Here is what it looks like.

 

Nevermind. I fixed it. Thread can be closed.

 

Yay! You got linux working. =P Now don't update those drivers until you absolutely need to.

haha

 

I've heard good things about 11.3, because it officially supports the hardware's ID or whatever, so there isn't an OSD saying "HARDWARE UNSUPPORTED" in the bottom right (can't be seen in screenshots, but it's annoying as hell).

I feel pretty awesome. I've learned a lot of commands and can pretty much do most tasks through a terminal now. <3

Although I do need some video editing software. Any recommendations? Open source is preferred.

Oh! Also, I tried to install Wine (so I could talk to friends on Steam, and maybe play some COD), and I just did 'sudo apt-get install wine', and it downloaded the packages fine, but then it came to a EULA thing, and I couldn't accept. Halp?

 

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Originally Posted by Bassdoken;12729354
I've heard good things about 11.3, because it officially supports the hardware's ID or whatever, so there isn't an OSD saying "HARDWARE UNSUPPORTED" in the bottom right (can't be seen in screenshots, but it's annoying as hell).

I feel pretty awesome. I've learned a lot of commands and can pretty much do most tasks through a terminal now. <3

Although I do need some video editing software. Any recommendations? Open source is preferred.

Oh! Also, I tried to install Wine (so I could talk to friends on Steam, and maybe play some COD), and I just did 'sudo apt-get install wine', and it downloaded the packages fine, but then it came to a EULA thing, and I couldn't accept. Halp?

nobody REALLY can accept microsoft eulas... its ok man, just suck it up and hit ok

 

Haha. No, I mean when I hit enter, nothing happened. I hit escape, and it flashed the terminal, but it went back to the EULA. I had to close the terminal, then when I tried to install Wine again, it didn't do anything. I'll post more about it when I get back home.

 

Since you're in KDE Kdenlive is the one I've heard about recently so you can try it out for your video editing demands.

http://www.kdenlive.org/

Are you starting WINE through terminal or something?

 

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Originally Posted by Bassdoken;12729454
Haha. No, I mean when I hit enter, nothing happened. I hit escape, and it flashed the terminal, but it went back to the EULA. I had to close the terminal, then when I tried to install Wine again, it didn't do anything. I'll post more about it when I get back home.

some eulas through a terminal dont have your cursor on the options by default... so if you are JUST hitting enter that might not work, hit tab first if you didnt

 

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Originally Posted by Rookie1337;12729519
Since you're in KDE Kdenlive is the one I've heard about recently so you can try it out for your video editing demands.

http://www.kdenlive.org/

Are you starting WINE through terminal or something?

I'll check it out. Thank you. +Rep

I am not, I am just trying to install through the terminal.
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Originally Posted by EntTheGod;12729536
some eulas through a terminal dont have your cursor on the options by default... so if you are JUST hitting enter that might not work, hit tab first if you didnt

I didn't try that. lol. I'll try that when I get back home.

 

Oh. OK. Hope you enjoy it. I've been too busy to try it out myself though. Tell me what you think about it.

 

About Kdenlive or Wine? lol.

I'd like to thank the few of you that have stuck with me through all my Linux troubles. Without your guys' help, I probably would have just gave up for a few more months or wouldn't have bothered again until I either got a new graphics card or HD 7000 series came out.

 

One more question for now:

 

Alright, so I tried to install Wine again, and this is what I get

Code:

bassdoken@Aether:~$ sudo apt-get install wine
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

 

You have synaptic open? Restart? I would say kill any process that uses apt but it would probably be quicker to restart X by just logging in and then out and re-try the command then. If it still fails due to something locking /var/lib/dpkg/lock then delete the lock file; sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock, then try again. I've done that, or restart the computer.

 

I just restarted. It works now.
I got Kdenlive installed, as well as Wine.

 

New issue D:
Sound. Isn't there.

 

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Originally Posted by Bassdoken;12732286
New issue D:
Sound. Isn't there.

Are you using ALSA or OSS? With HDMI built into GPUs I found that sometimes ALSA would default to that as the primary output source and I had to do some oddball line edits to alsaconf to switch to the onboard audio chip.

 

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Originally Posted by Rookie1337;12733964
Are you using ALSA or OSS? With HDMI built into GPUs I found that sometimes ALSA would default to that as the primary output source and I had to do some oddball line edits to alsaconf to switch to the onboard audio chip.

ALSA? OSS?

How can I tell?

 

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Originally Posted by Bassdoken;12734347
ALSA? OSS?

How can I tell?

you're in kubuntu right? it uses alsa as the interface, then has pulse-audio as a "sound server", then on top of that, phonon (or some crap like that) as a mixer...its madness i tell you, madness!

what is the onboard soundcard? like rookiesaid, it might be the hdmi on the graphics card, it does some weird things in linux

 

Bass: Run "alsamixer" in terminal and it should tell you the "card" along with "chip". If they don't sound like you're mobo's then you're on HDMI. If you're lucky the easy way to switch output will work. And that is F6 and then it should list some options. Choose the one that sounds like your mobo's chip (VIA, ATI, or Realtec). Then test it out. If it doesn't work you'll have to mess with the file alsaconf.

@transhour: Why there has to be 3 things to make sound work is what I don't understand. I think you left out Kmix though. Now its 4.

 

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Originally Posted by transhour;12734674
you're in kubuntu right? it uses alsa as the interface, then has pulse-audio as a "sound server", then on top of that, phonon (or some crap like that) as a mixer...its madness i tell you, madness!

what is the onboard soundcard? like rookiesaid, it might be the hdmi on the graphics card, it does some weird things in linux

I have very little understanding of what you just said. o.o
I don't use HDMI, I use DVI.
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Originally Posted by Rookie1337;12734837
Bass: Run "alsamixer" in terminal and it should tell you the "card" along with "chip". If they don't sound like you're mobo's then you're on HDMI. If you're lucky the easy way to switch output will work. And that is F6 and then it should list some options. Choose the one that sounds like your mobo's chip (VIA, ATI, or Realtec). Then test it out. If it doesn't work you'll have to mess with the file alsaconf.

@transhour: Why there has to be 3 things to make sound work is what I don't understand. I think you left out Kmix though. Now its 4.

Alright, I'll see what happens. Wish me luck.

 

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Originally Posted by Rookie1337;12734837
Bass: Run "alsamixer" in terminal and it should tell you the "card" along with "chip". If they don't sound like you're mobo's then you're on HDMI. If you're lucky the easy way to switch output will work. And that is F6 and then it should list some options. Choose the one that sounds like your mobo's chip (VIA, ATI, or Realtec). Then test it out. If it doesn't work you'll have to mess with the file alsaconf.

@transhour: Why there has to be 3 things to make sound work is what I don't understand. I think you left out Kmix though. Now its 4.

kmix is the "frontend" to phonon...and there shouldn't be 3 things to make sound work.

OSS4 only needs itself, and frontend mixer like kwin or its own mixer...

it is whats wrong with linux sound, oss4 is nice, but it still sorta "immature", alsa works with most things, but missing some "modern" features, and well pulse...what can we say? i like pulse and alsa, but you throw phonon into the mix, weird things start to happen, and phonon is a kde only thing, its usually found without pusle, but in kubuntu its there together

 

I tried all of the options. No luck.

 

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Originally Posted by Bassdoken;12735045
I tried all of the options. No luck.

Screenie of you alsamixer output?

 

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Originally Posted by Rookie1337;12735228
Screenie of you alsamixer output?

Omg I love Linux. Screenshots are so easy to get.

Consider me a fanboy. I love Linux. It can do so much out of the box without downloading a bunch of programs. Good screenshots, for example. It has OpenOffice installed (not really my thing, but if you need it, that's pretty cool). You can create bootable disks with it. Omg. <3!!
I think I would gladly pay for Linux, especially if that meant that the driver support would get more attention.