| === mjw-_ is now known as mjw- | ||
| fredsua | Cannot move "/home/fredd...top/cdroot" to the trash because you do not have permissions to change it or its parent folder. | 02:15 |
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| fredsua | does anyone know how to get around this? I am the administrator | 02:15 |
| ctop | sudo | 02:17 |
| ctop | or chown | 02:17 |
| Devo | hello | 03:43 |
| Devo | anyone around? | 03:43 |
| ctop | no | 03:43 |
| ctop | :-) | 03:44 |
| Devo | hha | 03:44 |
| Devo | i need to change the display options for my login screen | 03:44 |
| === _cbsd is now known as cbsd | ||
| Devo | xfce is fine, i set it in the control panel, but the login screen is all squished | 03:45 |
| Devo | and i can't seem to make Xorg do it | 03:45 |
| mjw- | Devo but once you're logged in it's fine? | 03:58 |
| Devo | yes | 04:06 |
| Devo | it switches | 04:06 |
| Devo | the problem being, when it switches, sometimes my monitor just stays black | 04:06 |
| cookiemonster077 | i need help getting wireless usb dongle to work | 04:18 |
| runemaste | Would xubuntu run well on a P2 500-600 mhz with 128 - 256 mb ram? | 05:15 |
| zoredache | it would run ok... but that doesn't mean resource-intensive application would run well | 05:16 |
| runemaste | im just thinking simple games, word processing... so there wouldnt be too much gui lag? | 05:17 |
| zoredache | it seems to me, that it would be easier to try it and find out if it is acceptable to you versus me trying to speculate... | 05:18 |
| runemaste | fair enough | 05:19 |
| zoredache | I suspect things will run ok | 05:19 |
| runemaste | now i need to see if i can seperate the computer from my sister... im wondering if its worth installing linux... its running (God help me) M$ at the moment and takes about ~2-3 minutes to boot and a whole minute to log in | 05:20 |
| Mar1 | Hello? | 05:47 |
| mjw- | *cough* | 05:47 |
| Mar1 | Anyone able to help me out please? | 05:47 |
| zoredache | Mar1: ask your question | 05:47 |
| Mar1 | (deep breath) I have an old Trident 3d AGP card running on a Dell monitor. I have to run under safe graphics mode to see anything, but can then install and run as normal. However... | 05:49 |
| Mar1 | I cannot change any graphics options, or the screen goes black and crap. Even if I test the current settings, the screen goes all garbled. | 05:49 |
| Mar1 | I basically have to stick with 1024 x 768 and the vesa drivers. | 05:49 |
| mjw- | I didn't even know trident made AGP cards | 05:50 |
| Mar1 | Trident Blade 8MB. | 05:50 |
| mjw- | what does lspci | grep -i vga return | 05:50 |
| Mar1 | No such file or directory. --> I am currently using a live cd as I borked my install messing round with resolutions and can't see anything anymore. | 05:52 |
| mjw- | lspci should be on the live cd | 05:52 |
| mjw- | it's a lowercase L in front | 05:52 |
| Mar1 | Yep. If I don't type return, I get: | 05:53 |
| Mar1 | 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems Blade 3D PCI/AGP (rev 3a) | 05:53 |
| mjw- | well, in theory, the 'trident' driver supports the card i think | 05:53 |
| Mar1 | Yeah, but again, changing resolutions or drivers makes things go bad when I click test. | 05:54 |
| mjw- | so you'd have to mount your installation, navigate to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, edit it and find the line that says Driver "vesa" to Driver "trident" | 05:54 |
| mjw- | that should have said, and change it to... | 05:54 |
| Mar1 | I have to leave everything as is, again, even as is test doesn't work, yet the display works. | 05:55 |
| Mar1 | When I choose that in the GUI and click test it doesn't work. Surely that's bad? | 05:55 |
| mjw- | well it should be the driver that works | 05:56 |
| mjw- | keep in mind 8MB of video ram is pretty paltry | 05:56 |
| mjw- | so a lot of modes won't work | 05:56 |
| Mar1 | Yeah, I'm definitely leaning on getting a Radeon 9600, I just hope that works. | 05:56 |
| Mar1 | Could you please tell me the command to mount my install? | 05:58 |
| mjw- | if you want to get something cheap that will work, an NVidia Geforce2MX or Geforce2MX400 or whatever might be best | 05:58 |
| mjw- | marl it should appear on the left pane in nautilus | 05:58 |
| Mar1 | I want to power a 2707wfp :p | 05:58 |
| mjw- | marl: then get a Geforce 7300GS or something | 05:59 |
| Mar1 | That's about 2x the price of a 9600 here in New Zealand. | 05:59 |
| mjw- | ouch | 05:59 |
| mjw- | i've not heard great things about the 9600 honestly. An 8xxx series might be a safer bet | 06:00 |
| mjw- | if you can still find those | 06:00 |
| mjw- | perhaps an X300? | 06:01 |
| Mar1 | Looking at my xorg.conf which won't display things now, and my old one which worked, my new one references the Trident driver, and my old one uses the vesa driver. I think I will just give up with this card. | 06:02 |
| Mar1 | I take it resolution and driver changing works okay for everyone else? | 06:03 |
| mjw- | marl: i tweaked my xorg.conf...of course, i'm on a single resolution LCD basically | 06:03 |
| Mar1 | Can I just rename my old xorg.conf to replace my new not working one? Or do I need to rebuild something/wear a special hat? | 06:05 |
| mjw- | marl: no special hats required | 06:05 |
| Mar1 | Can't use the gui to rename it. It could be a permission thing. I had the install with a particular username and password. The Live CD wouldn't know it. Suggestions? | 06:09 |
| ron_o | how can I tell which version of xubuntu I have? | 06:09 |
| mjw- | lsb_release -a | 06:10 |
| ron_o | I have 7.04 feisty but have 275 updates still. is it safe to do so? | 06:11 |
| ron_o | for some reason firefox is crashing on me, and perhaps that can solve it. | 06:12 |
| ron_o | it's not like I need to update. | 06:12 |
| mjw- | um, it should be safe to update. you've uh just gotten a little behind | 06:12 |
| mjw- | Mar1 you need to do sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf_backup /etc/X11/xorg.conf | 06:13 |
| ron_o | thanks. | 06:13 |
| ron_o | it is a bit old. | 06:13 |
| ron_o | my burn that is. | 06:13 |
| mjw- | Mar1 and btw there's no way that blade card could power a 2707wfp | 06:13 |
| Mar1 | sudo, of course. Cheers. | 06:14 |
| mjw- | it simply doesn't have enough video memory | 06:14 |
| Mar1 | I know, but it is supposed to at least do 1600 x 1200, which is far better than the 1024 x 768 of now. | 06:14 |
| mjw- | 1920 x 1200 x 24bpp = 6.6MB at a minimum, plus X tends to double buffer nowadays and whatnot so 8MB ain't gonna cut it ;) | 06:17 |
| Mar1 | If my bios has AGP aperture selectable of either 32MB or 64MB, is there any point in a card that has more than 64MB RAM? | 06:18 |
| mjw- | unless you're going to be doing 3D stuff, I don't think it matters. I'm not all up on AGP apertures and other such settings though | 06:19 |
| mjw- | certainly > 64MB isn't going to help at all if you're just interested in 2D | 06:21 |
| Mar1 | Yeah, I also hope my 250W power supply could handle a 9600. Think so, though. | 06:26 |
| mjw- | as long as you don't get the super-duper-overclocked version of it, probably | 06:27 |
| Mar1 | But that one sounds really good. | 06:28 |
| mjw- | specifically i've had two people tell me the 9600XT is all kinds of trouble with both the open source and the binary driver | 06:28 |
| Mar1 | What about GeForce 6200? | 06:29 |
| mjw- | I don't know | 06:30 |
| mjw- | just don't get a matrox unless you like pain...not that anyone really sells them anymore ;) | 06:30 |
| mjw- | a matrox G550 DVI -might- be ok but man that card is long in the tooth even | 06:31 |
| LeAstrale | hi ppl | 09:55 |
| LeAstrale | any1 in here knows why Xubuntu doesn't remember my xorg settings = | 09:55 |
| TheSheep | LeAstrale: can you proide more details? | 09:57 |
| TheSheep | provide | 09:57 |
| LeAstrale | yes i can... at every boot i install the Nvidia 169.09 from fresh to get a good screen resolution again | 09:58 |
| LeAstrale | after a reboot xubuntu seems to forget that i've installed drivers at all and wants to start up in low graphics mode | 09:59 |
| TheSheep | LeAstrale: how do you install it? | 09:59 |
| LeAstrale | from cli using sh *nvidia driver filename* | 10:02 |
| LeAstrale | while root | 10:02 |
| TheSheep | why didn't you install the drivers from the ubuntu repositories? | 10:02 |
| LeAstrale | because they're no good for my 8800gt.. only the official nvidia drivers can make it work | 10:03 |
| TheSheep | the drivers in the restricted repositories are the official ones | 10:03 |
| TheSheep | just use the restricted drivers manager and it will install the right drivers | 10:04 |
| LeAstrale | restricted drivers management cant seem to find the card | 10:05 |
| TheSheep | :( | 10:05 |
| TheSheep | have you reported a bug? | 10:05 |
| LeAstrale | no i havent. | 10:06 |
| LeAstrale | i think ill check the forums again | 10:06 |
| TheSheep | I can't think of a solution for you now, but if you report it, I'm sure it will be fixed in the new version | 10:06 |
| TheSheep | and there might be a workaround right away | 10:07 |
| TheSheep | !bugs | 10:07 |
| ubotu | If you find a bug in Ubuntu or any of its derivatives, please file a bug report at: http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu - Bugs in/wishes for the bots can be filed at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu-bots | 10:07 |
| LeAstrale | ty TheSheep | 10:08 |
| TheSheep | LeAstrale: btw, the reason why it disappears every time you reboot is because ubuntu has the directory in which the drivers are kept mounted in a ramdisk | 10:09 |
| TheSheep | you can see it if you type 'mount' | 10:10 |
| LeAstrale | what to mount ? :S | 10:11 |
| deadnecro | just a quick question from a linux newbie if i may | 10:11 |
| LeAstrale | ahhh.. tried it :) | 10:11 |
| LeAstrale | http://xubuntu.pastebin.com/d2756adf3 | 10:13 |
| LeAstrale | here is what the terminakl replied on mount | 10:13 |
| deadnecro | I have a 2G SD card that I'm trying to format have tried using gnome partition manager and it won't format it also have tried undder windows saying its write protected was wondering if I could force a format with the command line or something | 10:13 |
| LeAstrale | deadnecro: have you checked the write protection tab on the card it self? if its enabled you won't be able to do anything | 10:14 |
| deadnecro | well i've tried it in both directions and neither work so I dunno whats going on | 10:15 |
| deadnecro | I can still read and write to it just cant format it | 10:15 |
| LeAstrale | just mark all folders and delete them ? | 10:16 |
| LeAstrale | unless you for some reason need a format | 10:16 |
| LeAstrale | to a different Fileformat | 10:16 |
| LeAstrale | deadnecro: camera's and so on can usually format the cards too | 10:16 |
| LeAstrale | brb | 10:17 |
| deadnecro | linux won't let me do anything with can only read and write | 10:17 |
| deadnecro | hasn't been in a camera or anything pretty sure its only been in my laptop and my girlfriensds laptop | 10:18 |
| deadnecro | can't delete the files as I now don't have any access to a windows machine | 10:18 |
| LeAstrale | hmm... if you cant alter the files on it then you only have read access AFAIK | 10:22 |
| LeAstrale | have you tried chmod to alter the permissions ? | 10:22 |
| deadnecro | ok tried it in my internal card reader even though it was saying it couldn't mount it and formatted it fine | 10:25 |
| deadnecro | ok so I can format in my internal card reader but cant mount it | 10:28 |
| deadnecro | if its in my other card reader I cant edit anything | 10:28 |
| deadnecro | any ideas | 10:28 |
| LeAstrale | bbl | 10:28 |
| LeAstrale | back | 11:20 |
| qwerkus | hello all | 11:42 |
| qwerkus | I own a site hosted on french isp free.fr | 11:42 |
| qwerkus | it s free of charge, but isp only allow connection from framce | 11:43 |
| qwerkus | ... whil i am in germany | 11:43 |
| qwerkus | *France | 11:43 |
| qwerkus | Is it possible to have a server running at home in France | 11:44 |
| qwerkus | and set up some tunnel between that server and my laptop in germany | 11:44 |
| qwerkus | so i can connect to my isp via a french IP ? | 11:44 |
| LeAstrale | it should be possible using your home server as proxy | 11:48 |
| LeAstrale | but thats all i know | 11:48 |
| runemaste | ... use ssh tunneling | 11:49 |
| runemaste | ssh server in france ssh client (ie putty for windows... not sure for linux) with tunneling set up | 11:49 |
| qwerkus | you mean via openssh ? | 11:50 |
| runemaste | ja | 11:53 |
| qwerkus | ok | 12:02 |
| qwerkus | thanks alot | 12:02 |
| nikolam | hi | 16:04 |
| nikolam | is there alternative way to make programs install, to sudo make install? | 16:05 |
| nikolam | I only have *.tar.gz source of program and I would like to make *.deb instead of making it install with ./configure , make , sudo make install | 16:06 |
| Mannequin | hi. can someone suggest me a burning software for Xubuntu, that let me choose the speed I want to burn an .iso? | 16:09 |
| TheSheep | Mannequin: brasero | 16:09 |
| slackl | can anyone help with cd dvd burning issues | 16:16 |
| Mannequin | TheSheep: I have brasero installed by default, but I didn't find any option to set the speed at which the iso will be burned | 16:16 |
| slackl | so it seems there are quite a few issues with burning dc etc in ubuntu | 16:17 |
| LeAstrale | how to change the pages to horizontal in OO Writer? | 16:30 |
| Darkmystere | Hello can someone help me i cant get my cubecap pictures nor my skydome pictures to take affect | 16:54 |
| LeAstrale | himppl | 17:57 |
| LeAstrale | hi ppl i meant :) | 17:57 |
| slow-motion | hi | 18:10 |
| LeAstrale | hi slow-motion | 18:11 |
| slow-motion | hi LeAstrale | 18:12 |
| danopia | hi | 18:33 |
| lordzos | I'm having problems SSH logging-in to my remote xubuntu box ... I'm connecting from a Gentoo box to the xubuntu | 18:47 |
| lordzos | I have a key-pair setup, that was working perfectly with my remote box | 18:47 |
| lordzos | now, however, I needed to -D a privileged port, so I enabled root login thru SSH temporarily | 18:48 |
| lordzos | I tried logging in a few times, without success | 18:48 |
| lordzos | then, dumbly, I logged out of my current SSH session in another window | 18:48 |
| lordzos | now it's not letting me get back in | 18:48 |
| lordzos | any ideas? | 18:48 |
| lordzos | My original keypair was working correctly | 18:49 |
| lordzos | I'd also set it up to temporarily accept password and challenge response authentication | 18:49 |
| lordzos | it connects - and prompts me for my password | 18:49 |
| lordzos | it then doesn't accept this 3 times | 18:50 |
| lordzos | then it switches from interactive to password mode | 18:50 |
| lordzos | and asks me again 3 more times | 18:50 |
| lordzos | it doesn't accept my proper password however | 18:50 |
| lordzos | and it's not picking up on the keypair at all | 18:50 |
| lordzos | I've been watching the SSH session using the -vvv param | 18:51 |
| lordzos | this made me think that it's maybe blocking my IP server-side | 18:51 |
| lordzos | is this a permanent block, assuming default config? | 18:51 |
| lordzos | or is it only for an hour or so? | 18:51 |
| lordzos | I've tried relogging in, after more than 30 minutes ... it's still not allowing me access | 18:52 |
| lordzos | thanks in advance for your help here ... | 18:52 |
| whabo | i need help please .. how to you scan for existing wireless networks around you .. instead of typing everything manually??? thank you | 19:17 |
| whabo | i need help please .. how to you scan for existing wireless networks around you .. instead of typing everything manually??? thank you ( in xubuntu) because i cant seem to find my network) can anyone shed some light? | 19:20 |
| whabo | !wireless | 19:23 |
| ubotu | Wireless documentation can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs | 19:23 |
| whabo | help anyone pleaaseeee | 19:38 |
| whabo | HELPPP | 19:38 |
| whabo | is there anyone here??? | 19:38 |
| nikolam | zes | 19:42 |
| nikolam | yes | 19:42 |
| nikolam | But i dont have a clue about wireless | 19:42 |
| nikolam | anyway, i have xfce plugin for xfce panel, called wavelan | 19:42 |
| nikolam | Wavelan should be something zou are looking for | 19:43 |
| whabo | oh thx | 19:57 |
| nikolam | whabo, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_tools_for_Linux | 20:04 |
| angelus_ | hi all | 20:24 |
| angelus_ | i'm using xubuntu and i rebuilt the alsa drivers to get sound working on my machine | 20:24 |
| angelus_ | now although i can watch dvds and listen to music on my machine, there is no system sound notifications | 20:25 |
| angelus_ | anyone have any idae where i should start looking? | 20:25 |
| _charlie | I am back | 21:30 |
| === _charlie is now known as sp219 | ||
| sigve | Hi, does anyone here have any experience with rdesktop? | 21:32 |
| sigve | more specifically: getting sound to transfer from the server to the client | 21:32 |
| siggjen | sound workd in rdesktop | 21:35 |
| vrkhans | can any one know how i can automaticall mount my external drive | 21:35 |
| sigve | siggjen: what setup did you use? | 21:36 |
| siggjen | i jsut use tsclient | 21:36 |
| sigve | what OS are you running on the server? | 21:37 |
| siggjen | XP SP2 | 21:38 |
| sigve | I'm running Vista, maybe thats the problem | 21:41 |
| sigve | I tried tsclient, to no avail | 21:41 |
| siggjen | the sound mixer is available? | 21:42 |
| sigve | yeah, it shows up with "rdp transport device" or something instead of the regular audio devices | 21:43 |
| siggjen | i had some problem with sound mixer being busy because of another program used it | 21:44 |
| sigve | like? | 21:45 |
| siggjen | firefox, amarok etc | 21:45 |
| siggjen | depends if you got hw or sw mixer | 21:46 |
| sigve | sw | 21:46 |
| sigve | I'll try to close as many programs as possible and try again | 21:46 |
| siggjen | my fix was to buy an usb soundcard d: | 21:48 |
| sigve | crap, that costs money ^^ | 21:49 |
| siggjen | and give nice sound quality | 21:51 |
| sigve | I might have an old pci-card about | 21:51 |
| sigve | *checks* | 21:51 |
| siggjen | sb live or such have hw mixer | 21:52 |
| sigve | sweet, i just found an sb live in an old pc in the basement :D | 21:58 |
| speaker219 | Does anyone know how to make the fonts in firefox look better in xfce? | 22:36 |
| speaker219 | They look very....bad. | 22:37 |
| speaker219 | It almost seems as if the fonts aren't being smoothed... | 22:37 |
| _Oz_ | Greetings, Xubuntu friends! | 23:18 |
| _Oz_ | I have the tiny font problem in Xubuntu. The system loads and the font sizes are so ridiculously tiny I can't even read them to open a terminal window. (The text in the terminal window is tiny too.) How can I boot so that the GUI doesn't load, and I can edit some conf files so that I can fix this problem? I have GRUB. Thanks. | 23:19 |
| sigve | siggjen: | 23:33 |
| sigve | I finally got the sb live card working, but sound in rdesktop still doesnt work | 23:34 |
| sigve | any ideas? | 23:34 |
| _Oz_ | Greetings, Xubuntu friends! | 23:37 |
| _Oz_ | I have the tiny font problem in Xubuntu. The system loads and the font sizes are so ridiculously tiny I can't even read them to open a terminal window. (The text in the terminal window is tiny too.) How can I boot so that the GUI doesn't load, and I can edit some conf files so that I can fix this problem? I have GRUB. Thanks. | 23:37 |
| LeAstrale | hi ppl im back :) | 23:38 |
| _Oz_ | Greetings, Xubuntu friends! | 23:42 |
| _Oz_ | I have the tiny font problem in Xubuntu. The system loads and the font sizes are so ridiculously tiny I can't even read them to open a terminal window. (The text in the terminal window is tiny too.) How can I boot so that the GUI doesn't load, and I can edit some conf files so that I can fix this problem? I have GRUB. Thanks. | 23:42 |
| LeAstrale | _Oz_: just boot into the rescue system from you're Grub menu ? | 23:43 |
| _Oz_ | thanks | 23:47 |
| LeAstrale | yw _Oz_ | 23:47 |
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