Re: [arch-general] Installing Archlinux alongside Ubuntu on aWindows8 UEFI laptop

2014-05-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
In fact, in the partition table I have referenced above, the partition preceding the Ubuntu / partition, has a "bios_grub" flag set, and it is about 1 MB in length. On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: > This is an interesting suggestion: > > On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Delc

Re: [arch-general] Installing Archlinux alongside Ubuntu on aWindows8 UEFI laptop

2014-05-03 Thread Steven Grace
On 05/03/2014 07:56 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: This is an interesting suggestion: On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Delcypher wrote: dy installed Ubuntu successfully you probably have a working boot manager from that install. So why not just use that to boot into Arch Linux? I think Ubuntu uses G

Re: [arch-general] Installing Archlinux alongside Ubuntu on aWindows8 UEFI laptop

2014-05-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
This is an interesting suggestion: On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Delcypher wrote: > dy installed Ubuntu successfully you probably > have a working boot manager from that install. So why not just use > that to boot into Arch Linux? I think Ubuntu uses GRUB2 so you can > have Ubuntu regenerate t

Re: [arch-general] Is ATI more... "compatible"?

2014-05-03 Thread Dimitris Zervas
On May 3, 2014 11:17 PM, "Simon Brand" wrote: > > Am 03.05.2014 22:09, schrieb Nowaker: > >> I am speaking about GPU passthrough. > >> Is ATi better supported by Xen or KVM passthrough than nvidia. > > > > I do not think it makes a difference, if nvidia or amd/ati is passed > through, but dont kno

Re: [arch-general] Is ATI more... "compatible"?

2014-05-03 Thread Simon Brand
Am 03.05.2014 22:09, schrieb Nowaker: >> I am speaking about GPU passthrough. >> Is ATi better supported by Xen or KVM passthrough than nvidia. > I do not think it makes a difference, if nvidia or amd/ati is passed through, but dont know it for sure. There is a thread in the forum: https://bbs.a

Re: [arch-general] Is ATI more... "compatible"?

2014-05-03 Thread Nowaker
> I am speaking about GPU passthrough. > Is ATi better supported by Xen or KVM passthrough than nvidia. You are on fresh ground here. Please let us know once you know more. Arch will NOT handle the ATi card at all. I use Radeon 7870 with 4 monitors. HL2EP2 from Steam works great on highest

[arch-general] Xbmc not boot

2014-05-03 Thread Maykel Franco
Hi, I have installed archlinux + xbmc follow this step: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO:Install_XBMC_for_Linux_on_Arch_Linux But I power on the machine: [root@arch-xbmc-test ~]# systemctl status xbmc * xbmc.service - Starts instance of XBMC using xinit Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/sy

Re: [arch-general] Is ATI more... "compatible"?

2014-05-03 Thread Dimitris Zervas
On May 3, 2014 8:57 PM, "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > > On Sat, 2014-05-03 at 10:35 -0700, Ryan Capote wrote: > > AMD cards are not very well supported under Arch. > > The proprietary driver isn't well supported by ATI, it's not an Arch > issue. > > The answer to the question in the subject is, no, if y

Re: [arch-general] Is ATI more... "compatible"?

2014-05-03 Thread Dimitris Zervas
I am not speaking about native linux gaming. Mesa is NOT enough at all. propriety is needed. But that's not the subject. I am speaking about GPU passthrough. Is ATi better supported by Xen or KVM passthrough than nvidia. On May 3, 2014 8:49 PM, "Laurent Carlier" wrote: > > Le samedi 3 mai 2014, 10

[arch-general] [solved] Select page style in Firefox 29.0

2014-05-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-05-03 at 20:02 +0200, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > You can have the whole Firefox menu, just right click on the toolbars > and click on "Menu Bar" Thank you :)

Re: [arch-general] Select page style in Firefox 29.0

2014-05-03 Thread Kyle Terrien
On 05/03/2014 10:57 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi, > > does somebody know where I can select the page style in Firefox 29.0? > If a page does use grey text on black background, I want to turn off the > page's style, to get black text on white background. I guess there's > no way to get back the men

Re: [arch-general] Select page style in Firefox 29.0

2014-05-03 Thread Damjan Georgievski
On 3 May 2014 19:57, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi, > > does somebody know where I can select the page style in Firefox 29.0? > If a page does use grey text on black background, I want to turn off the > page's style, to get black text on white background. I guess there's > no way to get back the menu b

Re: [arch-general] Is ATI more... "compatible"?

2014-05-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-05-03 at 10:35 -0700, Ryan Capote wrote: > AMD cards are not very well supported under Arch. The proprietary driver isn't well supported by ATI, it's not an Arch issue. The answer to the question in the subject is, no, if you need the proprietary driver you will notice that someday A

Re: [arch-general] Select page style in Firefox 29.0

2014-05-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, does somebody know where I can select the page style in Firefox 29.0? If a page does use grey text on black background, I want to turn off the page's style, to get black text on white background. I guess there's no way to get back the menu bar, or is it possible? I haven't seen such an option

Re: [arch-general] OT: Installing Archlinux alongside Ubuntu on aWindows8 UEFI laptop

2014-05-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> > Would you stop breaking the thread? This is the third time you've > > broken this thread alone. > > > > Not to mention top posting, but I'm not sure if there's a policy on > > that here. You need to explain that. The thread is a hidden thingy in the mail's headers, it's not the subject. In

Re: [arch-general] Is ATI more... "compatible"?

2014-05-03 Thread Laurent Carlier
Le samedi 3 mai 2014, 10:35:24 Ryan Capote a écrit : > AMD cards are not very well supported under Arch. I use an AMD card and > have to use Vi0l0's unofficial repository for the latest catalyst drivers, > as they are not available from the official repository. Occasionally an > update will break t

Re: [arch-general] Is ATI more... "compatible"?

2014-05-03 Thread Ryan Capote
AMD cards are not very well supported under Arch. I use an AMD card and have to use Vi0l0's unofficial repository for the latest catalyst drivers, as they are not available from the official repository. Occasionally an update will break the driver and I have to recompile the kernel module. Other th

[arch-general] Is ATI more... "compatible"?

2014-05-03 Thread Dimitris Zervas
Hello fellow archers, I have an ASUS GTX 660 Ti DirectCU II 2GB and 2 monitors. I love gaming (battlefield and dayz for now, but several game generally, which are not wine-compatible and won't ever be. DirectX 11 and sh*t.) and I want to be able to play on my Arch (dual boot is NOT a solution for

Re: [arch-general] Installing Archlinux alongside Ubuntu on aWindows8 UEFI laptop

2014-05-03 Thread Delcypher
On 3 May 2014 05:53, Alan E. Davis wrote: > I am way past confused about these issues. > I have installed Archlinux on a partition, with a home partition. I just > cannot boot into it. I was able to boot into the USB flash drive. I never > saw any messages about UEFI or legacy. The USB image