No worries there.

I'm running the test out of pure curiosity, but I'm getting some results that the test really does favor the overwhelming awesomeness power of DX11 capabilities; and I'm about to confirm that there were nothing wrong with my drivers at all

And apparently Unigine's benchmark is very GPU-hungry it raep'd my laptop

I'm finishing up soon. Gonna be rebootin' back into Linux to post stuff

This post has been edited by FlameReaper: Mar 9 2011, 01:04 PM

Compiz? No idea, since I'm on an Openbox session and I've already turned off xcompmgr before that.

KMS = I'm pretty sure this is Kernel Mode Ssss---- argh, I forgot. Kernel Mode-Setting? Can't remember but I don't think that's the case here since I'm facing pretty much almost the same benchmark results in Windows (if not because Windows have Dx9~11 to cheat help), so I guess there is KMS for the driver.

A'ight, I'm almost done for now. Time to reboot and compare results

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Added on March 9, 2011, 2:20 pmAll right. Looks like my suspicions are all confirmed now.

Windows handles Unigine's benchmark use of OpenGL poorly, so the lesson is: on Windows, use Direct3D.

Maximum settings on full screen (1366x768) with no AA, extreme tesselation. Linux x64 OpenGL, Windows x64 OpenGL, Windows x64 DirectX 11.



Maximum settings on full screen (1366x768) with no AA, no tesselation. Linux x64 OpenGL, Windows x64 OpenGL, Windows x64 DirectX 11.



I think with that I guess I'm cleared of my suspicions. *looks at clock* Eh, I'm late D: time to go. Thanks for the info guys!

This post has been edited by FlameReaper: Mar 9 2011, 02:20 PM

Just wondering la, anyone here ever tried any Liquorix or Zen kernels? Just asking.

Currently trying to "play around" with Liquorix

This post has been edited by FlameReaper: Mar 10 2011, 06:40 PM

I see. Well, the fact that I'm booting on one now means I can run it -- no wait I obviously can, since I referred to a Ubuntuforums' thread on how to get the Liquorix repo enabled

If there's one thing I can notice the Liquorix's version of the 2.6.37 kernels helped me with, it's with my laptop's touchpad behavior (where I have to do a different gesture to do a middle-click as opposed to Windows ).

EDIT: Actully, it isn't. Probably it's a workaround on KDE's part since I was on it before I relogged in GNOME.

... And thanks to the distro upgrade I currently only have this kernel...

This post has been edited by FlameReaper: Mar 11 2011, 10:30 PM

You can say it's an Openbox + Tint2 DE lol

I'm fine with WMs doing all the jobs, but... everyone got things they got to stick to

Anyone here running E17? Kinda new to it here. Just wanted to play around with it, but since I'm very used to GNOME and KDE methods I'm kinda lost

Noted, thanks

EDIT: Or maybe I'll try Bodhi

This post has been edited by FlameReaper: Mar 14 2011, 12:41 PM

Unity with E17? Does not compute to me bro.

I suppose E17 is better on its own.

Don't really like how E17's window border looks like though. But in terms of complexity I have to say it beats even GNOME and KDE

Playing around with attempts to generate a custom Slitaz flavor, and got one up and running.

... Although nothing new on it, I just made it so that it comes with GIMP, Inkscape, MPlayer and some codecs...

I really need to do a checklist of what to add, since my first attempt was based on "add everything you might need on impulse, then generate an ISO of it."

For some packages that can't be obtained from its repository, I can download it elsewhere and convert it for Slitaz's use as long as it's an RPM or a DEB (now I think I just found a new love )

Might be late but: For those who miss Songbird on Linux, a fork of it is being developed. Nightingale.

Successfully remastered Slitaz for a general-purpose liveUSB media.

... Got some quirks, though, since I have to detect the Ethernet drivers manually

From the Ubuntu 10.10 thread

Gimp 2.7.... kata mau ada Openraster support but when I tried to open... fail! D:

So today I went, took Gimp 2.6.11 source and compiled it... suddenly compiling with an i7 (note: make -j<number of cores/threads> ) feels so good mang

.... just to have a GIMP that still has Openraster support...

This post has been edited by FlameReaper: Apr 5 2011, 10:34 PM

Need some help here, I installed LMDE on my external HDD. Now the HDD boots from my laptop just fine, but I need a method of booting it on another PC especially when the PC does not allow you to change the boot order. Or, more like, the BIOS seems to ignore my HDD and just skips straight away to Windows (boo!). I need to override that currently, though.

The GRUB bootloader is installed on the external's MBR, though.

... Just ignore the fact that I need to make it a boot-anywhere HDD installation without me having to force the PC's BIOS to boot from it especially when no changes in the boot order which probably violates a rule of "You must use the computer as-is, no booting from your own HDD or something" if there exists hohohohoho.

Well nevermind then, I... somehow got through it.

... Since I'm on LMDE...

... well, I'm already on it. I mean, turning on the "unstable" repos and... you know what's next.

(Yeah I'm playing "Break your Debian" now).

Just playing around with it. If it goes kantoi then... well, tough luck. Which is why I got it on my external and not on the main laptop

This post has been edited by FlameReaper: Apr 12 2011, 09:33 PM

The update finished safely, but then I'm now trying to tackle the problem of GRUB not detecting my kernel images. It's the file not found error

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Added on April 13, 2011, 12:45 pmWell, to cut the story short: I eff'd up. Too many missing depends that not even the Sid repos can help me out from, it's the "No installation candidate" hell D:

'Tis okay though, at least I learned another lesson - no wait, that's the reason I set up LMDE in the HDD

But man for a second I sure was thinking "Wow KDE is faster than GNOME o_o" before I did the "break your debian" thing.

Actually I do reckon even with its bloatedness KDE is faster than GNOME, at least my experience with LMDE and Ubuntu tells me so.

Probably because the GNOME in LMDE is a bit modified (Mint menu takes a while to load so yeah), while the KDE I have is pretty much the vanilla kdebase-workspace packages minus Konqueror (because I removed it right after it got installed).

... Now I'm tempted to start over and do things that way (keep default GNOME, but install as minimum of KDE as I can).

Overall it has been a ride

This post has been edited by FlameReaper: Apr 13 2011, 12:51 PM

try looking around in KDE-Look.org

well I just happened to have some leftover themes from my KDE 4.5, so it all got carried over to KDE 4.6

also in System Settings you can pick "Get New..." ranging from system colors, window decs, plasma themes, icons, plus a ton of others I lost count already KDE will then load the database from KDE-Look.org and you can install straight from there.

This post has been edited by FlameReaper: Apr 15 2011, 10:14 AM

You can download it elsewhere and install it on your own, though. Just make sure you know what folder to install to. Like for Plasma themes it's usually in the ~/.kde/share/apps/desktoptheme folder.

@ Farkinid, G-17: It's just that the PC has been set to boot from USB devices (which includes my HDD), probably the admin forgot to reset it to ALWAYS boot from main HDD. Then again, that's one of the few PCs I can use my HDD, but then after I broke LMDE I accidentally nuked my HDD before I backed up anything on it. But there's so many "antique" things in there I don't think I can be bothered to remember and retrieve all of them...