General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Year of the Linux Desktop! - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE=Number-41;50988136]Just did this. It's awesome. How does this work for simultaneous access/modification though? Also, why is dragging tabs in Chromium so shitty?[/QUOTE] Depends on which unofficial client you're using. I don't use Chromium so I dunno :v: I use Firefox on my desktop and Opera on my netbook. You could try Chrome instead of Chromium; just download the deb from Google's site.

So I'm having this annoying issue trying to install Xubuntu on an old laptop. After booting from the USB, I choose either "Try Xubuntu without installation" or "Install Xubuntu" and two things happen: the screen is stuck with the characters "[^ " repeating and flashing the Xubuntu installation background, or get stuck in a loop generating locales, completing that step, then doing so over and over again, while also flashing the same Xubuntu installation background. I can't wrap my head around this and it's getting kind of frustrating, and Google is of no help.

Can you remake the installation media?

Got my Chromebook, got Ubuntu with xfce4 running with the use of Crouton. Quite pleased with this hardware, let's see how the 4GB of ram and a Celeron handles GNU Radio and GNS3. Can't get Steam in-home streaming to work though, not sure why.

[QUOTE=Cakebatyr;50989961]Got my Chromebook, got Ubuntu with xfce4 running with the use of Crouton. Quite pleased with this hardware, let's see how the 4GB of ram and a Celeron handles GNU Radio and GNS3. Can't get Steam in-home streaming to work though, not sure why.[/QUOTE] I'm rockin' a 2GB model and it works great, I can even play L4D2 at 30-40FPS. That said, I'm using ChrUbuntu, not a chroot environment. I stopped using chroot because the extra resources were wasted since I never really switched back to ChromeOS, and the fuckery with external devices (flash drives, sd cards, etc) was kind of annoying.

Steam in-home streaming requires a fairly beefy receiving computer when using Linux I've found. That Celeron might not have enough chops.

[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;50990053]I'm rockin' a 2GB model and it works great, I can even play L4D2 at 30-40FPS. That said, I'm using ChrUbuntu, not a chroot environment. I stopped using chroot because the extra resources were wasted since I never really switched back to ChromeOS, and the fuckery with external devices (flash drives, sd cards, etc) was kind of annoying.[/QUOTE] What model? I got the Acer CB3-131.

[URL="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aNFwx7oOsfQ"]Acer C720P[/URL] (read video description) [editline].[/editline] Also IIRC Steam in-home streaming worked fine even when I was on crouton, but if not it [I]definitely[/I] works fine on ChrUbuntu. Perhaps you're missing a certain package you need? Distroshare (where HugeGreenBug uploaded his custom Chromebook distros) is dead now, but HGB is working on GalliumOS now, which is an Xubuntu derivative specifically for Chromebooks. I'm currently rocking GalliumOS and it works great, though I couldnt tell ya how well L4D2 works on it since XFCE uses roughly double the RAM that LXDE does, and Gallium uses a different (but similar) scheduler than ulatencyd like I was using on Lubuntu. You have 4GB of RAM as opposed to my 2GB, though, so it probably wouldn't make a difference on your machine. I've heard getting ChrUbuntu is much easier on some Chromebooks than others, though.

[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;50989888]Can you remake the installation media?[/QUOTE] [del]Updated the image to 16.04.1, still getting the same issues. The 16.04 image worked fine on another laptop, I just don't know what's causing this error.[/del] Nevermind, I decided the laptop was a lost cause and swapped the hard drive in it for a Windows 7 one, I'm just going to install Xubuntu on the other laptop that worked earlier.

Im having an issue on Ubuntu 16.04 when I installed ndiswrapper it worked fine and my wireless card was working. But after I shutdown the PC and rebooted it. I went to load the module with modprobe but it started telling me it wasn't found. I tried reinstalling ndiswrapper but with no success any suggestions?

Say I have a pretty standard Postfix MTA with a bunch of virtual mailboxes, handling mail for mydomain.tld. I also have a virtual catchall alias, "@mydomain.tld", for "postmaster@mydomain.tld". Thus, any otherwise valid message gets delivered despite being sent to an address which organisationally doesn't exist. So far, so good; my mail volume is low enough that I can actually read all the crap flowing in once in a while and manually forward the real stuff (so we don't have to rely on the sender realising their error). However, occasionally someone sends a rather urgent mail to a user. In those cases it's not okay to rely on [i]me[/i]. So what I'd like Postfix to do is carry on delivering mail to the catchall, but [I]also[/I] respond to submitters of mail directed at nonexistent addresses with a rejection (as would be the case if I didn't have a catchall alias), causing any sanely configured MTA to drop a non-delivery report in the sender's mailbox.

Got my ODROID C2. Runs great but YouTube playback is still slightly choppy in HD because GPU acceleration fuckery in ARM. Still works a hell of a lot better than the Pi though :v: It has a similar kodi option for playing YouTube videos but eh fuck it, I'll give Android a shot. I have a spare SD card anyway.

I bought it from AmeriDROID, glhf getting that shit in your country without huge shipping costs :v: Apparently GPU Acceleration works in Chromium, but Chromium doesn't work :v: I'll get that working now then and try out YouTube on there. Android doesn't see my USB wifi adapter >:( Arch Linux and Ubuntu are officially supported, but the Arch Linux image is on the Arch Linux ARM website or whatever it is. Currently trying out Ubuntu, but I'll switch to Arch right quick if Chromium keeps fucking with me. Apparently canonical's updates are at fault for breaking it.

[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;51012447][img]https://chie.club/files/images/st/523fef3a-9ed4-4ece-b2e4-c05753f170b5.png[/img] :scream: Can ARM boards get cheaper already?[/QUOTE] move to america it was only $50 here

[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;51012261]Link? Especially with international delivery? Also what OS? Was thinking of running Arch Linux Arm if possible.[/QUOTE] You can order directly from [url]http://www.hardkernel.com/[/url] which is the manufacturer as well I believe. $56 USD after shipping, which according to google is NZ$75.

[QUOTE=Cakebatyr;51012484]You can order directly from [url]http://www.hardkernel.com/[/url] which is the manufacturer as well I believe.[/QUOTE] I should note I've heard of people being charged for customs shipping stuff before. I was told to buy from Ameridroid to avoid that. I think it was mentioned on the Tested video. You'd have to look into that for yourself.

[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;51012499]I should note I've heard of people being charged for customs shipping stuff before. I was told to buy from Ameridroid to avoid that. I think it was mentioned on the Tested video. You'd have to look into that for yourself.[/QUOTE] He could either pay NZ$75 from the SK manufacturer or pay NZ$150 and import it from the USA. Which one would he rather have customs issue a surcharge on.

[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;51012447] :scream: Can ARM boards get cheaper already?[/QUOTE] To answer your question, they can and they have. [t]https://i.imgur.com/gua7Dah.png[/t] [url=https://dl2.pushbulletusercontent.com/0o7OwcMEDMjuNh7gLfgIgGQTo5o16Azt/IMG_20160801_014223.jpg]I may have bought a few[/url]. The fan is pretty much required to keep them from melting.

[QUOTE=Cakebatyr;51012513]He could either pay NZ$75 from the SK manufacturer or pay NZ$150 and import it from the USA. Which one would he rather have customs issue a surcharge on.[/QUOTE] I wasn't suggesting to buy from AmeriDROID, I was just mentioning to possibly expect a customs tax I dunno how shipping to Aussie Land works I was just trying to be slightly helpful

[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;51012555]rm -rf /home/Dr. Evilcop [editline]7th September 2016[/editline] Yeah I may just dip into the Orange Pi One thanks Cake. Will also get a little heatsink for it too. 47C under 22 is a little toasty. Next week hopefully. [editline]7th September 2016[/editline] Hey Cake what's the size of the H3 chip physically?[/QUOTE] rm -rf /home/Dr.\ Evilcop Forgot the magic slash.

[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;51012555]rm -rf /home/Dr. Evilcop [editline]7th September 2016[/editline] Yeah I may just dip into the Orange Pi One thanks Cake. Will also get a little heatsink for it too. 47C under 22 is a little toasty. Next week hopefully. [editline]7th September 2016[/editline] Hey Cake what's the size of the H3 chip physically?[/QUOTE] 14mm^2 I would not recommend a 'little' heatsink, the $5 fan will significantly outperform it. 'Little' heatsinks in still air will only make them operate hotter. With that fan I have I can cool them down to ~50 degrees Celsius when they would normally be operating at ~90 degrees Celsius.

[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;51012447][img]https://chie.club/files/images/st/523fef3a-9ed4-4ece-b2e4-c05753f170b5.png[/img] :scream: Can ARM boards get cheaper already?[/QUOTE] they already are. [url]https://www.amazon.com/pcDuino8-Uno-performance-Computer-Arduino/dp/B016B4EIFQ/ref=sr_1_1?m=A2TOL213PF2CAG&s=merchant-items&ie=UTF8&qid=1473241243&sr=1-1&keywords=pcduino8[/url] there's a catch though for the allwinners.... backdoor, also little documentaion on the H8. also they are cheeper then the alternative x86 [url]http://up-shop.org/up-boards/43-up-board-4b-32-gb-emmc-memory.html[/url] I can't recomend a x86 single board computer because I haven't got one to stably work yet.

That backdoor is not present in the Armbian.com images.

the orange pi is nasty to begin with. Mali GPU, Cedar VPU. Fucking Nightmares. I have one, it serves me as NFS, Torrent, Webdav server because I didn't find a nice solution to get Kodi working with EGL and utilize the VPU to decode x265.

[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;51014759]Shit I might buy a few of these, I bought a C.H.I.P. but it's pretty trashy, how is the Orange Pi?[/QUOTE] eevblog made a review [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEyU1zSqFwU[/media] orange pi pc for 10 more dollars, us, you get more bells and whistles. If you intended to get a C.H.I.P. not for projects not requiring a monitor, here's an alternative in smaller form factor. [url]http://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=132[/url] orange pi has allwinner h3, the nano pi neo has an h3 too. On the matter of these single board computers there's a banana pi which stands out having a sata port, however a pcduino3 nano filsl the gap of a first gen banana pi which you can't easily get anymore or for a good price. [url]http://www.linksprite.com/linksprite-pcduino3-nano/[/url] I've seen it for 40 to $35 US. as for myself, I bought up boards for specific linux software only compiled for x86. However, if I was had the money (I ordered two C.H.I.P.s) the orange pis would be in my sight. The thing is what's the job you want the board for?

[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;51014759]Shit I might buy a few of these, I bought a C.H.I.P. but it's pretty trashy, how is the Orange Pi?[/QUOTE] Every night I torture them by running BOINC. I wouldn't ever consider hooking a monitor or keyboard into them, but headless they perform adequately, in the month and a half of BOINC abuse I've given them none of them have failed (fan MVP) so there's that... I'm unsure whether I can trust them to operate unattended in an outdoor box like I can a raspberry pi just because they do operate quite a bit hotter than a Pi2.

Would installing Fedora with Btrfs' autodefrag option onto a VM produce a smaller image than a fragmented one?

[QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;51019726]Would installing Fedora with Btrfs' autodefrag option onto a VM produce a smaller image than a fragmented one?[/QUOTE] Nope.

any real world solutions for AMD HD5XXX Series? My friend has HD5750 he tried: Catalyst is fast with 3d, works like shit with 2D and desktop apps, Xorg driver runs 2D quickly, 3D performance is less good. as far as I can tell nothing really changed since last time I had AMD graphics card.

[QUOTE=Lyoko2;51020892]any real world solutions for AMD HD5XXX Series? My friend has HD5750 he tried: Catalyst is fast with 3d, works like shit with 2D and desktop apps, Xorg driver runs 2D quickly, 3D performance is less good. as far as I can tell nothing really changed since last time I had AMD graphics card.[/QUOTE] Probably because you're trying with a card that's as old as the last time you tried :v: You're probably not going to be doing much gaming on an old card and on Linux, so I'd go with better 2D performance.