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

UTF-8: Electric Boogaloo I hate figuring out encoding problems. UTF-8 has solved a lot of them, but then you have that one stupid piece in the chain that wants to use something else, and everything goes to hell.

[QUOTE=nikomo;45737279]UTF-8: Electric Boogaloo I hate figuring out encoding problems. UTF-8 has solved a lot of them, but then you have that one stupid piece in the chain that wants to use something else, and everything goes to hell.[/QUOTE] I used to have problems with people using different build systems than me. Now all the projects I use, have the same build system. Because I rewrote all of them. And I still do. I am not sure if this is good or bad.

[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;45737871]I'm running Sailfish which is a GNU/Linux distro in my phone that has zypper as the package manager, is it possible to get apt-get and dpkg working on it?[/QUOTE] Yeah, but if you want to preserve the packages, then it could be a big problem. Also, you probably shouldn't, considering that Sailfish in all likeliness uses a custom repository, and isn't useful with dpkg.

So, I'd like to try Linux out with Steam / Team Fortress 2. It seems that my current computer runs OpenGL-based games better than DirectX, so maybe I could give that a go...? What do you guys think about this? Which distro should I use for maximum performance with TF2?

[QUOTE=cam64DD;45740332]So, I'd like to try Linux out with Steam / Team Fortress 2. It seems that my current computer runs OpenGL-based games better than DirectX, so maybe I could give that a go...? What do you guys think about this? Which distro should I use for maximum performance with TF2?[/QUOTE] Who knows. For all we know, you have a shit computer that just barely runs TF2, and so it might not work on Linux. If you really want to give it a go, I'd suggest you to learn about Linux first, and certainly not replace your existing system unless you're absolutely sure you want to. The process of doing this is really simple though, and installing it side-by-side with WIndows 7 or 8 is a breeze. I'd suggest Ubuntu 14.04 just because it works great, even on my old and dusty (but performant) ATi HD Radeon 4670.

[QUOTE=mastersrp;45740495]Who knows. For all we know, you have a shit computer that just barely runs TF2, and so it might not work on Linux. If you really want to give it a go, I'd suggest you to learn about Linux first, and certainly not replace your existing system unless you're absolutely sure you want to. The process of doing this is really simple though, and installing it side-by-side with WIndows 7 or 8 is a breeze. I'd suggest Ubuntu 14.04 just because it works great, even on my old and dusty (but performant) ATi HD Radeon 4670.[/QUOTE] My current computer is pretty crappy. But I mean, every single game so far with OpenGL support runs so much better, so I think it might just work... who knows! I'll try dualboot and see how it goes. If it fails, oh well, I blame my toaster. Thank you, though.

Installed Xubuntu on my new Acer Aspire E5-572G-71FV, this laptop has a Elantech touchpad which leads to the issue of the thing not fucking working. It shows up when I punch in xinput list but under no name, same happens under pointer options, where I even get the tab saying it is a touchpad, but it still has no name. I have tried reattaching it, blacklisting acer-wmi and a whole lot of other stuff. If anyone has any input [sp]hue[/sp], please tell me.

[QUOTE=BlueYoshi;45740691]Installed Xubuntu on my new Acer Aspire E5-572G-71FV, this laptop has a Elantech touchpad which leads to the issue of the thing not fucking working. It shows up when I punch in xinput list but under no name, same happens under pointer options, where I even get the tab saying it is a touchpad, but it still has no name. I have tried reattaching it, blacklisting acer-wmi and a whole lot of other stuff. If anyone has any input [sp]hue[/sp], please tell me.[/QUOTE] have you installed the synaptiks touchpad drivers? should be able to find it through the software center

[QUOTE=PredGD;45740824]have you installed the synaptiks touchpad drivers? should be able to find it through the software center[/QUOTE] Couldn't find it when I searched for it, and grub shat itself so I'm gonna have to retry another distro tomorrow.

[QUOTE=BlueYoshi;45741113]Couldn't find it when I searched for it, and grub shat itself so I'm gonna have to retry another distro tomorrow.[/QUOTE] nevermind me, I must have gotten it wrong. the correct package as of now should be xserver-xorg-input-synaptics which you could give a try if grub even lets you in the first place or if you want to give it another try [editline]20th August 2014[/editline] you guys know how to cure the issue with games running in wine starting minimized and not being able to return from a minimized state? been playing lots of CS:GO using Wine, but more often than not the game starts minimized and I can't make it not minimize. has me killing the process hundreds of times until it finally works

I'm thinking of giving Linux another try and was wondering what distro you guyswoikd recommend. I used to dual boot Ubuntu with Windows on my old desktop PC and I'm currently running Mint on an old semi-broken laptop. While I have some small experience with Linux I'm by no means an expert so I don't think I'm redy for Arch or something like that. I've heard bad things about the newer releases of Ubuntu and Mint felt a bit glitchy from when I last used it. Should I just roll with Ubuntu anyway or maybe try out Kubuntu or Xubuntu instead?

[QUOTE=cam64DD;45740332]So, I'd like to try Linux out with Steam / Team Fortress 2. It seems that my current computer runs OpenGL-based games better than DirectX, so maybe I could give that a go...? What do you guys think about this? Which distro should I use for maximum performance with TF2?[/QUOTE] My laptop with Intel HD Graphics 4000 runs TF2 pretty well at low settings on Linux. I wouldn't say it's necessarily much better perfomance than I would get with DX though.

[QUOTE=Amakir;45743008]I'm thinking of giving Linux another try and was wondering what distro you guyswoikd recommend. I used to dual boot Ubuntu with Windows on my old desktop PC and I'm currently running Mint on an old semi-broken laptop. While I have some small experience with Linux I'm by no means an expert so I don't think I'm redy for Arch or something like that. I've heard bad things about the newer releases of Ubuntu and Mint felt a bit glitchy from when I last used it. Should I just roll with Ubuntu anyway or maybe try out Kubuntu or Xubuntu instead?[/QUOTE] I'd stick with your favorite flavor of Ubuntu until you feel confident in your terminal-fu. after that, Fedora sounds like a good next step how reliable is the xorg-server-xwayland package? it sounds a little hacky, but if it's stable, would moving to a Wayland only system be feasible yet?

Wayland is basically unusable at this point as there's no really good apps for it. You can run SOME X apps...

[QUOTE=Lyokanthrope;45744759]Wayland is basically unusable at this point as there's no really good apps for it. You can run SOME X apps...[/QUOTE] Well GNOME works for Wayland these days, but I wouldn't call it perfectly usable either. However, what better way to improve usability, than to have a bunch of people try it out and report bugs?

[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;45746266]Doesn't Steam & Source Engine use SDL2 which has Wayland support?[/QUOTE] They DO use SDL2, but that doesn't mean that the build of SDL2 that they each use (which may not even be the same build. In fact, it probably isn't) supports Wayland, in fact, the only way to be certain is to compile a SDL2 version yourself and make sure they all use that version which uses Wayland (and even then you can't be 100% sure).

[code]cat /proc/swaps Filename Type Size Used Priority /swapfile file 8191996 0 -1 [/code] Should I be worried?

[QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;45746514][code]cat /proc/swaps Filename Type Size Used Priority /swapfile file 8191996 0 -1 [/code] Should I be worried?[/QUOTE] No? You have a swap file that is never used. You could just enable it with a priority of 1 or 2.

Installed OpenSUSE on my desktop and it came without Ethernet drivers. I go on Atheros' website and I can get drivers for Windows and DOS, but not Linux. I can't find anything for it in the repo's. Is it possible to use NDISWrapper on the Windows drivers? It's an Atheros AR8131/AR8132, if that helps. Atheros list it as 'AR813X AR815X Family' [editline]20th August 2014[/editline] [code]make: command not found[/code] I try to download make from the working laptop: [code]zypper install --download-only make 'make' is already installed[/code] :suicide:

-snip- kinda dumb

[QUOTE=SteelSliver;45752205]If I were to create an X-less machine with Arch that could still play steam games, how would I go about it?[/QUOTE] how do you intend to play games without something to see? :v:

[code]nick@polaris ~ % ls / | grep ".wants" halt.target.wants initrd-switch-root.target.wants kexec.target.wants multi-user.target.wants poweroff.target.wants reboot.target.wants sysinit.target.wants[/code] What the hell are these directories in my root? [editline]20th August 2014[/editline] they apparently come from plymouth are these systemd specific things? if so i could probably remove them

[QUOTE=lavacano;45753405][code]nick@polaris ~ % ls / | grep ".wants" halt.target.wants initrd-switch-root.target.wants kexec.target.wants multi-user.target.wants poweroff.target.wants reboot.target.wants sysinit.target.wants[/code] What the hell are these directories in my root? [editline]20th August 2014[/editline] they apparently come from plymouth are these systemd specific things? if so i could probably remove them[/QUOTE] I don't have any of those in my root, and I use plymouth too

[QUOTE=PredGD;45752594]how do you intend to play games without something to see? :v:[/QUOTE] He said X-less, not console-only. Wayland and XWayland?

I've got a Raspberry Pi with a Piratebox Arch image up and running, but whenever I boot it up with a D-Link DWL-G122 USB Wireless Dongle plugged in, I get these errors: [CODE]ieee80211 phy201: rt2x00usb_vender_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x09 failed for offset 0x0000 with error -19 ieee80211 phy201: rt73usb_init_eeprom: Error - Invalid RT chipset detected ieee80211 phy201: rt2x00lib_probe_dev: Error - Failed to allocate device[/CODE] Anyone here know how I could go around fixing this?

[QUOTE=Akacopman;45760571]I've got a Raspberry Pi with a Piratebox Arch image up and running, but whenever I boot it up with a D-Link DWL-G122 USB Wireless Dongle plugged in, I get these errors: [CODE]ieee80211 phy201: rt2x00usb_vender_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x09 failed for offset 0x0000 with error -19 ieee80211 phy201: rt73usb_init_eeprom: Error - Invalid RT chipset detected ieee80211 phy201: rt2x00lib_probe_dev: Error - Failed to allocate device[/CODE] Anyone here know how I could go around fixing this?[/QUOTE] It could be that the wrong driver is being loaded. Try searching around how to set up such a wireless dongle on Linux, and see if they mention anything about blacklisting the rt2x00usb driver.

Did anyone here post a link to the new elementary OS beta? [url]http://elementaryos.org/journal/freya-beta-1-available-for-developers-testers[/url] Tried it out, it's okay. Doesn't come with EFI support for some reason. Some of the new animations are really great, some of them are really shit and unfinished. The default theme is updated and looks p good, comes with a dark theme for terminal that looked really nice Overall good improvement, just really unfinished [editline]21st August 2014[/editline] OK well it says it has EFI support, but it didn't work so fuck that

[QUOTE=PredGD;45753711]I don't have any of those in my root, and I use plymouth too[/QUOTE] I figured out what it was. Those are [b]supposed[/b] to be in /lib/systemd or /usr or wherever systemd keeps its runlevel-y shit. But due to a packaging issue, [url=https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461478]which #gentoo @ Freenode believes might be related to this bug[/url], it gets plopped into / instead. Obviously this is only critical if I decided to use systemd for some reason. Fortunately OpenRC has been perfect for me so...

[QUOTE=rilez;45763191]Did anyone here post a link to the new elementary OS beta? [url]http://elementaryos.org/journal/freya-beta-1-available-for-developers-testers[/url] Tried it out, it's okay. Doesn't come with EFI support for some reason. Some of the new animations are really great, some of them are really shit and unfinished. The default theme is updated and looks p good, comes with a dark theme for terminal that looked really nice Overall good improvement, just really unfinished [editline]21st August 2014[/editline] OK well it says it has EFI support, but it didn't work so fuck that[/QUOTE] Yeah, it has some rough edges. But imo it's quite nice to use.

does gnome shell suffer from a memory leak? I've been having issues with it for a while, and right now it's using 2GB all on its own. a reboot will take that to around 100MB. I've had it all the way up to 3GB before too