| MrChrisDruif | That you do not want an overboard laptop of ~$2000,- ;) | 00:00 |
|---|---|---|
| MrChrisDruif | My next thing is prolly gonna be a tablet on which I can plug in a keyboard ofc :P | 00:00 |
| gunndawg | MrChrisDruif: well I wanna keep it simple and light, maybe a bigg hdd but thats about all this laptop lacks | 00:00 |
| gunndawg | aside from a short battery life | 00:01 |
| paultag | 00:00 < MrChrisDruif> My next thing is prolly gonna be a tablet on which I can plug in a keyboard ofc :P | 00:01 |
| paultag | sorry | 00:01 |
| paultag | double click + middle click | 00:01 |
| MrChrisDruif | What? | 00:01 |
| paultag | damn mouse | 00:01 |
| paultag | 00:01 <+paultag> sorry | 00:01 |
| paultag | 00:01 <+paultag> double click + middle click | 00:01 |
| paultag | 00:01 <+paultag> damn mouse | 00:01 |
| MrChrisDruif | Touchscreen ftw? :P | 00:01 |
| paultag | ftl :P | 00:01 |
| gunndawg | still wish I could get weechat configured so that the channel list and timestamp area didnt take up so much screen realestate | 00:03 |
| MrChrisDruif | ftl? For the laptop? | 00:05 |
| paultag | for the loss MrChrisDruif | 00:06 |
| MrChrisDruif | :P | 00:06 |
| seidos | i guess it's my flow | 00:34 |
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| seidos | any ideas why i can't paste in an irssi window anymore? | 01:03 |
| seidos | ah, i'll log out of fluxbox and try gnome, could be why | 01:03 |
| GunnDawg | hey guys, I installed xubuntu-desktop just to try it out but now it automatically loads even when I pick Ubuntu Desktop from the login screen. How do I get rid of it? its also taken over my theme in Ubuntu | 01:17 |
| MrChrisDruif | GunnDawg: you've installed it inside of Ubuntu? If so, open Synaptic and search for Xubuntu | 01:19 |
| GunnDawg | MrChrisDruif: k it found a few things | 01:21 |
| GunnDawg | little things though like xubuntu-docs and plymouth themes | 01:21 |
| MrChrisDruif | The plymouth is start-up screen... | 01:22 |
| GunnDawg | MrChrisDruif: yeah I know | 01:22 |
| GunnDawg | got rid of everything I could find that had to do with xubuntu | 01:22 |
| GunnDawg | should I restart ? | 01:22 |
| MrChrisDruif | Did you apply changes? | 01:22 |
| GunnDawg | yes | 01:23 |
| GunnDawg | its done its thing | 01:23 |
| yofel | logout should be enough | 01:23 |
| GunnDawg | ok lemme try | 01:23 |
| MrChrisDruif | When he comes back, ask if he didn't have xubuntu-desktop selected :P | 01:24 |
| GunnDawg | ok back, I think it worked, but now my emerald themes wont apply | 01:26 |
| GunnDawg | grr | 01:26 |
| MrChrisDruif | Is emerald still installed? | 01:29 |
| GunnDawg | MrChrisDruif: yes | 01:31 |
| MrChrisDruif | Then it should work right? | 01:31 |
| GunnDawg | it should, yes | 01:31 |
| MrChrisDruif | But it doesn't? | 01:32 |
| GunnDawg | correct | 01:32 |
| MrChrisDruif | Hmmm....I dunno...:) | 01:32 |
| GunnDawg | :( | 01:33 |
| MrChrisDruif | I always recommend to test things on a secondary computer...or VM... | 01:33 |
| MrChrisDruif | Off again <_<" | 01:33 |
| gunndawg | well this bites! | 01:35 |
| MrChrisDruif | What does? Except snakes? :P | 01:35 |
| gunndawg | the fact that I cant get my emerald theme back | 01:36 |
| MrChrisDruif | Hmmm....weird...was it last time difficult to set up? Are you going through the same steps? | 01:36 |
| gunndawg | wasnt difficult no, you just launch emerald theme manager and click the theme you want and it applies it | 01:37 |
| gunndawg | I am clicking on them now, and they dont apply | 01:37 |
| MrChrisDruif | Maybe try to reinstall emerald with synaptic? | 01:37 |
| gunndawg | i'll try | 01:40 |
| gunndawg | no luck | 01:41 |
| MrChrisDruif | I don't know how it works with theme downloaden, does emerald do it self? | 01:41 |
| gunndawg | yes | 01:42 |
| MrChrisDruif | Hmmm... | 01:42 |
| MrChrisDruif | Then I don't know what else you could do....maybe someone else knows anything... | 01:42 |
| MrChrisDruif | One last thing you could try: completely remove (incl. settings(or how they call it)) in synaptic | 01:43 |
| MrChrisDruif | And reinstall after that ... | 01:43 |
| gunndawg | incl settings ? | 01:53 |
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| MrMintanet | Hey dudes. I am trying to get an NES emulator setup for my son, and I am failing hard. I can't get GFCE to be the default program to open NES files. I tried to right click, and select the GFCE, but it isn't in the list. Where does it install, and how can I get it to be the default NES emulator? Any help is appreciated! :) | 02:32 |
| paultag | MrMintanet: hey man | 02:33 |
| paultag | MrMintanet: well, it's kinda funny, it's handled by MIME types | 02:34 |
| paultag | MrMintanet: the best way is to open it from the application it's self | 02:34 |
| MrMintanet | Yea, but it's for a 6 year old. | 02:34 |
| paultag | Hum, truth. | 02:34 |
| paultag | MrMintanet: let me pull docs. Moment. | 02:34 |
| MrMintanet | Thanks! | 02:34 |
| paultag | MrMintanet: you'd not happen to be a commandline rockstar, would you? | 02:34 |
| MrMintanet | Nope. I'm a huge noob | 02:35 |
| paultag | righto. | 02:35 |
| paultag | MrMintanet: do you know the basics, cd / ls / etc ? | 02:35 |
| MrMintanet | kinda | 02:35 |
| MrMintanet | I'm a huge Windoze guy | 02:35 |
| MrMintanet | But I did install a ported version of 10.10 onto an iBook G4... | 02:35 |
| MrMintanet | Does that count for something? *grin* | 02:35 |
| paultag | MrMintanet: OK. slam out to where your NES images are and run the command `file' on the NES images, and let's see if it identifies right | 02:36 |
| paultag | MrMintanet: it counts for something ;) | 02:36 |
| MrMintanet | Ok. One sec. | 02:36 |
| MrMintanet | Ok | 02:38 |
| MrMintanet | I'm in the directory | 02:38 |
| paultag | MrMintanet: run the command `file' on one of the files, please | 02:38 |
| MrChrisDruif | gunndawg: sorry for late response: yes, incl settings... | 02:38 |
| MrChrisDruif | That's what I suggest.... | 02:39 |
| MrMintanet | Do you mind if I just copy/paste in here? It's not that long. | 02:39 |
| MrMintanet | Two lines | 02:39 |
| paultag | MrMintanet: two lines is fine :) | 02:39 |
| MrMintanet | Actually... just one line: Xexyz.nes: iNES ROM dump, 8x16k PRG, 16x8k CHR, [Horiz.] | 02:40 |
| paultag | great, that's good | 02:40 |
| MrChrisDruif | But I'm off...ttyl guys | 02:41 |
| paultag | MrMintanet: can you run `file' with a -i flag? | 02:41 |
| MrMintanet | Sure | 02:41 |
| paultag | MrMintanet: thanks :) -- that'll give us the MIME type of the file | 02:41 |
| MrMintanet | Xexyz.nes: application/octet-stream; charset=binary | 02:41 |
| paultag | great | 02:42 |
| MrMintanet | Got it | 02:42 |
| MrMintanet | I just ran it with a custom command | 02:43 |
| MrMintanet | "gfceu" | 02:43 |
| paultag | well yeah :) | 02:43 |
| paultag | but you need to change the mime linkage | 02:43 |
| paultag | MrMintanet: http://www.johannes-eva.net/change-the-default-application-ubuntu-linux <-- under " Change the default app for | 02:43 |
| paultag | multiple | 02:43 |
| paultag | filetypes | 02:43 |
| MrMintanet | Oh cool | 02:43 |
| paultag | lordy that sucks | 02:43 |
| MrMintanet | Ok, thanks so much | 02:43 |
| paultag | wonder why that newlines so much | 02:43 |
| paultag | MrMintanet: yeah, no problem. Lucky it identifies so well ;) | 02:43 |
| MrMintanet | This is one major issue I have with Ubuntu. | 02:44 |
| MrMintanet | But... it's just another speed bump that I've overcome, which only motivates me more to stick with it! | 02:44 |
| gunndawg | what are Incl settings ? | 02:44 |
| MrMintanet | Be back later.... I'm sure. :) | 02:44 |
| paultag | MrMintanet: you could totally add it in the "run with" menu | 02:44 |
| gunndawg | I am trying to get emerald to work again | 02:44 |
| paultag | MrMintanet: but it's a bit more dicy and I'm not at my workstation to get the defaults right now | 02:44 |
| paultag | MrMintanet: good luck! | 02:44 |
| gunndawg | I installed xubuntu inside of ubuntu and it ruined my emerald theme for ubuntu, so I uninstalled xubuntu, uinstalled/reinstalled emerald and none of the emerald themes will apply | 02:46 |
| gunndawg | back | 02:52 |
| gunndawg | so anyone have any input in regards to my emerald theme problem ? | 02:52 |
| gunndawg | emerald --replace seemed to have fixed things up | 02:54 |
| gunndawg | actually that only works if I keep the terminal window open that I ran it from, anyway to perm. use --replace | 02:57 |
| MrMintanet | fceu is launching my ,rom files but not playing audio. Anyone have any suggestions? | 03:57 |
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| kristian-aalborg | it happened again, the sudden death that it | 08:40 |
| kristian-aalborg | is | 08:40 |
| kristian-aalborg | I think the problem might be the fan | 08:41 |
| kristian-aalborg | hm, vacuumed it, hopefully that will be enough | 08:46 |
| duanedesign | kristian-aalborg: thats no good :\ | 08:48 |
| kristian-aalborg | vacuuming? | 08:49 |
| duanedesign | nosudden death | 08:49 |
| duanedesign | :) | 08:49 |
| kristian-aalborg | yeah, it's not really a good sign ;) | 08:50 |
| duanedesign | you can use the command acpi -t to monitor the cpu temp | 08:50 |
| * kristian-aalborg tries that | 08:58 | |
| kristian-aalborg | it gives me "40C" no matter what I do, I think something is malfunctioning :( | 09:03 |
| nlsthzn | is lm-sensors installed? | 10:09 |
| GunnDawg | got quiet in here | 10:53 |
| * head_victim drops a pin to see if anyone notices | 11:00 | |
| bioterror | GunnDawg, if you want to chat, join #ubuntu-beginners-team | 11:00 |
| JackyAlcine | It's pretty early by me. | 11:07 |
| Guest6790 | trying to install mac ppc version of meercat | 11:38 |
| Guest6790 | but it's bigger than a cd | 11:38 |
| Guest6790 | can i install from an external hard disc? | 11:38 |
| head_victim | Guest6790: thumb drives are pretty easy and you can also use a DVD | 11:39 |
| head_victim | I'm not sure how to go about doing it from an ISO on an ext drive though | 11:39 |
| Guest6790 | i have an iso but still have to install it to the thumb/external drive | 11:40 |
| head_victim | Do you have any version of Ubuntu installed? | 11:40 |
| Guest6790 | I'll try burning a dvd | 11:40 |
| head_victim | Or any other operating system? | 11:40 |
| Guest6790 | I have a pc w/ ubuntu but only cd burner | 11:40 |
| head_victim | Easy if you have a spare thumb drive | 11:40 |
| Guest6790 | but this is a mac version i want to put on an ibook G3 | 11:41 |
| Guest6790 | why did they make it sliiiiightly larger than a cd! | 11:41 |
| head_victim | Guest6790: yep "start up disk creator" | 11:41 |
| Guest6790 | disc creator on the ubuntu windows machine? | 11:41 |
| head_victim | https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick#Creating%20a%20bootable%20Ubuntu%20USB%20flash%20drive | 11:42 |
| Guest6790 | can i open the iso and copy all the files off to an external disc? | 11:42 |
| Guest6790 | these are instructions for pc only I think | 11:42 |
| head_victim | If you run the program it will install the ISO to a USB drive and make it bootable | 11:44 |
| head_victim | So you can just use it to install on the other pc | 11:44 |
| Guest6790 | I want the mac version - ppc - I think this is only for win/pc machines | 11:45 |
| Guest6790 | I had good luck on my windows/pc machine but the iso was the correct size for a cd | 11:45 |
| Guest6790 | I'll read this carefully and see if I can make it work with the ppc version from here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCDownloads | 11:49 |
| head_victim | No you can use any ISO you would like | 11:49 |
| head_victim | As long as you have a version of Ubuntu the USB-Creator program can use any ISO you have on your computer | 11:49 |
| Guest6790 | ? I made a cd from the regular ubuntu 10.10 from this page http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download and it intstalled great on my win/pc machine, but my mac ibook G3 doesn't see it. | 11:58 |
| Guest6790 | sorry, you mean the usb-creator program above - i'll read it carefully now. thanks | 11:58 |
| head_victim | No worries, it's the easiest way to get a bootable install USB drive for ubuntu | 12:02 |
| Guest6790 | uh - in order to run the usb creator app I have to have ubuntu installed - do I have to fire up the win/pc? dang, it's noisy! | 12:08 |
| head_victim | Yeah you will need a Ubuntu installed that's why I was checking that | 12:09 |
| Guest6790 | ok, I'm burning a DVD of the ppc iso, if it doen'st work i'll fire up the win/pc, but it's late so I'll try it tomorrow. thannks for all your help! I'm in Los Angeles - your no worries sounds like you're in Australia? | 12:10 |
| Guest6790 | I actually got the ubuntu idea from a guy in Australia when I had an old ebook win/pc. | 12:11 |
| Guest6790 | it's fun even when I don't always succeed! thanks for your help! | 12:11 |
| head_victim | Yeah I'm in Brisbane, Australia | 12:12 |
| head_victim | Glad we can be of assistance | 12:12 |
| JackyAlcine | Guest6790: YOu can also download UNetbootin (it's a cross platform app that works like the USB Creator for Ubuntu) | 12:13 |
| Guest6790 | Woo Hoo! the DVD is booting - but I'm keeping all this info. Now I can sleep - happy! Thank you all again!!! | 12:16 |
| Lorizean | hi.. so i kinda recently installed maverick on my netbook (in the netbook remix)... is there any way to disable unity and go back to the interface from 10.04? | 12:34 |
| duanedesign | hello Lorizean | 12:40 |
| Lorizean | hi | 12:40 |
| duanedesign | Lorizean: i have not used the netbook interface, however in Natty when you boot up there isa place to select the deskyop type | 12:41 |
| Lorizean | hm... during the boot? | 12:41 |
| duanedesign | Lorizean: where you enter your password, at the bottom | 12:41 |
| shadeslayer | Lorizean: when your in gdm | 12:41 |
| Lorizean | ah, k | 12:41 |
| Lorizean | will try that | 12:41 |
| MrChrisDruif | But still, you should be able to uninstall it if you please...O:-) | 12:43 |
| Lorizean | hm... well, before I do that I guess I'll see if I don't warm up to it a bit | 12:44 |
| Lorizean | oh, yeah, other problem - my netbook always hangs during shutdown/reboot. I have to hard-shutdown it (since 10.10). Found an entry in the forums about that, but didn't rlly help so far | 12:45 |
| MrChrisDruif | Lorizean: Might be an good idea to warm to it...11.04 is going Unity aswell <_<" | 12:46 |
| Lorizean | yeah, i heard.. even the non-netbook version, right? | 12:46 |
| duanedesign | yes | 12:47 |
| MrChrisDruif | Yup... | 12:47 |
| Lorizean | well, got the interface working now, thanks | 12:47 |
| MrChrisDruif | Your welcome.. | 12:47 |
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| s-fox | Hello. | 14:27 |
| AbhijiT | hi s-fox | 15:00 |
| s-fox | Hello AbhijiT | 15:00 |
| AbhijiT | :) | 15:00 |
| AbhijiT | s-fox, why are you shrinking? !!! :D :P | 15:01 |
| s-fox | AbhijiT, consistency | 15:01 |
| AbhijiT | ?? | 15:01 |
| AbhijiT | what consistency? | 15:02 |
| s-fox | AbhijiT, http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=611656 | 15:02 |
| AbhijiT | okay! | 15:02 |
| s-fox | AbhijiT, I accepted it =) | 15:06 |
| AbhijiT | :) | 15:06 |
| AbhijiT | :o | 15:07 |
| AbhijiT | s-fox, you are a girl? | 15:08 |
| AbhijiT | :o | 15:08 |
| s-fox | What I am is important somehow? | 15:09 |
| AbhijiT | nope | 15:09 |
| AbhijiT | just wondering. | 15:09 |
| AbhijiT | curious! | 15:09 |
| s-fox | AbhijiT, People have tried to before. Best advice i can give: make up your own mind and go with it | 15:10 |
| AbhijiT | :o | 15:11 |
| AbhijiT | :( | 15:11 |
| egossett_ | i am using blogilo and it will not post to blogger. | 15:12 |
| AbhijiT | egossett_, which version ? | 15:12 |
| egossett_ | AbhijiT: not sure | 15:13 |
| AbhijiT | :s | 15:13 |
| AbhijiT | egossett_, you can check in help about | 15:13 |
| egossett_ | ok checking | 15:13 |
| AbhijiT | egossett_, blogilo is working here | 15:14 |
| egossett_ | 1.0.1 | 15:14 |
| AbhijiT | yeah same is mine | 15:14 |
| AbhijiT | and its working here | 15:14 |
| egossett_ | AbhijiT: message says Atom | 15:14 |
| AbhijiT | which message? | 15:14 |
| AbhijiT | i got only one msg telling me that post succesfully | 15:14 |
| egossett_ | submitting post failed | 15:15 |
| egossett_ | in details it says | 15:15 |
| egossett_ | An error occurred in the last transaction. | 15:15 |
| egossett_ | Server (Atom) error: Authentication failed. | 15:15 |
| egossett_ | o | 15:15 |
| egossett_ | user name and password DUH | 15:15 |
| AbhijiT | egossett_, was this blogilo working fort the same blog before? | 15:15 |
| AbhijiT | :P] | 15:16 |
| AbhijiT | :) | 15:16 |
| egossett_ | AbhijiT: this is first time i tried to use | 15:16 |
| AbhijiT | egossett_, yeah i think some setting is not correct. see which one is tht | 15:16 |
| egossett_ | AbhijiT: yes | 15:16 |
| AbhijiT | either blogger address,username,email,password some minor setting | 15:16 |
| egossett_ | AbhijiT: yes my fault not blogilo | 15:16 |
| AbhijiT | :) | 15:16 |
| egossett_ | abh | 15:17 |
| egossett_ | AbhijiT: thanks | 15:17 |
| AbhijiT | np | 15:17 |
| egossett_ | AbhijiT: trying all these things in my great Ubuntu | 15:17 |
| AbhijiT | egossett_, good | 15:19 |
| AbhijiT | egossett_, are you using 64 bit buntu? | 15:30 |
| egossett_ | AbhijiT: no 32 bit | 15:31 |
| AbhijiT | egossett_, have you tried drivel journal? | 15:31 |
| egossett_ | AbhijiT: not sure what is wrong with my settings | 15:31 |
| AbhijiT | egossett_, still no luck with blogilo? | 15:31 |
| egossett_ | AbhijiT: no looked at drupal, thatwas way to complicated | 15:31 |
| egossett_ | AbhijiT: will look at drivel next then | 15:32 |
| AbhijiT | ?? | 15:32 |
| AbhijiT | egossett_, can you install drivel now? | 15:32 |
| egossett_ | yes let me try | 15:32 |
| egossett_ | searching for download | 15:32 |
| AbhijiT | its on software cneter | 15:33 |
| AbhijiT | type 'blog' as search term | 15:33 |
| AbhijiT | :( | 15:37 |
| philinux | duanedesign: is you in or mia | 15:44 |
| duanedesign | hello philinux | 15:54 |
| philinux | duanedesign: Hi, How is ubuntu one maintenance going? | 15:55 |
| philinux | Have urgent need to sync tonight | 15:55 |
| duanedesign | philinux: 06:17 < rye> We have had to extend the downtime for additional 2 hours. We estimate services to be brought back by 1400 UTC. Sorry for the inconvenience. | 15:58 |
| philinux | duanedesign: Cheers bud, whats that time in GMT | 15:59 |
| duanedesign | should of been about an hour ago... | 16:00 |
| duanedesign | 'should of' ;) | 16:01 |
| philinux | duanedesign: Many thanks! | 16:02 |
| duanedesign | philinux: your welcome, anytime | 16:02 |
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| Daniel0108 | hi duanedesign, hi philinux | 16:10 |
| duanedesign | hey Daniel0108 ! | 16:10 |
| Daniel0108 | what's up? | 16:10 |
| duanedesign | Daniel0108: getting hammered with snow | 16:11 |
| Daniel0108 | lol, snow's melting here in austria :D | 16:11 |
| duanedesign | :) | 16:12 |
| Daniel0108 | we, should move to #ubuntu-beginners-team ;) | 16:12 |
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| techmik67 | all my linux versions have stopped booting.... | 16:30 |
| techmik67 | blackscreen after choosing any version.... recovery boots, but startx gives errors | 16:31 |
| keverdy13 | hello? | 16:37 |
| s-fox | Hello keverdy13 | 16:37 |
| keverdy13 | Hello, Fox. | 16:37 |
| keverdy13 | I was wondering, in the boot grub for Ubuntu, how can I create a theme for it? | 16:38 |
| keverdy13 | https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Themes | 16:38 |
| keverdy13 | help? | 16:42 |
| aveilleux | keverdy13: Have you tried #grub ? | 16:43 |
| keverdy13 | no... ok! | 16:43 |
| bwright | Hello. | 16:50 |
| kumaanki | hi there.. | 17:06 |
| AbhiJiT | hi | 17:06 |
| kumaanki | i am new to to this channel. i want to contribute to the ubuntu dev. how can i start | 17:06 |
| aveilleux | kumaanki: The Ubuntu Beginners Development team, or the actual Ubuntu development? | 17:07 |
| kumaanki | I don't know which team would be appropriate, but it's going to be the first time when i would contribute | 17:08 |
| kumaanki | so should be a team where i could learn along with little contribution to kick start with | 17:08 |
| kumaanki | @avelileux: any suggestions on which team should i join...? | 17:10 |
| kumaanki | Anyone plz..? | 17:14 |
| geirha | kumaanki: Have you seen this? http://www.ubuntu.com/community | 17:21 |
| geirha | I'm not a member of any of those teams, so I wouldn't know what would suit you best. | 17:21 |
| geirha | Seems most of the members in here are either offline or idle at the moment, but if you have patience, I'm sure you'll get a reply. | 17:22 |
| kumaanki | @geirha: Thanks for the response. Yes i had gone to that link but the link is not very clear to me. As i am new here. it isn't very clear to me. | 17:28 |
| kumaanki | And i am ok to wait here to get the response :) | 17:28 |
| AbhiJiT | kumaanki, start with bug triaging | 17:33 |
| kumaanki | hm. that sounds like one good entry point.. | 17:36 |
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| AbhijiT | kumaanki, start with bug traiging | 18:02 |
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| johnny77 | I have an interest in maybe becoming a Beginners Team Member... I know you are supposed to just ask questions, but did not know if this was the correct channel for this topic. | 19:02 |
| bioterror | johnny77, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/Membership | 19:03 |
| johnny77 | bioterror: I've been ready that page... But I have a couple questions... Like involvement requirements. I'd like to help, but may not have much time to offer.. Also I'm a beginner myself. Will that be a problem? | 19:08 |
| holstein | johnny77: you can just hang out here, follow the channel guidelines and help when you have time | 19:12 |
| seidos | johnny77: you can also join the off-topic channel #ubuntu-beginners-team to get to know the padawans and members/masters etc. | 19:16 |
| johnny77 | Thank you. I have to run, but I'll keep it in mind. | 19:20 |
| jezz | hi can any1 help me with disk idle please? | 19:28 |
| Matt28 | hey everyone, can some one please help me to set up a raid1 using ubuntu 10.10 i have the desktop distro on disk, but can download another if i need to | 19:59 |
| seidos | Matt28: i am a robot that can search google for you, but i don't have direct knowledge setting up software raid in ubuntu. are you wanting raid 0? raid 5? | 20:00 |
| pleia2 | you may need the alternate CD to do raid from the installer (someone should correct me if I'm wrong :)) | 20:01 |
| Matt28 | raid 1 | 20:01 |
| Matt28 | alternate cd?? | 20:01 |
| pleia2 | it uses a text based installer which has more flexibility than the standard one (also allows you to do LVM) | 20:01 |
| Bolo | I have an ASUS 1001PXD with 10.4 netbook and I can't seem to get the internal mic to work | 20:02 |
| seidos | Matt28: this might help you, http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1601826 | 20:02 |
| Matt28 | ok, i assume that i can find that on the ubuntu home page? | 20:02 |
| seidos | Matt28: title: Installing Ubuntu 10.10 Server or Alternate with RAID1 | 20:02 |
| Matt28 | thanks for the info | 20:03 |
| seidos | Matt28: releases.ubuntu.com has it. i recommend acquiring it using the torrent. | 20:03 |
| seidos | Matt28: you are welcome, sir | 20:03 |
| seidos | Bolo: 10.04*. i don't have direct knowledge of this problem, but i may help with some additional neural processing. | 20:04 |
| seidos | Bolo: have you check mic and capture levels utilizing alsamixer from a shell? | 20:04 |
| Bolo | seidos I have gone through much of the related stuff on ubuntu forums with no luck | 20:05 |
| seidos | Bolo: did they mention alsamixer? i find it is more wholistic than gnome-volume-control | 20:05 |
| Bolo | seidos I have worked with the alsamixer and the gnome-alsamixer But maybe I wasn't doing it right | 20:06 |
| bodhizazen | 'lo all | 20:06 |
| seidos | namaste bodhizazen | 20:06 |
| seidos | thunder? | 20:06 |
| seidos | Bolo: i would revisit alsamixer from a shell. then, check soundrecorder. if your mic is working, there should be a "gain/level" bar in the lower right. it should be blue or some color, not gray | 20:07 |
| seidos | Bolo: if it doesn't work after you try this...there are more options. | 20:08 |
| Bolo | siedos I have started alsamixer - what should I do? | 20:09 |
| Bolo | seidos - I am a beginner with this stuff | 20:09 |
| seidos | Bolo: ah. hit tab. then right arrow to "mic" and "capture". make sure the volume is at 50% (i don't recommend higher just yet) | 20:11 |
| seidos | Bolo: no worries on being a beginner. i am as well, relativity considered. | 20:11 |
| Bolo | seidos I've got mic boost, but no mic | 20:12 |
| seidos | Bolo: to raise or lower the gain==volume, use up and down arrows | 20:12 |
| seidos | Bolo: what if you hit "f4"? | 20:13 |
| Bolo | seidos I get mic boost and capture | 20:14 |
| seidos | Bolo: how many mics do you have? | 20:15 |
| Bolo | siedos when I hit f5 I have two mic boosts | 20:16 |
| Bolo | seidos when I plug in an external mic it works when I select it in sound settings | 20:17 |
| Bolo | seidos there is no external mic connnected at this time | 20:17 |
| seidos | Bolo: hmmm, me too. when i hit f4 i have front mic, mic boost, and capture | 20:19 |
| seidos | but i assumed one of these was for "line in", though that actually may be "capture" | 20:19 |
| seidos | anyway...did you put up capture and mic boost to 50%? | 20:19 |
| Bolo | seidos I only have two mic boosts | 20:19 |
| Bolo | seidos when I select and adjust the volume on one, it adjust the volume on the other. Can't adjust them separately | 20:21 |
| seidos | Bolo: ermm, i am not sure how to say this...but my mic isn't working right now either | 20:22 |
| seidos | heh | 20:22 |
| seidos | Bolo: i should probably log into gnome, would you mind waiting briefly? | 20:24 |
| seidos | Bolo: i need to see if front mic is what i use or mic boost to get the mic "listening" | 20:24 |
| Bolo | siedos OK | 20:25 |
| seidos | Bolo: back, one moment while i test sound recorder | 20:30 |
| seidos | Bolo: on my system, i need "front mic boost" for sound to be recorded from the built in microphone. i can set "mic boost" and "capture" to 0, and as long as front mic boost is "up", it will function. | 20:33 |
| seidos | Bolo: i guess we should probably get some more information on your system...but at this point i would recommend trying to install a newer version of alsa...i should warn you, some courage at this point is probably warranted | 20:33 |
| pedro3005 | try searchig your laptop model to see if it's a common problem | 20:33 |
| seidos | Bolo: pedro3005 makes a good point. what laptop model do you have? | 20:34 |
| Bolo | seidos I have looked at that and there doesn't seem to be a real good, detailed, explanation of how to do that | 20:35 |
| Bolo | seidos asus Eee pc1001pxd I've looked | 20:35 |
| seidos | Bolo: no, there isn't. i should probably add making one to my todo list. | 20:35 |
| seidos | Bolo: and you said 10.04 netbook remix... | 20:36 |
| Bolo | seidos correct 10.4 netbook remix | 20:36 |
| seidos | Bolo: have you looked here? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1204001 | 20:37 |
| seidos | Bolo: 10.04* | 20:37 |
| seidos | not exactly the same model though...hmmm | 20:37 |
| seidos | Bolo: disregard that link, nobody reports a success | 20:38 |
| seidos | Bolo: what do you get when you type the following in a shell, cat /proc/asound/version | 20:40 |
| Bolo | seidos Sorry, don't understand shell | 20:42 |
| Bolo | seidos Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21. | 20:43 |
| seidos | Bolo: shell==terminal | 20:45 |
| Bolo | seidos got it answer posted above | 20:45 |
| seidos | Bolo: okay, well there are 2 things i am considering. researching if anyone has problem with the kernel module for your sound device | 20:46 |
| seidos | Bolo: and if the 1st doesn't do it, then try upgrading to version 1.0.23 of alsa, incidentally, 10.10 comes with alsa 1.0.23 | 20:47 |
| seidos | Bolo: i have some information cached in my brain that can help you investigate your kernel module | 20:48 |
| Bolo | seidos how do you upgrade to .23? | 20:48 |
| seidos | Bolo: but upgrading alsa will be more tricky. | 20:48 |
| seidos | Bolo: the only way i have done it (aside from upgrading the distro) is to download and compile alsa from source, but this caused problems with pulseaudio | 20:48 |
| Bolo | seidos more tricker than what? | 20:48 |
| seidos | Bolo: than investigating the kernel module for your sound device. | 20:49 |
| seidos | Bolo: i have to state i am ignorant as to the specifics at this point on how the kernel module gets selected, and whether or not it is even included in alsa | 20:50 |
| seidos | Bolo: kernel module = driver | 20:50 |
| Bolo | seidos Don't need more problems so far I've fixed about four things after the installation of 10.4 I was hoping I was reaching an end to this kind of stuff | 20:51 |
| seidos | Bolo: 10.04*. i'm sorry to hear you are having problems, i do wish everything was functioning to your specifications. | 20:52 |
| seidos | however, i will say, that i do whole heartedly believe your endeavoring to work with free and open source software, specifically ubuntu, is the right thing to do. | 20:53 |
| Bolo | seidos I'm not complaining, just pointing out that I might be more willing to do without a working internal mic on my computer than to install something that might create more problems than fixing them | 20:54 |
| seidos | Bolo: ah, yeah. when i compiled alsa from source there was a work around for it, but it wasn't a permanent fix. | 20:56 |
| seidos | Bolo: it would be nice if you could install alsa 1.0.23 from a repository, but i am not sure if this feasible. | 20:56 |
| seidos | ah, just had a thought, there might be a deb package with alsa 1.0.23 | 20:56 |
| Bolo | seidos How do I check that? | 20:57 |
| seidos | incidentally, i am also asking in #alsa if alsa is the package that comes with your kernel module (driver) for your sound device | 20:57 |
| seidos | Bolo: search google for "alsa 1.0.23 deb package" | 20:57 |
| seidos | Bolo: first link looks promising: http://monespaceperso.org/blog-en/2010/05/02/upgrade-alsa-1-0-23-on-ubuntu-lucid-lynx-10-04/ | 20:59 |
| seidos | ah, it says to compile alsa from source | 20:59 |
| seidos | Bolo: it also might be possible to install a maverick meerkat (10.10) package onto lucid lynx (10.04). i am asking in #ubuntu-motu :) | 21:13 |
| Bolo | seidos I went here and I'm working on it. It's a big download (http://monespaceperso.org/blog-en/2010/05/02/upgrade-alsa-1-0-23-on-ubuntu-lucid-lynx-10-04/) | 21:15 |
| holstein | Bolo: what is the deal? | 21:15 |
| holstein | i have a 1001p | 21:15 |
| Bolo | holstein is your internal mike working | 21:16 |
| holstein | i got the interal mic working with pavucontrol | 21:16 |
| holstein | in 10.04 | 21:16 |
| holstein | i just got this thing a few days ago | 21:16 |
| holstein | and i actually just got around to testing the mic earlier today | 21:17 |
| Bolo | holstein where do you find pavucontrol | 21:17 |
| holstein | apt-get it :) | 21:17 |
| holstein | sudo apt-get install pavucontrol | 21:17 |
| holstein | or however you install packages | 21:18 |
| holstein | synptic or whatever | 21:18 |
| holstein | Bolo: run in a terminal | 21:18 |
| holstein | arecord -l | 21:19 |
| holstein | see if you have... | 21:19 |
| holstein | card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC269 Analog [ALC269 Analog] | 21:19 |
| Bolo | holstein that's exactly what I have | 21:19 |
| holstein | if so, our hardware should be similar enough for my findings to me applicable | 21:19 |
| holstein | cool | 21:19 |
| holstein | http://linuxon1001p.blogspot.com/ | 21:22 |
| holstein | thats where i got the idea | 21:22 |
| holstein | i have used pavucontrol before though | 21:23 |
| holstein | so i just installed it, and started tweaking, and got it working | 21:23 |
| holstein | seidos: hmmm | 21:25 |
| holstein | oh well | 21:25 |
| seidos | hopefully he comes back after getting it working with pavucontrol, holstein | 21:26 |
| seidos | actually, i'm going to install it, maybe it can help with the static i am experiencing | 21:26 |
| holstein | seidos: maybe | 21:26 |
| holstein | thats probably hardware though | 21:27 |
| seidos | Bolo: i've never heard of pavucontrol, i'm going to try it out. | 21:27 |
| holstein | i guess it depends on the static | 21:27 |
| holstein | and what is causing it | 21:27 |
| seidos | holstein: no doubt. i'm not really able to narrow it down to hardware. | 21:27 |
| Bolo | **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** | 21:27 |
| Bolo | card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC269 Analog [ALC269 Analog] | 21:27 |
| Bolo | Subdevices: 1/1 | 21:27 |
| Bolo | Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 | 21:27 |
| Bolo | holstein OK I got it installed how do I activate it? | 21:28 |
| holstein | Bolo: its just a mixer | 21:28 |
| holstein | just open it | 21:28 |
| holstein | and use it | 21:28 |
| Bolo | holstein I'm looking for it | 21:29 |
| holstein | Bolo: its in the menu somewhere | 21:29 |
| holstein | as pulseaudio volume control | 21:29 |
| holstein | its in 'sound and video' for me | 21:29 |
| holstein | BUT i have the ubuntustudio-menu meta-package installed | 21:30 |
| holstein | and i foget what effect that has the placement of audio packages in the menu | 21:30 |
| holstein | forget* | 21:30 |
| holstein | you can always launch it from terminal | 21:30 |
| holstein | or alt+F2 pavucontrol | 21:31 |
| seidos | okay, this is funny, after "tweaking" on pavucontrol, i can't record | 21:31 |
| seidos | i'm sure a reboot will fix it, but it's a mystery what is actually going on | 21:31 |
| holstein | seidos: plausible | 21:31 |
| seidos | i'll try restarting alsa | 21:32 |
| holstein | it has settings that would mute things | 21:32 |
| holstein | seidos: its not going to break anything | 21:33 |
| holstein | its just going to give you the option to turn something off | 21:33 |
| holstein | that is usually on | 21:33 |
| Bolo | Is it named pavucontrol because I can't find it | 21:33 |
| holstein | Bolo: in the menu | 21:33 |
| holstein | its named pulseaudio volume control | 21:33 |
| holstein | but you can launch it from the terminal | 21:33 |
| seidos | ah it's a pulseaudio app | 21:33 |
| holstein | with pavucontrol | 21:34 |
| seidos | i'll try restarting pulseaudio | 21:34 |
| holstein | or alt+F2 with pavucontrol | 21:34 |
| holstein | seidos: yeah, its just a 'better' mixer | 21:34 |
| holstein | for some devices | 21:34 |
| Bolo | holstein you mean PulseAudio Volume Control | 21:34 |
| holstein | useing pulse | 21:34 |
| holstein | Bolo: thats it | 21:35 |
| holstein | i suppose i should have inculded the capital letters to be totally clear and precise | 21:35 |
| Bolo | holstein what do you do to get it to work? | 21:36 |
| seidos | yeah, restarting pulseaudio worked. that's interesting though...didn't know that pulseaudio was necessary for recording... | 21:36 |
| holstein | well | 21:36 |
| holstein | i can only say what i did | 21:36 |
| holstein | and that was | 21:36 |
| holstein | i went to the 'Input Devices' tab | 21:36 |
| holstein | and messed with everything | 21:36 |
| seidos | holstein: do you have a "front mic" in alsamixer? | 21:37 |
| holstein | seidos: i'll look | 21:37 |
| holstein | BUT you cant trust those labels | 21:37 |
| holstein | in alsamixer | 21:37 |
| Bolo | holstein I've got configuration Analog Stereo Duplex Do you have anything listed under recording? | 21:38 |
| holstein | sorry, i gotta run | 21:38 |
| holstein | Bolo: good luck | 21:38 |
| holstein | it'll work though :) | 21:38 |
| Bolo | holstein doesn't do anything for me not the problem | 21:39 |
| seidos | drat, too bad he couldn't answer the front mic question | 21:40 |
| seidos | he did make it clear to me that pulseaudio is just as important for recording as alsa, i must have forgotten this when i was troubleshooting several months back | 21:42 |
| Bolo | seidos what I have discovered after studying this problem for a few days is that there are a lot of problems in this area - but no fix works for most users | 21:42 |
| seidos | Bolo: you know what would probably be easiest? can you create a maverick liveusb, and see if you can record while running off the live usb? | 21:42 |
| seidos | since maverick has the newer versions of alsa... | 21:42 |
| seidos | and perhaps pulseaudio | 21:42 |
| * seidos tries to check his version of pulseaudio | 21:42 | |
| seidos | Bolo: pulseaudio --version to check your version of pulseaudio. mine is pulseaudio 0.9.21-63-gd3efa-dirty | 21:43 |
| Bolo | seidos how do I check that" | 21:44 |
| seidos | Bolo: pulseaudio --version (i said this on 13:43). | 21:45 |
| seidos | hey Bolo if you ever want to take a break, we can chat about off-topic stuff in #ubuntu-beginners-team | 21:45 |
| Bolo | E: pid.c: Daemon already running. | 21:46 |
| Bolo | E: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. | 21:46 |
| Bolo | seidos that's what I got when I tried the pulseaudio | 21:47 |
| Bolo | seidos hey I'm also over at beginners-team | 21:49 |
| Bolo | seidos OK I got pulseaudio 0.9.21-63-gd3efa-dirty | 21:52 |
| seidos | Bolo: well, i feel i should probably point out how alsa and pulseaudio interface with each other is something of a giant mystery to me...so...i can only speculate as to what you might try at this point. | 21:57 |
| seidos | Bolo: we should probably wait and see how the installation of alsa 1.0.23 goes | 21:58 |
| Bolo | seidos I know if I keep looking I'll eventually find an answer to the problem | 21:58 |
| seidos | Bolo: yeah, or the developers will fix it and release the fix in the next version of ubuntu | 21:59 |
| Bolo | seidos I broke that installation when I started working with the pulseaudio control I have an acer AOA150 that works great with this program but I only had 1 gig and 8.9" screen | 22:01 |
| seidos | Bolo: *only* 1GB? of ram? or hdd? | 22:03 |
| Bolo | seidos ram | 22:05 |
| Bolo | siedos I got this asus and upgraded it immediately to 2 gig | 22:06 |
| seidos | Bolo: i have 2 gig on this notebook. it's a 13". i just replaced the hdd. it broke :(. | 22:09 |
| seidos | there is compaq next to me with 1gig of ram, i am going to set it up as a web server...hmmm, actually, i could probably do that now! | 22:09 |
| seidos | i have a desktop next to me too, but i don't have a place to plug it in right now to configure it | 22:10 |
| Bolo | seidos I've never set a computer up as a server I have a macbook I was thinking of installing a 500 gig HD and going to 10.10 on that and getting rid of the mac software | 22:12 |
| seidos | Bolo: i used to have a macbook. i sold it and got this 13"...but they are nice hardware, i just needed the $ :| | 22:14 |
| Bolo | seidos well, my mac is 4 years old and came with 10.4 and 120 gig HD and 2 gig ram. I upgraded it to 4 gig, which apple said you can't do. Currently, the computer only recognizes 3.25 gig of the installed 4 and I was wondering if the additional .75 gig would be recognized by a ubuntu installation. I can't imagine anyone giving any kind of money for that thing. | 22:19 |
| seidos | Bolo: is it a 17"? the macbook i sold was a 17". the up arrow didn't work on it. | 22:21 |
| seidos | hmmm, i dunno if an ubuntu installation would detect it. sounds like a firmware issue or something, but it's worth a shot. there's the 64bit versions, and then there is a tool that i heard about that gets 32 bit versions to detect more the 4GB on 32 bit installs of ubuntu | 22:23 |
| seidos | !pae | Bolo | 22:24 |
| ubot2 | Bolo: To use more than ~3.2GB RAM on a 32bit system you can install the PAE-enabled kernel. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnablingPAE for more info | 22:24 |
| seidos | that might be it | 22:24 |
| Bolo | seidos No, it's the 13" blackmac I'm in to portability | 22:28 |
| seidos | yeah, same here. 13" are nice. | 22:29 |
| Bolo | seidos It's got the dual core intel thing going so I installed the parallels so I could use XP But on this netbook I've got virtualbox, no dual core, and the XP works fine | 22:31 |
| bioterror | seidos, I bet you get along with bodhi (I assume form your pic ;) | 22:32 |
| seidos | bioterror: doesn't everybody? | 22:32 |
| seidos | Bolo: parallels? | 22:33 |
| bioterror | well, but you seem to meditate or something :D | 22:33 |
| seidos | bioterror: *seem* is probably the operative word ;) | 22:34 |
| seidos | i also eat :| | 22:34 |
| Bolo | seidos I've been really impressed with Ubuntu, especially how fast it is. Parallels is that emulator they sell over at Apple for the XP installation | 22:34 |
| bioterror | but good night, I think I'll head to bed and have my daily dose of meditation | 22:35 |
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| Guest38805 | ?? | 23:51 |
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