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So my computer won't recognize two screens at the same time. The other one just won't show up at xrandr, instead it just says that it's disconnected. If I disconnect the one that works at boot, the other one will work instead, but not both at the same time. I've tried upgrading my drivers and messing around with Xorg.conf, but neither seems to help at all. Sometimes if I reboot a few times and mess around with the cables I get it to work. Is this just a GPU problem?
Austin Carter
What card? What cables? Try without an xorg.conf and/or use use an vidia config at /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor.conf
Jace Morales
Anyone else had issues with Firefox slowing to a crawl and getting typing lag on a regular basis?
It seems to be related to the firefox plugin-container process. AKA not-flash, but the thing that's happening instead of flash. When I open a bunch of youtube videos to add to my watch later and then close them, it seems my memory usage goes up and never comes back down. Same with CPU usage. You'd think since it was using my resources so liberally, it WOULDN'T slow down, but it does. Weird.
I do have a lot of tabs, but they're separated into tab groups and I never have them all loaded at once. I shouldn't have to restart firefox to get it to run normally, and doing so takes way too long also.
Jose Lewis
GTX 970, the ports that I'm trying to connect to are DVI-I-0 and DVI-D-0, and the DVI-I-0 one (the one that works) is using a VGA cable with a DVI-I adapter.
Isaac Sanders
linuxatemyram.com >caching >loaded at once They are still being cached
Please educate your self in basic computing knowledge
Xavier Rodriguez
Are there guides to improve LIVE audio quality on GNU/Linux? All my results on youtube or duckduckgo are for recorded audio being fixed in audacity. My mic sounds worse than literally any live recording I can find of other people using it. However, these people all likely use Windows. Adding 'linux' to my search terms doesn't get me a single relevant result. All the reviews for it are really positive but I have lots of background static. Not sure what to do. It seems to be a software issue. I think it's related to ALSA/Pulse. (Happens in both, although I'm not sure if I can even use Pulse without ALSA)
My friend who has the same mic on GNU/Linux also has some issues, and I'm technically on my second version of the mic as I broke the first one by tripping on it and pulling on the cable really hard, so I got a replacement. I think this rules out it being faulty hardware.
William Jenkins
I am aware of what you're trying to tell me, and you missed the point of my post. Please stop posting.
Parker Scott
waht drivers are you using? I have a 970 and had massive problems with the foss drivver. The nvidia driver works for me.
David Evans
I'm on proprietary drivers, version 367.44
Sebastian Ross
>things are loading when i think im not loading them, when in reality i am loading them, and now im bitching about a make believe issue cause im a special snowflake
Jeremiah Barnes
Ignore literally everything I said about RAM then. My performance still goes to shit to the point that my typing is lagged in Sup Forums posts or hangouts chats.
Kevin Smith
i downloaded the newest wine release from here winehq.org/news/2016081901 and it's a zipped file. how do i actually install it? i've only installed things with sudo apt-get install _____
Leo Turner
did you try running nvidia-xconfig ? if that does not worrk try the nvidia-settings tool
Elijah Rodriguez
Why not install wine from the repos?
Xavier Brooks
what's in the zip?
if there's a make file then you probably just
make ; make install
Adrian Green
Yep, tried both. Nvidia-settings doesn't detect the other screen either.
Adam Jenkins
>to a crawl RAM >open youtube videos CACHE >liberally Why did you buy so much ram that you get to load all this shit in to ram for future use? Surely 1GB of ram is enough!!!!
Debian stable for stability, Debian sid for rolling, don't fall for the Arch meme, stay away from derviants.
Chase Mitchell
Arch is pretty good. I've also heard good things about NixOS and GuixSD.
I would personally recommend you avoid anything based on Debian. Saying this as someone who started using Ubuntu/Mint back in Elementary School and spent a solid 3-4 years on Debian Testing. A lot of my love for Arch is actually just love for non-Debian distros, as Arch was the first non-Debian distro I spent an extended period of time with.
Noah Brown
new? ubuntu not new? debian
Lucas Green
i installed it that way and was told it's out of date
Levi Carter
Guix isstill in beta, right? Checked the page some weeks back. Pretty nice idea that thing.
Angel Anderson
If you're using Debian there's wine and wine-development, you probably want wine-development.
Ayden Jenkins
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Carter Young
Yeah, I think so. If you like the idea, all the more reason to look into NixOS. I believe NixOS is very similar and had the idea first. GuixSD is just the 'everything is GNU' version I think. I've heard people call GuixSD a NixOS clone. Personally haven't had the time to try out either one yet. I don't have a decent hypervisor setup at the moment and I don't wanna give up a physical machine either.
Noah Kelly
okay, unzip it somewhere, then try
./configure ; make; make install
If someone else has advice, take it over mine, I rarely compile software from source, but that's what this is doing.
Zachary Barnes
there's a configure, just run that.
Luis Cox
>not checkinstall
Nolan Adams
I don't really know what I'm doing. I just didn't want no one to help him. Feel free to take over.
Daniel James
He doesn't need to compile it from source if it's already in the repositories.
Adam Reed
How do I wipe a laptop and install Linux?
Thomas Wood
>.tar.bz2 why'd you call it a zip? the neutral term would be 'archive'
Robert Collins
Most distros do that automatically if you tell them so during install.
Jose Perez
Generally installing any OS takes care of the wiping part. (unless you tell it not to in the installer by resizing partitions and such)
You'll probably want to start by choosing a distro and burning the iso to a usb flash drive to install it with. If you're on a unix-like system, look up how to use dd for this process. If you're on Windows, I think win32diskimager can also do a good job of this. Just keep in mind you're NOT just putting the .iso file on the flash drive.
David Cox
>if it's already in the repositories. Which it's not
Ian Johnson
He mentioned apt-get so he's using a Debian-based OS and Debian has the latest version of wine (1.9.18) on the repos.
thanks, i'll try it out on wine development next time. for now i'm going to install steam and just play some made for linux games since i'm tired of trying to get wine to work lol
Hudson Thomas
Why is this conditional not working? With just the if..then..else..fi it works, but not with else if. Do I need to add fi's for those ifs as well?
if [ "$v_res" = "720" ]; then h_res="1280" else if [ "$v_res" = "540" ]; then h_res="960" else if [ "$v_res" = "360" ]; then h_res="640" else echo "invalid resolution" exit fi
Hunter Ross
Is that supposed to be bash? Use "elif" instead of "else if".
Logan Carter
Bash knows no "else if"
>Do I need to add fi's for those ifs as well? Pretty much, or you use "elif"
Samuel Jenkins
Is there a painless way to rename a user, and transfer all of its permissions to the new username?
Kayden Reyes
Can you explain it to someone who has no idea what you just said? Haha
Easton Gray
Well the easiest way I know is using usermod but you'll still have to change some things manually.
William Rivera
Thanks, elif makes sense.
Now I'm wondering something else. This is part of a quick bash script for ffmpeg. I'm asking the user to supply some basic info like start time, target resolution and whether audio should be included. Excerpt: echo "audio? [y|N]" read audio if [ "$audio" = "y" ]; then audiocmd="-c:a libvorbis -b:a 192K -vbr on" maxsize=3700 else audio="N" audiocmd="-an" maxsize=2900 fi This is working. But when I pass audiocmd to ffmpeg with ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel "info" -ss "$start" -t "$duration" -i "$1" -c:v libvpx -pass 2 -qmin 0 -qmax 50 -crf 10 -b:v "$bitrate" -s "$h_res:$v_res" "$audiocmd" -threads 2 -speed 0 -auto-alt-ref 1 -lag-in-frames 25 -g 128 -sn -f webm "./webm/$output.webm" I get this error: >Unable to find a suitable output format for '3' >3: Invalid argument I've traced this back to the -threads 3 option but I can't figure out why this is only a problem when audiocmd is not "-an". Any idea? Can post the entire script if you want.
Noah Jackson
How do I make gifs have a thumbnail isnt of being blank like this? Using Ubuntu by the way
David Turner
Use a better file manager.
Thomas Johnson
Hey people. I'm switching from Windows to GNU/Linux, and I noticed that fonts are rendered differently between the two.
For example, pic related shows this thread being rendered in Firefox with the same Firefox profile on Debian Unstable and Windows 10.
How do I make Debian's font rendering a little sharper, or perhaps thinner?
Sup Forums css: { font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; } If he wants exactly the same, he needs the original font too.
Asher Wright
>not using bitmap master race fonts system wide >dealing with blurry true type fonts
Liam Thompson
What does this thread look like for you? I'm curious.
Adrian Gray
it's because you're quoting "$audiocmd" so it will make the entire variable a single argument in this case, don't quote $audiocmd because you actually want to expand the parameters
Brandon Evans
Thank you!
Tyler Reyes
amazed at how automatically audacity and my recording interface work in linux. the only hiccup is that it records in stereo with the right channel muted even though the interface is mono, so i have to split the tracks and delete one every time. but that's no problem. if anyone's wondering whether their guitar or mic interface will work in linux, from this experience i say it likely will. literally just plugged it in and selected it as audio input
Aiden Brooks
>56612473 >56613224
I'm trying to install GalliumOS on my Acer cb3 531 chromebook. GalliumOS is supposed to be tailored to fit chromebooks. The installer that I mounted an image of to a flash drive handles the partitioning, it gives me an option to do manual partitions, but I'm not really sure what I'm doing. I know I need to give GalliumOS an ext4 formatted partition of some size, and the OS's wiki says it takes up 2.7GB of disc space, but I should probably give it more. I'm thinking I'll give it 5 GB, but I'm not sure, my netbook only has 16 GB HDD.
When I pressed esc at startup to get into the bios, it only listed the usb flash drive as a possible boot. When I try to boot without the flashdrive, it says it can't find anything to boot from the disk drive
Here's the lsblk outpout galliumos@galliumos:~$ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 1 7.6G 0 disk /cdrom >sda1 8:1 1 956.5M 0 part loop0 7:0 0 933.9M 1 loop /rofs zram0 252:0 0 2.8G 0 disk [SWAP] mmcblk0boot0 179:8 0 4M 1 disk mmcblk0boot1 179:0 0 4M 1 disk mmcblk0 179:0 0 14.7G 0 disk >mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 14.7G 0 part
Colton Walker
>thedarkmod.com/main/ Has anyone been able to run the Dark Mod on linux lately? It's a free and open source version of Thief.
It seems like a few 32bit packages are no longer available on most distros. The furthest I got was a black screen with sound.Their wiki hasn't been updated in a long ass time so I'm thinking it might be abandonware.
Chase Wilson
and I transcribed the lsblk output
Nolan Parker
i also have this problem. what do i do? how do i get a better file manager?
What's the best VM to run Linux? Is VMware Worstation Pro (with a fake licence) retarded? Whats the best distro for a n00b that desperately wants to learn and experiment, and is concerned about privacy+security? (But will still be comfy to use)
Aaron Butler
How do I set wallpapers individually for different monitors in Gnome 3?
Daniel Rogers
Quick! What youtube-dl arguments produce the video/sound quality? The video is from youtube. Spoonfeed me pls.
Ryan Gray
nevermind google was faster than all of you, step your game up
Ian Murphy
The best distro for a noob is either Ubuntu or openSUSE. Ubuntu because it has the most support. OpenSUSE because it has yast so lots of things can be configured in a gui so it is easier and it uses btrfs which allows you to rollback to an earlier snapshot in case you fuck something up.
Carter Ortiz
Would there be a particular reason why the LANG=ja_JP.utf8 wine ANIME_TITTIES.EXE I used on Fedora doesn't work on Ubuntu? Distro-specific or what config files of mine would be messed up?
Dylan Perry
Thank you. Any advice on VM or it doesnt really matter? Should I just install it on a seperate partition and forget the VM?
Zachary Gonzalez
is it bad not to unmount removable drives before shutting down?
Elijah Cruz
virtualbox is good, it's owned by oracle though and oracle bribes politicians to expand its monopoly
Jeremiah Turner
I'm probably bullshitting, but if you're shutting down the correct way, everything gets unmounted for you.
Elijah Diaz
so what? every big company does that
James Morris
because it's wrong and there's alternatives that don't support evil companies
Christian Richardson
seriously no one?
Lucas Wilson
If the device was made post 2000 there is zero reason to. >but but but buuuut my sync I have never lost any data just removing the device when it wasnt being used
Jacob Murphy
How does GNOME even work with multiple monitors? When you enter the activities overview do windows you had open on other screens just stay there? When you switch workspaces do you get a new workspace for all monitors or just one? Why are you running GNOME on a computer that isn't a laptop, anyway?
Andrew Robinson
google is the first step friend
Grayson Evans
probably missing the actual locale files check if you have them with $ locale -a
Noah Cruz
Why is Gentoo so based?
Jeremiah Carter
Is it preferrable to use urxvtd over spawning different processes?
Evan Roberts
Yeah that was it. How come american distro Fedora had those files installed by default?
Ayden Cooper
It is absolutely infuriating how fucking bad the trackpad support is on this. Moving the mouse cursor feels awful and "tap to click" and "two finger tap to right-click" don't fucking work most of the time. I'm here furiously tapping to get them to work.
THIS IS SO FUCKING GAY, I'm forced to use the actual clickers at the bottom of the trackpad to get shit done. Like fucking retards use
Luke Lopez
If I download or write a file to my /tmp directory, encrypt it and move that file somewhere else will the original file be able to be recovered after reboot? The /tmp directory supposed to be stored in ram right so it shouldn't?
Blake Smith
Installed Lubuntu earlier. Comfiest distro ever.
Is there a guide to securing it though? I remember Mint was terrible for security.
Justin Gutierrez
> configuring laptop touchpad in xorg.conf.d > literally just two lines to enable edge scrolling > that and the stuff that's required for it to be recognized as a config file > works, xorg is fine > can no longer paste/close tabs by middle-clicking
How do I get this ability back? I have no clue what the name of that function would be.
Tyler Garcia
change your repeat rate
Anthony Ortiz
have you tried switching it off and then back on again?
Sebastian Ward
nvm, /tmp is a tmpfs partition so yes.
Gabriel Robinson
Just installed Debian testing and found out Gnome 3 sucks. Installed mate, now how do I switch? Rebooted and it still defaults to Gnome.
Julian Ross
nvm, figured it out on my own
Angel Diaz
At the logon screen there will be an option menu where you can select the desktop environment. It's usually a gear or spanner icon but may be something else.
Xavier Stewart
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Thomas Gray
thanks that's exactly what I did. Didn't reboot yet, but I assume it's been set as default now, right?
