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dru http://blog.myfenris.net/?p=377 haryono00:00
druchull: your not giving the full path to the file there00:01
druyou are not in root00:01
druchull:???00:01
druyou there?00:01
chullcalled son.. he says to fix the new box00:06
chulldru you are wonderful00:06
ejupinI have an older Dell laptop without built in wifi. What brand wifi pc card seems to work best with Kubuntu?00:08
dru ejupin: have you given madwifi a shot yet?00:09
ejupindru: no, not familiar with it00:10
druejupin: http://paste.ubuntu.com/17744/00:10
drui do that00:10
druand it always works00:11
ejupindru: what is it? it finds drivers?00:11
druits a driver itself00:12
drulemme see00:12
ejupindru: ok but im not at that point yet., im just trying to find what pc cards work best before buying one that we all know wont work out of the box00:13
druhttp://madwifi.org/00:13
druwell it really depends on the chipset00:13
druyou can get almost anythg to work in linux00:13
ejupindru: thanks, i know that.. i think you are missing my point00:14
SabreWolfylater00:14
druyou could also use ndiswrapper for the actual windows driver00:14
druyeah okay00:14
druone sec00:14
drupeace out SabreWolfy00:15
druejupin https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessCardsSupported00:17
druejupin as you can see theres a huge list there00:17
ejupindru: thanks much00:17
alexalexanyone get bluetooth headset working00:19
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alexalex__123bluetooth help anyone?00:25
Dr-Willi!bluetooth00:26
ubottuFor instructions on how to set up bluetooth, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BluetoothSetup00:26
alexalex__123i have my bluetooth up and it finds my device which is a a2dp headset00:26
dru*dru is quitting for the day00:27
alexalex__123just posts a host error when i try to connect them00:27
drupeace out yall00:27
TonrenHow do I disable the tone on desktop changes in KDE4?00:27
alexalex__123mm anyone has a2dp bluetooth profile working?00:29
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alesanI'd really like to find a tool that lets me edit pdf files. just to add text00:39
_CrashMaster_Adobe Acrobat00:39
engineeracrobar professional00:44
engineert*00:44
speeddemon24hi guys im back :).00:47
coreymon77how do you check for bad sectors on a drive, inconsistencies etc on a livecd00:47
deitarionMy mother just got a new laptop and I don't want to boot into Vista even once but she wants me to save a copy of the base install and recovery partition. What's the recommended way to save a 120GB drive to an image over the network using the LiveCD. Keep in mind that I think I only have about 100GB free on my machine right now.00:48
deitarion(I'll need something which compresses what it receives before writing to disk)00:48
speeddemon24google it. sorry thats all i know to do about that im clueless.00:48
deitarionUgh. I suppose I could always use netcat to pipe /dev/sda to a bzip archive over the network.00:49
bdizzleis there a way to view webcams on Kubuntu?00:50
nosrednaekim!webcam00:50
ubottuInstructions for using webcams with Ubuntu can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Webcam - Supported cams: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsMultimediaWebCameras00:50
bdizzleno no, I'm not the one with a webcam, just to view one via the web00:51
bdizzleor via GAIM or IRC00:51
PhoenixGIbdizzle probably just need the codec for the video feed that camara sends00:53
nosrednaekimoh! yes.... using what protocol?00:53
bdizzleGAIM00:53
nosrednaekimyou can do it with MSN00:53
nosrednaekimin kopete00:54
bdizzleeh, Pidgen or Konversation00:54
nosrednaekimnither can do it00:54
bdizzledamn00:54
bdizzlebut Kopete can under an AIM account?00:54
nosrednaekimhmm.... not aim I don't think... only MSN00:54
TannHello00:55
nosrednaekimoh... skype can do it too00:55
TannIs there a way to change default settings of new users? Like set the default wallpaper, kicker background, etc?00:57
Dr-WilliTann,  it comes from /etc/skel when you make their account I belive00:57
TannDr-Willi: ok. let me se00:58
bdizzle gah, now how do I use Kopete to add in MSN? IT came up and I entered it in under AIM, but I can't figure out how to switch to MSN00:58
nosrednaekimbdizzle: you fo configure kopete, delete the account and make a new none01:01
bdizzleok01:02
TannDr-Willi: That appears to be only the bash defaults.01:02
bdizzleok, thanks01:02
TonrenHow can I convert a KDE3 .kcsrc fileto a KDE4 color source file?01:03
Dr-WilliTann,  any settings/files in that dir. get copied to the newly made /home/usersname dir. its 'cloned'  -  so if you want  somthing  to be in every new users account. you can copy/make the config files in that dir and it will get cloned to the newly made accounts01:03
Dr-Willinow there MAY be some other place that kde looks to grab its 'defaults' when none exist also.. not sure where those are at.01:04
TannDr-Willi: ok cool. I get what you mean. Thanks01:05
Mojo_risinthere is some automated process to migrate settings from kde 3 to 4?01:15
nosrednaekimMojo_risin: nope, not yet01:17
Mojo_risinnosrednaekim: is it planned? is there any kind of docs available?01:17
nosrednaekimMojo_risin: its planned for intrepid01:18
Mojo_risinnosrednaekim:  i'm more interested in apps settings; they differ a lot from 3 to 4?01:18
nosrednaekimMojo_risin: alot of it is transferable, so if you just copy over your .kde to your .kde4, everything should work fairly well01:19
Mojo_risinor it should be a matter of copying stuf01:19
Mojo_risinnosrednaekim: cool. kdepim included?01:19
nosrednaekimonly thing I've run into is Kmail smtp accounts not getting transfered, but thats trivial: all my mail is there01:20
Mojo_risindid you tryed kopete?01:20
nosrednaekimI wasn't using kopete pre-kde401:20
Mojo_risinno?? :)01:20
nosrednaekimbut a freind upgraded and it worked fine for him01:20
nosrednaekimnah... I was a pidgin dude :P01:21
Mojo_risinbah :P01:21
Mojo_risinnice :) btw, if you see flacity around could you please thank him? he fixed composite on my ati X700 and I would like to thanks him, but i'm going to thailand for the 3 weeks :)01:22
nosrednaekimflaccid?01:24
Mojo_risinnosrednaekim: that yes :)01:24
nosrednaekimyup.... NP01:24
Mojo_risinthanks01:24
haryonoi have open the website remommende and this is i got what is it mean?01:38
haryono now lets start by checking the device detected ..01:38
haryonofenris@thinkbuntu:~$ lsusb01:38
haryono Bus 007 Device 001: ID 0000:000001:38
haryono Bus 006 Device 001: ID 0000:000001:38
haryono Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0483:2016 SGS Thomson Microelectronics Fingerprint Reader01:38
haryono Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0a5c:2110 Broadcom Corp.01:38
haryono Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:000001:38
Jucato!flood | haryono01:38
haryono Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0ac8:301b Z-Star Microelectronics Corp. ZC0301 WebCam01:38
haryono Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:000001:38
haryono Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:000001:38
haryono Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:000001:38
haryono Bus 004 Device 002: ID 17ef:100301:38
haryono Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:000001:38
ubottuharyono: pastebin is a service to post large texts so you don't flood the channel. The Ubuntu pastebin is at http://paste.ubuntu.com (be sure to give the URL of your paste - see also the #kubuntu channel topic)01:38
haryonoplease tell me how to understand those message above01:39
haryonoim totally blank on....01:39
Dr-Williwhats to understand?  you have a webcam and a fingerprint reader...01:47
nosrednaekimand a USB wireless01:52
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haryonohow to play audio/video player in kubuntu ?02:10
p_quarlesharyono, what have you tried so far?02:12
Dr-WilliI just use gmplayer/mplayer/smplayer and the proper codecs02:18
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beverhello :)02:51
PhoenixGIHello02:52
RameTuxHello02:52
beveranyone here know anything about installing the fancy desktop cube (XGL) on kubuntu 8.04 hardy heron? im looking for a good howto file because i only just started on kubuntu, used to use suse..02:53
Dr_WillisWhy do people bend over backwards for a useless bit of eye candy. :)02:54
Dr_Willis!cubt02:54
ubottuFactoid cubt not found02:54
Dr_Willis!cube02:54
ubottuCompiz-Fusion (and the older Compiz and Beryl) are window managers that employ the "composite" extension of X to draw windows using graphics cards' 3D hardware. They can additionally provide "desktop special effects" (such as the "cube") by means of plug-ins. Join #compiz-fusion for help and support with advanced features. See also « /msg ubotu compiz » and « /msg ubotu effects »02:54
Dr_Willisbever,  install the compiz stuff. install the ccsm tool. enable 4x1 rows of desktops, enable the cube feature.02:55
beverkewl thanks ill go try that now :)02:56
nohelpherein xvnc how do you change the settings so it doesn't give all people full control?03:03
flaccidMojo_risin: ping03:08
Jucatomr--t: ping03:09
beverhmm sccsm doesnt seem to work :S03:09
mr--tping what03:09
bdizzlewhy can I never get configure, make, make install to work?03:09
Jucatomr--t: remember your question a few days ago about increasing the space between lines in konversation?03:09
mr--tyes03:09
Dragnslcrbdizzle- because you're doing it wrong03:10
Jucatoit will be in the next release (which is very soon)03:10
bdizzlefigures03:10
Jucatomr--t: it will be in the next release (which is very soon)03:10
mr--tok03:10
Jucatohehe I thought you'd be happier :P03:11
mr--tJucato: im also reading about a kernel version 2.6.2303:11
Jucatonext release of Konversation I mean03:12
mr--twhy are we still using 2.6.22?03:12
* mr--t thinks he understood what you meant03:12
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coteyrI need to do something really simple. I want to change some of the sessions in konsole. I want to remve things like midnight commander and such that I have no use for03:13
Jucatomr--t: because at the time that Hardy was being prepared, 2.6.22 is probably the latest stable kernel version03:13
coteyrBut I can't seem to figure out how03:13
mr--tok  but the docs i'm reading are from 200703:14
Jucatowait what version of Kubuntu are you running?03:14
mr--tJucato: my bad i'm running 2.6.24.1803:15
WoxdeeI'm using apt-build to recompile konqueror for my CPU (apt-build install konqueror) - does this actually build all of kdebase ?03:15
Jucatomr--t:  :D03:16
JucatoWoxdee: you will have to03:16
WoxdeeIntegrally linked, eh?03:16
mr--tJucato: I'm trying to get rid of some of my old kernel versions but can't seem to03:16
WoxdeeJust as well, I was going to rebuild KDE later anyway.03:17
Jucatomr--t: you just uninstall them like any other package/app in Adept Manager or using apt-get03:17
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mr--t i do apt-get remove after listing them and it errors that they are not found03:18
localadminhi all !03:19
mr--t linux-image-2. 2.6.22-14.4603:19
randomshadowbmghow come half my sound ports are disabled?03:19
randomshadowbmgi have a sound card on my  motherboard with 6 ports and it has headphones and speakers hooked up on it, i can only use the headphones....03:19
Jucatomr--t: perhaps you got the package name/number wrong?03:20
mr--tapt-get remove linux-image-2. 2.6.22-14.4603:21
beverhmm compiz does not seem te be working :S03:22
* mr--t knows ther is a sudo before that command03:22
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Jucatomr--t: it's 2.6.22, not 2.2.603:23
mr--tbrb03:23
mr--tJucato: coundn't find package error03:25
Jucatomr--t: could you pastebin the output of "aptitude search linux-image-2.6.22"?03:26
Jucato!pastebin | mr--t03:26
ubottumr--t: pastebin is a service to post large texts so you don't flood the channel. The Ubuntu pastebin is at http://paste.ubuntu.com (be sure to give the URL of your paste - see also the #kubuntu channel topic)03:26
beveranyone have any idea why compiz isnt responding to any changes i make.. it actually looks as if its not using compiz :S03:26
mr--tJucato: pasted i think?03:29
Jucatomr--t: give the link please03:30
mr--thttp://paste.ubuntu.com/17783/03:30
mr--tsorry03:30
Jucatomr--t: ok. then as you see, the package name is linux-image-2.6.22-14-generic03:31
Jucatobut what kernel version are you currently using?03:31
mr--tok...03:31
Jucatorun "uname -r" please03:31
mr--t2.6.24-18-generic03:31
JucatoI see. you can remove the 2.6.22-14-generic one. but it's usually recommended to leave one other stable kernel lying around. just in case.03:32
mr--tJucato: see past bin again03:34
mr--tpaste^03:34
ZirodayI accidently hid the main menu bar of kopete, how do I get it hback?03:34
mr--thttp://paste.ubuntu.com/17784/03:35
mr--tJucato:  ?03:38
Jucatomr--t: you can just leave one other stable kernel. so leave the one you're using plus another one that you know is stable03:39
mr--tJucato: thats what i want to do but i can't make any go03:40
Jucatoyou were using a wrong package name earlier.03:41
mr--tJucato: could you show me the correct syntax?03:42
JucatoI already did03:43
Jucato<Jucato> mr--t: ok. then as you see, the package name is linux-image-2.6.22-14-generic03:43
Jucatomr--t: do not use the output from dpkg -l. the Name field is cut off03:44
mr--toh gotcha that did it03:45
mr--tJucato:  thanks a million I dual boot with this machine and my wife freaks out enough having to go through grub there were getting to be too many choices for her to be comfortable. this should make her happy thanks again03:48
Jucatono probs03:49
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PhoenixGI!ftp04:05
ubottuFTP clients: !Nautilus, !gFTP (for !GNOME) - !Konqueror, !Kasablanca, !KFTPGrabber (for !KDE) - See also !FTPd04:05
PhoenixGIKonqueror is a Ftp client?04:06
jhutchinsPhoenixGI: Yep.04:10
jhutchinsalso wget, curl, lynx...04:10
compilerwriteramong other things phoenixgl04:10
PhoenixGIOh so it's a FTP client as much as IE is,  not like cuteFTP for windows04:11
PhoenixGIerr just not like04:11
PhoenixGIfeature wise04:11
compilerwriterAnybody here a superkaramba expert?04:12
jhutchinsPhoenixGI: emulates file browser mode in FTP, you can drag and drop.04:12
compilerwriter#there is no one responding at #superkaramba04:12
jhutchinsPhoenixGI: Especially if you use split screen.04:13
jhutchinsPhoenixGI: I don't use it much for ftp, but for scp (fish) I find it very useful.04:13
jhutchinsPhoenixGI: straight ftp I usually use wget, but I'll use konq to browse a repo or search.04:13
jhutchinsIf I'm doing anything significant I'll use rsync.04:14
jhutchins!info superkaramba04:14
ubottusuperkaramba (source: kdeutils): a program based on karamba improving the eyecandy of KDE. In component universe, is optional. Version 4:3.5.9-0ubuntu3 (hardy), package size 531 kB, installed size 1420 kB04:14
jhutchinsHeh.  What a surprise that there's no large body of followers or developers.04:15
jhutchins1info karamba04:15
PhoenixGIjhutchins Thanks for the info.04:15
jhutchins!info karamba04:15
ubottuPackage karamba does not exist in hardy04:15
flaccidfish != scp :)04:25
flaccidand for ftp etc, i recommend Krusader !  :o04:25
PhoenixGIKrusader eh04:27
flaccidyou become addicted..04:29
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PhoenixGI??04:30
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ulala2.6.25-5.slh.1-sidux-68604:45
TonrenI upgraded to KDE 4.1beta, and now my laptop's volume keys don't work.  Anyone know what's up?04:45
permanewbI am running ubuntu 7.10. In KDE in System Settings, if I click administrator mode, I am not prompted and nothing changes. Do you know what that could be about?05:04
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mr--t!root05:08
ubottuDo not try to guess the root password, that is impossible. Instead, realise the truth... there is no root password. Then you will see that it is 'sudo' that grants you access and not the root password. Look at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo05:08
permanewbmr-t: what do you mean?05:09
mr--tasministrator is root05:10
mr--tadministrator^05:10
permanewbmr-t: and?05:11
mr--tclick the link and read up on it05:11
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permanewbmr-t: I have. I can run sudo. What does that have to do with administrator mode button in kde?05:12
mr--tIf you open the program from terminal as root you will be in adminitrator mode05:12
permanewbmr-t: okay, how do I open system settings from teh command line?05:14
mr--tI have found that sometimes the radio button doesn't work depending on the program and your version05:14
doctorquincyi have a question05:15
doctorquincyis it true that KDE and GNOME are made with different programming languages05:15
NickPrestadoctorquincy, Gnome uses mostly C. KDE uses mostly C++, AFAIK05:17
mr--tpermanewb: what are you trying to set05:17
doctorquincythanks NickPresta05:17
permanewbmr--t: my monitor type and refresh rate05:18
mr--tWhen you click on admin do you get a red border and an applet asking for root pswd05:19
permanewbmr--t: the red border appears briefly then goes away. I am not prompted05:20
mr--tI had the same problem but it went away with my last update05:21
mr--tNickPresta:  ant thought?05:21
mr--tany^05:22
NickPrestamr--t, That used to be a bug with system-settings. I'm not sure if it still is. I would search google/launchpad and see if it is still a problem in hardy05:22
mr--tpermanewb: what version are you running05:23
mr--tmy settings work now05:23
permanewbmr--t: 7.10. Unfortunately, I can't upgrade at the moment because of time constraints. If that's the answer I'll wait until I can upgrade. Thanks for helping me.05:24
mr--tnp05:24
permanewbI have to restart my window manager. Thanks again.05:25
mr--tyour welcome05:25
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grendal_primehey this may sound stupid..but well.ok im stupid.. I fired up compiz  and now...i dont know how to turn it off05:48
grendal_primeive tried rebooting the machine even and that didnt seem to do it ither.05:48
NickPrestagrendal_prime, Alt+F2. In that Run box, type: kwin --replace05:49
grendal_primek05:49
grendal_primebitchen thanks05:49
NickPrestaalternately, to start compiz again: compiz --replace05:50
grendal_primenot that i dislike compiz..but i mean lets face it..its a pig on resources05:50
grendal_primeand this machine is loaded05:50
grendal_primeim going to create a couple of scripts that do that though05:50
grendal_primethanks for the info05:50
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latI installed several gnome packages on my KED4 system, but the install complained that libraries were missing. Is there any way I can get those libraries to be installed without having to type them in one by one?05:59
grendal_primeya that compiz --replace doesnt work so well..i get a bizarro desktop with no window manager basically06:00
grendal_primejust compiz seems to do the trick (to turn it on anyway.)06:00
axellat: apt should manage this. Perhaps you have to activte some repositories.06:01
axellat: which repositories do you use?06:02
grendal_primeand something else  I can only get two desktops with compiz on..wich makes for a crappy 3d cube by the way.06:02
NickPrestagrendal_prime, when you do compiz --replace, you also have to do `emerald --replace` to get the Emerald decorations06:03
lataxel, I don't know. I just use synaptic to download the packages.06:03
NickPrestalat, are you saying you're missing dependencies?06:04
grendal_primewell i think if i just use "compiz" it does that automatically06:04
latNickPresta, yes, I think so.06:04
NickPrestalat, can you do this in a Konsole and paste me the output: sudo apt-get -f install06:05
NickPresta!pastebin | lat06:05
ubottulat: pastebin is a service to post large texts so you don't flood the channel. The Ubuntu pastebin is at http://paste.ubuntu.com (be sure to give the URL of your paste - see also the #kubuntu channel topic)06:05
NickPrestapaste it there06:05
axellat: What's the content of /etc/apt/sources.list? (as ubottu said, please use pastebin and write the URL here).06:05
latOk, working....06:06
grendal_primeits werid when compiz is running i can only have 2 desktops06:08
grendal_prime?06:08
flaccidgrendal_prime: #compiz-fusion06:08
NickPrestagrendal_prime, you need to ask in #compiz-fusion06:08
NickPrestaCompiz treats KDE's virtual desktops strangely, or something similar to that, so its a compiz issue06:09
flaccidi remember its an issue of some kind too06:09
NickPrestalat, you still there?06:10
lataxel, NickPresta, and ubottu, the problem is on a different computer than the one I'm using now. And I have another problem on that computer that is going to have to be fixed first. I did something that messed up the display. It comes up totally black. How can I boot up to the command line so I can fix it?06:13
NickPrestalat, when your system boots up, you can pres Control+Alt+F1 (F1 through F6 will work) to get to the console. You can run; sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg06:14
latNickPresta, ok thanks. Let me fix that problem, then I'll log back on from that computer.06:15
axellat: perhaps you don't need to reboot, just try the shortcut NickPresta wrote.06:15
NickPrestalat, okay. I may not be here when you return (I'm late where I am) so if no one else can help you tonight, just /msg me with your pastebin URL, any additional information and a contact address and I will get back to you ASAP06:16
NickPrestaalthough I'm sure there are people available here to help you06:16
xenosHmm...i installed kde4 but there's no panel. Any idea?06:17
LynoureSeems that with the newest kernel knetworkmanager no longer finds the network after the system has come back from hibernation. How can I fix it?06:18
axellat: It might be, that I won'Ät respond for quite a time as my current tasks imply that something has to be done not at the computer.06:18
lataxel, NickPresta, and ubottu, I also have some other business to attend to, so I may not be able to get back on for awhile. But you have all encouraged me that my problems are not insolvable. Thanks. Hopefully we will meet again someday soon.06:21
flaccidxenos: #kubuntu-kde406:21
* mr--t waves to Lynoure06:25
Lynoureoh, seems my problem is with the second to newest kernel, so maybe there is hope.06:25
* mr--t believes there is always hope06:27
Lynouremr--t: I too, but at one point no one knew how to get my hibernation working for a year or so, and hope here would be getting it work a bit sooner than that :)06:29
mr--t :-)06:29
Roeyhi06:34
Roeyanyone know what's up with this?  http://rafb.net/p/HTGdwA53.html06:34
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LynoureRoey: and it persists over reboots?06:42
Roeyyes06:42
Roeyyes it does.06:42
LynoureRoey: what's the volume in question?06:44
Roey/dev/sdc1 is an sd card reader with an sd card in it.06:45
LynoureRoey: if you have it in /etc/fstab, you could try commenting it out / removing it from there06:45
RoeyLynoure:06:45
Roeyok06:45
seraph\quit06:45
Roeybut I get this message as soon as I connect06:45
RoeyI get it through a pop-up in kde06:45
LynoureRoey: yes, it does not wait. But getting that will not interfere with you editing /etc/fstab, does it?06:46
avisheksorry to barge in, but could anyone please tell me if it is possible to resume an interrupted do-release-upgrade?06:46
LynoureBecause having a device hal tries to manage there is a very common reason for that symptom.06:46
Lynoureavishek: I don't think there is any way guaranteed to work, that's why upgrading with the cd is recommended06:47
RoeyLynoure:  ok, one sec lemme look in fstab06:48
avishekthank you lynoure. but i get an  MP_BIOS bug with the alternate cd.06:48
RoeyLynoure:  so sdc3 is not currently in fstab.  Shall I add it?06:48
LynoureRoey: no.06:49
Roeyok06:49
LynoureRoey: and hald is running?06:49
Roeyyes06:50
Roeyso, yeah.  This thing just doens't work.06:50
RoeyImean, I can mount manually on the command line,06:51
Roeybut automounting just plain doesn't work.06:51
LynoureWell, it does for many other people, so a bit patience. Though this is getting too deep for my lazy Saturday morning pro-bono06:51
Roeyah ok06:52
RoeySorry, I'm cranky because it's 01:52 here and I'm exhausted ;)06:52
Roeyso how about continuing in the morning once I'mr efreshed?06:52
avishekjust one more question please, if i may?06:52
mr--tavishek: try google for the error message, ther are many hits when i tried06:53
LynoureRoey: someone else probably will. I don't plan to be here very long today.06:53
Roeythanks then!06:53
Roeyhave a good night, Lynoure06:53
LynoureRoey: thanks. You have a good morning, too :)06:54
Roey:)06:54
LynoureI guess I should reboot to see if kernel change fixed my knetworkmanager annoyance.06:54
avishekthank you mr--t. i did do a google, but the answers seemed far too dense for a newbie like me06:55
mr--tis ther more to the error06:55
RoeyLynoure:  oh?  So you had problems with knetworkmanager? heh ok06:55
cary_jebuswhenever i start kde i get no panel06:56
avishekno mr--t. the problem goes like this: after a lot of nightmares, i managed to get kubuntu 6.06 running on my laptop. it's a toshiba satellite l30 with 256 megs ram.06:57
gpscary_jebus, if i would have been at ur place i would have just deleted .kde folder06:57
cary_jebuswhy06:57
avishek...so i couldn't do a live cd install for kubuntu 8.04...06:57
mr--tkubuntu needs 384mb06:58
avishekso instead i tried the alternate cd approach, but then i get the MP_BIOS bug and a freeze over06:58
avisheki know, but i just can't resist kubuntu06:59
mr--tjust mp-bios or is ther more06:59
avishekmr--t: there's nothing more. just hangs after that06:59
mr--tno I mean MP_BIOS........07:00
avishekno, sorry. message goes something like: cannot proceed: mp-bios bug flagged07:01
avishekthat's the end of the message07:01
mr--tI have another box that i play with and it only has 296mb ram and I tried to install k804 3 different ways with no joy07:02
avishekmt--t: i really appreciate your help on this, but i'm resigned to using 6.06 on my laptop; however, i had no problems with my desktop07:02
avishek8.04 runs like a dream on my assembled desktop, even with 256 megs ram07:03
mr--tKubuntu installed only need 256, you need 384 for the live cd07:04
skircr115i'm running 8.04 on my laptop, it runs fine...07:04
avisheki have another problem with my laptop: no sound. i found the fix on linlap.com but i don't know how to implement. could you help please?07:04
avishekit says that i have to recompile the kernel with a particular flag in the ALSA module. (sos)07:05
avishekhow does one do that?07:05
skircr115now i don't know what to do for that, my sound works fine, i'd say go download the driver for your sound card... or look at the sound system settings07:06
skircr115it may just need to be configured07:06
skircr115#mozilla07:07
avishekaccording to linlap.com, the kernel has to be recompile with a REALTEK flag in the alsa module07:07
avishekbut that really defeats me07:08
skircr115hmm... odd, usually it does that during start up.07:08
skircr115idk what else you could try.07:08
LynoureRoey: Network through it just did not work after a recovery from hibernation.07:08
Roeyok07:08
LynoureSeems ok now, but I should try if so that I hibernate in mid-traffic07:09
skircr115i now feel just as lost as you feel07:09
LynoureBut that's for some other day07:09
avisheknot really much. sound manager in system settings is ghosted out07:09
avishekvolume manager icon is slashed out07:09
skircr115great... i'd try a reinstall then...07:09
avisheki've reinstalled thrice07:10
avishektwice because of an x-server problem07:10
skircr115right click on it... try to enable it somehow....07:10
skircr115ah... i see07:10
LynoureUsually reinstall is not really needed07:10
Lynourethere is dpkg-reconfigure for a reason :)07:10
skircr115i understand that, but in some rare cases it is needed.07:10
avishekso, some really smart people have said that recompiling the kernel with a realtek flag fixes the problem...07:11
avishekunfortuately, they haven't explained how to do that07:11
skircr115yeah, idk how either.07:11
flaccid!kernel07:11
ubottuThe core of the Ubuntu Operating System is the Linux kernel: see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel - You shouldn't have to compile your own, but if you're convinced you do, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile - See also: /msg ubottu stages07:11
avishekthank you all, will do! really appreciate all your help.07:12
TannHello07:12
skircr115np07:12
avisheki must say though, kubuntu has been the most seductive experience with computers07:13
skircr115hope it works out.07:13
mr--tnite all07:13
skircr115nite07:13
TannI was wondering if anyone knew how to set the permissions of a file for a certaing user in the terminal07:13
avishekwould you beleive it? i live in india, used computers for 10 years; and never heard about linux just because win32 is so prevalent07:13
flaccid!permissions | Tann07:13
ubottuTann: An explanation of how files and directories are organized on Ubuntu, and how they can be manipulated, can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LinuxFilesystemTreeOverview07:13
flaccidTann: right click on it and goto properties. if you need root, do kdesudo dolphin for example07:14
skircr115yeah? i learned about it about 2 years ago07:14
Tannflaccid: like i said, "in the terminal"07:14
avisheki learned about it only a month ago. and loved it instantly. just wish i could contribute more meaningfully to this project07:14
skircr115a friend told me about it. yeah, i had ubuntu, just updated to new Kubuntu today07:15
avishekso i'm considering learning programming, though it seems rather daunting to a simple mind like mine07:15
Tannmaybe this is a better way to put the question. How do i set the owner of a file/directory in the terminal07:15
skircr115nah, i'm sure that it would be pretty simple, i'd like to learn it too07:16
flaccidTann: learn chmod as per link above07:16
skircr115it'd be a very good skill to know07:16
avisheki hope so. well, i wish you all the best in your efforts07:17
flaccidTann: sudo chmod07:17
avisheki found out a nice reference book: c++ programming by Deitel. Prenhall publishers. seems very nice07:18
skircr115awesome, ill check it out, night guys07:18
avishekgood night; thanks again for all your help; hope we meet again.07:18
skircr115yeah. np, i'm new at this too... but i've been around computers all 15 years of my life.07:19
skircr115p.s. i'm only 15... lol07:19
djdarkmanI think that desktop effects forces kde4 to use kwin3 how can I change this?07:19
avishekwll, i'm most impressed.07:19
flacciddjdarkman: #kubuntu-kde4 but i think the kwin4 came in with beta 1..07:20
arogarthhello07:20
skircr115have a good night y'all.07:20
arogarthneed help by googleearth07:20
arogarthcant connect to googleearth server with my user07:21
flaccid!googleearth'07:21
ubottuFactoid googleearth' not found07:21
flaccid!googleearth07:21
ubottuGoogle Earth is now available, for free (only as in price), for Linux, too. To download it see http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html - A package for Ubuntu is available in the !Medibuntu repository07:21
arogarththx07:21
flaccidi'll install it myself arogarth07:21
arogarththe problem is, it runs as root07:23
flaccidwhy?07:23
arogarthi cant connect to the server from google by normal user and i see nothinggoogleearth as root in it. But it runs, if i start07:23
arogarthi have the version 4.307:24
flaccidso thats probably your problem07:24
flaccidlol07:25
flaccidwell so much for helping with that07:26
ajspawnhello07:31
ajspawnanyone from usa07:31
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_TerroR_hello, I've downloaded the kubuntu dvd recently. When I try to install, the installer seems to be unable to recognize the partitioning on my HDD... any ideas on what this might be?07:51
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_TerroR_anybody home?)07:52
mhazterror:check the md5 sum on your kubuntu iso, it should recognize any partition07:59
th_shdwwhat's up with 2.6.18 virtualbax modules??07:59
MyVoicehi all07:59
frybyeHi - there is a system to use a usb-storage stick to supply the root authentification instead of entering the password all the time.. what is this system called and which hardware works for it...?07:59
th_shdwthey are not in the repositories07:59
_TerroR_mhaz: I have, they are identical. Moreover, i dowloaded it as a torrent08:01
_TerroR_so i think the files are correct08:01
frybyeforget it - I just found the info with google - sorry...08:01
flaccidfrybye: what exactly is the password on?08:02
frybyeflaccid: for the main pw of the system - the one needed for sudo etc.. I intending getting a usb-stick and installing pamusb and need to know which sticks (manuf etc..?) work for this and which not..?08:06
flaccidthe sudo password is the user password08:06
flaccidim not sure what your problem is here08:07
flaccidany stick should work08:07
frybyeright - but to avoid having to type it in so often one can use pam-usb and I have heard that some hardware works and some not??08:07
flaccidprobably but you wont know until you try08:07
flaccidyou can configure /etc/sudoers to have no password on that command possibly08:08
frybyeok if any works that is good to hear .. and I guess it is not much data that has to be used for this - can one use the same stick for normal data storage/access - while being used to authenticate??08:08
frybyeflac08:08
flaccidwhich guid are you following08:08
frybyeflaccid: i prefer to have a pw in there...08:08
flaccidguide08:09
flaccidthen i don't understand you problem. what is the command you are talking about?08:09
frybyeIt was just a visitor who told me about some hardware not working...08:09
frybyeit is the user pw - to avoid having to enter the pamusb will authenticate for this..08:09
frybyeso that with the stick int he usb drive one is authenticated and when not there - need to type in each time etc...08:10
frybyeand my ? was not so much about the system - more as to which hardware works...08:10
frybyeno big deal - a usb stick is always usefull even if this or that one did not work for pamusb I geuss..08:10
frybyeI will install when a more knowedegable pal is visiting.. so as not to risk getting stuck..08:11
frybyethere are a number of guides on this topic - google finds the stuff fine...08:11
frybyejust that with google I did not yet find info on which hardware.. perhaps because - like you say pretty much anything works...?08:12
flaccid!enter | frybye08:13
ubottufrybye: Please try to keep your questions/responses on one line - don't use the "Enter" key as punctuation!08:13
frybyek08:13
flaccidyes but what command is prompting you for the password? i usually use https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FolderEncryption which i don't think needs that08:14
flaccidlink me or something. i still don't really know what password it is etc. sorry08:16
Lynourefrybye: I'm still not sure if you are looking to unlock disk encryption with a usb stick or something else :)08:17
flaccidyeah im a bit lost there08:18
frybyeLynoure - no I am talking about the pamusb authenticaton system.. have a look with google - you can see what I mean.. it is a way of authenticating for the use of a pc by use of a usb stick - avoids typing password...08:26
flaccidi'll check it out. the FolderEncryption and EasyEncryption howtos on the wiki may be better08:27
Lynourefrybye: seems a lot of hassle for something not that useful08:27
frybyeit could probably be used in respect to disk encription but I am not worried about this - just want to use for the normal login..08:27
frybyeafter the 4th or 5th entering the same login in a session a pal who was here suggested this system - I suppose you could say that it is too much bother - but it is only bother once...08:28
flaccidfrybye: well i googled and found this straight up which explains how to do what you want: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-17571.html08:28
frybyeflaccid: the problem was never how to do - it was which hardware cos this visitor said that some sticks work and some not..08:29
flaccidand did you try yet frybye?08:30
frybyei have written him an email with request for help on this - and will see what he says.. he has apparently already used it..08:30
frybyeno flaccid cos I wanted to get a stick this morning that -would- work and avoid buyingone that doesnt work...08:31
flaccidim really not sure how the pendrive would even matter..08:31
frybyewill probably do this when the friend is here again - it just means that when the drive is there one dosent have to enter the pw.. entering the pw will still work when the drive not insterted as far as i know..08:32
frybyeI got the impression somehow that this was a widely used system - perhaps some places it is popular and in other areas not known or used much...?08:33
flaccidwell you never know till you try. if you can't find reports of it not working on certain devs (i can't find reports) then perhaps your chances are very high08:33
flaccidwidely used by who then?08:33
Lynourefrybye: I'm pretty sure it's not widely used.08:33
frybyeyeah sounds good.. thanx - locals in the linux scene here in Berlin I guess...08:33
frybyebut I don't really know if is popular or not - I just thought it was a good idea...08:34
flaccidpam is used widely as its pluggable but i don't see everyone running around with pam enabled usb drives..08:34
frybyeif i get it working today/tomorrow I will report back.. ;)08:36
frybyea key practical thing is if the drive is then accessable for normal data storage while being used for this purpose I guess.. but stupid having a 2gig drive with only 3kb or whatever on it being used..08:37
frybyee e e bit stupid...08:37
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hakuhi ich bin neu hier und brauch mal hilfe, was bedeutet: "kernelpanic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interupt handler!" beim booten?08:40
flaccid!de | haku08:41
ubottuhaku: Deutschsprachige Hilfe fuer Probleme mit Ubuntu, Kubuntu und Edubuntu finden Sie in den Kanaelen #ubuntu-de, #kubuntu-de, #xubuntu-de und #edubuntu-de08:41
hakuthx08:41
da_kde4 is going to take some getting used to08:47
da_!kde408:47
ubottuKDE 4.0.4 is the latest major release of the K Desktop Environment. Packages can be found at http://kubuntu.org/announcements/kde-4.0.4.php - Support in #kubuntu-kde408:47
da_Does anyone know if I can install the kubuntu-desktop metapackage as well and not screw stuff up?08:48
flaccidda_: yes you can08:50
da_I may have too08:52
da_Kde4 is too new and is messing up my juju08:53
da_I need to relearn stuff and I keep on saying it doesn't act the same08:53
da_I donno if dolphin was a good idea... Konqueror was good enough for me08:53
da_And I can get rid of it without messing things up08:53
Pennycookda_: Dolphin isn't just the default in KDE4; it's been the default since Gutsy.08:54
da_I know08:55
da_pisses me off08:55
da_I don't need it lol08:55
da_just a personal opinion that's all08:55
Pennycookda_: Then just don't use it.  Set Konqueror to the default instead.08:55
da_I'll try, but in the meantime if I delete dolphin I loose some functions in konqueror08:56
Jucatoplease put your opinion on hold at least until KDE 4.1. Dolphin is a lot lot nicer there.08:57
Jucato(besides, Konqueror is actually using Dolphin for the file management part)08:57
Jucato(oh and until KDE 4.1, the Konqueror-Dolphin integration is a bit messy)08:57
Pennycookda_: I didn't say to remove Dolphin.  You can just set Konquerer as the default using System Settings > Advanced > File Associations (in KDE 4.1) and I think you can do it in KDE3 using kcontrol.08:57
da_Pennycook: Why have stuff on my computer I don't use?08:58
JucatoD3lphin (KDE 3) and Dolphin (KDE 4) are 2 completely different things08:58
da_Well if I don't need it... Logically I should be able to delete it08:58
da_Jucato: I see that08:58
Jucatowho says you don't *need* it?08:58
Jucatolike I said, Konqueror uses Dolphin (dolphinpart, embedded dolphin) for the file management view08:59
da_In kde3 I don't need dolphin... Konqueror worked before right?  If it ain't broken don't fix it08:59
Jucatoso remove the curse that is d3lphin08:59
da_SO basically they are dependencies of each other now08:59
JucatoKDE 3? no09:00
Jucatoonly the way Kubuntu set it up. but KDE 3 never depends on D3lphin09:00
da_I'll figure it out later09:01
da_I am just telling you what happens09:01
Jucatoalthough you seem to be mixing D3lphin and Dolphin... Dolphin is lightyears ahead of D3lphin (that, and development on D3lphin stopped half a year ago)09:02
da_I can't press F9 and and get that sidebar once I remove it09:02
* Jucato hasn't touched d3lphin in ages... can't remember how it works anymore09:02
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da_I'd use konqueror for all my needs if it would read certain websites correctly09:04
da_Hmm09:09
da_ah well09:10
blackplasmahello09:15
blackplasmaI am getting this error message when I scroll over html files09:15
blackplasmaThe desktop entry file09:15
blackplasma/usr/share/apps/d3lphin/servicemenus/amarok_addaspodcast.desktop09:15
blackplasmahas an invalid menu entry09:15
blackplasmaaddAsPodcast.09:15
blackplasmaanyone knows how to fix it ??09:15
flaccidwhich kde is this?09:17
blackplasma309:17
flaccidpastebin please09:17
blackplasmaim sorry I am an IRC noob09:17
flaccidnp09:18
blackplasmabtw09:18
blackplasmado you mean the one that appears in the message?09:18
flaccidyep the /usr/share/apps....desktop09:19
da_The konsole in kde4 won't allow transparent background?09:20
flaccidda_: #kubuntu-kde4 please09:20
da_like I knew09:20
da_bye09:20
flaccidciao09:20
flaccidits in the topic :)09:20
blackplasmaflaccid, I am uploading it to my server09:20
flaccidfair enough09:21
blackplasmaftp://blackplasma.codealife.com/home/blackplasma/amarok_addaspodcast.desktop09:22
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KRFblackplasma, its pw protected09:23
flaccidblackplasma: is there a reason you put it on an ftp server and not pastebin?09:23
KRF!pastebin | blackplasma09:23
ubottublackplasma: pastebin is a service to post large texts so you don't flood the channel. The Ubuntu pastebin is at http://paste.ubuntu.com (be sure to give the URL of your paste - see also the #kubuntu channel topic)09:23
KRFif you know the fix please let me know, i'll commit it to amarok branch09:24
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flaccidalso blackplasma how do i replicate this bug, just open exactly?09:25
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JiajiaX2Is someone running KDE4.1 beta now?09:27
flaccidyeah09:27
avishekwhen is the next kubuntu LTS scheduled for release?09:28
flacciddon't think there is one scheduled. dapper it is atm09:28
JiajiaX2is it stable?09:28
flaccidiirc09:29
flaccidin theory but its very old. i wouldn't use it myself. do you understand lts? its for commercial support09:29
avisheki do.09:29
flaccidso because of the transition period, canonical dropped kubuntu lts09:30
avishekactually, though dapper is the only version that runs on my laptop09:30
blackplasmaflaccid, http://kubuntu.pastebin.ca/104109209:31
avishekbut lts is not just commercial - according to johnathan riddell, the lts tag is given "to exceptionally stable releases"09:31
flaccidhttps://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-devel/2007-December/002066.html09:31
flaccidavishek ^09:31
flaccidRiddell if you are around, maybe you would like to comment09:32
flaccidbut in a practical sense, unless you are getting commercial support from canonical then it is merely a tag and we support mainly the current/latest releases here as thats what most users use09:33
rozzohello guys09:33
rozzoihave a question, kubuntu 8.10 with kde 4 is stable?09:33
flaccidrozzo: in theory yes, in practice perhaps not09:34
rozzoflaccid, you use it?09:34
flaccidsee what sorry?09:34
HollowPointI'm sure I read in the release schedule the other day that 8.10 was going to be LTS? Maybe I mis-read it09:34
flaccidavishek: also of interest http://lwn.net/Articles/263161/09:34
rozzoflaccid, you use kde 4 with kubuntu?09:35
flacciddifferent story for kubuntu than ubuntu as kde is in dev period09:35
flaccidrozzo: yeah im on 4.1 beta atm09:35
avishekthank you flaccid. if you don't mind my asking, are you a kubuntu developer?09:36
rozzobut application crash very often ?09:36
flaccidavishek: not yet. im kubuntu tester and helper and web dev in day job09:36
flaccid+a09:36
HollowPointI did missread it, 8.04 is LTS according to the release schedule :s confuzzled now09:37
avishekhollowpoint: ubuntu 8.04 is LTS, not kubuntu09:37
flaccidHollowPoint: dapper is current lts atm, nice and old :)09:38
rozzoflaccid, application crash very often?09:38
HollowPointhmmmmmmmm, seems strange, it does indeed say ubuntu 8.04 LTS but I'm reviewing the Kubuntu Release schedule not Ubuntus oh well09:38
flaccidLTS makes sense in a corporate environment for consistancy but it lacks a lot for the other users09:39
HollowPointah well onward and upward, I can't wait for 8.10 every release of Kubuntu/Ubuntu impresses me :D09:39
flaccidlacks as in Dapper09:39
rozzoflaccid, get kubuntu with kde 3.5 or 4?09:39
rozzofor home use09:39
flaccidrozzo: nah its mainly small things not big crashes09:40
blackplasmaflaccid09:40
flaccidrozzo: its your choice! do both like i do ;)09:40
KRFrozzo, 3.5 i suppose09:40
HollowPointwe're looking at using 8.04 at the moment for a corporate roll-out, we have many clients that are getting really annoyed with Windows/MS in general and are requesting more open source avenues, of course my first recommendation was Kubuntu :D09:40
blackplasmaI removed the html/text entry09:40
rozzook09:40
rozzoflaccid, i try kde 4 :D09:40
rozzothanks at all09:40
rozzo:D09:40
avishekhollowpoint: i'm with you too!09:40
rozzobye bye guys09:41
flaccidwell if you have the skillset in the IT dept. ie. linux etc. then using a late release is sensible09:41
flaccidnp cia009:41
blackplasmaI have another problem09:41
blackplasmamy ATI radeon x1600 driver is not installing properly09:41
HollowPointmyself and one other engineer are linux competent, we're looking to increase the number of Linux servers we support first of all but we're putting together plans so that we could put forward proposals for Kubuntu Workstations, even in a windows server environment09:41
flaccidblackplasma: did you pastebin yet?09:42
flaccidblackplasma: why?09:42
blackplasmaI gave u the link09:42
blackplasma http://kubuntu.pastebin.ca/104109209:42
flaccidHollowPoint: cool well the kde 3.5.9 is pretty rock solid atm09:42
flaccidapologies blackplasma09:42
blackplasmaI removed the html/text entry09:42
blackplasmaits okay09:43
HollowPointyeah I agree, that's the one we'd be looking at rolling out in a corporate sense, plus KDE 3.5.9 reflects WinXP in so many ways that it won't be too hard for the End users to adapt09:43
avishekflaccid: what is the rationale behind such a relatively fast release schedule09:43
flaccidavishek: i couldn't explain the whole possible rationale but it gives good flexiblity. a lot of featues and so forth were yet to be developed and implemented in earlier releases but are in newer ones. ability to upgrade especially because of a bug or limitation is great. if you can't upgrade sometimes it either gets messy or you simply cannot hack it09:45
flaccidthats only 1 reason09:45
flaccidif you made a corporate policy with software on desktops in your workgroups based on dapper and dapper fulfills it then great. but then when a user has a requirement outside of that and dapper cannot provide..09:46
HollowPointflaccid didn't I hear somewhere that Kubuntu/Ubuntu tends to be more stable on the .04 releases than the .10 releases? ie .04 is tried and tested and .10 is more bleeding edge?09:46
flaccid.4 is for april, .10 is for october..09:47
HollowPointnothing more than that?09:47
flaccid8 is for 2008. its a dated versioning scheme09:47
HollowPointfair enough09:47
flaccidit basically fakes major and point releases. eg. the longer you wait for another release the later the version will look. what 4 years and you have skipped up to 5 major releases lol09:47
flaccidwhat=wait09:48
HollowPointlol I never wait that long, every six months I upgrade to the latest release :D09:48
flaccidthat is compared to the normal incremental versioning schemes.09:48
avishekflaccid: i'm using both dapper and hardy, but i'm worried that after dapper's lts term completes, will updates be no longer available for it?09:48
flaccidyeah it was an example. i mean when its 15.x ,its not really 15 major versions09:49
avishekflaccid: or am i just being silly09:49
HollowPointsorry yeah I understood what you meant, should have acknowledged that lol09:49
flaccidavishek: probably not, can't say. you can always upgrade to the next LTS or desired release at that stage. i've done dapper to hardy upgrades before which linux sysadmins should be able to handle09:50
avishekflaccid: you see, when we invest in hardware, it's for a long, long time - we can't afford to upgrade. but since every new release of kubuntu has higher system requirements, i'm worried that we'll be stuck in a situation where we no longer receive updates...09:52
flaccidi dont see the requirements going up much. and it comes down to the desktop environment. kde3 is still going to be around for a while and kde4 probably needs marginally more power09:53
flaccidits not a windows situation where vista means upgrading hardware09:54
flaccidkde4 can be faster due to qt4's efficiency compared to qt3 as well09:55
HollowPointKDE3 is supported until 2K10 though isn't it?09:56
avishekyes, i read that kde4 is 40% than kde309:56
HollowPointor have I read wrong again? lol09:56
SSJ_GZavishek: Lots of figures like that were floating around in 2005 - I've never really seen any benchmarks, though, so I ignore them.09:56
da_kde4 looks good lol09:57
llutzhow will you compare kde3/4 if most of the kde4-apps are still missing?09:57
HollowPointI didn't really get on with it, didn't like the widgety desktop icons and it reminded me a little too much of Vista **Ducks behind the couch**09:58
flaccidllutz: there is a lot of kde4 ports already for a test cross-section09:58
da_HollowPoint: why duck behind a couch?09:59
avisheki did install kde4; really enjoyed it; but i still prefer kde3 look09:59
HollowPointfor saying that KDE could in any way ever remind anyone of Vista09:59
da_HollowPoint: It can look like it easy...09:59
avishek<shudder> that is sacrilege09:59
rod_reminded me of vista09:59
da_HollowPoint: so what?09:59
HollowPointI HATE Vista with a passion09:59
llutzHollowPoint: but wasn't _that_ kde4s intention? :)10:00
HollowPointI severely hope not10:00
flaccidi'd have to buy a new notebook if i used vista. this way i can use kde4 and desktop effects and not have to buy a new one till the hardware dies10:00
HollowPointit was meant to compete with Vista maybe, not look like it10:00
avishekwhat is the future of kubuntu?10:01
llutztarget missed10:01
rod_i was game to give  it a try but i had work to do, so i went back to 3. 4 is not work-ready afaict10:01
flaccidim a bit confused. it doesn't look like vista at all. and there was a lot around before vista that one could say vista copied10:01
da_HollowPoint: I do too, but linux is behind kde4 all the way10:02
da_HollowPoint: And there is no way Vista can be kde410:02
da_HollowPoint: So why worry?10:02
da_To me it looks macish10:02
minhaajmy thunderbird mail can't find my other partition to add files to attachments10:02
minhaajany idea, could it be root access problem ?10:03
da_flaccid: I ain't knocking anyone...  You can make anything look like anything if you want to10:03
flaccidwell graphic designers have always been designing eye candy and guis. now its on your desktop..10:03
da_flaccid: Yep...10:03
HollowPointflaccid, my opinion of Vista is that it's an attempt to copy Linux, UAC = sudo, desktop widgets been around forever in Linux, program switcher etc all copied10:03
minhaajflaccid:  i figured out why my google earth wasn't workng with kde10:04
rod_minhaaj, is your other partition mounted? if so, how10:04
minhaajit was compiz10:04
minhaajrod_:   how do i check that ?10:04
da_flaccid: I have used fluxbox, twm, and some of the lower end ones10:04
minhaaji shut down compiz and google earth worked great.10:04
da_flaccid: I don't have a problem with them...  I just hate Gnome for some reason it doesn't jive with me10:04
rod_minhaaj: $mount10:04
flaccidminhaaj: yes it doesn't work with compositing10:04
minhaajHollowPoint:  forever ? KDE was started by ubuntu and it was started in 200210:05
minhaajhang on rod_10:05
minhaajrod_:  what $mount ?10:05
flaccidkde was started by ubuntu ? huh10:05
rod_just type mount at a terminal10:05
minhaajkubuntu - kde ?10:05
minhaajmount or $mount ?10:06
rod_mount, no $10:06
llutzflaccid: an ms invented the internet, yes!10:06
HollowPointactually AT&T did that10:06
HollowPointbut yeah10:06
minhaajok hang on let me pastebin10:06
flaccidi don't think kde devels would of like to have heard that :) http://www.kde.org/announcements/announcement.php10:07
avisheki thought it was ARPA that invented the internet10:07
minhaajhttp://paste.ubuntu.com/17871/10:07
flaccidhehe sarcasm10:07
llutzavishek: you're right, "internet" was former arpa-net10:07
minhaajwhat other distro uses kde except ubuntu ?10:07
flaccidminhaaj: dozens. check distro watch. opensuse, mandriva etc.10:07
HollowPointda gnome can be wicked, I've got a Debian VM running in my Kubuntu install with Gnome and I've "prettied it up" I know what you mean though, I used to hate Gnome10:08
minhaajoh ok.10:08
minhaajgnome is useless10:08
minhaajif it weren't for kde, windows users would never switch10:08
HollowPointnot true but yes KDE does give more reason for the "timid" windows users to be less afraid of switching10:08
minhaajabsolutely true.10:09
flaccidkde founder: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Ettrich10:09
avishekhere's an interesting experience i had:...10:09
avisheki used both gnome and kde...10:09
minhaajwhat loser would like to configure X for ubuntu instead of installing tension free kubuntu10:09
gabrys10:09
flaccidthey share the same configure X program minhaaj :)10:09
avishekand i stuck to gnome for a long time because i read that it's written in c, and so it's faster10:09
HollowPointlmfao minhaaj you don't have to configure X for ubuntu, it installs the same way Kubuntu does, just Kubuntu has KDE and Ubuntu has Gnome10:10
Lord_DrachenblutI think kde is more feature rich than explorer.exe10:10
minhaajatleast kubuntu doesnt ask for it10:10
minhaajKDE is the 'real' thing.10:10
flaccidLord_Drachenblut: if you havnt yet checkout Krusader :)10:10
HollowPointlmfso I love this guy10:10
SSJ_GZavishek: The difference in speed between C and C++ is basically neglible, and swamped by use of efficient algorithms and intelligent use of caching.10:10
avishekbut kde was far more responsive on the same configuration than gnome, even though it's written in c++10:10
Lord_Drachenblutflaccid: I have tried it in the past didin't like it much then..... i am sticking with dolphin for now10:10
rod_ok... "my thunderbird mail can't find my other partition to add files to attachments"10:11
flaccidLord_Drachenblut: interesting. nice feedback..10:11
avishekssj_gz: is kde faster than gnome?10:11
flaccidthe real comparison here is the gtk to qt but hey we are probably a bit off topic10:11
usamahashimihello everyone10:12
SSJ_GZavishek: That's far too vague a question to have a meaningful answer :)10:12
usamahashimii have mistakenly remove "System Tray", can anyone tell me that how can i add it (again)?10:12
flaccidminhaaj: what was your paste for?10:12
avisheki'm sorry ssj_gz, let me rephrase that...10:12
Lord_Drachenblutflaccid: I first heard of krusader on rfa10:13
flaccidminhaaj: did you report the amarok .desktop problem back. i think your fix is right becaue podcasts are xml, there is no html component right?10:13
flaccidrfa?10:14
avishekfor any ubuntu release, the gnome desktop is stated to require less memory than kde, but in my experience kde runs much faster than gnome. that's a;;10:14
avishekthat's all ... sorry for the typo10:14
WoxdeeI just spent 2 hours manually creating an ext3 filesystem with the '-c -c' option to make sure it avoided certain bad blocks.  I'm about to do an install and notice the installer demands formatting the partition.  Won't this undo my tedious badblock scan for that partition?10:14
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Lord_Drachenblutflaccid: radio freak america.... an older internet radio show they did 99 eps and then ended the show10:15
SSJ_GZavishek: Memory comparisons have been done, and GNOME and KDE3 are practically http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/memory/desktop_benchmark.html, http://spooky-possum.org/cgi-bin/pyblosxom.cgi/kdevsgnome.htmlequal:10:15
flaccidavishek: thats because of deps really. gnome has a big tree of system deps common to other things. kde is more portable with a nice tree :)10:15
flaccidLord_Drachenblut: cool10:16
SSJ_GZavishek: KDE4 uses more in general, though, mainly due to the double-buffering of all Qt4 widgets.10:16
rod_Woxdee: yeah, most likely. I've never found a persistent way to mark bad blocks10:16
usamahashimican anyone help me about adding system tray?10:16
flaccidkde3, usamahashimi?10:16
Bevererhm im having problems getting Compiz to work.. Got the right packages installed (i think) but whatever i change in the settings does not seem to change anything in my interface10:17
Woxdeedamn it..  Installers used to have 'check for bad blocks during format', why the hell has that been removed?10:17
usamahashimiflaccid: yes, 3.5.910:17
flaccidusamahashimi: from memory you right click the kicker panel and goto add applet and then system tray <-- something like that10:17
flaccidWoxdee: scanning for badblocks takes a long time compared to a fsck10:18
flacciddo badblocks on a 500GB disk and you probably wouldn't get install done that day if its older hardware10:18
usamahashimiflaccid: i tried that but the system tray is not given in the list10:18
avishekflaccid: amazing, how do you manage to answer so many questions at once? and how fast do you type10:19
Woxdeeflaccid: I know, I simply don't understand why it's removed as an optional feature.10:19
rod_Woxdee, I don't know, I pretend to be a 'linux user' like some peroplek claim to be 'Mac people', but I do remember that ext2 was a lot more resilient10:19
flaccidcan anyone else help usamahashimi im not on kde3 atm? usamahashimi try #kde as well and specify your kde version10:19
flaccidWoxdee: oh, it was in kubuntu installer at some point?10:19
rod_s/peroplek/people10:19
usamahashimiflaccid: ok, thanks by the way10:19
flaccidavishek: waiting for my g/f heh then ill be off :)10:20
usamahashimiCan anyone else help me?10:20
flaccidnp10:20
Woxdeeflaccid: Dunno, really, I was thinking of my older days with mandrake and slackware, etc.10:20
flaccidmaybe they took it out as hard disks became quite large10:20
Bevercan anyone help me getting my compiz to work? :)10:20
flacciddidn't want people to go, oh sweet lets do that as well10:20
flaccid!compiz-fusion | Bever10:20
ubottuBever: Kubuntu is not shipping with compiz installed or enabled by default. You can still install it and have your eyecandy goodness. The instructions are at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompositeManager/CompizFusion - further help in #compiz-fusion10:20
Beverthanks :)10:21
flaccidavishek: oh i guess 1. i spent a lot of time with kubuntu etc. 2. up to 120wpm but accuracy at 70wpm :)10:21
WoxdeeWell, assuming that the installer uses mkfs to format the partition, if I do something like 'alias mkfs='mkfs -c -c'' in the commandline and issue the installer command manually from there, would that ensure the installer does it the way I need it?10:21
flaccidnp10:21
rod_... or is your hard drive needing replacement? just askin'10:22
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Woxdeeor even rename the mkfs binaries and replace them with scripts calling the renamed original binaries with the appropriate commandline arguments.10:22
flaccidWoxdee: maybe but i can't remember the ins and outs of the installer. the sensible thing would be to boot into the livecd goto konsole and do your badblocks/scans then click the Install icon and install after that10:23
avishekflaccid: nice to know, then there's hope for newbies like me too! :)10:23
Woxdeerod_: Strictly speaking, yes, it has bad blocks and I know they're there.  It's just the only drive I have for the machine, and it's not for critical data, so I'm ok with a badblock scan and some crossed fingers.10:23
flaccidavishek: totally. you will still see me be a large n00b at times10:23
rod_cool, i do that a lot myself :)10:23
Woxdeeflaccid: Yeah, I just did that and entered the installer after a manual 'mkfs.ext3 -c -c /dev/sda2', but when it came to the formatting I got worried the installer's new formatting would just overwrite the list of bad blocks on the fs that my 'mkfs' had achieved.10:24
avishekflaccid: i must be forgetting my manners. but a delayed thanks to you for your help in answering my queries10:24
flaccidminhaaj: sorry wat was your pastebin again for , for mount?10:25
flaccidWoxdee: ah true. i can't remember how the badblocks are marked myself and if formatting overwrites them. in fat it was definately the case10:26
flaccidavishek: np :)10:26
HollowPointare the bad blocks at the start of the disk?10:27
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WoxdeeHollowPoint: Some here and there, it seems most are at the first 15 gigs or so.10:30
HollowPointouch10:30
HollowPointbig drive?10:30
avishekdoes anyone have any experience to share about kubuntu making a real difference?10:31
HollowPointmade a real difference to me10:31
avishekme too, but i meant on a larger social scale10:31
HollowPointwhen 7.04 came out I STOPPED using Windows at home10:32
HollowPointexcept when I absolutely HAVE to use it for work purposes and I happen to be working from home10:32
avisheki'm the partner of a small startup firm in india. our starting capital was about $20. if we didn't have kubuntu, we'd never be able to start up our firm10:33
balazsa program, whit add to images frames and affects?10:33
WoxdeeHollowPoint: Ishly, 40 gigs.10:33
Woxdeeavishek: Good story :)10:33
HollowPointyeah very nice story avishek10:34
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HollowPointWoxdee that sucks, was thinking maybe you could just partition the drive so as not to use the sector with the bad blocks but thats not really possible on a 40 gb drive when the first 15gb are fubarred10:34
avishekbut that's not all; kdeedu has immense potential to bring about social upliftment in india10:37
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HollowPointsocial upliftment?10:39
avishekhollowpoint: we introduced kubuntu to a rundown charitable school. the kids loved it10:42
avishekthe school management loved it: no one could believe so much came for free10:43
Woxdeeheh10:44
avishekmost govt schools in india are underfunded and unable to use computers in a meaningful way as an educational tool10:44
flaccidKRF: ping. that .desktop amarok thang.. user removed the text/html mimetype which to me makes sense as podcast is xml. anyway that fixed it10:45
KRFflaccid, dunno if thats okay, its more a workaround10:45
flaccidKRF: i don't use ipod or podcasts so i dont even know what the file is for10:46
HollowPointyeah we had a similar idea for some of the schools over here in NZ avishek10:46
avishekhollowpoint: i think kubuntu can make a real difference. care to hear a related story?10:47
avishekbill gates started a fund for the children of stigmatised children in my hometown calcutta. however, the managers of the fund had to sign a contract promising that they would only use microsoft products. how unfair is that?10:49
avishekwhen we showed the managers kubuntu, they loved it, admitted that it would be helpful, but could not implement it because of their contract10:51
level1hi, I'm having a lot of trouble with konqueror in kde 4.1 beta 1... it starts up, and everything, everything is greyed out.10:51
Lord_Drachenblutavishek: I find it funnier that bill gates said he would give millions to aids research but that the researchs had to "share" there findings10:51
Lord_DrachenblutI appreicate that it will be shared10:52
Lord_Drachenblutbut the man who has made his billions based on closing things off to everyone wants people to share now10:52
guillermo_spainhi10:54
guillermo_spaini've installed KDE4 and icons doesn't work, (they look all as the multimedia icon), any idea?10:55
flaccidlevel1: kde4 help is not here :)10:56
guillermo_spainwell, they're kubuntu's kde4 packages10:56
flaccidguillermo_spain: on kde3? and which pkg?10:57
guillermo_spainflaccid no, they're kde4, and they belong to hardy heron10:59
flaccidguillermo_spain: kde4 help is in #kubuntu-kde4 channel10:59
guillermo_spainok, thanks11:00
avishekto one and all: thank you all, it has been an honour meeting you. but all good things come to an end, so i must bid you farewell. best wishes to all, and most of all, to kubuntu11:03
flaccidgood luck and take it easy avishek11:04
valerio!list11:09
ubottuI am ubottu, the all-knowing infobot, standing in for ubotu while he's getting his haircut done, nose powdered, updated and transitioned to his new gorgeous looks in the near future ;)11:09
KrustHello11:09
KrustNeed some help with ubuntu11:10
HollowPoint??11:13
jasmin_hi11:16
HollowPointhi11:18
flaccid!ask | Krust11:18
ubottuKrust: Please don't ask to ask a question, ask the question (all on ONE line, so others can read and follow it easily). If anyone knows the answer they will most likely answer. :-)11:18
KrustWell, my question is : How can I choose Lilo instaed of grub when installing ubunut ?11:28
flaccid!lilo11:29
ubottulilo is an alternative [Li]nux Boot[Lo]ader. Note: it is recommended that you use GRUB on Ubuntu instead.11:29
flaccid!alternate | Krust11:29
ubottuKrust: The Alternate CD is a classical text-mode install CD. It supports a wider range of hardware than the !LiveCD, and can also be used as an upgrade CD.  Look for the alternate checkbox on the Kubuntu download page - See also !minimal - Torrent at http://releases.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/8.04/kubuntu-8.04-alternate-i386.iso.torrent11:29
flaccidKrust i believe the alternate cd has the option11:29
JoshOvkiKrust: if you already have kununtu install with grub instead of reinstalling you could try this http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p4.html#Install_Lilo_from_terminal11:32
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FSHeroHi all:  I am trying to get my higher screen resolutions back after enabling the nvidia proprietary driver.11:36
Krustthannks for your help11:37
FSHeroWhen I restart Kubuntu 8.04 i386 into recovery mode and run "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg", I am not given any options about my monitor resolutions (unlike in 7.04 Feisty, where I was given a list that I could 'check the boxes' of).11:37
FSHeroHow can I get back to this list, so I may add 1024x768 etc. resolutions?11:38
flaccidFSHero: did you try changing it in system settings?11:39
FSHeroflaccid: Yes, it only went up to 640x48011:40
flaccidFSHero: thats the max?11:40
sigma_whats a linux replacement for ms frontpage? i need something to slice a image so that different parts of it hyperlink to different webpages11:41
flaccid!info quanta11:41
ubottuquanta (source: kdewebdev): web development environment for KDE. In component main, is optional. Version 4:3.5.9-0ubuntu1 (hardy), package size 2346 kB, installed size 5704 kB11:41
FSHeroflaccid: System Settings goes up to 640x480. But I know my monitor has a max of 1024x768 -- I am writing this right now  with the nv driver!11:41
HollowPointsigma I like Bluefish, not sure if it'll do what you've just requested but I think it does11:42
sigma_flaccid: does that have a gui like frontpage?11:42
flaccidFSHero: check xrandr -q for max resolution and try changing with krandrtray. otherwise might have to edit xorg.conf manual11:42
flaccidsigma_: yeah. kde is a guid..11:42
Jucato!info kimagemapeditor11:42
ubottukimagemapeditor (source: kdewebdev): HTML image map editor for KDE. In component main, is optional. Version 4:3.5.9-0ubuntu1 (hardy), package size 312 kB, installed size 1104 kB11:42
sigma_HollowPoint: il take a look11:42
flaccidbluefish good too but is gtk11:42
JucatoQuanta+ isn't fully WYSIWYG though... but it does the job11:43
Jucatonot yet sure how kimagemapeditor fits into the workflow, but it's there11:43
HollowPointwouldn't say bluefish was fully WYSIWYG either, but then neither is frontpage in my opinion11:43
flaccidwell there is no complaint wysiwyg on the market anyway...11:44
FSHeroflaccid: thx. Do I run xrandr -q in recovery mode or is it okay to run it with X already started?11:44
Jucatocomplaint wysiwyg?11:45
flaccidFSHero: do it in normal mode11:45
Jucato!info kompozer11:45
ubottukompozer (source: kompozer): Complete Web Authoring System. In component universe, is optional. Version 1:0.7.10-0ubuntu4 (hardy), package size 8438 kB, installed size 26008 kB11:45
flaccidJucato: yeah valid xhtml/css and semantic11:45
FSHeroflaccid: ok, I'm going to enable the proprietary driver then run xrandr. Thanks for the help!11:46
Jucatoflaccid: ah compliant11:46
flaccidFSHero: no problem11:46
flaccidyeah dreamweaver still has a lot to go but at least they have the DWTF11:46
Jucatocomplaint <-- something you complained about; compliant <-- something that complies with something (a standard or something)11:46
flaccidJucato: i make about 100 typos a day11:47
flaccidsorry br0ther11:47
Jucatoflaccid: no problem... except when a typo produces a totally different meaning :)11:47
flaccidquite ironic when i was talking about semantics :)11:48
flaccidi gotta cook dinner. catchyas a bit later11:48
FSHeroflaccid: Hi there, it's me trying to add higher resolutions from earlier!12:07
FSHeroflaccid: I ran xrandr -q12:08
FSHeroflaccid: I got these results: http://paste.ubuntu.com/17958/12:08
FSHeroflaccid: also krandrtray doesn't help -- I'm still stuck at 640x480 as I speak.12:09
FSHeroOkay so http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=810528 says that dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg does not add resolutions starting with Hardy.12:18
FSHeroIs there another 'newbie-friendly' way I can add 1024x768 to my xorg.conf?12:18
flaccidFSHero: correct. and why did krandrtay not work?12:18
FSHeroShould I use one of those 'modeline' generators from the internet?12:19
FSHeroflaccid: krandrtray is not working because the only resolution it goes up to is 640x48012:19
FSHeroCurse these proprietary NVIDIA drivers!12:19
flaccidFSHero: pastebin /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log first please12:19
flaccidneed to see why it didnt' detect high resolutions in randr but probably wont' need a modeline just specify the resolution manually in xorg.conf. after looking at those two files i see what needs to be done12:20
FSHeroflaccid: k one sec12:20
FSHeroflaccid: xorg.conf is at http://paste.ubuntu.com/17961/12:21
FSHeroflaccid: Xorg.0.log is at http://paste.ubuntu.com/17962/12:22
FSHeroflaccid: btw, thx for the help... this problem is quite annoying and important to me!12:22
flaccidnw12:23
flaccidFSHero: its not using the nvidia driver, not device specified. please goto kdesudo jockey-kde and disable the restricted driver then re-check/re-enable it and then check xorg.conf for driver12:24
flaccidnot=no12:24
FSHeroflaccid: What do you mean by "not device specified"? Also, if it helps, glxgears works.12:25
flaccidthere is no device specified in xorg.conf so its not using nvidia restricted driver, thus we re-enable it12:26
FSHeroOkay, "NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (latest cards)" is unchecked. So I check it, presumably?12:30
flaccidyep12:30
FSHeroflaccid: ok, I did it and closed the driver manager. Do I restart X?12:30
flacciddid the driver manager so reboot/restart required?12:31
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sososalut12:31
FSHeroflaccid: I haven't restarted my computer. the driver manager didn't say so (I don't think -- I can't remember!)12:32
flaccidsorry ask you to reboot FSHero12:32
flaccidFSHero: reboot as its kernel dependant otherwise you would have to load the mod etc.12:32
FSHeroflaccid: ok see you in a minute!12:32
sosovous parlez francais12:32
flaccidnp12:32
FSHeroflaccid: Aha... I've just been doing Ctrl+backspace to restart X -- lol!12:32
FSHeroflaccid: okay bye!12:33
flaccidthats only if X full crashes :)12:33
flaccidwb12:37
FSHeroflaccid: Hi there, I think it worked!12:37
flaccidmad..12:37
FSHeroflaccid: I have a problem I shall tell you about in a minute -- I'm in a failsafe terminal.12:37
flaccidk12:38
FSHeroflaccid: But I've got 1024x768, and glxgears works!12:38
flaccidFSHero: sweet. just fyi thats how you enable it etc. without fuss12:38
FSHeroflaccid: The reason I'm in a failsafe terminal is: when I try to log in normally (KDE3), I get a blank screen -- and...12:38
FSHeroflaccid: ... the monitor light which should usually be green is instead yellow - 'standbuy' mode12:39
flaccidFSHero: run startkde in the failsafe terminal and see the problem12:39
FSHeroflaccid: so, to enable in the future, I just use jockey-kde?12:39
flaccidFSHero: yep totally12:40
FSHeroflaccid: I've still got a problem -- but I have to go afk for a while12:41
FSHeroflaccid: thanks for the help!12:41
FSHeroflaccid: b back in ~ 45 minutes12:41
flaccidok np. and jocky is Hardware Drivers Manager in the menu12:41
flaccidok im washing up then12:41
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ZmAYhello, can anyone tell me how to mount mobile telephone over USB12:49
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flaccidZmAY: in adept | manage repos | third party13:04
flaccid!adept | ZmAY13:05
ubottuZmAY: adept is the Kubuntu package manager. Howto: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AdeptHowto13:05
ZmAYi installed wammu but it doesent find any phone connected13:06
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lorddemosПривет13:24
lorddemosнарод помогите мне кто-то.... у меня дрова на NVIDIA рагульно встают... что делать?13:25
dr_Willis~ru13:25
dr_Willis!ru13:25
ubottuПожалуйста посетите #ubuntu-ru для получения помощи на русском языке  / Pozhalujsta posetite #ubuntu-ru dlya polucheniya pomoshi na russkom yazyke13:25
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FSHeroZmAY: do you still want to mount your mobile phone over usb?13:29
jussi01Hrm, does anyone know either where some documentation for the final steps of ndis wrapper setup are, or could tell me how to configure after modprobing ndiswrapper?13:29
ZmAYyes13:30
FSHeroflaccid: I'm back! (guy with the nvidia resolutions problem)13:30
FSHeroZmAY: So... when you plug in the mobile phone, nothing automatically comes up saying "open in new window"? Also, what phone do you have?13:31
ZmAYnothing comes up, sonny ericsson K530i13:31
ZmAYnowi also installed Phone Manager 0.713:31
FSHeroZmAY: Intriguing... I have a Sony Ericsson K750i and it works fine. Okay, assuming that the driver is present...13:32
FSHeroZmAY: you should make a directory such as /media/phone :Run from Konsole: "sudo mkdir /media/phone"13:32
ZmAYi am using dapper, i am on old PC13:32
FSHeroZmAY: then the hard part: identify your phone's device -- let's call it /dev/sdaX for now -- then mount: "sudo mount /dev/sdaX /media/phone"13:33
FSHeroZmAY: Okay, sorry mate -- I don't know anything about Dapper -- also, Dapper is quite old!13:33
ZmAYwe can sttill try:)13:34
ZmAY-t13:34
ZmAYyes, how to identify phone's device13:34
FSHeroZmAY: To figure out what X is, this might help:...13:34
FSHeroZmAY: type "cd /dev/disk/by-label" then do "ls -l13:34
ZmAYhdb1 -> ../../hdb113:35
FSHeroZmAY: Okay... so if hdb1 is your phone, then its device thingy is /dev/hdb113:36
ZmAYlsusb13:36
FSHeroso do "sudo mount /dev/hdb1 /media/phone"13:36
ZmAYBus 001 Device 009: ID 0fce:e079 Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB13:36
FSHeroZmAY: Note, going to the /dev/disk/by-label folder only shows those disks that have a "label" -- e.g. my hard disk's first partition is called BOOT in Windows XP, so it appears here.13:37
FSHeroZmAY: for a more comprehensive list, go to /dev/disk/by-id ("cd /dev/disk/by-id") and do "ls -l" again13:38
ZmAYdmesg | tail   says [17188274.956000] usb-storage: device found at 913:38
crazy_buswhich koffice would people recommend.  koffice or koffice-kde4 ?13:38
FSHeroZmAY: for example, I see the following line for my flash disk:13:38
FSHeroZmAY:13:38
FSHeroZmAY: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-06-07 12:34 usb-hantat_Flash_Disk-0:0-part1 -> ../../sde113:39
FSHeroZmAY: have you tried mounting your phone?13:40
ZmAYFSHero: how13:41
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FSHeroZmAY: Sorry, I disconnected. What did you recently say?13:42
ZmAY[2008-06-07 14:40] <FSHero> ZmAY: have you tried mounting your phone?13:42
ZmAYhow?13:42
ZmAYBus 001 Device 009  thats all i know:)13:43
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flaccidZmAY: did you search google. also what does dmesg say when you plug it in?13:43
FSHeroZmAY: lol, okay! type "sudo mount /dev/hdb1 /media/phone" in Konsole... assuming you made the /media/phone folder earlier, and your phone's device file is /dev/sdb113:43
FSHeroZmAY: wait!13:44
FSHeroZmAY: sorry, did you try "ls -l /media/disk/by-id"?13:44
flaccidFSHero: hal should prompt if it doesn't there is likely a problem13:44
FSHeroZmAY: oops sorry do "ls -l /dev/disk/by-id"13:44
flaccidare we sure this phone supports mass usb?13:44
ZmAYi tried FSHero yes13:44
FSHeroflaccid: I don't know how to check if one's phone supports USB mass storage... I kind-of assumed that...!13:45
ZmAYls -l...13:45
flaccidi wouldn't assume it. its a commercial product13:45
flaccidZmAY: you might want to check sudo fdisk -l to see if the usb part comes up13:45
flaccidi mean device13:45
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ZmAYit looks not13:46
BluesKajhowdy13:46
nosrednaekimhey BluesKaj13:47
nosrednaekimyou're up early :)13:47
FSHeroflaccid: about my resolutions problem: basically, the last step I did was to check the box in the Restricted Hardware manager (jockey-kde) and restart the computer.13:47
BluesKajnosrednaekim, 08:47 early ?13:47
nosrednaekimflaccid: some Mojo guy said to thank you for fixing his X70013:47
nosrednaekimBluesKaj: wait... you are in EDT?13:47
flaccidFSHero: yeah i remember. the restricted manager was never enabled13:48
BluesKajbeen up since 6:30 AM13:48
flaccidnosrednaekim: sweet as cheers!13:48
FSHeroflaccid: Now, I can log in as my user "fshero" in a failsafe terminal, but if I try to log into KDE 3...13:48
nosrednaekimor one timezone over and without dailight savings,.....13:48
BluesKajEDST yes13:48
FSHeroflaccid: ... I just get a blank screen.13:48
ZmAYFSHero: which filesystem type should i specify when mounting13:48
FSHeroflaccid: I can log in to another user, using KDE413:48
rjbhey, something went foobar on my system with the gui of java applets after one of the recent updates13:49
flaccidFSHero: log/output of startkde..13:49
rjbthe fonts look all funny and widget sizes seem miscalculated13:50
BluesKajnosrednaekim, what's your TZ ?13:50
FSHeroZmAY: If you did what flaccid said (sudo fdisk -l) and it doesn't show you what you wanted, then maybe the device does not appear as a USB mass storage device...13:50
FSHeroZmAY: ... and I don't know what to do next! :(13:50
ZmAYok thanks13:50
FSHeroZmAY: (btw I don't know what to look out for in the output of "sudo fdisk -l")13:50
FSHeroZmAY: Sorry.13:51
nosrednaekimBluesKaj: EDT13:51
flaccidZmAY: see http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php%3Fid%3D208717&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=7&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dubuntu%2Bsony%2Bericsson%2BK530i%2Busb%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dopera%26rls%3Den%26hs%3DcFd%26sa%3DG13:51
flaccidFSHero: just do my suggestion :)13:51
FSHeroflaccid: last time I did "startkde" it showed a few messages then went back to the log on screen...13:52
FSHeroflaccid: ... shall I try again? (Shall I do startkde > temp.txt. to 'pipe' the output to a file?)13:52
flaccidFSHero: its not a pipe its a redirect. redirect both stdout and stderr startkde &> /tmp/startkde.log.txt13:53
FSHeroflaccid: btw in this failsafe session, I have run kwin successfully (I needed to -- my Konversation window was creeping over the edge!)13:53
FSHeroflaccid: So you want me to run "startkde &> /tmp/startkde.log.txt"?13:54
flaccidthen pastebin the log13:54
FSHeroflaccid: okay, coming right up. Thx for helping, once again!13:55
flaccidnp13:55
BluesKajflaccid, next time try www.tinyurl.com13:55
flaccidwhy BluesKaj?13:56
BluesKajprevents long urls13:56
FSHeroflaccid: Hi... It just dumped me to my login screen again. Pastebin in a minute13:57
flaccidBluesKaj: i cbf13:57
flaccidis that a rule or something?13:58
FSHeroflaccid: http://paste.ubuntu.com/17981/13:58
DragnslcrBesides, a lot of people have trained themselves to ignore tinyurl13:58
flaccidi have no interest in tinyurl which is some dudes site. what i do have interest in is sites adopting princples from Tim Berners-Lee's 'Cool URIs dont change' document14:00
flaccidFSHero: so did you say kde4 was working?14:00
FSHeroflaccid: I think so, yes. Do you want me to try logging in as "fshero", session: KDE4?14:01
flaccidFSHero: nope. is kde3 and everything installed correctly?14:01
flacciddoes the same behaviour occur from kdm login of kde3?14:01
BluesKajwhether you're interested or not doesn't matter ...it's just courtesy, not filling the chat text with unecessary long urls14:02
flaccidBluesKaj: it matters only to me if its explicitly in the rules :)14:02
FSHeroflaccid: err.. kde3 was working fine before I started messing around with the NVIDIA driver. Also... what do you mean by "kdm login of kde3"?14:02
flaccidi do enough spoon feeding here then to spend more time converting the odd url on some dudes site14:02
flaccidFSHero: login of kde3 session from the login screen14:03
flaccidbrb telephone14:03
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ganeshhai14:04
ganeshany one there14:05
prodigywhat antivirus is best for linux?14:05
nosrednaekimhai... wut iz up?14:05
prodigyhai14:05
nosrednaekim!virus14:05
ubottuA/V software is available, however read this to understand why Linux does not have a virus problem: http://librenix.com/?inode=2114:05
ganeshi am unable to adjust my screen resolution in kubuntu 8.0414:05
prodigyi konw that linux has no viruses, i was just wondering...14:05
prodigyganesh: what is the problem? what graphic card do you have?14:05
dr_Willisthe virus tools are for scanning windows systems. :)14:05
prodigyxD14:06
avishekprodigy: use clamav14:06
ganeshnvidia graphics card14:06
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prodigyi do not use antivirus, i was just wondering... there are now avast and avg for linux...14:06
ganeshi installed the restricted drivers14:06
prodigyganesh: you should use nvidia drivers. are they installed?14:06
prodigyoh, ok14:06
ganeshyes14:07
flaccidFSHero: dpkg -l | grep kpersonalizer please14:07
prodigyganesh: what resolution are you on, and what do you want?14:07
flaccidganesh: did you use hardware drivers manager?14:07
PortablecookHey guys, I'm trying to install the packages to allow playback of encrypted DVDs, but apparently neither libdvdcss or libdvdcss2 have an installation candidate.  Is there a new package?14:08
nosrednaekimflaccid: the kpersonalizer thing is a common error... not fatal14:08
flaccid!info libdvd314:08
ubottuPackage libdvd3 does not exist in hardy14:08
nosrednaekim!medibuntu14:08
ubottumedibuntu is a repository of packages that cannot be included into the Ubuntu distribution for legal reasons - See http://www.medibuntu.org14:08
ganeshbut now the highest screen size is 640*480 everything seems bigger i cant change it to 1024*76814:08
prodigyps. if anyone tries to use google earth, it will not run if you have compiz enabled. i figured it out last night...14:08
avishekganesh: i had the same problem14:09
flaccid!info libdvdread314:09
ubottulibdvdread3 (source: libdvdread): library for reading DVDs. In component universe, is optional. Version 0.9.7-8ubuntu1 (hardy), package size 57 kB, installed size 196 kB14:09
FSHeroganesh: lol, I was stuck on the same problem moments ago!14:09
flaccidganesh: try my suggestion14:09
flaccidnosrednaekim: is unable to attache non fatal as well? kwin: unable to claim manager selection, another wm running? (try using --replace)14:09
ganeshwhat should i ddo14:09
prodigy!chan14:10
ubottuFactoid chan not found14:10
flaccid[23:07] <flaccid> ganesh: did you use hardware drivers manager?14:10
ganeshyes14:10
Portablecooknosrednaekim: Thanks.14:10
prodigyhelp please? i want to see all the rooms... !chan or something...14:10
flaccidand nvidia-glx-new or whatever is installed and nvidia-kernel-common ganesh?14:10
flaccidprodigy: /list14:10
nosrednaekimflaccid: he started from within a failsafe, right? and I believe he mentioned loading Kwin14:10
flaccidnosrednaekim: oh thats right true14:10
nosrednaekimand yeah... thats fatal14:11
ganeshi installed the nvidia 6 series14:11
rjbganesh: it might be that your monitor type got detected/set incorrectly, it's happened to me14:11
flaccidFSHero: test it without starting kwin first because thats in the startkde script14:11
flaccidnosrednaekim: you reckon it dies/hangs up on kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::insertKAccel( kaccel = 0x80e27c0 ): KAccel object already contains an action name "file_quit" ?14:11
nosrednaekimthats what it looks lik... but I have no clue what that actually means :P14:11
ganeshhow could i set the monitor mine is crt  1714:11
prodigy!compiz14:11
ubottuKubuntu is not shipping with compiz installed or enabled by default. You can still install it and have your eyecandy goodness. The instructions are at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompositeManager/CompizFusion - further help in #compiz-fusion14:11
rjbganesh: open up system settings, go to display settings14:11
flaccidganesh: that doesn't answer the question, pastebin your /etc/X11/xorg.conf14:11
flaccidganesh: whats the nvidia 6 series mean?14:12
flaccidganesh: if you listen to me you might fix it :)14:12
rjband check out what's set there for a monitor14:12
FSHeroflaccid: okay I'm running kwin now, so I shall just restart X. give me a minute. (Sorry for the delay, I was reading something in firefox :P)14:12
ganeshwhen i installed restricted drivers it shows thus14:12
nosrednaekimflaccid: what I would to is try to start a kde3 session from within kdm, then, when itfails, switch to a tty and copy the .xsession-errors over to another file and pastebin THAT14:12
avishek!info14:13
ubottuFactoid info not found14:13
ganeshok what should i do my eyes r blowing looking at huge figures help me please14:13
flaccidnosrednaekim: ah wicked suggestion14:13
temotoIs it normal, that free shows 99% of 2GB mem is used?14:13
flaccidi'll paste that to him when he gets back if problem still14:13
flaccidtemoto: yep14:13
temotoflaccid, why?14:14
rjbtemoto: quote normal if the computer's been working for a while14:14
flaccidganesh: scrollback and read what i said14:14
flaccidtemoto: because linux manages memory very well, it will use as much ram as it can before swap14:14
rjbtemoto: you did pay for that ram didn't you, why would you want it to go unused;)14:14
ganeshwhere to paste this  "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"14:14
temotorjb, i'm scared.14:15
nosrednaekim!pastebin14:15
ubottupastebin is a service to post large texts so you don't flood the channel. The Ubuntu pastebin is at http://paste.ubuntu.com (be sure to give the URL of your paste - see also the #kubuntu channel topic)14:15
nosrednaekimtemoto: its probably not all being used as ram... most of it is probably cached14:15
rjbtemoto: do you mean to suggest that you stole it?;)14:15
temotorjb, :)14:15
temotonosrednaekim, yes. 1.2GB out of 2 is cached.14:16
ganeshflaccid help me14:16
nosrednaekim800MB is still a bit much, but nothing to get worried about14:16
nosrednaekimganesh: paste it here http://paste.ubuntu.com/14:16
temotonosrednaekim, cached memory is what?14:16
FSHeroflaccid: "dpkg -l | grep kpersonalizer" doesn't work. That is the first thing I ran when I started this new failsafe session.14:17
flaccidganesh: i already have14:17
rjbtemoto: it saves your hard drive from having to work too much14:17
nosrednaekimtemoto: is commonly accessed data, such as recently opened programs and documents14:17
flaccidFSHero: [23:13] <nosrednaekim> flaccid: what I would to is try to start a kde3 session from within kdm, then, when itfails, switch to a tty and copy the .xsession-errors over to another file and pastebin THAT14:17
temotoembedded memcached? Nice...14:17
flacciddon't run kwin in the failsafe before startkde also the kpersonlizer thing is nothing14:17
PortablecookOkay, I've managed to install libdvdcss2, VLC has stopped throwing the "no decryption" error and now says "main playlist: nothing to play".  Is there something else I'm missing?14:18
flaccidganesh: you paste file on the site and then paste the url it gives you back here14:18
FSHeroflaccid: Okay, I start KDE3 from my login screen, then when the screen goes black, I copy .xsession-errors to (say) temp.txt then pastebin its contents? (Sorry for the questioning-- I just want to make sure I don't do anything wrong!)14:18
flaccidFSHero: yep14:19
FSHerook, brb. I'm going to have to stop Konversation.14:19
avishekwhile we're talking about video issues, has anyone had any problems with samsung samtron monitors during the boot phase? on three different assembed machines with samsung monitors, a "sync out of range" appears while k/ubuntu is booting. however, once booting is complete everything is normal14:20
nosrednaekimPortablecook: maybe a working DVD? ;P14:21
Portablecooknosrednaekim: Okay, interesting problem there; my CD tray won't eject...14:22
nosrednaekimPortablecook: quit VLC and any other application that could be using the DVD14:22
Agent_bobi don't like the answer i got in #ubuntu so i'll ask in here.  is there any FOSS way to get acpi support working for ati chips ?     me laptop doesn't show temp cpu or battery14:23
JoshOvkiPortablecook: what happens when you run    eject   from command?14:23
PortablecookJoshOvki: There we go.  Thanks.14:23
nosrednaekimAgent_bob: if it doesn't work right off.... It'll probably take ALOT of programming to fix it14:23
Agent_bobnosrednaekim "right off"  there was no "right off" actually.14:24
nosrednaekimAgent_bob: by right off I mean "upon installation"14:24
Agent_bobnosrednaekim right,   there was no such thing.14:24
FSHeroflaccid: http://paste.ubuntu.com/17994/ is the contents of .xsession-errors. Perhaps my problem is because KDE3 is trying to select a resolution that is not supported by my monitor?14:24
nosrednaekimif it BROKE with an update... then thats a bug14:24
nosrednaekimAgent_bob: eh?14:25
Agent_bobnosrednaekim i installed ubuntu hoary on a box years ago, upgraded to dapper, coppied to other box,  tweekex & coppied to other box,  coppied to lappy...14:26
nosrednaekimFSHero: you say you can login using another user?14:26
avishek!ubottu14:26
ubottuI am ubottu, the all-knowing infobot, standing in for ubotu while he's getting his haircut done, nose powdered, updated and transitioned to his new gorgeous looks in the near future ;)14:26
Agent_bobthere was no install per'se14:26
FSHeronosrednaekim: I can in KDE4 -- but i haven't tried KDE3 yet14:26
nosrednaekimAgent_bob: AH... I see!14:26
nosrednaekimAgent_bob: sounds like time for a fresh install :P14:27
Agent_bobnosrednaekim heh.  how do you think i get it on an partitionless hdd ;/14:27
nosrednaekimAgent_bob: hrm... problem there... but yeah... if you are doing stuff like that, ACPI being broken is par for the course14:28
nosrednaekimand I'm not sure how to force it to redetect hardware14:28
nosrednaekimprobably is a way though14:28
Agent_bobok.   but the question is,   does it require "restricted repos" to get acpi support for acpi on ati crap ?14:29
nosrednaekimno14:29
flaccidi think it does and i saw some stuff on the net about configuring ati acpi with fglrx14:30
Agent_bobgood.  i like that answer.14:30
flaccidno, ok sweet14:30
Agent_bobflaccid not yours his.  heh.14:30
dru__hey peeps .....how do i see the actual result of my "clicking this icon" in the terminal14:30
nosrednaekimflaccid: if anything... fglrx breaks ACPI :P14:30
flaccidhaha, my acpi works :)14:30
flaccidwell i've configure mine to work well, just can't remember what i did but its on the net14:31
nosrednaekimdru__: right click on the icon->properties->run in terminal14:31
nosrednaekim(I think you can do that)14:31
dru__.....yeah i think so too14:31
dru__but ...what if the action is for instance in firefox14:31
flaccidFSHero: show that to the people in #kde14:31
Agent_bobif all you want is to see what the command is.   right click > configure   and look at the command tab14:32
Agent_boboh i'm slow.   that's not for ff14:32
flaccidFSHero: also had you tried a reboot yet?14:32
dru__woudl that work as far as "building" a widget to run that command?14:32
flaccidthat would get rid of the sockets in /tmp14:32
Agent_bobdru__ i think you can call ff from the konsole and what you click in it might report to the konsole14:33
nosrednaekimdru__: instance in firefox?14:33
dru__im building a widget  that will run a "site" radio stream14:33
nosrednaekima browser/web widget?14:34
dru__the widget should be able to interact directly with the stream14:34
dru__desktop14:34
Agent_bobdru__ try ^ it and see if it works14:34
dru__oay14:34
dru__thanks14:34
dru__*okay14:34
nosrednaekimdru__: like a plasmoid?14:34
dru__i really dont know ...i was just tired of having to have this window open to listen to that stream so decided to build an interacting widget for my desktop14:35
FSHeroflaccid: lol, I was looking in #ubuntu and didn't realise it. You want me to show that pastebin to #kde? (This sounds serious...!)14:35
nosrednaekimdru__: ya know... they probably have a shoutcast stream...14:35
dru__no they dont14:35
nosrednaekimand you can listen to it in amarok14:36
flaccidFSHero: yeah but try reboot if you havnt as well to clear /tmp14:36
dru__i know them* personaly14:36
nosrednaekimdru__: ah..ok14:36
dru__but what was this "call ff" Agent_bob14:36
FSHeroflaccid: okay, I'll reboot once more, and delete the contents of /tmp14:36
Agent_bobdru__ run the app from the command line in konsole14:37
flaccidFSHero: if you already tested then cool. thing is i don't see how it could get if you havnt started an session. /tmp is cleared on boot14:37
dru__i see14:37
dru__k14:37
dru__thanks14:37
Agent_bobdru__ that "should" give it a place to report what it's doing.14:38
dru__prompt returns as soon as its open14:38
dru__its not a kde app14:38
dru__thats why14:38
Agent_bobno. that's not why.  but it's probably not very standards compliant, that's why.  many non-kde apps will work just fine that way.14:39
dru__i get a good result from konqueror14:40
rysiek|plhi guys14:40
rysiek|plneed a wee bit o'help with debuggin a keyboard problem14:40
rysiek|plevery input device has a special dev file in the /dev tree, right?14:41
Agent_bobit has long been common place for linux based gui apps to report to a controlling terminal for debugging purposes14:41
dru__Agent_bob: where can i find one of those :D14:41
MachinTrucChoseHi. I created a new user called "guest" and did not set any password, but when at the login screen I try to login as "guest" with no password, it says Login Failed. What am I missing here?14:42
Agent_bobdru__ you can use; strace appname  # but that's a lot of output on most things.14:42
Agent_bobdru__ lol yeah.14:42
flaccidstrace is handy14:42
dru__yeah i need tonns of out put14:42
dru__the more the better14:42
Agent_bobthen use ltrace   :)))14:42
Agent_bobs & l for short and long14:43
dru__: *ltrace firefox14:43
rysiek|plguys, where in the /dev tree do I look for keyboard devices14:43
dru__k14:43
speeddemon24<MachinTrucChose> i think your screwed go in under your account set a dummy pw for the acct and postit note it on the computer so guests know what the pw is.14:43
MachinTrucChosespeeddemon24: you're kidding, right?14:43
dru__still :Process 10490 detached14:44
MachinTrucChoseI'14:44
speeddemon24no why14:44
MachinTrucChoseI guess I'll rename the user "guest-passwordis123"14:44
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rysiek|plMachinTrucChose: let it log-in14:44
rysiek|plMachinTrucChose: in KMenu -> System Settings14:44
speeddemon24that works too because that is the only way i know of14:44
FSHeroflaccid: Hi, it is me, FSHero, logged into KDE3 but as a different user.14:45
Agent_bobdru__ ah   readlink -f `which firefox`   might help to see where the warper is and look into it to see why it's not reporting to the konsole   :)14:45
FSHeroflaccid: this is weird!14:45
rysiek|plMachinTrucChose: there is a way of telling "allow that user to log in passwordless"14:45
speeddemon24<rysiek|pl> is right, srry my bad14:45
FSHeroflaccid: before I logged in as this different user, I tried my own with KDE (KDE3) session.14:45
rysiek|plMachinTrucChose: on the Advanced tab14:45
rysiek|plMachinTrucChose: "Login Manager"14:45
flaccidFSHero: profile is corrupt somewhere most likely14:45
rysiek|pljeez, who don't people just *check* by themselves in settings? ;)14:46
FSHeroflaccid: same thing as before occurred: I got a blank screen. Note: I could hear the 'startup chime' through my speakers14:46
MachinTrucChoserysiek|pl: ah, I see. Under Login Manager. Thank you. Now I see what Gnome fans complain about for KDE ;)14:46
FSHeroflaccid: corrupted profile file is what I was thinking too... but what?14:46
FSHero*which?14:46
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rysiek|plMachinTrucChose: huh?14:46
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FSHeroflaccid: I think I can afford to delete my user profile -- shall I do that through systemsettings?14:47
MachinTrucChoserysiek|pl: basically it doesn't make sense from a user interface POV to have that setting NOT where all the other user account-related settings are14:47
Agent_bobexample;  file $(readlink -f `which firefox`)14:47
rysiek|plMachinTrucChose: it's pretty intuitive, really, while making it impossible to log-into an account unprotected by mistake14:47
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Agent_bob/usr/lib/firefox/firefox: Bourne shell script text executable14:47
rysiek|plMachinTrucChose: maybe you're right14:47
flaccidFSHero: you don't have to delete the whole thing, you can copy your apps config and and so forth14:47
rysiek|plMachinTrucChose: anywhoo, it's there ;)14:47
MachinTrucChosethanks again14:47
flaccidFSHero: but the thing is what in the your profile to delete..14:48
FSHeroflaccid: you mean just the content of ~/.kde/share/apps ?14:48
FSHeroflaccid: * save the contents of ~/.kde/share/apps?14:48
rysiek|plno prob14:48
rysiek|plso guys, *anybody* knows where the keyboard's dev file sits in the /dev/ tree?14:48
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flaccidFSHero: well assuming that it is ~/.kde/*somewhere* then i would create a new user then copy all the apps config/share into the fresh user that you want to keep, then you could back up the nonworking using ~/.kde and replace it with this one14:49
flaccidso you get your app configs but the rest is fresh..14:49
FSHeroflaccid: I'm glad I can afford to delete my user. But... what if I couldn't? What would I have to do then?14:50
Agent_bobrysiek|pl is there a device for kbd ?14:50
eagles0513875yay14:50
eagles0513875i got it working14:50
rysiek|plAgent_bob: there is a device for everything, why not for kb14:50
eagles0513875Daisuke_Ido: yo14:50
flaccidFSHero: if you were an expert then you might be able to spend time and debug, otherwise, do whatever you want. i mean don't expect these things to no occur :)14:51
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eagles0513875Daisuke_Ido: i got my network issue resolved14:51
FSHeroflaccid: wow... this nvidia driver could have 'destroyed' my system if this were not a fresh install...!14:52
flaccidFSHero: how did you conclude that it was the nvidia driver. why would you make that assumption. for a start your kde profile is written to when you go to logout etc. if it failed there somewhere... there is no indication that it is nvdia at all. installing the driver doesn't do anything to home folders14:53
FSHeroflaccid: well... I thought that because everything was working fine before I tried the proprietary nvidia drivers, then I got display problems after I installed them, it was the NVIDIA drivers that were responsible.14:54
flaccidFSHero: that is probably one of the most common mistakes in diagnosis :)14:54
FSHeroflaccid: of course, my limited knowledge means that I cannot consider other things that could have gone wrong :P14:54
eagles0513875hey all14:55
FSHeroflaccid: tbh, I had tried the nvidia driver prior to today, but had to return back to the nv 2D-only driver. Also, I have run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" several times before.14:56
FSHeroflaccid: So 'damage' could have occurred at one of these steps14:56
flaccidFSHero: yeah running that program is not going to help if the driver is not installed. thus why it wasn't installed iirc14:56
ads_hi   i wrote a script containing "/etc/init.d/kdm restart"   this does not restart kde it simply leaves me with a blank screen.. this will only work from a non x session     why??? and how may i fix this?14:57
flaccidthe user is the highest probability especially if they have sudo/root :)14:57
FSHeroflaccid: Or a whole bunch of other stuff that I'm not aware about could have gone wrong ;)14:57
flaccidads_: because you are calling it from within what you are killing14:57
eagles0513875lol14:57
ads_flaccid:   so is it possible to run a script from an xsession to restart it effectively?14:58
FSHeroflaccid: What I did on a previous day was: I installed nvidia-glx-new then from System settings --> Display and Monitor I chose the nvidia driver (instead of nv), then restarted X (Ctrl+Alt+Backspace). I got bad resolution (640x480) then by pressing Ctrl+Alt+1 I ran "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg".14:58
ads_flaccid: rather than ctrl alt bkspace   which i cnat emulate in a script14:59
flaccidFSHero: yeah. and the restricted stuff can get a bit hectic but you gotta work with it. good thing is that hardware drivers managers does it all for you (in theory)14:59
FSHeroflaccid: yep... in retrospect, what I did seems to have been messy!14:59
flaccidads_: not that i know of and not sure why you would want to do that. i guess its possible but i dont know about it sorry14:59
flaccidFSHero: hmm was that kde3 system settings yeah?15:00
FSHeroflaccid: kde3 systemsettings, yes. I did it in KDE3 systemsettings15:00
eagles0513875is anyone else have issues connecting to other freenode irc servers or any other irce server in konversation15:00
ads_flaccid: the original script involves replacing my xorg.conf from a single display to dual display (projector for films!!)  and as such a restart of x is needed!  would be nice to just run a script seeing as i dp this evry night15:00
ads_dp*15:00
ads_do*15:01
flaccidFSHero: i'll check that out15:01
eagles0513875ads_: you could also add that as a cron job to have it more automated15:01
flaccidads_: which driver do you use?15:01
ads_eagles0513875: no idea what a cronjob is.. i will look up now.  i only do this at night or when im watching films its not a permenant thing15:02
ads_flaccid: nvidia15:02
eagles0513875ads_: cron job is the linux equivalent of scheduling something in windows15:02
crazy_busI installed the package mythbuntu-desktop, but I want to remove it and everything it installed.  How do I do that without manually finding every program?15:02
eagles0513875for instance you can create a cron job that runs sudo apt-get upgrade15:03
eagles0513875for instance ever day at 8am15:03
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eagles0513875!uninstall15:03
ubottuFactoid uninstall not found15:03
eagles0513875chalcedony: hey15:03
ads_eagles0513875: sonds interesting  will check it out..  unlikely what i need , its not evry night without fail ;just when i decide to watch a film15:03
eagles0513875ads_: that comes in handy in server environments15:03
ads_** excuse spelling mistakes   appologies**15:04
FSHeroflaccid: well thanks for all the help. I think I can continue solo now! Also, I just wanted to say that running "xrandr" displays a whole bunch of nice resolutions: 1024x768, 800x600, etc.15:04
eagles0513875as well as the occassional household environment15:04
ads_eagles0513875: most definitely, will make use of them   thanks.    Still for now do you know how i may restart x from a script inside an x session?15:05
flaccidFSHero: ok there was the problem. you installed it manually, thus wasn't installed properly most likely and systemsettings could of failed changing the Device in xorg.conf. its along those lines for sure.15:05
psycois there a command or way to find out my system hardware information? (CPU, ram)15:05
psycoetc15:05
eagles0513875ads_: im still trying to figure out how to write scripts im working on my linux cert but havent gotten there yet15:05
eagles0513875thats part 2 of this cours15:05
flaccideasiest to learn are sh and bash15:05
eagles0513875flaccid: im rather versed with bash15:06
flaccidversed?15:06
eagles0513875i now how to get around using bash15:06
eagles0513875for my cert we do nothing but cli15:06
flaccidit depends what you have to do in shells15:06
ads_eagles0513875: its very easy ..  all u will likely need is a "#!/bin/bash"  header  then just simple commands you would run from shell. however control statements are different to the convential programming languages15:06
Agent_bobrysiek|pl i dont find any rule to make a keyboard device ?     have you found anything ?15:06
flaccidbeing bsd guy i do csh a lot15:06
crazy_busit's a metapackage, but autoremove will not remove all of the things it installed15:06
eagles0513875!aolspeak | ads_15:07
ubottuads_: Please don't use "LOL" and "OMG" and so forth on a regular basis. This is IRC, not IM, and using those lines on their own is not required, and it is rather annoying to the rest of the people in the channel; thanks.15:07
flaccidcrazy_bus: i think autoremove of the deps only works with aptitude.15:07
flaccidcould be wrong but15:07
rysiek|plAgent_bob: huh?15:07
ads_^^ excuse me?? i havent used "lol" or "omg"   what was that about??15:07
rysiek|plAgent_bob: I got it, they sit in /dev/input/15:07
Agent_bobrysiek|pl oh wait.  looked in the wrong place.  /sbin/MAKEDEV:          makedev kbd  c 11 0 $cons15:07
eagles0513875ads_: the u is not a good think to do in here you will have people griping bout using u r and all that jazz15:07
crazy_busflaccid: but do you have to install with aptitiude.  Because I tried just removing with aptitude and it didn't work15:08
ads_aha  oops  yes i should of known.. sorry15:08
flaccidi think thats the case15:08
flaccidso it records the transaction15:08
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ads_eagles0513875:  hey its script independant what i need.. i just need a shell command that will restart x within an x session15:09
Agent_bobrysiek|pl you can put a keyboard node anywhere you want now.       mknod /path/to/device.name c 11 0     # :)))15:09
eagles0513875ads_: its ok im just letting you know15:09
eagles0513875ads_: there is ctrl+alt+backspace15:09
flaccidi never used aptitude because its more chars to type and apt did the job :)15:09
rysiek|plAgent_bob: eh... the node is there, thing is, the keyboard (laptop built-in!) doesn't *work*15:09
flaccideagles0513875: thats to hard kill X and thats not what he is after at all15:10
* Agent_bob personally hates it when device nodes are not in /dev though.15:10
rysiek|plAgent_bob: it works in windoze, live-cd menu, bios, but not after the kernel starts booting up15:10
flaccidads_: you have auto login enabled do you?15:10
ads_eagles0513875: unfortunately i cant enulate ctrl alt backspace as a keyboard command15:10
ads_emulate**15:10
eagles0513875flaccid: whats the cli command to restart x15:10
eagles0513875i kknow to start x from cli its startx15:10
eagles0513875ads_: try restartx15:10
flaccidlol15:10
ads_worth a try brb15:11
flaccidmaybe a visit to xorg is a good idea15:11
flaccid#xorg15:11
nosrednaekimactually... you can emulate Ctrl_alt_bckspace somehow15:11
flaccidthere is no restartx dang15:11
nosrednaekimI just forgot how15:11
flaccidand lose all the write backs to your documents, configs etc. joy!15:11
Agent_bobrysiek|pl hmmm is it on the usb-bus ?15:11
ads_eagles0513875: hmm  command not found15:12
flaccidthat would be good for a virus heh15:12
rysiek|plAgent_bob: no idea, but doesn't look like it15:12
rysiek|plAgent_bob: /dev/input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-0-event-kbd15:12
Agent_bobrysiek|pl kcontrol > priferials   might know15:12
ninix`hola15:12
rysiek|plAgent_bob: I'd prefer the console way right now; Xserver is something that is being set-up right now ()darn ait...)15:13
rysiek|pl*ati15:13
flaccidads_: um i just googled and there is lots on the subject, you didnt check there first?15:13
Agent_bobrysiek|pl lshw | less15:13
eagles0513875ads_: any luck in xorg15:13
ninix`anyone noticed that when trying to play some video with Kaffeine....... the X Server crash totally ? (and we come back to kdm)15:13
rysiek|pla sec15:13
flaccidads_: fyi sudo pkill X is th equiv of ctrl+alt+bckspc15:14
Agent_bobrysiek|pl umm if the keyboard isn't working how are you going to use cli ?     what did i miss ?   you have another kbd attached ?15:14
Agent_bobflaccid not   sudo killall Xorg   ?15:15
eagles0513875ads_:  /etc/init.d/kdm restart15:15
eagles0513875ads_: that should restart the x server = to the command i gae u before15:15
rysiek|plAgent_bob: a second usb-keyboard15:15
Agent_bobrysiek|pl there is also    lspci     and   lsusb15:16
rysiek|plAgent_bob: /me's not *that* dumb ;)15:16
eagles0513875ads_:15:16
rysiek|plAgent_bob: yeah, none says anything about keyboards (besides the USB one)15:16
rysiek|plAgent_bob: ... | grep -i keyb15:16
ubuntuI have problem, firefox3 and printing files freezing, i try reinstall all deb packages but dont help15:16
ads_eagles0513875: unfortunately "...gdm restart"  will not work within an x session this is why im here.. its what i first tried. it will not restart: simply end the session15:17
rysiek|plAgent_bob: I'll wait till the updates get installed, reboot and fight on15:17
flaccidAgent_bob: dont think so, X is the process above that with the pid/socket15:17
eagles0513875ads_: i dunno i think ur best of asking in #xorg15:17
flaccideagles0513875: that doesn't work within the session as we established first15:18
ads_eagles0513875: thanks anyway for your time15:18
ads_eagles0513875: bye15:18
flaccidads_: the real solution is using runlevels15:18
flaccidand solutions for that are on google15:18
Agent_bobrysiek|pl well  this is a ps2 kbd and;  echo `lshw ;lspci ;lsusb` | grep -i keyb  # draws a blank here.15:18
rysiek|pldarn15:18
rysiek|plsame here15:18
rysiek|plAgent_bob: not counting the capabilities lines that is ;)15:19
Agent_bobnothing here.15:19
ads_flaccid: really ? ok  thats something i will try then..  i presumed a run level will put me into say text mode but how you are saying it can restart my x session? (and consequently i may run this as a script from my xsession?)15:19
Agent_bobtty2 [greg@dell:~] echo `lshw 2>/dev/null ;lspci ;lsusb` | grep -i kbd15:19
Agent_bobtty2 [greg@dell:~]15:19
temotoHow do i know list of installed packages?15:19
frojndHello there. How can I burn img file, which has video files in it ?15:19
flaccidads_: from what i quickly read you set up the different levels and just switch. but hey its just what i briefly read but people have it going. i have never done this before or thought about it..15:20
Agent_bobsame with search for keyb15:20
rysiek|pltemoto: dpkg -l15:20
temotofrojnd, k3b can burn images.15:20
flaccidtemoto: goto adept or dpkg -l15:20
eagles0513875rysiek|pl: beat me to it15:20
* rysiek|pl puts his hot, steaming fingers into cold water15:20
rysiek|plaahhh...15:21
rysiek|plguess it's time for some tea. anybody?15:21
Agent_bobfor q in `bpkg -l | grep ^ii | cut -d' ' -f3` ;do echo -e "$q \c" ;done15:21
msils -l15:22
ads_flaccid: ok thanks for the heads up.. im pretty sure setting your run level will leave me in that mode: for e.g run level 3 is text only   and 5 is gui15:22
temotoHow do i uninstall apache2 but keep phpmyadmin?15:22
temotoI refuse to understand this omfg stupid dependency.15:22
rysiek|pltemoto: phpmyadmin won't work without apache (or other http server)15:22
temotorysiek|pl, or other15:22
flaccidads_: but you can run things in runlevels ie. scripts to do things like startx i would assume15:22
msiquien puede ayudarme pleace15:23
Agent_bobtemoto just turn apache off15:23
rysiek|pltemoto: aptitude install apache- other+15:23
rysiek|pltemoto: might work15:23
Agent_bobyou can have the dep installed but not active you know.15:23
msiayada15:23
temotoAgent_bob, am i free to hate apache so much i don't even want it to present on my hdd?15:23
msiayuda15:23
ads_flaccid: BRILLIANT   now i see what you mean i will try that   thank you!!15:23
eagles0513875!es | msi15:23
ubottumsi: Aquí solamente hablamos inglés. Para Español, por favor entre en los canales #ubuntu-es o #kubuntu-es - allí obtendrá más ayuda.15:23
flaccidads_: hey it doesn't look easy but.. heads up on that15:24
msigracias15:24
Agent_bobtemoto yeah.     dpkg -P apache2      but it will break the other package.15:24
temotoAgent_bob, thanks.15:24
ads_flaccid: much appreciated!15:24
flaccidads_: actually my friend, im reading a bit more and someone is correcting this concept15:25
frojndWhat does the simulate do when burnin DVD data or img.. ?15:25
flaccidads_: http://osdir.com/ml/user-groups.linux.cplug.general/2004-01/msg00409.html15:25
rysiek|plfrojnd: simulates; it can help you check if the burning will end in success, or it run out of data (buffer underrun)15:26
Agent_bobtemoto if it's a true hatred for it.     maybe leave it installed and just remove all it's files ?     for q in `cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/apache2.list` ;do rm -i "$q" ;done      # that will remove everything execpt the indicator in the archive list.   i.e. the package manager will see it as installed but nothing will be there.15:26
ads_flaccid: excellent will read    thanks again!15:26
flaccidads_: runleves can be used but changing runlevels is not necessarily do it automatically15:26
Agent_bobtemoto more than one methood whereby the hide is shucked from the felion  :)15:27
frojndrysiek|pl: so If I know img is 3,7gb I don't have to enable simulate..15:27
frojndrysiek|pl: simulate is taking additional time ?15:27
rysiek|plfrojnd: yes, it takes; the problem lies not in the size15:27
rysiek|plfrojnd: but in the *speed* the data gets fed to the burner15:27
frojndrysiek|pl: ok15:28
Agent_bobfrojnd tests  but doesn't waste a disk   ^15:28
temotoWhy is there two utilities for package management: dpkg and apt-get?15:28
frojndrysiek|pl: Agent_bob what about Writing Mode what is DAO and Auto15:28
flaccidads_: the easiest way around it is to set up a cronjob that runs every 5 seconds which calls a script, the script checks a file to see if it has a value in it and if it does, it restarts kdm then resets the file15:28
rysiek|pltemoto: sometimes a bike is better than a car15:28
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rysiek|plfrojnd: Disk At Once, TAO == Track At Once15:28
rysiek|plfrojnd: google it, wikipedia will help you on that15:29
temotorysiek|pl, the diff is only in filesize?15:29
flaccidand kdm is on auto login of user. oh and the script does an xorg.conf swap first as well15:29
Agent_bobtemoto misunderstood.       apt/aptitude/synaptic/adept/dselect   are all frontends/backends to dpkg15:29
rysiek|pltemoto: nay, you can get by bike to some places a car won't go; but if you do something wrong, you are more probably injured on a bike :)15:29
Agent_bobtemoto dpkg is the package manager15:29
Agent_bob!dpkg15:30
rysiek|pltemoto: yeah, actually Agent_bob is right15:30
ubottudpkg is the Debian package maintenance system, which together with apt forms the basic Ubuntu package management toolkit.15:30
francesco!it15:30
ubottuVai su #ubuntu-it se vuoi parlare in italiano, in questo canale usiamo solo l'inglese. Grazie!15:30
rysiek|plbrb15:31
temotoThat means on my secondary machine i'm going to run debian as little home server, i will have only dpkg and no apt-get?15:31
Agent_bobtemoto nope15:31
Agent_bobtemoto means the same frontends in ubuntu are used in debian15:32
temotoAgent_bob, erh same apt-get in debian?15:32
Agent_bobtemoto ubuntu is(or at least was) based on debian15:32
Agent_bobyes15:33
temotoAgent_bob, thanks.15:33
Agent_bobtemoto same aptitude and friends too15:33
Agent_bob!apt15:33
ubottuAPT is the Advanced Package Tool, which together with dpkg forms the basic Ubuntu package management toolkit. Short apt-get manual: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGetHowto - Also see !Synaptic (Gnome) or !Adept (KDE)15:33
temotoWhat does apt, dpkg don't do?15:34
Agent_bobthat's debian ^ inherited by ubuntu15:34
flaccidmake sandwiches15:34
psycoyummmmm15:34
Agent_bob!botsnack15:34
ubottuYum! Err, I mean, APT!15:34
psycolol!15:34
temotoAgent_bob, can apt install .deb files?15:36
EruaranDoes anyone have any info on what graphical app might be used for package management in 8.10 ?15:37
Agent_bobverbatum,  no.   dpkg does that.   apt manages the downloading from the repos and checking dependancies + fetching them.   then hands the full list of .deb files to dpkg for installation15:37
temotoAgent_bob, thanks.15:38
flaccidEruaran: try #ubuntu+115:38
Agent_bobunderstand what a "frontend" does,   it orgenizes, configures, orders, and then calls it's "backend" command15:38
temotoAgent_bob, dpkg doesn't configure?15:41
flacciddpkg is for packages not compiling15:41
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temotoflaccid, Agent_bob said frontend does configure.15:42
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flaccidsorry different type of configure15:42
temotoyea15:42
Agent_bobtemoto example of a shell command frontend might be something like this; the command will be echo in this example and the frontend work (also on the command line) will be a grep + sort,  and no this is not intended to be good shell gramour!     example; echo "this is a list of files called by your bashrc file $(grep '. ' ~.bash* | sort -u )"15:42
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flaccidits this abstaction that makes its a real DE compared to something like windows15:44
temotode?15:44
flacciddesktop environment15:44
Agent_bobif you run that in a konsole you will see how the commands within the $() gathered info and passed it to the echo command, which of course only spit it out on the screen15:44
temotowhoa thanks much15:45
flaccidlike system is the system, then there is display manager, then window manager, then desktop environment then gui toolkit then gui apps that can then call the system15:45
Agent_bobbut that's the idea,   apt does some work and then hands it's results to dpkg which manages packages.15:45
temotoi wanted to do same thing with echo few times15:45
flaccidsorry you guys are talking cli frontend to cli backend15:47
flaccidanyway im off to bed godnight15:48
flaccidoops or devilnight15:48
flaccidcia015:48
Agent_boblol15:48
mooperis there much that doesnt work in the 64 bit kubuntu15:48
Agent_bobflaccid shalom .15:48
mooperIts 64 bit really worth it?15:48
ads_flaccid: night dude15:48
eagles0513875mooper: i think it is15:49
eagles0513875mooper: goign to be around for a while need to reboot cuz of kernel update15:49
moopereagles0513875: what do you use it for?15:49
mooperthink so15:49
Agent_bobmooper depends on what you want, whether it's worth it or not.     and the number of things that don't work is decreesing all the time.15:49
eagles0513875mooper: programming but also for normal use u notice a performance gain ovr 32bit15:49
eagles0513875mooper: brb15:49
mooperk15:50
The_ManU_212when i wnat to create a ext3 partition what is my partition for a type? Linux?15:50
Agent_bobthat does NOT mean that there is nothing left that doesn't work in k815:50
mooperhow about kde4?15:50
Agent_bobthat i can't answer,   but there is a channel for that.15:51
Agent_bob!kde415:51
ubottuKDE 4.0.4 is the latest major release of the K Desktop Environment. Packages can be found at http://kubuntu.org/announcements/kde-4.0.4.php - Support in #kubuntu-kde415:51
jhutchinsmooper: Unless you're doing some heavy computation on very large files you are NOT going to be able to detect any performance improvement going from 32 to 64 bit.15:51
mooperjhutchins: well I might15:52
Agent_bobmost of the "preformance" that windows converts see is vidio card performance, not cpu performance.15:52
moopersometimes to some cfd stuff15:52
eagles0513875mooper: im bag15:52
eagles0513875*back15:52
eagles0513875mooper: once u go 64 cant go back to 3215:53
eagles0513875*you15:53
jhutchinsSure you can.15:54
mooperI think I tried a bit ago and the flash didnt work15:54
mooperWhat about virtualisation stuff15:54
eagles0513875mooper: i have been using 64bit since feisty15:54
jhutchinsThat's the kind of thing that's harder to get working, multimedia espeically closed codecs.15:54
moopervmware and so on15:54
eagles0513875!virtualbox | mooper15:54
ubottumooper: virtualbox is a x86 !virtualizer. A !free edition is available in !Gutsy as 'virtualbox-ose'. A non-free edition is available at http://virtualbox.org for most Ubuntu releases (help in #vbox) - Setup details at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox15:54
EruaranI tried out kde 4.1 beta 1 today15:54
eagles0513875vmware is still a night mare to get working15:54
moopereagles..x86?15:54
Agent_bobmooper yes flash has been a thorn in the side of k8  but, hopefully that is changing15:54
mooperI like flash15:54
adz21cflash works for me if u use i think its called nspluginwrapper15:55
moopermaybe I ould run flash in a virtual machine15:55
eagles0513875mooper: flasplugin-nonfree is what i use and it works15:55
eagles0513875adz21c: i use the flashplugin-nonfree15:55
andyho623Hey everyone!! Does anybody know how to install over kubuntu without messing up your home folder??15:55
mooperdo you use the kde4 remix?15:56
andyho623I mean re-intall kubuntu15:56
adz21ceagles0513875: yes, and nspluginwrapper lets u use the 32bit flashnonfree in 64bit apps15:56
adz21ceagles0513875: it is what i use to :-)15:56
eagles0513875adz21c: is that a dependency in that pkg15:56
Agent_bobandyho623 not a simple way from ubiquity unless you can detach your home from your installation root fs15:56
eagles0513875cany anyone help me with an irc issue15:57
adz21ceagles0513875: i don't know what package nspluginwrapper is even in, it just comes installed by default as far as i know15:57
eagles0513875im trying to join irc.x10hosting.com but it wont connect at all for me15:57
Agent_bobandyho623 you could archive the home and then unpack it into it's new system     if you have a place to put it.15:57
eagles0513875mooper: give the 64bit a shot what u gotta loose15:58
eagles0513875*you15:58
Agent_bobeagles0513875 check their faq and see if you need to specify a port.   irc defaults to 6667   but they may use something else15:58
andyho623Bob: Well here's what happened.. I had upgraded thru synaptic and things got all sorts of jacked up.. pretty much since edgy I've had problems with upgrading, but I also did it thru synaptic (I know, I know DUMB)... so now I'd like to re-install and start fresh, but I don't want to lose the stuff in my home15:58
eagles0513875Agent_bob: uses default 6667 port15:58
andyho623Yeah I've got more than enough room15:58
jhutchinseagles0513875: Sounds like you need more info on how you're supposed to connect.  You could tell us what DOES happen, what error you get.15:58
moopereagles0513875: I wus thinking about kde4 remix15:58
eagles0513875mooper: kde4 still lacking in some areas15:58
moopercool15:59
jhutchinsandyho623: You don't do regular backups?15:59
eagles0513875jhutchins:15:59
eagles0513875[16:58] [Info] Looking for server irc.x10hosting.com:6667...15:59
eagles0513875[16:58] [Error] Connection to Server irc.x10hosting.com lost: name lookup has failed. Trying to reconnect.15:59
andyho623jhutchins: not recently I haven't.. most the time I'll just move stuff from my box to an external15:59
jhutchinseagles0513875: Maybe it's because there's no such host as irc.x10hosting.com16:00
andyho623But I just have soem stuff I just downloaded and dont wanna lose16:00
eagles0513875jhutchins: ya there is was on it yesterday16:00
jhutchinsandyho623: So back it up.  Backing it up to an external is fine.16:00
jhutchinseagles0513875: My DNS says there isn't any such host.16:00
Agent_bobandyho623 if you have a few gig for the system you could make the present root into the new home and simply make a new root fs...   just a thought.16:00
eagles0513875jhutchins: how did u check with ur dns16:01
eagles0513875*16:01
eagles0513875*you16:01
andyho623jhutchins: yeah that's my next step, but one of my friends told me I should be able to re-install over top of my existing kubuntu without losing my home folder16:01
jhutchinseagles0513875: host irc.x10hosting.com - you can also use nslookup, dig, ping...  LOTS of ways to check.16:01
eagles0513875ok16:01
Agent_bobhttp://ubuntu.pastebin.us/?show=d795a5c8016:02
andyho623Bob: Yeah that was what I was thinking, just not sure how to go about it exactly and I tried searching the forums without much luck16:02
eagles0513875jhutchins: im using a router and i have the dns setup to point to my router since im using a static ip on the internal network16:02
jhutchinseagles0513875: "name lookup has failed" - that's your clue.16:02
Agent_bob whois x10hosting.com   ^16:02
eagles0513875webhosting for all of u wondering16:02
jhutchinsAgent_bob: Ah, but that's not the same as irc.x10hosting.com16:02
Agent_bobjhutchins correct,  irc.  would be a rdns sub service ?16:03
jhutchinseagles0513875: Well, the point is that your lookup failed, and mine from a totally different location failed, so it's a problem with the host or their DNS.16:03
jhutchinsAgent_bob: No, the irc client needs to look up the ip address of the host.16:04
eagles0513875what bout my dns16:04
jhutchinseagles0513875: What about it?16:04
eagles0513875i have the dns ip set to that of my router16:04
jhutchinseagles0513875: So?16:04
eagles0513875ok something i think is really messed up with kubuntu networking some where16:05
eagles0513875the 2.6.18 kernel is borked like no ther16:05
eagles0513875*other16:05
jhutchinseagles0513875: Why?16:05
Agent_bobyeah;  -:- Connecting to port 6667 of server irc.x10hosting.com [refnum 1]16:06
Agent_bob-:- Unable to connect to port 6667 of server irc.x10hosting.com: No such file16:06
Agent_bobok i'm out for a bit.   shalom.16:06
eagles0513875jhutchins: at least with a static ip cuz on dynamic dhcp ip i dont get this problem16:06
jhutchinseagles0513875: We're trying to tell you it has nothing to do with your system, it's the host, it doesn't exist today.16:07
eagles0513875ok interesting cuz i posted on their forum and they r saying its working but anyway16:07
jhutchinseagles0513875: Obviously you're able to reach the valid hosts for freenet.16:07
eagles0513875ya16:07
eagles0513875even undernet.org16:07
jhutchinseagles0513875: If people are asking about it in the forum, they have a problem and are just too dumb to know it.16:08
eagles0513875its me whos asking16:08
eagles0513875lol16:08
jhutchinsibid.16:08
eagles0513875with posting stuff in the forum keeps people informed16:08
eagles0513875bout whats happening with the servers and stuff like this but nobody has posted bout this16:08
gps  /leave16:09
gps\leave16:09
gpssorry :)16:09
pirataola?xd16:10
andyho623here's a link to my forum post if someone wants to help me try and figure this out http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=80216516:11
nosrednaekimandyho623: ya know... its odd that it failed on rc-defaults right after starting networkmanager16:14
nosrednaekimand I don't think netowrk manager ever said "OK"16:15
nosrednaekimoh never mind.. it did :(16:15
nosrednaekimandyho623: if you have all your data I would suggest a re-install16:15
andyho623nosred: yeah.. and the weird thing now and I haven't posted to the forum lately since it seems like it just takes too dang long.. but I switched over from my nvidia card over to onboard and I haven't had any system crashes.. but still just not booting correctly16:15
andyho623oh wait.. yeah I did16:16
andyho623LOL16:16
andyho623brain is totally being fried over this16:16
nosrednaekimandyho623: yep... I suggest a reinstall16:17
andyho623nosred: yeah that's what I'm prolly gonna do, but one of my friends told me I should be able to reinstall over top of my existing kubuntu without losing my home folder, but I can't figure that out and my option b is plugging in my external usb drive and just copying home over to it and wiping the box clean16:18
nosrednaekimhrm, I think there is a way to do it, but with all those file system errors, I'd back up and format the whole drive16:19
andyho623nosred: yeah that's probably the safer way to do it! now I just gotta figure out the command for moving it from home to the usb drive.. hehehe16:20
nosrednaekimcp -R /home /usbstick16:20
AugustoStormHi16:20
andyho623nosred: it's just usbstick?!?16:20
olegrohi16:21
nosrednaekimandyho623: no.... are you in recovery mode or something?16:21
andyho623nosred: no.. if I boot up the box it errors out, but I can kill x and log in16:22
nosrednaekimah right... ok. you'll have to plug in your usb drive, run "dmesg" and see what its logical name is (probably sdb1) and then run "sudo mount /dev/logical-name /mnt" then "cp -R /home /mnt"16:23
nosrednaekimsecond command will probably need sudo as well16:23
andyho623nosred: THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH!! that's pretty much exactly what I've been searching for!16:24
nosrednaekimwe'll see if it works :)16:24
andyho623heck as long as I can move the stuff and format the drive I'll be a happy camper! been needing a fresh install for a while16:25
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andyho623bbib16:27
andyho623ok... I just noticed something REALLY weird.. since I need to clean off my external before I move the home folder.. I decided just to look around some more.. so I just typed in df -h.... and my /dev/sda1 isn't showing a mount point!??!?16:42
eagles0513875jhutchins: i fiex it the server changed16:42
stefanoshi everyon16:43
stefanosi am using compiz fusion and kde4.0 in kubuntu 8.04 and i get double shadows in kde3 applications's menus... any ideas?16:44
nosrednaekimandyho623: whats on there?16:47
nosrednaekimstefanos: heh... trun off menu shadows in kcontrol... not sure where in there though16:47
andyho623nosred: what do you mean what's on there?? that's my main drive16:48
nosrednaekimandyho623: / ? the one which you boot off of? the one which has linux?16:49
nosrednaekimandyho623: ah.. all is well, it doesn't show / in df :)16:49
nosrednaekimsorry, I lied... it does16:50
andyho623that should be the one I'm booting off of..16:50
nosrednaekimand it doesn't say "/" as the mount point?16:50
nosrednaekimsda1 could always be a windows recovery partition...16:51
andyho623nosred: that's all it has is a / shouldn't it have something else like /usr/bin or somethin?16:51
nosrednaekimnah.... just / is fine16:51
nosrednaekimsince it is mounted as /16:51
andyho623phew... for a moment I was like wtf?!16:51
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andyho623any idea why when I fsck I get.... fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve 'UUID=bfcf5100-02eb-4274-b599-725452d15005' ??16:55
nosrednaekimnope.... no idea16:55
nosrednaekimactually, the UUID might have changed somehow16:55
nosrednaekimthats could certainly do it16:55
nosrednaekimbut I don't know how a UUID could change16:56
nosrednaekimok... I g2g to my graduation :)16:56
nosrednaekimlaters16:56
andyho623nosred: see that's what I thought and that it was loading from sda5 rather than sda116:56
andyho623cool!! congrats nosred!!!16:56
nosrednaekimandyho623: good locuk16:56
jtismefirefox says i need mplayer to listen to a streaming radio broadcast i have mplayer what gives16:56
drurewguys...does anyone know where to start to get a desktop widget to interact with a swf stream ?16:57
drurewsheesh16:57
drurewsorry i didnt know it was such a conversation16:57
drurew;)16:57
Timsenjtisme: do you also install mozilla-mplayer ?16:58
jtismeTimsen, no did not do that let me do that also and see what happens16:59
Timsenclose firefox before you do16:59
Timsencheck before and afterwards the about:plugins web page function17:00
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xiangtonghello17:04
stefanoswhat's the command to bring up the kde3 control center?17:11
Nece228kcontrol17:12
stefanosthanks17:12
Nece228You are welcome ;)17:13
jtismeTimsen, well it doesnt complain about mplayer but says Loading Content and never plays17:15
mDemocritusherro17:16
prodigyhi all17:30
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james_hello17:30
prodigyit is so quiet here... whare are all the users???17:30
* mDemocritus lurks, he lurks17:31
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james_in #gnome?17:31
prodigyNOOOO xD17:31
drurew were all doing home work :D17:32
Nece228 kde 4.1 uses qt4.4.0 isnt it?17:32
mDemocritusnah... kde just doesn't have problems, so we don't need to clutter up the channel like the gnome-based distros :D17:33
benklopi'm having a plasma crash in 4.1 beta1, and they are suggesting in #kde that I upgrade to svn17:33
benklopare there any nightly builds available yet?17:33
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benklopmDemocritus: : sorry to mess up your satement there...17:34
benklopbut it is amazingly bug-free considering it is beta and kde 4.00 was not...17:34
mDemocritusbenklop: CURSE YOU :P17:35
drurewnow now17:35
drurewlets be nice17:35
drurew;P17:36
drurew>)17:36
andyho623I just wanna kick my box across the room a few times...17:37
athlon1Can anyone tell me how to add a jre to OpenOffice. I've installed 3 java machines, but it detects none.17:38
sevensixtwothe latest update broke my plasma. I only get a white background now17:38
mooperI have a silicone image 2port rad conroller in my shuttle system with 2 disks in raid 0. I had to use a driver in vista to get it to work.17:39
SabreWolfyAnyone --> Why do I have nvidia-kernel-common installed when I don't have an nvidia card in my machine!?17:39
benklopandyho623: if it still works after doing that, kick it at me..17:39
mooperThe installer is showing t drives17:39
moopertwo drives17:39
mooperIs this software raid?17:39
sevensixtwodoes kde4 use it's own logs that I can look at?17:40
mooperIts a bit weird cos the /dev/sdb drive is showing no partition17:40
mooperbut I have vista installed on there17:40
spinikermy kubuntu log-in is taking to long,is there a way for me to log-in much faster? i have googled already for some solutions but to no avail,help anyone17:41
SabreWolfyspiniker: what is it doing during all that time ?17:41
spinikerthe boot up is fast,its just logging in takes to long,i mean really long..17:42
spinikerthe circle cursor just turns and turns and turns17:42
prodigyspiniker: you must installed something, or saved your session with a lot of preloaded aplications17:42
SabreWolfyAnyone --> Why do I have nvidia-kernel-common installed when I don't have an nvidia card in my machine!?17:43
spinikeri just had an update,thats all and i restarted.17:43
gps23how can i know which fonts is my xterm currently using?17:43
spinikerhow can i fix it? im getting desperate and even thinking of a clean install17:44
prodigySabreWolfy: i was asking the same question... should we remove it?17:44
prodigyspiniker: goto kcontrol and then kde components, and session manager and select start with an empty session, and restart. maybe that will speed it up. but be careful, this will disable most of startup aplications.17:45
gkffjcsHi all, I shared some folders on my desktop via nfs with my laptop. I forgot about my laptop and rebooted my desktop. Now the mounted folders on my laptop are inaccessable, and I cannot unmount the folder, I get device or resource busy.17:45
SabreWolfyprodigy: !!! :) Hi! I tried to but the dependencies mean that you have to uninstal a lot of stuff -- like "linux-generic"17:45
spinikerhow do i do that?i have both kde and gdm17:45
SabreWolfyprodigy: I think those drivers are responsible for my white screen when I hit ctrl-alt-f217:46
prodigySabreWolfy: hehe. in order to uninstall nvidia packages which are not needed, you have to uninstal kernel!? xD hahaha crazy... i know. i tried.17:46
spinikerbut my default is gdm17:47
gkffjcshow do I unmount nfs shares?17:47
prodigySabreWolfy: they might be responsible...17:47
spinikeri cant even put my username and password coz it really is to long just to login17:47
prodigyspiniker: are you using kde? if so, use ONLY kdm.17:48
prodigyif you use gnome, use gdm17:48
SabreWolfyprodigy: yea I'm searching around now but I can't find a solution; I read somewhere that something like half of the crashes in Vista are related to nvidia drivers. I don't want them on my machine if I dont have an nvidia card; and I want my text mode console back !!17:48
spinikeryes how do i log-in?17:48
prodigylol SabreWolfy17:48
spinikerits that process that takes to long..17:48
prodigywhere are you typing now from spiniker?17:49
SabreWolfyprodigy: They are part of the linux-restricted-modules package I think17:49
spinikerim using my windows pc17:49
prodigySabreWolfy: yes, but they should not be installed if you do not have nvidia hardware onboeard!! we should talk about this.17:50
Nece228im using kubuntu hardy now17:50
spinikerright now..il right it down,just tell me what to do..17:50
Nece228and listening pink floyd 8]17:50
prodigyspiniker: you updated and it now takes to long to log in?17:51
prodigyspiniker: did you only updated, or installed a bunch of packages and aplications yourself? or both?17:51
spinikeri updated thats all,but its been a while since i updated and i ended up with 118 packages to be updated17:52
prodigySabreWolfy: do you know where can we send a report that sais that ncidia drivers should be installed only if you have the hardware? is launchpad the thing, or bug report or something else?17:52
prodigyspiniker: which are you using? KDM or GDM? kde or gnome? you should use kdm with kde and gdm with gnome.17:53
spinikeri switch between the two,but i was using gdm when i was updating..17:54
jhutchinsprodigy: Actually, kdm, gdm, and xdm should all be able to load any of the desktops - xfce, kdm, gnome, e17, etc.17:54
gps23how can i know which fonts is my xterm currently using?17:54
spinikerso now i cant even log-in..i mean it boots up fast,just logging in takes forever17:54
prodigyjhutchins: they are able, but they are made to run like that. kdm runs best with kde, gdm with gnome.17:55
prodigyspiniker: which one is your login screen?17:55
heinkel_111does anyone know if the HP pavillion dv2819nr will run kubuntu8.04? I am thinkning of buying one: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8782613&type=product&id=120524596852717:55
spinikergdm,i choose kdm on sessions17:55
spinikerit was my default log-in gdm,i was planning to switch it just now17:56
SabreWolfyprodigy: yeah it is, but I've never done it before; I'm looking at the packages now; they are part of linux-restricted-modules, which has drivers for a while lot of things; just don't know why we can't remove them without having to remove "linux-generic"; maybe i'ts a bug in the latest version only -- I'm on 2.6.24-1817:56
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prodigySabreWolfy: me too. i think it is unneeded dependency. because generic is a meta package, right?17:57
SabreWolfyprodigy: correct; have to go now; cheers17:58
prodigyspiniker: try changing your display manager if you can. if not, choose some failsafe session to log in.17:58
spinikerthats the problem,just trying to put in my username and password is whats taking too long..17:59
prodigyspiniker: can you not put in username and passwd, but change a session?17:59
prodigyspiniker: If you cannot do that, i am afraid you must reinstall.18:00
prodigygot to go, tally ho18:00
eagles0513875tally ho pinkerton18:01
spinikerwell thats what i was rying to say,sorry for the mix up..before the update i could do that.change session and all,but now its the logging in part thats taking to long,ive been waiting for the username and password prompt to appear18:01
spinikerand its taking to long18:01
spinikeris it a bug?18:02
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andyho623hey can someone help me figure out how to reinstall over kubuntu without losing my home folder?18:13
andyho623I've actually been able to get to the part where it's asking me how I want things partitioned, but I dont wanna screw anything up18:14
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crashhandlerhi18:20
crashhandlerhow to make desktop shortcut for konqueror root mode?18:20
richard_i download a firefox2 and try install but, get firefox318:21
richard_how i can instal firefox218:21
ibouhi18:22
ibouhow to see shared directories from windows on my kubuntu?18:23
ibou(i can't see any option like "explore network" on windows18:23
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aluiziooi18:28
SpiroHi, is anyone using the new kubuntu release with kde 4.0? Is it early to install it or can I upgrade?18:30
Spiroupgrade to previous kde 3.5.x?18:31
SpiroHi, is anyone using the new kubuntu release with kde 4.0? Is it early to install it or can I upgrade18:35
Spiroto previous kde 3.5.x?18:35
SpiroIs anybone in channel?18:35
gps23Spiro, i am using same18:36
gps23Spiro, though i didnt liked new kde much18:36
heinkel_111does anyone know if the HP pavillion dv2819nr will run kubuntu8.04? I am thinkning of buying one...18:36
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gps23Spiro, so using fluxbox on top of it now18:36
heinkel_111it is a small laptop18:36
SpiroI see18:36
Haku_Fawkeshi18:36
Spirogps23, is it stable at least?18:36
Spirogps23, also is it difficult to install fluxbox?18:37
gps23Spiro, it crashed 1-2 times18:37
Haku_Fawkeswhere I can find german support?18:37
gps23Spiro, nope, but fluxbox is quite minimal, a bit of learning curve is required18:37
benklophow can I generate a proper backtrace for a plasma crash?18:37
crimsunfluxbox really isn't that minimal18:38
damien__Can anyone tell me where I can find the folder for a game I installed through Synaptic?18:38
crimsune.g., try lwm18:38
bak1anhi 2 all )18:38
Spirogps23, could you please give a good reference to start with for installation? ...obviously, with fluxbox now your desktop  and system is faster and more stable, right?18:38
gps23crimsun, yes, but i was comparing it to kde4 :)18:38
ubuntuhi18:38
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Haku_Fawkesgibs hier auch n de-kubuntu?18:39
gps23Spiro, it has less memory footprint, so yes if u have limited memory, else it won't make much difference, but startup is much faster18:39
dru__!DE18:40
ubottuDeutschsprachige Hilfe fuer Probleme mit Ubuntu, Kubuntu und Edubuntu finden Sie in den Kanaelen #ubuntu-de, #kubuntu-de, #xubuntu-de und #edubuntu-de18:40
gps23Spiro, stable yes, i haven't seen fluxbox crash ever18:40
damien__Can anyone tell me where I can find the folder for something I installed through Synaptic?18:40
Spirogps23, thanks18:41
dru__damien__: JUST RUN THE PROGRAM NAME IN THE TERMIANL18:41
dru__ srry18:41
damien__I need to edit something in the folder though18:41
gps23Spiro, np :)18:41
claydohdamien__: you can check out the detsils section  in synaptic to see the list of files18:41
Haku_Fawkesthx18:41
damien__Ok18:41
gps23Spiro, fluxbox's website and its wiki contain everything u will need18:41
Spirocool18:42
gps23Spiro, i mean the documentation18:42
Spiroyes18:42
Douglascan anyone help me   on how to install  kubuntu on ASUS F3s series laptop with a NVIDIA GRAPHIC CARD ???18:42
gps23Spiro, i like flubox coz i can assign my own shortcuts to whatever i needm kde and gnome are quite limiting in this18:43
damien__Where can I find my games folder? I can't figure out what claydoh meant.18:43
jonaskoelkerhi all; I installed kubuntu on my laptop; then i (apt-get) installed ubuntu-desktop, and purged a bunch of kde packages, including compizconfig-backend-kconfig.  Now, when running compiz, it doesn't respond to my keyboard; alt-f2 doesn't open "run", alt-drag doesn't move windows, alt-tab doesn't switch, etc.  how can I make compiz work normally?18:46
nite613_On Hardy what is the easiest way to get my laptop to freak out with sounds and noises when it's getting too hot? I've found the notifications setup for "KDE System Guard" called "A sensor has exceeded a critical limit", but I can't figure out how to set those limits for any given sensor18:47
jhutchinsjonaskoelker: If you've purged a bunch of kde packages, you're no longer running kubuntu, and your question is really not relevant here.  I would suggest you ask in #ubuntu or #compiz-fusion18:48
jonaskoelkerthat's what I thought, but some #ubuntu folks said to go here...18:49
jonaskoelkeroh well, thanks for reading my complainz ;)18:49
jhutchinsjonaskoelker: They probably don't know what they're talking about.  Just because your base install was kubuntu doesn't mean there's anything to it but the dektop, the rest of all the *buntu's is the same.18:50
jhutchinsSorry, stray apostrophy.18:50
TonrenI upgraded to KDE 4.1beta, and now my laptop's volume keys don't work.  Anyone know what's up?18:50
jhutchins!puregnome | jonaskoelker18:50
ubottujonaskoelker: If you want to remove all !KDE packages and have a default !Ubuntu system follow the instructions here << http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/puregnome >>18:50
jhutchinsTonren: Yes, you are beta testing software that's not ready for regular use.  You've found a bug - congratulations.  Please report and doccument it.18:51
Tonrenjhutchins: Sure thing.  I'll bet there's a ticket out there for it already.18:51
jhutchinsTonren: Might well be, might be a work-around too.18:51
damien__Okay, I figured out my last problem, but whenever I try to put it in the folder, it says access denied, why?18:52
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damien__Nevermind, sorry.18:53
AugustoStormWho are u talking to18:53
biovore!kde418:55
ubottuKDE 4.0.4 is the latest major release of the K Desktop Environment. Packages can be found at http://kubuntu.org/announcements/kde-4.0.4.php - Support in #kubuntu-kde418:55
nite613_Any hints on setting a temperature alarm?19:00
nite613_I have system guard running, a tray applet that shows my temp (if I look at it), and a system notification config sheet that purports to send me an alarm if "a sensor exceeded a critical value", but how do I set that critical value?19:02
ign0ramushey guys.  can anyone recommend a decent Parental Controls app for kubuntu, preferably with GUI?19:04
jasmin_dhq__: hi19:04
gruftihi19:04
NickPrestaign0ramus, what are you trying to do?19:05
ign0ramusNickPresta: basically restrict some sites for my parents computer (both for my little brother and for them too) ;)19:05
dhq__jasmin_: hi19:05
NickPrestaign0ramus, if you simply want to block websites, you can add entries to the hosts fil19:06
NickPrestae19:06
ign0ramusNickPresta: yeah, but I'd like something pro-active... that requires adding a certain site each time they come across one that is objectionable.  I need something that refers to a database or keywords19:07
gruftiis there a way to configure the hotkey for volume control? in its current state, by turning the volume wheel, it goes up at 10% steps, which i dont like19:07
jasmin_dhq__: [;)]19:07
NickPrestaign0ramus, hmm. I don't know of any off-hand. You could try messing around with Squid Web Proxy and such. It supports regular expressions, mime-types, etc19:08
gruftii dont find the option in keyboard shortcuts control module19:09
ign0ramusNickPresta: i saw that too.  i'm surprised that there aren't more options (nothing at all in the repositories).  Now that Linux is ready for the Desktop (i say that tongue-in-cheek), you would think there'd be some "family friendly" apps out there...19:09
ign0ramusi wonder if a bash script could handle that... :/19:10
gruftiwould be enough for me to know which app is responsible for assigning the keyboard to certain commands19:10
ign0ramusgrufti: check in /etc/acpi/19:11
ign0ramusyour keymapping for hotkeys should be located there19:11
gruftithanks19:11
ign0ramusdon't thank me until i've actually helped! :)19:11
gruftihaha. at least someone answers at all which happens rather seldom for me. so there's someone WILLING to help ;)19:13
ign0ramusgrufti: i know what you mean sometimes... but there are very few experts around here, and so the blind must lead the blind sometimes!19:14
dalehi all19:22
Eruaranhi19:22
dalecan someone help me with, I'm new to ubuntu (less than 24 hours) and I don't have the hang of things.19:22
coreymon77sure19:23
coreymon77what do you need19:23
daleI need to modify the source for bcm43xx.ko (already done), I just want to build and install it without having to build everything else19:23
coreymon77wait, less than 24 hours with ubuntu and you are already compiling19:24
coreymon77and editing sources?19:24
coreymon77wow19:24
dalenot new to unix just ubuntu19:24
coreymon77oh19:25
coreymon77lol19:25
coreymon77i was thinking that must have been some sort of record :P19:25
daleso how do I build just my module or if I have to the entire wireless package19:26
coreymon77what care do you have again?19:27
coreymon77card*19:27
dalewmp300n, I don't need it to work I just need it to be recognized so I can use iwpriv to modify the subsys ID's (a requirement)19:28
coreymon77chipset?19:28
daleit doesn't matter but it's bcm432119:28
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daleyou're looking at it like I wanna make it work and that is wrong approach, I just need it to bind so iwpriv will work on it ndiswrapper doesn't do this19:29
coreymon77get a better card? :P19:29
coreymon77sorry, im not much for the building and compiling sutff19:29
coreymon77stuff*19:30
dalewhat does that have to do with what I'm doing?19:30
dalethen why botther commenting at all.19:30
daleanyone know how to build a single module or partial package?19:32
coreymon77WWWWWEEEEEEEEE!19:33
coreymon77netsplit19:34
ibouhow to see shared directories from windows on my kubuntu?19:34
daledoes anyone know how to build part of the ubuntu source without building everything?19:35
ign0ramusibou: the simplest way would just be to open konqueror and navigate to " media:/ "19:36
ibouhow to see shared directories from another pc with windows (on the same work group) on my kubuntu?19:41
lumpycowhello...19:46
lumpycowwhat do you use to format a hard drive partition?19:47
seraphhi, is the packages.ubuntu.com down??19:50
faleseraph: I think yes19:52
djg9282Hi guys...quick question...just downloaded scanmodem.gz to my KDE desktop...can you help me with the walk through in the terminal...i don't know how to get to the desktop directory.19:52
emilsedghscanmodem sucks19:52
seraphfale: thanks.... does this mean the adept/synaptic/apt-get update/upgrade process will be affected?? Coz, I was in the middle of an update...19:52
Admiral_laptopI'm trying to send the output of fdisk-l to a file...how can I do that?19:53
Admiral_laptoplike lshw > file.txt19:53
faleseraph: nope, they work fine19:53
Admiral_laptopwait i got it19:53
claudio_ciao19:54
seraphfale: thanks again, i guess it depends on the mirror repo being used... us.archive.ubuntu.com is up i guess, right?19:54
faleseraph: yes19:55
jussi01!repomirror | seraph19:55
ubottuseraph: Go to "System",  "Administration", and "Software Sources" and choose "Other" from the drop down box. Then choose "select best server" and your system will choose the fastest mirror for you automatically.19:55
faleclaudio_: ciao19:55
jussi01hrm19:55
seraphthanks fale.19:55
faleseraph: yw19:55
jussi01seraph: ignore that -its ubuntu specific19:55
seraphubottu: thanks. is that for gnome? is there any anything from cli (i remember, ooat, there was an apt-spy)?19:57
lumpycowoh btw... if I am to mount a new partitoin... what should it be mounted as?19:58
jussi01!bot | seraph19:58
ubottuseraph: I am ubottu, the all-knowing infobot, standing in for ubotu while he's getting his haircut done, nose powdered, updated and transitioned to his new gorgeous looks in the near future ;)19:58
jussi01seraph: go to kmenu - adept - manage repositories - choose other from the drop down box and then find best server19:59
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seraphjussi01: thanks, why didn't I ever try that?20:01
jussi01:)20:01
jussi01seraph: because you didnt know about it :D20:01
foormeahi20:01
jussi01hi20:02
engineeranyone who speaks german here?20:02
msnbothello, I want to setup a shortcut for Keyboard layout changing in Kubuntu. how to do that??20:02
foormeai've got 2 problems: first is, i'm trying (in this first step :D) to have qwerty and azerty (french) keyboard layouts. it works. i can switch between layouts with ctrl-alt-K. but the more 'customized' shortcuts (such as alt-shift, both alt keys and other) won't work. is this normal?20:03
jussi01!de | engineer20:03
ubottuengineer: Deutschsprachige Hilfe fuer Probleme mit Ubuntu, Kubuntu und Edubuntu finden Sie in den Kanaelen #ubuntu-de, #kubuntu-de, #xubuntu-de und #edubuntu-de20:03
Admiral_laptop!de20:03
engineersho said i needed german support?20:04
engineerwho*20:04
squid0hi. what is the kde base directory in kubuntu?20:04
jussi01engineer: you asked for someone who speaks german20:05
engineeri needed german translation20:05
msnbotfoormea:  how did you set that shortcut. I want to set a shortcut20:05
foormeamsnbot: the ctrl-alt-K, i didn't set it. i read somewhere online that it's a KDE default shortcut20:05
foormeabut well anyway this first problem isn't TOO important since i can switch between layouts with ctrl-alt-K20:06
foormeamy second question is,20:06
jussi01engineer: the most likely place to find a german speaker is in #kubuntu-de20:06
foormeai want to be able to input chinese. i added chinese and ticked "enable support for complex characters"20:06
foormealogged out, restarted, pulled my hair, but no scim/skim...20:06
msnbotfoormea: thanks for the shortcut, but I cant revert it.20:06
msnbotI can go to bengali layout. But I cant return to English layout20:07
foormeamsnbot: ctrl-alt-K switches in loop between US and french for me20:07
msnbotfoormea: I need to set something like you.20:07
frybyehi - a friend setup the ssh server here and explained how to allow a helper I trust have access - i know a sys admin in nevade some 25 years and gave him the ip - account name and pw but he was unable to login - what could be the reason - does one have to start the server by hand or ..?20:08
msnbotfoormea: when I first press it. It changes to bengali. when I do it next time. Its then Ctrl+Alt+ক not Ctrl+Alt+K. so doesnt' work20:08
frybyeput another way - how can I check if the server is running?20:08
foormeamsnbot: all i did was, go to system settings, regional and languages, ....20:09
foormeahaha20:09
foormeawellllll :) don't know20:09
foormeathe so-called xkb switchers don't work on my side20:09
frybyeshort version of same question - how do i check to see if I have a ssh server running here...?20:10
foormeassh 127.0.0.1 ?20:10
frybyeflaccid: can you give me a tip on this problem...20:10
foormeaor ssh localhost20:10
foormea(same)20:10
frybyefoormea: with that command in the terminal window..??20:11
foormeafrybye: yeah20:11
frybyefoormea: it said ..." ssh: connect to host localhost port 22: Connection refused.."20:12
|Dreams|what program would i use to create an audio dvd?20:12
frybyewhich is what it was telling my friend in nevada also.. apparently..20:12
foormeathen you probably don't have a ssh running20:13
foormeaunless it's set up running on another port20:13
SilentDis!autostart20:13
ubottuTo make programs autostart with your KDE session, you can make a link to it in ~/.kde/Autostart. The package 'kcontrol-autostart' makes a kcontrol item for handling items in that directory. For a complete guide, see http://jucato.org/kde/kde-autostart.html20:13
frybyehow do i start it foormea??20:13
foormea(if i'm not mistaken)20:13
foormeafrybye: install it with sudo aptitude install openssh-server ; then it'll be set up to launch automatically as a service20:13
foormeaif not (but it will), start with sudo /etc/init.d/openssh-server start20:14
frybyebut I would tend to assume that has all been done - the guy who was here is a systems engineer and knows his stuff.. eh perhaps I just need to start it - not to re-install it or..?20:14
foormeaokay then, just type       aptitude show openssh-server20:15
foormeayou'll see in the first few lines, state: installed/not installed20:15
foormeayou could also just try to launch it with the sudo /etc/init.d/ssh start20:15
foormea(yeah it's /etc/init.d/ssh, not openssh-server, my mistake a few lines up)20:15
sensaeDoes anyone know of a VM I can use to get 3D/DirectX support?20:16
sensaeOr if I can set up a dual boot to be bootable as a VM and natively?20:16
frybyefoormea: I will put the result of that command in a pastup .. hang on pse..20:16
foormeano no no need20:16
engineerfrybye don't highlight me20:17
foormeaeither it will tell you, OK launched, or already running, or file doesn't exist20:17
frybyethere is stuff in there about a colision - please have a look at it .. @engineer.. I dont know what you mean..20:18
foormeafrybye: ok pastebin20:18
frybyehere is the past if anybody would like to help: http://paste.ubuntu.com/18123/20:18
engineerfrybye ok20:19
foormeafrybye: openssh is installed20:19
foormeafrybye: sudo /etc/init.d/ssh start20:19
foormeawhat does it say?20:19
frybyeso it look like I should install - molly-guard, rssh, ssh-askpass or?20:20
foormeafrybye: nothing :)20:20
sensaeHow can I boot a native install of XP as a VM, or vice-versa?20:20
frybyeok looks like it is running now...20:20
foormeasensae: i think i did that once with vmware20:20
foormeafrybye: ssh localhost20:21
frybyesame as before - connection refused...20:21
foormeaok20:21
foormeahold on20:21
frybyek20:22
foormeafrybye: mh. i've got some other stuff to do right now but i see 2 explanations: it's running on a non-standard port (check out your /etc/ssh/sshd_config, check out the Port line)20:23
sensaefoormea: But you remember doing it?20:23
foormeawith for example, cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config | grep 2220:23
foormeasensae: nah. but perhaps the dude who installed it for you changed some settings20:23
msnbotfoormea: I have changed Ctrl+Alt+K to Shift+Backspace20:24
mluser-homeIs there a way to have networkmanager connect to a preferred wireless access point without having to log into my normal user?  I want it to bring up the network right after I power on the laptop20:24
foormeasensae: could also come from your machine's firewall? but i've no knowledge for those things20:24
foormeamsnbot: cool! how??20:24
sensaefoormea: I think you're getting your conversations mixed up. I was asking about a VM20:24
foormeasensae: :D sorry20:24
foormeasensae: yeah, vmware. i did it. but what i did was, installed the OS under vmware on a physical partition then boot on it20:25
foormeashould work the other way round too, problem is the boot loader though20:25
sensaefoormea: Well I have blank space, I'm trying to set the system up from scratch20:25
sensaefoormea: How does the bootloader cause issues?20:26
msnbotgo System settings > keyboard mouse >  kb shortcuts > Global shortcuts tab20:26
msnbotfoormea:  see above20:26
msnbotfoormea: now see at the end of list "keyboard" is there20:26
frybyehi - whats the default port for openssh???20:27
foormeasensae: perhaps if you separate your blank space in 2 partitions, 1 for your new system, 1 for vmware's (or whatever's) bootloader20:27
mluser-homefrybye: 2220:27
foormeathen in you ACTUAL bootloader, you add a line for your new system20:27
foormeafrybye: 2220:27
foormeamsnbot: let me see20:27
foormeamsnbot: thx20:27
frybyemluser-home: I have a very different one.. so that will have been the problem I guss.. I can just edit the config to change it right..?20:28
sensaefoormea: I'm following what you want me to do, but not why - my knowledge of VMware's booting process isn't very good20:28
mluser-homefrybye: Yes.. just change it in /etc/ssh/sshd_config20:28
foormeamsnbot: coolness20:29
foormeasensae: vmware is a virtual computer20:29
foormeainstall it and you'll see how it works :)20:29
foormeafrybye: or just ssh localhost:<your port>20:29
foormeaor ssh localhost <your port>20:30
sensaefoormea: Yeah, I've used VMs before. But why would I need two separate partitions?20:30
foormeadon't remember if you need the :20:30
foormeasensae: cause if you use a physical partition, you'll need a boot loader somewhere20:30
foormeaor you could actually have your boot loader on the partition?20:30
frybyehmm with nano it did not let me change the port number???20:30
foormeamhhh maybe. honestly i'm not sure. i hope i'm not just talking nonsense20:30
foormeafrybye: sudo nano blablabla20:31
frybyeah ha - the    ssh localhost:<my port> will set the new one right..20:31
foormeafrybye: not SET but USE20:31
frybyeok - not sure of the difference.. but ok hehehe20:31
sensaefoormea: Are you talking about the bootloader for booting it natively?20:31
foormeaokay anyway. under kubuntu hardy i just tried compiz, now i don't want compiz anymore but it totally messed up my config, alt-tab doesn't work properly anymore and windows aren't snapping anymore. what to do??20:32
foormeasensae: natively and in the VM also20:32
foormeasensae: whichever, you'll need a boot loader right?20:32
frybyeit says name or service not known...20:32
djg9282Can anyone help me with installing a package that is suppose to get my Winmodem to work under linux the package is SLMODEMD.gcc4.2.tar.gz and i have it on the desktop, but i don't know how to get the process started??20:32
frybyei did ssh localhost:<the numbers>20:32
foormeadjg9282: sudo dpkg -i <package>20:33
frybyedo I have to actually type the < and >???20:33
foormeafrybye: try without :20:33
foormeafrybye: no20:33
foormeassh localhost:2482420:33
foormeaor ssh localhost 2842520:33
djg9282thanks let me try that20:33
foormeafrybye: i suggest you read some first step manual in linux/ubuntu :)20:33
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sensaefoormea: I'll just play aroudn with it20:34
foormeayeah ok20:34
foormeawell20:34
foormeai better go20:34
foormeaand try to fix my !@#$%^&*( kde20:34
frybyeah well.. connection refused - no matter what I do...20:35
djg9282foormea: i get an error message "cannot access archive" that the file does not exist but it is on my desktop and i am in that directory20:35
foormeadumb question: you sure you typed it correctly? use completion (with tab)20:36
djg9282The command it wants me to do for this package is $ tar zxf SLMODEMD.gcc4.2.tar.gz but that didn't work20:36
minhaajhow do i get TOR to work with kubuntu?20:36
minhaajhttp://www.torproject.org/download-unix.html.en20:36
_2!tab20:36
ubottuYou can use <tab> for autocompletion of nicknames in IRC, as well as for completion of filenames and programs on the command line.20:36
djg9282foormea: i went back and it looks like i typed everything right CAPS where it needed to be and smallcase where that needed to be20:37
foormeaminhaaj: sudo kate /etc/privoxy/config or something, un-# the line that has 905020:37
foormeathen configure your browser20:37
foormeaor use torbutton (ff2) or foxyproxy20:37
Nece228hello20:38
_2!info tor20:38
ubottutor (source: tor): anonymizing overlay network for TCP. In component universe, is optional. Version 0.1.2.19-2 (hardy), package size 947 kB, installed size 2076 kB20:38
_2minhaaj ^20:38
Nece228how can i paste favourites from internet explorer to konqueror?20:38
bak1anhow can i disable notifications like "[22:38] --> Nece228 зайшов на канал (n=simas@89.116.179.73)." in Konversation?20:38
foormeai'll be back20:38
foormea--20:38
minhaajfoor whats taht ?20:39
_ZeuZ_Hi, after recompiling the kernel, reinstalling the nvidia privative module will have any effect on other kernel's modules?20:39
xfilesqualche italiano20:40
_ZeuZ_xfiles, !it20:40
_ZeuZ_!it20:40
ubottuVai su #ubuntu-it se vuoi parlare in italiano, in questo canale usiamo solo l'inglese. Grazie!20:40
_2<_ZeuZ_> Hi, after recompiling the kernel... < did you build all kernel modules for that kernel ?20:41
xfilesok20:41
_ZeuZ__2: all exept for the privative nVidia driver one20:41
_ZeuZ_the Ubuntu's master kernel thread says I have to reinstall it, but I wanted to know if it will have any effect on other kernels I've got installed here20:41
_ZeuZ_the Ubuntu's master kernel thread says I have to reinstall it, but I wanted to know if it will have any effect on other kernels I've got installed here20:42
_2_ZeuZ_ you just talking about a remix of the same source ?    if so then it wont affect other modules no.20:42
_ZeuZ_Holly fuck-a-mole! netsplit!20:42
NekosolTeraDyne!language20:42
_ZeuZ__2: No, plain new compilation...20:42
ubottuPlease watch your language and topic to help keep this channel family friendly.20:42
_ZeuZ_ups,sorry NekosolTeraDyne won't happen again20:42
_2!language | _ZeuZ_20:43
ubottu_ZeuZ_: please see above20:43
_ZeuZ_printf "won't happen again :P"\n20:43
coreymon77yup20:43
_2_ZeuZ_ ok.  trying to catch up here   your Q, will it affect other kernels i have installed?   no.20:44
_ZeuZ_So, if I install the new kernel, and I have to install nvidia module from nvidia site, it will not hurt previous kernels right? just repeating to make sure, I've had trobule with regressions so wanted to check that and correct my knowledges...20:45
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_2_ZeuZ_ sorry it takes so long to answer such slightly vague questions,    and yes that is correct.20:45
coreymon77again?20:46
NekosolTeraDyneSomeone should take that server completely offline.20:46
_2_ZeuZ_ each kernel,  unless it uses the same version.sub-version  is a completely seperate os20:46
_ZeuZ_slightly vague question? :P bet there are not much *ubuntu users trying to remove modules from the initramfs and working over only what you need for your system to boot up :P20:47
coreymon77wow, that was a big one20:47
_ZeuZ_well, I had problems previously on Debian when I booted back to previous kernels, I had to reinstall the modules...20:47
_ZeuZ_those problems, though, where on gcc bugtrack20:48
Nece228lol20:48
_ZeuZ_Another netsplit? :O20:48
_2_ZeuZ_ that's not the vague part.    the vague part was that you asked if it "would affect other kernel modules"   when addressed you later specified "modules with other kernel builds"   i'm not a mind reader    (usually)20:48
Nece228what a spam20:48
Nece228cool spam20:48
Nece228:D20:48
Nece228:DDDDDDDDDD20:48
nainefnetsplits, are they new?20:48
_2no.20:48
nainefI' haven't seen one in awhile20:48
NekosolTeraDynenainef: Then you haven't been on freenode in a while20:49
nainefhehe20:49
_2happens when the black hat boys come to play.20:49
_ZeuZ_lol20:49
nainefoh noes20:49
Nece228Please don't spam here or i will ban you all from here forever! *joke*20:49
_ZeuZ_luckily I'm behind 3 routers hehe20:50
_ZeuZ_(at the residency)20:50
nainefwhoa20:50
_ZeuZ_not counting router frontier and stuff...20:50
_2router is only as safe as it's admin.20:50
Nece228Kubuntu rocks!20:50
Nece228Kubuntu rocks!20:50
Nece228Kubuntu rocks!20:50
NekosolTeraDyne...20:50
_ZeuZ_well, it would be hard to tunnel back to my host for them20:50
_ZeuZ_either way, we have allowed only 80,443,21,22,23 ports allowed20:50
Nece228KDE 3.5 rocks!20:50
Nece228KDE 3.5 rocks!20:50
Nece228KDE 3.5 rocks!20:50
coreymon77will you shut it20:51
_2_ZeuZ_ but they would be trying to exploit your irc client anyway.  ;/20:51
NekosolTeraDyne!offtopic20:51
ubottu#kubuntu is the official Kubuntu support channel, for all Kubuntu-related support questions. Please use #kubuntu-offtopic for general chatter. Thanks!20:51
djg9282Can anyone help a newbie get this winmodem up and running.... already have the package SLMODEMD unzipped but i don't know how to install the package...i don't understand the "makefile" command or what to do with it20:51
_ZeuZ_well, afaik xchat does not have any critical vuln20:51
_2!winmodem | djg928220:51
ubottudjg9282: You want to connect via dial-up? Read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DialupModemHowto20:51
coreymon77djg9282: wow, dialup20:51
Nece228ubottu: cool, thanks!20:51
_ZeuZ_worst of them are DoS20:51
ubottuFactoid cool, thanks! not found20:51
_2coreymon77 i'm on dialup.20:52
coreymon77djg9282: next thing your gonna say is that dinosaurs still roam the earth :P20:52
damien__What's a good C++ compiler with a graphical interface?20:52
coreymon77djg9282: lol20:52
_ZeuZ_damien__, what do you want a GUI for a Compiler??20:52
coreymon77djg9282: btw, ubottu is a bot20:52
_ZeuZ_damien__, don't you mean an IDE?20:52
_2damien__ graffical interface ?       gcc   but no gui to it.20:53
damien__ZeuZ: I need a compiler with a GUI20:53
toti_hello20:53
coreymon77jeebus!20:53
_ZeuZ_damien__, well, if you could tell me why you need a Gui for compiling, I'll search one for you20:53
_2damien__ try  kdevelop20:53
damien__ZeuZ: I'm not good with command line.20:53
_ZeuZ__2 but that,s an IDE with Compiling tools...20:53
damien__Oh20:54
_2_ZeuZ_ yeah.  and ?20:54
_ZeuZ_damien__, well, as _2  says you can try Kdeveop..20:54
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_ZeuZ__2: nothin :P just that he asked for compiler only :P20:54
coreymon77...20:54
_2_ZeuZ_ i mean he just told us that he's just looking for a way to point and click and get something built   so  (kdevelop)    or do you have a better idea ?20:55
_ZeuZ_hmm, man gcc :)20:55
_2that's what i first said.20:55
_2:)20:55
_ZeuZ_gosh, Core 2 Duo t9XXX really worst it's price now that I see it compiling...20:56
_2worst ?20:56
_2worth ?20:56
m00vhaha20:56
_ZeuZ_yeah, my bad :P20:56
_ZeuZ_pardon my bad english x'D20:57
_2hehhe   "really worst it's price"        >:]20:57
jrl123I have a question about accessing files on a second partition that also has ubuntu installed. I've mounted it but can't see the / structure. If it's easier, advice on how to just boot into that partition (can't access the files so I don't know what to put for the kernel and initrd) would also work. I just want to grab 2 files and re-format.20:57
_2_ZeuZ_ you no will to engrish20:58
MementoMoriare there kde4.1 packages for gutsy?20:58
_ZeuZ__2: ok now that I did not understand at all xD20:58
_2_ZeuZ_ nothing,   just teasing.20:58
_2!ot | _220:59
MementoMorijrl123: if you mounted the right partition you have to see your filed20:59
MementoMorifiles20:59
andyho623ok guys.. part 2.. so I was just able to re-install over kubuntu.. my home folder was saved.. now showing as /media/disk... so what's the easiest way to copy my old home folder over to my new home??20:59
MementoMorijrl123: if you mounted the right partition you have to see your files21:00
_2andyho623 do you want to copy it to your new home or mount it as your new home ?21:00
m00vandyho623 : cp -r <oldhome> <newhome>21:01
_2andyho623 i would sujest mc for copy and editing /etc/fstab for changing the mountpoint21:01
damien__How do I compile my project with kdevelop?21:01
_2that one really needed punctuating didn't it21:01
djg9282Can anyone help me with installing the SLMODEMD package to get my winmodem up and running...i have it already have the SLMoDEMD as an exectuible...now i just need to know how to install it properly21:01
andyho6232: I'd like to copy it just to make sure it doesn't get lost.. I don't need to mount it since it's obviously created it's own partiton21:01
damien__I go to build, but the only option is stop and it's not clickable.21:01
andyho623but I don't really need 2 copies of everything21:01
_2andyho623 i would sujest "mc" for copy; and, editing "/etc/fstab" for changing the mountpoint.21:02
andyho623I had some serious upgrading issues... finally getting it back on track!!21:02
cary_jebus_hjhow come I cant open my other partition in linux21:02
cary_jebus_even after refromating it21:02
cary_jebus_its a etx221:03
jrl123MementoMori: it's definitely the right partition. I think it's a result of using the windows insaller and not a boot disk. Instead of bin, boot,... I have mbr files  and a folder called ubuntu21:03
_2andyho623 ummm two copies ?     you have your old root fs and /media/somfin ?21:03
MementoMoriwhat's inside ubuntu dir?21:03
_2s/and/as/   ^   sorry21:04
jrl123MementoMori: disks docs install winboot the install exe and some txt files21:04
cary_jebus_can someone help me\21:05
_2cary_jebus_ because you dont have permission ?21:05
andyho6232: I just re-installed kubuntu.. it partitioned my old home directory to /media/disk... don't quite know why, but whatever.. so now I want to move my music,pics, etc from the old folder to my new home21:05
MementoMorijrl123: are you sure you didnt delete the files?21:05
cary_jebus_no, im admin21:05
jrl123pretty sure. i don't know how that would have happened.21:06
cary_jebus_the only user on the computer21:06
andyho623just don't wanna lose anything in the process21:06
_2andyho623 all you need to do is edit /etc/fstab   and make the mountpoint for that fs as  /home        err you might need to own it too.21:06
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djg9282anyone here or did we get another network disonnect?21:06
MementoMorido you remember the name of the files you are looking for?21:06
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andyho6232: ok I just opened fstab and it's not listed in there?21:07
MementoMorijrl123: do you remember the name of the files you are looking for?21:07
cary_jebus_so what do i do21:08
andyho6232: it is listed under mount though...21:08
_2andyho623 example;   mount #this will show you what is munted where;    kdesu kate /etc/fstab  # this will open the file system table in the kate editor;     add a line with the device that is listed as being mounted on /media/disk  like this;  /dev/hdb3 /home auto defaults 0 0    #that is an example only.21:08
jrl123Yes. They aren't found21:08
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* cary_jebus_ waits21:09
_2andyho623 that late i know.  i typed while you did.21:09
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splash88who21:09
MementoMorijrl123: if you are looking in the right place you have a problem very difficult to resolve here21:09
MementoMorijrl123: It seems you (or a software you recently used) deleted the files21:10
andyho6232: LOL np! ok but currently my fs is on /dev/sda6 my old one was /dev/sda1.. with mount it's /dev/sda6 on / type ext3 (rw,realtime,errors=remount -ro) and.. then there's /dev/sda1 on media/disk type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal)21:11
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prodigyi screwed up! i shift deleted documents folder, i need it back! is there a way???21:11
MementoMoribye all21:11
_2andyho623 the only thing that would differ from my example "/dev/hdb3 /home auto defaults 0 0"  and your actual fstab line is the device "/dev/hdb3"  would be "/dev/sda1"21:11
_2andyho623 so " /dev/sda1  /home auto defaults 0 0 "21:12
prodigyanyone?21:12
NickPrestaprodigy, I'm looking, but I can't find anything21:13
andyho6232: but in my fstab file it's not listed at all?!? I've only got sda6 and sda7 which is a swap.. sda1 isn't showing21:13
prodigythank you all...21:13
_2andyho623 but run; sudo chown $USER /media/disk/$USER -R   #first because you may have changed UID along the way.21:13
andyho6232: ooooohhhhhhh ok that makes a ton more sense then.. yeah I was having some serious UUID issues21:13
* _2 wonders what part of "add a line" did andy miss21:14
jrl123Thanks for the help. The files weren't critical just time saving21:14
andyho6232: LOL.. yeah I missed the add a line part21:14
_2:)    sorry.21:14
_2want me to repost ?21:14
andyho623And not to sound completely retarded but is $USER my user name then?21:15
_2andyho623 yes it's a shell variable that is supposed to always expand to your user name.21:15
_2echo " i am $USER and i live in $HOME "21:16
prodigythank you very much, i have to go now, type with you tommorow, bye!21:16
_2andyho623 err make that the owner of the shell it is used in.    if you   sudo -i    and then echo the same string you will see entirely different output than if you run    sudo echo " i am $USER and i live in $HOME "   from a normal account.21:17
eagles0513875chalcedony: hey21:17
_2andyho623 that's because the shell expands the variables before calling the sudo command in the second example above.21:18
_2little cli one owe one21:18
andyho6232: ahh ok, makes sense :)21:19
Nece228there is problem with youtube and konqueror21:19
Nece228when i open youtube in konqueror there is error message:21:19
Nece228A script on this page is causing KHTML to freeze. If it continues to run, other applications may become less responsive.21:20
Nece228Do you want to abort the script?21:20
Nece228what shall i do?21:20
_2abort it.21:20
theFATMANwhats up everybody, i just installed kubuntu on my little girl's pc, well, I didnt write the password down, dropped to root to reset it, now its not recognizing the username or password, how can i fix this?21:20
andyho623HALLELUJAH MY SYSTEM IS FIXED!!!!!!21:20
_2bah   kinda a bumpy ride today21:21
engineerwtf21:21
theFATMANwhats up everybody, i just installed kubuntu on my little girl's pc, well, I didnt write the password down, dropped to root to reset it, now its not recognizing the username or password, how can i fix this?21:21
andyho623Now I won't lose my 30G of music!! :-D21:21
engineeruse the recovery kernel21:21
engineerand drop the user and recreate it again21:22
minhaajmy wine is not working21:22
minhaajprograms start but it shuts down itself21:22
_2andyho623 but it's always a good idea to make backups.    nothing can replace redundancy.21:22
minhaajany idea ?21:22
engineerwell said21:22
engineerminhaaj vmware21:22
theFATMANengineer: how do i drop the user?21:22
minhaajwhy not wine ?21:22
engineeruserdel fatgirl21:23
engineerminhaaj not stable enough21:23
_2or deluser    one is sh the other is perl ?21:23
theFATMANengineer: whats your problem?21:23
engineertheFATMAN ?21:23
theFATMANfatgirl?21:23
theFATMANwhats up with that21:24
minhaajhmm21:24
minhaajvmware hmm21:24
engineeri don't know the username you want to delete21:24
minhaajgotta install it in vmware ?21:24
engineerminhaaj you gotta run windows in vmware21:24
engineer!vmware21:24
ubottuVMWare Player is in Ubuntu's !Multiverse repository (package "vmware-player", only for Feisty and Edgy), and http://www.easyvmx.com/easyvmx.shtml can create VMs for it. Instructions can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VMware - See also !virtualizers21:24
minhaajyea i know21:24
Nece228when i open youtube in konqueror there is error message:21:24
minhaajbut why run whole window one i only need a program21:25
minhaajit would take tooooooo much space21:25
* _2 has windoze installed in a file that i run with qemu21:25
_2but it's not the best by any means.21:25
engineerminhaaj if wine doesn't do what you want, what other solutions do you have? wine doesn't run every windows program, i suppose you know this21:25
engineerspace is cheap21:26
engineerso is ram21:26
_2upgrading is for ...    never mind.21:26
_2i was going to say something like   L   users21:27
minhaajyep21:27
_2but that might offend someone21:27
minhaajbut how do i transfer files between windows in vmware and linux ?21:27
ahmedانا مبتدأ  اكو احد يعلمني21:27
_2minhaaj a common fs ?    flash drive maybe ?21:28
engineerftp21:28
minhaajVirtualBox kernel driver not installed. The vboxdrv kernel module was either not loaded or /dev/vboxdrv was not created for some reason. Please install the virtualbox-ose-modules package for your kernel, e.g. virtualbox-ose-modules-generic..21:28
engineersamba also works21:28
_2ssh/scp21:29
ahmedplzz help me to see the move from youtupe21:29
engineerwhat's youtupe?21:29
_2tube most likely21:29
ahmedwww.youtube.com21:29
engineersudo aptitude install flash-nonfree21:29
NekosolTeraDyne!flash21:30
ubottuTo install Flash see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/Flash (a recent version for !Dapper is available in !backports) - See also !Restricted and !Gnash21:30
_2!youtube21:30
ubottuFactoid youtube not found21:30
_2thought there was a page on that...21:30
andyho6232: quick question for ya.. when I re-installed I had wanted home on it's own partition so that I wouldn't have to worry about it again in case I had any other upgrade issues.. is that what's it's already done in a sense seeing as that I kinda have 2 homes now? one on sda6 and one on sda1?21:31
_2woops.  i don't think i want to do parallel backups.  box1 backed to box2 while box2 backed to box1    that might fill both boxen with garbage...21:31
andyho623I'm so looking forward to getting my nvidia card working again.. ;-)21:32
engineerandyho623 not really21:32
engineeror you didn't mount them correctly21:32
_2andyho623 yes.    your new home will be on sda121:32
djg9282Can anyone help me load slmodemd...i already copied it to my /usr/sbin directory but i can't seem to get it to install so i can get my winmodem working...any suggestions?21:33
_2engineer he just edited the fstab,  not sure he has remounted the new home yet21:33
engineerok, i'm not aware of his problem then21:33
_ZeuZ_For an x86_64 kernel, nVidia recomended drivers would be ia64 or amd64/emt64? processor is AMD Turionx2 just for the record...21:33
engineeramd6421:33
andyho6232: nah my new home is on sda6.. that's where my main fs is at.. sda1 is the OLD stuff.. and fyi I'm a girl21:33
andyho623;)21:34
_ZeuZ__2 do you concur with engineer about the package I should choose as for installing the nVidia privative drivers for an x86_64 kernel?21:34
_2andyho623 that's a personal problem  nothing we can do about that.    :)    but if you added the line "/dev/sda1 /home auto defaults 0 0 "    to your fstab   then yes your home is on sda1  not sda6 where you now are.21:35
engineerdjg9282 modprobe module_you_wnat21:35
_2_ZeuZ_ yep21:35
ahmedsudo aptitude install flash-nonfree and no see the move form youtube21:36
djg9282so i type into console modprobe slmodemd and that should install it?21:36
engineerahmed restart firefox21:36
andyho6232: cool deal.. that works for me.. off to edit fstab and get this thing back where it needs to be.. bbl21:36
engineerdjg9282 i hope so21:36
ahmedok21:36
djg9282engineer: do i have to be in the /usr/sbin directory? i assume so...i can't figure out how to get out of the home/djg9282 directory21:36
_2andyho623 do us both a favour first.    ls -l /media/disk    and pastebin the output21:37
_2andyho623 i want to make sure you are not disapointed when you remount it.   and come cursing me.21:37
_2!paste | andyho62321:38
ubottuandyho623: pastebin is a service to post multiple-lined texts so you don't flood the channel. The Ubuntu pastebin is at http://paste.ubuntu.com (make sure you give us the URL for your paste - see also the channel topic)21:38
engineerdjg9282 /etc/modules21:38
djg9282engineer: sorry your talking to a newbie on linux...so you just lost me haha21:38
ahmedplzz help me to see youtube21:39
ahmedplzz help me to see youtube21:39
djg9282oh21:39
djg9282nevermind21:39
djg9282it just clicked haha21:39
djg9282i think21:40
ahmedsudo aptitude install flash-nonfree and no see the move form youtube21:40
engineerdjg9282 put it inside that folder /etc/modules21:41
engineerand load the module then21:41
djg9282engineer: ok and then i can just run that command from the konsole and it will notice where it is?21:41
djg9282engineer: the instructions intially wanted me to copy it to the usr/sbin ad then i chmod +x the same file21:42
djg9282thats where i am stuck now21:42
engineerfollow those instructions then21:42
andyho623LOL ok one sec21:43
ahmedilding tag database... Done21:43
djg9282ok i'll have to continue this later...i'll be back if i can't figre this thing out21:44
andyho6232: ok.. slight prob.. right now I'm sitting next to my K box and on the hubbys crap ms machine.. and I've got a ton of stuff showing up when I ls -l /media/disk. so is there something in particular I'm lookin for?21:45
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_2one folder with your user name21:45
damien__Are there any 3D modelers for Kubuntu?21:47
gkffjcs_2Are there kde4.1 beta packages for kubuntu yet?21:47
_2andyho623 if there are folders like  bin/ sbin/ lib/ proc/   then you need to delete them all but not home/   then inside home/  there should be your user name folder  move it to /media/disk    not all this is within /media/disk   not in /21:47
damien__Are there any 3D modelers for Kubuntu?21:48
_2andyho623 which do you see ?    folders of user names   or folders of system names like sbin/ var/ and usr/  ?21:48
andyho6232: ok I'm confused.. yes I've got all those listed, and my home is there; which is the old home..21:49
_2andyho623 reposting,  if there are folders like  bin/ sbin/ lib/ proc/   then you need to delete them all but not home/   then inside home/  there should be your user name folder  move it to /media/disk    not all this is within /media/disk   not in /21:49
_2s/not/note/   ^21:50
andyho6232: so I don't think it really needs moved then?21:50
andyho623just the others need deleted?21:50
dthackerdamien__: yes21:50
mo_<damien__> you might have a look at blender21:50
engineerdamien__ blender21:51
_2andyho623 folder named /media/disk/home/$USER   needs to be moved to be   /media/disk/$USER    because when you remount the fs on /home/   what ever is in /media/disk/ now will be in /home then.21:51
andyho6232: alrighty np thx!21:52
_2all your data "30g music"  should be in /media/disk/home/$USER before any moves        correct ?21:52
damien__Thank you all.21:53
_2andyho623    confirm ?21:53
andyho6232: yep it's all there21:53
_2ok    sudo mv /media/disk/home/$USER /media/disk21:53
_2then for safety sake.    sudo chown $USER -R /media/disk/$USER21:54
_2and you are done.   you can reboot to make it affective.21:54
andyho6232: cool thx! :)21:55
_2that assumes no errors   ^    of course.21:55
andyho623hahaha21:55
andyho623for real21:55
_2in linux "no error" means "no error"21:55
fabriziociao a tutti21:55
_2i.e.  if it didn't say anything,   that's good.21:55
andyho6232: yeah one reason why I switched over to linux.. it actually listens21:56
_2indeed21:56
_2but the reason i jswitched was simple    EULA21:56
_2i read one.21:56
andyho623free is best21:56
_2s/j//21:56
_2basicly the M$ EULA said this "do you agree to give us all your rights privledges and property from this day forth and forever?"21:57
_2of course it's not in those exact words,  but in affect...21:58
_2so i said NO!21:58
andyho6232: yeah I know.. it's crap.. M$ can eat it21:58
andyho623I'm hgoping to get my other 5 machines over to kubuntu21:58
andyho623I just use photoshop way too much and havent had time to mess with gimp21:59
_2make one of them ubuntu just to improve the learning curve  :)))21:59
andyho6232: I started with mandriva, then moved to ubuntu21:59
engineeri like mandriva21:59
engineerbut ubuntu has a better package management22:00
engineerand i feel more confortable with it than with rpm22:00
andyho623engineer: definitely!!22:00
WalzmynI started off my Linux experience with Mandrake - but I like Debian world better22:00
* _2 started with slackware 5 the non-release release. then to rh8 mdk9 rh9 mdk10 ubuntu hoary...22:00
engineerandyho623 you live in uncle sam's land?22:00
andyho623engineer ya unfortunately.. sometimes I think about running away to another country22:01
engineerdamn, i'm glad americans pulled up their sleves and elected obama22:01
_2actually after i figured out how urpmi worked in mdk   i'm not sure i don't still like it better than apt22:01
andyho623italy would be pretty sweet22:01
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engineeri love australia22:02
andyho623some of my friends moved to new zealand, they love it22:02
engineerwhat state are you livin in22:02
WalzmynObama's not been elected yet22:02
engineerhe's the democratic nominee22:02
engineera big victory so far22:03
andyho623I just wanna live somewhere it doesn't snows.. reasons I'm now in Florida as opposed to OH or CO where I've also lived!22:03
_2i like america,   just not real fond of it's government for the last say 150 years.        but politics is banned on freenode.22:03
AngryBaconI'm trying to run lmms and keeep getting "QFile::readBlock: Null pointer error". Any ideas?22:03
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_2that's server side policy  ^22:03
engineeri'm sure it doesn't rain in texas or arizona22:03
WalzmynI've setup a couple of users other than my primary here - but when I try to log in with them it just jumps back to the login screen - any ideas?22:03
damien__Guys Blender froze, how do I close it?22:03
benklopwho would i talk to about NetworkManager devel questions?22:04
engineerdamien__ kill -9 blender_pid22:04
andyho623engineer: no thx on texas.. unless you're a bush! ;) and arizona just gets waaaaay too hot22:04
ns8hey22:04
damien__engineer: Thanks22:04
ns8kubuntu es22:05
ns8como entro22:05
ns8espanol22:05
engineer!es22:05
ns8spanish22:05
_2benklop ummm Jucato might be able to help with that22:05
ubottuAquí solamente hablamos inglés. Para Español, por favor entre en los canales #ubuntu-es o #kubuntu-es - allí obtendrá más ayuda.22:05
ns8como llego22:05
Walzmyndamien__, ctrl+esc will get you the manager to kill running processes22:05
engineerandyho623 bush should be shot22:05
TonrenHey guys, I updated to KDE 4.1 yesterday, and X stopped responding to keystrokes, except for Ctrl + Alt + F1, which I just used to switch to a terminal to get on IRC.  What can I do to try and diagnose this?22:05
_2benklop if not he could at least point you in the right dirrection.22:05
Walzmynengineer, keep the politics out of it22:06
_2!ot | engineer & andyho623 sorry.22:06
ubottuengineer & andyho623 sorry.: #kubuntu is the official Kubuntu support channel, for all Kubuntu-related support questions. Please use #kubuntu-offtopic for general chatter. Thanks!22:06
_2and politics is still banned on all freenode channels.   it's server policy guys.   read the http://freenode.com22:07
WalzmynHas anybody else had trouble logging in with non-primary user accounts?22:07
engineernop22:07
engineerWalzmyn how did you create them?22:07
_2Walzmyn have any error messages ?22:08
BenPAhas anyone ever used flashrom inside of kunbuntu ... if so how do you flash the bios?22:08
engineer_2 freenode,com doesn't exist22:08
_2.net  mybad.22:08
_2.net  my bad.22:08
Walzmyn_2 no error messages, just bounces back to the login screen22:08
engineerBenPA usually i flash bios through the bios itself22:08
ahmedsudo aptitude install flash-nonfree and no see the move form youtube22:08
engineerWalzmyn try creating them using the kusermanager22:08
Walzmynengineer, system settings >> user management22:08
Walzmynengineer, wouldn't that be the same thing?22:09
BenPAengineer how do you do that under linux?22:09
engineeri don't know22:09
engineerbut trying won't do any harm22:09
ahmedkubuntu22:09
engineerBenPA i said i never flashed in linux22:09
livingxsacrificeanyone have trouble opening openoffice on ubuntu 8.04?22:09
BenPAahhhh22:09
engineerbut through the bios it self22:09
BenPAI am not that savvy22:10
Walzmynlivingxsacrifice, OOo works fine for me22:10
engineerOO works fine too22:10
_2Walzmyn  for q in /home/* ;do grep "$q" /etc/passwd ;done   # do all your users show up there ?22:10
engineergoogle documents as well ^^22:10
andyho623man kde4 is pretty sweet22:10
livingxsacrificeWalz Ill click on the icon and gui display opens but the actually program never comes up22:11
_2andyho623 but be advised it is still incomplete.22:11
livingxsacrificeit used to work22:11
BenPAengineer: I am using a program called flashrom but I don't know how to get it to "flash" but it reconizes that something needs flashed22:11
Walzmyn_2 not sure I followed that22:11
_2Walzmyn it's a konsole shell command to test the paths for the users.   "for q in /home/* ;do grep "$q" /etc/passwd ;done "22:12
WalzmynBenPA, where'd you get the app? I suggest looking there.22:12
engineerunder system22:12
BenPAengineer installed it using apt-get22:12
livingxsacrificewhen i click the icon the window that says open office and it looks like it is loading but office never opens22:13
_2Walzmyn all default login users will be listed there,    if you set some other path for the user's home  then it wont show there.    that's what we are checking for,   does the user have a home to live in.22:13
engineerBenPA look in the app manual22:13
BenPAI did22:13
engineerive' no idea what app is and i'm sure i've never used it22:13
Walzmyn_2 ok, I missed where your command began - all users showed up22:13
engineerbegins in "22:14
_2Walzmyn ok you can do;   ls -l /home     # to make sure that each user owns their own home.22:14
_2Walzmyn that will eliminate it being an owhership issue.22:14
SpeShi22:14
engineerWalzmyn try checking if every user has writing permissions inside each home folder22:15
_2engineer ^22:15
drurewguys how can i open a bin file to view its contents22:15
engineer7say ./bin_file22:15
engineer./bin_file22:15
SpeSI've upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04, and, appart of other issues more or less fixed, now if I enable the nvidia binary drivers, I can't start the X server... is that a known bug or something?22:15
drurewThe file media:/sdb1/Desktop%20Radio.widget is a binary22:16
engineerSpeS i don't think so22:16
Walzmyn_2 ok, when i did the /home check, what are the blue names at the end of each line?22:16
_2drurew open ?    in an editor ?22:16
drurewbin / binary ?22:16
drurewyeah22:16
SpeSthe new Kubuntu 8.04 should work with a nvidia 8600 right?22:16
engineerof cours22:16
_2Walzmyn the users home dirrectory.   check the ownership of each.   it's listed as the users name also22:16
SpeSI still have the 2.6.22-14 kernel, is that the right kernel of the 8.04?22:17
SpeSmay be that the problem?22:17
_2Walzmyn example " drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 Dec  7  1941 linux-source-2.6.15 "  <<< root owns that,  and the root group has access to it.22:17
engineerSpeS nop22:17
Walzmyn_2 well, on each line it's got one user at the begining of the line and a different user in blue at the end of the line - except for the user that's working (this one)22:17
engineer2.6.24-1822:17
_2Walzmyn there's your problem.   ownership.22:17
SpeSmmm... but apt doesn't say I have to upgrade the kernel (?)22:18
SpeSI've done an apt-get update, and apt.-get dist-upgrade few times...22:18
drurewengineer: sorry man i didnt quite get that command .....7say ./bin_file ?22:18
engineermarine@bodyguard:~$ uname -a22:18
engineerLinux bodyguard 2.6.24-18-generic #1 SMP Wed May 28 19:28:38 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux22:18
SpeSeverything is updated22:18
Walzmyn_2 drwxr-xr-x 2 USER1 USER1 4096 2008-04-16 20:22 USER222:18
engineerdrurew the one just below22:18
SpeShow can I force the new kernel?22:18
Walzmyn_2 with USER2 in  blue22:19
SpeSoh yes, I remember now, I told grub not to replace my mennu.lst22:19
SpeSso the kernel must be installed...22:19
_2Walzmyn try this.  >>>   sudo for q in /home/* ;do chown $(basename "$q") -R "$q" ;done   <<<22:19
Walzmyn_2 considering that I've never done anything with these accounts, would the easy thing be to delete the users and their /home and remake them?22:19
SpeScan anyone please pase the line of menu.lst to load the new kernel?22:20
_2the easy thing would be run my command and try logging in to one of them again.22:20
engineerSpeS if the kernel doesn't exist in your /boot you can't force loading it22:20
_2@ Walzmyn22:20
Walzmyn_2 unexpected token 'do' << when I used yer command22:21
SpeSengineer, it is there22:21
SpeSonly that mu grub menu.lst is not updated22:21
SpeSso I'm loading the old kernel of the 7.1022:21
_2Walzmyn ok sudo -i   then in that shell run it without the sudo part.   i.e.  for q in /home/* ;do chown $(basename "$q") -R "$q" ;done22:22
_2the command seperator ; hosed the sudo string and i don't want to go into how and why () does what it does.22:22
engineerSpeS http://rifers.org/paste/show/744922:22
Walzmyn_2 ok, appears to have been successful - what did we just do?22:23
SpeSengineer, thanks, I'll adapt that to mine :)22:23
_2each /home/dir is now owned by dir22:23
SpeSI hope that's the problem with nvidia bin driver...22:24
_2Walzmyn you can      ls -l  /home     # and see what it did.22:24
drurewummm im talking about opening a binary file to list and or edit its contents....im attemtping to build a desktop widget that interacts with an swf stream ....i have a sample i will be either editing or re writing ....i need this sample to be able to understand correctly how this application functions22:24
Walzmyn_2 i did - i was trying to figure out HOW we did it22:24
_2Walzmyn heh.  just check if you can login now.  :)))22:24
TonrenCan anyone help me with this keyboard issue...?22:24
engineerit's a small shell script for loop22:24
Walzmyn_2 what does the 'q' in that line do?22:24
engineerthat for every user changes permissions22:25
_2Walzmyn the q is the variable i chose to use.22:25
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drurewTonren: suer whats the issue22:25
drurew*sure22:25
_2could have been;   for var in /home/* ;do blah with $var ;done22:25
Walzmyn_2 oh, it's a variable - I'm not used to shell scripting - php variables have a '$' in front22:25
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Tonrendrurew: I just upgraded to Kubuntu 8.04 with KDE 4.1, and my keyboard suddenly stopped responding in X.  I can still Ctrl + Alt + F1 to get to a terminal, but it seems that no other keys work.22:26
TonrenThe mouse still works fine.22:26
_2Walzmyn no it has the $ when you want to expand it.22:26
engineerTonren do you have the keyboard driver in xorg?22:26
drurewTonren : hmmm well how do the settings look in system prefs22:26
Tonrenengineer: drurew: The keyboard has worked previously with KDE 4.1.  It spontaneously stopped working, though22:26
_2but the for loop has to be told what var to use.   for <var_name> in something ;do something with $var_name22:27
Walzmyn_2 I see - i'm just ignorant of shell scripting. Ok, gonna logout and in with the other user22:27
The_Pikoshi!22:27
drurewTonren: what are you using now22:27
Walzmyn_2 thank you22:27
SpeSlet's reboot :S22:27
_2Walzmyn welcome22:27
SpeSthanks :)22:27
SpeSbye22:27
Tonrendrurew: I SSH'd into my laptop to take over the screen session that has my IRC in it.  :-)22:28
drurewnice Tonren22:28
slow-motionhi22:28
_2andyho623 did you ever reboot that pinguin to see if all is well ?     (not that a reboot is needed, just that it's a simple way to get there)22:28
The_PikosI've a huge pb... my screen is stuck in 640X480...22:28
drurewTonren: have you recently reconfigured xorg?22:28
The_Pikossomeone know how to fix it please?22:29
Tonrendrurew: Nope--I haven't touched it.22:29
_2The_Pikos reconfigure the xserver22:29
Tonrendrurew: I wonder why Ctrl + Alt + F1 still works.22:29
engineerThe_Pikos sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg22:29
_2!xorg22:29
ubottuThe X Window System is the part of your system that's responsible for graphical output. To restart your X, type « sudo /etc/init.d/?dm restart » in a console - To fix screen resolution or other X problems: http://help.ubuntu.com/community/FixVideoResolutionHowto22:29
Tonrendrurew: I can't seem to find anything in my dmesg or syslog, either.22:29
drurewTonren: as far as i know ...you had to have done something to get the system to behave erraticly ...what did you do last before the system just shut off the keyboard22:30
The_Pikosthxs i'll try22:30
drurewTonren: its possible that the configuration files dont post to there22:30
drurew*there22:30
drurew"there"22:30
drurew:D22:30
Tonrendrurew: I was installing Ruby... that's it.22:30
_2The_Pikos if you fail, come on back,   someone will help ya.22:30
drurewruby hmmm lemme see22:31
dale I had to make a modification to the source (bcm43xx_main.c - bcm43xx.ko), when the source has completed building which package will install the file?22:31
drurewruby language?22:31
drurewTonren22:31
_2too much like perl22:31
dalealso, instead of building the entire source is there a way to just build the module in question?22:31
engineerjava ftw22:31
Tonrendrurew: Oh, and I was running a wine app22:31
_2i'll stick to shell thanks22:32
Tonrendrurew: Yeah, I was building Ruby 1.8 from source22:32
engineeroh god...22:32
drurewTonren yeah22:32
drurewummm let me find a fix22:32
_2engineer i wrote a bash script,  want to see it?    http://ubuntu.pastebin.us/?show=d40723dc722:33
engineerscript for?22:33
engineerseems big22:34
_2ummm well it is about 35 or 40 commands.22:34
_2lol22:34
TSlothI need help with setting up Xorg in Kubuntu  8.0422:34
_2engineer here's one you might like better,  http://ubuntu.pastebin.us/?show=d3344a29922:35
_2:)22:35
engineeri didn't say i didn't like it22:35
engineerthough i like to break things down into parts22:35
engineerTSloth that's not helpful22:35
engineerwhat's your problem22:35
engineer_2 now that's more clear22:36
drurewTonren: yeah it may ha conflicted an installed lib22:36
Tonrendrurew: RUBY?  really?  i'll be damned22:36
_2thought you'd like that22:36
drurewwell i found some that are available debs22:36
The_Pikosit works! just perfect! thanks!22:37
drurewi also found that a certain lib is missing to run ruby22:37
Tonrendrurew: I'm not sure what you mean.22:37
TonrenI didn't install from the debs... I built from source22:37
TSlothI just installed Kubuntu 8.04 and the Xorg.conf file looks unconfigured.  No resolution settings, no server type (like ati), etc.22:37
TSlothis there a way to go through the Xorg configuration script again?22:37
TonrenTSloth: sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg22:37
drurewTonren: yeah that may also be it ....if theres a dependancy missing ....and it needs it to function ....and so on22:37
ninixhi, how can i turn off the composite manager ? (for having no desktop effects)22:38
drurewTonren http://beans.seartipy.com/2006/07/19/installing-ruby-on-gnulinuxgentoo-kubuntu-fedora-suse-and-ms-windows/22:38
ActionParsnip!java22:38
ubottuTo install a Java compiler/interpreter on Ubuntu, look at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Java - For the Sun Java runtime install sun-java5-jre or sun-java6-jre from the !Multiverse repository. Please don't use Adept to install Java if you are on Kubuntu !Dapper22:38
level1_hi, I just used nvidia-settings to enable xinerama... it re-wrote my desktop file so that I can't use compositing: The reason is because XDamage and XComposite are not enabled... What do I need to re-add to my Xorg file to re-enable them?22:38
drurewTSloth be really careful witht hat command22:38
Tonrendrurew: Ruby installed successfully... it's my keyboard that isn't working.22:38
ActionParsnip!java6422:38
ubottuYou can run Flash, Real, and Java plugins in AMD64 bit computers with Firefox. see the steps to follow at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FirefoxAMD64FlashJava22:38
Walzmyn_2 all worked well.22:38
_2TSloth up until hardy    sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg -plow  # would let you choose all settings.22:38
drurewTonren : how bout restarting x?22:38
_2Walzmyn good to hear.   welcome.22:38
Tonrendrurew: worth a shot22:39
Tonreninteresting... i can't right-click either22:39
_2Walzmyn out of curiocity,   did you reinstall with old users in the home fs or something ?22:39
drurewTonren ctrl alt bkspc22:39
Tonrendrurew: I know--I was just trying to quit some stuff beforehand22:40
Walzmyn_2 no, this is a clean resurection from the depths of hell knowns as vista22:40
drurewor sudo reboot now :D22:40
Walzmyn_2 I was creating an account for my wife22:40
Tonrendrurew: Well, whatever it was, that fixed it.22:40
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drurewyeah probly was just X22:41
TSlothI tried the dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg command and it gave me another Xorg.conf which was identical, and had not specific information in it.  I will try it with -plow22:41
_2Walzmyn hmmm then you might consider filling a bug on the user manager module.   let the developers know that something went south on you.22:41
WalzmynOut of curiosity, what is /home/lost+found used for?22:41
TonrenTSloth: Is your X actually not performing properly?22:41
drurewnow can someone tell me how to ......open a binary file to edit its contents?22:41
drurew(dru hushes down)22:41
Walzmyn_2 heh, my next question for you was what did I need to do different next time to prevent this.22:42
engineerWalzmyn for programs without any specific task22:43
_2Walzmyn any place you find a "lost+found" folder it is the base of a file system  and is used by such things as e2fsck  when they find stray inodes and don't know what else to do with them.    i.e. lost files or dirs.     there is one in   /   and any other dir that has a seperate fs mounted there.22:43
_2Walzmyn simple.   use the cli to add users.      sudo adduser username_here22:43
TSlothTonren, X is working but only at 800x600.  I can lower to 640x480 but I want 1024x76822:43
engineeroops thats lost+found in startup menu, not /home, my bad22:43
TSlothI did the sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg -plow and it gave me another identical Xorg.conf with no specific information in it.22:44
_2engineer in grub ?22:44
Walzmyn_2 cli?22:44
_2engineer in grub ?22:44
engineerno, in startup menu22:44
engineerit used to have lost and found22:44
_2hmmm22:44
Walzmyn_2 ok, since I've got /home on it's own partition is why there's a lost+found there?22:44
_2!cli | Walzmyn22:45
ubottuWalzmyn: The linux terminal or command-line interface is very powerful. Open a terminal via Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal (Gnome) or K-menu -> System -> Konsole (KDE).  Guide: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal22:45
engineerfor programs the system couldn't include inside the other folders22:45
_2engineer in what de ?22:45
_2Walzmyn correct.22:45
engineerde?22:45
engineerkde22:45
_2desktop environment22:45
_2odd i don't recall ever seeing a lost+found in kmenu.   but i'm not a gui kinda guy22:46
_2oh it's hiden by default.   i see.22:46
_2ok makes sense now.22:46
WalzmynCLI -- I hate TLAs22:47
* _2 head desks and says "duh"22:47
_2Walzmyn ok i'll turn the tables on you.  what a tla  :)22:47
Walzmyn_2 Three letter acronym22:48
_2like gui cli kde22:48
Walzmyn_2 if you'd said konsole or xterm i'da been with you :)22:48
shane_does anyone have an idea on how to hook up dual monitors im running kubuntu 8.04 and a ATI RADEONX1600 pro 25622:48
Walzmyn_2 thanks, gotta take the dog out22:48
_2Walzmyn but i dont use a terminal emulator for my cli,  i use a real console.22:49
_2if i had said "console" you might have done like those people over in that other channel </points at #ubuntu> and misnamed a terminal emulator.     ;/22:51
Walzmyn_2 no, i'd followed you with "console" too :) but that's the second time i've been caught but CLI in here, maybe I'll remember it one of these days22:53
_2Walzmyn k.22:53
_2kde is a tla btw lol22:54
_2yeah i don't usually do that either.  but cli is a favorite of mine.22:54
* Walzmyn laughs22:54
Walzmynwell, now, technically is KDE? I know there's arguments about what it stands for or if it stands for anything22:55
_2wine is a recursive acronym22:55
Walzmynso is gnu22:56
_2yes  kde = the k desktop enviornment22:56
_2yes22:56
deitarionHow do I blacklist certain resolutions? My mother's new laptop displays the login screen at the proper 1280x800 resolution but then something in KDE switches it to 800x600 when you log in. `xrandr -s 0` changes it back, but that's a poor substitute.22:56
_2gnu is gnu is not unix22:56
Walzmynemm, ok, i'll buy that. I don't like kool desktop environment22:56
_2wine is wine is not an emulator22:56
* Walzmyn nods22:56
Walzmyndeitarion, kde is switching it when you login ?22:57
deitarionWalzmyn: Yes.22:57
mjponceW(ine) I(s) N(ot) an E(mulator)22:57
Walzmyndeitarion, hvae you tried setting the res you want in system settings?22:57
deitarionWalzmyn: It only offers 640x480 and 800x600.22:58
Walzmynhmm22:58
mjponceW (ine) I (s) N (ot) an E (mulator)22:58
deitarionI tried adding a Modes line xorg.conf with just 1280x800, but it seems to be getting ignored. (Which, to me, is the bigger problem)22:58
shane_ubottu: how can i run dual monitors22:58
ubottushane_: Error: I am only a bot, please don't think I'm intelligent :)22:58
_2while you work on that,  how do i get my lappy to boot with something besides text mode 80x25  or bsob22:59
_2?22:59
Walzmyndeitarion, i've never got anything on those modelines to work. I think they're just there to fool us22:59
Walzmyn!dual monitor | shane_22:59
ubottuFactoid dual monitor not found22:59
deitarionWalzmyn: Works on my brother's Kubuntu setup and probably would too on my Gentoo one were I not using TwinView's MetaModes line.22:59
_2i tried vga=(771,778,781,783,784,785,788,789,791,792,793) all yeld bsob23:00
Walzmyndeitarion, well, I believe it's beyond me. Sorry.23:00
_2anyone ?23:01
Walzmynshane_, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XineramaHowTo23:02
* _2 notes that this is the way his questions usually get answered... (but not always)23:03
Walzmyn_2 what was the question?23:03
_2it's still on the page ^23:03
_2 how do i get my lappy to boot with something besides text mode 80x25  or bsob ?23:04
_2i tried vga=(771,778,781,783,784,785,788,789,791,792,793) all yeld bsob23:04
Walzmynoh, t'was hidden in some system messages23:04
Walzmynwhat kinda laptop?23:04
_2sarE one.    tosheba23:04
WalzmynI mean, old hardware or new stuff?23:04
_2ati chips23:04
_2new by my standards   old by yours23:05
_2two years.23:05
Walzmynhehe, well, this one is about a month old23:05
Walzmynbut the desktop i graduated from is, err, well, 10 years from origional build and about 4 from last update23:05
_2shipped with vesta on it.    "poor thing"23:05
Walzmynyeah, so did this one23:05
shane_Walzmyn: yes its and ati radeon 1600 pro 256 and i wish to run dual monitors not a clone23:06
Walzmyni've no idea how to fix that. mine just worked23:06
Walzmynshane_ did you look at that webpage?23:06
_2!worksforme | _223:06
shane_ill scroll back and find it i was searchin myself and missed it23:07
Walzmynright, I'm in the same boat with shane_ - I plugged in the second monitor and it just came up23:07
Walzmynhttps://help.ubuntu.com/community/XineramaHowTo23:07
Walzmynt'was still on the clipboard23:07
_2@ shane_                            ^23:07
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Walzmynaight, i'ma go do something constructive before the Bellmont stakes runs23:08
Walzmynya'l have fun23:08
_2Walzmyn even in calm weather, highlighting helps.23:08
Walzmyn_2 good point23:08
_2k.  enjoy.23:08
shane_ok i read a bit of this site and it gives derections ok if your confterble with linux im a newbie so im not sure hot to get what there askin23:12
shane_there saying in the X config file where do i find this23:13
shane_terminal or in the harddrive23:13
andrew__I'm trying to install gnome-desktop-enviornment in Kubuntu Hardy, however it's failing on a gnome-keyring-manager dependency23:14
andrew__When I check the packages, the keyring manager doesn't exist23:14
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dalecan someone tell me how I can find out if bcm43xx is loaded?23:30
ActionParsniphey all23:30
ActionParsnipIve just installed my nvidia drivers and am pulling 1800 fps with glx gears23:30
ActionParsniphow can i get a higher res than 640x480 despite changing my xorg.conf to only have 1024x768 as its only resolution23:31
daleknow one knows how to find out if bcm43xx.ko is loaded?23:31
ActionParsnipdale: sudo modprobe <whatever>23:31
Picidale: lsmod perhaps?23:32
daleit says nothing when I issue it23:32
ActionParsnipdale: then its in23:32
ActionParsnipdale: no output == success23:32
dalebcm43xx: WARNING: Invalid SPROM checksum (0xA0, expected: 0xFF)23:33
jmichaelxis there a basic command that will list all computers connected to a network... wired or wireless?23:36
engineercheck your arp list23:38
shane_Odd-rationale: hey you on today23:38
MachinTrucChosehi23:43
engineerhi canadian23:44
MachinTrucChoseALT+TAB is supposed to cycle through open windows, right?23:44
engineerminimized windows also23:44
heinkel_111on a   intel core 2 duo t5550 processor, can I use the same AMD64 kubuntu version?23:44
engineerheinkel_111 yes23:44
engineerand you should23:45
MachinTrucChosewell, it's not working. I must have done something, but I don't know what. I disabled Compiz (which has its own desktop shortcuts), and restored all Keyboard Shortcuts to defaults, and ALT+TAB does nothing.23:45
heinkel_111as i do on my amd64X2 desktop23:45
heinkel_111.. engineer: why should?23:45
engineerto gain access to 4gb of ram23:45
engineerand double the bus bandwidth23:45
heinkel_111ah yes..ram is not a big issue as my new laptop only has 2 Gigabytes not 423:46
engineerso far...23:46
MachinTrucChoseI see it in Keyboard Shortcuts, ALT+TAB is supposed to do "Walk through Windows", but it doesn't. Neither does "Walk through Windows (Reverse)". And yet the other keyboard shortcuts (eg, CTRL+ESC) work.23:46
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engineerMachinTrucChose and with compiz?23:46
simbassampaolá23:46
simbassampaOr Hello :)23:47
heinkel_111but the other stuff is ok, actually bandwidth is my biggest concern as downloading a new version of the kubuntu dvd takes forev er and a day23:47
MachinTrucChoseengineer: It doesn't work with Compiz either.23:47
engineerMachinTrucChose windows_key+tab23:47
engineertry taht23:47
MachinTrucChosenothing23:47
engineerheinkel_111 request the free cds23:48
MachinTrucChosectrl+tab changes between open tabs...23:48
Pici!shipit23:48
ubottushipit is a service that sends free Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu CDs. See http://shipit.ubuntu.com/ and http://shipit.kubuntu.org and http://shipit.edubuntu.org - Shipit will send Hardy (8.04) CDs23:48
heinkel_111engineer: not necessary, if I can use the one I already have ;-)23:48
engineerMachinTrucChose try reinstalling kwin23:49
MachinTrucChosehow would I do that?23:49
engineersudo aptitude install --reinstall kwin23:50
engineeror kwin4 if you use kde423:50
MachinTrucChoseok, I'll try that. Thanks.23:50
MachinTrucChoseIs it risky? Cause I could also just use Compiz's own shortcuts to switch between apps...23:51
MachinTrucChoseI know one of its plugins does it23:51
engineeryou'll be fine23:51
MachinTrucChoseok23:52
engineeri use compiz myself as well23:52
MachinTrucChosedo I need to do it from the console? Or can I open a terminal right now (while X is running) and run the reinstaller?23:54
MachinTrucChoseI meant, do I need to reboot and do it before X runs23:54
engineerMachinTrucChose in any konsole23:55
engineerthen logout and login23:56
MachinTrucChoseok23:57
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engineer´check if you have this package installed23:58
MachinTrucChosebe back later, hopefully ;)23:58
MachinTrucChoseoh?23:58
engineerxserver-xorg-input-kbd23:58
MachinTrucChoseyep, it is. OK, restarting X.23:59
l3xwhich is best driver for intel i915 graphic card? my system uses i810 by default. should i change it?23:59
l3xwhich is best driver for intel i915 graphic card? my system uses i810 by default. should i change it?23:59
l3xsorry for double post:(23:59

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