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

[Liam]

[QUOTE=FPtje;42802702]Holy christ, Garry's mod is slow as dicks on Fedora. CSS runs on 130FPS with my HD5870.
Garry's mod has 10FPS and a [i]huge[/i] input delay. When I move my mouse, the player follows after a second. It's retarded. It appeared to slightly better in GNOME, but that shouldn't really make a difference, should it?[/QUOTE]

turning on multicore rendering helped for me

[naelstrof]

[QUOTE=XxThreedogxX;42802747]Question, how would I go about creating gif's of different terminal commands.[/QUOTE]

You can make a gif screen recorder using [url=https://github.com/naelstrof/slop]slop[/url] and byzanz-record or ffmpeg.

For example this image was made using slop and byzanz-record:
[img]http://unek.blinkenshell.org/s/2013-11-03_200128-screencast.gif[/img]

ffmpeg can do the same thing, but it's less efficient.

[XxThreedogxX]

[QUOTE=Naelstrom;42803610]You can make a gif screen recorder using [url=https://github.com/naelstrof/slop]slop[/url] and byzanz-record or ffmpeg.

For example this image was made using slop and byzanz-record:
[img]http://unek.blinkenshell.org/s/2013-11-03_200128-screencast.gif[/img]

ffmpeg can do the same thing, but it's less efficient.[/QUOTE]

Thanks mate I appriciate it.

[FPtje]

[QUOTE=PredGD;42802754]are you using the catalyst drivers or the open source ones?[/QUOTE]

fglrx

[editline]9th November 2013[/editline]

[QUOTE=PredGD;42803074]I had the same issue as he is having before using the catalyst drivers. insane input lag but not too much of a frame loss. I fixed it by enabling tear-free rendering and disabling v-sync in the catalyst settings.

[editline]8th November 2013[/editline]

also, my new rig is using crossfire now and not single GPU. not sure if it always was like that, but before I got my crossfire setup I had no lag in killing floor (even with the v sync bug or whatever for the catalyst drivers). now it's around 10 fps. I've enabled crossfire obviously. doesn't linux/catalyst offer proper crossfire support or something?[/QUOTE]

Thanks, I'll try that

[FPtje]

For fuck's sake. Steam randomly crashes (I haven't done the GPU trick yet)

Steam: An X Error occurred
X Error of failed request:  BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
Major opcode of failed request:  40 (X_TranslateCoords)
Resource id in failed request:  0x600133
Serial number of failed request:  248313
xerror_handler: X failed, continuing
Generating new string page texture 205: 24x256, total string texture memory is 3.97 MB
Uploading dump (out-of-process) [proxy '']
/tmp/dumps/crash_20131109112858_1.dmp
/home/ACCOUNTNAME/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 722:  7623 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@"
Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
response: CrashID=bp-1acdb117-28c3-460c-a09e-f87202131109

Do you guys know what this is or should I upload the crash log?

[shodan]

what DE are you using?
Gnome has a weird issue with steam that seems to be fixed if you install the top icons plugin

[FPtje]

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;42810729]what DE are you using?
Gnome has a weird issue with steam that seems to be fixed if you install the top icons plugin[/QUOTE]

AwesomeWM.

[neos300]

Finally got around to installing compton and making my terminal windows all transparent and such.

[Terin7]

Would anyone know how to turn off an output in pulseaudio once it's been unplugged?

Here are a few pictures of what I mean:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/Zx8cBAd.png[/img]

In this case, when my TV that is hooked up via HDMI turns off or is not connected, it shows up as unplugged in pulseaudio. However...

[img]http://i.imgur.com/EHq8uRC.png[/img]

Audio is still being sent to the HDMI channel, even though pulseaudio recognizes it as being unplugged. If I manually turn off HDMI under the configuration tab, then all audio will default to analog, which is what I want.

Could pulseaudio do that, or could I write a script to do that?

[Killuah]

Hey guys. I just installed Mint parallel to Win7 on my SSD and I sorta want to check if everything works right.

What are the general things I have to look for? Any special settings for the SSD?

[neos300]

[QUOTE=Killuah;42818039]Hey guys. I just installed Mint parallel to Win7 on my SSD and I sorta want to check if everything works right.

What are the general things I have to look for? Any special settings for the SSD?[/QUOTE]

Make sure you don't have swap turned on or you'll fry your ssd.

[shodan]

[QUOTE=neos300;42818711]Make sure you don't have swap turned on or you'll fry your ssd.[/QUOTE]

why

[benjojo]

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;42819212]why[/QUOTE]

SSD's have a IOOP life time. If you hit swap you will thrash out IOOP's until your SSD burns out.

[Banandana]

[QUOTE=benjojo;42819293]SSD's have a IOOP life time. If you hit swap you will thrash out IOOP's until your SSD burns out.[/QUOTE]

Why can't they make ones that last longer?

[.Lain]

[QUOTE=Banandana;42820224]Why can't they make ones that last longer?[/QUOTE]
that's an ongoing effort

[nikomo]

Oh boy, I'm looking at ccache and distcc to speed up my kernel compilations.
I'm going to end up maintaining my own fork of the kernel if this keeps up.

[QUOTE=Banandana;42820224]Why can't they make ones that last longer?[/QUOTE]

Same reason they don't just cure cancer; it's really fucking hard.

[HubmaN]

[QUOTE=PelPix123;42810717]Wow, this required no hacking at all. First DE I've integrated E with that I didn't have to change something:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HBrATEtoF0[/media][/QUOTE]

Behold the magic of Freedesktop.org's EWMH - but don't play so close to that van lest Lennart Poettering jump out and attempt to integrate [i]you[/i] into systemd, too.

[Killuah]

[QUOTE=neos300;42818711]Make sure you don't have swap turned on or you'll fry your ssd.[/QUOTE]

I didn't specify a swap partition when I installed, how would I check if swap is turned on?

[vlad]

[QUOTE=Killuah;42821431]I didn't specify a swap partition when I installed, how would I check if swap is turned on?[/QUOTE]

type swapon -s in your terminal.

[Killuah]

Only shows the "header" (Filename Type Size Used Priority) so I assume it's off.

[deadeye536]

[QUOTE=Killuah;42818039]Hey guys. I just installed Mint parallel to Win7 on my SSD and I sorta want to check if everything works right.

What are the general things I have to look for? Any special settings for the SSD?[/QUOTE]

[url=https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Solid_State_Drives#Tips_for_Maximizing_SSD_Performance]Arch's wiki has a nice section on optimizing Linux for SSDs[/url].

[Darkwater]

Oh fuck, apparently I do have a swap on my SSD, how do I disable that?

[vlad]

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;42822589]Oh fuck, apparently I do have a swap on my SSD, how do I disable that?[/QUOTE]

delete the swap partition, or if you have a swap file, do this

swapoff -a
rm -f /swapfile

[Van-man]

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;42822589]Oh fuck, apparently I do have a swap on my SSD, how do I disable that?[/QUOTE]

uncomment it from /etc/fstab
reboot and boot to a liveCD/liveUSB
delete the swap partition
regrow the / partition to fill the swap partitions space
reboot again, but this time without liveCD/liveUSB
enjoy

[Killuah]

I read somewhere that it(Mint at least) will still use swap by writing a file, not on a partition.

[Darkwater]

[QUOTE=PredGD;42823065]delete the swap partition, or if you have a swap file, do this

swapoff -a
rm -f /swapfile

[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Van-man;42823066]uncomment it from /etc/fstab
reboot and boot to a liveCD/liveUSB
delete the swap partition
regrow the / partition to fill the swap partitions space
reboot again, but this time without liveCD/liveUSB
enjoy[/QUOTE]

Thanks, I'll try it when I get home.

[reevezy67]

Wrote this and bound it to alt+right so that I can switch between virtual consoles even if I am in a wm.

#!/bin/bash

VAR=$(file -s /proc/$$/fd/1 | tail -c 3 | head -c 1)

if [ $VAR == 0 ] ; then
	chvt 2
else
	chvt $(expr "$VAR" + 1)
fi

[editline]11th November 2013[/editline]

Also holy fuck are internet browsers resource hungry, I installed arch on a crappy atom netbook.

It was fairly snappy until I opened chrome. I ended up installing surf, but that's no good for normal browsing.

[BiN4RY]

[QUOTE=Banandana;42820224]Why can't they make ones that last longer?[/QUOTE]

Because you don't make something happen just by wishing it.

[Killuah]

[QUOTE=reevezy67;42827465]Wrote this and bound it to alt+right so that I can switch between virtual consoles even if I am in a wm.

#!/bin/bash 

VAR=$(file -s /proc/$$/fd/1 | tail -c 3 | head -c 1)

if [ $VAR == 0 ] ; then
	chvt 2
else
	chvt $(expr "$VAR" + 1)
fi

[editline]11th November 2013[/editline]

Also holy fuck are internet browsers resource hungry, I installed arch on a crappy atom netbook.

It was fairly snappy until I opened chrome. I ended up installing surf, but that's no good for normal browsing.[/QUOTE]

I am using chrome in Mint in an atom netbook and what are you talking abbout.

[reevezy67]

It's probably a faster one, that or it's the graphics fault. It's an S10e Intel Atom N270 / 1.6 GHz, Intel GMA 950 graphics. Pretty fucking awful, but I got it for free.

Running Arch/Openbox, Chrome shows 60-90% cpu usage, whereas Arch and Openbox use fuck all.