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Trying to set a new resolution on KDE Neon but i receive this error: xrandr --output DisplayPort-2 --mode 2560x1440_75.00 --verbose crtc 0: 2560x1440_75.00 74.94 +0+0 "DisplayPort-2" xrandr: Configure crtc 0 failed crtc 0: disable crtc 1: disable crtc 2: disable crtc 3: disable crtc 4: disable crtc 5: disable screen 0: revert crtc 0: revert crtc 1: revert crtc 2: revert crtc 3: revert crtc 4: revert crtc 5: revert
My monitor is a Dell P2416D with a RX 570 on mesa and kernel 4.20.6. I using Xorg session. With nvidia this works like a charm.
Jace Green
nVidia slave should be banned from /fglt/ and go batck to
Charles James
Says the amd slave that cant even GPUPU or have performance from this millennia on their brand new cards from a few months ago :^)
Alexander Allen
I don't know what I have, I just know that I have no nVidia hardware.
Jaxson Richardson
Does running Adobe programs (Photoshop, Illustrator, Affter Effects) in a VM make them run slower or something? I'm considering jumping to Linux but I'm a graphic designer so bringing this with me is all I really need.
Blake Perez
does that resolution at 75Hz show up if you run xrandr --prop ?
perhaps you could try xrandr --output DisplayPort-2 --mode 2560x1440 --rate 75 --verbose
if that doesn't work then I guess you could just use 60..
Ryder Thomas
You can try. OTOH Adobe has a rather strong tendency to make horribly inefficient software and to come up with new DRM and payment schemes.
If I were you, I'd keep that on a work Windows/OSX machine, and do Linux on a separate machine.
Linux can then handle everything that needs some trust or where you'd simply prefer some privacy - backups, banking, whatever else.
I don't give a fuck, I spent my life in a 80x24 black and white terminal, like any people who know how to use a computer.
Brody Russell
>compootah is srs bizness ya
Wyatt Myers
oh, you're trying to overclock it. I believe your best bet would be asking in #radeon on freenode, I didn't even know overclocking monitors was a thing.
>he doesn't have a glorious red PCB NVidia GPU shame now that nouveau support for it is finally catching up
DRM and payment isn't an issue really. I pirate Adobe programs just like everyone else.
Leo Robinson
Is it possible to make money with opensource? How do people (not corporations) sustain their opensource projects? How do I avoid starving to death if I want to become a full-time opensource dev?
It's all about the support contracts. If you can solve someone's needs with software then they will be willing to make sure that solution just works. Doesn't really matter if the software is free or not, that's not what companies with support contracts pay for.
Generally, you're asking the wrong question. Find some common problem you can solve and sell solutions to that. Asking "I've got a hammer, I'd like to use that tool to make money somehow" isn't all that useful.
>lutris >lewdtris did they make a porn game out of tetris
Aiden Hill
Stop using find. Start using locate.
Colton Hughes
>snap
Elijah Gray
If I cared solely about having the least buggy and least memory intensive desktop environment and my choices were cinnamon, gnome and KDE, which one of these three should I pick?
Hunter Walker
Has anyone every had an issue when booting into a live usb where it hangs on something like "a start job is running for LiveMedia MHWD script"?
I had this happen awhile back when i was installing debian on an old pentium pc but it would time out after 5 mins. The same problem is happening when trying to boot manjaro from usb on my daily laptop except it has no timeout so it just hangs permanently.
Joshua Gutierrez
Donations maybe? Dunno how viable it is tho, have to consider that every Linux user is a poorfag at best and a hobo at worst.
I'm trying to extract a string between parentheses and apostrophes like this ('string'). I'm trying
grep -Po '(?
Wyatt Collins
you can't escape single-quoted single quotes in shell it works after replacing the outer quotes with double ones
Brayden Thompson
Well, now I feel stupid. Thanks for the help.
David Collins
I'm running into problem with void. This isn't my first time doing a minimal install of void, but this time I seem to have an issue with connman and dbus.
connman needs dbus, if I don't enable dbus I get Error: failed to connecr to socket /run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
When dbus is enabled to my network shuts off, although connman shows that I'm on a netowrk, but I cant access aanything even by ethernet. Any ideas?
>you can't At computers that's a fragile statement. grep -Po '(?
Carter Rogers
Never used Linux before but I'd be willing to switch if it meant a bit more battery life on my Thinkpad. Any distros in particular that are known for good power management?
Nathan Hill
Install Gentoo
Justin Miller
Is there a command you can use to see if usb ports are v2 or v3?
Samuel Nguyen
Cinnamon is the least prone to breakages. Gnome developers fucking love breaking extension and other peoples shit and KDE attempts to look beautiful and runs slow as shit and buggy because they juggle so many packages. CInnamon is just a taskbar and you better fucking like it because it doesn't change color, go transparent or anything stupid weeb people want.
Oliver Johnson
Gnome breaks every two minor versions and the devs are retarded. KDE's the more memory intensive. Cinnamon just werks
Benjamin Bailey
hwinfo --usb
If hubs are a "3.0 root hub" or such, the connected ports are USB3. You can also find out which devices are connected to which hub.
s there a way to split one monitor into two with linux. I have a wide screen monitor that uses too much left to right space for a single task. WOuld be nice to have a section to watch the system or do something else.Kind of like the way VM works, but with the same system.
find / > db then grep file db is much, much faster
Julian Cooper
I'd take posix find all day
Ian Thomas
What resources should I look into for ricing? I want to move from kde to i3.
Anthony Hill
Read the Arschwiki.
Matthew Hughes
Dont buy meme ultrawide monitors.
Bentley Carter
I have a RPi Zero running Raspbian Stretch. I set it up so that I have another RPi(I'll call it Controller) acting as an ethernet bridge to the Zero through usb. This setup was fine(I could SSH in and had internet connectivity). Once I restarted the Zero, I was still able to SSH into the Zero from the Controller, but I was not able to ping any machine on the network other than the Controller. Obviously, that means I can't reach the gateway, so no internet. How do I go about finding out why I reach ping anything on my network?
Camden Jones
>why I reach ping why I can't ping*
Juan James
Wireshark and friends, probably.
Oliver Stewart
I have set up mpd server. I can connect to it on my phone with mpdroid but if i try to access the server from another computer with ncmpcpp on the same network with the same IP-adress and port as on mpdroid the connection is refused
Ayden Evans
I'll re-check the bridge config
Blake Campbell
Stallman is against Arch Linux because it contains nonfree software. What does he mean by that?
Owen Hughes
oh shit nigga
Jordan Davis
That it contains nonfree software.
Nolan Edwards
>is against Arch Linux No; he just doesn't recommend it. He's against nonfree software.
Elijah Flores
When I eventually can't use 7 anymore, I want to use KDE Neon for everyday use and use 8.1 for gayming. Does dualbooting cause a lot of problems? I heard the best way to do this is just to have separate drives for each OS, with a shared storage drive.
What does that mean? Isn't Arch Linux Open Source and free to download?
Noah Martinez
Not entirely.
Ryder Collins
Dualbooting doesn't cause any problems unless you're a retard trying to mess system files or boot partitions without knowing what you're doing. What had to be done with disks can be done with partitions now, the question is if you'll need to access data from the windows partition or will you just use it for gayming?
Adrian Martinez
Is port forwarding involved? e.g. is the phone connected to the network too?
Cameron Ward
Ok I managed to fix this; turns out docker's bridge was conflicting with mine for some reason. After some Googling, just running "iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT" and rebooting the Zero fixed it.
Daniel Gomez
Maxclients?
Liam Rogers
Everything is on the local network, so have not done anything with forwarding ports.
The connection is still refused if I shut down mpdroid and restart mpd
Andrew Torres
nvm fixed it
Easton Anderson
You replied to the wrong post Because my problem with mpd still remains
So the last time I used Linux Infinality was still a thing, now that is dead how do you guys config your fonts? I noticed they look a bit blurry and there is some color fringing as well.
The LCD filter helped, thanks. Do you know a good font?
Asher Hall
the liberation or dejavu ones
Nathan Clark
GNU Unifont
Andrew Cook
seconding liberation and dejavu
Colton Johnson
Elegant way of adding image and video thumbnails to ranger?
Christopher Long
>Do you know a good font? Roboto San FIra Sans Inconsalta for monspace
Michael Morales
Okay, I think I'm losing my shit now. My Fedora Workstation 29 machine started beheaving weird since a few updates. I keep getting gnome related crashes (also, gnome shell glitches all over the place), and most importantly Linux 4.20 fucked up my WoL capabilities, it just cuts electricity to my NIC on poweroff, so I just thought I could downgrade to 4.19 and lazy fix the issue. Boy was I wrong. Now I get screen tearing while doing basic stuff, something within the kmods configuration must have fucked up. I'm so desperate, I'm even writing this very post from a Windows installation. Somebody save me from capitalism please.
Jacob Kelly
Do you guys still find uses for ancient computers?
Lucas Wright
I give them to people as presents, its surprisingly well received by most and is pretty memorable, most people I've given them to either keep it at home as a second computer or give it to their kids, I suppose it helps that I'm at the age where a lot of people have youngish children
Joshua Miller
Not easily. I got one old machine that is an on-off storage box, but generally they're nothing you want to keep powered and actually use.
Jonathan Wilson
Shut down xorg, then start diagnosing. Is anything bad happening now? Are the logs showing anything suspicious?
If not, Is it maybe just gnome that has the dumb ass glitches and tearing?
