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Re: www.archbang.org

Kuno wrote:
stopie wrote:

Well, need some help...
downloaded, install on usb via 

dd if=archbang-1.05-i686.iso of=/dev/sdx bs=8M

and it would not boot from the usb, saying no OS Found.

Since i had the same problem (dd not writing anything on my thub-drive), i installed "sdd" from the ubuntu-repos. Then "sdd if=archbang-xxx.iso of=/dev/sdx bs=8M" did the trick.

That did do the trick, thanks! Wow, 2 for 2 in one thread.

Archbang will only run if I chose to start it in failsafe mode, and from what I can gather, its because in the other modes, the gma 950 isn't supported along with the screen resolution by X. For what ever reason, according to the X log, it finds support when I tell it to start in failsafe mode.

Only issue is that now wireless doesnt work, and I'm assuming its because of the typical broadcom driver needing ndistwrapper or something issues sad

Last edited by stopie (2010-03-10 03:07:30)

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stopie wrote:

Only issue is that now wireless doesnt work, and I'm assuming its because of the typical broadcom driver needing ndistwrapper or something issues sad

Same for me on my EEE901. There is an arch wiki page about  "Arch on 901", but next  thing i'll try, is to replace wicd with network manager...

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A! 2.00 RC1 has failed me.
what did u do?   u broke it! ;p
big_smile
2 downloads, 2 burned cds, 2 pcs, 2 boot options tried, all fail.  either end up in ramfs, or end up in the desktop (i presume) but with the graphics all glitchy, and everything hung.

damn.  i was really excited about it too.

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Digit wrote:

A! 2.00 RC1 has failed me.
what did u do?   u broke it! ;p
big_smile
2 downloads, 2 burned cds, 2 pcs, 2 boot options tried, all fail.  either end up in ramfs, or end up in the desktop (i presume) but with the graphics all glitchy, and everything hung.

damn.  i was really excited about it too.

Did you try to boot the failsafevesa option?

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Re: www.archbang.org

Working perfect for me. I mean i had to configure it to my needs but thats true for any other distro.
Booting with USB worked perfect with the default option. Maybe it needs a few more apps or tweaking. But thats after the install stuff, otherwise pretty solid stuff. Great work!

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any advice on how to go about switching out wicd for something more like network-manager?

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Digit wrote:

A! 2.00 RC1 has failed me.
what did u do?   u broke it! ;p
big_smile
2 downloads, 2 burned cds, 2 pcs, 2 boot options tried, all fail.  either end up in ramfs, or end up in the desktop (i presume) but with the graphics all glitchy, and everything hung.

damn.  i was really excited about it too.

Godane has made an own "fork" of Archbang, called Archbang-Live: http://godane.wordpress.com/. I tried his iso also and it seems not to have the boot-glitches of Archbang 2 RC1.

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stopie wrote:

any advice on how to go about switching out wicd for something more like network-manager?

In Ubuntu/#! installing network-manager autoremoves wicd. Don't know about arch's behaviour yet , but will try on my eee in a few minutes... hmm

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Kuno wrote:

Godane has made an own "fork" of Archbang, called Archbang-Live: http://godane.wordpress.com/.

This is the sort of thing that makes Linux great cool

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Re: www.archbang.org

stopie wrote:
Digit wrote:

A! 2.00 RC1 has failed me.
what did u do?   u broke it! ;p
big_smile
2 downloads, 2 burned cds, 2 pcs, 2 boot options tried, all fail.  either end up in ramfs, or end up in the desktop (i presume) but with the graphics all glitchy, and everything hung.

damn.  i was really excited about it too.

Did you try to boot the failsafevesa option?

I had to use the failsafevesa option to get my live environment up and running. After that install was a synch! I'm now running ArchBang and am loving it cool Thanks guys!

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I once tried installing #! from a failsafe VESA session; result was 800x600 stretched to fill my netbook screen.  This was immediately followed by an install from a default boot.  Last time I tried SliTaz I had the same stretched 800x600, so this seems to be a common problem with lightweight distros maybe?

Of course if your monitor has a "standard" aspect ratio this isn't an issue...

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while ( ! ( succeed = try() ) );

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Kuno wrote:

In Ubuntu/#! installing network-manager autoremoves wicd. Don't know about arch's behaviour yet , but will try on my eee in a few minutes... hmm

Short update: Installing networkmanager didn't help. Looking at the wiki page (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Asus_Eee_PC_901) it seems a bit complicated, to get wifi to work on my eee. So i decided to quit this effort for now and just keep archbang on my desktop. neutral

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Re: www.archbang.org

stopie wrote:

any advice on how to go about switching out wicd for something more like network-manager?

after you install network-manager, you need to replace wicd for networkmanager in the daemon list in /etc/rc.conf. you can have both installed, but only one on rc.conf. You should also replace wicd-client for nm-applet in your home autostart.sh.

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danielrmt wrote:

after you install network-manager, you need to replace wicd for networkmanager in the daemon list in /etc/rc.conf. you can have both installed, but only one on rc.conf. You should also replace wicd-client for nm-applet in your home autostart.sh.

Took me some time, but after way too many searches in way too many places, got it figured out roll
Had to first install broadcom-wl  from AUR and then add 

MODULES=(lib80211 wl !b43 !ssb ...)

to the rc.conf for my silly dell and its silly chipset

Then installed networkmanager and the nm-applet via pacman according to how the arch wiki told me to
Then changed wlan0 to eth1 in NETWORKING part of the rc.conf because again, dell is a silly goose
And then changed daemons in the rc.conf to look like: 

DAEMONS=(dbus hal networkmanager syslog-ng !network !dhcdbd !wicd @alsa)

Edit: Got the WPA working by following This part of the ArchWiki so now I can say I'm truly fully functional big_smile

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Re: www.archbang.org

In about 10 minutes, I went from heaven to hell and back again... I put live archbang on a usb and from there I installed it. Clearly I did some things wrong. The first that I knew when I was doing it was the bootloader installer. I have #! linux and vista installed on my laptop and I create a new partition for archbang. After installing it I only get Archbang  and I used #! live cd to re-install grub. The second thing that I don't know how I screwed it up, is that archbang failed to start giving me an error about nvidia and on top of that failed to log in. I could only reboot with C+A+del

so, How can I set in my current grub an entry for archbang? It is installed on (hd0,6) or sda7.
What can I do about the nvidia problem?
Also is it possible to use the same swap partition for Arch and Crunch?

p.s. Just in case this is my grub entry for #!:

title        CrunchBang, kernel 2.6.28-18-generic
uuid        1c751bd1-1080-4c8d-b7d1-4e0ae9ba1d20
kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-18-generic root=UUID=1c751bd1-1080-4c8d-b7d1-4e0ae9ba1d20 ro quiet splash 
initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-18-generic
quiet
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Re: www.archbang.org

Time to move discussion over to the ArchBang forums:

http://archbang.47.forumer.com/

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anonymous wrote:

Time to move discussion over to the ArchBang forums:

http://archbang.47.forumer.com/

Thanks anonymous! big_smile

Well here is a shorter easier to remember URL:

http://archbang.x.am

Last edited by sHyLoCk (2010-03-14 08:29:06)

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http://www.archbang.org/ is now active big_smile

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felicitations smile

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Congrats, Willextreme!! big_smile
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Hi!

Archbang looks great and i should test it, but does it work with a Intel 830m graphic chip?

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xf86-video-intel: The Xorg driver for Intel video chips1

Package available in: [trunk]

The Xorg driver for Intel i810, i815, 830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM, 865G, 915G, 915GM and 965G video chips.

link

So I believe: yes, it does. wink

I have played around with Arch Linux the last couple of days with openbox and xfce4-panel, and it's awesome as hell. it booted into the command line in 8 seconds... (with quickinit, few fstab options, no optimized kernel yet) login, startx and you have the desktop.

But to all good things come to an and, so I'm planning to reinstall Statler, seeing if I can get it to boot that fast big_smile

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willxtreme wrote:

http://www.archbang.org/ is now active big_smile

Absolutely wicked looking site and a marvelous project. A mixture of Crunchbang and Arch can only be winner!

Nice work! smile

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Andreas wrote:

...I'm planning to reinstall Statler, seeing if I can get it to boot that fast big_smile

cool.  i look forward to hearing of your results with that.  smile  be sure to drop us a little message again in here to let us know.  smile



anyways, i wonder if this reinvigorated interest in archbang will spark a little more life in the #archbang irc chat.   

which btw... folks keep coming in to, asking a question, and then leaving before anyone notices.    there's not a lot of life in there, so we tend not to notice any goings on for a while.  patience, wink  hang around, leave the chat open, n someone's sure to get back to you.  smile   even if it is me just saying "i dont know how to help with that", lol.


i got it installed a few days ago, and its about all i can think of.  giddy with joy n excitement about archbang.  really enjoying getting to know arch's methods n ways.

still not quite ready to let it replace my lusciously configured crunchbang 9.04 yet... but it's looking promising.     who knows, i may end up deciding it's too much effort n going back with crunchbang, to statler, once it gets out of alpha (as seemingly already competent as it is for an alpha).

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Andreas wrote:

xf86-video-intel: The Xorg driver for Intel video chips1

Package available in: [trunk]

The Xorg driver for Intel i810, i815, 830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM, 865G, 915G, 915GM and 965G video chips.

link

So I believe: yes, it does. wink

I tried Archbang, but it didn't work either. There was tree alternatives when booting; Archbang, Archbang [Intel] and Archbang [vesafailsafe]. All tree alternatives made the screen go black. Non of them made the I830M chip work.

Now I have tested a hand full of Debian derivates, including Debian stable and Debian oldstable, Mandriva and Arch. Not any of them work with the graphic chip in my laptop. So I had to switch back to Win XP. Making a fresh installation of Win XP wasn't any problem at all (except from some minor licence key issues :-) And there are also a coulpe of advantages, I can use the internet bank software from my bank and also a couple of other windows only software.

On the other hand,  software should be cool and free, and Windows are neither cool nor free. So I am a litte bit sorry for this defeat.

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