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

[QUOTE=reevezy67;42827940]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.[/QUOTE] That sounds sort of strange. Have you tried Firefox and compared the usage there? I know it's no replacement, but Firefox and FXChrome get's you pretty far.

Yeah it's slightly better, still pretty slow. I'll try some different drivers tomorrow, see if that helps.

Any Conway's game of life screensavers that also adds random mutations to the mix? Usually it gets stagnant after a little while without.

Oh fuck, swap reduces the life of the ssd? fuck fuck fuck

How do you go about to play a looping .mp4 file as a background? I tried the following, but it didn't show anything on the screen, though it was executing: [code]# mplayer ~/.animbg.mp4 -rootwin[/code] Any dice?

It's working, but something else(your desktop manager) is drawing on top of it. On Xfce I can set my background image to "None" with a transparent color to see the video playing.

[QUOTE=supervoltage;42830510]How do you go about to play a looping .mp4 file as a background? I tried the following, but it didn't show anything on the screen, though it was executing: [code]# mplayer ~/.animbg.mp4 -rootwin[/code] Any dice?[/QUOTE] Works fine here... what is managing your root window besides? feh (for a background image) is the only thing I have which is affecting mine.

it only just occured to me that RPROMPT is a thing i've been trying to do crazy bullshit with \r and such for a while now

[QUOTE=Ol' Pie;42829889]Oh fuck, swap reduces the life of the ssd? fuck fuck fuck[/QUOTE] AFAIK with a modern SSD it's not *THAT* big of a deal. So if you have it on, it's not going to destroy your ssd, but it will probably take down it's lifetime by like 20%. Of course this is me talking based on what i know w/o doing any research, so if i'm totaly wrong please correct me.

[url]https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-dev/J72Iv9wtTzw[/url] Im curious what performance difference this would bring to chromium.

Setting my background to None and Transparent on XFCE doesn't let me see my video. Killing xfdesktop via # xfdesktop --quit doesn't let me see my video either. It's interesting that using xwinwrap/gwinwrap, I can do such a thing using the screensavers from xscreensaver. However, some screensavers draw always on top of all other screen elements. My video draws on top of everything as well. I've checked the settings and deselected "Above" and selected "Below", however, it still draws on top. It's also worth noting that I can't use my scroll wheel to switch screens now, but that's not a big problem. So, how can I make it draw its stuff below my taskbar, window and icons? Or is that pretty much impossible at this point in time?

Quick question, I have Win 8.1 installed on my SSD, with EFI boot. Don't seem to be using it fully though as I can still press the bios buttons/I don't have to use the Windows menu to restart into the bios (infact I don't even have that option). Is it possible to dual boot Linux at all?

[QUOTE=rhx123;42840415]Quick question, I have Win 8.1 installed on my SSD, with EFI boot. Don't seem to be using it fully though as I can still press the bios buttons/I don't have to use the Windows menu to restart into the bios (infact I don't even have that option). Is it possible to dual boot Linux at all?[/QUOTE] I don't see what'd stop you in principle - there *is*, though, the niggling ambiguity about what boot mechanism's used, and how it interacts with what partition table scheme's been set up on your disk. Checking to see whether Legacy Boot's enabled should clear enough up.

So did the Systemd vs Sysvinit war over at debian stop now, or is this still going? I'd really love a debian system with Systemd.

[QUOTE=rhx123;42840415]Quick question, I have Win 8.1 installed on my SSD, with EFI boot. Don't seem to be using it fully though as I can still press the bios buttons/I don't have to use the Windows menu to restart into the bios (infact I don't even have that option). Is it possible to dual boot Linux at all?[/QUOTE] Just put the contents of a bootable Linux disk image onto a usb, and boot through EFI on it to install. I know in Arch Linux you can install refind onto an EFI partition with the disk images, which will give you a [url=https://github-camo.global.ssl.fastly.net/32729998da4401a2aef67430828c62a2270b7a50/687474703a2f2f692e696d6775722e636f6d2f51323676514a782e6a7067]really pretty menu[/url] in which it will scan for efi bootable devices where you can boot to any of them. Feel free to add me on steam if you have more questions, there's a shit load of workarounds I had to do to configure it properly.

[QUOTE=kaukassus;42842054]So did the Systemd vs Sysvinit war over at debian stop now, or is this still going? I'd really love a debian system with Systemd.[/QUOTE] What would a systemd edition have to it's benefit over a sysvinit one?

[QUOTE=MasterFen006;42842172]What would a systemd edition have to it's benefit over a sysvinit one?[/QUOTE] From what I can tell, not really anything except maybe support.

[QUOTE=MasterFen006;42842172]What would a systemd edition have to it's benefit over a sysvinit one?[/QUOTE] [url]https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/systemd#Why_Debian_should_default_to_systemd[/url] The Debian wiki, where the debate is currently going on, has some very good resources on this subject.

Okay, so I have tired to remove Wine, but if I make a new user in my system it auto installs as if it wasn't uninstalled. The command I use to remove it was [code]Sudo apt-get autoremove wine[/code] Am I just being a complete dolt?

[QUOTE=XxThreedogxX;42844661]Okay, so I have tired to remove Wine, but if I make a new user in my system it auto installs as if it wasn't uninstalled. The command I use to remove it was [code]Sudo apt-get autoremove wine[/code] Am I just being a complete dolt?[/QUOTE] Probably not, it's just that Debian/Ubuntu systems aren't always as transparent as you might like them to be. Godspeed.

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[QUOTE=XxThreedogxX;42844661]Okay, so I have tired to remove Wine, but if I make a new user in my system it auto installs as if it wasn't uninstalled. The command I use to remove it was [code]Sudo apt-get autoremove wine[/code] Am I just being a complete dolt?[/QUOTE] Use synaptic package manager. That is much better than terminal in this case

[QUOTE=Megaman1811;42845277]Use synaptic package manager. That is much better than terminal in this case[/QUOTE] It worked thanks mate.

So I am currently posting from my shitty throw-away laptop. A Gateway from 2004-ish. It has 64 MB of RAM and a 40 GB harddrive. I also have Arch installed with XFCE as the DE. I have never done this before and I think I did ok.

[QUOTE=Megaman1811;42846458]So I am currently posting from my shitty throw-away laptop. A Gateway from 2004-ish. It has 64 MB of RAM and a 40 GB harddrive. I also have Arch installed with XFCE as the DE. I have never done this before and I think I did ok.[/QUOTE] I cannot no matter how hard I try wrap my head around the Arch setup process. Maybe I've picked the wrong hobby.

I'd just like to say thanks for Naelstrom for giving me a big hand with getting me up and going with some bits and bobs, and telling me some things to do and some things not to do.

[QUOTE=Megaman1811;42846458]So I am currently posting from my shitty throw-away laptop. A Gateway from 2004-ish. It has 64 MB of RAM and a 40 GB harddrive. I also have Arch installed with XFCE as the DE. I have never done this before and I think I did ok.[/QUOTE] Pretty sure computers from 2004 had more than 64 MB of RAM stock. Maybe 256 MB. I don't think even XFCE would be [I]that[/I] light.

[QUOTE=Demache;42846711]Pretty sure computers from 2004 had more than 64 MB of RAM stock. Maybe 256 MB. I don't think even XFCE would be [I]that[/I] light.[/QUOTE] I believe it's about 256 to 512 of ram standard. At least, the old DELL4600 in my closet came with 512 by default and an older one came with 256.

[QUOTE=Banandana;42847521]I believe it's about 256 to 512 of ram standard. At least, the old DELL4600 in my closet came with 512 by default and an older one came with 256.[/QUOTE] 4600's definitely came with 512 stock, however that was a bit of a nicer machine. We had cheap-ish a Pentium III based Celeron that came with 256 MB in 2003.

[QUOTE=XxThreedogxX;42844661]Okay, so I have tired to remove Wine, but if I make a new user in my system it auto installs as if it wasn't uninstalled. The command I use to remove it was [code]Sudo apt-get autoremove wine[/code] Am I just being a complete dolt?[/QUOTE] Autoremove is for removing packages that are no longer needed as a dependency. For completely removing software, you're supposed to use purge. And a lowercase s in sudo.