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

[QUOTE=lavacano;47155799]* Oblivion's ignoring my volume sliders and playing all sound tracks at maximum. This results in the music sometimes drowning out the sound effects and voices. This could also be a bug in Oblivion itself, knowing Bethesda. Any solutions apart from opening all the music files in Audacity and lowering the volume myself? * When I tell the game to exit, I get Wine's "Oblivion has stopped responding" dialog. This is the only time it happens, and I can press Enter to dismiss it (it won't draw on top of the game in fullscreen for some reason). I would like it to stop appearing though. Thoughts?[/QUOTE] If anyone was wondering, the first of these two was caused by using native quartz (if I stop doing that the volumes work as set). And the second one was fixed by grabbing a FastExit OBSE plugin. [editline]18th February 2015[/editline] i still haven't figured out what the black menu is about and it hasn't come back since i posted to begin with, so...

[QUOTE=nikomo;47168409]It's a completely separate key, but it's treated as Control + Alt in the OS. Some website actually had a bug related to that, that stopped some letter from being written on some keyboard layout. I think Windows hijacked something in the input. Windows still treats it as a separate key, so you can't Alt Gr + Del. But you can do Control+Alt+2 to write @ on the Finnish layout.[/QUOTE] No, I mean, [I]why aren't you mapping AltGr to the third-level selector[/I]

I could do that, but meh. I had a look at the output of showkey --scancodes when pressing Control+Alt and when pressing Alt Gr, second and fourth byte are same in the output, one key is two bytes. That info is pretty useless when you don't know how to interpret scan codes, but the fact that pressing Alt Gr registers as two key presses at least makes it a bit clearer that it's almost the same as pressing Control+Alt. I don't need to worry about that now, using caps lock as a modifier is actually pretty decent on that keyboard. Way better than worrying about a program using Alt.

[QUOTE=PredGD;47134391]dhcpcd suddenly decided to get its act together after letting the installation iso remain alone for some minutes, no idea why it's working fine now [IMG]http://fi.somethingawful.com/images/smilies/confused.gif[/IMG] never messed with routes before as I've always relied on dhcpcd, but I'll definitely look into it if the issue returns. thanks![/QUOTE] this issue popped up again and I wasn't able to fix it, no matter what I tried. I'm sure there probably was a way I never thought of trying/did something wrong, but I threw in the towel and just bought a new router altogether. now it works flawlessly, hooray!

scratch that, after the first reboot it's back to the same. I was thinking maybe it was given the wrong lease from Windows, so I tried to reboot the router while sitting in Arch. my macbook got its lease as it should, but dhcpcd isn't able to get a lease on its own. I tried to disable the interface and re-enabling it, but that didn't help either. enabling dhcpcd for that specific interface didn't work either. I noticed that if I enable IPv6 in my router, dhcpcd will be able to function, though only by IPv6 addresses it seems. I tried using ping6 to ping the gateway, but that didn't work so don't think it really works. dhcpcd acts as if it works at least. since replacing the router didn't fix this, I imagine it's hardware related. I read that dhcpcd was broken for Intel ethernet controllers using the e1000e driver, but that was in 2010. my ethernet controller is the Intel I218-V I'm really confused and not sure what to do from here. I tried manually setting the routes, and it worked halfway but was never able to ping 8.8.8.8 or the gateway. I'm really confused over this whole ordeal as I can't recall changing anything in my configuration other than my newly replaced router

Have you tried setting statically both the IPs and routes, and then not using dhcpcd? Must be some weird problem with dual-stack dhclient in Arch, or something. [quote]ps aux|grep dhc && manually kill pids ip link set wlan0 down ip link set wlan0 up ip addr add 192.168.1.222/24 broadcast 192.168.1.255 dev wlan0 ip route add default via 192.168.1.1 #test stuff after ifconfig wlan0 ping 192.168.1.1 -c 2 ping 8.8.8.8 -c 1 arp -n route -n [/quote] Assuming you want to use IP 192.168.1.222 in a /24 subnet, your wifi card is wlan0, and your router is at 192.168.1.1.

[QUOTE=HarryHy;47179651]Have you tried setting statically both the IPs and routes, and then not using dhcpcd? Must be some weird problem with dual-stack dhclient in Arch, or something. Assuming you want to use IP 192.168.1.222 in a /24 subnet, your wifi card is wlan0, and your router is at 192.168.1.1.[/QUOTE] just gave it a shot, still no go [code] root@archiso ~ # ip link set down eno1 root@archiso ~ # ip link set up eno1 root@archiso ~ # ip addr add 192.168.1.222/24 broadcast 192.168.1.225 dev eno1 root@archiso ~ # ip route add default via 192.168.1.1 root@archiso ~ # ifconfig eno1 eno1: flags=4193<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 192.168.1.222 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.225 ether 44:8a:5b:9a:76:4a txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 286 bytes 23074 (22.5 KiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 22 bytes 4248 (4.1 KiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 device interrupt 20 memory 0xef200000-ef220000 root@archiso ~ # ping 192.168.1.1 PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 54(84) bytes of data. From 192.168.1.222 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.222 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.222 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable ^C --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 4007ms pipe 4[/code] the subnet mask is 255.255.255.0 and the IP is well within the IP pool so I have no idea why this won't work

[QUOTE=PredGD;47179768]just gave it a shot, still no go [code] root@archiso ~ # ip link set down eno1 root@archiso ~ # ip link set up eno1 root@archiso ~ # ip addr add 192.168.1.222/24 broadcast 192.168.1.225 dev eno1 root@archiso ~ # ip route add default via 192.168.1.1 root@archiso ~ # ifconfig eno1 eno1: flags=4193<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 192.168.1.222 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.225 ether 44:8a:5b:9a:76:4a txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 286 bytes 23074 (22.5 KiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 22 bytes 4248 (4.1 KiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 device interrupt 20 memory 0xef200000-ef220000 root@archiso ~ # ping 192.168.1.1 PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 54(84) bytes of data. From 192.168.1.222 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.222 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.222 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable ^C --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 4007ms pipe 4[/code] the subnet mask is 255.255.255.0 and the IP is well within the IP pool so I have no idea why this won't work[/QUOTE] No need to write about the subnet mask, the output you gave clearly displays all the information needed. I'm guessing your PC is connected using wired connection to the switch interface of the router, and in that case, does manually running the dhcpcd eno1 command fix your issue? I'm not talking about starting the system daemon, but manually running the command with the interface as a parameter. If that STILL does not work, try disabling all of your network daemons you have, including any NetworkManager daemons or wicd daemons., and run the dhcpcd eno1 command or whatever Arch uses these days.

[QUOTE=mastersrp;47180037]No need to write about the subnet mask, the output you gave clearly displays all the information needed. I'm guessing your PC is connected using wired connection to the switch interface of the router, and in that case, does manually running the dhcpcd eno1 command fix your issue? I'm not talking about starting the system daemon, but manually running the command with the interface as a parameter. If that STILL does not work, try disabling all of your network daemons you have, including any NetworkManager daemons or wicd daemons., and run the dhcpcd eno1 command or whatever Arch uses these days.[/QUOTE] I've tried disabling the dhcpcd daemons and manually running dhcpcd eno1, but it'll eventually just time out

[QUOTE=PredGD;47180061]I've tried disabling the dhcpcd daemons and manually running dhcpcd eno1, but it'll eventually just time out[/QUOTE] Have you tried any spare CAT 5.e or CAt 6 cables? Is the Macbook connected using a wired connection?

[QUOTE=mastersrp;47180087]Have you tried any spare CAT 5.e or CAt 6 cables? Is the Macbook connected using a wired connection?[/QUOTE] the macbook is running off of a wireless connection, and I replaced my ethernet cable earlier actually when I unboxed my router, was a much shorter cable which was more fitting

was finally able to get my Arch installation up and running, ended up tethering my phones connection to the internet to my PC. still doesn't work in my newly set up environment to use my ethernet so have to do this dirty fix for now

[QUOTE=PredGD;47185654]was finally able to get my Arch installation up and running, ended up tethering my phones connection to the internet to my PC. still doesn't work in my newly set up environment to use my ethernet so have to do this dirty fix for now[/QUOTE] Heh, I had to do the same thing to get wireless drivers for my laptop :v:

[QUOTE=Lyokanthrope;47185677]Heh, I had to do the same thing to get wireless drivers for my laptop :v:[/QUOTE] I bet it was a Broadcom chip.

[QUOTE=Sivics;47186423]I bet it was a Broadcom chip.[/QUOTE] Yep. At least it's supported by b43, I just needed the firmware...

So I just did a fresh minimal install of Debian, and being the Linux amateur I am, I can't get youtube videos to play in chromium. I already installed pepperflash, and it seems to be working fine, since the test on the flash website works. The video loads fine, but won't play. If I seek, it shows a still frame of that part of the video. This happens regardless of whether or not hardware acceleration is enabled in chromium settings. If there's an easy fix to this that I'm unaware of, it'd be great if someone could inform me.

[QUOTE=DragonAwesome;47187470]So I just did a fresh minimal install of Debian, and being the Linux amateur I am, I can't get youtube videos to play in chromium. I already installed pepperflash, and it seems to be working fine, since the test on the flash website works. The video loads fine, but won't play. If I seek, it shows a still frame of that part of the video. This happens regardless of whether or not hardware acceleration is enabled in chromium settings. If there's an easy fix to this that I'm unaware of, it'd be great if someone could inform me.[/QUOTE] Could just download Google Chrome if you want the easy way out.

Also doesn't YouTube use HTML5 instead of flash now anyway?

[QUOTE=DragonAwesome;47187470]So I just did a fresh minimal install of Debian, and being the Linux amateur I am, I can't get youtube videos to play in chromium. I already installed pepperflash, and it seems to be working fine, since the test on the flash website works. The video loads fine, but won't play. If I seek, it shows a still frame of that part of the video. This happens regardless of whether or not hardware acceleration is enabled in chromium settings. If there's an easy fix to this that I'm unaware of, it'd be great if someone could inform me.[/QUOTE] [url=https://www.youtube.com/html5]If you go here, are the top three boxes checked?[/url] The state of the bottom three aren't important right now

[QUOTE=lavacano;47187676][url=https://www.youtube.com/html5]If you go here, are the top three boxes checked?[/url] The state of the bottom three aren't important right now[/QUOTE] Yes, all of them. I'm guessing this means that flash is irrelevant then? EDIT: I did some more digging and it looks like chromium doesn't support h.264 because of a licensing issue.

[QUOTE=DragonAwesome;47187834]Yes, all of them. I'm guessing this means that flash is irrelevant then?[/QUOTE] I was pretty sure it was already irrelevant, I just wanted to make sure the HTML5 player wasn't broken. You should be able to switch between Flash and HTML5 at the same link, see if doing that helps at all

[QUOTE=DragonAwesome;47187834]Yes, all of them. I'm guessing this means that flash is irrelevant then? EDIT: I did some more digging and it looks like chromium doesn't support h.264 because of a licensing issue.[/QUOTE] Just install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra with apt-get

[QUOTE=Sivics;47188010]Just install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra with apt-get[/QUOTE] It's not in the official debian repositories (at least the jessie ones), and I can't seem to find a good alternative way to get it. I still don't completely understand the packaging system used in most linux distributions, so I'm sorry if there's an obvious way to do this.

I downloaded Sublime Text 2 for linux. It's in a folder on my desktop and if I click the sublime_text file, it opens up sublime, but I want to be able to open .lua files with sublime but when I right click > Open With, sublime doesn't show up as an option. I've checked through all of the "open with other applications" options and it's not there. Anyone got any clues? [editline]22nd February 2015[/editline] Nevermind I just ended up adding a repository and installing it through terminal rather than the download/unzip method instead.

[QUOTE=DragonAwesome;47187834]I did some more digging and it looks like chromium doesn't support h.264 because of a licensing issue.[/QUOTE] Doesn't YouTube offer VP8/9 for a load of videos now?

My laptop's wireless is driving me nuts. I don't know if it's our home AP (which has a history of kicking people off for no real reason) or my laptop's wireless chip itself, but under Arch with b43 it just seems to get slower and slower until it just dies completely until I reset the adapter's state, all within 10-15 minutes after boot or resume.

Do you run a compositing window manager?

[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;47194323]No I do not.[/QUOTE] Damn, I was going to tell you to see if toggling compositing on/off by a hotkey would fix it

Does anyone know of a neat way to make your shell clear your prompt as you hit enter, replace it with a different prompt, and display the original prompt for your new line? I like [url=https://github.com/milkbikis/powerline-shell]Powerline[/url], but I don't like it clogging up my terminal, so I'd like to have Powerline only on the last line (where I can actually type commands) and leave a more simple prompt in my history. [editline]23rd February 2015[/editline] Found it: [url]http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/107080/clear-old-prompt-lines-in-bash-to-save-scroll-space[/url] I guess you could do similar with preexec in zsh.

How well do windows games run on linux with wine? I'm considering switching to mint from windows for gaming.