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

[Michael haxz]

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;50340609][URL="http://www.ebay.com/itm/SR0KX-INTEL-XEON-E5-2670-8-CORE-2-60GHz-20M-8GT-s-115W-PROCESSOR-CPU-/281889330127?hash=item41a1e9d3cf:g:kwIAAOSwKfVXGULm"]Xeon e5[/URL]
Would buying two of these be the key to winning at gentoo? Muh -j33 and dat l3 cache.

if server mobos weren't so expensive I actually would leap for one of these tbh because for what it is, $50 is incredibly cheap.[/QUOTE]

While looking around for a board for that I found this

[url]http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-PowerEdge-R710-8-Core-2-5-Server-48GB-RAM-2x146GB-PERC6i-DVD-iDRAC6-1PS-/191799283233?&autorefresh=true[/url]

Looks pretty good

[Levelog]

[QUOTE=Michael haxz;50341555]While looking around for a board for that I found this

[url]http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-PowerEdge-R710-8-Core-2-5-Server-48GB-RAM-2x146GB-PERC6i-DVD-iDRAC6-1PS-/191799283233?&autorefresh=true[/url]

Looks pretty good[/QUOTE]

Yeah but Nelham (with the 710) to Sandy bridge was a pretty big leap. Plus you're looking at 8 cores per processor with the e5 vs 4 cores each.

[Mr.E]

How many partitions are too many partitions?
[IMG]https://i.imgur.com/fmOldnU.png[/IMG]

[mastersrp]

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;50340609][URL="http://www.ebay.com/itm/SR0KX-INTEL-XEON-E5-2670-8-CORE-2-60GHz-20M-8GT-s-115W-PROCESSOR-CPU-/281889330127?hash=item41a1e9d3cf:g:kwIAAOSwKfVXGULm"]Xeon e5[/URL]
Would buying two of these be the key to winning at gentoo? Muh -j33 and dat l3 cache.

if server mobos weren't so expensive I actually would leap for one of these tbh because for what it is, $50 is incredibly cheap.[/QUOTE]

For a desktop PC I would probably go with some AMD FX-series shit, because 8-core at the price of nought. It's what I did anyway, and it sure paid off. 4Ghz raw 8core power.

[nikomo]

[QUOTE=Mister.E;50343606]How many partitions are too many partitions?
[IMG]https://i.imgur.com/fmOldnU.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]

That's actually not that many.

[Lenny.]

What is the naming convention behind partitions btw? I still wonder every time

[Protocol7]

[QUOTE=LennyPenny;50344691]What is the naming convention behind partitions btw? I still wonder every time[/QUOTE]

sd signifies a SCSI device but has since been adopted as the prefix for most storage devices, the letter after is just assigned in order of when the device was "discovered", and the number is the actual partition

[Sgt. Napalm]

I assumed it meant storage disc or storage device.

[Aircraft]

Storage Device A-Z *

[Sgt. Napalm]

What happens if you have more than 26 devices? Does it go to sdaa, sdab, etc?

[vlad]

how do you blacklist a device from ever being used? my Vive counts as a screen which is pretty annoying to deal with. I have disabled it in the nvidia control panel but my login screen doesn't care about that. also have a few weird issues relating to it. yesterday for example, I had played that new Portal Stories VR thing. after that, I rebooted into Linux and my second monitor was covered in the contents of that VR game, just with a ton of artifacts. no idea how that's possible, but it happens.

[Aircraft]

[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;50344738]What happens if you have more than 26 devices? Does it go to sdaa, sdab, etc?[/QUOTE]

yep, and at around 18 300 devices it craps out, making the theoretical limit sdzzy I think

[Thelurker1234]

[QUOTE=PredGD;50344756]how do you blacklist a device from ever being used? my Vive counts as a screen which is pretty annoying to deal with. I have disabled it in the nvidia control panel but my login screen doesn't care about that. also have a few weird issues relating to it. yesterday for example, I had played that new Portal Stories VR thing. after that, I rebooted into Linux and my second monitor was covered in the contents of that VR game, just with a ton of artifacts. no idea how that's possible, but it happens.[/QUOTE] I think you can use udev for this

[Sgt. Napalm]

You could always unplug it.

[SocMinarch]

Can you have udev rules that only exist for specific users?

[Thelurker1234]

Udev is pretty powerful, so im pretty sure
I at least know you can with groups

[naelstrof]

[QUOTE=PredGD;50344756]...I rebooted into Linux and my second monitor was covered in the contents of that VR game, just with a ton of artifacts. no idea how that's possible, but it happens.[/QUOTE]

This is a neat thing about VRAM-- while off it's not stable memory but it can still hold things like textures fairly well in a reboot cycle.

Allocating a texture in OpenGL without clearing it often gives you somewhat of a history of what the GPU displayed in the past. Which I believe Gnome is doing by accident.

[sp]Just be glad it isn't showing porn.[/sp]

[SocMinarch]

[QUOTE=mastersrp;50327127]Look at the steam start wrapper (usually /usr/bin/steam) and look at the lines 185 and beyond. What do they say? They could be creating problems. Void Linux used to have issues with that too, but they've been fixed mostly now.[/QUOTE]

# go to the install directory and run the client
cp "$LAUNCHSTEAMBOOTSTRAPFILE" "$LAUNCHSTEAMDIR/bootstrap.tar.xz"
cd "$LAUNCHSTEAMDIR"
if [ "`command -v tee`" != "" ]; then
    mkdir -p --mode=777 /tmp/dumps
    if [[ -f "/tmp/dumps/${USER}_stdout.txt" ]]; then
        rm -f "/tmp/dumps/${USER}_stdout.txt"
    fi 
    exec "$LAUNCHSTEAMDIR/$STEAMBOOTSTRAP" "$@" 2>&1 | tee "/tmp/dumps/${USER}_stdout.txt"
else
    exec "$LAUNCHSTEAMDIR/$STEAMBOOTSTRAP" "$@"
fi

I've checked Void's patches, but I can't see that they've changed anything from the upstream releases other than fixing the LD_PRELOAD stuff

[Reflex F.N.]

I am having a very serious probleI am having a very serious problem:
I currently have Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS dual-booted. Everything was fine and awesome, until this morning.
This morning I woke up and turned on my computer, only to be presented with a block screen that stayed there for about 10 or more minutes. This black screen appeared immediately after I turned on my computer; in other words, before the bootloader, before anything.
Then when the GRUB screen finally appeared and I selected Linux, I was welcomed WITH A HUGE AMOUNT OF ERRORS. Ubuntu spammed me with popup messages saying "An internal error occurred". So, I restarted to boot into Windows, but again, I was presented with a black screen that took ages to go away before I was able to boot into Windows. I deleted the Ubuntu partitions from Windows, but I haven't deleted GRUB yet (because I don't know how to).
My computer still presents me with a black screen every time I turn it on, even after removing Ubuntu, but now the black screen takes less time to go away (about 2 minutes).
Does anyone know what could be causing this?

Thank you to any and all answers! :smile:

[deadeye536]

[QUOTE=LennyPenny;50344691]What is the naming convention behind partitions btw? I still wonder every time[/QUOTE]

On top of the already explained /dev/sdx name, you also have /dev/md<x> and /dev/md<x>p<y> which is part of mdadm and /dev/mmcblk<x>p<y> for block multimedia cards (SD cards, etc). You can also find LVM volumes as mountable partitions in /dev/.

[editline]18th May 2016[/editline]

Oh, there is also /dev/vd<a-z><0-9> (similar naming to /dev/sdx) which is for virtualized disks.

[mastersrp]

[QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;50345810]

# go to the install directory and run the client
cp "$LAUNCHSTEAMBOOTSTRAPFILE" "$LAUNCHSTEAMDIR/bootstrap.tar.xz"
cd "$LAUNCHSTEAMDIR"
if [ "`command -v tee`" != "" ]; then
    mkdir -p --mode=777 /tmp/dumps
    if [[ -f "/tmp/dumps/${USER}_stdout.txt" ]]; then
        rm -f "/tmp/dumps/${USER}_stdout.txt"
    fi 
    exec "$LAUNCHSTEAMDIR/$STEAMBOOTSTRAP" "$@" 2>&1 | tee "/tmp/dumps/${USER}_stdout.txt"
else
    exec "$LAUNCHSTEAMDIR/$STEAMBOOTSTRAP" "$@"
fi

I've checked Void's patches, but I can't see that they've changed anything from the upstream releases other than fixing the LD_PRELOAD stuff[/QUOTE]

That's what the LD_PRELOAD stuff should fix though. There's a few other fixes out there. You might also try to disable the Steam in-game overlay.

[torekk]

I managed to compile libsteam for pidgin on the raspberry pi, felt like a super complex thing to do at first, but turned out to be quite simple.

To be honest I wonder why I only found one instruction to do so, and that one was 3 years out of date. But then propably most people don't use their RPi as a desktop so they don't need steam chat.

[Reflex F.N.]

:snip:

[Van-man]

I'm having a problem emerging a recent version of WINE in Funtoo.
I actually figured out all the niggles, except now I'm stuck at [I]dev-libs/libclc-0.0.1_pre20141027[/I] failing to compile.
Seems like one solution is to allow a more recent version of it, but that results in newer versions of [I]llvm[/I] and [I]clang[/I] being needed, and their respective versions conflict by depending on different version of each other.

Build log: [url]https://bpaste.net/show/7d4d3db06f2a[/url]
System settings: [url]https://bpaste.net/show/4acb0a05ac4f[/url]

I hope the ebuild environment file isn't needed to debug whatever's going on, because that's a huge mofo.

[Sgt. Napalm]

Are there any Persona 3 widgets for KDE?

[img]http://img04.deviantart.net/2f0b/i/2012/021/5/8/persona_3_hud_rainmeter_skin_by_th3laugh1ngman-d2o8h2j.jpg[/img]

[AG]

Hello! I am sorry if this is the wrong place to ask or I'm looking like an idiot, but I could use some help and I'm not entirely sure where to go or who to ask at this stage.
I am using Fedora Linux 23, LXDE desktop, relatively new to using Fedora.
When I play TF2, whenever an MP3 is meant to be played, such as a character pain sound, I get the error of 'Failed to decode MP3 for [path/to/file.mp3], I did try to install some packages which includes playback features for that codec, but none of them seemed to work. Anybody able to help me out? Thanks in advance!

[mastersrp]

[QUOTE=AG;50365631]Hello! I am sorry if this is the wrong place to ask or I'm looking like an idiot, but I could use some help and I'm not entirely sure where to go or who to ask at this stage.
I am using Fedora Linux 23, LXDE desktop, relatively new to using Fedora.
When I play TF2, whenever an MP3 is meant to be played, such as a character pain sound, I get the error of 'Failed to decode MP3 for [path/to/file.mp3], I did try to install some packages which includes playback features for that codec, but none of them seemed to work. Anybody able to help me out? Thanks in advance![/QUOTE]

You need to install the 32bit version of the codecs.

[lavacano]

[QUOTE=AG;50365631]Hello! I am sorry if this is the wrong place to ask or I'm looking like an idiot, but I could use some help and I'm not entirely sure where to go or who to ask at this stage.
I am using Fedora Linux 23, LXDE desktop, relatively new to using Fedora.
When I play TF2, whenever an MP3 is meant to be played, such as a character pain sound, I get the error of 'Failed to decode MP3 for [path/to/file.mp3], I did try to install some packages which includes playback features for that codec, but none of them seemed to work. Anybody able to help me out? Thanks in advance![/QUOTE]

Install them again, but add this to each package name:

.i686

For instance, if you installed ffmpeg:

ffmpeg.i686

[editline]21st May 2016[/editline]

I'm not sure which library Source uses to encode/decode audio, exactly, or I'd just tell you to install that

[Aircraft]

After seeing this thread I decided to embrace the linux desktop.

I installed xfwm4 for easy windows snapping. While vertical snapping works like a charm, horizontal snapping is utterly broken. Say I drag a window to the left edge. Once it starts to snap, it snaps the window to the right edge without resizing it or locking it. Opposite happens vice versa. All I did was install the package, install themes, change dependency, log in and log out. Am I missing something or is it configured incorrectly?

[Pepsi-cola]

Just set up OpenVPN on my VPS running Debian.

Was going to come in here to ask why my incoming and outgoing data was so high while only watching a youtube video.

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/J1Uu7Y9.png[/IMG]

Anyone else ever thought something so stupid?