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

Pfft, display managers are lame. Logging in and starting X with the CLI is the way to go. Although I am having my own display issues. When programs have pages that scroll (even xterm), there's this weird slow tearing effect as it updates. I still have video acceleration as far as I can tell, as videos run just fine. I can't start Steam either as it says it can't find an X window. Does anyone know where I can look to start troubleshooting this?

[QUOTE=Terin7;41040546]Pfft, display managers are lame. Logging in and starting X with the CLI is the way to go. Although I am having my own display issues. When programs have pages that scroll (even xterm), there's this weird slow tearing effect as it updates. I still have video acceleration as far as I can tell, as videos run just fine. I can't start Steam either as it says it can't find an X window. Does anyone know where I can look to start troubleshooting this?[/QUOTE] Sounds like VSync problems? I don't know much more than than :v:

Welp, back to Arch I go :v:

[QUOTE=Lyoko774;41042490]Welp, back to Arch I go :v:[/QUOTE] Arch just has this weird power where once you use it, you can never really use anything else again without wanting to go back. [sub][sub][sub][sub]at least for me [/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub]

For me it's 3 things - Up to date software - Control over exactly what gets installed - AUR The only other distro that comes close is Gentoo, but I don't want to spend hours compiling everything. [editline]15th June 2013[/editline] I've tried Mint, Fedora, Debian, Gentoo, and others, but <3 Arch.

Arch is the first distro I've gotten into. Seems like I won't be changing any soon (or more like never). I'm trapped with this beauty!

[QUOTE=Gran PC;41035464]Another one (that happened to me) is that instead of sending a file through nc, I tried to receive the file I was trying to send.. And it was a backup :v:[/QUOTE] I remember turby managed to chmod 000 his entire filesystem with a recursive chmod and a symlink at some point And I'm fairly sure he knows what hes doing I also did an ftp as root inside /root (was lazy), ran "GET ../etc/passwd" because it was a flakey custom FTP server (wasent meant to let you out of the main dir), I didnt really expect it to work since you couldent cd .. or ls .., but sure enough, it worked and wrote it to /root/../etc/passwd and broke the entire system

I just installed Ubuntu. Unity looks pretty nice (sorry for that opinion), but it's very annoying in usability. Back to awesomeWM it is (when I have time that is).

I want to give Linux a second try, and I'll use my old laptop with Pentium M 1.7GHz and 1GB of RAM. I wanted K/X/Ubuntu or Mint, however they all require PAE which my laptop doesn't support. Any recommendations for a distro I could run? I'm thinking about Mint Debian Edition but I've heard it's not quite beginner-friendly. I could also run antiX, Bodhi, Debian, Slackware, CrunchBang... I just have no idea how to choose. And another question - if one Linux distro can run something, can all the other distros run it? Because I've read something about Debian - Ubuntu compatibility...

Hey I think I'm missing fonts for GMod. The main menu looks blurry: [img]http://i.imgur.com/dPOOzRb.png[/img] And the console text looks cute, but it's hard to read: [img]http://i.imgur.com/Rqw0yWk.png[/img]

[QUOTE=EdoI;41043878]I want to give Linux a second try, and I'll use my old laptop with Pentium M 1.7GHz and 1GB of RAM. I wanted K/X/Ubuntu or Mint, however they all require PAE which my laptop doesn't support. Any recommendations for a distro I could run? I'm thinking about Mint Debian Edition but I've heard it's not quite beginner-friendly. I could also run antiX, Bodhi, Debian, Slackware, CrunchBang... I just have no idea how to choose. And another question - if one Linux distro can run something, can all the other distros run it? Because I've read something about Debian - Ubuntu compatibility...[/QUOTE] [quote] To guarantee compatibility with non-PAE processors, the 32-bit versions of Linux Mint Debian come with a 486 kernel by default. [/quote] Another problem solved I hope!

I'm aware of that, I was wondering whether it's a good choice for a first Linux ever, or those written below would suit me better.

Linux Mint is fairly beginner friendly, I haven't used the Debian edition but I imagine it's similar to the the Vanilla and KDE versions.

Upgrading to latest kernel broke my NVIDIA 319 driver install (Mint15x64) - it says it cannot load the kernel module. Do not upgrade if you are using NVIDIA drivers!

[QUOTE=IpHa;41042701]For me it's 3 things - Up to date software - Control over exactly what gets installed - AUR The only other distro that comes close is Gentoo, but I don't want to spend hours compiling everything. [editline]15th June 2013[/editline] I've tried Mint, Fedora, Debian, Gentoo, and others, but <3 Arch.[/QUOTE] IMO the only thing that comes close to Archlinux's up-to-date packages, minimal installation all without having to compile from source is an Ubuntu minimal installation. [url]https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD[/url] (by up-to-date, I mean not as old as Debian Stables packages are)

So.... I just spent the last 2.5 hours trying to figure out why after changing some setting in my gnome session, I could no longer log in. I eventually narrowed it down to a settings file (.config/dconf/user) that if removed, would allow me to login but would wipe all my setting. Af this I spent a long time looking around on the internet to no avail, and finally decided to just manually change one setting at a time (doing the same things I did the first time setting up my session) to see what was going wrong. Eventually, I found out that changing my clock to am-pm time was the thing causing all these problems (wtf???). So naturally, I went googling to see if someone else had this issue, and lo-and-behold i found [url=https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1281584]this thread[/url]. Apparently when I set up my locale, I marked e[b]s[/b]_US.UTF-8 in my locale.gen file (on accident obviously) and exported/set e[b]n[/b]_US.UTF-8 instead. :headdesk: Fixing that and re-gening my locales fixed everything.

And two more problems solved (boy I'm on a roll today): Whenever I'd suspend I couldn't actually resume my session (the screen would stay black, but the laptop would work (I could ssh into it and everything)). I had to install acpi, start it's service, and install both the 64+32 bit versions of the proprietary amd drivers (catalyst repos). I can now resume just fine. Couldn't change screen brightness, to fix this I added the acpi_osi="!Windows 2012" kernel parameter. One last thing left: gnome isn't detecting my powercord, but acpi_listen picks up on the event, so I have no idea what's going on here.

[QUOTE=IpHa;41042701]For me it's 3 things - Up to date software - Control over exactly what gets installed - AUR The only other distro that comes close is Gentoo, but I don't want to spend hours compiling everything. [editline]15th June 2013[/editline] I've tried Mint, Fedora, Debian, Gentoo, and others, but <3 Arch.[/QUOTE] I think mainly for me, when Arch breaks, I can fix it easy. For some reason when any other distro breaks, I have no clue what the fuck to do because I don't know what happened :v: Plus the package manager won't randomly decide to remove half my system like Ubuntu's...

Could someone help me out with dual booting Arch and Win 8? sda1 and sda2 is for windows 8 while sda3 is root and sda4 is home, right, anything else I should take note of?

All you really need is one partition for a Linux boot, unless you have a UEFI motherboard. Multiple partitions is just if you want extra security or control.

Anyone happen to know why my local time that shows in Arch's default panel is 4 hours off for about the first two minutes after I boot up? After that, it gets fixed and shows my timezone's time, but I want this to happen instantly at boot.

Do you dual-boot with Windows?

[QUOTE=danharibo;41058215]Do you dual-boot with Windows?[/QUOTE] Windows 7 is installed on a separate partition, but I haven't used it in the longest time (certainly not since installing Arch).

[QUOTE=Terin7;41052677]All you really need is one partition for a Linux boot, unless you have a UEFI motherboard. Multiple partitions is just if you want extra security or control.[/QUOTE] Having /home on a separate partition means that you can reinstall without backing it up. Which might be useful.

Not sure where to post this, but eight mobile carriers from around the world confirmed they would be advertising Ubuntu Phone, one of them being T-Mobile (Deutsche Telekom) [editline]18th June 2013[/editline] [URL="http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/06/8-mobile-operators-give-backing-to-ubuntu-touch"]http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/06/8-mobile-operators-give-backing-to-ubuntu-touch[/URL]

I just spend 30 min getting Terraria(with sound) to work with mono, but I've now lost interest in playing it. Maybe later tonight.

Is it just me or does debian 7 netinstall take ages to...install?

Yeah, Debian always takes a while.

Just wondering, are there any good alternatives to raspberry pi? Preferably with built-in wifi and a price < $80 Actually let me be more specific: All I really need is a good processor and a decent amount of ram (>= 1ghz, >= 512), an ethernet port (wifi is nice but not needed), usb, and HDMI out. I really have no need for any kind of serial/pin connectors. I have no idea if this is realistic since I don't know much about microcomputing.

I'd probably get this: [url]http://apc.io/products/rock/[/url] IMO you should look around in the [url=http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1272655]Microcomputing thread[/url], there's some good stuff in there.