[00:21] <frozen_ape> I learned that IRC is just like two sailing ships, trading packages today
[00:21] <frozen_ape> it's in real time
[00:21] <frozen_ape> is this true?
[00:51] <genii> Depends on what you might consider "real time"
[07:53] <Chelovek> òóò ïî-ðóññêè êòî-òî ôåðøòåéí?
[07:56] <Balsaq> how can i get to bios
[07:56] <nonie> hello just installed xubuntu 9.10. My builtin vga card is unichrome.
[07:56] <nonie> unfortunately it only shows 800X600
[07:57] <nonie> how can i adjust the setting to 1024 X 768?
[07:58] <Balsaq> settings.display
[07:58] <Balsaq> applications>settings>display
[07:58] <Balsaq> applications is in the top left of your screen...
[07:59] <nonie> yep ive been there but it only shows 800 X 600 and 640 X 480
[08:00] <Balsaq> hmmm...mine shows 15 or more choices?
[08:00] <Balsaq> sounds like you need a driver
[08:00] <nonie> it was suggested to load the openchrome file from the repository but it yields the same thing.
[08:01] <Balsaq> hmmm...we need Techie (Lord of all xubuntu Techs...where art thou?)
[08:02] <Balsaq> i am also a newbie
[08:02] <nonie> yep yep... need help...this has been my problem since the beginning of my ubuntu and xubuntu install
[08:02] <Balsaq> what are your specs
[08:02] <nonie> oh mee too. kept on testing different distros.
[08:02] <nonie> i will check now.
[08:03] <Balsaq> maybe it is some limitation imosed by your hardware?
[08:04] <nonie> i guess so...
[08:04] <Balsaq> how old is your set
[08:04] <nonie> i used windows xp and 2000 and the display is detected properly with the drivers of microsoft.
[08:05] <nonie> and i am switching totally to linux except that i am faced with this problem
[08:05] <Balsaq> thre is a place in here where you can try different drivers...looking
[08:05] <Balsaq> synaptic maybe?
[08:06] <nonie> yep i have loaded almost all drivers in the repository
[08:06] <Balsaq> hmmm...
[08:06] <Balsaq> sounds like when i tried to make a linksys wireless adapter run on puppy linux...tried every driver...no go. hard wired it
[08:07] <Balsaq> sometimes you just hit the wall
[08:07] <Balsaq> my next guess would be to contact the manufacturer
[08:07] <Balsaq> of your graphics card
[08:08] <Techie> never fear, "I" is here
[08:08] <Balsaq> spiderman!
[08:08]  * Techie slaps bal on the side of the head
[08:09] <Balsaq> i knew he was nearby!
[08:09] <Techie> nonie,     lspci | grep VGA       please
[08:09] <nonie> ok holdon
[08:10] <Techie> actually bal, i wasnt nearby... i was watching top gear in the lounge
[08:10] <Balsaq> 10-4 Boss
[08:10] <nonie> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. KM400/KN400/P4M800 [S3 UniChrome] (rev 01)
[08:11] <nonie> any suggestions
[08:11] <Techie> do you know the exact model number?
[08:12] <nonie> no its builtin with compaq presario SR1215CB AMD Sempron
[08:12] <Techie> kk
[08:13] <Techie> i figured it was built in, same problem but without an answer - http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1142457.html
[08:13] <nonie> tnx ill read hold on/
[08:13] <Techie> dont bother reading
[08:14] <Techie> theres no real helpful answer
[08:14] <nonie> no use huh, the only way is put another vga card.
[08:14] <Techie> do you have another VGA card?
[08:14] <nonie> wat brand can u suggest  nvidia or ati
[08:14] <Techie> depends on your system
[08:14] <Techie> and what you want to do
[08:15] <nonie> i have some old vga cards, i will check to let you know.
[08:15] <Techie> are you looking at AGP or PCIe?
[08:15] <nonie> I think I have the AGP
[08:16] <Techie> dual screen or single display?
[08:17] <nonie> just single. can i install it immediately and disable the online vga.
[08:17] <nonie> will i have any problems booting it up or do I have to reinstall xubuntu again.
[08:17] <Techie> you should be fine
[08:17] <Techie> may i ask if you had a card in mind?
[08:18] <nonie> i think its an nvidia card, just cant remember the model
[08:18] <nonie> i have to get it from my pile of junk.
[08:18] <Techie> hrmm, i havent had any experience with nvidia so far, ive used ATI most of my life and have just recently bought a brand spanking new ATI Radeon HD3650
[08:19] <Techie> haha, pile of junk.... i have one of those too
[08:19] <nonie> wow, pretty awesome.
[08:19] <Techie> payed through the nose for it though
[08:19] <Techie> what currency do you use?
[08:19] <nonie> lol.
[08:19] <Techie> USD?
[08:19] <nonie> US$
[08:20] <Techie> 88.41352 U.S. dollars
[08:20] <nonie> kewl.
[08:20] <nonie> seems 9.10 is awesome..
[08:20] <Techie> compared to if i bought it in PCIe, 51.81852 U.S. dollars
[08:21] <Techie> roughly
[08:21] <nonie> much cheaper .
[08:21] <Techie> not in the long run, coz if i did i would have to buy a new motherboard aswell
[08:21] <nonie> this is the only problem i am facing with ubuntu.
[08:21] <Techie> which would have set me back another 65.87100 U.S. dollars
[08:22] <nonie> lol.btw have you managed to make it work using dual monitors?
[08:22] <Techie> think youself lucky then, many users have decided to completely shove ubuntu due to karmic
[08:22] <Techie> i run a dual head ATI system
[08:22] <Techie> unfortunately i havent recieved my hd3650 yet
[08:23] <Techie> so im still stuck with my Radeon 9600XT
[08:23] <nonie> are the drivers fully supported. wat website can i look for the vga compatibility with ubuntu
[08:23] <Techie> the manufacturers sites give a decent idea if the card is well supported
[08:24] <Techie> however in the case of ATI there is an open source alternative that works with most of the older cards extremely well
[08:24] <Techie> so while the manufacturer may not support unix, the open source community may support that card
[08:24] <nonie> really? i thought ati has been closed source before
[08:25] <Techie> it is
[08:25] <Techie> they make the FGLRX driver, however there is an opensource driver set, that includes the r128 and radeon drivers
[08:25] <Techie> however they lack support with the newer HD cards
[08:26] <nonie> nice. never thought of that. whenever someone ask for a good vga card compatilbe to linus
[08:26] <nonie> its always nvidia
[08:26] <Techie> yeah
[08:26] <Techie> i agree
[08:26] <nonie> ill put that on mind. Great source of info man. Thanks a lot.
[08:27] <Techie> but i am an ATI fan and most likely will always use ATI
[08:27] <nonie> lol/ as long as it works man, I'm in.
[08:27] <Techie> yeah, thats the attitude
[08:27] <nonie> I will let you know guys my video card and install it immediately to my desktop.
[08:28] <Techie> yeah, when you decide give us the model and we can do some research
[08:28] <nonie> the built in card is very crappy. icons and fonts are not proportional...
[08:28] <nonie> yep. your a big help. tnx.
[08:29] <nonie> gotta go for now. its 1230am here in cali.
[08:29] <nonie> how about you ?
[08:29] <Techie> 9:29PM New Zealand
[08:30] <nonie> kewl, ubuntu guru i should say. How long have u been using it?
[08:30] <Techie> not that long actually
[08:31] <nonie> using it personally or office?
[08:31] <Techie> ive been using it properly (more than just doing random stuff) for a bit more than a year
[08:31] <nonie> kewl
[08:31] <Techie> personally, im a game server tech
[08:31] <Techie> unqualified and unemployed
[08:31] <nonie> i am just doing it personally. I setup one in my office but for desktop only
[08:32] <nonie> but sooner or later i will use it as a server. just trying to make it userfriendly and
[08:32] <nonie> appealing to the window lovers.
[08:33] <nonie> you might as well sell units loaded with xubuntu for a good price. always cheaper
[08:33] <nonie> than microsoft man.
[08:34] <nonie> ok man tnx a lot gotta go...past midnight already. ill let you know tomorrow then.
[08:34] <Techie> kk, see you sometime
[08:34] <Techie> i wont be on tommorow afternoon, my brothers wedding
[08:35] <nonie> kewl. ill just standby in the chatroom, maybe someone can still help tech savvy like u
[08:35] <nonie> signing off.
[08:43] <Balsaq> when you look at a cd that you just burned...can you actually see the burn marks?
[08:44] <Techie> serious question?
[08:44] <Balsaq> cause i can't get my xubuntu cd that i burned to do anything
[08:44] <Balsaq> well my puppy disc ican see a halo on it
[08:44] <Techie> in all seriousness if you angle the disc to the light you should see a ring
[08:44] <Balsaq> but cant see anything on the xubuntu
[08:44] <Balsaq> must of messed up my 1st burn
[08:45] <Techie> have you put it into one of your working systems to see if if it actually has anything on it
[08:45] <Balsaq> trying right now to run it in my puppy computer
[08:46] <BeGu> that's why I never tried puppy, wouldn't want to call my laptop a puppy :)
[08:47] <Balsaq> well this one computer is only 400mgz...so i had to kind of limit it
[08:50] <Balsaq> oh well while i am in puppy i amy as well try to reinstall grub so i wont have to keep using the disc to get to sda1
[08:51] <Balsaq> swear i installed grub on this boat anchor?
[08:51] <Techie> im gonna head to bed
[08:51] <Balsaq> ok later
[12:36] <steven__> Someone help me decide as to whether I should be using 64-bit or 32-bit os?
[12:36] <_Pete_> 64bit
[12:36] <_Pete_> if your cpu supports
[12:36] <steven__> Core 2 Duo
[12:37] <steven__> only 3 GB of RAM tho
[12:37] <_Pete_> 64bit is faster on many (calculate related) things
[12:38] <steven__> What about loading most applications?
[12:38] <_Pete_> 32bit apps still works
[12:38] <_Pete_> if there are no 64bit versions
[12:38] <Sysi> flash don't work from repositories
[12:38] <_Pete_> yes it does
[12:38] <Sysi> starting when?
[12:38] <steven__> Yes, but I wonder if they load faster in 32-bit as opposed to 64 or if the difference is negligible
[12:39] <_Pete_> works fine with my 9.04
[12:39] <_Pete_> with firefox
[12:39] <_Pete_> just install flashplugin-nonfree
[12:39] <Sysi> 64bit and restricted extras?
[12:39] <steven__> No flash works with 64-bit regular Ubuntu that I have seen
[12:39] <Sysi> yes, it works
[12:39] <Sysi> but it almost everytime need to be done differently
[12:40] <Sysi> from repos it works badly
[12:40] <_Pete_> ?
[12:40] <Sysi> but that's not any reason to not get 64bit
[12:40] <steven__> I am going to stay with 32-bit
[12:40] <steven__> Seems faster
[12:40] <steven__> even with Core 2 Duo
[12:41] <steven__> I can't live without Adobe flash lol
[12:52] <stevensj> Hi All.  Has anyone used the xserver-xorg-video-openchrome package in Karmic?  I am having problems with the screen resolution on a Packard Bell laptop, and from reading forum posts, this might help.  Will I need to generate an xorg.conf afterwards, or should it just work?
[15:25] <MaxFrames> hello
[15:25] <MaxFrames> I have a problem with synaptic in karmic xubuntu: almost ALL packages that are listed under "Installed" are ALSO listed under "Installed (manual)"
[15:27] <MaxFrames> if I select all the packages (bar the ones which were really manually installed by me) and mark them "automatically installed" (packages menu), they move from "Installed (manual)" to "Installed (autoremovable)"
[15:27] <MaxFrames> and of course if I autoremove the whole system will be uninstalled!
[15:49] <MaxFrames> anybody?
[16:32] <epc> hi. need help with a problem that is preventing me to logon. who could help?
[16:34] <_Pete_> only if you tell what the problem is
[16:34] <epc> hi _Pete_. wh
[16:35] <epc> I just installed a xubuntu in my laptop. after doing the first logon, whenever ai try to logon again I got an authentication failure.
[16:35] <epc> this happens with every account. first logon ok. second got an authentication failure.
[16:36] <epc> the only unusual thing about this notebook is that the battery is dead.
[16:37] <epc> I' just made fresh a install yesterday, and today could not logon anymore. I can logon however if I went in recovery mode, resume to normal boot and the startxfce4.
[16:38] <epc> could this somehow be related with the batter problem?
[16:39] <_Pete_> no idea
[16:40] <epc> what could make gdm fail to authenticate (apart from wrong user/pwd)?
[16:44] <_Pete_> some nasty bug?
[16:44] <_Pete_> using 9.10?
[16:44] <epc> yes.
[16:45] <_Pete_> I was about to upgrade today
[16:45] <_Pete_> but maybe wise not to do so
[16:45] <epc> fresh install. made it yesterday due to this problem.
[16:46] <epc> I'm not sure if its unsafe. I thing the problem is related to battery power, somehow.
[18:47] <synic> what's up with hackerthreads spam all day in here?
[20:27] <Guest3468> Hi All.  My system was crashed by a website, and when I rebooted the Applications, Places and all my panel items had gone.  Does anyone know how I can get them back?
[20:45] <ageeb> Guest3468, maybe this will help?  http://ubuntu-ky.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1309327
[21:29] <Aquina> does anyone know how to use the xfce4-terminal font "monospace" in jEdit? I can't find it and mak it available to jEdit.
[22:44] <m_cubed> My webcam just arrived. Any advice? I've never used a webcam before. Bought one that is "fully supported" per the Linux-UVC page.
[23:24] <m_cubed> Thanks for nothing, peeps. I got it.
[23:25] <Aquina> Again... Does someone know how to switch to the xfce4-terminal font "monospace" using jEdit? I don't know where that font is located. :-(