| === bazhang_ is now known as bazhang | ||
| fuyao | how do i get ibus for interpid? | 02:13 |
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| fuyao | and im on interpid because my laptop is old with the ati driver | 02:14 |
| TheDoc | hi there is there a command i can use find out what graphics card i have i know its nvidia but not sure as just tried doing 1 install and had to start again | 02:30 |
| TheDoc | on xubuntu | 02:31 |
| _Techie_ | lspci | grep VGA | 02:31 |
| TheDoc | thank you | 02:33 |
| TheDoc | well i got option of 3 i chose newest one seems it never worked with this card 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2) it restarted then never loaded sorry being a pain in the butt | 02:34 |
| === thoffmeyer|AFK is now known as thoffmeyer | ||
| === thoffmeyer is now known as thoffmeyer|AFK | ||
| === thoffmeyer|AFK is now known as thoffmeyer | ||
| === Raggs is now known as CinGR | ||
| CinGR | anyone using virtualbox? | 02:58 |
| _Techie_ | i use it occasionaly | 02:58 |
| CinGR | perhaps you can help me, i have the puel Vbox and cant get usb to work in it | 02:59 |
| === CinGR is now known as Raggs | ||
| Raggs | i am fairly sure that the permissions are right | 03:00 |
| _Techie_ | did you install it from the repositories | 03:00 |
| Raggs | no | 03:00 |
| _Techie_ | and its not OSE? | 03:00 |
| Raggs | yes, PUEL | 03:01 |
| Raggs | oh, and guest additions is installed | 03:01 |
| _Techie_ | hrmm, im not entirely sure whats happening, but just incase you didnt know.. theres a USB menu on the bottom of the virtual display window | 03:01 |
| Raggs | yeah, all the devices are greyed out | 03:02 |
| Raggs | asking in vbox too | 03:03 |
| Raggs | _Techie_, aggravating | 03:08 |
| Raggs | hi ron_o | 03:11 |
| ron_o | ay | 03:12 |
| Raggs | hows it goin? | 03:12 |
| ron_o | pretty slow, but even. :) | 03:12 |
| Raggs | that can be good | 03:12 |
| Raggs | ron_o, know vbox well? | 03:19 |
| ron_o | Raggs, no.. | 03:22 |
| ron_o | I use it only on occasion. | 03:22 |
| ron_o | what you trying to do? | 03:23 |
| Raggs | get usb to work | 03:23 |
| ron_o | Raggs, you can't, Unless you pay. | 03:27 |
| ron_o | USB doesn't work on the free version. | 03:28 |
| ron_o | Try KVM/QEMU.. | 03:28 |
| Raggs | ron_o, it is supposed to work in the PUEL version | 03:29 |
| ron_o | PUEL? | 03:29 |
| Raggs | yeah, not the ose version | 03:30 |
| ron_o | You paid? | 03:31 |
| ron_o | I don't know what PUEL is. | 03:31 |
| Raggs | it is a private eval version, | 03:31 |
| Raggs | http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox_PUEL | 03:32 |
| ron_o | ahh. then I don't know. There's #vbox to go to. | 03:32 |
| Raggs | and i am there as well | 03:33 |
| Raggs | ron_o, reinstall and it all works | 04:03 |
| ron_o | good for you. | 04:03 |
| Raggs | i am surprised | 04:03 |
| ron_o | yah? | 04:04 |
| Raggs | i am not an optimistic person i suppose | 04:04 |
| ron_o | with computers, I don't blame you. | 04:04 |
| ron_o | who needs to study for weeks to solve one problem. | 04:05 |
| ron_o | but computers are DIY. | 04:05 |
| ron_o | I can't believe GeekSquads prices for things. Like $300 to install some video card. | 04:05 |
| Raggs | ron_o, they are nuts | 04:06 |
| ron_o | and for Windows? it's made to almost plug and play. | 04:07 |
| Raggs | ron_o, i agree, ubuntu is improving as well | 04:08 |
| ron_o | it still has a long way to go, but right now it's stable as can be. I can go months without restarting anything. | 04:08 |
| Raggs | ron_o, i suspect i could as well, if this werent a laptop | 04:09 |
| ron_o | using vbox on a laptop. Why? | 04:13 |
| Raggs | need Xp for school | 04:13 |
| Raggs | also need linux | 04:14 |
| ron_o | I can't wait for the day when computers are powerful enough you can have 3 OSs running at once without any slowdowns. | 04:14 |
| ron_o | yah, I see. | 04:14 |
| ron_o | even with my Core2Duo overclocked and 3GB RAM things get slow while running VBox. | 04:14 |
| Raggs | linux doesnt need much ramm and XP isnt terrible either | 04:15 |
| Raggs | i have XP set with 1 G | 04:15 |
| ron_o | well, linux doesn't but my web browsers seem to need a ton of RAM. | 04:15 |
| Raggs | that is true | 04:15 |
| ron_o | memory leaks galore. | 04:15 |
| Raggs | firefox? | 04:16 |
| ron_o | But I just upgraded Opera to 10.6.. so we'll see. | 04:16 |
| ron_o | I have muliple.. Opera and then Firefox too... mostly firefox for Flash and Javascript. | 04:16 |
| _Techie_ | ron_o, you will find that firefox comes a RAM whore due to flash, its extremely bulky and not very well done | 04:29 |
| === Raggs is now known as Newbie_Tux | ||
| === __Techie__ is now known as _Techie_ | ||
| MrNaz | so i have to buy a macbook 15". how well is the hardware in the macbooks supported by ubuntu? still patchy? | 07:08 |
| Sysi | !macbook | MrNaz | 07:36 |
| ubottu | MrNaz: Dual boot instructions: x86/AMD64: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBootHowTo - MACs: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro https://help.ubuntu.com/community/YabootConfigurationForMacintoshPowerPCsDualBoot | 07:36 |
| Sysi | MrNaz: also HW information there | 07:36 |
| MrNaz | nice | 07:36 |
| MrNaz | thanks | 07:36 |
| MrNaz | i feel ashamed even considering an apple product | 07:37 |
| MrNaz | dirty | 07:37 |
| MrNaz | polluted | 07:37 |
| MrNaz | why wont the smell get off my hands | 07:37 |
| Sysi | they have nice hardware | 07:37 |
| Sysi | i just don't like osx | 07:37 |
| MrNaz | they have nice *looking* hardware | 07:37 |
| Sysi | also cheap by specs (laptops) | 07:38 |
| Sysi | in here finland at least | 07:38 |
| Sysi | g2g → | 07:38 |
| MrNaz | eh? macbooks are cheap on the specs? | 07:41 |
| MrNaz | here in aus they are a 20%+ premium on the hardware along compared to dell | 07:41 |
| MrNaz | alonge* | 07:41 |
| MrNaz | alone* | 07:42 |
| _Techie_ | MrNaz, you do realise... you just compared mac to dell... offcourse mac is gonna look good when put up against dell machines | 07:58 |
| Sysi | battery life is expensive | 08:51 |
| bjorkintosh | so i installed xubuntu by copying everything onto my existing broken installation. | 16:45 |
| bjorkintosh | yet some things remain broken. | 16:46 |
| bjorkintosh | is there a repair option? | 16:46 |
| bjorkintosh | a direct install would have hosed the existing system so i didn't use it. | 16:47 |
| bazhang | bjorkintosh, separate home partition? | 16:52 |
| bjorkintosh | heheh. of course not :) | 16:53 |
| bazhang | bjorkintosh, back-ups? | 16:54 |
| bjorkintosh | the machine in question isn't connected to the intertubes, so i have to handle it very delicately. | 16:54 |
| bjorkintosh | not enough harddisks for that :( | 16:54 |
| bazhang | bjorkintosh, by copy you mean cp? dd? not clear what exactly your methodology was here | 16:54 |
| bjorkintosh | i used cp. | 16:55 |
| bazhang | no arguments? | 16:55 |
| bjorkintosh | my previous installation wasn't working at all. | 16:55 |
| bjorkintosh | so i cp-ed everything to get it working. and it sort-of does. | 16:55 |
| bazhang | wonder if you missed the hidden (.) files | 16:55 |
| bjorkintosh | except, tweaking anything causes it to fail. | 16:55 |
| bjorkintosh | no. i used cp -rR | 16:56 |
| bazhang | are you able to make back-ups of any of it at this point? | 16:56 |
| bjorkintosh | nah. it's a rather old machine with fairly limited space. | 16:56 |
| bjorkintosh | i haven't upgraded any of my hardware in eons... | 16:56 |
| bjorkintosh | the data in /home is safe. | 16:57 |
| bazhang | any specific error messages you could pastebin? | 16:57 |
| bjorkintosh | however, since the machine is no longer connectable to the intertubes (without some hardware upgrades), i'm reluctant to mess with a fresh install. | 16:57 |
| bjorkintosh | no errors. it's just 'not quite right'. | 16:57 |
| bjorkintosh | a fresh install would work best, but i'm afraid to. | 16:58 |
| bazhang | bjorkintosh, absent error messages, not sure how to troubleshoot/advise | 16:58 |
| bjorkintosh | yeah. is there no repair disk for xubuntu? | 16:58 |
| bjorkintosh | or a repair mode? | 16:58 |
| bjorkintosh | i think it's just some errors in /var and /etc | 16:59 |
| bazhang | recovery mode? from the grub menu? | 16:59 |
| bjorkintosh | hmm. the install CD doesn't show such a thing. | 16:59 |
| sambaDwol | hello everybody | 16:59 |
| bjorkintosh | eg: the sound which was working just fine, is now b0rked. | 17:00 |
| bjorkintosh | things like that. | 17:01 |
| bjorkintosh | and gdm is back, even though i want nothing to do with it. | 17:01 |
| bjorkintosh | removing it from /init caused the system to hang. | 17:01 |
| bjorkintosh | err. /etc/init | 17:01 |
| bjorkintosh | after a reboot, it wouldn't work. | 17:01 |
| bjorkintosh | X, ie. | 17:02 |
| bjorkintosh | it seemed to just hang. | 17:02 |
| williamX | hello everybody | 17:16 |
| kunsole | hi. I'm looking to buy a netbook.. best candidates I've found are the Asus Eee PC Seashell and Samsung N210.. | 17:57 |
| kunsole | I was wondering if either one of these is more or lesscompatible with Xubuntu ? | 17:58 |
| fuyao | how do i set autostart application on 8.10 | 18:31 |
| Sysi | (8.10 isn't supported very long anymore) | 18:32 |
| Sysi | settings → sesions and startup should have something | 18:32 |
| bazhang | its already end of life | 18:33 |
| bazhang | !8.10 | 18:33 |
| ubottu | Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) was the ninth release of Ubuntu. End Of Life: April 30th, 2010. See !eol and !upgrade for more details. | 18:33 |
| fuyao | damn | 18:36 |
| fuyao | but my laptop can only have 8.10 | 18:36 |
| fuyao | or the 3D accelaration would not work | 18:36 |
| fuyao | i checked session and startup, there is no anything about setting up autostart | 18:37 |
| slow-motion | hi | 18:44 |
| andy_ | ok, so ive done some searching arround the web but nothing seems to work or make sensee. I need to modify a shortcut from the applications menu, but i can seem to understand how to modify the xfce-applications.menu file correctly | 19:35 |
| andy_ | but just cant get to edit it. I just need for an aplication to be run as root, or atleast for it to ask for root password | 19:36 |
| andy_ | how can i do this? | 19:36 |
| andy_ | btw, im using 10.4 | 19:36 |
| TheSheep | andy_: you can do it by using gksu in front of the command | 19:45 |
| andy_ | yup, but where do i edit the command line, its definetly not in xfce-applications.menu file | 19:45 |
| andy_ | but i thnk i know now what to do thanks | 19:46 |
| TheSheep | andy_: the applications menu is build from files in /usr/share/applications and ~/.local/share/applications, if you want to modify any of them, just copy it from the first directory to the second and edit -- they are normal text files | 19:46 |
| andy_ | yeah, just found that way, thanksssssss | 19:47 |
| slow-motion | re | 19:47 |
| sean-laptop | hello all.. anyone here familiar with running xubunt on thinkpads | 20:36 |
| sean-laptop | cause i am trying to get my darn battery meter to show up but the xfce plugin just stays at 50% | 20:37 |
| mr_pouit | use xfce4-power-manager and not xfce4-battery-plugin | 20:40 |
| sean-laptop | ok | 20:41 |
| sean-laptop | wont show it | 20:41 |
| sean-laptop | i went to >applications >accessories >powermanagement | 20:42 |
| sean-laptop | and it will only show an icon when i plug it in | 20:42 |
| sean-laptop | i read that thinkpads are problematic | 20:42 |
| sean-laptop | well older ones like mine (T20 series.. 8 years old) | 20:42 |
| Sysi | see settings | 20:43 |
| Sysi | or well, it should show in any case | 20:43 |
| sean-laptop | sorry i meant >settings>power management | 20:43 |
| slow-motion | n8 | 22:16 |
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