My journey to successfully game under Linux (and overcome Microsoft's Stranglehold)

[WelshBloke]

LOL that would make sense with it's name being Ultramarine.

I don't know why it looked like the paramount mountain to me without the stars.

Should have gone with...

 

[Indus]

Ok that new fstab edit completely destroyed the system.. can't even rescue.

Good thing I just kept the basics on and was testing it.. will do a complete reinstall of ultramarine.

Be back in a bit.. lets see if it's better than ultramarine from fedora migration.

 

[WelshBloke]

Mine doesn't just load, it insists on linking to username/ password which wasn't there before. And then refuses to load at all.

So I'm thinking it needs a complete reinstall.

Yeah mine definitely doesn't bring up the EA launcher. I get a small box saying "preparing game" or something then it launches a window, then full screens the game. Takes about 5 seconds or so from clicking play in Steam.

I just went into the EA online bit of the menu in game and now when I've exited the game the EA launcher was open for a bit!

 

[Indus]

That's interesting.. it doesn't seem to have an nvidia driver from the start this time.

but the sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia went smooth.

Smoothest nvidia driver install EVAR!

 

[Indus]

I can't explain it..

Ultramarine on it's own seems to work like Fedora or rather how Fedora should be..

No headache with drivers, installing everything and running everything is smooth (haven't ran my head into the brick wall that is BFII or Samba yet).. but completely usable with most programs I use.

 

[manly]

No, that /etc/fstab is not right.

The second column is the mount point.

 

[Indus]

No, that /etc/fstab is not right.

The second column is the mount point.

Ran into a strange problem.

If I mount the drives correctly.. they become read only by default.

On the other hand if I leave them unmounted and do it manually by entering my password every time I log in and click on them in Dolphin file manager, it works fine!

Now this presents a dilemma.. I was trying to get Samba to always work for file sharing and persistent through reboots..

 

[Indus]

@WelshBloke No matter what version of Proton I use.. battlefront II starts up and then crashes within 5 seconds.. it never loads!

 

[manly]

Ran into a strange problem.

If I mount the drives correctly.. they become read only by default.

On the other hand if I leave them unmounted and do it manually by entering my password every time I log in and click on them in Dolphin file manager, it works fine!

Now this presents a dilemma.. I was trying to get Samba to always work for file sharing and persistent through reboots..

I don't think ro is the default mount option.

Most likely the mounted FS is writable by root, but not from a user account.

Samba also has a multiuser mount option, but I've never used this and it's a little more complicated.

 

[WelshBloke]

@WelshBloke No matter what version of Proton I use.. battlefront II starts up and then crashes within 5 seconds.. it never loads!

I'm away from home right now so I can't check things.

Are you using the flatpak version of steam?
Is your storage the same as your installation disk?
Are you willing to try a different distro?

 

[Indus]

I'm away from home right now so I can't check things.

Are you using the flatpak version of steam?
Is your storage the same as your installation disk?
Are you willing to try a different distro?

Yes
Yes

Maybe.. I'm not sure yet.. I'm liking Ultramarine so far in that my experience hasn't been any worse than bazzite/ nobara/ fedora/ cachy but it's more "configurable" and not locked down via an atomic immutable distro.

It's okay it's just 1 game.. I think I can deal with that.. I can blow off some steam in another shooter if needs be.

The main priority now is to get samba to work since games are seemingly working. I'll revisit this later.

Enjoy your trip!

 

[WelshBloke]

Yes
Yes

Maybe.. I'm not sure yet.. I'm liking Ultramarine so far in that my experienced hasn't been any worse than bazzite/ nobara/ fedora/ cachy but it's more "configurable" and not locked down via an atomic immutable distro.

It's okay it's just 1 game.. I think I can deal with that.. I can blow off some steam in another shooter if needs be.

The main priority now is to get samba to work since games are seemingly working. I'll revisit this later.

Enjoy your trip!

I'm at a point that all my games work. I can test samba shares in a few days if you want? I do remember that last time I had to deal with that on a home network it was Microsoft that had disabled by default some of the stuff for file sharing.

 

[WelshBloke]

Enjoy your trip!

 

[Indus]

I think I'm beginning to see @Zepp 's viewpoint here.

Ultramarine a much more refined version of fedora. just like Linux Mint is a much more refined version of debian/ ubuntu.

Strangely though there is no Ultramarine 42 straight from downloads.. only 41 was available for download.. so I installed it and then I upgraded it to 42 from within the system.

I guess it's a bit like Linux Mint's updates come 3 months or so after Ubuntu's and Debians.

BTW due to my wife having cinnamon on LMDE I was used to cinnamon desktop. KDE feels a bit like coming home.. I feel at ease with it.. compared to when I booted up windows recently.. made me anxious.

I've been doing things slowly but the clean install seems to have way less bugs than the migration version even though it worked. But I'm also able to install icons on desktop now (which I thought was a weird bug).

Samba it seems to be working.. user and pw made. I just need to setup the folders and test it.

I have been more focused on auto mounting the drives and not have them turn read only. What I find strange is I gave my wife a second hard drive for her data storage and it auto mounts and is writeable with no issues.. with her settings set to nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show,x-gvfs-name=HardDrive2 but if I do that on ultramarine it still sets it to read only.

Maybe it's because it's exfat and not ext4? /shrug

 

[Indus]

nevermind didn't work

 

[manly]

nevermind didn't work

Tried to leave a hint yesterday, so let's try again.

When the mount point is "read-only," what are the ownership and permissions of the directory?
How do you check if a mount is in fact read-only?
Can sudo help you with this testing?


Also interesting:

Automatically mounting remote shares in GNOME

Samba sucks, you don't need it. There's a good chance you don't need to install anything to follow this guide. Just a recent-ish version of GNOME and a text editor.

jshtab.github.io

 

[Indus]

Tried to leave a hint yesterday, so let's try again.

When the mount point is "read-only," what are the ownership and permissions of the directory?
How do you check if a mount is in fact read-only?
Can sudo help you with this testing?


Also interesting:

Automatically mounting remote shares in GNOME

Samba sucks, you don't need it. There's a good chance you don't need to install anything to follow this guide. Just a recent-ish version of GNOME and a text editor.

jshtab.github.io

Which distro are you using?

Because I'm getting different results with LMDE and Ultramarine.

LMDE doesn't set it to read only, but Ultramarine or any kind of Fedora does.

 

[Indus]

nevermind didn't work

Ok I think I've solved it..

I cannot auto mount the windows partition.. it creates problems but all the rest of them.. where my games and data are.. seem to be working and are writable.

This is what I did..

Downloaded disk utility from discover.. (it's a gnome utitility but works fine in KDE) and edited the mount points to new ones and gave it new defaults to look like this instead of "defaults"



This way all of my drives other than the Windows Partition seem to be mounted at startup and are writable.

Going to do a few reboots to see everything works.. but it seems to be holding.

And I also found a command to remove old kernels which were bugging me a bit at boot up:

sudo dnf remove $(dnf rq --installonly --latest-limit=-2)

 

[Indus]

@ch33zw1z Carrying over from the other thread

Show us:

Mount -a | grep sd

df -h

Fdisk -l

From the link “Also, one thing I forgot to mention is that items in /run directory are on tmpfs so everything will be cleared upon reboot, and you will need to recreate the directory every time.”

Sounds like u may want to redo where your drives and or folders are mounting to, but need a but more

Mounting done in the above post and here is what you requested.



Also samba now looks like this with the change to /mnt instead /run



Does that look right?

And btw thank you for trying to help me!!

I tried Nobara, then bazzite.. loved them but had issues with setting up samba.. but Ultramarine seems a lot easier to configure while still having the solid gaming base! Just hoping to set this up and I'll have a perfectly working linux distro!

 

[ch33zw1z]

For mount and fdisk, use lower case for all letters.

Df looks ok, post fstab output as well, just cat the file to display it

Looks ok on the samba file afaict

 

[Indus]

For mount and fdisk, use lower case for all letters.

Df looks ok, post fstab output as well, just cat the file to display it

Looks ok on the samba file afaict

jyaku on Earth ~
❯ fdisk -l
fdisk: cannot open /dev/sda: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdc: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdd: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/sde: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/nvme1n1: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/nvme0n1: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/zram0: Permission denied

jyaku on Earth ~
❯ mount -a| grep sd

Nothing happens:


fstab:

 

[ch33zw1z]

jyaku on Earth ~
❯ fdisk -l
fdisk: cannot open /dev/sda: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdc: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdd: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/sde: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/nvme1n1: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/nvme0n1: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/zram0: Permission denied

jyaku on Earth ~
❯ mount -a| grep sd

Nothing happens:


fstab:

View attachment 127820

Both the commands will need the sudo.

sudo mount -a | grep sd
sudo fdisk -l

Can you see the shared folder in windows box now?

 

[Indus]

Both the commands will need the sudo.

sudo mount -a | grep sd
sudo fdisk -l

jyaku on Earth ~
❯ sudo mount -a | grep sd
[sudo] password for jyaku:

jyaku on Earth ~ took 2s

❯ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 7.28 TiB, 8001563222016 bytes, 15628053168 sectors
Disk model: WDC WD80EMAZ-00W
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: B70819E4-E77F-4AC4-9949-051C7D72C17B

Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 15627984895 15627982848 7.3T Microsoft basic data


Disk /dev/sdb: 10.91 TiB, 12000138625024 bytes, 23437770752 sectors
Disk model: WDC WD120EDGZ-11
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 02339A7D-583B-4F3D-A954-C4ACE8527150

Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdb1 2048 23437768703 23437766656 10.9T Microsoft basic data


Disk /dev/sdc: 5.46 TiB, 6001175126016 bytes, 11721045168 sectors
Disk model: WDC WD60EDAZ-11U
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: EE799CEC-D663-4557-9DD7-42E667AC9F85

Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdc1 2048 11721043967 11721041920 5.5T Microsoft basic data


Disk /dev/sdd: 5.46 TiB, 6001175126016 bytes, 11721045168 sectors
Disk model: WDC WD60EDAZ-11U
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: B9803883-6EA3-41C3-A165-54DAD0AFA40D

Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdd1 2048 11721043967 11721041920 5.5T Microsoft basic data


Disk /dev/sde: 2.73 TiB, 3000592982016 bytes, 5860533168 sectors
Disk model: ST3000DM008-2DM1
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 93D4EBDD-2710-0000-9DEB-D8BBC1CC3BDB

Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sde1 2048 5860532223 5860530176 2.7T Microsoft basic data


Disk /dev/nvme1n1: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: WDC WDBA3V0010BNC-WRSN
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: D43C4E17-2E16-454A-6304-AA85E6B75F5E

Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/nvme1n1p1 2048 1026047 1024000 500M Windows recovery environment
/dev/nvme1n1p2 1026048 1953320959 1952294912 930.9G Microsoft basic data
/dev/nvme1n1p3 1953320960 1953525134 204175 99.7M EFI System


Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 1.82 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors
Disk model: PNY CS2241 2TB SSD
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: F8013073-6D18-4865-B4A8-9F056688854F

Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 1230847 1228800 600M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2 1230848 3327999 2097152 1G Linux extended boot
/dev/nvme0n1p3 3328000 3907028991 3903700992 1.8T Linux filesystem


Disk /dev/zram0: 8 GiB, 8589934592 bytes, 2097152 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

 

[Indus]

Can you see the shared folder in windows box now?

Since the ip of the computer is 192.168.1.235

I should try and see it in windows with:

\\192.168.1.235\Downloaded Movies\

right? Or am I typing that wrong? because it's not working and no prompt for username or password.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Since the ip of the computer is 192.168.1.235

I should try and see it in windows with:

\\192.168.1.235\Downloaded Movies\

right? Or am I typing that wrong? because it's not working and no prompt for username or password.

try with just the IP, and you can also try just browsing network via file explorer