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

uhmm, what went wrong here? I just finished installing the base of arch and was just done with the installation, but now I can't boot up? it says "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key" whenever I start up now. yes, my boot priority is correct and it is booting to my HDD where windows and arch is. when I installed grub, I had a gigantic wall of text which I hadn't seen in my earlier arch installations, is something wrong with grub?

Sounds like your MBR or bios_partition has become corrupt. Just boot up a rescue os and [url=https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB]reinstall grub.[/url]

yeah I'm back at the point where I need to install grub again, and figured out I had GPT partitioned my system and I have no clue how to install grub for that, even with the wiki. problem is, I can't partition it to create MBR partitions or whatever, cfdisk shows only /dev/sda1, which takes my entire drive when the truth is that sda1 and sda2 are my windows installs? why doesn't it see that there are occupied partitions there?

[QUOTE=PredGD;42245682]yeah I'm back at the point where I need to install grub again, and figured out I had GPT partitioned my system and I have no clue how to install grub for that, even with the wiki. problem is, I can't partition it to create MBR partitions or whatever, cfdisk shows only /dev/sda1, which takes my entire drive when the truth is that sda1 and sda2 are my windows installs? why doesn't it see that there are occupied partitions there?[/QUOTE] AFAIK cfdisk doesen't work with GPT

[QUOTE=kaukassus;42245728]AFAIK cfdisk doesen't work with GPT[/QUOTE] yeah, but how can I change this? I don't want to lose my windows install [editline]19th September 2013[/editline] think I might fixed it now, made a new bootable USB with gparted [editline]19th September 2013[/editline] no I haven't, fuck [editline]19th September 2013[/editline] would love to get some help to install grub on a GPT disk

[QUOTE=Rayjingstorm;42244930]I wish I could help but that all goes over my head :v:[/QUOTE] Well fuck I'll just go sit in a corner and make voodoo dolls in the shape of all the postfix programmers.

Has anyone ever got Steam to work on Crunchbang? I keep getting this error when executing steam, even after trying several solutions: [code] Running Steam on debian 7 64-bit STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically Error: You are missing the following 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run: libc.so.6 Error: You are missing the following 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run: libc.so.6 Press enter to continue: [/code] I've added i386 reps, installed ia32-libs, libc6-i386, and a shitload of other packages.

[QUOTE=PredGD;42245816]yeah, but how can I change this? I don't want to lose my windows install [editline]19th September 2013[/editline] think I might fixed it now, made a new bootable USB with gparted [editline]19th September 2013[/editline] no I haven't, fuck [editline]19th September 2013[/editline] would love to get some help to install grub on a GPT disk[/QUOTE] For GPT you need that 1007KiB partition with type EF02, you can do all this with [B]cgdisk[/B], not cfdisk. Otherwise the installation of GRUB should be pretty much the same as with MBR. It's all explained quite well in the Beginner's Guide.

[QUOTE=rilez;42241813]Gonna give the 325 driver a go on 13.04[/QUOTE] This worked perfect, thanks guys. No visual errors, no bugs! [IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/215991327/NVIDIA X Server Settings_002.png[/IMG] [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/215991327/Software%20%26%20Updates_001.png[/img] Strange that it's listed as an "open source" driver, wouldn't it be proprietary?

Probably a mistake in packaging somewhere or a bug in Jockey.

So I've got a problem. My netbook recently got fucked in a very strange way- it's screen is complete incomprehensible pixel trash (Although it does look very pretty!) until kernel is done initializing (once all the modules start getting loaded), so I have absolutely no access to any kind of POST, BIOS or GRUB screen. I've been holding out hope that it may be due to shittastic Poulsbo drivers (I'm on an Acer Aspire One D270; Intel GMA 500) but I'm increasingly becoming doubtful of them even being installed correctly on my Crunchbang installation. Does anyone know of any possible way I could wipe all the shit off this computer, probably update the BIOS, and try to start again and -hope- that fixes this issue? If not I guess I'm stuck with Crunchbang 11 Stable for the rest of this netbook's life which isn't too bad ~i guess~. I remind you I cannot access the boot priority menu or GRUB, ALTHOUGH, the one possible thing I've come up with is hoping that GRUB is simply clocking down and choosing the default boot, and if I could get it to boot into a USB-image by changing the presets then ??? One thing I could do is do a CMOS reset, but I'd like to wait until that's the final option. Also, what's weirder is that I have GPU acceleration (however shitty), full use of the screen resolution and all that jazz yet no psb or gma500 drivers or modules are being run on any aspect of my system, in so far as I can tell, X or otherwise. edit: I have now lost all ability to access the internet using my netbook because I'm a dumbass and uninstalling bluetooth also uninstalled everything networking-related ever.

Got Gnome all set up. Gotta say, it looks really sweet once you've fiddled around with it long enough! I'm really liking this set up so far. [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/215991327/Desktop_004.png[/t] [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/215991327/Workspace%201_006.png[/t]

Steam looks differently. Is that an update or something?

[QUOTE=rilez;42251361]Got Gnome all set up. Gotta say, it looks really sweet once you've fiddled around with it long enough! I'm really liking this set up so far. [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/215991327/Desktop_004.png[/t] [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/215991327/Workspace%201_006.png[/t][/QUOTE] What shell theme and steam skin are you using?

Shell theme is [URL="http://satya164.deviantart.com/art/Numix-GTK3-theme-360223962"]Numix[/URL] with the [URL="http://satya164.deviantart.com/art/Gnome-Shell-Elegance-Colors-305966388"]Elegance Colors[/URL] shell installed. The theme is made by the same guy, so Elegance colors includes a Numix preset (I set the "Roundness" variable to 0). I'm also using [URL="http://hewittsamuel.deviantart.com/art/Moka-Icon-Theme-385850133"]Moka Icons[/URL]. The Steam skin is called [URL="http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2989566"]Air.[/URL] One thing which is bothering me: is there anyway to sort out font rendering across Ubuntu? I've installed all the Windows fonts that I could from my 8.1 ISO, and while that has fixed some instances, other fonts still render incorrectly. [editline]20th September 2013[/editline] NVM, fixed it by installing Infinality: [URL]http://www.webupd8.org/2013/06/better-font-rendering-in-linux-with.html[/URL]

[QUOTE=rilez;42251503]Shell theme is [URL="http://satya164.deviantart.com/art/Numix-GTK3-theme-360223962"]Numix[/URL] with the [URL="http://satya164.deviantart.com/art/Gnome-Shell-Elegance-Colors-305966388"]Elegance Colors[/URL] shell installed. The theme is made by the same guy, so Elegance colors includes a Numix preset (I set the "Roundness" variable to 0). I'm also using [URL="http://hewittsamuel.deviantart.com/art/Moka-Icon-Theme-385850133"]Moka Icons[/URL]. The Steam skin is called [URL="http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2989566"]Air.[/URL] [/QUOTE] I suspected it to be Numix or a fork of that but I got confused with the shape/colors of some stuff. I really like that steam skin. It compliments both Windows 8 and Numix.

so I got grub to work after some experimenting, but I am unable to boot into windows. whenever I choose windows on the grub menu, a screen pops up and says that the boot manager is broken and wants me to boot into the windows disk to repair it. but if I do that, grub will break again won't it? [editline]20th September 2013[/editline] another issue, since I'm horrible at this. why can't I start x? using the catalyst drivers from AMD. the error is: [code] (EE) Fatal server error: (EE) no screens found(EE) (EE) Please consult the The X Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help. (EE) Please also check the log file "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information. (EE) (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file. xinit: giving up xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused xinit: server error [/code] [editline]20th September 2013[/editline] nevermind, I am a genius and fixed the x server error

well uhm, I'm now /finally/ in my DE with two minor problems. I have two screens but the X server doesn't take advantage of both screens. if I hover my mouse over to the edge of the screen and drag it across, the mouse pointer will end up on the other screen but the DE behaves like it's a duplex without a picture. I checked gnome settings but it can only find my primary screen? also, how do I change keyboard language in the DE? [editline]20th September 2013[/editline] shit it didn't merge, I feel horrible now

Two screens in Xorg act like two separate operating systems. Afaik you can't drag clients across or really get any proper dual screen capabilities unless you're using nvidia's twinview features or opensource drivers.

wow, that really sucks. especially considering I've found the catalyst drivers to perform much better than the open source ones.

[QUOTE=rilez;42251361]Got Gnome all set up. Gotta say, it looks really sweet once you've fiddled around with it long enough! I'm really liking this set up so far. [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/215991327/Desktop_004.png[t] [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/215991327/Workspace%201_006.png[t][/QUOTE] Nice, very pretty! Welcome to desktop Linux, sorry that GPU issues hit you on your way in.

Holy shit, I don't know how, but I finally managed to set up, and send mails from Linux.

[QUOTE=kaukassus;42252962]Holy shit, I don't know how, but I finally managed to set up, and send mails from Linux.[/QUOTE] Plase help me set up my smtp server

looks like I solved the dual screen thing, however now I can't boot back into gnome. uhh

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;42252095]I suspected it to be Numix or a fork of that but I got confused with the shape/colors of some stuff. I really like that steam skin. It compliments both Windows 8 and Numix.[/QUOTE] Is Numix really that popular of a theme? I know it's used quite a bit, but not to that kind of extent. And from experience, GNOME is terrible with games. TF2 will frequently burp up a bit and...not exactly reduce your framerate, but the refresh rate's lower and the tearing is as bad as a tear in the fabric of existence.

forget it, solved it myself eventually after all. feel like an idiot for asking so many times :v: [editline]20th September 2013[/editline] swear to god, last question. why doesn't the theme I installed pop up in the active themes in gnome tweak tool for me to select? looks really odd when only one piece of my desktop is adwaita while the rest is the theme I installed. oh and, how can I install internet certificates on linux? on windows I'd just write in the password and put it in trusted root, but I can't figure out how I'm gonna do that here [editline]20th September 2013[/editline] [IMG]http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/2572/0sjr.png[/IMG]

[url=http://www.ryochan7.com/projects/antimicro/]Fan-fricking-tastic timing for a better alternative to QJoyPad to come along.[/url] [editline]f[/editline] Everything else sucks. QJoyPad requires some version of Qt I can't find, Rejoystick doesn't like working properly, no word on joy2key.

does anyone know of a solution for insane input lag for source games?

[QUOTE=PredGD;42255997]does anyone know of a solution for insane input lag for source games?[/QUOTE] I dunno, have you tried running it in windowed mode?

[QUOTE=Little Donny;42257016]I dunno, have you tried running it in windowed mode?[/QUOTE] yeah, that's even worse. it's weird because I had a good match of killing floor with barely no lag and everything maxed out in graphics.