16 November 2014

Redoing Lie-chan

A few days ago, I thought about how much I actually used Lie-chan (which is hardly), and so I decided to remove Windows from her.

When I looked at the her partitioning scheme, I decided I should actually just completely redo the scheme, since it would be quicker to do so than to move/resize partitions. I also poked around the BIOS a lot, since I knew Lie-chan is technically able to boot from USB, but just never was able to successfully do it. I figured it out and was able to utilize the USB flash drive with Linux distributions for installation.

Once I got to the partitioner step in openSUSE (13.1) installation, I realized it wasn't going to be easy to change the partition map to GPT with YaST2's partitioner, so I decided to reboot into Parted Magic(though I should have just aborted the installation and used GParted, but I was cold and slightly tired). When trying to boot Parted Magic, it was unable to find the necessary file, so I tried MultiSystem Live instead, which worked.

After setting up a basic partition scheme and installing openSUSE 13.1, I was then met with the right side of the audio not outputting sound at all. I decided to wait after setting up the repositories, the distribution upgrade, and updating to see if it's a package glitch of some sort - which it wasn't.

I tried a couple things and decided to head to bed, since I was too cold and tired to want to continue to figure it out. After lunch the next day (I woke up a bit before lunch), I went to tinker around with it some more, first trying alsamixer before pavucontrol.

In pavucontrol, I found that the right side of the audio was muted, and just had to increase the volume until both sides were at maximum. After exiting, I went into the sound settings and tested the sounds, which worked normally (besides that it was a lot louder than I was expecting); I then adjusted the volume in YaST2's sound setting and finished setting everything to how it used to be.

Definitely was one of the weirder glitches that I've had happen, but luckily I didn't have to fix it with a reinstall (the openSUSE 13.1 DVD isn't supported in MultySystem Live yet).

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