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

Well shit, Im a git noob I installed sdrangelove on my mint mate netbook using this git: [url]http://cgit.osmocom.org/sdrangelove/tree/plugins/channel[/url] and now after wondering why its missing a bunch of plugins, I find this git: [url]https://github.com/hexameron/rtl-sdrangelove[/url] Can someone explain to my why there are two that have different features? Also, if I stick all the good stuff from the second git into the installed version of the first git, do you think it will work, or am I better off uninstalling the first and installing the second?

[QUOTE=Birdman101;49933173]Well shit, Im a git noob I installed sdrangelove on my mint mate netbook using this git: [url]http://cgit.osmocom.org/sdrangelove/tree/plugins/channel[/url] and now after wondering why its missing a bunch of plugins, I find this git: [url]https://github.com/hexameron/rtl-sdrangelove[/url] Can someone explain to my why there are two that have different features? Also, if I stick all the good stuff from the second git into the installed version of the first git, do you think it will work, or am I better off uninstalling the first and installing the second?[/QUOTE] Well it seems that the first git repo hasn't been updated in over half a year, while the second ones last update was 2 days ago, maybe they switched from using their own git server to storing it on github and then just let the first one die. I would remove the first version and rebuild fresh from the second one just in case.

Someone needs to adapt the /g/ Interjecting bot to work on Facepunch. It was an end of an era when the bot stopped (for whatever reason).

[QUOTE=nutcake;49933548]Well it seems that the first git repo hasn't been updated in over half a year, while the second ones last update was 2 days ago, maybe they switched from using their own git server to storing it on github and then just let the first one die. I would remove the first version and rebuild fresh from the second one just in case.[/QUOTE] next question, why the hell is every piece of software in the default repos always at lease two versions out of date?

[QUOTE=Birdman101;49934346]next question, why the hell is every piece of software in the default repos always at lease two versions out of date?[/QUOTE] something something stability something Gentoo lets you ignore the stability argument per-package (or globally) by accepting the ~arch keyword (where "arch" is your architecture, e.g. "~amd64"). The downside is sometimes you get a combination of upgrades that actually breaks things (though typically not severely).

How would I change my OpenGL drivers on Fedora? [URL="https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota-2/issues/789#issuecomment-196582512"]I don't know what that means but Valve told me to[/URL]

[QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;49936086]How would I change my OpenGL drivers on Fedora? [URL="https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota-2/issues/789#issuecomment-196582512"]I don't know what that means but Valve told me to[/URL][/QUOTE] Probably talking about libgl of your GPU driver, of which there are proprietary and open source ones. If you are on AMD, open source drivers are better than proprietary ones and its the other way round on Nvidia.

Well I got that stupid half-assed software uninstalled and the newer version, but unfortunately now it sounds like dick because the software outputs audio at 48k and linux's convoluted fustercluck of audio servers somehow decide to play it at 44.1k, causing a distorted choppy audio stream that causes constant audio buffer underflows. I tried editing /etc/pulse/daemon.conf and /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf to change the default sampling rate to 48k, but neither changed anything. Who else is in on this huge secret that is how the audio system works? Tell me your secrets.

No one knows how audio on Linux works, it's all black magic.

[QUOTE=nutcake;49943764]No one knows how audio on Linux works, it's all black magic.[/QUOTE] Wow no shit, look at this unholy abomination [IMG]http://u.delta9.pl/k/i/sdr/Pulseaudio-diagram.svg.png[/IMG] It even looks like a demonic ritual. I'm starting to see why open source is a shit idea in some situations.

[QUOTE=Birdman101;49944377]I'm starting to see why open source is a shit idea in some situations.[/QUOTE] What does it have to do with open source? You could release a proprietary library with a shitty design if you wanted to.

[QUOTE=Birdman101;49944377]Wow no shit, look at this unholy abomination [IMG]http://u.delta9.pl/k/i/sdr/Pulseaudio-diagram.svg.png[/IMG] It even looks like a demonic ritual. I'm starting to see why open source is a shit idea in some situations.[/QUOTE] That doesn't appear to be how it works these days though, and I don't really see how it has anything to do with open source, free software, or anything in that relation at all. Also, how many other operating systems allow you to select output devices on a per-application basis? [img]http://wiki.audacityteam.org/w/images/e/e4/PA_Volume_Control_playback.png[/img] That's what pulseaudio allows you to do.

[QUOTE=maaatts;49944761]What does it have to do with open source? You could release a proprietary library with a shitty design if you wanted to.[/QUOTE] It probably doesn't have anything to do with open source, but it just looks to me a lot like a giant retarded clusterfuck of 3 or 4 independent projects all trying to work together to make sound. [editline]16th March 2016[/editline] Also how am I supposed to learn anything about how Linux audio shit works or how to use it without any half-decent documentation?

[QUOTE=Birdman101;49944377]Wow no shit, look at this unholy abomination [IMG]http://u.delta9.pl/k/i/sdr/Pulseaudio-diagram.svg.png[/IMG] It even looks like a demonic ritual. I'm starting to see why open source is a shit idea in some situations.[/QUOTE] Well for starters, that's a flowchart of every possible direction sound can come from and go to. Let's narrow shit down a little bit and go for the most typical case [img]http://i.imgur.com/sRLIk9R.png[/img] There, that's far easier to look at. Now all I have to do is clarify the ALSA "source" is your microphone and the ALSA "sink" is your speakers/headphones/etc (the names make sense from a technical standpoint).

I'm thinking of setting up a Mint dual boot on my desktop, which has two disks. An SSD for the operating system, and an HDD for games and storage. The installer (Ubiquity?) recognizes that Windows is installed, but does not provide the [URL="https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/_/rsrc/1380460936561/mint-install/Screenshot-install.jpg?height=287&width=400"]typical[/URL] [URL="https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/_/rsrc/1380461879253/mint-install/Screenshot-install2.jpg"]interface[/URL] for configuring a dual boot. It's not exactly a critical error but it is annoying and I'm wondering if there's any reason why it does this with multi-disk systems?

[QUOTE=Moronic;49945702]I'm thinking of setting up a Mint dual boot on my desktop, which has two disks. An SSD for the operating system, and an HDD for games and storage. The installer (Ubiquity?) recognizes that Windows is installed, but does not provide the [URL="https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/_/rsrc/1380460936561/mint-install/Screenshot-install.jpg?height=287&width=400"]typical[/URL] [URL="https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/_/rsrc/1380461879253/mint-install/Screenshot-install2.jpg"]interface[/URL] for configuring a dual boot. It's not exactly a critical error but it is annoying and I'm wondering if there's any reason why it does this with multi-disk systems?[/QUOTE] Does Mint not let you do things manually? Put /boot, / and swap on SSD, and /home on the HDD. [editline]16th March 2016[/editline] Why does this KDE plugin exist? [img]http://i.imgur.com/7oMgREY.jpg[/img] What are the use cases for it?

[QUOTE=lavacano;49945440]Well for starters, that's a flowchart of every possible direction sound can come from and go to. Let's narrow shit down a little bit and go for the most typical case [img]http://i.imgur.com/sRLIk9R.png[/img] There, that's far easier to look at. Now all I have to do is clarify the ALSA "source" is your microphone and the ALSA "sink" is your speakers/headphones/etc (the names make sense from a technical standpoint).[/QUOTE] That's much nicer, thanks. Any idea why some things play at 48000 fine, and some won't?

[QUOTE=maaatts;49945893]Why does this KDE plugin exist? [img]http://i.imgur.com/7oMgREY.jpg[/img] What are the use cases for it?[/QUOTE] So you can plug your computer into a projector (or screen recorder) and mark things as you go along it's like that thing sports broadcasts do with the line drawing and stuff [img]http://cdn-jpg.si.com/sites/default/files/images/CowboysLine49ers1.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=lavacano;49946071]So you can plug your computer into a projector (or screen recorder) and mark things as you go along it's like that thing sports broadcasts do with the line drawing and stuff [img]http://cdn-jpg.si.com/sites/default/files/images/CowboysLine49ers1.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] I'll just stick to using it for decorating my desktop with phalluses.

It's stallman's birthday today. I hope you've all installed debian hurd (at least in a VM :)) to celebrate

[QUOTE=maaatts;49944761]What does it have to do with open source? You could release a proprietary library with a shitty design if you wanted to.[/QUOTE] It's what happens when an operating system is made up of hundreds of independent projects without any central leadership.

[QUOTE=DrTaxi;49946676]It's what happens when an operating system is made up of hundreds of independent projects without any central leadership.[/QUOTE] Windows feel the same way at many points. The thing about Open Source projects is that it's things that's bitched about the most or what the inclined people care about gets most attention. Audio "just works" for most, while in few rare cases it requires arcane magic for a simple problem. I had to upgrade to a beta version of Pulseaudio, or playing audio from any web-browser would fuck up Pulseaudio until I did a clean re-install of Pulseaudio. That said, Pulseaudio as a whole IS due of a tune-up, also X-server is mostly only being patched up for bugs now that the [I]MIR vs Wayland[/I] war has begun[sp] fuck you Canonical[/sp]

[QUOTE=Van-man;49946823]That said, Pulseaudio as a whole IS due of a tune-up, also X-server is mostly only being patched up for bugs now that the [I]MIR vs Wayland[/I] war has begun[sp] fuck you Canonical[/sp][/QUOTE] Wayland vs Mir isn't really a battle. Mir is only really supposed to work for Ubuntu and Unity. I don't think that Canonical have any plans to get it working for other distros. See the problems that people have trying to get Unity to run on Arch, or even Debian.

I bought a FreeRADIUS eBook a while back and I'm making my way through it at the moment, hoping to be able to replace a crappy Windows RADIUS server at work last updated in 2001. The book keeps blowing my mind how flexible FreeRADIUS is. I was a bit worried that I won't be able to make it work to fit our needs, but I just need to throw time into it. The hardest part is going to be modifying the existing customer database.

[QUOTE=maaatts;49946882]Wayland vs Mir isn't really a battle. Mir is only really supposed to work for Ubuntu and Unity. I don't think that Canonical have any plans to get it working for other distros. See the problems that people have trying to get Unity to run on Arch, or even Debian.[/QUOTE] It has created enough divergence to be considered such

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;49946515]It's stallman's birthday today. I hope you've all installed debian hurd (at least in a VM :)) to celebrate[/QUOTE] I tried to install Debian Linux, but it wouldn't install GRUB and therefore wouldn't boot, so I tried to install Ubuntu and it failed to install GRUB and wouldn't boot.

[QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;49947154]I tried to install Debian Linux, but it wouldn't install GRUB and therefore wouldn't boot, so I tried to install Ubuntu and it failed to install GRUB and wouldn't boot.[/QUOTE] [video=youtube;qHGTs1NSB1s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHGTs1NSB1s[/video] Well, at least you aren't alone.

[url]http://charlesleifer.com/blog/using-python-to-generate-awesome-linux-desktop-themes/[/url] Neat script I stumbled upon, some of you might find it quite useful

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;49947341][video=youtube;qHGTs1NSB1s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHGTs1NSB1s[/video] Well, at least you aren't alone.[/QUOTE] I like how his kids and his wife all run not only Linux, but the specific distribution he prefers. I wonder what would happen if one of the kids wanted to start playing Windows only games. "You can use wine or some virtual machine, but I refuse to help you with any god damn problems if you install Windows, do you hear me? " "But daaaaaad, I want to play gta 5 with the cool kids!" That's how I imagine it would go :v:

[QUOTE=FPtje;49949495]I like how his kids and his wife all run not only Linux, but the specific distribution he prefers. I wonder what would happen if one of the kids wanted to start playing Windows only games. "You can use wine or some virtual machine, but I refuse to help you with any god damn problems if you install Windows, do you hear me? " "But daaaaaad, I want to play gta 5 with the cool kids!" That's how I imagine it would go :v:[/QUOTE] The cool kids are on consoles though, so he'd probably just buy them a PS4/Xbone, or throw them out into the cold finnish winter for betraying him.