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Rargh I'm frustrated. I finally bought my own XBOX and am trying to run the audio through my computer speakers. I bought an RCA to stereo-mini converter and am running that into the line-in jack on the of my computer. Only whoa nelly it's waaaay too loud. Even with the gain(?) turned all the way down to zero, and my speakers nearly off it's too loud. I've spent about an hour Googling this, but I don't understand sound processing or ALSA well enough to know what I should be looking for. I hope someone can tell me what my options are to lower the volume. For reference, I know my chipset keywords are "HDA Intel" and STAC9227. I know I have ALSA 1.0.15. I'm running Hardy. In the Gnome volume control applet, I have Input Source 1 set to Line. From there, I have to check the "analog loopback" switch option to get any volume at all. Then I can "control" the volume with Capture 1. What I mean by control is I can either have deafeningly loud, or so loud that it's basically static. The volume slider is only tolerable when it is at the bottom. I've read lots of problems about people not having any microphone/line-in volume at all with this chipset, so I'm hoping I actually have that problem and ticking the "analog loopback" switch is a stupid idea that's masking the real issue. Or maybe there's a way to use amixer to map capture to something that can be controlled by the master volume control? Or hell, maybe I need to buy some kind of adapter to temper the power the XBOX is spitting out?
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Okay, so I installed Ubuntu a couple of weeks back, and I want to get it off because it's pretty useless and I had the partition take up half of my hard drive. I want that half back. How do I do that?
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Aug 16, 2008 06:45
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On my xUbuntu box every once in a while Firefox locks up hard. I use ps -e to get the pid, and try to kill it. Does nothing. Ok, so instead, I try "sudo kill -9 pid". The console locks up hard before asking me my sudo password. Ctrl+C does nothing. Why isn't that working, and what's the proper way to do this?
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Aug 16, 2008 12:56
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You can try to use xkill or equivalent to force the X server to stop accepting output from that process. That might get Firefox to start exiting. Otherwise it sounds like you might have a browser plugin run amok, Flash maybe?
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Aug 16, 2008 13:57
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Does anyone know of a practical way of getting the packages in build-essential onto a machine without an internet connection? My friend bought an eee 1000 and it didn't recognize either of his NICs. We ended up using a custom kernel made for the eee. Still, it would be nice to know if there was a way around manually getting the packages and their dependencies.
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Aug 16, 2008 19:55
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I'm running an Ubuntu 8.04 server as a VMware host to 3 Windows Server machines. It's running on an AMD Athlon XP 2500+ with 2.5GB RAM. Straight after installation the load average hovered around 0.3 - 0.4, but now I've done an apt-get dist-upgrade to keep the box up to date, and upgraded to the latest kernel (2.6.24-19) and recompiled VMware for the updated kernel. Now, however, the hard drive activity light for the VM drives is on for a few seconds, every ~10 seconds and the load has shot up to 1 - 1.5 when the network is idle. I've messed with /proc/sys/vm settings, with dirty_ratio at 80 (it was 100 before the upgrade) and dirty_background_ratio at 5 (same as before). I tweaked the system to get the load average as low as I could before the upgrade, following tips from this post on the VMware forums. Short of going back to the old kernel and recompiling VMware again, is there anything I can try to get this problem to go away? The virtual machines seem less responsive now when using RDP, but they may just be me. I'm using XFS for the VM drives, with noatime set, on an mdadm RAID1 array using the anticipatory scheduler.
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Aug 16, 2008 20:06
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Gorilla Salsa posted:Okay, so I installed Ubuntu a couple of weeks back, and I want to get it off because it's pretty useless and I had the partition take up half of my hard drive. I want that half back. How do I do that? Lots of information there. Thanks. I would download "System Rescue CD", backup the Windows data, then use the System Rescue CD to resize the Windows Partition. It should do a checkdsk on next boot. Then recover the bootloader using the Windows CD, and the commands to restore the original bootsector; thats something like fixmbr or fixboot. Alternatively you might be using Vista, in which case I don't know anything about the bootloader except that it changed. If you can boot off the Ubuntu Live CD, you can use ntfstools to resize the partition, but I am not sure whether they are present by default.
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Aug 16, 2008 20:37
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This is a horrible question, but I've read through these HowTos for absolute newbies on installing programs. I can easily install things using apt-get or any of the gui installers. My problem, however, is the reason I installed linux in the first place. I would like to use Rosetta++, which is a computation modeling program for 3d protein structure predictions. This program is famous because it is what your Folding@home cpu cycles are being used for. Unfortunately for me, only the creators of folding@home can use your computers for this kind of thing, which means my quad core desktop in my apartment is going to be crunching these numbers for me (hopefully). I haven't really ever used linux before, and while I was able to download all of my .tar.gz files, I'm running into a lot of problems with (I think) permissions. Where do you guys normally extract things when you're going to install them? Also, I got this error with one of my other sciency programs I'm trying to install quote:*** Warning: Errors occurred during the installation. Where is my .cshrc file? EDIT: I just typed source /home/tim/programs/nmrpipinstall/com/nmrInit.linux9.com and now the program works, but that seems pretty annoying to have to do every time. Deadpan Science fucked around with this message at 08:25 on Aug 17, 2008 |
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Aug 17, 2008 08:22
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Deadpan Science posted:I haven't really ever used linux before, and while I was able to download all of my .tar.gz files, I'm running into a lot of problems with (I think) permissions. Instead of .cshrc you should probably use .bashrc, since Bash is the most commonly used shell on Linux.
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Aug 17, 2008 09:00
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My current partitions:code:I'm guessing I could just pop in the install CD and format the Master Drive. However, what would happen to GRUB? Would it try and let me boot both drives? Would I be able to mount the slave drive to transfer /home on sdb2 and the files on sdb1? Can I even just copy /home from one to another or does Linux not work that way? The Merkinman fucked around with this message at 17:35 on Aug 17, 2008 |
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Aug 17, 2008 17:14
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What's SSH good for? I can't think of too many times I've wanted remote command-line access to my home PC. I know you can run some X apps, but can you do a full desktop?
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Aug 18, 2008 01:33
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The Remote Viewer posted:What's SSH good for? I can't think of too many times I've wanted remote command-line access to my home PC. I know you can run some X apps, but can you do a full desktop?
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Aug 18, 2008 01:40
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The Remote Viewer posted:What's SSH good for? I can't think of too many times I've wanted remote command-line access to my home PC. I know you can run some X apps, but can you do a full desktop? Hell you can even edit SSHD config files, restart the SSHD service and your current session shouldn't be stopped.
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Aug 18, 2008 03:26
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The Remote Viewer posted:What's SSH good for? I can't think of too many times I've wanted remote command-line access to my home PC. I know you can run some X apps, but can you do a full desktop? SSH is great for tunneling traffic. There is more to it than just being a shell.
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Aug 18, 2008 04:05
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rugbert posted:Because I didnt know how to do that :/ but for some reason after I lost my wireless and wired up I soon there after lost my ability to use ethernet too (my eth0 got named forcedeth and wouldnt activate). If you could tell us your distribution, that would be extremely helpful  If you're using Ubuntu, go to System -> Restricted Drivers / Hardware (I forget) Manager and check the box next to your nvidia card. If your wireless card is also failing after upgrading the kernel, that suggests it's also using a restricted driver that isn't updated for the new kernel and you may find a checkbox for it in there also. Installing the ubuntu-restricted-drivers package should automatically pull down updated drivers for your graphics card (and maybe wireless) for the new kernel version. (This meta-package will automatically install the linux-restricted-modules-2.6.xxx.xxx package to match any new kernel versions that you upgrade to in future) Prince John fucked around with this message at 10:39 on Aug 18, 2008 |
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Aug 18, 2008 10:34
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gt chizmack posted:SSH is great for tunneling traffic. There is more to it than just being a shell.
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I just installed Kubuntu 8.04 on my laptop, and I'm getting it all setup. It's running great, but I've had it SEGSEV on my every time I try to change the Window Decorations. I have to end up rebooting the machine because I have no titlebars. After reboot, the changed window decorations show up fine. Anyone else have this issue? Also, what's the consensus here about KDE4? I've heard good and bad things about it. Mainly that 4.1.0 is not fully ready for use.
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Aug 18, 2008 18:58
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trilljester posted:Also, what's the consensus here about KDE4? I've heard good and bad things about it. Mainly that 4.1.0 is not fully ready for use.
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Aug 18, 2008 20:29
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Alowishus posted:No, seems more like 4.0 was not fully ready but 4.1 polished it up significantly. Here's the Ars review, decide for yourself. Interesting. I'm tempted to give it a shot. I'm wondering if installing it along side 3.5 will screw up either one. Time to do some extensive research. :-) I'm enjoying running my laptop on something other than Windows though.
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Aug 18, 2008 22:12
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Col posted:If you could tell us your distribution, that would be extremely helpful well...I guess I could do that... Im using Fedora 8. I know FC9 has something called akmods which automatically recompiles those packages when I update the kernel.
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Aug 18, 2008 22:37
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trilljester posted:I just installed Kubuntu 8.04 on my laptop, and I'm getting it all setup. It's running great, but I've had it SEGSEV on my every time I try to change the Window Decorations. I have to end up rebooting the machine because I have no titlebars. After reboot, the changed window decorations show up fine. Anyone else have this issue?
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Aug 19, 2008 22:14
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Zom Aur posted:I gave it a shot recently, and I very much prefer it over 3.5. It's got lots of eyecandy, never crashed (Though, this computer isn't on 24 hours/day), and wasn't missing too much. However, it was too slow for me, so I switched away from it. You should give it a shot. I'm going to follow these instructions from Kubuntu's home: Kubuntu.org posted:The updated packages for Kubuntu 8.04 are located in the Kubuntu Member's KDE 4 Personal Package Archive (PPA) repositories. To update to KDE 4.1, please follow these instructions: That look good to everyone?
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Aug 19, 2008 22:30
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trilljester posted:I'm going to follow these instructions from Kubuntu's home: Yes, I did this with no issues. I found KDE4.1 so slick and promising some of the time but then so ugly a moment later as you (for example) open the Kmenu - a real mixed experience. Prince John fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Aug 20, 2008 |
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Aug 20, 2008 22:15
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Col posted:Yes, I did this with no issues. I found KDE4.1 so slick and promising some of the time but then so ugly a moment later as you (for example) open the Kmenu - a real mixed experience. OK, so I did the upgrade this morning and everything seems to be working. Yes, the launcher menu is way goofy. I found that they included the legacy one which is more traditional. I would love a KDE 4 compatible version of a launcher like OS X's. Anyone know of one? Annoyances: - Dolphin is awesome for the most part but I'm copying music files from my Windows machine to put into AmaroK, and KDE's default music player (notatrun? something like that) keeps popping up when I highlight a file on the Windows box. Can I turn that off? I don't like icons on my Desktop, so I have no issues if that Folder View thing isn't resizable. I got rid of it immediately.
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Aug 20, 2008 22:27
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trilljester posted:OK, so I did the upgrade this morning and everything seems to be working. Yes, the launcher menu is way goofy. I found that they included the legacy one which is more traditional. I would love a KDE 4 compatible version of a launcher like OS X's. Anyone know of one? I think you can turn off the issue you're having with noautun from the KDE control center.
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Aug 20, 2008 22:58
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Combat Pretzel posted:This. I use ssh's SOCKS proxy functionality to veer around our company's http port block.
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I've recently been learning bash but I have a problem with a newline being inserted, for example: Call went over 1-12-1-1 in Seattle, GSX 04 It should really look like this: Call went over 1-12-1-1 in Seattle, GSX 04 The problem is, it does look like the second one when run on Ubuntu 8.04 and Slackware 12.0, but looks like the first one on Mac OS X 10.5.4 and FreeBSD 7.0. Now I guess the most obvious explanation is that BSD isn't Linux, but I would assume since it is a bash script it should be the same regardless of the platform it run on. It also works on Cygwin. The only other thing I can think of is the bash version, but FreeBSD and Ubuntu are both using 3.2.39(1) and get different results. Here is the script: http://tokyolaibach.com/gett1.txt I apologize in advance if that is unreadable, I'm new at this. Here is an example CDR I've been working with: http://tokyolaibach.com/cdr Any ideas? edit: fixed table breaking
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Does that example CDR correlate to your output of "Call went over 1-12-1-1 in Seattle, GSX 04"? If not, what should the output of that CDR be?
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complex posted:Does that example CDR correlate to your output of "Call went over 1-12-1-1 in Seattle, GSX 04"? If not, what should the output of that CDR be? After I typed this I think I realize the problem. Slackware and Ubuntu are using GNU sed while FreeBSD and Mac OS X aren't, and apparently the BSD implimentation of sed is appending a newline. I changed the line from: echo -n ${span%:*}-1-$t1 | sed -e 's#:#-#' to: echo -n ${span%:*}-1-$t1 | sed -e 's#:#-#' | tr -d '\n' and now it works with out without gsed. it's a little ugly, but oh well! Thanks. Toe Rag fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Aug 21, 2008 |
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Aug 21, 2008 21:49
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I have flirted with Linux for many years. I'd like to switch over, but I always seem to run into some insurmountable problem and end up back with Windows XP (Windows is like that drunken abusive spouse you keep going back to). I have a copy of Suse 10.0 in the box, and I ran that okay for a while except I was unable to get my video drivers to work, so no games. I have several books dealing specifically with Suse so I don't know if I want to give it up, but I'm sure that equivalent info is on the net. An awful lot of you seem to use Ubuntu, and I'd be willing to give it a shot. Can someone point me to resources to get me going with it? Ideally I'd like to be able to run WoW and Diablo 2 at a bare minimum.
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Narev posted:XP...Suse...Ubuntu Most graphics cards have 3D acceleration right from the start on Ubuntu. They're not shy about including some closed-source drivers if it makes things work better. check http://appdb.winehq.org/ to see if Diablo 2 works with Wine. I'm pretty sure that WoW works great. Also, check http://www.winehq.org/site/download-deb for instructions on having Wine automatically at the latest version. Have fun! It's worked very well for me, but you'll need extra computing power in the CPU and RAM departments to keep up with playing games on Wine.
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Err new to this part of the forum, can you asks question about specific Linux programs, like Apache? Now I dont know if it is possible but recently I have been having an issue where Apache is running fine, but is waiting for a gigantic mysql process to finish before loading a website. As I work in techsupport I thought it would be cool if there was a program that monitor apache and tells me if it is processing stuff, or if it is waiting for a query to finish. Are there any tools like that that work for the RedHat EL 4 distribution?
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Aug 22, 2008 03:58
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Does Linux offer any application similar to Schoolhouse for OSX? Basically, it's an app for college students that lets you create semesters, classes and then track assignments, grades and notes inside of it. Something combined to organize a class in. There are a few websites that do this, but I'd prefer to have a local app if it's at all possible. Bonus points of course for any that upload it to a webapp. Also, while I'm here, does anyone know anything about syncing S60 Nokia devices with Thunderbird/Sunbird? Everything I see on the topic requires using some 3rd party server which is incredibly difficult - I just want to bluetooth or USB sync with my phones for contacts/events.
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Never used it myself but Basket appears to be the Unix-equivalent. Schoolhouse is sweet, though. Anything will have a hard time matching the features and slickness of Schoohouse.
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Well, I got nothing better to do, so I'm gonna take the plunge and download Ubuntu, see if I like it any better than Suse. I'd like to hear any and all tips on must-have apps, online resources for educating myself, etc. Here's hoping to post from Linux in a few hours! Edit: Just got Ubuntu installed, it even went so far as to copy over my windows background, toolbar quicklinks, and Firefox bookmarks! When I think about my first encounter with Linux, it must have been in 1997 and it was Redhat; comparing that to this ubuntu is like comparing a bottle rocket to the space shuttle! Seriously, guys, all you need is a blank CD, a few free gigs on your HD, and a couple hours. What do you have to lose? Check out #ubuntu on irc.freenode.net Narev fucked around with this message at 15:48 on Aug 22, 2008 |
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complex posted:Never used it myself but Basket appears to be the Unix-equivalent. Very nice, I'll probably give this an install when I get home. Got a question about all of this GTK/QT crap: I'm running Ubuntu w/ the Gnome DE. How much does running KDE apps hurt me, resource-wise? And is it kinda a thing where running one of them brings the entire KDE/QT thing in and extra apps don't have any extra performance hit (beside the default used by the app itself), or does each KDE app I load hurt me a bit more on resources? Specifically, I love Konversation and I find I can't give it up for XChat, so I'm not averse to running KDE apps. The question is, would running more KDE/QT apps take up any extra resources? After using Ubuntu w/ Netbook Remix for a week, I have to revise a lot of my opinions on Linux for the desktop. I might not pick it for my default yet (too much gaming) but it is definitely nice to have a machine around to play with where Linux does exactly what I want.
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Narev posted:Well, I got nothing better to do, so I'm gonna take the plunge and download Ubuntu, see if I like it any better than Suse. I'd like to hear any and all tips on must-have apps, online resources for educating myself, etc. Here's hoping to post from Linux in a few hours! I know this sounds cliche, but Google is your best bet. 99% of the time you will do a Google search for any issues you are having, and it will hit a ubuntuforums.org post with the answer. Honestly though, Ubuntu is so easy to use it's not funny. They really seem to have put together a very good distro that is extremely user friendly.
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Casao posted:Specifically, I love Konversation and I find I can't give it up for XChat, so I'm not averse to running KDE apps. The question is, would running more KDE/QT apps take up any extra resources? Only the first 1 or 2 significant KDE apps should cause more memory to be consumed, but it doesn't get any worse beyond that. This is because the shared libraries that make up kde applications only consume real memory once per lib not once per application.
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What distribution might you recommend for someone with a goal of learning Unix, specifically networking. Attempting to get a job working for a large company that specializes in networking and routing, and my lack of Unix knowledge is in the way, so I'm looking to teach myself.
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joe944 posted:What distribution might you recommend for someone with a goal of learning Unix, specifically networking. Attempting to get a job working for a large company that specializes in networking and routing, and my lack of Unix knowledge is in the way, so I'm looking to teach myself. Also, do note that certain distros shift where configs are stored, where initscripts are stored and all that.
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