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

[ThePunisher1]

Can someone reccomend me a linux build for a netbook?

Its a half decent netbook, can play HD movies, quite a few games, and runs the full version of Windows 7 so has some horsepower behind it.

[Liam]

[QUOTE=ThePunisher1;46482496]Can someone reccomend me a linux build for a netbook?

Its a half decent netbook, can play HD movies, quite a few games, and runs the full version of Windows 7 so has some horsepower behind it.[/QUOTE]

if it can do w7 and games it can do pretty much any modern distro

what gpu does it have in it?

[ThePunisher1]

Its a Lenovo Ideapad S205, it has AMD E350 1.6GHz processor, with a AMD Radeon HD 6310M graphics, it can run the original Dawn of War quite well, can run 1080p movies with occasional slowdowns (due to hard drive I think).

[rilez]

Arch would give you the best performance, but it's intimidating for a first time Linux user

Xubuntu is a good bet; it's light but still looks pretty good out of the box

[Liam]

[QUOTE=ThePunisher1;46482577]Its a Lenovo Ideapad S205, it has AMD E350 1.6GHz processor, with a AMD Radeon HD 6310M graphics, it can run the original Dawn of War quite well, can run 1080p movies with occasional slowdowns (due to hard drive I think).[/QUOTE]
Ah okay it's got a Radeon, that makes things interesting for you if you are planning on doing 3D stuff on it. If you are just planning on surfing the web and watching videos with it you should be fine with whatever distro you like the look of. Most of them come with the open source Radeon drivers that work pretty well for most stuff. If you plan on still playing games on this computer then you might want the proprietary (fglrx) drivers from AMD. The proprietary drivers generally offer better performance but they are a pain in the arse to install on every distro I have ever used except OpenSuse. I've also heard bad things about trying to get them to run on your specific APU but that might just be because the dude I was talking to was using Ubuntu.

tl;dr

don't care about 3D performance: pick whichever one you think is prettiest (what rilez said, xubuntu is nice)

godda go fast and risk it with fglrx: opensuse

[ThePunisher1]

I was planning on using steam on it also to stream from my main machine, if it could do that then it would be great!

I am quite a linux noob, how do you install the graphics drivers and why is it a pain?

[Liam]

The open source drivers work fine for steam in home streaming, I just tried them out then in Ubuntu 14.04. If you are still interested in the lengths people will go to to install the proprietary driver on their distro of choice you can [url=http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Trusty_Installation_Guide]delve into the horrors of wiki.cchtml.com[/url] or just look back to earlier pages in this thread.

If you think you still might need the proprietary driver for some reason (maybe you want to run the html5 version of RuneScape, I dunno) opensuse has the easiest installation method I have come across. Basically you go on the suse website and there is a [url=http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:AMD_fglrx#Procedure_for_one-click-install]big green button[/url] that you click. A Firefox plugin makes sure that yast comes up and does everything for you while smoking a cigarillo and asking you if you watched the game last night. Now you know.

[shodan]

Is smart giving me wrong readings is is this disk just not dying?
It feels so slow when I'm on windows. Could be fragmentation though.

[t]http://i.imgur.com/pgmCpep.png[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/HXL2HdC.png[/t]

[lavacano]

If you have IObit's Smart Defrag installed in Windows, try right clicking its tray icon and selecting exit.

It's [b]supposed[/b] to only do defrag operations when the computer's been idle, but recently it's been going nonstop while I'm actually doing things with it so I think they broke something.

[mastersrp]

I'd just like to point out that despite efforts from AMD the fglxr (Catalyst) drivers for Linux still only really work great for video games, where as everything else is open source radeon / radeonsi drivers. I'd even go as far as to say that Xubuntu with open source drivers should do anything and everything well. However, with that in mind, it is worth noting that not all games on Linux are well designed, and some of them do not run very well due to this.
Wine is still one of the areas where performance isn't the best, but that is sure as fuck not with everything, there's about 3-4000 applications that work so fucking great in Wine that you can't even beat the performance in Windows.
My few cents: Dual boot Xubuntu, try shit out, and see what works for you.

[Liam]

yeah actually the open source drivers have come a long way in the past couple of years, i'm surprised by what they can do now

i can't get them to run civ5 tho

[mastersrp]

[QUOTE=Little Donny;46487857]yeah actually the open source drivers have come a long way in the past couple of years, i'm surprised by what they can do now

i can't get them to run civ5 tho[/QUOTE]

What issues do you have with running it?

[Liam]

[QUOTE=mastersrp;46487936]What issues do you have with running it?[/QUOTE]

I see like a blurry corner of the opening cutscene with some horrible robot fart noises and then it crashes. It's cool though 'cause I am dual booting ubuntu studio and opensuse. I use ubuntu for games that work well with gallium and suse for ones that need catalyst. I still get better fps with the catalyst drivers in most games. Civ5 works fine in opensuse.

[Rayiner]

This is rather weird question, but can anyone explain me why does Fedora support only Mumble version 1.2.6?

[shodan]

[QUOTE=Rayiner;46495251]This is rather weird question, but can anyone explain me why does Fedora support only Mumble version 1.2.6?[/QUOTE]

Because fedora 21 is coming out soon. Fedora packages tend to be older because they are often frozen right before beta.

[ThePunisher1]

I have tired to use clonezilla although when I launch it the user interface is corrupted, I cant see anything as the menus are compeltely garbled/replicated in weird places.

Any ideas?

[Comfy]

Holy shit Gnome with Wayland is so smooth.

[mastersrp]

[QUOTE=kaukassus;46501844]Holy shit Gnome with Wayland is so smooth.[/QUOTE]

Is there anywhere one can test this?

[editline]16th November 2014[/editline]

[QUOTE=ThePunisher1;46497877]I have tired to use clonezilla although when I launch it the user interface is corrupted, I cant see anything as the menus are compeltely garbled/replicated in weird places.

Any ideas?[/QUOTE]

Which Live CD are you using?

[Comfy]

[QUOTE=mastersrp;46502813]Is there anywhere one can test this?

[editline]16th November 2014[/editline]

Which Live CD are you using?[/QUOTE]

I used the Gnome Wayland session in Fedora21 Beta.

[SocMinarch]

Has anyone ever cross compiled ffplay for Windows? What do I need to do to enable SDL support? I have added the SDL.dll to LDFLAGS, and I have libsdl1.2-dev installed from LMDE repo's, but ./configure is still saying that SDL is not enabled.

[FPtje]

I have a problem with curl on my webserver. The webserver uses curl to get data from server X.

On my laptop I can run this command:

while true; do time (curl X -vvv); done

And I'll be greeted with a spam of responses, the longest one taking about 300ms. All fine and dandy.

However, when I do the exact same on my webserver (same server, same request, same command), every 30 or so times it freezes up right after saying this:

* Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache
*   Trying <the right IP>...

The next line should say "Connected to X (ip) port 80", but it either does so after half a minute or it times out.

So basically the connection to X often times out on my server, but on my own laptop I can spam connections and it works fine.

Here's the strace of the curl command:
[url]http://pastebin.com/mt6qPJMg[/url]

(I interrupted it manually after 10 or so seconds).

What could possibly be the problem here? It tries the right IP so it's probably not the DNS. Server X also seems not to be the problem since my laptop can access it fine.

[supervoltage]

Hello, I'm back with the Raspberry Pi kernel compilations. I'm facing an issue and I don't know how to solve it.

I'm following [URL="http://elinux.org/Raspberry_Pi_Kernel_Compilation"]this tutorial[/URL]. After I run 'make oldconfig', I apply the -ck1 patchsets using 'patch p1 < patchfile', without spitting any error out. When I finally execute 'make', it asks me if I want to enable BFS. Naturally, I select yes and it starts compiling. However, the following error appeared:

  CC      kernel/sched/stats.o
kernel/sched/stats.c: In function 'show_schedstat':
kernel/sched/stats.c:38:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'cpu_rq' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
kernel/sched/stats.c:38:6: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default]
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
scripts/Makefile.build:308: recipe for target 'kernel/sched/stats.o' failed
make[2]: *** [kernel/sched/stats.o] Error 1
scripts/Makefile.build:455: recipe for target 'kernel/sched' failed
make[1]: *** [kernel/sched] Error 2
Makefile:801: recipe for target 'kernel' failed
make: *** [kernel] Error 2

I am confused. What should I do in order to compile the kernel?

[Dipper]

I decided to try out linux again and went with elementary os. Installed steam through the software center and let steam grab its needed packets, but now it won't start. Tried reinstalling and still nothing. Entered steam into terminal and this is what is spat out.

Running Steam on elementary os 0.2.1 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0_client)
Uploading dump (out-of-process) [proxy '']
/tmp/dumps/crash_20141116125719_1.dmp
Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = no
error: libcurl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/home/jason/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 730: 16137 Segmentation fault      $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"
mv: cannot stat `/home/jason/.steam/registry.vdf': No such file or directory
Installing bootstrap /home/jason/.local/share/Steam/bootstrap.tar.xz
Reset complete!
Restarting Steam by request...
Running Steam on elementary os 0.2.1 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME has been set by the user to: /home/jason/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0_client)
Uploading dump (out-of-process) [proxy '']
/tmp/dumps/crash_20141116125720_1.dmp
Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = no
error: libcurl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/home/jason/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 730: 16260 Segmentation fault      $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"

What do I need to do?

[mastersrp]

[QUOTE=Pine Cone;46504840]I decided to try out linux again and went with elementary os. Installed steam through the software center and let steam grab its needed packets, but now it won't start. Tried reinstalling and still nothing. Entered steam into terminal and this is what is spat out.

Running Steam on elementary os 0.2.1 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0_client)
Uploading dump (out-of-process) [proxy '']
/tmp/dumps/crash_20141116125719_1.dmp
Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = no
error: libcurl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/home/jason/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 730: 16137 Segmentation fault      $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"
mv: cannot stat `/home/jason/.steam/registry.vdf': No such file or directory
Installing bootstrap /home/jason/.local/share/Steam/bootstrap.tar.xz
Reset complete!
Restarting Steam by request...
Running Steam on elementary os 0.2.1 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME has been set by the user to: /home/jason/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0_client)
Uploading dump (out-of-process) [proxy '']
/tmp/dumps/crash_20141116125720_1.dmp
Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = no
error: libcurl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/home/jason/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 730: 16260 Segmentation fault      $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"

What do I need to do?[/QUOTE]

Install libcurl, that's what it seems to be missing.

[Dipper]

Used

sudo apt-get install libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls libcurl4-openssl-dev

and it is now working fine, thank you. Now I hope my 7970 works fine in game.

[ThePunisher1]

[QUOTE=mastersrp;46502813]Is there anywhere one can test this?

[editline]16th November 2014[/editline]

Which Live CD are you using?[/QUOTE]

I am using the AMD64 one, there is also an option for i686 and i486.

My netbook is a Lenovo S205, it has an AMD E-350 processor.

This is what it looks like when I boot up the program
[IMG]http://s14.postimg.org/6pbdxqcu8/2014_11_16_22_03_33.jpg[/IMG]

EDIT

Please help me :(

[vlad]

how does linux tackle high DPI displays in general? gnome seems to work out of the box, but everything else is tiny on this display. is there something out there that does DPI scaling across the board?

[editline]17th November 2014[/editline]

also, to get a closer to OS X feel on my touchpad, what driver should I go with? feels awkward to use the touchpad differently than when I'm booted in OS X

[editline]17th November 2014[/editline]

[t]http://i.cubeupload.com/ti5G9M.png[/t]

for some reason one of my cores are being heavily utilized even when there are no processes asking for it? any idea what might cause this? CPU is a i5-4278U @ 3.1 GHz

[Lyokanthrope]

[QUOTE=PredGD;46506738]how does linux tackle high DPI displays in general? gnome seems to work out of the box, but everything else is tiny on this display. is there something out there that does DPI scaling across the board?

[editline]17th November 2014[/editline]

also, to get a closer to OS X feel on my touchpad, what driver should I go with? feels awkward to use the touchpad differently than when I'm booted in OS X[/QUOTE]

I know EFL and E19 do scaling pretty well.

[lavacano]

[QUOTE=PredGD;46506738]how does linux tackle high DPI displays in general? gnome seems to work out of the box, but everything else is tiny on this display. is there something out there that does DPI scaling across the board?

[editline]17th November 2014[/editline]

also, to get a closer to OS X feel on my touchpad, what driver should I go with? feels awkward to use the touchpad differently than when I'm booted in OS X

[editline]17th November 2014[/editline]

[t]http://i.cubeupload.com/ti5G9M.png[/t]

for some reason one of my cores are being heavily utilized even when there are no processes asking for it? any idea what might cause this? CPU is a i5-4278U @ 3.1 GHz[/QUOTE]

If I remember right, red is kernel usage. Turn on display of kernel processes maybe?

[isnipeu]

What's the best FTP server with a GUI for a debian server?