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Dolphin does not see my network.

That is, unless I happen to have Banshee open and it is accessing the network drive for media files, then all of a sudden I have a network!

I have to dig around for Nemo (it doesn't actually show in the KDE menus) so I can get to my network drive.

Can anyone 'splain that?
 
hello guys :)

i'm thinking of installing linux on a chromebook that i plan to buy soon. but, i need to use skype and i'm not sure what usb headsets (with mic) work on linux. any suggestions? there are tons on amazon but i'm not sure which one to get! it's going to be for a part-time job so i need a decent quality headset (but not too expensive pls).
 
Well i spoke too soon, my Chromebook displays the 'Skype: error: Wrong architecture i386' but i downloaded the multiarch *.deb and i checked and i have multiarch support installed and latest version. what gives? what good is a 64-bit system when 90% of the things i want won't run on it?!

i also tried sudo apt-get install skype but it tells me no such package.

forgot how much of a headache it was to install anything outside the Software Center. it tends to be a wee bit picky. this isn't the first time it has 'failed' to install anything.
 
got it to work. but the procedure to do so is....as most things Linux....complicated

Code: 
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ $(lsb_release -sc) partner"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install skype

either way it does run. i'll test later to see if the sudden appearance of Bluetooth support on the Acer C7 is actually working.
 
nickdalzell said:
Well i spoke too soon, my Chromebook displays the 'Skype: error: Wrong architecture i386' but i downloaded the multiarch *.deb and i checked and i have multiarch support installed and latest version. what gives? what good is a 64-bit system when 90% of the things i want won't run on it?!
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How much RAM has your Chromebook got? Because if it's 2 or 4 GB, there's no advantage in running a 64bit version of Linux. And you'd be better off with a 32bit version in this case, for compatibility with proprietary 32bit software. This actually shows a problem with proprietary software, because if something breaks or doesn't work only the original developers can fix it.

nickdalzell said:
i also tried sudo apt-get install skype but it tells me no such package.
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Works in Linux Mint. :) Have you enabled proprietary repositories, or whatever you need to do? I don't know on this, because I don't use Ubuntu. But I know that Canonical has a philosphophy of not including things that are proprietary and/or encumbered by patents and/or non-free licensing....e.g. Microsoft.

nickdalzell said:
forgot how much of a headache it was to install anything outside the Software Center. it tends to be a wee bit picky. this isn't the first time it has 'failed' to install anything.
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If something can't be found via apt-get, it's not likely to be listed in Software Center either, because it's the same repos. You can get the Linux version of Skype direct from Skype's website, although I installed it straight from the Mint repos.
 
wyndslash said:
Hm ok. I thought someone here might be using a headset on linux
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I use a USB headset in Linux, works perfectly. :thumbup: They're quite generic. It appears as a secondary sound device, just remember to tell Skype that is the sound device you wish to use. Same way you would when using a USB sound device in Windows or Mac OS X.
 
nickdalzell said:
got it to work. but the procedure to do so is....as most things Linux....complicated

Code: 
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ $(lsb_release -sc) partner"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install skype
either way it does run. i'll test later to see if the sudden appearance of Bluetooth support on the Acer C7 is actually working.
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Yeh...that would fit in with Canonical's policy of not including proprietary non-free software by default. Three lines in the terminal doesn't seem complicated to me. :) ...certainly easier than messing around with Windows registries.
 
Well, I want to make sure that Skype would work on Linux before I get a chromebook. It's what the employer wants me to use.
 
wyndslash said:
Well, I want to make sure that Skype would work on Linux before I get a chromebook. It's what the employer wants me to use.
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Skype works fine in Linux. When you say "employer" is that to do with your teaching Wynd? ...because I've found many students with international interests do use Skype.
 
not sure if this is more linux related than just general IT but here goes:

Would it be feasible to use a linux distro (I guess ubuntu would be good) on a flash drive (maybe usb3?) or a SD card to run games off?
 
:D:D:D

Better to get usb 3, right? (I assume it'd be better for loading times)

would you say the difference between a max write of 10Mbs and 25Mbs would be noticeable (for
 
wyndslash said:
Well, I want to make sure that Skype would work on Linux before I get a chromebook.
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Skype works fine for me on all my computers, but I don't want to say FOR SURE that it works on a Chromebook that's running ChromeOS. My Chromebook, as everyone here knows!, lasted about 30 minutes before I realized I couldn't make do with its idea of Linux. So it's now happily running Kubuntu. :) But Skype on Linux, in general, is not a problem.
 
palmtree5 said:
You sure you have Samba properly configured on the computer in question?
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Yes. I can do it in my sleep. It's identical to all the other computers. On a fresh install, it usually takes me about 10 minutes, total, to get Samba set up and working correctly. It only takes that long because I usually leave out some component, or forget to edit smb.conf, or whatever. :D But within 10 minutes I'm good to go. Not this time. :(

Frankly, I'm really baffled, not only by the behavior I posted originally, but as I see more and more of its weirdness. For example, if I've navigated to a location on one of the other computers, using Dolphin, and select a video file to open with VLC, VLC yields "Your input cannot be opened: VLC is unable to open the MRL..." and then lists the location of the file. The file I PLAINLY see in Dolphin. :confused:
 
three lines in a terminal ain't hard as i'm used to it. but i can see how people look at it as an OS for geeks only, as it's certainly not as simple as downloading the *.exe and double-clicking.
 
This message pops up whenever my Chromebook boots, but only for an instant. should i be concerned?

Code: 
Invalid iomem size. you might experience problems
 
nickdalzell said:
This message pops up whenever my Chromebook boots, but only for an instant. should i be concerned?

Code: 
Invalid iomem size. you might experience problems
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I've personally never seen this error (that I can recall), but my good friend Google just told me that lots of other people get this message, too (not just on Chromebooks), and that it probably isn't a big deal. It may cause problems--or not. Unless you actually experience problems, I wouldn't worry about it.

three lines in a terminal ain't hard as i'm used to it. but i can see how people look at it as an OS for geeks only, as it's certainly not as simple as downloading the *.exe and double-clicking.
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When that WORKS, great. But as I recall from my unhappy days having to deal with window$ boxes, it was rarely that simple. Usually drivers to hunt down, updates to find and install, tweaking, pulling hair out when exasperated because LOGIC didn't seem to apply, etc. And it was so much harder to do all that on window$ because of its gross lack of actual tools--like *nix provides by default. :)
 
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