| Alaric | Hey folks ... got a new xubuntu install on whith autofs5 isn't working. mountpoint is prepared, automount is running, showmount -e [host] returns the correct exports ... anything obvious I'm missing? | 03:39 |
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| === `mOOse` is now known as m00se | ||
| Rocketplumber | I have a question, if anyone can help... | 05:24 |
| Rocketplumber | Just installed xubuntu on a laptop, now trying to get the external display VGA output to work. | 05:24 |
| Rocketplumber | External monitor says "no siganl", remains blank- I guess my laptop isn't putting anything out. | 05:25 |
| Rocketplumber | o how do I persuade it to wake up the VGA port? | 05:25 |
| pleia2 | Rocketplumber: that can be tricky because there are all kinds of ways laptops handle this, but a few suggestions... | 05:26 |
| pleia2 | is there a function keep combination on the laptop to send to an external source? (that's what mine has) | 05:26 |
| pleia2 | might also want to try booting up with vga plugged in, see if it sees it when plugged in from boot | 05:26 |
| pleia2 | s/keep/key | 05:27 |
| Rocketplumber | No function display options other than the default key, and xubuntu doesn't show any display options other thn the default | 05:28 |
| Rocketplumber | whoops, that got garbled | 05:28 |
| Rocketplumber | XB sees only default monitor, no external devices | 05:29 |
| pleia2 | ok, so the laptop doesn't have a key to switch to vga/ | 05:30 |
| pleia2 | ? | 05:30 |
| Rocketplumber | I guess I'll try booting with VGA pluged in- wish me luck :) | 05:30 |
| Rocketplumber | pleia2, no | 05:30 |
| pleia2 | good luck :) | 05:30 |
| pleia2 | huh, unusual | 05:30 |
| Rocketplumber | ah, wait a minute... | 05:30 |
| Rocketplumber | Yes, ther IS a display-thanks pleia | 05:31 |
| pleia2 | woo, work? | 05:31 |
| Rocketplumber | Yep. fn-f5 did it, I never really LOOKED hard at the fn symbols on the kb. | 05:32 |
| pleia2 | great! | 05:32 |
| Rocketplumber | muchas gracias | 05:32 |
| pleia2 | you're welcome :) | 05:32 |
| Rocketplumber | ttfn | 05:32 |
| === thoffmeyer is now known as thoffmeyer|AFK | ||
| patman023 | hey all, any guesses on performance of ubuntu vs xubuntu on a 2000-vintage POS dell? p3 sub 1GHz 256 mb ram? client has 0 money (paying in coffee) and I couldnt salvage windows due to HDD slowly dying | 07:40 |
| moetunes | I would use a lighter distro on thar patman023 like crunchbang | 07:52 |
| moetunes | s/thar/that | 07:53 |
| patman023 | moetunes, would do but client is ubernoob | 08:22 |
| patman023 | ie. first pc, and it used to run win2k | 08:23 |
| moetunes | patman023: the light disros can be user freindly with some setup first | 08:24 |
| patman023 | plus im no whiz myself- only 4 months on any *nix | 08:24 |
| moetunes | k | 08:24 |
| patman023 | still learning commline | 08:24 |
| moetunes | patman023: xubuntu and ubuntu use about the same resources these days | 08:25 |
| moetunes | a minimal install with xfce is still light tho | 08:29 |
| moetunes | !minimal | 08:30 |
| 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 | 08:30 |
| pleia2 | patman023: is there any way you can put slightly more ram in it? I'm running xubuntu (and ubuntu too) on a 700mhz compaq laptop with 384M ram and it runs ok (watching movies on it right now) | 08:30 |
| patman023 | nope zero budget | 08:36 |
| xman | xubuntu v10.04 -- what is the name of the synaptics package do I need to select to get the kernel source files ? | 09:21 |
| noaXess | hello | 10:05 |
| noaXess | what need i to install for a minimal xfce4 system on a server? th package xfce4? | 10:05 |
| noaXess | i don't need any office or what ever packages.. just a X and minimal xfce4 | 10:06 |
| slow-motion | hi | 12:00 |
| Kangarooo | one day in mail i got this link about bug in xubuntu but i dont understand whats there is.. heres link any one understands? http://extats.blogspot.com/2010/03/annoying-error-message-from-startxfce4.html | 15:42 |
| slow-motion | bye | 15:43 |
| noaXess | what need i to install for a minimal xfce4 system on a server? th package xfce4? | 15:47 |
| noaXess | i don't need any office or what ever packages.. just a X and minimal xfce4 | 15:47 |
| likemindead | Right, installing xubuntu-desktop will be everything. | 15:48 |
| noaXess | likemindead: so just package xfce4.. ok.. thanks.. | 15:49 |
| likemindead | Yup. | 15:49 |
| noaXess | what dm will xfce4 default install? gdm? | 15:56 |
| likemindead | Hmm... don't know that it will. | 15:58 |
| likemindead | See if it's in the packages included when you "sudo apt-get install xfce4" ? | 15:58 |
| noaXess | allready installen.. trying a reboot. and check what happends | 16:01 |
| likemindead | Whee! :D | 16:02 |
| likemindead | SLiM is a nice alternative. http://slim.berlios.de/ | 16:03 |
| noaXess | likemindead: so.. i can start it with startx.. that's allwhat i need.. | 16:05 |
| likemindead | Sure. | 16:05 |
| noaXess | in which packages is add-apt-repository? | 16:07 |
| fbxxkl | are there any applications that I could use to see statistics about my computer, comparable to speccy or cpuz for windows? I don't understand a lot of the terminology in terminal yet and something with a GUI would be very helpful | 17:06 |
| moetunes | !info lshw-gtk | 17:13 |
| ubottu | lshw-gtk (source: lshw): graphical information about hardware configuration. In component universe, is optional. Version 02.14-1build1 (lucid), package size 381 kB, installed size 1540 kB | 17:13 |
| fbxxkl | Thanks | 17:15 |
| === thoffmeyer|AFK is now known as thoffmeyer | ||
| Sysi | what do i need to install to get alsamixer show up in xfce4-mixer? | 19:44 |
| likemindead | It's there by default for me. | 19:46 |
| Sysi | seems that my sound has totally broke after last updates | 19:47 |
| pleia2 | Sysi: might need to swap which "sound card" in the dropdown menu you're viewing, also click on "select controls" to make sure it's showing you everything | 19:48 |
| Sysi | there are just pulseaudios with "fake output" | 19:49 |
| Sysi | i try to install more updates and reboot | 19:49 |
| pleia2 | hrm :\ | 19:49 |
| Sysi | (i want my system to work, not be linux pro) | 19:50 |
| TheSheep | one implies the other | 19:53 |
| Sysi | "if you want to (just) use it, you should know how" | 19:54 |
| Sysi | i reinstalled alsa-utils and xfce4-mixer, and sfter reboot it works | 19:58 |
| Sysi | nouveau error came with new kernel "No native mode, forcing panel scaling" | 19:59 |
| Sysi | is that worth fixing/filing bug? | 20:00 |
| leonardo | good afternoon | 21:15 |
| leonardo | can somebody help me with the resolution in a dell c600 is an old model | 21:17 |
| leonardo | i go to the terminal but it runs sudo nano not sudo gedit like ubuntu | 21:17 |
| Psilocybin_Elf | sudo apt-get install gedit | 21:19 |
| Psilocybin_Elf | gedit doesn't come by default in Xubuntu | 21:19 |
| Kangarooo | leonardo: u can use either nano or default in xubuntu mousepad example sudo mousepad /folder/file | 21:20 |
| Kangarooo | leonardo: when u see somewhere written geding change that to mousepad | 21:20 |
| leonardo | im gong to try it i comeback if not thats means that it works | 21:20 |
| leonardo | thanks a lot | 21:21 |
| nicofs | hi! is there a tool to control the cpu speed? | 22:43 |
| Chaiwalla | hello | 23:27 |
| Chaiwalla | for some reason I don't have any sound | 23:27 |
| Chaiwalla | someone please help me :-( | 23:27 |
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