|
I have been running Ubuntu for quite some time now and really like it, so I decided to play around and try to get my media machine (currently running XP and GBPVR) to run on Mythbuntu. The problem is that I have an Asus 8200 which is the Asus version of the TI200 Geforce 3 (old I know). I could not get the TV out to work, this is not a surprise, since it does not work with the Nvidia drivers under XP, however I can get the TV out to work with the Asus driver, I cannot find an Asus driver for Linux. Do I have any hope of getting the TV out to work under Mythbuntu?
|
#
?
Nov 15, 2007 20:15
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 10, 2024 14:23 |
|
|
I've replaced the crappy Nvidia Quadrofx550 in my workstation with an ATI Radeon x850XT PE that someone in the office had spare. I now have xinerama working with fglrx across my 1440x900 and 1680x1050 screens. DRI however fails to load. I'm led to believe by some Googling that 3d acceleration with FGLRX is not possible with a Xinerama config that uses differing resolutions. Does anyone know of a workaround?
|
|
#
?
Nov 15, 2007 20:25
|
|
|
teapot posted:They probably use some ActiveX control, so it definitely needs IE, but may or may not run properly in Wine. Install ies4linux and see it it will work. I'm pretty sure they use Windows Media Player (with DRM) for their videos, so getting it working in Wine will be close to impossible.
|
|
#
?
Nov 15, 2007 23:50
|
|
|
I am currently running debian on my fileserver. I want to install tranmission for use with torrentflux. However, the default debian repositories have a dated build of it. I haven't been able to find a repository with the latest version (0.9.3). I would like to compile and install it myself. I used this guide. However this didn't seem to work as I get a whole slew of errors trying to run transmission (not to mention autogen.sh does not exist in the latest source.) I have two quesitons, how can I cleanly get rid of the screwed up install I just made and how can I properly compile/install this and any other source package I want?
|
|
#
?
Nov 16, 2007 02:49
|
|
|
m3jsh posted:I am currently running debian on my fileserver. I want to install tranmission for use with torrentflux. However, the default debian repositories have a dated build of it. I haven't been able to find a repository with the latest version (0.9.3). Also, there seems to be a package for this -- http://packages.debian.org/sid/transmission. It's in sid (unstable), but you should be able to get just that package and install it.
|
|
#
?
Nov 16, 2007 02:53
|
|
|
If I want to add an unstable repository do I need to comment out my regular repositories? Also if anyone knows of a good tutorial in compiling/installing my own programs that'd be appreciated too.
|
|
#
?
Nov 16, 2007 03:09
|
|
|
m3jsh posted:If I want to add an unstable repository do I need to comment out my regular repositories? I would just grab the deb files-- http://packages.debian.org/sid/transmission/all/download http://packages.debian.org/sid/transmission-gtk/i386/download http://packages.debian.org/sid/transmission-cli/i386/download
|
|
#
?
Nov 16, 2007 03:25
|
|
|
m3jsh posted:I am currently running debian on my fileserver. I want to install tranmission for use with torrentflux. However, the default debian repositories have a dated build of it. I haven't been able to find a repository with the latest version (0.9.3). 'apt-get build-dep transmisstion' might help for the build
|
|
#
?
Nov 16, 2007 03:26
|
|
|
Ericcorp posted:Ok. I'll researching adding HID devices to my system. quote:The end result is that I will free up the two SATA drives, so I can run them in a RAID1 array. I don't know how to do that with out really screwing up the boot record. quote:And editing the GRUB, you said not to do that, unless it's a fresh install, right?
|
|
#
?
Nov 16, 2007 07:05
|
|
|
teapot posted:I don't know, I would recommend to install Windows on a new drive and copy all data from the array to it. I played around with the GRUB file. Menu.1st of whatever it's called. I figured out how to add a windows entry to it, but I can't figure out how to get it to recognize the RAID0 (it's a striped array). I made an entry so it's boots from hd(2,0) (the SATA drives are sda and sdb, named hd2 and hd3). But of course that didn't work. I don't know what to enter.
|
|
#
?
Nov 16, 2007 11:57
|
|
|
On Xorg desktops I've noticed that in general, quickly scrolling text (in a gnome-terminal window) will cause Xorg to hit the CPU pretty hard. The system that I'm currently seeing this on is a FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE system running GNOME, but I've seen it on Debian/Ubuntu as well. Is there a workaround for this (other than minimizing the window in question and using screen), or is it just something that I'll have to put up with?
|
|
#
?
Nov 16, 2007 19:14
|
|
|
Silvyn posted:On Xorg desktops I've noticed that in general, quickly scrolling text (in a gnome-terminal window) will cause Xorg to hit the CPU pretty hard. The system that I'm currently seeing this on is a FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE system running GNOME, but I've seen it on Debian/Ubuntu as well. Is there a workaround for this (other than minimizing the window in question and using screen), or is it just something that I'll have to put up with? maybe fontconfig using unacclerated XRENDER? Can probably test with xterm -fn fixed vs xterm -fa fixed
|
|
#
?
Nov 16, 2007 19:48
|
|
|
Will onboard(intel)graphics on laptops work for wine/cedega? Im thinking of getting a laptop, I have two choices. One has an nvidia 8400 the other has an intel gma x3100. Now of course im going to try to get the one that has nvidia card, but there is a chance it will no longer be available once I get my funds together. Can the board intel x3100 video work in wine/cedega? Mainly to play warcraft 3 and a few other games...
|
|
#
?
Nov 16, 2007 20:15
|
|
|
I never noticed this problem in Windows but since converting this machine to Ubuntu the dvd-rom/cdrw drive has been giving me this problem:quote:[ 9211.816000] sr: Sense Key : Hardware Error [current] It blinks constantly and won't read any media. Probably solely hardware -- nothing I can do software side, right? fstab says this quote:/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
|
|
#
?
Nov 16, 2007 21:57
|
|
|
Quick question: I want to switch my laptop to ubuntu for first time. I have an HP nx7000 and reading that laptoplinux site looks like it should work no problem, except for the built in wireless that is. Can anyone post a link to newegg for a cheap pcmcia wireless card that works with wpa under the latest ubuntu?
Shazzner fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Nov 16, 2007 |
|
#
?
Nov 16, 2007 22:03
|
|
|
RaulDuke posted:I could not get the TV out to work, this is not a surprise, since it does not work with the Nvidia drivers under XP, however I can get the TV out to work with the Asus driver, I cannot find an Asus driver for Linux. Do I have any hope of getting the TV out to work under Mythbuntu? Well, you're not going to find an Asus driver for Linux. It's the Nvidia driver only. I'd recommend trying nvtv - it's a little app with support for the different TV-Out encoder chips you find on various Nvidia cards. You'll probably have to build it from source. I should warn you that it's not the easiest app in the world to get your head round, but you can probably ignore 90% of the settings. I assume that the nvidia-settings app doesn't recognise the TV-Out? I've had better results with that than anything else. PS. On most Nvidia cards, if you boot the system with only a TV connected and no monitor the card will use the TV by default. Don't know whether that's of any use to you or not. Joss Laypeg fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Nov 16, 2007 |
|
#
?
Nov 16, 2007 23:03
|
|
|
Ericcorp posted:I played around with the GRUB file. Menu.1st of whatever it's called. quote:I figured out how to add a windows entry to it, but I can't figure out how to get it to recognize the RAID0 (it's a striped array). I made an entry so it's boots from hd(2,0) hd(2,0) is not a valid syntax. (hd2,0) is -- for the THIRD hard drive. quote:(the SATA drives are sda and sdb, named hd2 and hd3). But of course that didn't work. I don't know what to enter. Most likely it's (hd1,0), but may be (hd2,0) or even (hd0,0) -- GRUB uses BIOS device numbers, and they may or may not be the same as numbers of devices in Linux.
|
|
#
?
Nov 17, 2007 00:33
|
|
|
Paulness posted:Will onboard(intel)graphics on laptops work for wine/cedega? Apparently it works, however 3D performance is hardly stellar.
|
|
#
?
Nov 17, 2007 00:45
|
|
|
Marinmo posted:Sorry, I don't have gnome handy here (server is headless and I don't care for X forwarding), but perhaps ~/.xsession-errors might be able to tell you something. This didn't seem to return anything (still). Please, someone, help me with the mystery of the disappearing background!
|
|
#
?
Nov 17, 2007 01:06
|
|
|
A while back I asked about the memory usage of my Debian box. Someone responded, telling me that it's normal for Linux to eat fairly large amounts of ram in a 'precache' like act. I accepted this and passed it off, seeing I had larger issues. Well my system is still eating up 2 gigs of memory, solid, even as far as to have 150kb of swap space used. This does not look like precache, this looks loving crazy. Is there something I can disable to free up a little bit of that 2gig block? How many of the 92 processes (omg) should I be running for regular desktop operation? N.E.: Looks like I only use ~200 megs at startup. After I've run a few applications, it hovers at the two gig mark.
|
|
#
?
Nov 17, 2007 02:40
|
|
|
Jo posted:A while back I asked about the memory usage of my Debian box. Someone responded, telling me that it's normal for Linux to eat fairly large amounts of ram in a 'precache' like act. I accepted this and passed it off, seeing I had larger issues. Well my system is still eating up 2 gigs of memory, solid, even as far as to have 150kb of swap space used. This does not look like precache, this looks loving crazy. Is there something I can disable to free up a little bit of that 2gig block? How many of the 92 processes (omg) should I be running for regular desktop operation? What's the output of "free"? The cache gets dropped very quickly when stuff needs more memory, so really, you shouldn't have anything to worry about. It speeds up disk reads (cached disk reads go at ~700MB/s) But it you really want to clear that cache (along with buffers), "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches". (What does N.E. mean?) Scaevolus fucked around with this message at 02:46 on Nov 17, 2007 |
|
#
?
Nov 17, 2007 02:43
|
|
|
Jo posted:92 processes (omg) HAH, 92, weak. code:code: code: edit: After restarting firefox and pidgin: code:If you're really paranoid of that huge amount of stuff you have swapped run: code:deimos fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Nov 17, 2007 |
|
#
?
Nov 17, 2007 02:50
|
|
|
Jo posted:A while back I asked about the memory usage of my Debian box. Someone responded, telling me that it's normal for Linux to eat fairly large amounts of ram in a 'precache' like act. I accepted this and passed it off, seeing I had larger issues. Well my system is still eating up 2 gigs of memory, solid, even as far as to have 150kb of swap space used. This does not look like precache, this looks loving crazy. Is there something I can disable to free up a little bit of that 2gig block? How many of the 92 processes (omg) should I be running for regular desktop operation? Windows Vista does this now too - and I think it's touted as a revolutionary new feature 
|
|
#
?
Nov 17, 2007 02:51
|
|
|
deimos posted:I get the feeling you just don't know how to read the output of ps and free I thought I did.  It just didn't seem normal to see so much taken up. If I'm connected via ssh I use pa (aliased to `ps aux`) and free. Otherwise I'll fire up KDE system guard and look at the pretty graphs.  Scaevolus posted:(What does N.E. mean?) Ninja Edit. Jo fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Nov 17, 2007 |
|
#
?
Nov 17, 2007 03:08
|
|
|
Jo posted:I thought I did.
|
|
#
?
Nov 17, 2007 03:13
|
|
|
Jo posted:I'd like to think I do. It just didn't seem normal to see so much taken up. alright, quick runthrough: code:The -/+ buffers/cache line is the important one, means that it's the actual numbers without taking caches into account, so my programs are using 502MB and I have 1524MB free, but 715 is allocated in caches and 191 in file (file is misgiving, because the linux kernel treats pretty much everything like a filesystem) buffers. Swap is self explanatory. deimos fucked around with this message at 03:17 on Nov 17, 2007 |
|
#
?
Nov 17, 2007 03:15
|
|
|
Ooooh! I completely overlooked the +/- buffer line. It's lucid as water now. Thank you.
|
|
#
?
Nov 17, 2007 03:25
|
|
|
Does anyone have any experience with Arch linux? I want to set it up as a personal dev server (git, lighty or apache, django (svn), couchdb, postgre) to play around with some of the bleeding edge stuff out there like couchdb, but need it to be less compile-intensive than gentoo because it'll sit on a VPS. Is Arch good/stable enough for this? I don't need it to be 100% stable but good enough that an update won't cripple my system, I know this is always a risk with rolling release distros.
|
|
#
?
Nov 17, 2007 20:33
|
|
|
Are there any webgui torrent clients that are less buggy than torrentflux/torrentflux-b4rt? rTorrent really isn't for me. Also, I'm running debian on a headless fileserver.
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2007 01:45
|
|
|
m3jsh posted:Are there any webgui torrent clients that are less buggy than torrentflux/torrentflux-b4rt? rTorrent really isn't for me. Also, I'm running debian on a headless fileserver. http://mldonkey.sourceforge.net/ or http://btg.berlios.de/
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2007 01:57
|
|
|
I've got an Arch Linux box set up right now with Samba to serve as a file server. It has 2 NICs so I was considering turning the box into a gateway. The secondary reason for doing this is to learn a bit more about Linux/*NIX administration in general. One thing I was thinking of specifically in this context was that my clients (my desktop and my laptop) are both running Windows. Is there some kind of antivirus I can run on my Linux box that'll help fight off some of the virus crap and such out there?
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2007 03:03
|
|
|
Sergeant Hobo posted:One thing I was thinking of specifically in this context was that my clients (my desktop and my laptop) are both running Windows. Is there some kind of antivirus I can run on my Linux box that'll help fight off some of the virus crap and such out there? You could simply run a ClamAV scan of your shared drives every night in cron. If you want to get fancier, there is the vscan-clamav plugin for Samba that will run all traffic through a scan before serving it to or accepting it from your Windows boxes. If you want to be safe browsing and downloading, you could look into setting up a Squid proxy that runs web traffic through ClamAV as well. Hope those are some ideas to get you started.
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2007 03:12
|
|
|
quote:If you want to be safe browsing and downloading, you could look into setting up a Squid proxy that runs web traffic through ClamAV as well. I was looking at it more in this way (safer browsing and downloading). I was also looking into running Squid on this box as well so this seems logical. It also sounds like there is no reason why I wouldn't want to run that Samba plug-in you mentioned anyways so I'll look into that as well. I'm doing this in phases. First up will be basic DHCP serving and NAT stuff. If I can get that going, I'll get Squid, ClamAV and such set up. Somewhere in there, I will also be attempting (keyword there) to set up IPTables. Right now, that seems a little overwhelming but I'm sure I'll get it. Thanks again for pointing me to ClamAV.
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2007 03:19
|
|
|
deimos posted:Does anyone have any experience with Arch linux? I want to set it up as a personal dev server (git, lighty or apache, django (svn), couchdb, postgre) to play around with some of the bleeding edge stuff out there like couchdb, but need it to be less compile-intensive than gentoo because it'll sit on a VPS. Is Arch good/stable enough for this? Until recently I used Arch almost exclusively, and it's still installed on my development server. It's a great distro - I tend to market it as being equal parts Gentoo, Debian and Slackware: speedy like Gentoo as it's compiled for i686+, decent binary-based package management like Debian, and stripped-down/no-nonsense like Slackware. It's about as close as you can get to a distro with pure "vanilla" upstream software, but which also has decent package management. The only reason I'm not continuing to use it everywhere is that I switched jobs a few months ago and they're big on Debian/Ubuntu, and I was able to get the position as half developer and half sysadmin. While Arch is plenty stable and well put together, it's not as mature as Debian, and I wasn't about to try and push for it over Debian-based stuff for mission-critical systems. So, end result: yes, it's superb for personal stuff, very easy to set up and use compared to Gentoo (one specific thing I love about it is it's super easy to make your own packages or modify existing ones, compared with making Debian or Gentoo packages) and just about as cutting-edge in terms of software versions.
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2007 03:49
|
|
|
Ok, speccing out a new laptop: Is Intel Turbo Memory ("robson") supported in Linux? I don't mean the Vista prefetching stuff, just if I can see it like any other block device. Anyone have one and stick /boot on it or use it as swap? Is it worth the couple extra dollars?
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2007 06:28
|
|
|
quote:Until recently I used Arch almost exclusively, and it's still installed on my development server. It's a great distro - I tend to market it as being equal parts Gentoo, Debian and Slackware: speedy like Gentoo as it's compiled for i686+, decent binary-based package management like Debian, and stripped-down/no-nonsense like Slackware. It's about as close as you can get to a distro with pure "vanilla" upstream software, but which also has decent package management. These are pretty much my reasons for coming to Arch as well. I was using Slackware for a while and it was nice but packages were kind of a pain. I did use that Swaret script and it was good but doesn't really feel as good as a full-blown package manager like Pacman.
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2007 06:44
|
|
|
Hmmm regards my mdadm array that was having issues with all the drives being confused as to what had failed and not I did a mdadm --assemble --run --force --update=resync /dev/md0 /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde and it seemed to do the trick and rebuild it so now everything is happy when you examine/query it but now I can't mount it and it says the following when mounting:code:
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2007 09:12
|
|
|
I'm using the latest Ubuntu and working on a web project for school. I am using sshfs to mount the folder on my hosting to my /home folder. I use Quanta Plus as my editor. So my problem is, that Ubuntu likes to create backup files when I save a file. This is normally not a problem. However, when I save a (for example) a .rhtml file and it gets updated to my hosting, it also saves the ~backup to my hosting as well. I'd rather not have my folders be cluttered up with backup files on my hosting. Is there a way to turn this feature off to save myself the headache of manually deleting backup files?
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2007 10:01
|
|
|
Soggy Chips posted:Hmmm regards my mdadm array that was having issues with all the drives being confused as to what had failed and not I did a mdadm --assemble --run --force --update=resync /dev/md0 /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde and it seemed to do the trick and rebuild it so now everything is happy when you examine/query it but now I can't mount it and it says the following when mounting: Just like mdadm says, check dmesg output -- it will show the actual error. Most likely you have partitions on your drive (and they are supposed to be recognized when the device is detected), so it will be /dev/md0p<something>
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2007 12:13
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 10, 2024 14:23 |
|
|
poemdexter posted:I'm using the latest Ubuntu and working on a web project for school. I am using sshfs to mount the folder on my hosting to my /home folder. I use Quanta Plus as my editor. It's in Quanta preferences.
|
|
#
?
Nov 18, 2007 12:20
|
|