General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Year of the Linux Desktop!

[Mr. Someguy]

:snip:

[lavacano]

[QUOTE=PredGD;48760629]been trying out ncmpcpp and mopidy, really like it after messing around with it for a few minutes. though I'm having an issue with the visualizer, I can't get it to work. just says this when I start it

[IMG]http://pred.me/pics/1443203760.png[/IMG]

mpd.conf

audio_output {
    type                    "fifo"
    name                    "my_fifo"
    path                    "/tmp/mpd.fifo"
    format                  "44100:16:2"
}

.ncmpcpp/config

visualizer_fifo_path = "/tmp/mpd.fifo"
visualizer_output_name = "my_fifo"
visualizer_sync_interval = "1"
visualizer_in_stereo = "yes"
visualizer_type = "spectrum"

am I missing something? what's wrong? I used what was on the Arch wiki

[editline]25th September 2015[/editline]

apparently I've been following advice for MPD, not mopidy. that kind of explains why stuff isn't working. can't seem to find anything regarding a visualizer for mopidy though, anyone know how?[/QUOTE]

[url=https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy/issues/775#issuecomment-96952468]This seems like your jam.[/url]

[undu]

[QUOTE=josm;48768955]Does anyone know why this is happening to the fonts in posts? (this only happens on FP).

I have infinality installed, but other sites are fine.

[t]http://josm.uk/i/damnfontrendering.png[/t][/QUOTE]

Have you properly configured infinality? This happens most probably because the fontconfig file states that font is to be rendered without AA.

See if this article helps: [url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration#Fontconfig_configuration[/url]

[Lyoko2]

Hey, I remember some folks here discussed about OpenRC.
I have a custom 3.4 kernel for my archlinuxarm, can't upgrade it further because of hardware.
Archlinux current version of systemd doesn't support this old kernel.
I tried compiling openrc from aur using this guide:
[URL]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenRC[/URL]

I set kernel boot arguments too, and nothing really happens when booting.

this old kernel boots in debian without any issues, mainline kernel boots too in Archlinux arm.
I'm not sure if openRC even starts.

is there any older systemd/openrc alternative?

[SocMinarch]

sysvinit

[Stonecycle]

[QUOTE=Lyoko2;48773879]is there any older systemd/openrc alternative?[/QUOTE]

[URL=http://smarden.org/runit/]runit[/URL]?

[vlad]

[QUOTE=lavacano;48771102][url=https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy/issues/775#issuecomment-96952468]This seems like your jam.[/url][/QUOTE]

doesn't seem to work unfortunately. looks like if I really want to use the visualizer I'm stuck with mpd for the time being, sucks since I exclusively use Spotify and the last.fm scrobbler in mopidy is very useful as well

on another topic, how would I go about doing a full disk encryption for Arch with two partitions, one /, one /home and one /boot partition? I've googled, but generally what I find are instructions for when you're installing the OS, not post-installation. I'm not fully able to wrap my head around this and I'm too worried I'll mess it up.

I'm triple booting between Windows, Linux and OS X, not sure if that'll get in the way. my system is GPT & UEFI.

partition map
SSD
[t]http://pred.me/pics/1443402228.png[/t]

HDD
[t]http://pred.me/pics/1443402258.png[/t]

[mastersrp]

[QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;48774579]sysvinit[/QUOTE]

sysvinit isn't really an alternative to openrc, as openrc uses sysvinit.

runit is indeed an alternative, and a holy moly godlike great one too. that, and s6. you'd never need anything else, really.

[josm]

So, after running Arch for over a year, maybe two, I decided to go back to my roots. Debian.

Since I've used and seen what a "harder" distro is, it's nice to get back to stability.

[Lyoko2]

good luck installing modern software to it.

[lavacano]

If he's using unstable it'd be relatively up to date, and despite the name on the tin, still pretty stable

[Levelog]

Yeah sid isn't bad. Still prefer Fedora though for stable mainstream OS's.

[editline]28th September 2015[/editline]

Though I use debian for all our ubiquiti controllers at work.

[thatbooisaspy]

I'm pretty excited, I dualboot linux and windows but now I don't see myself going back to windows at all (for the time being).

[t]http://i.imgur.com/PvKB1KE.png[/t]

I finally bothered to read documentation on wacom drivers under linux and finally got it set up to effectively cut out one of the reasons I used to use windows over linux. Now the pointer is restricted to the primary monitor, photoshop is virtualized with full pen pressure support. The only drawback is that the pointer controlled from the tablet is slightly delayed because the driver is from the virtualized OS (not that much of a delay thankfully, smooth lines still come out).

The only reason I can't really weed out is DX9+ games :wavey: I don't have another graphics card to spare for PCI passthrough at the moment sadly, and wine seems slow on DX10 support. Gw2 also runs like shit under wine, I barely tested it though so i'll see if I can find a solution for that (there is a fork of wine for gw2 specifically, so I think i'll try that first)

[Angus725]

You could pass your main graphics card through... Then SSH from windows back into Linux.

(It's oddly what I'm currently doing at work)

[supervoltage]

I was looking through a bash script I wrote sometime ago, just to see what it does exactly, but now it feels like I used some tricks which I don't remember doing at all. Is it normal to forget a programming/scripting language just like that? I still haven't forgotten ZASM from wiremod, that's why I ask.

[Trafficman]

[QUOTE=Angus725;48785217]You could pass your main graphics card through... Then SSH from windows back into Linux.

(It's oddly what I'm currently doing at work)[/QUOTE]

:mindblown:

[SocMinarch]

Sometimes I think I understand Linux then I come in here and feel inadequate

[Angus725]

[QUOTE=TrafficMan;48785910]:mindblown:[/QUOTE]

Don't look at me, I have no idea why I was assigned to this strange task.

[lavacano]

[QUOTE=Angus725;48785217]You could pass your main graphics card through... Then SSH from windows back into Linux.

(It's oddly what I'm currently doing at work)[/QUOTE]

What DE/WM do you use, and how well does it handle having its graphics card pulled out from under it like that

[Samiam]

[QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;48785934]Sometimes I think I understand Linux then I come in here and feel inadequate[/QUOTE]

Gotta start somewhere, right? Even the smartest of the FP Linux [del]nerds[/del] users were at a point where they knew as much as you do now.

[Levelog]

Any of you have much experience with firepro or quadro cards in linux?

[Mr. Someguy]

-wrong thread snip-

[josm]

Well, that didn't last long. Got very quickly tired of not having software I needed at my fingertips (the AUR) and I installed arch again :v:

Other than that though, debian has actually become a bit more useful since I last used it e.g. steam being available in the packages rather than having to build it from some odd script.

[sp]sorry debian :([/sp]

[Angus725]

[QUOTE=lavacano;48788168]What DE/WM do you use, and how well does it handle having its graphics card pulled out from under it like that[/QUOTE]

Using just straight console. GPU, DRM drivers are black listed, booting into text mode without X, etc

[Ott]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/KspCGFl.jpg[/img]

Another year, another unsolvable problem.

[Samiam]

[QUOTE=josm;48792407]Well, that didn't last long. Got very quickly tired of not having software I needed at my fingertips (the AUR) and I installed arch again :v:

Other than that though, debian has actually become a bit more useful since I last used it e.g. steam being available in the packages rather than having to build it from some odd script.

[sp]sorry debian :([/sp][/QUOTE]

I broke the X server twice on Debian trying to install Steam. For some reason, I couldn't figure out how to get it working because of Steam's i386 dependencies.

[josm]

[QUOTE=Samiam22;48793836]I broke the X server twice on Debian trying to install Steam. For some reason, I couldn't figure out how to get it working because of Steam's i386 dependencies.[/QUOTE]

It seems debian's free software mantra doesn't play well with nvidia/amd.

[lavacano]

[QUOTE=josm;48794423]It seems debian's free software mantra doesn't play well with nvidia/amd.[/QUOTE]

Distro maintainers seem to have the thought process of "we can't see your source so we're going to actively fight your driver then blame you for the problems"

[mastersrp]

[QUOTE=lavacano;48796097]Distro maintainers seem to have the thought process of "we can't see your source so we're going to actively fight your driver then blame you for the problems"[/QUOTE]

Let's be fair here, closed source applications and libraries have always been a pain to package, due to partly the lack of inspection into issues that may arrise during the packaging process.

[Samiam]

Why does Steam have i386 dependencies, anyway? Even if there are still some people on 32-bit computers, is it not possible to just make a standalone 64-bit version?