[02:13] <fuyao> how do i get ibus for interpid?
[02:14] <fuyao> and im on interpid because my laptop is old with the ati driver
[02:30] <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
[02:31] <TheDoc> on xubuntu
[02:31] <_Techie_> lspci | grep VGA
[02:33] <TheDoc> thank you
[02:34] <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
[02:58] <CinGR> anyone using virtualbox?
[02:58] <_Techie_> i use it occasionaly
[02:59] <CinGR> perhaps you can help me, i have the puel Vbox and cant get usb to work in it
[03:00] <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?
[03:01] <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
[03:02] <Raggs> yeah, all the devices are greyed out
[03:03] <Raggs> asking in vbox too
[03:08] <Raggs> _Techie_, aggravating
[03:11] <Raggs> hi ron_o
[03:12] <ron_o> ay
[03:12] <Raggs> hows it goin?
[03:12] <ron_o> pretty slow, but even. :)
[03:12] <Raggs> that can be good
[03:19] <Raggs> ron_o, know vbox well?
[03:22] <ron_o> Raggs, no..
[03:22] <ron_o> I use it only on occasion.
[03:23] <ron_o> what you trying to do?
[03:23] <Raggs> get usb to work
[03:27] <ron_o> Raggs, you can't, Unless you pay.
[03:28] <ron_o> USB doesn't work on the free version.
[03:28] <ron_o> Try KVM/QEMU..
[03:29] <Raggs> ron_o, it is supposed to work in the PUEL version
[03:29] <ron_o> PUEL?
[03:30] <Raggs> yeah, not the ose version
[03:31] <ron_o> You paid?
[03:31] <ron_o> I don't know what PUEL is.
[03:31] <Raggs> it is a private eval version,
[03:32] <Raggs> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox_PUEL
[03:32] <ron_o> ahh. then I don't know. There's #vbox to go to.
[03:33] <Raggs> and i am there as well
[04:03] <Raggs> ron_o, reinstall and it all works
[04:03] <ron_o> good for you.
[04:03] <Raggs> i am surprised
[04:04] <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.
[04:05] <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.
[04:06] <Raggs> ron_o, they are nuts
[04:07] <ron_o> and for Windows? it's made to almost plug and play.
[04:08] <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.
[04:09] <Raggs> ron_o, i suspect i could as well, if this werent a laptop
[04:13] <ron_o> using vbox on a laptop. Why?
[04:13] <Raggs> need Xp for school
[04:14] <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.
[04:15] <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.
[04:16] <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.
[04:29] <_Techie_> ron_o, you will find that firefox comes a RAM whore due to flash, its extremely bulky and not very well done
[07:08] <MrNaz> so i have to buy a macbook 15". how well is the hardware in the macbooks supported by ubuntu? still patchy?
[07:36] <Sysi> !macbook | MrNaz
[07:36] <Sysi> MrNaz: also HW information there
[07:36] <MrNaz> nice
[07:36] <MrNaz> thanks
[07:37] <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
[07:38] <Sysi> also cheap by specs (laptops)
[07:38] <Sysi> in here finland at least
[07:38] <Sysi> g2g →
[07:41] <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*
[07:42] <MrNaz> alone*
[07:58] <_Techie_> MrNaz, you do realise... you just compared mac to dell... offcourse mac is gonna look good when put up against dell machines
[08:51] <Sysi> battery life is expensive
[16:45] <bjorkintosh> so i installed xubuntu by copying everything onto my existing broken installation.
[16:46] <bjorkintosh> yet  some things remain broken.
[16:46] <bjorkintosh> is there a repair option?
[16:47] <bjorkintosh> a direct install would have hosed the existing system so i didn't use it.
[16:52] <bazhang> bjorkintosh, separate home partition?
[16:53] <bjorkintosh> heheh. of course not :)
[16:54] <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
[16:55] <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.
[16:56] <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...
[16:57] <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'.
[16:58] <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?
[16:59] <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
[17:00] <bjorkintosh> eg: the sound which was working just fine, is now b0rked.
[17:01] <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.
[17:02] <bjorkintosh> X, ie.
[17:02] <bjorkintosh> it seemed to just hang.
[17:16] <williamX> hello everybody
[17:57] <kunsole> hi. I'm looking to buy a netbook.. best candidates I've found are the Asus Eee PC Seashell and Samsung N210..
[17:58] <kunsole> I was wondering if either one of these is more or lesscompatible with Xubuntu ?
[18:31] <fuyao> how do i set autostart application on 8.10
[18:32] <Sysi> (8.10 isn't supported very long anymore)
[18:32] <Sysi> settings → sesions and startup should have something
[18:33] <bazhang> its already end of life
[18:33] <bazhang> !8.10
[18:36] <fuyao> damn
[18:36] <fuyao> but my laptop can only have 8.10
[18:36] <fuyao> or the 3D accelaration would not work
[18:37] <fuyao> i checked session and startup, there is no anything about setting up autostart
[18:44] <slow-motion> hi
[19:35] <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
[19:36] <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
[19:45] <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
[19:46] <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
[19:47] <andy_> yeah, just found that way, thanksssssss
[19:47] <slow-motion> re
[20:36] <sean-laptop> hello all.. anyone here familiar with running xubunt on thinkpads
[20:37] <sean-laptop> cause i am trying to get my darn battery meter to show up but the xfce plugin just stays at 50%
[20:40] <mr_pouit> use xfce4-power-manager and not xfce4-battery-plugin
[20:41] <sean-laptop> ok
[20:41] <sean-laptop> wont show it
[20:42] <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)
[20:43] <Sysi> see settings
[20:43] <Sysi> or well, it should show in any case
[20:43] <sean-laptop> sorry i meant >settings>power management
[22:16] <slow-motion> n8