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

yeah, but the radeon drivers imo are much better than fglrx so if you have an amd card it is worth to try it, now if you have an nvidia card i'm not sure if there's support for it, i couldn't get it to work on mine.

amdgpu cometh The promised day arrives The death of Nvidia reckons

[QUOTE=nikomo;46769210]amdgpu cometh The promised day arrives The death of Nvidia reckons[/QUOTE] I'd love to see some OpenCL love for my Radeon HD 4670 :(

My R9 270X isn't even going to get amdgpu support, but I'm still slightly hype, if amdgpu ends up being good, I'll probably pick up a card that's supported by it at some point.

Oh great I was planning on getting a GTX 970. Let's hope AMD make something comparable

[QUOTE=initrd;46769146]yeah, but the radeon drivers imo are much better than fglrx so if you have an amd card it is worth to try it, now if you have an nvidia card i'm not sure if there's support for it, i couldn't get it to work on mine.[/QUOTE] nouveau on nvidia cards probably supports it, but the problem is nouveau at this point in time is [b]terrible[/b] the proprietary nvidia drivers (which are just called "nvidia" or "nvidia-drivers" because nvidia is a bunch of reasonable people) are really nice, though i'm pretty sure they don't support gallium-nine. maybe if i asked nicely though...

[QUOTE=lavacano;46773935]nouveau on nvidia cards probably supports it, but the problem is nouveau at this point in time is [b]terrible[/b] the proprietary nvidia drivers (which are just called "nvidia" or "nvidia-drivers" because nvidia is a bunch of reasonable people) are really nice, though i'm pretty sure they don't support gallium-nine. maybe if i asked nicely though...[/QUOTE] The readme from the [URL="https://github.com/brettlyons/pkgbuilds-nine"]PKGBUILDs[/URL] i use: [CODE] pkgbuilds-nine ============== Temporary PKGBUILDs for building Mesa / Wine / Radeon xf86 driver with dx9 state tracker support on Arch Linux. Mesa/lib32-mesa needs to be built before Wine is built, since wine links to the nine adapter mesa libraries. [/CODE] It doesn't look like it supports gallium, but then there's [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPROzDw2meo"]this[/URL]. Nouveau isn't actually bad, it's just slower because making drivers isn't easy with no documentation, it does actually detect the correct clocks for my old 9500 and i actually can use ttys at a resolution higher than 640x480, change resolution with xrandr, run weston smoothly too. That said i do use the nonfree drivers sometimes when i boot in the 'oh shit i fucked up'-partition not to unfuck my system but to play something with an interlaced mode because the free drivers don't support those. Wayland and KMS are enough for me to not really care about the performance hit since anyways it'll probably get better. Speaking of wayland is it possible to cause tearing in it?, i believe tearing has atleast some use if for example you wanted to reduce latency in a vertical oscilloscope by updating the buffer before the 'beam' draws the pixels, vsync can mean 1/HZ secs of latency or even more.

[QUOTE=initrd;46774614]Nouveau isn't actually bad, it's just slower because making drivers isn't easy with no documentation, it does actually detect the correct clocks for my old 9500 and i actually can use ttys at a resolution higher than 640x480, change resolution with xrandr, run weston smoothly too.[/QUOTE] I didn't say they were worthless, I just said they were currently terrible In my case, I get extreme framerate lag and stuttering on my [i]desktop[/i] when using nouveau. Granted, I have KDE's desktop effects turned on and that isn't helping anything, but I kind of figure if the card can handle small effects and the drivers can't, the drivers are a problem. Also if you haven't yet, notice I'm using terms like "currently" and "at this time". I'm fully aware that nouveau can (and probably will) improve greatly, perhaps to the point where they rival or even outclass nvidia-drivers.

[QUOTE=lavacano;46779970]I didn't say they were worthless, I just said they were currently terrible In my case, I get extreme framerate lag and stuttering on my [i]desktop[/i] when using nouveau. Granted, I have KDE's desktop effects turned on and that isn't helping anything, but I kind of figure if the card can handle small effects and the drivers can't, the drivers are a problem. Also if you haven't yet, notice I'm using terms like "currently" and "at this time". I'm fully aware that nouveau can (and probably will) improve greatly, perhaps to the point where they rival or even outclass nvidia-drivers.[/QUOTE] Things like this is why I'm currently sticking to AMD cards. Granted, the proprietary drivers of Nvidia WAY outperform any other, but I'm not really into that.

Fucking pulseaudio. It just randomly decided to not start on boot and give me errors.

Crosspost from the sipwik [img]http://puu.sh/dI6Un/43e7437a4f.png[/img] Oh the pain.

[QUOTE=Angus725;46787489]Crosspost from the sipwik [img]http://puu.sh/dI6Un/43e7437a4f.png[/img] Oh the pain.[/QUOTE] Wait did you system go back in time? Doesn't that fuck up a whole bunch of stuff? Also ghostbsd is really nice and netbsd is really fun to play with.

I never really understood the differences between the different *BSD operating Systems.

[QUOTE=kaukassus;46791755]I never really understood the differences between the different *BSD operating Systems.[/QUOTE] They are completely different pretty much iirc. It's like having multiple linux branches that specialize in different things.

BSDs are kind of like Arch, except even more obscure, and the users are even more elitist.

[QUOTE=nikomo;46792236]BSDs are kind of like Arch, except even more obscure, and the users are even more elitist.[/QUOTE] Except that the *BSD Users all have beards and some Arch users don't even have pubes yet :v:

Thoughts on getting a Banana Pi instead of a Raspberry Pi? I mean besides the taste? It seems that overall the BPi is superior in specification to the RPi Model B+, and only slightly more expensive, but I'm not sure. Any thoughts on the matter before I go spend all my money?

[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;46792470]I'd insert a probably terrible and witty joke but I don't want to get shunned. Question. Installing Linux Mint onto my Dell Inspiron 1300 laptop. It works out alright perfectly fine. The Wifi chip (Broadcom's BCMAxxx or B43) refuses to work. Getting Mint to actually install the driver it recommends off of the liveUSB also fails and actually locks it up. No issues on Lubuntu. Am I doing something wrong?[/QUOTE] Yes. Check lspci -knn and see what driver Lubuntu uses, and use the same on Mint.

been trying to set up autoindexing on my web server, though it's not working like I want it to. I want to disallow browsing in the root directory and in another directory, but allow browsing in one of the other directories. [code]server { listen 90; server_name beepboop; root /home/apache/public_html; location = /favicon.ico { alias /home/apache/public_html/favicon.ico { location / { autoindex off; deny all; location /nobrowsing { autoindex off; deny all; } location /allowbrowsing { autoindex on; allow all; } } [/code] from what I know, shouldn't this do just like I want it to? I've told it not to autoindex and deny all to the locations I don't want it to create an index in, and specifically told it to do so in the folder I want it to make an index in. what am I doing wrong? I'm running nginx

[QUOTE=kaukassus;46792277]Except that the *BSD Users all have beards and some Arch users don't even have pubes yet :v:[/QUOTE] I'm pretty sure @freebsdgirl doesn't have a beard, for one

[QUOTE=esalaka;46799849]I'm pretty sure @freebsdgirl doesn't have a beard, for one[/QUOTE] yeah but i dont see a single picture of her using freebsd on her twitter.

[QUOTE=PredGD;46794649]been trying to set up autoindexing on my web server, though it's not working like I want it to. I want to disallow browsing in the root directory and in another directory, but allow browsing in one of the other directories. [code]server { listen 90; server_name beepboop; root /home/apache/public_html; location = /favicon.ico { alias /home/apache/public_html/favicon.ico { location / { autoindex off; deny all; location /nobrowsing { autoindex off; deny all; } location /allowbrowsing { autoindex on; allow all; } } [/code] from what I know, shouldn't this do just like I want it to? I've told it not to autoindex and deny all to the locations I don't want it to create an index in, and specifically told it to do so in the folder I want it to make an index in. what am I doing wrong? I'm running nginx[/QUOTE] got this solved. had to add autoindex on outside of the location blocks for it to work properly. config looks like this now, which works [code]server { listen 80; server_name www.pred.me pred.me; root /home/predme/public_html; autoindex on; location = /favicon.ico { alias /home/predme/public_html/favicon.ico; } location / { autoindex off; } location /nobrowsing { autoindex off; } location /allowbrowsing { autoindex on; } } [/code]

[QUOTE=Medevila;46806872]How do I go about making a spanned volume in Linux?[/QUOTE] You mean like spanning a volume across several drives? Something like [url=https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LVM]LVM[/url] might suit your needs.

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;46791688]Wait did you system go back in time? Doesn't that fuck up a whole bunch of stuff? Also ghostbsd is really nice and netbsd is really fun to play with.[/QUOTE] Turns out a bunch of my programs are having this back-in-time stuff. Getting negative times in quite a few places. I suspect it has to do with the fact I'm virtualizing FreeBSD (and Debian on another VM) on HyperV, and the clock is having issues syncing.

So I just got my Acer C720 today. Void the warrenty already by removing the write-protect screw. This is so that I can disable write protection and boot to seabios by default. -edit- Done now. Working great.

[QUOTE=Medevila;46817167]GIMP's UI is so fucking broken in Windows[/QUOTE] So is photoshop's on a high DPI screen.

I never realised how great Arch is until I installed it on my C720. I'm in a conundrum of installing it on this machine (my desktop) now instead of having Xubuntu. Does arch play well with nvidia and uefi?

[QUOTE=josm;46821883]I never realised how great Arch is until I installed in on my C720. I'm in a conundrum of installing it on this machine (my desktop) now instead of having Xubuntu. Does arch play well with nvidia and uefi?[/QUOTE] It does well enough. I'm using nvidia and uefi on Arch. uefi can be a pain to set up if you don't know what you're doing, but works beautifully. Feel free to add me on steam or something if you want me to walk you through getting rEFInd working on it.

[QUOTE=Naelstrom;46822658]It does well enough. I'm using nvidia and uefi on Arch. uefi can be a pain to set up if you don't know what you're doing, but works beautifully. Feel free to add me on steam or something if you want me to walk you through getting rEFInd working on it.[/QUOTE] I heard about rEFInd but never really got it. So yes, if you could tell me the general idea I'd appreciate it.

2015, year of the Linux desktop.