| bobo123 | no worry, I will try the ppa:ferramroberto/vlc repository mentioned at http://www.webupd8.org/2010/08/install-vlc-114-in-ubuntu-via-new-ppa.html | 00:16 |
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| yax51 | anyone know how to get a mic working? | 01:10 |
| AndrewMC | yax51: go to System> Sound> Input and select anything there until you see the level meter move when you talk into it | 01:12 |
| yax51 | ok | 01:13 |
| yax51 | nothing.... | 01:14 |
| seidos | yax51, you might try recording in audacity. but, i don't know, i haven't got recording to work either. but, i don't really have a mic except the built in mic on my notebook | 01:18 |
| yax51 | well I'm trying to run skype, but I can't get the internal mic working either... | 01:20 |
| seidos | yax51, i'm not really sure how the internal mics work. i assume (er, probably mistakenly) that it is just wired to an input into the sound chip. what sound chip do you have? | 01:26 |
| yax51 | realtek HD auido | 01:27 |
| yax51 | audio | 01:27 |
| seidos | yax51, i would point out that when i used audacity i am given like 4 options to select what mic input to use | 01:28 |
| seidos | is that the HD Intel driver? | 01:28 |
| seidos | i think we use the same driver | 01:28 |
| yax51 | I think so | 01:29 |
| seidos | in my lshw it says 82801H HD Audio controller, driver = HD Intel | 01:31 |
| yax51 | how do I check and see if my comp is even detecting a mic? | 01:31 |
| seidos | yax51, well, try audacity, then see what you get. i think a mic just works by plugging into an input. unless the built in mic is a usb mic O_o. i don't know, i am speculating. | 01:32 |
| johnny77 | hello. are the people that helped me this afternoon still here? | 02:18 |
| dave_ | i am new to ubuntu. can anyone help with an error when i try to install macbuntu? | 02:29 |
| dave_ | it says i must have root priviliges to be able to install | 02:29 |
| AbhiJit | hi | 04:47 |
| AndrewMC | !hi | AbhiJit | 04:47 |
| ubot2 | Factoid 'hi' not found | 04:47 |
| AbhiJit | AndrewMC, :D | 04:47 |
| AndrewMC | uhh | 04:47 |
| AndrewMC | odd that factoid isnt there | 04:48 |
| AbhiJit | removed! | 04:48 |
| AndrewMC | ya i just learned that | 04:51 |
| Mohan_chml | lol AndrewMC | 04:53 |
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| schmavis | my monitor goes to standby after booting. help. | 05:57 |
| AndrewMC | schmavis: please explain your issue more clearly so peole may be able to provide support | 05:59 |
| mR0 | What app I need to be installed to get VOIP in my comp? | 06:01 |
| AbhiJit | skype | 06:01 |
| mR0 | AbhiJit: as I knew, skype is only for skype registered member. I mean, I wanna app look like YM or Gtalk? is there any? | 06:03 |
| AbhiJit | mR0, you can use gmail itself to call anywhere in world | 06:04 |
| AbhiJit | us to us is free in gmail | 06:04 |
| mR0 | Ok, I'll try... Thnks for ur info...:) | 06:04 |
| b_ | I just installed Pinguy OS 10.04.1.2. Immediately after booting, my monitor goes into standby. | 06:05 |
| b_ | I updated the video card drivers using the live cd, but it did not help. | 06:06 |
| mR0 | I've searched on http://www.google.com/talk/otherclients.html, but there is no linux client | 06:07 |
| Mohan_chml | b_: you sure that your CPU is running? | 06:07 |
| Mohan_chml | when the monitor is in stand-by ? | 06:08 |
| b_ | Yes, I can hear the start up sound | 06:08 |
| mR0 | Mohan_chml: mb the screen resolution | 06:08 |
| Mohan_chml | mR0: yeah may be | 06:09 |
| Mohan_chml | b_: you are using Dual boot? | 06:09 |
| b_ | ya | 06:09 |
| b_ | with windows 7 | 06:10 |
| Mohan_chml | can you see the boot screen? | 06:10 |
| b_ | yes. the monitor goes standby after selecting ubuntu in grub | 06:11 |
| Mohan_chml | get into recovery mode and look for re configuring x-server | 06:12 |
| Mohan_chml | sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg that will do I think | 06:12 |
| b_ | monitor went into standby in recovery mode | 06:18 |
| Mohan_chml | pedro3005: help b_ in edot xorg screen resolution in Live CD. I will brb | 06:19 |
| Mohan_chml | breakfast | 06:19 |
| Mohan_chml | edit* | 06:19 |
| earthling_ | Evince no longer opens PDFs, it says opening for a few seconds and then nothing, how to fix? | 07:48 |
| earthling_ | now its working, there was an update that needed installing, apparently | 08:06 |
| AbhiJit | :) | 08:07 |
| earthling_ | speaking of updates, will installing all the "recommended updates" slow down my computer? | 08:08 |
| earthling_ | I'm trying to install just the stuff I really need | 08:08 |
| hobgoblin | earthling_: I've never had a recommended update slow my computer down | 08:13 |
| earthling_ | hobgoblin, ok | 08:15 |
| earthling_ | and what about installing programs from synaptic? | 08:19 |
| earthling_ | there's an amazing amount of programs available :) | 08:20 |
| earthling_ | I'm trying to preserve the nice speed of things I have now | 08:20 |
| hobgoblin | well I'd not install all of what is available ... | 08:32 |
| hobgoblin | earthling_: to be honest I'm not really sure what you mean by slowing down if you install something | 08:37 |
| earthling_ | from my experience on a certain other operating system :) | 08:38 |
| earthling_ | its nice and quick after a fresh install then over time, it becomes slow as molasses | 08:39 |
| hobgoblin | oic - well about the only thing you 'might' find is installing a kde app in gnome or a gnome app in kde etc | 08:40 |
| hobgoblin | I'd not worry too much - linux is not windows | 08:40 |
| earthling_ | I'm using gnome, but I'd like to try kde and xfce | 08:41 |
| hobgoblin | and you can say the name here - we don't bite :) | 08:41 |
| earthling_ | hehe ok | 08:41 |
| hobgoblin | earthling_: then I suggest looking at http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/index.php - left pane at the bottom(ish) Playing around | 08:41 |
| earthling_ | thx | 08:42 |
| hobgoblin | I've done it - it WILL mean you get a massive menu as each app will be duplicated | 08:42 |
| hobgoblin | depending on your system - RAM mostly - you might find it more beneficial to install each in a virtrual machine | 08:43 |
| earthling_ | ok, I'll look into that | 08:44 |
| earthling_ | thx,bbl | 08:45 |
| mxe5 | What would be the best app to use to clone my hard drive to make a backup to another hard drive - running gnome 10.4 ? ? | 10:55 |
| hobgoblin | mxe5: try clonezilla http://www.clonezilla.org/ also see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DriveImaging | 11:10 |
| LeAstrale | Piskie!? | 11:11 |
| LeAstrale | hobgoblin, Long time no see :) How are you? | 11:11 |
| hobgoblin | VIKINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG | 11:13 |
| hobgoblin | how's things LeAstrale | 11:13 |
| LeAstrale | <3 | 11:13 |
| LeAstrale | Well things are good :) Join the team channel for some chatting? | 11:14 |
| hobgoblin | lol - don't go there much - only just rejoined the team :) | 11:14 |
| LeAstrale | Well :) If I guess correctly we aren't supposed to chat regular in here :) | 11:14 |
| hobgoblin | this is the help channel - not like it used to be | 11:15 |
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| Fanshawe | Evolution doesn't notify me of alarms. Can anyone tell me how I fix this? | 14:03 |
| Fanshawe | I guess we're dead today, but I had another question, also. How do I start a program with high priority? | 14:21 |
| phillw | !nice | Fanshawe | 14:29 |
| ubot2 | Fanshawe: 'Nice' is a property of a process that determines how willing it is to give CPU time to other processes. A higher value makes it more likely to give away time. A negative value makes it less likely. Values are from -19 to 19, with 0 being the default. For more information, type 'man nice' at a terminal. | 14:29 |
| phillw | is that what you mean? | 14:30 |
| Fanshawe | Yeah. I'd like to start a specific process with a lower nice value (higher priority). | 14:30 |
| Fanshawe | My media player stutters, so I figure that might help. | 14:30 |
| hobgoblin | likely to be nothing to do with it at all I would have thought | 14:32 |
| Fanshawe | Then what would help? | 14:33 |
| hobgoblin | what player is it? have you installed all the codecs? what sort of media is it? does it do it all the time? | 14:34 |
| Fanshawe | I use VLC. Codecs are good as far as I know. They're mp3 files, and the player always stutters for a few seconds at the beginning of each song. A bit of a frustration. | 14:35 |
| phillw | Fanshawe: I don't know which media player you're using, but http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=883660 will give you a bit of information that should apply to them all. | 14:36 |
| phillw | ahh, vlc - yeah, it's quite good. if you're struggling with cpu time, you may want to give deadbeef a try; it is less resource hungry for playing mp3s | 14:37 |
| hobgoblin | vlc includes codecs as far as I know - so if you played 2 mp3's there'd be a stutter followed by normal then stutter again ? | 14:37 |
| Fanshawe | Yeah, it's at the start of each track. I've turned off all album art/tag downloading. | 14:38 |
| hobgoblin | is it only vlc that gives the issue? | 14:39 |
| Fanshawe | I'll look into deadbeef, but I do like vlc. I believe it's only vlc doing this, although I can't remember the last media player I had before that. | 14:40 |
| hobgoblin | lol - I can't remember the last time I used vlc :) | 14:40 |
| Fanshawe | I'm open to recommendations for other players, but I'd like to try and get this working first | 14:42 |
| hobgoblin | what does top say when vlc is running? I'd start there - but maybe it is resources. | 14:43 |
| hobgoblin | which is all getting away from your original query which I've noidea about - never needed to renice something | 14:43 |
| mR0 | Hi all: what app I need to install to get gmail & yahoo on my comp for VOIP? | 14:56 |
| shredder12 | mR0, do you mean audio calling feature of gmail chat? | 15:06 |
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| shredder12 | hi Mohan_chml | 15:07 |
| mR0 | shredder12: yes gmail & yahoo | 15:07 |
| Mohan_chml | Heya shredder12 | 15:07 |
| shredder12 | mR0, you can try either empathy or Pidgin IM client. I don't use VoIP often but I guess they work fine. Empathy is the default messaging client in Lucid btw | 15:08 |
| mR0 | thanks shredder12, I'll try | 15:09 |
| shredder12 | mR0, :) | 15:09 |
| mR0 | shredder12: how to enabling voice call on empathy? | 15:18 |
| Fanshawe | Just checking back in to say I fixed the VLC stuttering problem. | 15:20 |
| Fanshawe | It was purely a software problem. Audio output module needs to be changed from autodetect to ALSA. | 15:21 |
| Fanshawe | thanks for the help all | 15:21 |
| shredder12 | mR0, once you have enabled the account, right click on any icon on the buddy list. You should see the option for audio/video call | 15:21 |
| mR0 | shredder12: yes it is, but audio & video calls is unable. What it tells about? | 15:24 |
| shredder12 | mR0, i haven't use audio calling for a while, let me try it out | 15:25 |
| mR0 | oke shredder12 | 15:26 |
| shredder12 | mR0, it works fine on my system. I initiated an audio call, my friend accepted it and it worked fine | 15:28 |
| mR0 | shredder12: or mb my friends doesn't use video & audio calls. Is that posible? | 15:30 |
| shredder12 | mR0, may be, I am not sure. If they have accepted the call, you should the the time counter at the left bottom of the window. | 15:31 |
| mR0 | yes i think so... they doesn't use it I guess | 15:33 |
| shredder12 | i guess so | 15:34 |
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| johnny77 | I created a ubuntu netbook usb drive, but for some reason I can't get it to boot off of it. I tried changing my boot order, putting my HDD last, but it still won't boot. any ideas? | 17:36 |
| Mohan_chml | johnny77: is it 10.10?? | 17:36 |
| johnny77 | no, I think the version is 10.04 | 17:37 |
| hobgoblin | what happens exactly - easier for you to tell us than for us to guess ;) | 17:38 |
| johnny77 | I shut down windows. insert my SD card where I installed the Ubuntu netbook usb files. then when I power back on, it boots directly to windows. | 17:39 |
| Mohan_chml | Heya hobgoblin (: | 17:40 |
| hobgoblin | johnny77: I'd guess that you have no bootloader installed | 17:40 |
| hobgoblin | hi Mohan_chml | 17:40 |
| johnny77 | I thought that is what I was doing when I put the ubuntu on the USb drive. | 17:41 |
| Mohan_chml | johnny77: try pressing f12 at startup to get boot options listed. | 17:41 |
| johnny77 | When I do that it gives me too options: Network or my hard drive. | 17:41 |
| johnny77 | But in my bios it has 6 boot options: IDE1, IDE0, USB FDD, USB HDD, USB CD Rom, Network. | 17:42 |
| Mohan_chml | hobgoblin: I have no clue as I never tried with an SD card | 17:43 |
| johnny77 | when I use the Universal USB installer on the ISO it should create a bootable USB drive, right? | 17:44 |
| hobgoblin | me neither - but that I think is a red herring | 17:44 |
| hobgoblin | johnny77: have you actually installed it yet? did the bootable usb run | 17:45 |
| johnny77 | I created the bootable USB drive, but can't get it to boot it. | 17:46 |
| hobgoblin | oh ok - I understand | 17:48 |
| hobgoblin | did you use unetbootin? | 17:48 |
| johnny77 | no, what is that? | 17:48 |
| hobgoblin | how did you create the bootable usb thing then? | 17:50 |
| hobgoblin | johnny77: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ | 17:51 |
| johnny77 | on the download instructions on the Ubuntu website give me a link to a "Universal USB Installer" I used that. | 17:51 |
| * hobgoblin goes to look | 17:53 | |
| * Mohan_chml follows hobgoblin | 17:54 | |
| hobgoblin | johnny77: ok - looks similar to unetbootin - I can only go by the graphics, never having needed to use a usb | 17:55 |
| hobgoblin | johnny77: can you put the usb into a windows machine and see what files there are on it? | 17:56 |
| johnny77 | yes, windows see the USB drive. | 17:57 |
| johnny77 | I'm now using unetbootin to create the bootable USB drive. Then I try it... | 17:57 |
| johnny77 | I also created a CD with Ubuntu netbook I can see if I can boot from. If all else fails. | 17:58 |
| hobgoblin | whay did you want to use a usb to do it with if you have a cd? | 17:59 |
| johnny77 | Well, I have a netbook so there are no CD drives. I'm using a USB CD and thought that if the USB drives wouldn't boot the CD may not... Also I was creating it as we were talking. | 18:00 |
| hobgoblin | :) | 18:00 |
| johnny77 | hope I'm not causing headaches :) | 18:01 |
| hobgoblin | not anymore than normal :) | 18:01 |
| johnny77 | Got the USB Drive created using unetbootin. Going to reboot, if not work try CD... See you guys again, hopefully from Ubuntu. | 18:01 |
| hobgoblin | hang on - open the thing up | 18:02 |
| johnny77 | open the usb drive? | 18:02 |
| hobgoblin | have a look and see what files are on the thing before you try and reboot | 18:02 |
| hobgoblin | yes | 18:02 |
| hobgoblin | open it in whatever filemanager you have | 18:02 |
| johnny77 | it has files on it... they look the same as the other one... | 18:03 |
| hobgoblin | does it look sort of like http://i.imgur.com/xA5Vz.png | 18:03 |
| johnny77 | yup. | 18:04 |
| hobgoblin | have a go then I guess | 18:05 |
| johnny77 | ok, thanks | 18:05 |
| hobgoblin | someone else had best help if it fails - I have no idea with usb boots | 18:06 |
| Silver_Fox_ | Hello. | 18:08 |
| Mohan_chml | Hello Silver_Fox_ =] | 18:09 |
| Silver_Fox_ | Hello Mohan_chml , how are you ? | 18:09 |
| AbhiJit | hey Silver_Fox_ :) | 18:09 |
| hobgoblin | Silver_Fox_: o/ | 18:09 |
| Mohan_chml | Silver_Fox_: doing good and how about you? | 18:09 |
| Silver_Fox_ | Hello AbhiJit . How are you ? | 18:10 |
| AbhiJit | Silver_Fox_, sleeping! | 18:10 |
| Silver_Fox_ | I am fine thank you Mohan_chml , just recovering after a squash match | 18:10 |
| AbhiJit | i mean going to sleep!!!! feeling sleepy! | 18:10 |
| Mohan_chml | Ah!!! | 18:10 |
| AbhiJit | :) | 18:10 |
| Mohan_chml | lol AbhiJit :P | 18:10 |
| AbhiJit | Mohan_chml, :D | 18:10 |
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| harrsonk | Does anyone here know where I can get the old screensaver of an engine? | 20:51 |
| harrsonk | the devs took it out in ubuntu 9.10 | 20:51 |
| harrsonk | hello? | 21:02 |
| AndrewMC | !patience | harrsonk | 21:04 |
| ubot2 | harrsonk: Don't feel ignored and repeat your question quickly; if nobody knows your answer, nobody will answer you. While you wait, try searching https://help.ubuntu.com or http://ubuntuforums.org or http://ubuntu.stackexchange.com | 21:04 |
| stlsaint | harrsonk: honestly the only way i would be able to help you is via google so i would only suggest you head there | 21:41 |
| johnny77 | I need some major help... i tried to install dual boot ubuntu with windows and it screwed up. | 21:58 |
| johnny77 | now i can't get windows or ubuntu... it boots up and says "grub>" in a black dos-like screen | 21:59 |
| johnny77 | I tried to install Ubuntu netbook on a SD card, but while the instalation saw the SD card, the bootloader can not find it. | 22:03 |
| johnny77 | I thought if I could rewrite the bootloader by reinstalling Ubuntu, but installing it on the HD with windows, but it did not give me the option any more. | 22:08 |
| johnny77 | It showed that I had two OS already, one being only 5gb the other is where my windows is installed. I'm thinking that the 5gb is a swap partition. Since I'm dead in the water, any advice would be greating appreciated. | 22:10 |
| johnny77 | be back on it a few minutes.. | 22:14 |
| johnny77 | I'm up and around, but leaving chat open and checking on it. If you have any suggestion just let me know. And I'll see them the next time I check. Thank you. | 22:25 |
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| johnny77 | I need some major help... i tried to install dual boot ubuntu with windows and it screwed up. | 23:01 |
| johnny77 | now i can't get windows or ubuntu... it boots up and says "grub>" in a black dos-like screen | 23:01 |
| johnny77 | I tried to install Ubuntu netbook on a SD card, but while the instalation saw the SD card, the bootloader can not find it. | 23:01 |
| johnny77 | I thought if I could rewrite the bootloader by reinstalling Ubuntu, but installing it on the HD with windows, but it did not give me the option any more. | 23:01 |
| johnny77 | It showed that I had two OS already, one being only 5gb the other is where my windows is installed. I'm thinking that the 5gb is a swap partition. Since I'm dead in the water, any advice would be greating appreciated. | 23:01 |
| johnny77 | can anyone help me with a messed up dual boot? | 23:31 |
| johnny77 | tried to install a dual boot, but upon booting it falls into grub rescue command line. Can anyone help? | 23:51 |
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