Don't get phoenixyz wound up about Gnome.
I can't hear you over the sound of controlling my WM via hotkeys.
Don't get phoenixyz wound up about Gnome.
I installed Mint 17 on my old desktop, all went well.
I tried installing alongside Windows 7 and Mint 16 (which I was going to delete once I knew 17 was OK) on my laptop and it's doesn't appear on the grub boot menu thing at the start.
However looking at the partitions menu it seems to be there just without an option to load it.
Anybody know what do I do to fix it?
Or how to delete unwanted partitions when it comes to that?
* printer stuff*
The drivers in the repository are proprietary ones. The open source drivers are called Nouveau and have a totally different version number (currently 1.0.10).
Excellent. Thanks.
Just one more question if I may.
If I select the 1st or 2nd option from that list and Apply Changes, will anything go wrong?
Do I need to uninstall the driver that is currently in use?
I have done this before in CLI on a archlinux installation. I uninstalled the driver, installed nouveau, and restarted. xorg did not like the migration without a reboot.
Guys i'd need your help, i'm running PeppermintOS on my crappy Aspire One A0751h and it works but i have some troubles, mostly with Flash and videos playback: all of YT videos struggle to run at 360p in Small-Size mode (so not even full screen), while downloaded videos badly lags with every player the moment i go fullscreen. I know this netbook isn't the ideal for watching videos but i can't believe this is the standard situation, there must be some problems here, maybe driver related?
Note that i'm a total noob with linux so i really don't know where to put my hands.
Help me!
Hey Philippo! Sorry it took a day to respond. Have you ever installed drivers for your laptop or are you using the VESA drivers? Do you have MESA installed? This is Intel's graphics driver.
Oh god i forgot to check this thread until now, sorry!
Anyway, no i never installed drivers by myself since i installed Peppermint so i guess no VESA, how do i check? And no i didn't installed MESA, should i?
Please note that i've got 0 knowledge with these things, so i'll probably need a lot of handholding ahahah.
Edit: Gave a look at MESA's website and that lead me to the Linux Graphic Installer page, tried to install it but it looks like my version (13.04) is not supported. Luckily Peppermint 5 came out last week, should i try to upgrade and then install the Graphic Installer? How do i upgrade my OS without losing all of my datas?
Why are people installing a server OS Like Cent to use as a regular use with Gnome?
I have a Ubuntu Server headless install in a VM on my Windows machine to be able to quickly do Linux stuff. Now I want to replace this one with Arch but for some reason it takes ages to boot (compared to the Ubuntu VM). What's the best way to find out what's wrong?
Ok, this is going to fun lol.
Yes, you should upgrade for two reasons:
(1) Peppermint 5 is based on 14.04 which is an LTS release. Even if you never upgrade to Peppermint 6 you'll be golden because your release will still be receiving patches. The one you are currently on has already had its support dropped.
(2) Intel itself is no longer supplying graphics drivers for your version (as you found out). An LTS release guarantees they'll be supporting it for quite some time.
The bad news is there's no easy way to upgrade and save your data. It requires you backing up whatever you have and putting it back on once you've installed your new Peppermint release. Sorry :/
Once that has been done, you should install the Intel Graphics Installer. Since you said you have "0 knowledge of these things," I'm assuming you are not familiar with how to install .deb files. Well, it's simple. Open a terminal, enter "cd Downloads", and then "sudo dpkg -i intel-package-file-name". You can use "ls" after the first terminal command to find out the name of the package if you don't know it beforehand.
Once that's done, you should be able to find the program in whatever program folder you have. From there, install your drivers and see if your movies work again.
When I hear "takes ages to startup" my mind usually goes to "DNS problem". When it boots up, can you see if a particular service (or services) is taking a long time? Try a different run level to see if it boots faster, or with certain services disabled with chkconfig or the Arch equivalent.
Shots in the dark, but maybe that'll help you.
...
[ 1.074145] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
[ 1.074152] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, While evaluating Sleep State [\_S2_] (20140424/hwxface-580)
[ 1.074154] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, While evaluating Sleep State [\_S3_] (20140424/hwxface-580)
[ 1.074159] ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
[ 1.074160] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
[ 1.074209] PCI: Using host bridge windows from ACPI; if necessary, use "pci=nocrs" and report a bug
[ 13.600451] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (domain 0000 [bus 00-7f])
[ 13.600456] acpi PNP0A03:00: _OSC: OS supports [ExtendedConfig ASPM ClockPM Segments MSI]
[ 13.600572] acpi PNP0A03:00: _OSC: platform does not support [AER]
[ 13.600691] acpi PNP0A03:00: _OSC: OS now controls [PCIeHotplug PME PCIeCapability]
...
[ 20.062289] system 00:09: [io 0xfce0-0xfcff] has been reserved
[ 20.062291] system 00:09: [mem 0xf0000000-0xf7ffffff] has been reserved
[ 20.062292] system 00:09: [mem 0xfe800000-0xfe9fffff] has been reserved
[ 20.062294] system 00:09: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0c02 (active)
[ 40.498617] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 10 devices
[ 40.498622] ACPI: bus type PNP unregistered
...
^ That is with arch?
Have you tried
?Code:systemd-analyze blame
Might help if the problem is with userland.
Startup finished in 41.163s (kernel) + 8.380s (userspace) = 49.543s
....
3.825s man-db.service
3.283s ntpd.service
2.425s logrotate.service
1.259s systemd-vconsole-setup.service
970ms systemd-logind.service
790ms dhcpcd.service
454ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
....
I know you made the Chrome OS OT a while back. Do you still use it? Looking into trying out Chromium OS when I get some time.Over buying music vs using Spotify, Rdio, Google Music ect...
Currently a GMusic subscriber.
I know you made the Chrome OS OT a while back. Do you still use it? Looking into trying out Chromium OS when I get some time.
I stumbled over the solution: The kernel chokes on the memory-hot-add feature of VMware. Changing mem.hotadd = "TRUE" to "FALSE" (in the .vmx file of the VM) fixes it.I have a Ubuntu Server headless install in a VM on my Windows machine to be able to quickly do Linux stuff. Now I want to replace this one with Arch but for some reason it takes ages to boot (compared to the Ubuntu VM). What's the best way to find out what's wrong?
Thanks for the heads-up.This has been spreading like wildfire all day but in case you haven't heard about it.
CVE-2014-6271: remote code execution through bash
Patch your shit!
This is the most recent Linux thread I could find so I'll ask here. I'm considering switching to Ubuntu for my new desktop. I've never used Ubuntu before and I'm a bit scared that it's gonna be hard to figure out, so I have some questions:
1. Is there a big learning curve to using Ubuntu?
2. I'm not going to do much more than browsing and playing/ripping music. The set-up I have in mind is an AMD Sempron 3850 1.3Ghz quadcore CPU and 2GB RAM. How smooth will Ubuntu be on this?
3. How does Spotify run on Ubuntu?
4. Is it easy to install an external DVD drive?
1. There is just a slight learning curve these days 95% of what you'll do is gui, the other 5% is well documented and someone will be able to help you out...
2. You'll probably want to run a Lightweight variant rather than using stock w/Unity look around see what desktop appeal to you, I recommend Cinnamon or MATE, coming from Windows world those will be very comfortable to ease into.
3. Spotify runs perfectly
4. Plug and play
Thanks. I'd prefer to use Ubuntu, would that be manageable if I go with a slightly better CPU and/or RAM? I'm thinking AMD 5150 1.6Ghz quadcore and 4GB RAM. If I'm fine with only 2GB RAM for what I need, I'd rather stick to that though.
Maybe even add an SSD.
Straight Ubuntu will work, I'm just not sure on performance, but Unity...I mean give it a go and see if you like it...I've always went with another WM.
What's WM? I know that Windows 8 is pretty smooth on the AMD 5150, so Ubuntu should be as well, right?
Does 2 vs 4GB RAM really make a big difference for simple browsing and music in Ubuntu?
What I really like about this idea is that I can get a set-up that smooth, dead quiet and extremely power efficient (<30W) for less than 200, including an SSD.
WM=Window Manager Unity/Gnome/MATE and so on....some run with MUCH less resources leaving you more overhead for actual applications...
if you are really doing the bare bones, 2gb should be fine...
So 4GB would be much better? It's only 15 more so I don't mind. Another 10 extra would get me an AMD 5850 2.05Ghz quadcore. It should run silky smooth then, right?
What's WM? I know that Windows 8 is pretty smooth on the AMD 5150, so Ubuntu should be as well, right?
Does 2 vs 4GB RAM really make a big difference for simple browsing and music in Ubuntu?
What I really like about this idea is that I can get a set-up that smooth, dead quiet and extremely power efficient (<30W) for less than 200, including an SSD.