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

I feel that arch is a special little baby. while at times frustrating to fix and use, its still my number one distro. it has a special charm and the feeling you get when you fix stuff and make things work? better than sex

[QUOTE=PredGD;42308390]I feel that arch is a special little baby. while at times frustrating to fix and use, its still my number one distro. it has a special charm and the feeling you get when you fix stuff and make things work? better than sex[/QUOTE] Yeah I'm imagining never using Arch Linux before and having X freeze during a demonstration. I wouldn't have any idea how to handle it, but given Arch has been freezing on me constantly it has caused me to instantly recognize it and restart X within seconds. But then again would any other distro freeze while editing a simple text file ???

[QUOTE=Naelstrom;42308690]Yeah I'm imagining never using Arch Linux before and having X freeze during a demonstration. I wouldn't have any idea how to handle it, but given Arch has been freezing on me constantly it has caused me to instantly recognize it and restart X within seconds. But then again would any other distro freeze while editing a simple text file ???[/QUOTE] I had a span where X froze regularly, but it stopped after an update (not sure which, as it wasn't really predictable, but I'm assuming it was after an update). I'm not entirely sure if it is a problem with Arch, but since you had similar issues I think it might be. Actually at one point I was getting kernel panics (the caps-lock light would flash).

[QUOTE=Naelstrom;42301547]I asked Tark on steam and he gave me this: [url]https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=141521[/url] He told me all he wants to do is make an account to ask why the live-cd kernel panics whenever he tries to pacstrap, but he can't because you need Arch Linux running in order to make an account.[/QUOTE] Sounds like it's working.

[QUOTE=Larikang;42309197]Sounds like it's working.[/QUOTE] :(. I installed Debian anyhow, it's a far-cry from what I wanted but if it means getting my netbook running again it's worth it to me.

Can't get the JustBuntu LiveCD to work. On boot it throws me to a login screen, except there's nowhere for me to put in any login. Any ideas?

[QUOTE=Tark;42310990]:(. I installed Debian anyhow, it's a far-cry from what I wanted but if it means getting my netbook running again it's worth it to me.[/QUOTE] Debian is also very good aswell. If you don't like the Stable packages, you can switch to testing or unstable packages if you want it to be more bleeding edge.

[t]http://i.imgur.com/N1y1YQH.png[/t] pimp my desktop 2014 no but seriously, how do i change back to the default font? and how do i change the system language to english? i've set gnomes settings to english but it's not english

About to install Arch on my laptop, I hope I can get wpa2 enterprise working in the livecd. [editline]26th September 2013[/editline] Nope. I'll just install it at home and have wicd/network manager do all of the work for me tomorrow.

[QUOTE=PredGD;42314359][t]http://i.imgur.com/N1y1YQH.png[/t] pimp my desktop 2014 no but seriously, how do i change back to the default font? and how do i change the system language to english? i've set gnomes settings to english but it's not english[/QUOTE] [img]http://www.explosm.net/db/files/Comics/Dave/comicsans2.png[/img]

another issue at han, I think that my artifacts issue is coming from the fact that the system isn't using all of my VRAM. when adjusting my resolution in big picture, it said that my card only had 286 mb of VRAM which is wrong since it has 1 GB of VRAM. [editline]26th September 2013[/editline] ughh, how do I make a bootable USB on linux? I've tried unetbootin but I don't know if that has GPT support or not, but I guess not since it doesn't work.

[QUOTE=PredGD;42314718]another issue at han, I think that my artifacts issue is coming from the fact that the system isn't using all of my VRAM. when adjusting my resolution in big picture, it said that my card only had 286 mb of VRAM which is wrong since it has 1 GB of VRAM.[/QUOTE]What graphics card do you have? I have an HD 7770 with the same amount of RAM, but Steam in particular complains I only have that much, as well.

[QUOTE=Terin7;42315219]What graphics card do you have? I have an HD 7770 with the same amount of RAM, but Steam in particular complains I only have that much, as well.[/QUOTE] HD 6850

The only issues I have with Arch are the following two: 1: Systemd. Not because of how much I dislike Systemd, but because now EVERYTHING is dependent on it, and I use something different. This shouldn't be a major issue, except every time I update my system packages, I have to reinstall my init system. 2: Spontanious world-wide system changes.

[QUOTE=PredGD;42314359][t]http://i.imgur.com/N1y1YQH.png[/t] pimp my desktop 2014 no but seriously, how do i change back to the default font? and how do i change the system language to english? i've set gnomes settings to english but it's not english[/QUOTE] Change your [url=https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale]locale.[/url] [editline]26th September 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=PredGD;42314718]another issue at han, I think that my artifacts issue is coming from the fact that the system isn't using all of my VRAM. when adjusting my resolution in big picture, it said that my card only had 286 mb of VRAM which is wrong since it has 1 GB of VRAM.[/QUOTE] It's a steam bug, or more likely a driver bug. It's being reported wrong, but that doesn't mean it's not being used. [editline]26th September 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=PredGD;42314718]ughh, how do I make a bootable USB on linux? I've tried unetbootin but I don't know if that has GPT support or not, but I guess not since it doesn't work.[/QUOTE] Just install Linux like you normally would, except on the USB instead of a hard drive. Then make sure you set up mkinitcpio to make a full image. You can read more about it [url=https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_Arch_Linux_on_a_USB_key]here.[/url] [editline]26th September 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=mastersrp;42315473]The only issues I have with Arch are the following two: 1: Systemd. Not because of how much I dislike Systemd, but because now EVERYTHING is dependent on it, and I use something different. This shouldn't be a major issue, except every time I update my system packages, I have to reinstall my init system. 2: Spontanious world-wide system changes.[/QUOTE] Make the switch to Systemd! It's lovely, and I think it's worth it. Automatically asynchronous daemons/startup with incredibly useful journals, no need for consolekit or dbus, and you can even run it on a user level. Meaning you can auto-start daemons like MPD and transmission as a user on login like it should be. I didn't find it very hard to switch either, the arch wiki let me take baby steps through it.

[QUOTE=mastersrp;42315473]The only issues I have with Arch are the following two: 1: Systemd. Not because of how much I dislike Systemd, but because now EVERYTHING is dependent on it, and I use something different. This shouldn't be a major issue, except every time I update my system packages, I have to reinstall my init system. 2: Spontanious world-wide system changes.[/QUOTE] Why aren't you using systemd? I'm sorely missing it on this upstart using distro.

You guys seem to miss something important here. Preference. I prefer to use ignite as my init system (runit), and that's really it for me. It's simple, and easy to modify, which is what I need. Systemd is too big and bloated for me, so I picked something else. I did use systemd for a long time, until I decided to find something simple. I know there's no need for dbus or whatever and udev is built in to the thing, but that's really what I do NOT want. I like the simple tiny way of doing things, and systemd doesn't get me there. If I could write my init system in C using TinyCC and have it compile the init scripts on startup and run them, that'd be pretty cool too, but a huge waste and not really that simple. I'm not sure where I'm going with this. I dislike systemd, and I like runit. Thanks for the talk about systemd though, but I've heard it all before.

[QUOTE=mastersrp;42316491]You guys seem to miss something important here. Preference. I prefer to use ignite as my init system (runit), and that's really it for me. It's simple, and easy to modify, which is what I need. Systemd is too big and bloated for me, so I picked something else. I did use systemd for a long time, until I decided to find something simple. I know there's no need for dbus or whatever and udev is built in to the thing, but that's really what I do NOT want. I like the simple tiny way of doing things, and systemd doesn't get me there. If I could write my init system in C using TinyCC and have it compile the init scripts on startup and run them, that'd be pretty cool too, but a huge waste and not really that simple. I'm not sure where I'm going with this. I dislike systemd, and I like runit. Thanks for the talk about systemd though, but I've heard it all before.[/QUOTE] I figured you were using sysvinit, but that's a good reason to not be using systemd. Linux is becoming more and more centralized with systemd et al. I just hope that things like Android adopt more of the freedesktop tools like Wayland since it's annoying have what is rapidly becoming yet-another-computer have a completely different userspace.

[QUOTE=PredGD;42314718] [editline]26th September 2013[/editline] ughh, how do I make a bootable USB on linux? I've tried unetbootin but I don't know if that has GPT support or not, but I guess not since it doesn't work.[/QUOTE] For legacy BIOS, it's super easy 1. download USB bootable image 2. use dd to write it directly to the device For UEFI it's a little trickier because you have to format the USB properly first. [url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UEFI#Create_UEFI_bootable_USB_from_ISO[/url]

[QUOTE=Naelstrom;42316040]C Just install Linux like you normally would, except on the USB instead of a hard drive. Then make sure you set up mkinitcpio to make a full image. [/QUOTE] no no, I'm trying to get my Win8 .iso onto my usb stick so I can fix my boot mgr, but I have no clue how I'm supposed to do that on linux.

[QUOTE=PredGD;42316939]no no, I'm trying to get my Win8 .iso onto my usb stick so I can fix my boot mgr, but I have no clue how I'm supposed to do that on linux.[/QUOTE] Insert the USB device, and run the command "dmesg", and look for a dev path in the latest entries (ex. /dev/sdc). Use dd to low-level copy the isodata on to the usb: ex: [B]This will remove all the current data on the device[/B] [code]sudo dd if=win8.iso of=/dev/sdc[/code] Switch out the if and of parameters with the correct paths Where if=the path of the iso, and of=the dev path of the usb device.

[QUOTE=PredGD;42316939]no no, I'm trying to get my Win8 .iso onto my usb stick so I can fix my boot mgr, but I have no clue how I'm supposed to do that on linux.[/QUOTE] It matters whether or not it's a UEFI image or not (as I mentioned). If it's UEFI then I don't think dd will work.

Posting from my BeagleBone Black that I got forever ago. It's actually not bad for a $45 computer

[QUOTE=PredGD;42316939]no no, I'm trying to get my Win8 .iso onto my usb stick so I can fix my boot mgr, but I have no clue how I'm supposed to do that on linux.[/QUOTE] To get UEFI to work, you just copy the contents of the iso to the USB (which must be formatted in fat32). Worked on my system for Windows 8, arch linux, and Window 7

Are there any good screen recorders for Linux?

Oh thank [B][I]god[/I][/B] someone asked. Here, I made it myself: [url]https://github.com/naelstrof/slop[/url] Make sure to check out the "practical applications" section. [editline]asfd[/editline] oh and I guess if you're not the kind of guy who wants to be capable of configuring every aspect of your screen recorder. You'll be interested in "recordmydesktop", it's very well made.

Going to have to agree with RecordMyDesktop. Great to use and getting it to record sound as well is literally out-of-the-box. Can't say that about any Windows screencasters. [editline]edit[/editline] GNOME 3 isn't bad. Just wish it was faster. The only DE I would even remotely recommend for gaming is GNOME Fallback. Unity's close, but despite occasional freezes blamed on something involving the kernel. Still don't know if there is a solution to that despite a few months of searching. Now to get the window controls on the left of the window.

KDE or E18 is good for gaming too.

I've decided to settle down on Linux Mint Cinnamon with encrypted LVM and btrfs as my filesystem. At least for the foreseeable future.

[QUOTE=nikomo;42323054]I've decided to settle down on Linux Mint Cinnamon with encrypted LVM and btrfs as my filesystem. At least for the foreseeable future.[/QUOTE] Whats the pro's and con's for having btrfs as a primary filesystem as opposed to ext4? I was considering using btrfs as my primary FS, but I don't know how it compares to existing solutions.