Linux-fi - Page 6

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dynobot 

I have reformatted and just deleted the Live/USB from flash drives with no problem...if in doubt just buy a 2g usb they are pretty cheap.  Also I have never installed a Live/USB to a hard drive and used it as a USB stick so I really can't say what to expect in your case.

 

 

 

My mini has a flash drive so I thought it might work, but it just booted into its OS instead of allowing the computer to boot off the LiveCD.

I ended up getting some CD's, and now installed Fedora. My problem is that everything is very choppy, I can't get Flash to work even after "successfully" installing it, and I can't edit the taskbars which I find is kind of weird. Right clicking on them does nothing.

I think I need a graphics card driver but I can't find any for the ATI X850XT...

Live-CD, USB etc. will all be choppy because of the slow transfer speed of the devices.

Flash works with Linux no problem, I use it all the time with Linux/Firefox.....if it was due to your graphics card driver you would not see anything and/or the scale of everything would be huge.

The only thing that works close to actually installing and running an OS from a real hard drive is a very fast USB stick.

If you are running a Mac, you can always use Boot-camp to partition your hard drive so that you can install another OS side by side.  If you really 'must' have Fedora so be it, but I would shop around for user friendly distros first.  The most user friendly / polished distro out is Ubuntu and Linux Mint right now.  Both are fully functional out of the box and look great.

Good Luck.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dynobot 

Live-CD, USB etc. will all be choppy because of the slow transfer speed of the devices.

 

Flash works with Linux no problem, I use it all the time with Linux/Firefox.....if it was due to your graphics card driver you would not see anything and/or the scale of everything would be huge.

 

The only thing that works close to actually installing and running an OS from a real hard drive is a very fast USB stick.

 

If you are running a Mac, you can always use Boot-camp to partition your hard drive so that you can install another OS side by side.  If you really 'must' have Fedora so be it, but I would shop around for user friendly distros first.  The most user friendly / polished distro out is Ubuntu and Linux Mint right now.  Both are fully functional out of the box and look great.

 

Good Luck.

I actually had Fedora installed on my hard drive and it was slow and choppy in scrolling and moving windows around. The dual monitor setup worked fine though.

I decided to follow your advice and give Ubuntu a try, especially to try out Unity, but apparently my old and slow computer can't run Unity so I'm back to Gnome Classic.

I can't get my dual monitor setup to work properly on Ubuntu, however. Ubuntu recognizes both monitors, but won't let me make the standard extended desktop stretching across both monitors because it complains that the resolution is too big, and forces me to use mirrored mode instead, which is pretty useless. I'm trying to find solutions on the web but it's kind of hard since it seems like lots of people have been having a lot of different problems with dual monitors. I've installed the ATI driver for my X850 graphics card yet Ubuntu says I haven't installed any drivers and still won't let me run dual monitors... this is way more infuriating than I remembered when I used Ubuntu a few years ago.

I am sorry to hear that you are having problems.  I know all too well how Linux can be when things are not going as planned...a never ending nightmare. 

Wish I could help with the dual monitor set-up but my experience with digging into Linux is pretty much audio centric.

I am sure there is a way to get the results you desire though, if you are willing to put up with the aggravation long enough to figure it out.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dynobot 

I am sorry to hear that you are having problems.  I know all too well how Linux can be when things are not going as planned...a never ending nightmare. 

 

Wish I could help with the dual monitor set-up but my experience with digging into Linux is pretty much audio centric.

 

I am sure there is a way to get the results you desire though, if you are willing to put up with the aggravation long enough to figure it out.

 

 

Well thanks for the help anyways. It seems that many people are having problems with the dual monitors in Ubuntu.

I guess that means I can't use Ubuntu, which is a shame because everything else works fine on it, even if I can't use Unity. I can't use Fedora either because it's slow and choppy for some reason, and Gnome 3/Shell doesn't work on my computer either.

I'm going to try Linux Mint now. I'm regretting wiping Windows 7 off my computer now, no matter how slow it was. At least it worked properly for me.

Well, I'm using Linux Mint now, and since it's based on Ubuntu, the dual screens still don't work. I might try downloading the version of Mint that was based on Ubuntu 10.10 to see if that'll support the dual screens.

I'm loving LibreOffice though. And Mint is skinned exactly how I'd skin Ubuntu, as well so I really like the user interface.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Raguvian 

Well, I'm using Linux Mint now, and since it's based on Ubuntu, the dual screens still don't work. I might try downloading the version of Mint that was based on Ubuntu 10.10 to see if that'll support the dual screens.

 

I'm loving LibreOffice though. And Mint is skinned exactly how I'd skin Ubuntu, as well so I really like the user interface.

Thats great...

Glad you like it and hope you find the solution for dual screens...if I happen to run across something I will be sure to post.

BTW, now that you have Linux going you should install Music Player Daemon.  See my web page for how-to etc.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dynobot 

Thats great...

 

Glad you like it and hope you find the solution for dual screens...if I happen to run across something I will be sure to post.

 

BTW, now that you have Linux going you should install Music Player Daemon.  See my web page for how-to etc.

Thanks! That'd help a lot.

I'll check out your web page... I'm always interested in the audio side of Linux. I really like Audacious as a very lightweight player.

Audacious was good in its day....however now-a-days there are alternatives.  Deadbeef is considered by many [including myself] as the lightweight king.  Something even better imo is Alsaplayer....its extremely lightweight and is made by the Alsa for Alsa and sounds fantastic but takes a little getting used too.

Quick question for linux/ubuntu users: Does linux support a resolution of 1920 x 1080 or more?

Yup - currently running Debian (sid) with a Benq E2220HD monitor @ 1920x1080 (nVidia GTX260 OC) - using the 270.41.19 nVidia driver.

Anybody else use Bodhi Linux??

Nice tool to make Ubuntu look better....

http://ubuntu-tweak.com/