| n2diy | What's the rick trick to setting up system sounds? I can't find the settings in the menus, do I have to DL something? | 03:19 |
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| CentHOGG | Hi, I have a question.. to install LXDE from ubuntu server what 'sudo apt-get install xxx' is used? would I have to install the entire Xubuntu-desktop? thx in advance | 03:52 |
| Ish | if anyone knows of some nifty bluetooth programs, throw em out there, it would be appreciated | 04:12 |
| CentHOGG | hi | 04:19 |
| CentHOGG | anyone here | 04:19 |
| Ish | i'm here | 04:26 |
| Ish | alone | 04:26 |
| Ish | in the dark | 04:26 |
| CentHOGG | hi | 04:27 |
| Ish | hello CentHOGG | 04:27 |
| CentHOGG | nifty bluetooth progs | 04:27 |
| Ish | yez, i needs them | 04:28 |
| CentHOGG | actually I've only used it sparingly and on XP | 04:28 |
| Ish | kdebluetooth hasn't done much for me | 04:28 |
| CentHOGG | bitpim | 04:28 |
| CentHOGG | for a phone? | 04:28 |
| Ish | yeah | 04:28 |
| CentHOGG | i used bitpim on XP once or twice | 04:29 |
| CentHOGG | it takes all the info from your phone and mirror/sync | 04:29 |
| Ish | oh nice | 04:29 |
| Ish | thanks | 04:29 |
| CentHOGG | maybe it's linux too | 04:29 |
| CentHOGG | i dunno | 04:29 |
| * Ish gives a tip of the hat | 04:29 | |
| Ish | i did an apt-cache search and it's there | 04:29 |
| CentHOGG | great | 04:29 |
| Ish | http://i42.tinypic.com/20aq4jt.jpg <--check that out, it's what happens when i boot | 05:01 |
| jimisrvrox | hey guys im trying to install the BCM4813 nic and because I had a usb for whatever reason I cannot blacklist ssb or get it out of modprobe | 05:02 |
| jimisrvrox | when I try to wake the card up which is on wlan1 It tells me siocsifflags no device | 05:02 |
| jimisrvrox | hey izak | 05:10 |
| jimisrvrox | are you good with wireless drivers? | 05:11 |
| izak | nope :D | 05:16 |
| izak | just joined here to try finding out hot to se t one up | 05:16 |
| izak | :/ | 05:16 |
| izak | how to set one up* | 05:16 |
| jimisrvrox | o oh | 05:24 |
| jimisrvrox | ok* | 05:24 |
| psychic | hi | 05:31 |
| psychic | my xubuntu is giving me issues | 05:31 |
| psychic | new to it | 05:31 |
| psychic | ... | 05:31 |
| psychic | if any one is on here pls give me a message within the next 1.5 mins b4 i lay down | 05:32 |
| psychic | it wont fill the whole screen on my toshiba and its ssh files wont work for my friend to remote access it | 05:33 |
| psychic | anyone | 06:07 |
| psychic | ? | 06:07 |
| psychic | xubuntu assistance | 06:07 |
| psychic | ? | 06:08 |
| psychic | xubuntu assistance | 06:14 |
| psychic | ? | 06:14 |
| slimjimflim | psychic, what's wrong? | 06:15 |
| psychic | i just installed xubuntu on a toshiba satelite | 06:15 |
| slimjimflim | ok good job | 06:15 |
| psychic | and its ssh files aren't working which i found out because i asked a friend to remote assist me | 06:15 |
| slimjimflim | dunno | 06:16 |
| psychic | my screen is only the size of a windows safe mode screen | 06:16 |
| psychic | maybe a bit smalled | 06:16 |
| psychic | smaller | 06:16 |
| slimjimflim | when i do sudo apt-get update i get the following...can anyone help? this just started a minute ago | 06:18 |
| slimjimflim | W: GPG error: http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 2EBC26B60C5A2783 | 06:18 |
| slimjimflim | along w/ other messages saying packages weren't dled/installed | 06:18 |
| slimjimflim | that seems to be the important part | 06:18 |
| psychic | im also having that problem | 06:18 |
| psychic | are u on a toshiba | 06:18 |
| slimjimflim | no | 06:18 |
| psychic | or laptop? | 06:18 |
| psychic | o | 06:18 |
| psychic | my top and bottom menu bars also disappeared | 06:19 |
| psychic | lol | 06:19 |
| psychic | i found out how to get them back tho | 06:19 |
| psychic | i've been here for like an hr | 06:20 |
| psychic | no ones giving support | 06:20 |
| psychic | add paradigm9x on aim | 06:21 |
| psychic | if u got it | 06:21 |
| psychic | he'll stepp u through when he comes back on | 06:21 |
| psychic | tell him flexx sent u | 06:21 |
| psychic | lol | 06:21 |
| === slimjimflim is now known as slimjim_sleepin | ||
| Iszak | how do I get more than 2 desktops? | 08:52 |
| Iszak | Found it, don't worry :p | 08:54 |
| Iszak | How do I install a theme... | 09:02 |
| TheSheep | unpack it to ~/.themes | 09:03 |
| Iszak | I did..? | 09:05 |
| TheSheep | voila! | 09:06 |
| Iszak | Do I need to restart? | 09:06 |
| TheSheep | no | 09:06 |
| Iszak | It's not showing up in themes. | 09:06 |
| TheSheep | are you sure it's a gtk or xfce theme? | 09:07 |
| Iszak | definitely gtk | 09:07 |
| Iszak | It's got index.theme in it.. and all | 09:08 |
| TheSheep | it has a gtkrc file? | 09:08 |
| odysseas | Hi guys, does the default xubuntu installation include tools to create a dial up connection? | 09:16 |
| TheSheep | !ppp | 09:17 |
| ubottu | You want to connect via dial-up? Read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DialupModemHowto - Also try disabling/removing KNetworkManager if KDE applications cannot connect using dial-up | 09:17 |
| Slonkie | Hello. How do i add new repository in xubuntu? | 10:55 |
| gorgut | Slonkie: are you using synaptic? | 10:58 |
| Slonkie | sometimes.. mostly if the application i need is in there | 10:59 |
| gorgut | which repo are you trying to add? A third-party repo or one from Canonical? | 10:59 |
| Slonkie | a third party.. its http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu intrepid main | 11:00 |
| Slonkie | I'm wanting to install Amarok | 11:00 |
| gorgut | you should be able to install amarok from the repos you have installed | 11:00 |
| Slonkie | When i search for Amarok nothing comes up | 11:01 |
| gorgut | pull open a terminal and do a 'sudo apt-get install amarok' | 11:01 |
| Slonkie | but is that the newest version of amarok? | 11:01 |
| gorgut | well | 11:01 |
| Slonkie | i want 2.0.1.1 | 11:01 |
| gorgut | ok. one sec | 11:01 |
| gorgut | ok | 11:02 |
| gorgut | do you normally use synaptic or the command line? | 11:02 |
| Slonkie | the commandline mostly | 11:02 |
| gorgut | ok. you need to pop open your favorite text editor and add that line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file | 11:03 |
| gorgut | make sure to sudo that | 11:03 |
| Slonkie | okay | 11:03 |
| gorgut | if you used nano, it would be 'sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list' | 11:04 |
| Slonkie | ye | 11:04 |
| Slonkie | I should add this line right: "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu intrepid main" ? | 11:04 |
| gorgut | that sounds right... not sure for that particular one, but seems to be in the right format | 11:05 |
| Slonkie | that's what's on their website so i guess that's right | 11:05 |
| gorgut | sounds good :) | 11:05 |
| gorgut | make sure to do an 'sudo apt-get update' when you get it saved | 11:06 |
| Slonkie | Thanks :) | 11:08 |
| gorgut | no problem | 11:08 |
| === slimjim_sleepin is now known as slimjimflim | ||
| ivve | Hoi, I got a question regarding Remote Desktop | 13:49 |
| ivve | Where can I find the settings in xubuntu to open up permissions for remote desktop use? | 13:50 |
| ivve | in ubuntu there's Remote Desktop to change permissions etc, but where do I change that in xubuntu? | 13:50 |
| Slonkie | I've got 1 harddrive which i seperated into 2, one with windows and one with xubuntu, is it possible to access the files on the windows harddrive from xubuntu? | 14:13 |
| charlie-tca | yes, | 14:14 |
| charlie-tca | !pyneighborhood | 14:14 |
| ubottu | Sorry, I don't know anything about pyneighborhood | 14:14 |
| charlie-tca | !samba | 14:14 |
| ubottu | Samba is the way to cooperate with Windows environments. Links with more info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MountWindowsSharesPermanently and http://help.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/serverguide/C/windows-networking.html - Samba can be administered via the web with SWAT. | 14:14 |
| Slonkie | well i can't use shares can i? Since the windows would be offline while im in xubuntu? | 14:14 |
| Slonkie | Isen't it possible to mount the ntfs drive? | 14:15 |
| charlie-tca | Yes, just mount it like any other drive | 14:21 |
| Slonkie | Can you help me mounting? | 14:21 |
| charlie-tca | !mount | 14:22 |
| ubottu | For help with partitioning a new install see: https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/switching/installing-partitioning.html - For partitioning programs see !GParted or !QtParted - Other partitioning topics include !fstab !home and !swap | 14:22 |
| charlie-tca | no | 14:22 |
| charlie-tca | just a minute | 14:22 |
| * charlie-tca kicks 'bot | 14:22 | |
| brandonban6 | lol | 14:23 |
| charlie-tca | Slonkie: create a directory in /mnt or /media | 14:23 |
| charlie-tca | sudo mkdir /mnt/windows_drive | 14:23 |
| land | !applets | 14:24 |
| ubottu | To add useful applets to your panel, right click on the panel and choose "Add applet" | 14:24 |
| Slonkie | done charlie-tca | 14:24 |
| charlie-tca | Then use mount to use it: sudo mount /dev/drive_to_mount /mnt/windows_drive | 14:24 |
| Slonkie | so how do i find the name of the drive? | 14:25 |
| charlie-tca | Then you can access it using thunar or command line, like any other drive | 14:25 |
| charlie-tca | open thunar, go to /dev/disk/by-path and look at properties of the listed drives. | 14:27 |
| charlie-tca | It should be sda1, maybe? | 14:27 |
| charlie-tca | should only be about 3-4 listed, windows, Xubuntu, swap, home if on separate partition | 14:28 |
| Slonkie | so.. sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/windows_drive ? | 14:30 |
| Slonkie | yep that worked, that awesome, thank you charlie-tca.. Will it now automaticly be mounted everytime i boot xubuntu? | 14:31 |
| charlie-tca | no, for that you have to add it to /etc/fstab | 14:31 |
| Slonkie | do i just add the mount line i wrote above? | 14:31 |
| Slonkie | or both the mount line and the create dir line? | 14:32 |
| charlie-tca | similar to the mount line. | 14:32 |
| brandonban6 | charlie-tca, if I may make a suggestion, I like to use "sudo fdisk -l" to get it a nice readout of your devices. As long as you know the size of the drive, you are usually in good shape :) | 14:33 |
| Slonkie | in fstab the other devices have some pretty fancy lines with info | 14:33 |
| charlie-tca | /dev/??? /mnt/windows_drive ntfs relatime 0 2 | 14:34 |
| charlie-tca | Make that last 2 a 0 | 14:34 |
| charlie-tca | I think that will work | 14:35 |
| Slonkie | All right. I'll try | 14:35 |
| charlie-tca | brandonban6: yes, all suggestions are welcome. | 14:35 |
| brandonban6 | also, I'm not sure why but sometimes you need to indicate ntfs as ntfs-3g in fstab, or else reads it a bad fs. | 14:39 |
| Slonkie | what charlie-tca said diden't work :( | 14:39 |
| charlie-tca | That's probably why | 14:40 |
| Slonkie | so should i add -3g to ntfs? | 14:40 |
| charlie-tca | yes | 14:40 |
| charlie-tca | disclaimer: I do not use windows or NTFS file systems | 14:40 |
| Slonkie | all right :P | 14:41 |
| charlie-tca | Sorry, Slonkie | 14:41 |
| Slonkie | just gonna try reboot agian | 14:41 |
| Slonkie | no don't be. just glad i'm getting help :) | 14:41 |
| * charlie-tca hates giving bad advice | 14:41 | |
| brandonban6 | hehe :).........that's one area i'm okay in..........i'm a desktop admin running ubuntu 8.10 in windows environment. | 14:41 |
| charlie-tca | Then why am I trying to help Slonkie ? | 14:42 |
| charlie-tca | :-) | 14:42 |
| brandonban6 | you were on the gun! ............ and as I said, I'm at work, I try to hop in when I can. Usually people have buggy problems, in which your much better suited for anyway :) | 14:43 |
| Slonkie | That dident help either :/ | 14:44 |
| brandonban6 | Slonkie, type in terminal "sudo mount -a" | 14:44 |
| brandonban6 | does it give an error? | 14:44 |
| Slonkie | [mntent]: line 10 in /etc/fstab is bad | 14:44 |
| brandonban6 | can you paste the line in here? | 14:45 |
| Slonkie | wait.. maybe i did something wrong.. just gonna try rebooting agian | 14:46 |
| brandonban6 | kk | 14:46 |
| Slonkie | aha. It workes :P Thanks | 14:50 |
| brandonban6 | charlie-tca, I never did get my xubuntu box running with flash....:( | 14:50 |
| charlie-tca | now that I believe! flash is a major pain to get working. | 14:51 |
| brandonban6 | yeah, i'm dropping an Nvidia GeForce 8600GT in that box tomorrow night. And then i'll go back to focusing on getting it working. It is so frustrating....it recognizes flash is installed, but screens just so up black. | 14:53 |
| * brandonban6 needs to work on typing more clear, my fingers don't keep up with my mind | 14:54 | |
| charlie-tca | Might be the video card won't support it. although that is rare. | 14:55 |
| brandonban6 | yeah, it is an old ATI card.......I find the drivers to be buggy. I'll at least feel better with Nvidia + Compiz. | 15:03 |
| charlie-tca | True. I like Nvidia, myself. It gives me less problems than ATI, on almost everything. | 15:04 |
| returnCode | irc.azzurra.org | 15:31 |
| returnCode | irc://irc.azzurra.org | 15:31 |
| brandonban6 | will xubuntu 9.04 carry the new themes too? | 15:33 |
| charlie-tca | What new themes? | 16:05 |
| === WastePotato_ is now known as WastePotato | ||
| brandonban6 | ubuntu 9.04 is going to have three new themes including Dust. | 16:11 |
| charlie-tca | Xubuntu is going to have a new theme, already in the daily images. It will not automatically be changed if you are running Jaunty, though | 16:13 |
| charlie-tca | excuse me, it the desktop wallpaper we out, not the theme yet | 16:14 |
| brandonban6 | gotchya | 16:14 |
| charlie-tca | We also got the new gdm theme out | 16:15 |
| brandonban6 | oh, are there screen shots? | 16:16 |
| charlie-tca | yes, if I can find them now | 16:18 |
| brandonban6 | lol......i'm googling, but so much shows up when you type that in | 16:19 |
| charlie-tca | no, google probably won't show you | 16:19 |
| charlie-tca | here they are: http://emonk.fi/open/xubuntu/9.04%20Jaunty/Artwork%20mockups/jaunty-wall-mockup.png | 16:20 |
| charlie-tca | http://emonk.fi/open/xubuntu/9.04%20Jaunty/Artwork%20mockups/jaunty-gdm-mockup-3.png | 16:21 |
| brandonban6 | oh those look good!! | 16:22 |
| charlie-tca | Got them on the desktop image today. | 16:24 |
| brandonban6 | nice! I'm getting excited for the release date! It's coming up very quick! | 16:25 |
| poopuser | hi all.i would like to commit minimal barebones install from alternate cd 8.04.can i and i yes how can i do so? | 17:38 |
| charlie-tca | !minimal | 17:39 |
| ubottu | The Minimal CD image is very small in size, and it downloads most packages from the Internet during installation, allowing you to select only those you want (the installer is like the one on the !Alternate CD). See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD | 17:39 |
| charlie-tca | or, | 17:39 |
| genii | !info ubuntu-minimal | 17:39 |
| ubottu | ubuntu-minimal (source: ubuntu-meta): Minimal core of Ubuntu. In component main, is important. Version 1.124 (intrepid), package size 25 kB, installed size 52 kB | 17:39 |
| charlie-tca | or select F4 and install a command-line system. then add the apps you want one at a time | 17:41 |
| poopuser | thank you for the tip but can i do it with alternate cd?let's say i don't have internet connection | 17:41 |
| poopuser | well when i am pressing f4 there is sign / button - normal displayed at the bottom of screen and i don't see any option to change it | 17:41 |
| charlie-tca | From the menu of the alternate cd? Which version is this? | 17:42 |
| poopuser | hardy | 17:43 |
| charlie-tca | Does your cd pass Check cd for defects? | 17:44 |
| poopuser | i din't checked it for defects but 'normal' install went smooth | 17:44 |
| charlie-tca | It should have a menu across the botton, F1 help F2 Language F3 keymap F4 Modes F5 Accessibility F6 Options | 17:45 |
| poopuser | yes it dose have this kind of menu but when i press f4 there is word 'normal' displayed on the bottom of screen and that's all | 17:46 |
| charlie-tca | F4 is a four line menu. If you don't see all of it, hit the down arrow two times, and hit enter. It may be off your screen | 17:46 |
| poopuser | i do so.than you | 17:47 |
| poopuser | bye | 17:47 |
| charlie-tca | You are welcome | 17:47 |
| poopuser | *thank | 17:47 |
| tupacamaru | Hello. I am here looking for some advice. I've got an old imac g3 and I want to install xubuntu on it. Problem is, the CD tray is broken. How else could I go about installing it? It's for a community center. | 17:56 |
| charlie-tca | Maybe you could do a netinstall? !netinstall | 17:56 |
| tupacamaru | !netinstall | 17:57 |
| ubottu | Ubuntu can be installed in lots of ways. Please see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation for documentation. Problems during install? See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommonProblemsInstall and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperReleaseNotes/UbiquityKnownIssues - Don't want to use a CD? Try http://tinyurl.com/3exghs - See also !automate | 17:57 |
| gorgut | maybe a USB stick? | 17:57 |
| tupacamaru | I've got a USB stick but I couldn't get the mac to boot from it | 17:57 |
| TheSheep | did you hold option key while it booted? | 17:58 |
| tupacamaru | I've tried many things, though they are all worth trying again | 17:59 |
| tupacamaru | i appreciate the help! | 17:59 |
| * TheSheep knows little about macs, about ppc macs even less | 18:00 | |
| tupacamaru | yeah, they are a mystery to me. so in linux, honestly! | 18:00 |
| gorgut | My svideo to RCA cable should be here today. Do i need any special drivers or anything to get my Svideo output working on my Dell Latitude D600? | 18:04 |
| gorgut | video card is ATI Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] | 18:07 |
| agracey | does anybody have experience running TF2 on xubuntu? | 18:10 |
| agracey | is anybody there? | 18:12 |
| zoredache | !anyone | 18:17 |
| 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? | 18:17 |
| zoredache | you might try asking in #ubuntu, there are more people there, and the window enviroment shouldn't make any difference | 18:19 |
| agracey | I would like to install xubuntu on my gaming computer since I just wiped out the windows install | 18:19 |
| agracey | ok, just reposted in #ubuntu | 18:21 |
| atari | is it possible to setup a personal xorg.conf? | 20:13 |
| atari | i noly has that "auto configured" xorg.conf in /etc/X11 :/ | 20:14 |
| knome | atari, you are free to edit that file. | 20:14 |
| atari | so i can add some sections i'd like to? | 20:15 |
| knome | yes | 20:20 |
| knome | atari, you only need to edit with sudo. | 20:20 |
| atari | ok | 20:21 |
| atari | so then i'll try that... | 20:21 |
| atari | thx knome | 20:21 |
| knome | but remember, we don't take any responsibility for broken systems because editing xorg.conf. :) | 20:21 |
| knome | only edit what you know. | 20:21 |
| atari | yeah sure ;) | 20:22 |
| atari | i know hacking the xorg.conf, that's why i want to do it by myself ;) | 20:22 |
| knome | right. | 20:23 |
| gorgut | Hey, guys | 20:24 |
| gorgut | is there a xinerama setup util somewhere? GUI or ncurses? | 20:24 |
| gorgut | maybe I'm going about this the wrong way. Can someone suggest a way to clone the output of the screen on my laptop to the S-Video output on my ATI Radeon card? | 20:28 |
| charlie-tca | !xinerama | 20:29 |
| ubottu | xinerama is an extension to !X to use two or more physical displays as one large virtual display. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XineramaHowTo - See also !DualHead | 20:29 |
| gorgut | well, i'm not sure if xinerama is what I should be using | 20:29 |
| charlie-tca | Probably !DualHead, then. It should be one or the other. | 20:30 |
| gorgut | i only want to use the s-video out sometimes | 20:30 |
| charlie-tca | !DualHead | 20:30 |
| knome | !dualhead | 20:31 |
| ubottu | Information about dual-head on linux can be found on http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/DualHead - See also !Xinerama | 20:31 |
| gorgut | charlie-tca, thanks | 20:32 |
| charlie-tca | I hope it is one of those, anyway. | 20:33 |
| gorgut | dualhead clone output appears to be what I want | 20:33 |
| gorgut | ok... i'm looking at my xorg.conf and it's VERY short... the monitor sections look nothing like an other xorg.conf i've ever seen... just "configured monitor device" | 20:44 |
| jdnwest | Am I an idiot for wanting to PXE BOOT (not install) a customized xubuntu immage | 20:44 |
| charlie-tca | gorgut: You can add whatever you need. Ubuntu/Xubuntu/Kubuntu now use automatic Xorg configuration, so that short file is normal. | 20:47 |
| gorgut | charlie-tca, ok cool. Thanks. Didn't know if I was going about this the wrong way | 20:48 |
| charlie-tca | for most people, the short file works fine now. | 20:49 |
| gorgut | how can i see which driver i'm using for video? | 20:51 |
| gorgut | and the BusID? | 20:51 |
| charlie-tca | BusID should be from "lspci -vv" | 20:51 |
| charlie-tca | video driver is in /var/log/Xorg.log or /var/log/Xorg.0.log | 20:52 |
| gorgut | i don't see the BusID in lspci -vv | 20:55 |
| charlie-tca | That's because I gave you the wrong command. Try "sudo lshw" instead. | 20:57 |
| gorgut | thanks :) | 20:58 |
| charlie-tca | Sorry :( | 20:58 |
| gorgut | no worries :) | 20:58 |
| gorgut | charlie-tca, what am I looking for in the Xorg.0.log to tell me the driver? i see " LoadModule: "extmod" " is that it? | 21:06 |
| gorgut | that's right after my ATI info for the card | 21:07 |
| charlie-tca | something to do with video. It should give a list, and you will see "radeon" or fglrx, I think those are the two ATI drivers now. | 21:08 |
| rocko | what do you stop prate? gorgut | 21:08 |
| rocko | is it true that you don't like to prate? | 21:08 |
| brandonban6 | !backup | 21:14 |
| ubottu | There are many ways to back your system up. Here's a few: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem , https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DuplicityBackupHowto , https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HomeUserBackup , https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MondoMindi - See also !sbackup and !cloning | 21:14 |
| zoredache | dirvish is wonderful for needing to make lots of incremental backups.... | 21:15 |
| brandonban6 | thanks zoredache I will look into that! | 21:16 |
| brandonban6 | !cloning | 21:16 |
| ubottu | To replicate your packages selection on another machine (or restore it if re-installing), you can type « aptitude --display-format '%p' search '?installed!?automatic' > ~/my-packages », move the file "my-packages" to the other machine, and there type « sudo xargs aptitude --schedule-only install < my-packages ; sudo aptitude install » - See also !automate | 21:16 |
| tavasti | I vote also for dirvish | 21:17 |
| brandonban6 | the ">" output will replace a text file if there is one there already with the same name, correct? | 21:17 |
| tavasti | yes | 21:18 |
| gorgut | bah. wireless card crapped out on me | 21:18 |
| zoredache | the > will overwrite the existing file with anything new | 21:18 |
| brandonban6 | and >> will merge ? | 21:18 |
| zoredache | >> will append anything to the end of the file | 21:19 |
| charlie-tca | gorgut: should be something like http://paste.ubuntu.com/133929/ | 21:19 |
| charlie-tca | towards the bottom, you see my driver is "nv" | 21:19 |
| gorgut | charlie-tca, ok. sweet. Apparently i'm using "radeon" Would you mind looking at my xorg.conf to see if this makes sense? I'm having to take bits and pieces from several wiki articles | 21:21 |
| charlie-tca | Been too long since I did an xorg.conf, but I can look. | 21:22 |
| brandonban6 | gorgut......if that is a radeon X300..........buy yourself a Nvidia GT8600+ (trust me) | 21:22 |
| gorgut | brandonban6, It's a radeon mobility 9000 in a laptop. not a whole lot of choice :p | 21:23 |
| brandonban6 | gorgut, fair enough :) | 21:24 |
| gorgut | charlie-tca, http://paste.ubuntu.com/133935/ you'll see i commented out the old stuff too (I also make a backup, don't worry) | 21:24 |
| charlie-tca | Virtual2560 1024 ; shouldn't this be 2x800= 1600 for Virtual 1600 600 ? | 21:27 |
| charlie-tca | Just asking, it seems like it will display a lot of unused border, but maybe not | 21:28 |
| gorgut | charlie-tca, Makes sense, again, just taking snippets from wiki articles :p | 21:28 |
| charlie-tca | I have never configured dual monitors, so it's a guess on my part | 21:28 |
| charlie-tca | The rest looks right to me. | 21:29 |
| gorgut | charlie-tca, ok. well, i'm gonna plug it in and see what happens. hehhe | 21:29 |
| gorgut | brb | 21:29 |
| gorgut | ls | 21:29 |
| gorgut | oops. | 21:29 |
| charlie-tca | good luck | 21:29 |
| gorgut | thanks :) | 21:30 |
| gorgut | charlie-tca, ok.. that was a no-go | 21:38 |
| charlie-tca | I am out of ideas. Maybe someone else knows how to do dual monitors? | 21:39 |
| brandonban6 | gorgut, I used aticonfig by pulling the drivers from adm's website. It installed a configuration application | 21:40 |
| gorgut | charlie-tca, i restarted x with control+alt+backspace and whenever it came back up, it said I was running in low-graphics mode because it had an error parsing the config file | 21:40 |
| charlie-tca | Maybe the 800x600 is too low? | 21:41 |
| gorgut | bah... on a hunch i found a package called "atitvout" in the repos...? | 21:41 |
| brandonban6 | http://support.amd.com/us/psearch/Pages/psearch.aspx?type=2.4.2 | 21:44 |
| gorgut | brandonban6, my card isn't listed in that pull-down menu | 21:47 |
| brandonban6 | gorgut what is the model of your laptop? | 21:49 |
| gorgut | brandonban6, dell latitude D600 | 21:49 |
| gorgut | this atitvout thing i got from the repos isn't helping.... | 21:50 |
| gorgut | brandonban6, hrm.. maybe I'm looking at the wrong thing in my lshw? the exact output is "product: Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000]" | 21:56 |
| brandonban6 | gorgut try this http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.4.2&product=&lang=English&rev=9.2&ostype=Linux%20x86 | 21:56 |
| brandonban6 | gorgut, nah, your right it is a ATI Radeon 9000. | 21:58 |
| gorgut | brandonban6, ok. cool. I was about to feel pretty silly if I was working on the wrong card :p | 21:58 |
| gorgut | brandonban6, is this link for a 32-bit system? | 21:59 |
| brandonban6 | yep | 21:59 |
| gorgut | ok. is this the one that you used that comes with the gui? | 21:59 |
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| brandonban6 | correct. There are some installer instructions in a .pdf on that same page. Give it a shot..........I still have a lot of problems with my ATI card even with it. | 22:00 |
| brandonban6 | but I have dual monitors :) | 22:00 |
| gorgut | brandonban6, yeah, i'm not really trying to do dual monitors.. just clone output on my s-video port | 22:01 |
| brandonban6 | oh! I see.........well yeah, give that driver there a shot. Let me know how it goes | 22:01 |
| gorgut | brandonban6, is there a gui for xrandr? | 22:02 |
| gorgut | brandonban6, grandr perhaps? | 22:03 |
| brandonban6 | gorgut, i'm not sure quite honestly. | 22:04 |
| arualavi | !bug | 22:04 |
| ubottu | If you find a bug in Ubuntu or any of its derivatives, please file a bug report at: http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu - Bugs in/wishes for the bots can be filed at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu-bots | 22:04 |
| brandonban6 | zoredache, dirvish is a headfull to get setup! | 22:06 |
| zoredache | yeah, it is a bit tricky the first time | 22:06 |
| zoredache | but most backup systems that allow a lot of control are... | 22:07 |
| gorgut | ok... | 22:13 |
| gorgut | in xranr --properties, i see it says that s-video is disconnected... even tho i have the cable plugged in | 22:13 |
| gorgut | any ideas? | 22:13 |
| zoredache | gorgut: I doubt your card would be able to detect if something was connected on s-video... | 22:14 |
| * charlie-tca thinks "connected it?" as he hides | 22:14 | |
| gorgut | zoredache, that's what I figured.. just wasn't sure how to make it think otherwise? | 22:14 |
| zoredache | gorgut: why does it matter? | 22:15 |
| zoredache | can't you extend too it anyway? | 22:15 |
| gorgut | zoredache, eh? | 22:15 |
| zoredache | perhaps if you try to use it, then it would show as connected | 22:15 |
| zoredache | I really don't know anything about xrandr so you should probably ignore me though | 22:15 |
| gorgut | zoredache, i don't understand what you mean by extend to it? | 22:16 |
| zoredache | I am assuming you want to extend your desktop onto display attached to the s-video port? | 22:16 |
| gorgut | zoredache, not extend really, i just want to clone the output to the s-video port | 22:17 |
| zoredache | hrm... I could be wrong, but I doubt a clone would work to x-video unless your running a really crappy resolution | 22:17 |
| gorgut | zoredache, well, i'm only running like 1024x768 anyway | 22:18 |
| zoredache | gorgut: usually s-video is 320*200 | 22:18 |
| gorgut | zoredache, woah.. really? | 22:19 |
| zoredache | well unless your card does some magical scan conversion that lets you set a higher resolution and then it makes it lower | 22:19 |
| gorgut | zoredache, well, at the end of the day, i just want to see the same thing on my tv as on my laptop screen :p | 22:20 |
| zoredache | have you tried something like xrandr --output s-video --auto | 22:23 |
| gorgut | xrandr took it with no errors, but still no dice on the tv :( | 22:24 |
| gorgut | xrandr --prop still shows disconnected | 22:24 |
| gorgut | brandonban6, ok... installed that driver.. it completed successfully and told me to run aticonfig. Did that, and it said no supported adapters detected :p | 22:32 |
| brandonban6 | what!!! oh geez. | 22:33 |
| brandonban6 | gorgut, got to jet, good luck on that!! Sorry to bust out on you now. | 22:38 |
| gorgut | got it | 22:39 |
| gorgut | sweeeeet | 22:39 |
| gorgut | http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI | 22:39 |
| gorgut | cheers | 22:39 |
| zoredache | congratulations | 22:40 |
| gorgut | zoredache, thanks for the help :) | 22:40 |
| gorgut | ok.. now.. another issue :p | 22:43 |
| gorgut | tv only shows part of the image.. like the bottom and right sides are cut off? | 22:44 |
| jdnwest | So i'm trying to turn a atom powered device into a thin client (Rdesktop for RDP), the CPU usage is maxing out when I connect, i think its because i'm still using the vesa driver, where do I get the intel display driver to fix this? | 22:49 |
| jdnwest | this stuff used to be in xorg.conf but the driver lines not even in there anymore | 22:51 |
| lolTodd | Hi folks. Question: I have an nVidia video card. It's been working fine until recently, and even when I enable the restricted driver and reboot it does not take effect. I've tried enabling and disabling several times to no avail. Any help would be appreciated. | 22:56 |
| knome | lolTodd, do you need the restricted driver for something? | 23:05 |
| knome | lolTodd, if it works without it, there is no need to enable. | 23:05 |
| lolTodd | It doesn't work without it. I can't stare at 480x640 for much longer. :/ | 23:09 |
| meowImAKitty | Hello, I'm pretty new to xUbuntu, and Linux. However I'm not iliterate, I can semi-nevigate the system, and use the terminal. Would someone mind helping me out for a minute? | 23:17 |
| zoredache | !ask | 23:17 |
| ubottu | Please don't ask to ask a question, simply ask the question (all on ONE line, so others can read and follow it easily). If anyone knows the answer they will most likely reply. :-) | 23:17 |
| meowImAKitty | haha alright here goes; I have xUbuntu 7.10 installed on my Compaq 2200 Laptop and I'm having problems using the external monitor port... I have tried using fn-f5 to switch but it is not letting me. I did a google search and came up with nothing I could relate to. I read somewhere about editing a conf file but I couldn't find any actual steps to take. | 23:20 |
| zoredache | is there some reason you haven't upgraded to a more recent version of xubuntu? | 23:20 |
| meowImAKitty | Yes, this laptop is very old and It's even kind of slow using this version of xUbuntu | 23:21 |
| zoredache | if you connect the external video port before the laptop boots does it get detected ant work? | 23:23 |
| meowImAKitty | When I have the cord plugged in and re-boot it shows the boot screen, as well as all the text before xterm or w/e the GUI is called loads then the screen on the other monitor just goes black. | 23:23 |
| zoredache | there really shouldn't be that big of a change in resource requirements between 7.10 and 8.10 | 23:23 |
| zoredache | anywho, I am not the guy to ask about video issues. Wait around, and if someone else is paying attention they may answer | 23:25 |
| meowImAKitty | Is it worth the switch? Will I loose all my settings? This laptops resources are very limited, it already runs pretty slow. | 23:25 |
| zoredache | I don't know if it will be worth the switch. There is probably a newer version of xorg, which should detect and work with your video hardware better | 23:26 |
| meowImAKitty | As for settings and such? Would it just be an upgrade or will I loose all my settings and files? | 23:27 |
| zoredache | and you would need to backup your settings and files, and then restore them. Or you would need to upgrade which may be even trickier. You might at least try booting off a livecd to see if the video works right | 23:27 |
| PeterDarkness | Quick question, I'm trying to get the wifi drivers working on my laptop, and the guide says to use 'sudo ./wlan0up" but when I use the command the terminal responds with "command not found" is there an alternate command? | 23:40 |
| TheSheep | I'd guess wlan0up is some script you were supposed to write earlier in that howto | 23:43 |
| PeterDarkness | I was in the wrong directory. My mistake :P | 23:44 |
| PeterDarkness | Ty | 23:44 |
| meowImAKitty | I have xUbuntu 7.10 installed on my Compaq 2200 Laptop and I'm having problems using the external monitor port... I have tried using fn-f5 to switch but it is not letting me. I did a google search and came up with nothing I could relate to. I read somewhere about editing a xorg file but I couldn't find any actual steps to take. Any advice? | 23:44 |
| TheSheep | meowImAKitty: try 'xrandr --auto' in your terminal while your monitor is connected and enabled | 23:49 |
| meowImAKitty | The command executed, but the other monitor still is blank. | 23:51 |
| meowImAKitty | It is connected, but what to you mean enabled? How would I enable it? | 23:52 |
| jamba | ciao a tutti | 23:56 |
| jamba | qualcuno parla italiano? | 23:56 |
| charlie-tca | !it | 23:58 |
| ubottu | Vai su #ubuntu-it se vuoi parlare in italiano, in questo canale usiamo solo l'inglese. Grazie! (click col tasto destro sul nome del canale per entrare) | 23:58 |
| jamba | ma mi serve aiuto per xubuntu | 23:58 |
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