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linuxman410i have a question about video00:05
linuxman410i turned off computer and back on and now all i have is 640x480 resoultion00:06
linuxman410i turned off computer and back on and now all i have is 640x480 resoultion00:10
linuxman410anyone have any ideas how to fix00:14
MAXI-MUMhey guys i read an article about that windows 7 is far faster than windows vista that is already faster than ubuntu on high end machines !!! is that true?00:42
MAXI-MUMand i realy hate ubuntu because firefox always crash on youtube00:46
MAXI-MUMand my boot time suck00:47
MAXI-MUMbut it has a good memory usage apart from 83 mb used by nautilus to just view my desktop00:47
MAXI-MUMubuntu is great if it has a better theme and tweak memory usage and boot timwe00:48
charlie-tcaJaunty Question: Finally got an alternate cd image that loaded. If /home/$USER is carried forward, the user can be added!01:41
charlie-tca*/can/can not01:41
RAOFI'm not sure I can parse the question out of that.01:42
RAOFWhat is it that you're actually asking?01:42
charlie-tcaThe user does not currently exist, but /home/$USER does. Trying to add the user generates an error that home directory exists.01:43
charlie-tcaSorry, question got lost. Is this a known bug?01:43
RAOFHm.  I don't know, acutally.01:43
charlie-tcaAny way to add the user if /home/$USER exists?01:44
RAOFMove /home/$USER away, create the user, copy it back?01:44
RAOFThat's a bit problematic really; there's no guarantee that the newly-created user has the same UID as the old one, so permissions may well be messed up.01:45
charlie-tcaYeah, looks like it. There is an old Hardy alpha4 bug on the same thing bug 19081501:45
ubottuLaunchpad bug 190815 in gnome-system-tools "[users-admin]cannot create user when the /home directory already exist" [Low,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/19081501:45
charlie-tcaRAOF: Might be, but I have been doing it since 6.0601:46
maekcan anyone tell me if jaunty has the pkg xcb-util please?02:44
RAOFmaek: /msg ubottu !find xcb-util02:44
maekRAOF: thanks much :)02:45
RAOFHm.  Seems ubottu's on holiday.  I can't find it in Jaunty, no.  What is it?02:47
maekRAOF: its bindings for X11 C development needed to compile awesome wm02:48
nhandlerpackages.ubuntu.com also doesn't produce any results for it02:48
maeknhandler: thanks02:48
genii!info libxcb1-dev jaunty02:48
ubottulibxcb1-dev (source: libxcb): X C Binding, development files. In component main, is optional. Version 1.1-1.1 (jaunty), package size 65 kB, installed size 664 kB02:48
RAOFRight; that's the core xcb bindings.02:49
maekthese are i think as the name says utilitys for handing cut and paste02:49
maekthanks all for the help.02:49
maekI lied, its the replacement for xlib xcb, supposed to make it fast. just reading this I dont know what im talking about.02:50
RAOFAaah.  xcb-misc isn't packaged as that; it's split out into its component bindings.02:51
RAOFYou probably want libxcb-icccm0-dev02:52
maekRAOF: thanks, ill install that and try to compile02:53
maekI appreciate the help.02:53
RAOFGenerally, running awesome's configure script should tell you the pkg-config files it's after; it'll say something like "xcb-icccm xcb-event xcb-whatever", and you want to apt-file search for xcb-icccm.pc.02:53
geniiInteresting. http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/jaunty/xcb-util   reports it exists02:54
RAOFRight.  That's the source package that builds libxcb-event, libxcb-icccm, etc.02:54
maekgenii: yeah, thats what I came in here to ask, I found a post that said it was built for jaunty02:55
geniimaek: According to the site an Intrepid version exists also02:56
geniiThey both seem to be from git, not regular repos02:56
maekgenii: it sas the following binary pkgs are build from this source pkg, does that mean they just use it only to build the regular .debs?02:57
geniimaek: It means it's a source package. So it compiles. What it compiles into binaries (not deb files) is what is in the list02:58
maekgenii: thanks.03:00
geniimaek: np03:00
maekso it would be the same as doing a git checkout and building it my self? or will using that src pkg provied some dpkg/apt interface to the stuff installed?03:00
geniimaek: Yes, git checkout and build. No dpkg interface unless you do checkinstall or such to build a deb when you compile it03:01
maekgenii: thanks.03:02
RAOFmaek: I think you're a bit confused.03:02
RAOFYou don't need to touch the xcb-misc source package; it's not useful for you.03:02
maekRAOF: thats a polite understatement03:02
geniimaek: What is it that you perceive to be requiring it for?03:02
maekRAOF: except that the install instructions say to git checkout and build the xcb-util pkgs from freedesktop.org03:03
RAOFAwesome doesn't need the xcb-misc library, because it doesn't exist.  xcb-misc is a collection of smaller libraries, which our source package splits into their own binary package.03:03
maekfor awesome wm, just following the ubuntu install guide, except its for hardy, so I was just hopping maybe intrepid had this pkg03:03
maekRAOF: ah, understood now. thank you.03:03
geniiRAOF: I did notice that the entire list it compiles is available when I apt-cache search03:04
maekor jaunty, after I saw int mentioned in a search03:04
RAOFawesome _actually_ needs one or more of the libraries that is bundled in xcb-misc.  They're called 'libxcb-$STUFF-dev'.  Examples of $STUFF are: event, icccm, render, etc.03:04
maekRAOF: yeah and based on that libxcb-iccm0-dev pkg you told me to install it installed all the event iccm render etc etc stuff03:06
RAOFSo, basically, you want to run awesome's ./configure script, which will hopefully tell you what it needs.03:06
maekit shows up in dpkg -l but awesomes make is still whining.03:06
RAOFCan you pastebin the full output of ./configure?03:07
maekRAOF: they use cmake so I *think* make is also doing the equiv of ./configure03:07
maeklet me pastie, thanks!03:08
maekRAOF: http://pastebin.com/m6d485bb003:10
maekoh, maybe im the worst person ever03:10
maek>= 0.3.003:10
maekthese are all 0.203:11
maeksorry to have wasted your time03:11
maekthanks for the hand holding and such.03:11
RAOFOooh, so they are.  It needs a newer version of those libs; thus you _will_ have to check out xcb-misc from git.03:11
maekRAOF: ok thanks. how do you do the underline?03:12
maekoh, _03:12
RAOFIRC psueudo-formatting FTW!03:17
maek:)03:17
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maekone last question and ill stop abusing this channel. is there a way to tell the compile options for a given pkg?03:18
RAOFYou mean, package in Ubuntu?  Not particularly easily, no.03:19
maekRAOF: ok thanks03:19
RAOFYou can go to the source package's page on launchpad, and go to the buildlog, and hunt for CFLAGS or whatever :)03:19
maekblah, awesome built, ill just assume cario has the proper things compiled in03:20
RAOFQuite likely.03:22
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HewWhen will http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ be updated to track the Jaunty development releases? There needs to be somewhere to point new testing users, rather than finding isos for them individually.06:39
Vahidsi need a command for restart my pci card, without restart Computer10:27
Vahids??10:27
Vahidsis this exist ???10:27
nblracerhowdy13:51
BUGabundo_workhi nblracer13:51
nblracerlooking for some/advices13:51
BUGabundo_workshoot13:51
nblracermy mobo just died, i was using a raid 0 array13:52
nblraceri can not find a replacment motherboard13:52
nblracerwith the same raid controllor13:52
BUGabundo_workah ah13:52
BUGabundo_workso?13:52
nblracercan i use mdadm to rebuild it?13:53
BUGabundo_workI don't know!13:53
BUGabundo_workraid aint my field13:53
BUGabundo_workyou are better trying for help at #ubuntu-server13:53
nblracerwill try13:54
BUGabundo_workokay13:54
BUGabundo_worklet us know how it when13:54
BUGabundo_workI'm always curious to learn a bit more13:54
nblracerrgr13:55
nblracerwhen i mount a drives does it write at all to the drive13:55
nblracerand is there a way to mount a drive in like a read only state13:56
Hewnblracer: you can mount read-only with the -r option for mount, see man mount14:00
nblracerthanks14:01
nblracerthats should help, this away i can mess around a bit with out the drives getting screwed up14:02
nblracerhew, but doesn't ubuntu auto mount drives at start up?14:03
BUGabundo_workhumm14:03
BUGabundo_workwon't mounting both disk separeted be of no used?14:03
nblraceryes14:04
BUGabundo_workI don't think it automounts RAID volumes14:04
nblracerbut im going to play around with mdadm14:04
Hewnblracer: "auto mount" is performed based on your /etc/fstab, make sure you remove/comment out relevant lines14:04
nblracerit is a softweare base raid system14:04
BUGabundo_workbut were the disks in strip or mirror?14:04
Hewnblracer: and if you're trying to recover a RAID 0 array, I wouldn't be mounting them until you have the right controller14:04
nblracerstrip14:04
BUGabundo_workyeah for strip you will need MD working14:05
BUGabundo_worknothing yet on #u-server?14:05
nblraceri was going to use software raid, i cant find the same mobo oir even one close whith the correct chip14:05
nblracerno14:05
* Hew is pleased he has got over RAID :P14:06
nblracerand really it not a ubuntu question, i just know there is always smart people in here14:06
nblracerbut you think that will work hew? has anyone done this before14:07
BUGabundo_workI tried it once14:07
BUGabundo_workafter using clonezilla to backup 2 striped disks14:08
BUGabundo_workbut never manage to make it work again14:08
Hewnblracer: Done what? I don't have experience with software RAID. If the question is you have an array created with a hardware controller and you want to recover it with a software controller, then I think the answer is no.14:08
Hewnblracer: Do you have a backup of the data, or is it your only copy?14:09
nblracermy back up server, was not correctly synced up14:09
nblracerso no14:10
nblracer:(14:10
Hewnblracer: I think the only solution is to find the same hardware controller, unfortunately14:11
HewPersonally, this is why I avoid RAID. The risks and consequences outweigh the benefits, at least for me.14:13
nblracerthis happen last weekend, and i have been searching the net14:14
nblraceri only found one replacement m0bo and they are charging 2X as much as i paid for it 7 years14:15
nblraceri think my next machine will be a raid5, or raid0 again just with OS and software, no personal data14:16
nblraceri realy like the faster read and write speeds it made all the difference for me14:17
nblracerspecialty with video editing and capturing14:17
BUGabundo_worknblracer: humm SSD then?! lol14:18
HewI can't wait until SSDs become mainstream :D14:20
nblraceri thought SSD would be faster then what they are14:20
nblracerif i remember right a WD raptor is faster then the average SSD14:21
BUGabundo_workcome on!!! it's a raptor... LOL14:24
nblracerbut it has moving parts ( well at 10,000 rpm) lol14:26
loic-mnblracer, don't give up on recovering your raid. It's not the same, but I remember 15 years ago when a distribution botched my mbr and overlaped to another partition on the hd, everybody on the net said it was impossible. I really needed the data, and eventually found the solution on an obscure page. Nowadays it's trivial, there's even programs to do that automagically. I would be surprised if some firms didn't offer the service for a cost, and of a14:27
loic-mfirm can do it, anybody can do it.14:27
loic-ms/of a/if a14:27
nblracerthats what i say14:28
loic-mIf you really need your raid now but can wait to recover the data, just a dd of the partitions and you'll try to recover that when you'll have a few hours/days to spend looking on the net14:28
BUGabundo_workas long as you have the data14:28
nblracerbut i went around to a few locol computer shopes for advice, and that was scary14:28
BUGabundo_workI guess you can use software to scrape it ...14:29
loic-mNever trust a computer shop.14:29
BUGabundo_workplus, most of them don't know GNU/Linux14:29
nblracer1/2 don't know what a raid was, the other did not know the servirity of the problem, and thought i could connect to any raid controllor and that it will auto rebuild and work14:30
BUGabundo_workLOL14:32
BUGabundo_workwell, they ARE trying to help14:32
BUGabundo_workeheh14:32
loic-mThe other solution is to find a friend with the same controller, or if you're desesperate by the mobo and resell it (or send it back if you can, but that's borderline)14:32
BUGabundo_workI would dd the disk to images, make an extra set of backups, and start trying to scrape the data!14:33
BUGabundo_workI have no idea, but can MD even be used to mount that=14:33
BUGabundo_work?14:33
nblracerto me there is something wrong with me paying $450 for a 7 yeat old mobo, for a computer i'm ready to replaces14:34
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loic-mhow can a mobo cost that much? It's dual socket?14:34
nblracerno14:34
nblraceri paid 200 for it new14:35
nblracerit is a asus p4t53314:35
nblracerhas rdram though14:35
loic-mhttp://cgi.ebay.fr/ASUS-P4T533-C-Motherboard-850e-SOCKET-478-FSB533-400_W0QQitemZ180309865342QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item180309865342&_trksid=p3286.m63.l117714:36
nblracernot c14:36
nblracerc has no raid on it14:36
* genii sips and thinks about RamBus14:39
nblracerrambus sucks14:40
nblracerworst move i made in building this system14:40
loic-mis the southbridge responsible for the raid, or is it a special chipset?14:41
nblraceror it was way ahaed of it time14:41
nblracerspechail chip14:41
nblracerpromise pdc2027614:41
nblracerdo you think this will help?14:42
nblracerhttp://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/Permute_array.pl14:42
loic-mas said, people on a -server ml (even generic, or linux related) would know better, but possibly contacting asus or the raid chipset maker would tell you if some newer chipsets are bw compatible14:42
nblraceri called asus and they said my best luck would to find a replacment mobo14:44
loic-mI don't have a clue. I don't know perl, and never had to use a raid. It seems more for people that forgot how their raid was assembled, I expect you remember that (especialy with only two drives)14:45
loic-mthey didn't try really hard...14:45
nblracerbut i will call promise now14:45
nblracerwell in building this array, i only had three options AV, desktop, server14:46
loic-mEmail them. You never get anybody on a phone.14:46
loic-mthey must have documented what it translates to in raid terms, and they'll know if they use the same on newer chips.14:47
nblraceror tell me the strip sizes and offsets if any14:49
nblracerblah to early14:52
nblracergot to wait a few hours14:52
nblracerthis looks hopefull http://man-wiki.net/index.php/8:mdadm#ASSEMBLE_MODE14:58
nblracerI realy should DD a copy  but dont have a big enough harddrive laying around14:59
BUGabundo_worktime to spend some money in buying one?15:01
BUGabundo_workclonezilla does a great job compressing them15:01
loic-mmdadm seems limited to software raid, so I don't know. A DD depends on the value of what you have - if it represents years of work, it's worth it, considering since it will be your first time attempting that there's good chances you'll mess up at least part of it.15:03
loic-mhttp://recovery-review.com/unformat-tools/diskinternals-raid-recovery.html shows that it's possible even for hw raid, you only have to learn how to do that with Linux. Then write a good howto on ubuntu wiki...15:04
nblracercould i buy a huge drive, partion it in 3 places. one for drive a, another drive B, and the third  is where i can try to merge A and B15:06
nblracerhere is another revovery tool15:09
nblracerhttp://www.runtime.org/raid.htm15:09
nblraceronly they were open source....15:09
loic-mI think with a third disk, you just plug your two disks that were in the raid, but plug them as individual disks, mount them read-only and use a software to recover the data.15:11
nblracerso do DD each drive that was on the raid15:12
nblracer`````````````````woops15:12
nblracerdont i ment to say15:13
loic-mWith a third disk, no DD is necessary, but you need a program that will try to recover the data. DD is only good if you want to reuse the two drives immediatly and save the data recovery for latter15:16
loic-mbut you should also definitely try with promise to see if their dedicated raid cards could do the job - that way you keep using the same raid without modifications (even though I'd rather run software raid than hw)15:18
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nblracerloic-m: just got of the phone with promise17:22
loic-mand?17:39
nblracerget there raid controllor17:42
nblracerit should work17:42
nblracerhe said it might be possable to do it with softweare, but it not worth the time17:43
loic-mit's worth the time if you can make it your job ;) or if you want to document it for others. But (even though I'd like to see a good howto for Linux) getting a controller is cheap, and you can reuse it on a new computer. Nice to know it's compatible, I can't remember the number of time I hear of people with hw raid that go and track an identical mb for a high cost.17:47
nblraceronly problem is he sugested one that was ata133 and another that was ata10017:48
nblracerhe thought what i had was ata100, but i just looked in The Man. it is ata13317:49
nblracershould i pay the extra money for ata133? i know my drives support it17:50
loic-mthat's up to you. I've gone sata looong ago and wouldn't want to switch back. For someone that bought a RAMBUS mb, you seem to chose your technology wisely ;)18:02
loic-mbtw, a recent sata hd would output over 100MB/s on a first partition that would match the size of your raid, all with an access time that could be close to half your average. Get your data out the cheapest way possible, and with the savings get a good sata drive.18:06
nblraceri agree18:16
nblraceri just a referbished ata133 one18:16
nblracerget my data back, and build a new rig with the core I718:16
nblracerwhat is a good recomended softweare to play music and videio from my ipod in ubuntu19:40
nblracergtkpod? or is there a better plugin for Rhythmbox?19:41
ikonia!offtopic19:45
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Spencericalis there a name for Ubuntu I.+? I.+? Yet?22:34
Spencericalsorry k22:34
charlie-tcaSpencerical: Are you asking about Intrepid + 1 name?22:35
admin_masu3701hello22:35
charlie-tcahello22:35
admin_masu3701i install dual boot ubuntu and windowns22:35
Spencericalcharlie-tca, no, Jaunty +122:36
admin_masu3701when i boot into windowns it wont boot all the way22:36
admin_masu3701it stop at some point and say need to restor system22:36
charlie-tcaSpencerical: I donĀ“t think it has been selected yet. Don't they decide during UDS?22:36
charlie-tcaadmin_masu3701: What point did it stop? did it get to the login window? Did you see the splash screen?22:37
Spencericalcharlie-tca: I wouldn't know...22:37
charlie-tcaSpencerical: me too. I just do not think they picked it yet.22:38
Spencericalok22:38
admin_masu3701charlie-tca: no it didnt get to the login22:41
charlie-tcaWas this the first boot after installation?22:41
admin_masu3701charlie-tca: it stops just before that and say Recovery center22:41
admin_masu3701says: Choose a program22:42
admin_masu3701Windows system Restore22:42
admin_masu3701hardware diagnosics22:42
admin_masu3701Restore C: Drive22:42
admin_masu3701REscue Data22:42
charlie-tcaWhat is the last thing you did to the system? Is this right after installing Ubuntu?22:43
admin_masu3701after install in did a sudo /atc/grub/boot/menu... and # commented out stuff that i didnt want to appear22:44
admin_masu3701just left ubuntun and windows22:45
charlie-tcaI think you should comment it back and see if it will boot windows.22:46
admin_masu3701ok22:46
admin_masu3701let me try22:46
admin_masu3701charlie-tca: i did uncommanded thm out but still facing the same issue23:07
charlie-tcaMaybe one of these will help. I have not run windows since 3.1 myself. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot23:11
admin_masu3701i cant play vedeos on youtube says i need to install flash23:19
admin_masu3701can somone tell me how to install flash on ubuntu?23:19
Frijoliei've got a broken package on Jaunty and I can't seem to get it fixed...23:24
Frijolieany suggestions?23:24
admin_masu3701can play videos..do anyone know what i need to do?23:27
admin_masu3701cant play vidoes on youtube..do anybody know what the problem may be?23:33
Frijoliemay not have flash installed?23:37
admin_masu3701Frijolie: how to i install it?23:38
Frijoliehttp://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/flash23:39
admin_masu3701Frijolie: i run into an erro message23:45
nikolamadmin_masu3701, 32bit or 64bit? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=77249023:59

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