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FIX: Steam crashes when using radeon driver
Symptoms
Steam crashes upon opening, after verifying the installation and before opening the main interface, with something about the OpenGL context not supporting direct rendering. Soon afterwards, the X server crashes. (I'm not crashing my computer again just to find the exact error message, thank… » -
Adventures in Arch: Part 3 - What the GNOME?
A Choice
In my previous Adventures in Arch post, I mentioned that I was using XFCE. Because XFCE is cool. However, XFCE got its fame for being a ‘lightweight’ distro, and I had originally chosen it to reduce my CPU load. After noticing, however,… » -
GUIDE: Easier League of Legends Installation Using PlayOnLinux
Preamble
PlayOnLinux is a brilliant wrapper for WINE, allowing for the easy installation of innumerable Windows programs on Linux. Of these, my most recent install was League of Legends, which, of course, does not have a native Linux release. PlayOnLinux installs and runs it… » -
Adventures in Arch: Part 2 - Is It Working Yet?
Let's Get Some Hybrid Graphics Up In Here!
if [ ! -f /etc/X11/xorg.conf ]; then
sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.fglrx /etc/X11/xorg.conf
fi
startx /usr/bin/openbox-session -- :1How simple was that? And my script for starting X on my integrated card is about the same (only using XFCE,… » -
Adventures in Arch: Part 1 - Goodbyee Ubuntu!
Introduction
Well, this is it… This is the moment every Linux user dreads: It's time… to install Arch Linux.
Why am I doing this? How has the moment come so soon?? I thought I had more time!! Well in a nutshell, it's because (as my… »