| deathtech | Heya Fellas | 00:55 |
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| cody-somerville | Hi | 00:56 |
| deathtech | got an issue with grub on my xubuntu/ubuntu install on a latitude C600, it takes an inordinate amount of time to actually get past grub, it sits there forever, then eventually boots, i dont see any odd flags, any thoughts ? | 00:57 |
| deathtech | i mean its a good 180 seconds and when hitting ctrl+alt+f1, i get nothing, blinking cursor, and then bam randomly starts booting | 01:00 |
| deathtech | Archlinux, using grub, comes up instantly, so its thrown me a bit off | 01:01 |
| charlie-tca | Which version of xubuntu and which version of Ubuntu? | 01:07 |
| deathtech | 8.04 | 01:10 |
| deathtech | Both | 01:10 |
| deathtech | i heard something about compiling grub with a -nofloppy option, but im unsure how to do so, and was kinda wondering if i could use a flag amybe. Also, the first thing i see is some kinda errorstating k_init could not resume image, appears to be some kinda resume feature incase the system randomly dies, but i dunno if seeking for that image is wahts doing it or not | 01:11 |
| charlie-tca | Have you tried removing the quiet option to see what it's doing? | 01:12 |
| deathtech | no, im a windows admin and a lot of this is green to me , so excuse my noobness :p | 01:13 |
| deathtech | trying now... | 01:13 |
| charlie-tca | no problem. | 01:13 |
| deathtech | bah it clears the screen before i can see what the last command was | 01:17 |
| deathtech | i see it now though | 01:17 |
| deathtech | wonder if i can snap the "pause" key and have it pause | 01:17 |
| deathtech | weird | 01:18 |
| deathtech | nowit boots up fine now.... | 01:18 |
| deathtech | lol go figure | 01:18 |
| charlie-tca | I'd leave the "quiet" out then, so if it does it again, you get to see it. | 01:19 |
| deathtech | damn thing clears screen before i can see it though | 01:20 |
| deathtech | have to hit pause fast | 01:20 |
| deathtech | lol | 01:20 |
| deathtech | Thanks any Charlie | 01:20 |
| deathtech | Anyway ** | 01:20 |
| charlie-tca | You're welcome. I'm glad I could help. | 01:22 |
| dunnen | my cd drive doesn't read blank cds | 05:24 |
| dunnen | anyone have that issue before? | 05:24 |
| zoredache | if the CDs are blank, then there is nothing to read | 07:04 |
| jointman | Xubuntu is so moody. There are days when it reads my router just fine, and other times it just doesn't work. But when I use Windows XP it works just fine. What the heck's the problem? | 09:03 |
| leche | "reads my router"? | 09:05 |
| leche | "it doesnt work" define it please | 09:05 |
| jointman | Network Manager seems fine. | 09:16 |
| jointman | All network settings are enabled properly. | 09:17 |
| jointman | And yet, no internet connection. | 09:17 |
| jointman | Prior to this, Xubuntu worked fine with my internet connection. | 09:17 |
| jointman | It's funny how people like to say trash about windows, but Xubuntu seems to have problems with something as simple as establishing an internet connection. | 09:22 |
| jointman | Something which i've never had a problem at all with Windows. | 09:22 |
| TheSheep | jointman: it would greatly help if you described your setup, "all is set up properly and doesn't work" is in fact not very informative | 09:23 |
| jointman | i need to know what i need to describe | 09:23 |
| jointman | all i know is, Xubutu 8.04 detected my router before and worked fine | 09:23 |
| jointman | i've rebooted multiple times, switched on and off my router | 09:24 |
| TheSheep | jointman: what is that "router" you are talking about? just an ethernet router? or ISDL modem? is it connected via ethernet or usb? | 09:24 |
| jointman | i disabled and re enabled my wired connection to no avail | 09:24 |
| jointman | ethernet router | 09:24 |
| TheSheep | how was it "detected"? | 09:24 |
| jointman | automatically | 09:25 |
| jointman | i didn't have to set-up anything | 09:25 |
| jointman | prior to this, firefox and galeon seem to crash most of the time | 09:25 |
| TheSheep | and you thik that firefox crashing is caused by your router? | 09:26 |
| jointman | not really, just saying for the record | 09:27 |
| TheSheep | where is that router connected? | 09:27 |
| jointman | to my pc | 09:28 |
| TheSheep | and only to your pc, or is there also some kind of connection to larger network infrastructure? | 09:28 |
| jointman | a 2nd pc at home | 09:28 |
| jointman | 2 pcs are connected to it | 09:28 |
| TheSheep | and the second pc is connected to the internet? | 09:29 |
| jointman | yeah, works fine with Windows XP on both pcs | 09:29 |
| jointman | in fact im using windows at the moment | 09:29 |
| jointman | since Xubuntu wont work | 09:29 |
| jointman | i wish there was a Terminal command i can use to fix this | 09:31 |
| jointman | i love Xubuntu, but these issues make it so frustrating | 09:31 |
| the-erm | Anyone know off the top of their head how to enable other people to view your desktop remotely with vnc? | 09:31 |
| the-erm | I can't seem to get it to go. | 09:31 |
| the-erm | jointman: what's the issue I just joined? | 09:31 |
| the-erm | Maybe I know. | 09:31 |
| jointman | It may seem vague but here goes. | 09:31 |
| jointman | I installed Xubuntu 8.04 last week and it automatically detected my router. | 09:32 |
| jointman | I didn't have to manually set-up anything for my internet connection. | 09:32 |
| Falatooni1 | Hi | 09:32 |
| jointman | However, just this moment it wont work, or rather, Xubuntu cant seem to "work" with my router. | 09:32 |
| Falatooni1 | I have quistion | 09:32 |
| jointman | When I tried using Windows XP, it works. | 09:32 |
| jointman | I just want to connect to the internet using Xubuntu. :/ | 09:32 |
| the-erm | what does ifconfig show? | 09:33 |
| the-erm | Falatooni1: ok | 09:33 |
| Falatooni1 | xubuntu 8.10 use openoffice.org 3.0? | 09:33 |
| jointman | i have no ifconfig | 09:33 |
| jointman | terminal cant find it | 09:33 |
| the-erm | Falatooni1: not sure, I don't use it enough to know. | 09:33 |
| jointman | bash: ifconig: command not found | 09:33 |
| the-erm | jointman: that's weird. | 09:33 |
| Falatooni1 | ok | 09:33 |
| Falatooni1 | and another quistion is: | 09:34 |
| jointman | oops | 09:34 |
| jointman | typo | 09:34 |
| the-erm | jointman: try sudo ifconfig | 09:34 |
| Falatooni1 | xubuntu 8.10 support Persian language? | 09:34 |
| the-erm | Falatooni1: I wish I knew. | 09:34 |
| jointman | the-erm: it mentioned a bunch of stuff i cant paste here | 09:34 |
| jointman | too large | 09:34 |
| the-erm | What is the persian's laguage called? | 09:35 |
| Falatooni1 | Persian is Iranian language | 09:35 |
| wormsxulla_ | farsi ? | 09:35 |
| Falatooni1 | Persian is Farsi | 09:35 |
| Falatooni1 | xubuntu supoort Farsi language? | 09:36 |
| Falatooni1 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_language | 09:36 |
| jointman | no one can help me :( | 09:37 |
| Falatooni1 | no one can help me too? :-( | 09:38 |
| TheSheep | Falatooni1: xubuntu doesn't have openoffcie installed by default, but you can install it yourself | 09:39 |
| TheSheep | Falatooni1: I think that the latest version that is realeased at the end of this month has openoffice 3.0 | 09:40 |
| TheSheep | Falatooni1: you can also install from packages obtained from openoffice's website | 09:40 |
| Falatooni1 | Thnaks but can you tell me about suport persian languga ein xubuntu? | 09:40 |
| Falatooni1 | sorry for bad spelling in my notes | 09:41 |
| wormsxulla_ | Falatooni1: tried http://www.ubuntu.com/support/local#head-3d1e257e99c17b4980920f12d60c7b27f5f10743 | 09:43 |
| wormsxulla_ | ? | 09:43 |
| Falatooni1 | Thanks but ubuntu use gnome desktop and gnome support Persian language. Xubuntu dont use gnome desktop | 09:45 |
| jointman | damn it | 09:52 |
| jointman | no one can help | 10:04 |
| jointman | this is so frustrating | 10:10 |
| jointman | i still cant find a way | 10:10 |
| mnemoc | hi, will you try to update intrepid to 4.6? | 10:17 |
| jointman | is there any terminal command which can reread my ip address? | 10:18 |
| jointman | similar to window's ipconfig /release | 10:18 |
| jointman | and ipconfig /renew | 10:18 |
| wormsxulla_ | ifconfig ? | 10:30 |
| Peterchen | hi | 11:02 |
| Peterchen | any germans here who can help me with an update? | 11:03 |
| TheSheep | !de | 11:03 |
| ubottu | Deutschsprachige Hilfe fuer Probleme mit Ubuntu, Kubuntu und Edubuntu finden Sie in den Kanaelen #ubuntu-de, #kubuntu-de, #xubuntu-de und #edubuntu-de | 11:03 |
| Peterchen | thanks | 11:05 |
| sirking1991 | hi everyone! has anyone setup huawei e220 for xubuntu? | 12:25 |
| TheSheep | !anyone | 12:26 |
| ubottu | A large amount of the first questions asked in this channel start with "Does anyone/anybody..." Why not ask your next question (the real one) and find out? | 12:26 |
| sirking1991 | does anyone knows how to setup huawei e220 in xubuntu? | 12:27 |
| sirking1991 | please help | 12:27 |
| TheSheep | we don't even know what huawei e220 is, maybe describe your actual problem? what doesn't work? | 12:28 |
| sirking1991 | its a usb 3g modem | 12:28 |
| sirking1991 | xubuntu detected it as a usb storage device. but it is supposedly a modem | 12:29 |
| TheSheep | first hit in google: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3654996 | 12:29 |
| TheSheep | maybe that will help you | 12:30 |
| sirking1991 | thank you, i will try that now | 12:31 |
| vegpuff | Hi, i am trying to install Xubuntu via xubuntu-alternate-8.04-1 iso image. But when i install, it says some file is missing. | 12:32 |
| vegpuff | it is prompting me to retry for that file. (not sure which file). is there a bug open for this issue? | 12:32 |
| vegpuff | or is it happening only to me? | 12:32 |
| TheSheep | vegpuff: verify your cd for defects | 12:33 |
| vegpuff | TheSheep , there an option in installer itself for cd verification? | 12:33 |
| vegpuff | s/there/is there/ | 12:33 |
| TheSheep | vegpuff: yes, in the first menu you see | 12:33 |
| vegpuff | thanks! let me look at it | 12:33 |
| TheSheep | if that fails, check md5 of the iso you downloaded | 12:34 |
| vegpuff | TheSheep , i checked the md5. it is fine. i am checking the cd for defects now. | 12:35 |
| sincostan | Hello there, I need some help | 12:36 |
| sincostan | My computer won't boot up, so I tried the xubuntu live cd | 12:36 |
| TheSheep | vegpuff: if it turns out defective, burn next one with the slowest speed possible | 12:36 |
| vegpuff | TheSheep: Yes. it was a cd defect. | 12:36 |
| vegpuff | i am going to burn another one now.. | 12:37 |
| sincostan | It will load to the point where xubuntu is supposed to show the login-screen, but then go dead on me. | 12:37 |
| TheSheep | sincostan: does pressing alt+ctrl+f2 give you a login prompt? | 12:37 |
| sincostan | TheSheep: I'll try that, brb | 12:38 |
| sincostan | TheSheep: Keyboard's dead, too, the lights on it flicker when I connect it, but nothing more | 12:45 |
| sincostan | TheSheep: Could it be my PSU that suddenly crawled up and died ? | 12:45 |
| sincostan | I get the motherboard screen, the Xubuntu language selection, then the meny with "Try xubuntu without changing anything..." and so on. I choose the live cd thing (try without changing anything), and I get the little mouse in a circle and a blue loading bar. When it finishes loading, the screen goes black on me and just dies. The keyboard stops working as well. | 12:52 |
| sincostan | Any ideas... anyone ? | 12:53 |
| drowner | hey everyone | 12:54 |
| sincostan | Hello, are you a hardware guy ? | 12:54 |
| drowner | No, why? | 12:55 |
| sincostan | I need some help with my system, I suspect that it's the harddrive or the power supply | 12:55 |
| TheSheep | sincostan: try disconnecting the hdd and booting the livecd | 12:55 |
| drowner | oh ok | 12:55 |
| sincostan | TheSheep: Ok, brb | 12:56 |
| drowner | was someone here | 12:56 |
| drowner | when i was talking about my problems with non-gnome WMs randomly booting me out? | 12:56 |
| drowner | Well, i solved it anyhow | 12:58 |
| sincostan | TheSheep: I get the same result with the hdd disconnected | 12:59 |
| sincostan | When I boot the live CD | 13:00 |
| sincostan | TheSheep: Should I go ahead and try to find a spare psu to try with ? | 13:00 |
| TheSheep | sincostan: I don't think it's psu | 13:07 |
| TheSheep | sincostan: you could try with a different graphics card | 13:07 |
| TheSheep | if you have one handy | 13:07 |
| sincostan | I installed more RAM a couple of months ago | 13:09 |
| sincostan | But it seems weird that it would start giving me trouble now and not right away | 13:09 |
| drowner | have you done a memtest? | 13:11 |
| drowner | sorry, came in half way through | 13:11 |
| sincostan | With the live cd ? | 13:12 |
| drowner | can you memtest with a live cd? I don't even know | 13:13 |
| drowner | Look, I don't even know what your problem is | 13:13 |
| drowner | so you probably shouldn't listen to me | 13:13 |
| sincostan | It's doing a memory check now | 13:21 |
| drowner | what is the problem anyway? | 13:23 |
| sincostan | system won't boot | 13:24 |
| sincostan | Do you want the full story ? | 13:24 |
| drowner | yes | 13:24 |
| drowner | No doubt i won't be able to help you | 13:25 |
| drowner | but i like stories :D | 13:25 |
| sincostan | Alright. It's my old computer, now my mother uses it. I got it in 2001, so it's a bit old, but I upgraded the RAM to 639 mb and installed XP on it, so she can use it for surfing and what not. A couple of weeks ago, she called me and said that her computer wouldn't start up. When I went and had a look at it, it wouldn't get past the windows loading bar thing. So, I figured it was the harddrive, as I had been having problems with it | 13:27 |
| sincostan | I formatted the hdd, so now there's nothing on there. | 13:28 |
| sincostan | I have installed xubuntu successfully on other systems with the same disc. | 13:28 |
| drowner | and you can boot a live cd? | 13:29 |
| sincostan | I can get the menu, language options and all that, but when I choose to boot from it or install it, it dies after loading the loading bar thing | 13:30 |
| sincostan | I'm guessing it's a hardware problem, not really related to xubuntu, but this is the place where I can find a lot of computer people, quickly | 13:31 |
| drowner | Did the memtest go OK? | 13:32 |
| sincostan | So far, yes, but it's not even halfway through | 13:33 |
| sincostan | Look, I have to go help a friend with something, but I'll be back in two hours or something, just in case you come up with a solution. | 13:33 |
| drowner | I don't think I will | 13:34 |
| drowner | But his faith in me stirs my soul | 13:34 |
| TheSheep | there is always someone here | 13:37 |
| excalibas | hello, My volume control item has just disappeared on my laptop, I have sound (and I can use alsamixer from the terminal) but the gui disappeared and the shortcuts (Fn + F12) dont work ether any help please? | 14:33 |
| charlie-tca | excalibas: what version of Xubuntu are you using? | 14:34 |
| excalibas | charlie-tca: 8.04 | 14:35 |
| charlie-tca | Try right click on panel, add new item, Volume Control | 14:36 |
| charlie-tca | Don't forget to save settings when you logout/shutdown | 14:36 |
| excalibas | charlie-tca: I did that and nothing happens | 14:37 |
| charlie-tca | There's a bug about it, let me look | 14:39 |
| excalibas | thanks, never happened before | 14:40 |
| charlie-tca | Bit me yesterday, bug is https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-mixer/+bug/90261 | 14:40 |
| charlie-tca | Xfce is working it. | 14:41 |
| excalibas | yes, looks like this bug, yesterday everything was fine, and I havent updated or changed the theme, today i turn my laptop on and it is gone | 14:44 |
| charlie-tca | There is a workaround mentioned in comment #35, it works for some people but not me. | 14:46 |
| excalibas | the keybindings are the shortcut keys? | 14:54 |
| maxamillion | cody-somerville: ping | 14:59 |
| cody-somerville | maxamillion, pong | 15:00 |
| charlie-tca | excalibas: yes | 15:01 |
| charlie-tca | i think | 15:02 |
| maxamillion | cody-somerville: random question, who do you work for? canonical or ubuntu? | 15:04 |
| cody-somerville | I work for Canonical's OEM Services Custom Engineering Solutions Group | 15:05 |
| maxamillion | ah cool cool | 15:06 |
| excalibas | Yee, the fix worked | 15:12 |
| excalibas | but the shortcuts dont... | 15:13 |
| charlie-tca | :( | 15:14 |
| charlie-tca | now i'm out of ideas | 15:14 |
| TheSheep | make sure your keyboard layout is set properly | 15:15 |
| excalibas | oh, they work, it just doesnt show nothing on the screen | 15:15 |
| TheSheep | the standard 105-keys layout doesn't have media keys | 15:15 |
| excalibas | thanks a lot charlie-tca | 15:15 |
| charlie-tca | Wish it had not broke the shortcuts | 15:16 |
| excalibas | maybe this gets fixed soon... | 15:18 |
| * charlie-tca crosses fingers | 15:19 | |
| utomega | Hi | 15:34 |
| charlie-tca | utomega: hi | 15:35 |
| utomega | I was thinking about getting Xubuntu, but I have so called dual-boot (Windows XP and Fedora 9/8, can't remember :/). So, is it possible to install Xubuntu without loosing the possibility to boot Windows? :p I hope you understand what I mean :) | 15:36 |
| JannoTT | Yes | 15:37 |
| utomega | Hmm, ok, do I have to do something special, or can I just install Xubuntu instead Fedora? | 15:38 |
| JannoTT | You dont have todo anything. When its time to install/choose bootloader installer should say something like windows found+ | 15:41 |
| utomega | Cool, thanks alot :), I think I'll wait for the 8.10 release, not much until realease. | 15:42 |
| charlie-tca | Why not download the 8.10 live cd and try it. You don't have to install then and it helps us test it. | 15:56 |
| utomega | ..beta or something is out already :D? | 15:57 |
| charlie-tca | We are testing the rc today. Get it at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/daily-live/20081021.1/intrepid-desktop-i386.iso | 15:57 |
| charlie-tca | and put the results in qa tracker at http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/test/2057 | 15:58 |
| vidd | utomega, there have been alpha and beta versions of 8.10 out almost since the release of 8.04! | 15:58 |
| utomega | :d, ok, thanks, started downloading, i'll try to remember to report the results. | 15:59 |
| charlie-tca | Thanks | 15:59 |
| Peterchen | so re | 16:00 |
| charlie-tca | Hell, I just blew out one of my burners | 16:03 |
| utomega | :| | 16:03 |
| charlie-tca | I have a faulty motherboard or power supply | 16:03 |
| utomega | Sorry to hear that, downloading is quite quick, few minutes more to download. | 16:05 |
| * vidd prefers the mini.iso | 16:06 | |
| charlie-tca | Yea, I got the images. that's the second burner though on this system | 16:06 |
| charlie-tca | It only took two weeks for both to go out | 16:07 |
| vidd | the only downside is that the modification to install-recommends is immediately obvious | 16:07 |
| * charlie-tca hates eMachines | 16:07 | |
| vidd | charlie-tca, you should consider building a system from the ground up | 16:08 |
| charlie-tca | I've never tried the mini.iso | 16:08 |
| charlie-tca | I have built two from the ground up, but this one was cheap - like US $50 | 16:08 |
| charlie-tca | I have a motherboard, cpu, ps on order. Should be in this week | 16:09 |
| vidd | looks like ya need a burner now 2 | 16:10 |
| vidd | so that system was used? | 16:10 |
| charlie-tca | Does, doesn't it. Maybe I should have waited for the stuff | 16:10 |
| charlie-tca | Yes, used 1.2Ghz, 384MB ram | 16:10 |
| charlie-tca | Hindsight - waiting is good | 16:11 |
| vidd | have you put that burner into one of your other systems? | 16:11 |
| charlie-tca | Not yet, i'm using that machine right now. I'll try that later today. | 16:12 |
| charlie-tca | smells like burnt wires though | 16:12 |
| vidd | thats a power supply | 16:13 |
| vidd | charlie-tca, you wanna hop into #xubuntu-offtopic? | 16:13 |
| charlie-tca | Just what I wanted to hear... and eMachines is special | 16:13 |
| charlie-tca | okay | 16:14 |
| utomega | Here we go, I'll ry Xubuntu, wish me luck! | 17:41 |
| galorin | I've got an m-audio audiophile 24/96 that I can't get any sound out of. | 17:47 |
| utomega | damn | 17:49 |
| utomega | as usually | 17:49 |
| galorin | Is there a howto anywhere relating to it? | 17:49 |
| utomega | it didn't work | 17:49 |
| vinnl | !sound | galorin | 17:49 |
| ubottu | galorin: If you're having problems with sound, first ensure ALSA is selected, by double clicking on the volume control, then File -> Change Device (ALSA Mixer). If that fails, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Sound - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting - http://alsa.opensrc.org/DmixPlugin - For playing audio files, see !Players and !MP3 | 17:49 |
| vidd | utomega, what failed? | 17:49 |
| vidd | live or alt install? | 17:49 |
| utomega | booting, first, it didn't do anything with my cd, started fedora, tried again, then got a weird and not informative table, waited, tried again, got ubuntu picture, some options (install, check cd) but after 2 seconds got error about booting, can't remember what it said excactly :/ | 17:51 |
| utomega | xubuntu picture* | 17:51 |
| utomega | tried few more times, almost every time I saw an table, didn't make any sense to me :/ | 17:51 |
| vidd | live cd? | 17:52 |
| vidd | alt cd? | 17:52 |
| utomega | the link I was given before | 17:52 |
| utomega | should be live | 17:52 |
| vidd | how much ram? | 17:52 |
| utomega | 700~ something | 17:53 |
| vidd | that should be plenty of ram to run the live cd | 17:53 |
| vidd | did you do the cd check? | 17:53 |
| utomega | I wasn't quick enough, tried, but the error got ahead of me, it just bumped out | 17:54 |
| utomega | and then the table showed up | 17:54 |
| vidd | sounds like you may have some hardware issues | 17:54 |
| vidd | completely unrelated to the cd burn | 17:55 |
| vidd | you dont by chance have a second system to test with? | 17:55 |
| utomega | :O | 17:55 |
| utomega | you mean, on a cd? | 17:55 |
| utomega | oh | 17:55 |
| utomega | you mean second computer? | 17:55 |
| vidd | you DID burn the iso to disk ... right? | 17:56 |
| utomega | yes :D | 17:56 |
| vidd | ok | 17:56 |
| utomega | used Roxio 9 | 17:56 |
| JannoTT | I suggest you try 8.04 not 8.10 rc | 17:56 |
| vidd | and do you have a second computer? | 17:56 |
| utomega | yes, I can try it right now | 17:56 |
| vidd | JannoTT, he responded to the call to test the live cd for the intrepid release | 17:57 |
| utomega | hmm, I don't know how to set cd to boot first on this laptop :/, will take some time | 18:00 |
| utomega | well vidd, works in my laptop :( | 18:06 |
| utomega | too bad | 18:06 |
| utomega | seems like a really nice os | 18:07 |
| vidd | so there is an issue with your cd reader? | 18:07 |
| utomega | maybe, | 18:07 |
| utomega | well it's an cd reader/writer, but it only writes unreadable cd's, but so far it could read | 18:08 |
| vidd | also could be failing ram | 18:08 |
| vidd | so the burner only burns frisbees? | 18:09 |
| vidd | then i would definantly say there is an issue with your cd reader | 18:09 |
| vidd | as they say....its not a question of "if" your hardware will fail...but "when" | 18:10 |
| utomega | (yeah only frisbees), well, I have an older one, which should work well :/ | 18:10 |
| utomega | but to be honest, it's the end of this school term and I have to learn for tomorrow :(, so I can't try anymore today, if it's any good I'll try to use another reader tomorrow. | 18:11 |
| utomega | and thanks alot vidd :) | 18:11 |
| vidd | no problem | 18:12 |
| utomega | well, bye :) | 18:12 |
| Nt_nT | hey, does anyone here have any experience with adeskelts?? | 18:19 |
| Nt_nT | adesklets | 18:19 |
| vussville1 | I recently tried | 18:21 |
| Nt_nT | any luck? | 18:21 |
| vussville1 | you have to use the command "adesklets --xfce4" with a xfce4 tag | 18:22 |
| Nt_nT | I found that I have to start adesklets_installer in a terminal, but it installs the desklets pretty sporadic. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. And i dunno where to find the damn things when I eventually have installed them | 18:22 |
| Nt_nT | ok | 18:22 |
| utomega | lol, thanks again vidd, found some time to try and works fine | 18:23 |
| vidd | swapped out the cdrom drive? | 18:24 |
| utomega | yeah | 18:24 |
| Nt_nT | vussville1: im supposed to type "adesklets --xfce4" ? | 18:24 |
| vussville1 | Nt_nt: adesklets --xfce4 will start the adesklets | 18:25 |
| Nt_nT | do i have to have xfce4? | 18:25 |
| Nt_nT | doesnt start when I do it... | 18:26 |
| Nt_nT | im running GNOME | 18:26 |
| vussville1 | lol | 18:26 |
| vussville1 | then use adesklets --nautilus | 18:26 |
| Nt_nT | what ? :P | 18:26 |
| vussville1 | see "adesklets --help" for more info | 18:26 |
| vussville1 | every adesklet you've installed will be in ~/.desklets | 18:29 |
| Nt_nT | ok | 18:29 |
| vussville1 | and adesklet configuration file will be ~/.adesklets. Every adesklet listed in ~/adesklets file should show up on your desktop if you issue the command "adesklets --nautilus". | 18:30 |
| Nt_nT | ok | 18:31 |
| Nt_nT | do I have to do anything with the files under ~/.adesklets ? | 18:32 |
| Nt_nT | ~/.desklets | 18:32 |
| vussville1 | In order to make installed desklets to show up every time you log into your desktop, you have to put the "adesklets --nautilus" commmand in your start-up list. However, with Gnome, my desklets show up for a short time when I logg in but disappear later, for some reason I do not understand. However, when I issue adesklets --nautilus, adesklets will show up on my desktop again. | 18:33 |
| Nt_nT | ok | 18:34 |
| Nt_nT | ~/.adesklets doesnt seem to exist :/ | 18:34 |
| vussville1 | No, you do not have to to anything with the files in ~/.desklets folder. However, you can edit ~/.adesklets file - erase the adesklets that you have installed and are in your ~/.desklets folder, but do not want to appear on desktop. | 18:35 |
| Nt_nT | ok | 18:35 |
| vussville1 | So, you installed adesklets as such. As a program. But do you have installed some of the adesklets - like calendar, notes, yab or smth? | 18:36 |
| Nt_nT | I downloaded adesklet from the ubuntu repository, and got it started and installed some desklets | 18:37 |
| Nt_nT | but there is no ~/.adesklets | 18:37 |
| Nt_nT | there is a ~/.gdesklets | 18:38 |
| Nt_nT | lol | 18:38 |
| vussville1 | how did you install those desklets? | 18:39 |
| Nt_nT | i went into usr/bin, and typed adesklets_installer or adesklets -i | 18:40 |
| Nt_nT | and did it in there | 18:40 |
| Nt_nT | didnt always work | 18:40 |
| Nt_nT | but i got three of the "installed" | 18:41 |
| Nt_nT | thats a shell of some sort :/ | 18:41 |
| vussville1 | what do you have in ~/desklets folder? | 18:43 |
| Nt_nT | i have five desklet folders with python scripts in them | 18:45 |
| Nt_nT | or at least thats what i think i have | 18:45 |
| vussville1 | :) | 18:45 |
| Nt_nT | thats a screenshot of whats in the folders :P hehe | 18:46 |
| vussville1 | so, when you do "adesklets --nautilus" in the terminal, nothing happens? | 18:47 |
| Nt_nT | jupp, absolutely nothing... there is just a new command prompt | 18:48 |
| Nt_nT | beneath | 18:48 |
| vussville1 | aa ok | 18:48 |
| Nt_nT | well when i type adesklets -nautilus something happens | 18:49 |
| Nt_nT | then it lists commands and options | 18:49 |
| Nt_nT | ex: -i,--installer Invoke the desklet installer (requires Python) | 18:50 |
| Nt_nT | Fake root window detection | 18:50 |
| vussville1 | you have to go to the ~/.desklets folder and in every folder you have there you have to make the python scripts executabe and then run ./Calendar.py. Did you do that? | 18:50 |
| Nt_nT | thats what it says over the list | 18:50 |
| Nt_nT | no, how do u make them executable? | 18:51 |
| Nt_nT | im sorry, im a huge noob :P | 18:52 |
| TheSheep | there is nothing wrong in being a newbie | 18:52 |
| Nt_nT | :) | 18:53 |
| TheSheep | chmod a+x filename is one way | 18:53 |
| Nt_nT | u gotta start somewhere, hehe | 18:53 |
| vussville1 | GUI way --> right click on *****.py file -->Properties -->permissions-->allow executing as ..... | 18:53 |
| TheSheep | or you could right-click in thunar, select properties, then permissions tab, etc. | 18:53 |
| TheSheep | right | 18:53 |
| Nt_nT | brb | 18:53 |
| TheSheep | chmod a+x filename is fater to type ;) | 18:53 |
| Nt_nT | hm, nothing happened when i tried chmod a+x filename | 18:55 |
| vussville1 | :D | 18:56 |
| vussville1 | I guess you can just left click on the filename.py file | 18:56 |
| Nt_nT | :P | 18:56 |
| Nt_nT | yeah i did that | 18:56 |
| Nt_nT | its allowed to be exec | 18:57 |
| vussville1 | did dialog window pop up? | 18:57 |
| vussville1 | you have to choose "run" | 18:57 |
| Nt_nT | the terminal just popped up for a split second when i clicked on it and chose to run in terminal | 18:58 |
| vussville1 | Good. So, now, look, if you have ~/.adesklets file | 18:59 |
| Nt_nT | ok | 18:59 |
| Nt_nT | . . . . noooo :P | 19:00 |
| Nt_nT | there is no | 19:00 |
| Nt_nT | ne | 19:00 |
| vussville1 | OK, let's do it in terminal | 19:01 |
| Nt_nT | ok | 19:01 |
| vussville1 | go to the folder where you did a+x chmod | 19:01 |
| vussville1 | then type in ./filename.py Instead of filename, of course, use the name of the file you have there:) | 19:02 |
| Nt_nT | ok | 19:02 |
| Nt_nT | with chmod a+x infront? | 19:03 |
| vussville1 | if you did it correctly last time, you do not have to do chmod a+x again | 19:03 |
| Nt_nT | ok | 19:04 |
| Nt_nT | something happened when i type ./RAIDar.py | 19:04 |
| Nt_nT | some error messages | 19:05 |
| vussville1 | what error messages? | 19:05 |
| vussville1 | what do they say? | 19:05 |
| Nt_nT | AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'signal' | 19:05 |
| Nt_nT | File "./mailer.py", line 46, in <module> | 19:06 |
| Nt_nT | import adesklets | 19:06 |
| Nt_nT | File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/adesklets/__init__.py", line 30, in <module> | 19:06 |
| Nt_nT | from adesklets.initializer import _Initializer | 19:06 |
| Nt_nT | File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/adesklets/initializer.py", line 13, in <module> | 19:06 |
| Nt_nT | from children_handler import _Children_handler | 19:06 |
| Nt_nT | File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/adesklets/children_handler.py", line 5, in <module> | 19:06 |
| Nt_nT | from signal_handler import Signal_handler | 19:06 |
| Nt_nT | File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/adesklets/signal_handler.py", line 12, in <module> | 19:06 |
| Nt_nT | class Signal_handler: | 19:06 |
| Nt_nT | File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/adesklets/signal_handler.py", line 20, in Signal_handler | 19:06 |
| Nt_nT | func = posix_signal.signal | 19:06 |
| Nt_nT | the error message was at the bottom... | 19:06 |
| TheSheep | !pastebin | 19:07 |
| ubottu | 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) | 19:07 |
| Nt_nT | cool :) | 19:08 |
| vussville1 | I do not know what happened. However, in every desklet folder that you have in ~/.desklets folder, there is readme fail. It should have instructions how to install a particular desklet. Maybe there are some dependencies - some packages - you have to have installed. | 19:09 |
| Nt_nT | ok | 19:09 |
| vussville1 | why do you want to try adesklets? | 19:09 |
| Nt_nT | because it seems to be a practical sollution | 19:10 |
| Nt_nT | and it looks cool :P | 19:10 |
| vussville1 | there are gdesklets and similar things that, I believe, are more easy to use especially for newbies | 19:10 |
| Nt_nT | well i can try some more another time | 19:10 |
| Nt_nT | ok | 19:10 |
| Nt_nT | i installed gdesklets but that app wont start...but, hehe, thats another story | 19:10 |
| vussville1 | OK | 19:11 |
| Nt_nT | maybe i have to restart the system or something | 19:11 |
| vussville1 | I do not think that will solve the problem. You know that you have managed to install some adesklets, if ~/.adesklets file appears in your home folder | 19:12 |
| Nt_nT | i found the file (bows his head in shame). I thought u where talking about a folder :S | 19:14 |
| Nt_nT | but there is nothing in the file though | 19:15 |
| Nt_nT | well, thnx for the help :) | 19:19 |
| martinus | Hi all. I have a problem when it comes to installing, or rather formatting, my testing computer for the new 8.10 install. I did a native BeOS install on it, just to check it out (yes, it's an old one), a couple of weeks ago. This have somehow jumbeled the partition scheme in some way. | 19:19 |
| martinus | Now, all the steps of the partitioning (and install, but I doubt it is related) functions, until I press apply for the formatting of the drive. Then I get a message that says: Warning: Unable to detect filesystem! Possible reasons are: | 19:22 |
| martinus | -The filesystem is damaged | 19:22 |
| martinus | -The filesystem is unknown to GParted | 19:22 |
| martinus | -There is no filesystem available (unformatted) | 19:22 |
| martinus | My bucks is on the second one, have anyone experienced anything alike? | 19:23 |
| martinus | note that this happens even after deleting all partitions in gparted, before adding swap and formatting | 19:25 |
| Raylz | is there a special release for the acer aspire one with linpus linux? | 21:32 |
| Raylz | btw, should i try the xubuntu beta for this notebook? | 21:33 |
| matthewh4 | just loaded xubuntu on to 1.1GHz celeron with 512MB RAM with onboard VGA sometimes it take 20mins to boot and say loading hardware drivers fail and I have no menu bars usally boots in 4mins wen it works | 21:34 |
| matthewh4 | will a graphics card help any ideas | 21:35 |
| cody-somerville | just try rebooting | 21:36 |
| cody-somerville | should fix it | 21:36 |
| matthewh4 | yeah rebooting does fix it just wondering if there was a permanent fix | 21:37 |
| TheSheep | alt+ctrl+backspace shoul be faster | 21:38 |
| TheSheep | not sure what exactly happens when you get that error | 21:39 |
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