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

lspci has nothing to do with audio, try sudo lspci.

That all depends on how your distro configures things. On Gentoo, lspci lives in /usr/sbin, so unless you're root or using sudo you'll get a "command not found" error.

Here it is [code]00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 2280 (rev 22) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 22b0 (rev 22) 00:0b.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device 22dc (rev 22) 00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Device 22b5 (rev 22) 00:1a.0 Encryption controller: Intel Corporation Device 2298 (rev 22) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 22c8 (rev 22) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 229c (rev 22) 01:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros Device 0042 (rev 30) [/code] [editline]21st September 2016[/editline] while I'm here. My bandwidth is very low and just dies sometimes. For example on steam my download speed does not go higher than 90kbps and then dies gradually after a few minutes.

Is there a way to run two monitors from two separate GPU's? I want to run my second one off the iGPU and my primary one from the dGPU. I haven't been able to get life into my second monitor ever since I upgraded my GPU due to this. I know nouveau can do this but I have the 1080 which still isn't supported so I'm stuck with nvidia's drivers. I have a feeling this is impossible but can't hurt to ask. I would use the outputs on my dGPU if there was another DVI output. I would buy a DP to DVI adapter if they actually worked. Bought a passive one at first which should be perfectly fine for 1080p@60hz. Wasn't able to get any life out of that. Bought an active one after that which worked for 2 days before magically ceasing to function.

[QUOTE=PredGD;51085569]Is there a way to run two monitors from two separate GPU's? I want to run my second one off the iGPU and my primary one from the dGPU. I haven't been able to get life into my second monitor ever since I upgraded my GPU due to this. I know nouveau can do this but I have the 1080 which still isn't supported so I'm stuck with nvidia's drivers. I have a feeling this is impossible but can't hurt to ask. I would use the outputs on my dGPU if there was another DVI output. I would buy a DP to DVI adapter if they actually worked. Bought a passive one at first which should be perfectly fine for 1080p@60hz. Wasn't able to get any life out of that. Bought an active one after that which worked for 2 days before magically ceasing to function.[/QUOTE] Well, can you plug one monitor into each GPU?

[QUOTE=mastersrp;51085601]Well, can you plug one monitor into each GPU?[/QUOTE] Use both GPU's? My second one is currently connected to my iGPU while my primary one is connected to the dGPU.

[QUOTE=PredGD;51085618]Use both GPU's? My second one is currently connected to my iGPU while my primary one is connected to the dGPU.[/QUOTE] To my knowledge that should probably work, although it might be a limitation of Xorg. I suppose it might be possible to ask Xorg to manually restrict one monitor to one driver and the second monitor to the second driver. It really should work out of the box then though.

[QUOTE=mastersrp;51085628]To my knowledge that should probably work, although it might be a limitation of Xorg. I suppose it might be possible to ask Xorg to manually restrict one monitor to one driver and the second monitor to the second driver. It really should work out of the box then though.[/QUOTE] I don't suppose you have a guide on how to do this? I've read something similar but from what I gathered, they said it was impossible to have two monitors in the same X server when using more than one GPU. Their solution was to run two X servers but it sounds a little annoying to not be able to use both monitors as one environment.

Has anyone actually tried gaming with amazon cloud? I read a guide about it and it seemed interesting, something I could do during downtime at school rather than just driving home to drive back 3 hours later and wasting gas. I can instead cut out the middle man and waste money directly. Though I guess this isn't quite a Linux question, since I'm on a laptop and I'd still have no games even if I was on windows. Unless I like sterilizing myself when actually using it as a laptop, or hate battery life/portability.

[QUOTE=PredGD;51085638]I don't suppose you have a guide on how to do this? I've read something similar but from what I gathered, they said it was impossible to have two monitors in the same X server when using more than one GPU. Their solution was to run two X servers but it sounds a little annoying to not be able to use both monitors as one environment.[/QUOTE] [url]http://superuser.com/questions/117239/how-can-i-get-multiple-video-cards-to-work-on-linux[/url] This source says you can run Xorg with two separate "devices", with some instruction on how. Combining the two as one XScreen I think is impossible, since that'd involve sharing video memory between two cards. (XScreens that share windows and mouse pointers are just big singular images). Though the sourc e I just posted makes it seem otherwise.

[QUOTE=Nanamil;51085261]Here it is [code]00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 2280 (rev 22) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 22b0 (rev 22) 00:0b.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device 22dc (rev 22) 00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Device 22b5 (rev 22) 00:1a.0 Encryption controller: Intel Corporation Device 2298 (rev 22) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 22c8 (rev 22) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 229c (rev 22) 01:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros Device 0042 (rev 30) [/code] [editline]21st September 2016[/editline] while I'm here. My bandwidth is very low and just dies sometimes. For example on steam my download speed does not go higher than 90kbps and then dies gradually after a few minutes.[/QUOTE] [url]http://askubuntu.com/questions/119080/how-to-update-kernel-to-the-latest-mainline-version-without-any-distro-upgrade[/url] try updating to the latest 4.7 or 4.8. I guess you are running 4.5, there is some hope that it will help, what is the laptop model again?

What are your opinions on laptops for Linux? For my next laptop I would like to have both Windows and Linux, but the current one I have has a lot of issues because of the hardware being tailored for Windows. also I cannot recommend getting a small screen with a large resolution, it's hell.

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;51086054]Has anyone actually tried gaming with amazon cloud? I read a guide about it and it seemed interesting, something I could do during downtime at school rather than just driving home to drive back 3 hours later and wasting gas. I can instead cut out the middle man and waste money directly. Though I guess this isn't quite a Linux question, since I'm on a laptop and I'd still have no games even if I was on windows. Unless I like sterilizing myself when actually using it as a laptop, or hate battery life/portability.[/QUOTE] I think they use workstation GPU's, so I doubt performance would be very good

[QUOTE=war_man333;51087958]What are your opinions on laptops for Linux? For my next laptop I would like to have both Windows and Linux, but the current one I have has a lot of issues because of the hardware being tailored for Windows. also I cannot recommend getting a small screen with a large resolution, it's hell.[/QUOTE] When it comes to Linux it depends on the DE mostly unless you want to dive in and fix shit yourself in configs. GNOME works beautifully on my xps 13 3200x1800 13 inch laptop. The only program I have a problem with is steam but steam sucks with high resolutions on windows too (not mac OSX tho.) A lot of dell laptops are generally my recommendation nowadays that lenovo has fallen from grace. [URL]http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/555/campaigns/xps-linux-laptop?c=us&l=en&s=biz[/URL] If you aren't planning on going used, I'd start with these. If you're up for a used laptop, thinkpads are still a steal. [QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;51088012]I think they use workstation GPU's, so I doubt performance would be very good[/QUOTE] It's a little bit weird because of architecture and drivers. But what I've seen is people have no issue at all running the latest games on these. It's just a bit funny to be using a 2000 dollar graphics card for gaming

[QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;51088012]I think they use workstation GPU's, so I doubt performance would be very good[/QUOTE] Yeah they are using Nvidia GRID K520 dual GPU cards.

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;51088040]When it comes to Linux it depends on the DE mostly unless you want to dive in and fix shit yourself in configs. GNOME works beautifully on my xps 13 3200x1800 13 inch laptop. The only program I have a problem with is steam but steam sucks with high resolutions on windows too (not mac OSX tho.) A lot of dell laptops are generally my recommendation nowadays that lenovo has fallen from grace. [URL]http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/555/campaigns/xps-linux-laptop?c=us&l=en&s=biz[/URL] If you aren't planning on going used, I'd start with these. If you're up for a used laptop, thinkpads are still a steal.[/QUOTE] Yeah I'm personally using a Lenovo and it's not working too awesomely unless you just want to run Ubuntu. Still, not so great. What about running Windows on those too?

[QUOTE=war_man333;51088057]Yeah I'm personally using a Lenovo and it's not working too awesomely unless you just want to run Ubuntu. Still, not so great. What about running Windows on those too?[/QUOTE] Generally they're very similar to the normal laptops of the same name, but a couple bits of hardware are occasionally changed so that you can have good drivers for Linux. I didn't buy the developer edition of my laptop, but that one has an intel wifi adapter instead of the broadcom one that mine came with, because the broadcom one requires a non-free driver to run on Linux. So windows should work just fine, you will just have to buy/bring your own license.

[QUOTE=war_man333;51087958]What are your opinions on laptops for Linux? For my next laptop I would like to have both Windows and Linux, but the current one I have has a lot of issues because of the hardware being tailored for Windows. also I cannot recommend getting a small screen with a large resolution, it's hell.[/QUOTE] I bought a Chromebook at the beginning of the month that I run Linux on, works well with a Celeron 2840 and 4GB of ram. I'm using Crouton to swap between ChromeOS and Ubuntu (12.04 mind you, no idea why it's that old).

[QUOTE=war_man333;51087958]What are your opinions on laptops for Linux? For my next laptop I would like to have both Windows and Linux, but the current one I have has a lot of issues because of the hardware being tailored for Windows. also I cannot recommend getting a small screen with a large resolution, it's hell.[/QUOTE] If you have a standard laptop it will most likely to fully work on linux, Can't promise stability on chromebooks though. I used linux on my laptop back then when I used to be windows fanboy, I needed more battery and faster system and I got it. that was Asus UL30A, slow terrible one. 100% compatability with existing kernels(~2010). Now I have Lenovo Thinkpad 11e chromebook that I have jailbreaked to run Linux with custom BIOS. That's when everything got much trickier, It took me 2-3 Months before I was able to replace that useless chromeos with my own linux. I had to physically open the laptop, locate the write protect screw, and remove it so I would be able to flash in a replacement bios. the hardware is still tricky, chromebooks have cheap hardware that looks like raspberry pi from the inside, thinkpad-11e is still x86 but it has no SATA, no miniPCI-e, no DIMM slots. I guess it wouldn't run windows 7. there are some issues with linux on this chromebook but I don't really care, No one can support linux on any chromebook because they are not laptops, and laptops work great on linux. that's just extra mechanism by google to prevent installing windows, linux on their chromebooks. [editline]22nd September 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Cakebatyr;51088098]I bought a Chromebook at the beginning of the month that I run Linux on, works well with a Celeron 2840 and 4GB of ram. I'm using Crouton to swap between ChromeOS and Ubuntu (12.04 mind you, no idea why it's that old).[/QUOTE] cruton is another way to fool yourself, I used it for 1-2 days before I said fuck it and I liberated my own chromebook.

[QUOTE=Lyoko2;51087544][url]http://askubuntu.com/questions/119080/how-to-update-kernel-to-the-latest-mainline-version-without-any-distro-upgrade[/url] try updating to the latest 4.7 or 4.8. I guess you are running 4.5, there is some hope that it will help, what is the laptop model again?[/QUOTE] Asus X206HA

usually when I define server block I make sure it contains server_name (domain), root, and then I define specifics for locations for current website, and I have only one http directive for 20 sites. try to test your location directive with: [code] location /videos/ { echo 'my rate limit should work for this path'; } [/code]

sorry it's not echo at all. try [code] location /videos/ { default_type text/plain; return 200 "test"; } [/code] maybe without " " ..

just a web browser.

Guys, I migrated from Windows (lol) 3 months ago or something like that and got pretty comfortable with my Arch. I can get almost anything done by connecting the dots and Googling but I don't have any structured knowledge of Linux other than the basics. What are some books that would you suggest that could teach me general stuff and stuff about Linux and at the same time not be for total beginners but not for advanced users either? I want to sink deep into Linux ASAP and not be too overwhelmed. Distro-agnosticism is big plus. I couldn't find a good one that matched my criteria, I thought you guys would know.

[QUOTE=sachubifri;51090725]Guys, I migrated from Windows (lol) 3 months ago or something like that and got pretty comfortable with my Arch. I can get almost anything done by connecting the dots and Googling but I don't have any structured knowledge of Linux other than the basics. What are some books that would you suggest that could teach me general stuff and stuff about Linux and at the same time not be for total beginners but not for advanced users either? I want to sink deep into Linux ASAP and not be too overwhelmed. Distro-agnosticism is big plus. I couldn't find a good one that matched my criteria, I thought you guys would know.[/QUOTE] Just general "Linux" is huge, are you interested in how GNU/Linux distros themselves are designed, or how to really be a power user?

I want to make some kind of GUI-based Linux application because I have some free time and wanted to ask you for some suggestions. I'd prefer to create something from scratch but front-end to existing command-line app works too. No Photoshop clone or anything that will take years to get working. What would you suggest that I do? Any cool ideas? Anything you know that can actually be useful but is not yet created?

[QUOTE=10xer;51098964]I want to make some kind of GUI-based Linux application because I have some free time and wanted to ask you for some suggestions. I'd prefer to create something from scratch but front-end to existing command-line app works too. No Photoshop clone or anything that will take years to get working. What would you suggest that I do? Any cool ideas? Anything you know that can actually be useful but is not yet created?[/QUOTE] A gui frontend for [url=https://www.dyne.org/software/tomb/]tomb[/url] that is fully features, and can run in the background in the notification area. Wouldn't take too much to make something. Then you might (instead?) make a GUI application that _does_ what tomb does, and isn't a frontend.

Well I just took a deep dive into how [URL="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Default_applications"]default applications[/URL] work in Linux because the wiki article was awful and needed to be rewritten. Basically default applications are fucked. It's just a fucking mess. Especially if you don't use a major desktop environment. The freedesktop folks defined a standard for handling it, but basically no one follows it, including freedesktop (xdg-utils is incredibly buggy and inconsistent). Everyone implements the standard differently, so some apps just give up and do their own thing entirely. It's the kind of thing that makes me want to get involved, send some patches, and fix this shit once and for all. But then you look at the [URL="http://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/mimeo/"]bug tracker[/URL], which has unresolved bugs that are almost a decade old and suddenly you understand why there a dozen knock-offs that just try to work around it entirely.

[B]Woops![/B] So over a year ago I had set up a TP Link WR702N as a static IP'd wifi client when my network wasn't very big because one item needed to be on the on the other side of the house and only had a ethernet port. Turns out, it just so happened to be the same IP I had issued from my router's DHCP server to my linux PC. No wonder I was having such issues connecting to the damn thing.

[QUOTE=Cakebatyr;51120648][B]Woops![/B] So over a year ago I had set up a TP Link WR702N as a static IP'd wifi client when my network wasn't very big because one item needed to be on the on the other side of the house and only had a ethernet port. Turns out, it just so happened to be the same IP I had issued from my router's DHCP server to my linux PC. No wonder I was having such issues connecting to the damn thing.[/QUOTE] Also keep your static IPs seperate from your DHCP pool, it makes these problems impossible.