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

[QUOTE=lavacano;49716383]Try changing distros[/QUOTE] Done that. Tried Fedora, Xubuntu, Manjaro, Antergos. [QUOTE=ben1066;49716411]What is your current hardware?[/QUOTE] [url]http://josm.uk/setup[/url] [QUOTE=Larikang;49717810]Are you doing anything "fancy" during install? If so, I would try a stupid simple install: legacy BIOS, one partition, GRUB 2, wired internet if possible, install base and some bare-bones WM like openbox and just run with startx. Also make sure you checksum your ISO just in case. If even that has random crashes, then either your hardware has some special bug that Linux does not know about (but Windows does) or you are doing something fundamentally wrong during install. To check the latter case just try a "simple" distro like Mint or Ubuntu. If their automatic installer can get you a crash-free experience then you're probably missing an important step during your Arch install.[/QUOTE] Nope, nothing. I've done this a fair amount of times now though, so I should know what I'm doing. I actually do always legacy boot. I hate UEFI. -- :snip: FUCKING HELL. Literally, what, 10 mins after posting this it crashes again. :what:

[QUOTE=josm;49718143]For some fucking reason I wasn't using a boot partition, what a fool I am.[/QUOTE] Why the shit would that cause random crashes? If that fixed it, it makes literally no sense.

[QUOTE=Larikang;49718190]Why the shit would that cause random crashes? If that fixed it, it makes literally no sense.[/QUOTE] Yeah, it doesn't. I'm just trying to grasp onto anything that might actually keep it from crashing.

[QUOTE=Larikang;49714982]I think they're literally shell scripts. All they do is define variables and functions; makepkg just reads the variables, calls the functions, and turns the result into a package.[/QUOTE] Sounds a lot like what Gentoo/Funtoo does, along with Alpine Linux, SliTaz, Void, and many others. It's easy, and allows you to use the same system from another distribution in many cases.

[QUOTE=Rocko's;49712278]Alright so I want to dual boot a Linux OS, but I don't know which to pick. I want to try gaming on Linux, more than likely either using wine or native stuff. Last time I tried gaming on Linux, through Ubuntu, it was not easy. Tried running GMOD natively and it was a lagfest, even with drivers.[/QUOTE] Likely just ubuntu; it's easy to work with. You might look at xubuntu in particular since its desktop is a good bit lighter than the original ubuntu's but is still featureful and friendly. Also, what GPU are you running? There's open-source and closed-source drivers for both AMD and NVIDIA. Particularly if you're running with NVIDIA you might want to make sure you're using the closed-source drivers because nouveau (the open one) is much slower when it comes to 3d performance.

Nvidia users: There is an issue with 361.28, don't upgrade drivers yet. it breaks source games and possibly more stuff. [URL]https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/915789/-solved-361-28-gtx-580-steam-several-games-don-t-start-up/[/URL] [URL]https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Counter-Strike-Global-Offensive/issues/610[/URL] [editline]11th February 2016[/editline] why all of my network computers keep communicating with 11.243.0.1? who.is reports thats a DoD IP address.

[QUOTE=Lyoko2;49719793]Nvidia users: There is an issue with 361.28, don't upgrade drivers yet. it breaks source games and possibly more stuff. [URL]https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/915789/-solved-361-28-gtx-580-steam-several-games-don-t-start-up/[/URL] [URL]https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Counter-Strike-Global-Offensive/issues/610[/URL] [editline]11th February 2016[/editline] why all of my network computers keep communicating with 11.243.0.1? who.is reports thats a DoD IP address.[/QUOTE] NSA backdoor :tinfoil: [sp]Sarcasm, I hope[/sp] Try block it with HOSTS file or even better, router level.

[QUOTE=Lyoko2;49719793]Nvidia users: There is an issue with 361.28, don't upgrade drivers yet. it breaks source games and possibly more stuff. [URL]https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/915789/-solved-361-28-gtx-580-steam-several-games-don-t-start-up/[/URL] [URL]https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Counter-Strike-Global-Offensive/issues/610[/URL] [editline]11th February 2016[/editline] why all of my network computers keep communicating with 11.243.0.1? who.is reports thats a DoD IP address.[/QUOTE] It's all that terrorism oil you keep trafficking through your ISIS channels on Tor, Saddam Hussein bin Laden.

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;49719456]Likely just ubuntu; it's easy to work with. You might look at xubuntu in particular since its desktop is a good bit lighter than the original ubuntu's but is still featureful and friendly. Also, what GPU are you running? There's open-source and closed-source drivers for both AMD and NVIDIA. Particularly if you're running with NVIDIA you might want to make sure you're using the closed-source drivers because nouveau (the open one) is much slower when it comes to 3d performance.[/QUOTE] Laptop I'll be putting Linux on has an AMD Radeon 7640g. It's not the best, but I can play most of the games in my library at medium to low settings, high if I get lucky. I don't know how well it will fare with playing games on Linux, however.

my nvidia control panel disappeared? the drivers are installed, 361.28-1.

So, I installed void and it does the same thing. :what: I think I'm just gonna try and use my HDD instead of my SSD and see what happens. If that doesn't work, I'll buy a new one of smth.

maybe that's a bios disk controller thing. try switching it to something else.

[QUOTE=josm;49725912]So, I installed void and it does the same thing. :what: I think I'm just gonna try and use my HDD instead of my SSD and see what happens. If that doesn't work, I'll buy a new one of smth.[/QUOTE] Does your motherboard have the latest BIOS? Alternatively make sure you have the microcode package for your linux distribution. Haswell has a pretty bad bug with TSX, which, if not disabled by said microcode update can cause crashes. I had this issue with Arch before.

[QUOTE=ben1066;49726473]Does your motherboard have the latest BIOS? Alternatively make sure you have the microcode package for your linux distribution. Haswell has a pretty bad bug with TSX, which, if not disabled by said microcode update can cause crashes. I had this issue with Arch before.[/QUOTE] Actually no it wasn't. Thanks for that. If this doesn't work, I'll try the microcode thing too.

[QUOTE=josm;49726648]Actually no it wasn't. Thanks for that. If this doesn't work, I'll try the microcode thing too.[/QUOTE] You've probably already tried the BIOS thing, otherwise I would suggest doing the microcode thing, as it isn't permanent like the BIOS dealio. CPU microcode updates are on-the-fly patches that aren't saved.

[QUOTE=mastersrp;49727578]You've probably already tried the BIOS thing, otherwise I would suggest doing the microcode thing, as it isn't permanent like the BIOS dealio. CPU microcode updates are on-the-fly patches that aren't saved.[/QUOTE] Will do. Updating my BIOS seems to have worked so far. Been on it for 4 hours now, will update the post if it does it again of course.

Just rsynced 18GB of backups to a local folder named 'root@serveraddress'... -_-

We've all been there. No, wait, we haven't, we're not that dumb.

[QUOTE=nikomo;49735678]We've all been there. No, wait, we haven't, we're not that dumb.[/QUOTE] Come on now, you're saying you've *never* done anything stupid before? (also, everyone else, updating the BIOS definitely did work btw)

[QUOTE=nikomo;49735678]We've all been there. No, wait, we haven't, we're not that dumb.[/QUOTE] Fucking up royally for the first time on linux is a milestone.

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;49736496]Fucking up royally for the first time on linux is a milestone.[/QUOTE] I think we've all rm *'d in the wrong place or dd'd the wrong drive at some point =P

[QUOTE=nikomo;49735678]We've all been there. No, wait, we haven't, we're not that dumb.[/QUOTE] Failing is part of the Linux™ experience.

[QUOTE=nikomo;49735678]We've all been there. No, wait, we haven't, we're not that dumb.[/QUOTE] scp file [email]root@domain.tld[/email] it doesn't do what you might expect.

Out of curiosity installed Arch on my SP3. The install is mostly working, however it seems that the SP4 type cover will not work in systemd-boot which is a bit problematic. It means I need an external keyboard to choose what operating system to boot. Anyone got any ideas? Not sure if rEFInd has support? The first keypress works then it dies.

[QUOTE=ben1066;49757527]Out of curiosity installed Arch on my SP3. The install is mostly working, however it seems that the SP4 type cover will not work in systemd-boot which is a bit problematic. It means I need an external keyboard to choose what operating system to boot. Anyone got any ideas? Not sure if rEFInd has support? The first keypress works then it dies.[/QUOTE] The touch cover is not wired up like a normal keyboard.

[QUOTE=Van-man;49757743]The touch cover is not wired up like a normal keyboard.[/QUOTE] Yep, and touch is used within the UEFI interface to configure the device, I just wondered if anyone here knew any boot manager that could be used. My other idea is to have a USB drive that would cause it to boot Linux, but that would be a bit of a pain to be necessary. UPDATE: rEFInd appears to work for both keyboard and touch, seems weird that systemd-boot doesn't work.

Kodi has been crashing on my HTPC for months. The Kodi team says it's "a buggy [taglib] library (version 1.10)", the taglib team says the segfaulting function "is not a TagLib function" so they won't look into it either. Turns out taglib was returning an (unexpectedly) empty list, and kodi wasn't checking the size of the list before accessing the first element. So [URL="http://trac.kodi.tv/ticket/16594"]fuck[/URL] you [URL="https://github.com/taglib/taglib/issues/719"]both[/URL]. I love open source because it means problems like this actually get fixed, but it's amazing how long it can go without anyone taking the time to get to the bottom of it. [B]Edit: [/B]FML. Turns out it's already fixed in Kodi 16 so I just wasted a huge amount of time. Woooooooo.

Gnome seems to deal fairly well with high DPI and touch, however it's high DPI is only integer scaling factors. 2x is too big on a Surface Pro 3 annoyingly, I've tried "xrandr --output eDP-1 --scale 1.25x1.25" trick, but it makes no difference at all? Any ideas?

anyone else running Nvidia just suddenly lost their control panel? I need it to properly set my 144hz screen to 144hz.

[QUOTE=PredGD;49767057]anyone else running Nvidia just suddenly lost their control panel? I need it to properly set my 144hz screen to 144hz.[/QUOTE] It doesn't work with xrandr?