any fullscreen programs?

[Lyoko2]

[QUOTE=danharibo;40640613]Have you tried 13.3 beta 3? the input lag stopped with that version.[/QUOTE]

yes, tried it now. input lag exists and i still have that Desktop 2D slowness...

[danharibo]

[QUOTE=Van-man;40644512]It wouldn't surprise me if it's the work of unity.
Although is that straight-on the desktop, or running any fullscreen programs?[/QUOTE]

Apparently it was some weird 3rd party chip-set that hardly works in the first place, though interestingly the problem doesn't occur with KDE.

[nikomo]

Red Hat is so good at backporting changes to their older kernels, that they backported an exploit.
[url]https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=42827&forum=59[/url]

[Morkcheese]

executing scripts/commands on startup is a pain in the ass with systemd (compared to initscripts)

[HubmaN]

[QUOTE=Yumyumbublegum;40654183]executing scripts/commands on startup is a pain in the ass with systemd (compared to initscripts)[/QUOTE]

I'm reluctant to admit it, but I'm convinced its limited config schema has saved me quite a bit of hair-pulling. Far better than attempting to figure out the various attempts at programming-in-the-large with sh.

[esalaka]

[QUOTE=Yumyumbublegum;40654183]executing scripts/commands on startup is a pain in the ass with systemd (compared to initscripts)[/QUOTE]

Not really, you could just write a systemd whateverthey'recalled that runs a script that runs a bunch of scripts if you really wanted to.

[Comfy]

[QUOTE=esalaka;40654600]Not really, you could just write a systemd whateverthey'recalled that runs a script that runs a bunch of scripts if you really wanted to.[/QUOTE]

I tried to write a systemd script once.

I pulled out so much hair in the process, that I'm almost bald now.

[lavacano]

[QUOTE=kaukassus;40655319]I tried to write a systemd script once.

I pulled out so much hair in the process, that I'm almost bald now.[/QUOTE]

And this is why I like Gentoo/OpenRC.

Gentoo has an init script for anything that would make sense to run as a daemon, and even if they don't, they're fairly easy to understand just by looking at one you do have.

This is /etc/init.d/dbus for example

#!/sbin/runscript
# Copyright 1999-2011 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, v2 or later
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/dbus/files/dbus.initd,v 1.1 2011/11/05 13:56:10 ssuominen Exp $

extra_started_commands="reload"

depend() {
        need localmount
        after bootmisc
}

start() {
        ebegin "Starting D-BUS system messagebus"
        /usr/bin/dbus-uuidgen --ensure=/etc/machine-id

        # We need to test if /var/run/dbus exists, since script will fail if it does not
        [ ! -e /var/run/dbus ] && mkdir /var/run/dbus

        start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /var/run/dbus.pid --exec /usr/bin/dbus-daemon -- --system
        eend $?
}

stop() {                
        local retval           

        ebegin "Stopping D-BUS system messagebus"

        start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile /var/run/dbus.pid
        retval=$?
        eend ${retval}

        [ -S /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket ] && rm -f /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket
        return ${retval}
}

reload() {
        local retval

        ebegin "Reloading D-BUS messagebus config"
        /usr/bin/dbus-send --print-reply --system --type=method_call \
                        --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus \
                        / org.freedesktop.DBus.ReloadConfig > /dev/null
        retval=$?
        eend ${retval}
        return ${retval}
}

[editline]15th May 2013[/editline]

You tell it to start on boot with the command "rc-update add dbus default", remove it with "rc-update del dbus", and you can either use "rc-service" or call the script directly to turn it off/on manually

[Morkcheese]

[QUOTE=esalaka;40654600]Not really, you could just write a systemd whateverthey'recalled that runs a script that runs a bunch of scripts if you really wanted to.[/QUOTE]
I know, but just sticking a line in rc.local is a ton easier

[editline]15th May 2013[/editline]

the service file because why not
[quote]
[Unit]
Description=MinecraftServer
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=yes
KillMode=none
User=minecraft
ExecStart=/usr/bin/tmux new -d -s minecraft
ExecStart=/usr/bin/tmux send-keys -t minecraft "java -jar -Xmx1024m /home/minecraft/minecraft_server.jar" C-m

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
[/quote]
had to learn how to use tmux too, because screen doesn't like it when you send commands to a screen that's never been attatched

[lavacano]

[QUOTE=Yumyumbublegum;40655658]I know, but just sticking a line in rc.local is a ton easier

[editline]15th May 2013[/editline]

the service file because why not

had to learn how to use tmux too, because screen doesn't like it when you send commands to a screen that's never been attatched[/QUOTE]

I have a tmux.conf that makes it behave a lot like screen if you're interested

[esalaka]

[QUOTE=Yumyumbublegum;40655658]I know, but just sticking a line in rc.local is a ton easier[/QUOTE]

I meant you could essentially write a systemd service script that runs rc.local or sth.

Actually, systemd-sysvcompat provides that script for you, I think.

[Ol' Pie]

Does redshift really work? Because I installed it, put the latitude and longitude, and now i'm only seein everything with a orange tint.

[ipha]

[QUOTE=Ol' Pie;40688180]Does redshift really work? Because I installed it, put the latitude and longitude, and now i'm only seein everything with a orange tint.[/QUOTE]

I find the defaults to be a bit off. Try using "-t 6500:4800" that will keep colors normal during the day and only lower the temperature to 4800(instead of 3700) at night.

[Van-man]

Any general video editing & conversion application for Linux that's the bees knees?
Talking about being simple to use, supporting a fuckloads of media formats and capable of embedding subtitles.

[.Lain]

ImageMagick, FFMpeg and KDEnlive

[editline]18th May 2013[/editline]

And Handbrake, of course. can't forget the best.

[josm]

[QUOTE=Van-man;40689253]Any general video editing & conversion application for Linux that's the bees knees?
Talking about being simple to use, supporting a fuckloads of media formats and capable of embedding subtitles.[/QUOTE]

[url="http://openshot.org"]OpenShot[/url] is pretty good.

[Lyoko2]

lightworks
[URL]http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/04/lightworks-enter-public-beta[/URL]
and i recommand avidemux for simple cutting, arranging, converting. it's easy, small and yet powerful.
(ubuntu: [URL="http://packages.ubuntu.com/raring/avidemux"]avidemux[/URL], [URL="http://packages.ubuntu.com/raring/avidemux-qt"]avidemux-qt[/URL])

[Mudbone]

Anyone know a good linux beginner guide? I just got lubuntu on my netbook. Just trying to get my bearings here.

[Barbarian887]

I tried watching a video on how CPU's work, it was dumbed down, basically delivered in layman's terms and I still felt lost

[stringy]

[QUOTE=Ol' Pie;40688180]Does redshift really work? Because I installed it, put the latitude and longitude, and now i'm only seein everything with a orange tint.[/QUOTE]

It just seems a bit off when you first use it. Trust me, if you use it for a bit, then try to turn it off you will know that it is definitely working, especially on web pages and the like which have flat white backgrounds.

[editline]19th May 2013[/editline]

I get that from people all the time, the orange tinge I mean, but I don't even notice it anymore :v:

[ipha]

I've been trying out fish instead of zsh lately and as odd as some parts of it are(web config for a shell!?) I kinda like it.

[supervoltage]

Garry's Mod Beta is now in the Linux Library on Steam!

[Van-man]

[QUOTE=supervoltage;40727885]Garry's Mod Beta is now in the Linux Library on Steam![/QUOTE]

[IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/Skarmbillede_-_21-05-2013_-_21:03:00.png[/IMG]

[stringy]

Today was a good day. Thanks for the heads up supervoltage! I come home from exams and have something to distract myself :v:

[editline]21st May 2013[/editline]

Has anyone actually gotten the Gmod beta running? It complains that it needs filesystem_steam.so, and when I link to the Counterstrike version it tells me something about the material system needing the filesystem in order to function.