| duanedesign | nUboon2Age: hello | 02:35 |
|---|---|---|
| nUboon2Age | howdy duanedesign! | 02:35 |
| duanedesign | nUboon2Age: how have you been? | 02:36 |
| seidos | cause and effect | 02:36 |
| nUboon2Age | lifes been kinda rough frankly duanedesign. broke my arm, my gf broke up with me and continues to give me grief. My birthday is on Sunday. | 02:37 |
| seidos | dang, how'd you break your arm? | 02:38 |
| nUboon2Age | i fell off my electricycle. i'm much better now. that was more than a month ago. | 02:39 |
| duanedesign | nUboon2Age: sorry to hear. Had not seen you around as much lately and was thinking about you. | 02:39 |
| nUboon2Age | thank you duanedesign. i think you are awesome!!! | 02:41 |
| nUboon2Age | it was a hairline fracture and is healing up now. | 02:41 |
| seidos | wow, you must've been going fast | 02:44 |
| nUboon2Age | not really that fast, but it was rainy and slick and i made a stupid newbie mistake of turning too quickly and i slipped on a pile of wet leaves. seidos, duanedesign | 02:49 |
| nUboon2Age | it was probably 15 mi/hour or so | 02:49 |
| duanedesign | ugh | 02:49 |
| duanedesign | I have somehow managed to never break a bone | 02:49 |
| duanedesign | nUboon2Age: I notice you are using google wifi? | 02:50 |
| seidos | nUboon2Age: i crashed on my motorcyle once. took a turn wrong, almost ran into a divider, broke to not crash into the divider, still move, fell off. | 02:50 |
| seidos | didn't break anything though, just tore my pants, and my knee | 02:51 |
| duanedesign | nUboon2Age: you are in Mountain View? | 02:55 |
| nUboon2Age | yes sir duanedesign right at the moment. someday i'll get streaming going so that we can include you in Ubuntu Hour wherever you are. :-) sardonyx | 02:58 |
| nUboon2Age | seidos: ^ | 02:58 |
| duanedesign | aha | 03:00 |
| duanedesign | well that is coo, I did not know that | 03:01 |
| duanedesign | cool* | 03:01 |
| duanedesign | nUboon2Age: have you been able to make it to any Ubuntu events in the area? I know pleia and jono are in that area | 03:02 |
| pleia2 | nUboon2Age: *runs* lots of events! | 03:03 |
| duanedesign | :) | 03:03 |
| seidos | what we need are ubuntu parties. not enough ubuntu partying going on if you ask me | 03:04 |
| * pleia2 is not at his ubuntu hour tonight, for shame | 03:04 | |
| seidos | actually, i should've went to that party in hollywood. not going was a fail on my part, but i'm trying to be "sustainable" | 03:04 |
| nUboon2Age | yes i create 4 Ubuntu Hours per month in Silicon Valley and i've been up to Berkeley to a Jono jam event and something that jdeslip/grantbow did and come to pleia2's Ubuntu Hour in SF. | 03:06 |
| duanedesign | wow, that is too awesome! | 03:06 |
| seidos | nUboon2Age: i missed you at pleia2's event. | 03:07 |
| seidos | the one that went to while i was up there | 03:07 |
| nUboon2Age | i didn't make it that mo. unfortunately seidos | 03:07 |
| nUboon2Age | i've made most of them since i started coming seidos, but missed a couple | 03:08 |
| seidos | drat. well, i will probably drive back up in May. i want to stay at abhayagiri monastery at least once | 03:08 |
| nUboon2Age | looking forward to it seidos | 03:13 |
| duanedesign | seidos: that sounds nice | 03:16 |
| * Geocosm strangles Virtualbox. | 04:48 | |
| * JackyAlcine helps Geocosm by tying it down to a table. | 04:48 | |
| Geocosm | I'm trying to add a "hard disc drive" for windows xp. I added it, and booted up, and windows said yey new hardwarez installz0ring. Except there's no new HDD in My Computer. | 04:51 |
| Geocosm | The OS "HDD" is WinXP.vdi, 10 gigs, IDE Primary Master. The drive I'm trying to add is NewHardDisk1.vdi, 20GB, IDE Primary Slave. | 04:52 |
| Geocosm | I originally made the drive dynamically expanding, but I'm trying to install a game and it's telling me I don't have enough space on the drive. grrr | 04:56 |
| JackyAlcine | try changing it from dynamically allocating to a fixed size drive. | 05:01 |
| === ridin is now known as ridin3 | ||
| Geocosm | I tried that, but it crashes. It just sits there at 0% and then it turns black and white. | 05:08 |
| Geocosm | I still haven't figured out why things turn black and white before they crash. | 05:08 |
| Geocosm | Crash imminent! Must remove all colors! | 05:09 |
| JackyAlcine | =/ | 05:19 |
| trinikrono | Cant you tell it to custom install to the new drive assuming that it shows up in the my computer? | 05:19 |
| trinikrono | hello JackyAlcine | 05:20 |
| JackyAlcine | o/ | 05:20 |
| Geocosm | That's what I'm trying to do, Trinikrono. | 05:22 |
| Geocosm | Unfortunately the new drive is not showing up when I boot the virtual machine. | 05:23 |
| trinikrono | which game | 05:23 |
| trinikrono | oho | 05:23 |
| Geocosm | I'm trying to install Starcraft II so I can rip the files off windows and play it on Linux. | 05:23 |
| trinikrono | O.o | 05:23 |
| Geocosm | It won't install on Linux it tells me I have bad hardware. | 05:23 |
| Geocosm | It says it needs amd or something. Which is dumb. Because it worked just fine when I had Windows XP installed on this machine. | 05:24 |
| Geocosm | I found a guide on how to add a new hdd to virtualbox but it's incredibly outdated and nothing looks the same. It seems like this has been set up to be simple, but windows is being a pain about it. | 05:25 |
| trinikrono | Geocosm: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=20882 <------you run using wine ? | 05:25 |
| Geocosm | The first time I booted into xp it said it found the hard drive. | 05:25 |
| Geocosm | And it claimed to be installing it. Then it minimized to the tray and disappeared. | 05:25 |
| trinikrono | Geocosm: is it under comuter management | 05:26 |
| trinikrono | *computer | 05:26 |
| Geocosm | You mean add hardware? | 05:26 |
| Geocosm | Add Hardware lists two separate discs, and claims both are in perfect working order. | 05:26 |
| Geocosm | Open up My Computer -- just a C:/ drive | 05:26 |
| trinikrono | no | 05:27 |
| trinikrono | i mean right click on my computer then manage | 05:27 |
| trinikrono | then disk management and see what it says about partitions and stuff | 05:27 |
| trinikrono | you might need to intialise and format that new drive | 05:27 |
| Geocosm | aha! | 05:29 |
| Geocosm | You're a genius. | 05:31 |
| Geocosm | I'm a bit ashamed, I didn't even know about this. | 05:31 |
| Geocosm | Maybe I should join #windows-beginners lol | 05:32 |
| trinikrono | Geocosm: i am not sure if starcraft2 will work in a virtual box though | 05:33 |
| trinikrono | how do other games work for you | 05:33 |
| Geocosm | No I'm not running it in the VM. | 05:33 |
| Geocosm | I'm installing it in Windows so I can cut/paste the files into Linux and run the installer with wine. | 05:34 |
| Geocosm | I mean the launcher. | 05:34 |
| trinikrono | Geocosm: okie | 05:34 |
| Geocosm | I don't quite have enough ram to run games in a virtual machine. 4GB DDR3. | 05:35 |
| === satamusic_ is now known as satamusic | ||
| Geocosm | There's a way to make wine run a program without sound, right? I tried unchecking all the drivers and I still have sound. | 07:58 |
| Geocosm | Also the Test Sound button says "Audio test failed!" | 08:00 |
| bioterror | wine uses your sounds, I think | 08:00 |
| bioterror | mute your linux sounds :D | 08:01 |
| Geocosm | Well I don't just want it muted. | 08:01 |
| Geocosm | I think the sound is what is crashing my game. | 08:01 |
| Geocosm | "err:mmdevapi:ACR_ReleaseBuffer Starting from 1014" | 08:01 |
| Geocosm | I want to disable the sound completely to see if I still crash. | 08:01 |
| bioterror | http://forum.winehq.org/viewforum.php?f=2&sid=03f4021ec0dd2a5ac0719347376f82c0 | 08:02 |
| Guest36096 | Hey Guys and Girls, I'm having some problems installing alien arena from source code. Can anyone help me? I've tried following instructions online but didn't get anywhere :( | 10:13 |
| s-fox | Hello. | 14:10 |
| seidos | Hello. | 14:11 |
| s-fox | Hello seidos :) | 14:12 |
| s-fox | How are you ? | 14:12 |
| seidos | Hello s-fox , what's going on? | 14:12 |
| seidos | cause and effect | 14:12 |
| seidos | i am presently trying to solve euler9 | 14:13 |
| s-fox | I'm alright thank you | 14:13 |
| seidos | good to hear :D | 14:13 |
| s-fox | :) | 14:14 |
| === JackyAlcine is now known as webjadmin | ||
| === webjadmin is now known as JackyAlcine | ||
| mutsa | hi! my networkmanager applet trys to find/connect to some network, but it ends saying "The network connection was terminated". When clicked, the applet shows the networks available, but i'm not able select any. I reinstall the networkmanager and the networkmanager applet, I searched the web, but i couldn't find a solution. Anyone can help? | 14:35 |
| holstein | mutsa: questions | 14:38 |
| holstein | has it ever worked? | 14:38 |
| holstein | it = that particular wifi device | 14:38 |
| holstein | and you say 'some network' | 14:38 |
| holstein | does that mean you have tried multiple access points? | 14:38 |
| holstein | if so, eleborate... | 14:39 |
| mutsa | yes at beginning, but the applet use to disappear when the connection was lost, so i try to reinstall it | 14:39 |
| holstein | i dont think the applet is the issue | 14:39 |
| holstein | if memory serves | 14:39 |
| holstein | the icon changes into something else | 14:40 |
| holstein | when the wifi network disconnects | 14:40 |
| holstein | a different little picture | 14:40 |
| holstein | mutsa: IF the device used to work | 14:40 |
| holstein | and you did a system update | 14:40 |
| holstein | then, it didnt | 14:40 |
| mutsa | when the network disconnects it don't change, just "close" | 14:40 |
| holstein | try rebooting | 14:41 |
| holstein | hit the shift key | 14:41 |
| holstein | and select an older kernel | 14:41 |
| holstein | see if the wifi device acts as expected | 14:41 |
| holstein | then, you'll know where to begin | 14:41 |
| mutsa | hum, ok, i'll try it now, tks | 14:41 |
| seidos | mutsa: when you searched the internet did you include your wifi device's make/model? | 14:42 |
| seidos | that may prove useful in your search | 14:43 |
| mutsa | @seidos no i didn't, i assumed the problem is not with the device cause in previous versions of ubuntu never had a problem | 14:44 |
| mutsa | i'll try the hokstein sugestion first | 14:44 |
| mutsa | tks all | 14:44 |
| seidos | too bad. there may be others with his hardware and using his version of ubuntu having the same problem | 14:46 |
| * seidos shrugs | 14:46 | |
| Ricaz | How come #ubuntu-beginners-help is invite only? | 14:50 |
| MrChrisDruif | -help?????? | 14:50 |
| holstein | a better question, why is there an #ubuntu-beginngers-help | 14:50 |
| holstein | is there one? | 14:50 |
| JackyAlcine | o.O | 14:51 |
| Ricaz | well, the website told me to go there | 14:51 |
| MrChrisDruif | Which website? | 14:51 |
| seidos | Ricaz: because this is the channel you should come to for help | 14:51 |
| javatexan | I have a printing question | 14:51 |
| JackyAlcine | there is, and it's invite-only. | 14:51 |
| Ricaz | aha, I just didn't see the need for both of them | 14:51 |
| seidos | javatexan: feel free to ask. if someone can answer, they will. if not, ask again later :) | 14:51 |
| Ricaz | anyway, I need help - I have no audio, and I've been looking for linux drivers all over, but couldn't find any | 14:52 |
| javatexan | I have the network printer setup in cups and it shows up in the printer admin app. My problem is that each time I print it asks for a network user and password, is there a way to set that forever? | 14:52 |
| javatexan | I have done some google searches, but no luck | 14:52 |
| seidos | Ricaz: drivers typically are built into the kernel. what sound chip? | 14:53 |
| javatexan | I think I had this setup before, could an update have killed it> | 14:53 |
| seidos | javatexan: i'm not sure how much help i can be. i've used tcp/ip printers in the past, and they worked fine, without a username and password | 14:53 |
| Ricaz | I'm not 100% sure, but I'm pretty sure of my motherboard model: Gigabyte GA-879A-UD3 | 14:53 |
| holstein | Ricaz: open a terminal and run 'aplay -l' and 'arecord -l' | 14:53 |
| Ricaz | alright | 14:54 |
| holstein | you can put that info at http://paste.ubuntu.com/ | 14:54 |
| javatexan | its the printserver here, it requires user and pass | 14:54 |
| holstein | javatexan: what is running the printserver? | 14:54 |
| holstein | a windows machine? | 14:54 |
| holstein | or is it standalone? | 14:55 |
| javatexan | its a windows server | 14:55 |
| === rcz is now known as Ricaz | ||
| holstein | i think you're going to want to read up on samba | 14:55 |
| seidos | Ricaz: welcome back | 14:55 |
| Ricaz | :D | 14:55 |
| javatexan | k thanks | 14:55 |
| holstein | OR configure the server for more open-ness | 14:55 |
| Ricaz | forgot that my irc client was running in terminal | 14:55 |
| holstein | IF thats ok in your environment javatexan | 14:55 |
| javatexan | holstein: wish I could, I really do | 14:56 |
| seidos | irssi \o/ | 14:56 |
| Ricaz | what were the commands again? | 14:56 |
| javatexan | LOL | 14:56 |
| seidos | Ricaz: aplay -l and arecord -l | 14:56 |
| Ricaz | thx | 14:56 |
| Ricaz | aplay -l returns "no soundcards found" | 14:56 |
| Ricaz | same with arecord | 14:56 |
| holstein | Ricaz: pastebin lspci | 14:56 |
| holstein | or http://paste.ubuntu.com/ | 14:57 |
| Ricaz | however, in my audio settings, I can see the little slider from my microphone move when I make noise, so it must work | 14:57 |
| seidos | greetings mr-tux | 14:57 |
| Ricaz | will do | 14:57 |
| holstein | Ricaz: interesting | 14:57 |
| mr-tux | Hello seidos :) | 14:58 |
| seidos | Ricaz: did you try to actually record something and play it back? | 14:58 |
| Ricaz | http://paste.ubuntu.com/568766/ | 14:58 |
| Ricaz | nope | 14:58 |
| Ricaz | well, i just noticed, the microphone doesn't trigger anymore | 14:58 |
| holstein | Ricaz: there is a different mixer | 14:59 |
| holstein | for pulse | 14:59 |
| mutsa | @holstein i try your sugestion, it didn't work. the problem stills the same, since i've install ubuntu 10.04 i'm getting this problem. the networkmanager applet keeps with a exclamation mark on it | 14:59 |
| holstein | if you want to intstall it | 14:59 |
| Ricaz | but I tried following some guides and installing the drivers on my own, obviously not very successfully though | 14:59 |
| holstein | sudo apt-get install pavucontrol | 14:59 |
| holstein | mutsa: but it used to work fine? | 14:59 |
| holstein | mutsa: can you wire up to internet and make sure you have all available system updates? | 15:00 |
| Ricaz | i'm very new, i just had ubuntu installed when my win7 installation started hating me | 15:00 |
| holstein | Ricaz: what guides? | 15:00 |
| holstein | do you have links? | 15:00 |
| mutsa | it used to work fine with wired network, because the connection didn't lost | 15:00 |
| holstein | Ricaz: 01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Cypress HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5800 Series] | 15:00 |
| holstein | that could be an issue somehow | 15:01 |
| Ricaz | not really, I downloaded one from Realtek's website, and just follwed a guide on how to install stuff from .bz2 since i was clueless | 15:01 |
| holstein | can you disable that HDMI out in the bios? | 15:01 |
| holstein | for troubleshooting purposes? | 15:01 |
| Ricaz | I can try, never knew what it was for | 15:01 |
| seidos | mutsa: what wifi device is it? | 15:01 |
| mutsa | holstein: yes, the system is update. | 15:01 |
| Ricaz | when i did that aplay -l ealier, it returned something | 15:02 |
| seidos | Ricaz: when earlier? different version of ubuntu? what version are you using now? | 15:02 |
| Ricaz | no, like 15m ago, and no, I've never been using anything but this, which I suppose is the latest | 15:02 |
| Ricaz | after i tried manually installing drivers, the aplay listed nothing | 15:03 |
| holstein | this = ? | 15:03 |
| holstein | 10.10 32bit? | 15:03 |
| holstein | 64bit? | 15:03 |
| Ricaz | 32bit | 15:03 |
| mutsa | seidos: 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01) | 15:03 |
| mutsa | 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02) | 15:03 |
| Ricaz | why is my ethernet controller from realtek? o.o | 15:03 |
| seidos | mutsa: let me search the web to see if anyone else is having a similar problem with your hardware on 10.04 | 15:04 |
| holstein | Ricaz: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1593095&page=4 | 15:04 |
| holstein | ^^ relavant thread it seems | 15:04 |
| * holstein bbl... | 15:05 | |
| mutsa | seidos: tks a lot | 15:05 |
| seidos | mutsa: i found this link, http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1488997 reading it now | 15:05 |
| Ricaz | i tried installing alsa | 15:05 |
| holstein | Ricaz: you mean updating asla? | 15:06 |
| Ricaz | I .. guess | 15:06 |
| holstein | link what all you have done | 15:06 |
| seidos | holstein: are the sound modules/drivers included with alsa, or with the kernel? | 15:06 |
| holstein | if you can | 15:06 |
| holstein | in the kernel AFAIK | 15:06 |
| holstein | but, there is an update script for alsa | 15:07 |
| holstein | and backports | 15:07 |
| holstein | both of which are plausible fixes | 15:07 |
| Ricaz | first, I downloaded drivers from the realtek website, which contained "alsa-driver-1.0.24" | 15:07 |
| holstein | you dont want to beat your head against the wall though | 15:07 |
| Ricaz | I tried installing that, but it gave me some errors | 15:07 |
| holstein | Ricaz: i think it would be helpful to have those errors | 15:07 |
| Ricaz | i can try installing it again, then | 15:08 |
| holstein | and the page where the drivers came from | 15:08 |
| mutsa | seidos: tks | 15:08 |
| holstein | but, i gotta run for a bit 4 realz... | 15:08 |
| seidos | mutsa: it might help to *paste* the output of sudo lshw to see what module the 3945ABG is using and then search for that | 15:09 |
| Ricaz | http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1493093 | 15:09 |
| Ricaz | this was the thread i looked at | 15:09 |
| Ricaz | http://www.realtek.com/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=24&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&G | 15:09 |
| Ricaz | this was the driver i downloaded | 15:09 |
| seidos | Ricaz: if you do sudo lshw it should show what module/driver is being loaded for your sound chip | 15:10 |
| seidos | if any... | 15:10 |
| seidos | Ricaz: you could try doing something like sudo modprobe snd_hda_intel and see what happens | 15:10 |
| Ricaz | ill start scrolling through that, then | 15:10 |
| seidos | Ricaz: just skim for "multimedia" or "audio" | 15:11 |
| seidos | or search for those keywords | 15:11 |
| Ricaz | yeah, i can only find two | 15:12 |
| Ricaz | and both are from ATI | 15:13 |
| mutsa | seidos: should i paste it here? | 15:13 |
| seidos | !paste | mutsa | 15:13 |
| ubot2 | mutsa: For posting multi-line texts into the channel, please use http://paste.ubuntu.com | To post !screenshots use http://imagebin.org/?page=add | !pastebinit to paste directly from command line | Make sure you give us the URL for your paste - see also the channel topic. | 15:13 |
| Ricaz | sudo modprobe snd_hda_intel does nothing | 15:14 |
| Ricaz | I will do a quick restart, brb | 15:14 |
| seidos | Ricaz: try lsmod | grep snd | 15:14 |
| * seidos is thinking | 15:14 | |
| mutsa | seidos: http://paste.ubuntu.com/568770/ | 15:15 |
| seidos | Ricaz: there is a way to restart alsa...i think sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart | 15:15 |
| seidos | it's a longshot, but it may do something | 15:15 |
| Ricaz | how do you make the vertical line in there? lol | 15:15 |
| seidos | mutsa: have you tried disabling wireless and reenabling from the network applet? | 15:16 |
| seidos | Ricaz: shift \ | 15:16 |
| Ricaz | command not found for the restart | 15:16 |
| seidos | Ricaz: mea culpa, it's sudo /sbin/alsa-utils restart | 15:17 |
| Ricaz | what should that do? | 15:18 |
| seidos | Ricaz: you can also try sudo /sbin/alsa force-reload | 15:18 |
| Ricaz | it restarted it, though | 15:18 |
| mutsa | seidos: i can't the applet is like "locked". The option to disable or enable the network is "lock"/disable. not even wireless or wire connection | 15:18 |
| seidos | Ricaz: well, it should reload the alsa stack i believe | 15:18 |
| seidos | mutsa: you could try killing the applet, and restarting it. pkill nm-applet then alt-f2 nm-applet | 15:19 |
| Ricaz | okay, so i ran the lsmod | grep snd and it returned a bunch of stuff | 15:19 |
| Ricaz | what am I looking for? | 15:20 |
| mutsa | seidos: doesn't fix, still with the exclamation mark | 15:20 |
| seidos | Ricaz: well, some driver is getting loaded. oh, did you scroll through sudo lshw? it should show what device driver is being used for your multimedia device | 15:20 |
| seidos | mutsa: you could try sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart , but that doesn't really affect wireless. | 15:21 |
| seidos | hmmm, i'm out of ideas right now mutsa. | 15:22 |
| * seidos thinks | 15:22 | |
| Ricaz | http://paste.ubuntu.com/568779/ this is my lshw | 15:22 |
| mutsa | seidos: already tried it :S | 15:22 |
| seidos | mutsa: you could do sudo rmmod iwl3945 then sudo modprobe iwl3945 | 15:23 |
| mutsa | seidos: that's ok, tks for the patience | 15:23 |
| seidos | that's more an act of desperation than a thought out solution though | 15:23 |
| Ricaz | this is what I get when i do the lsmod snd thing http://paste.ubuntu.com/568780/ | 15:23 |
| seidos | Ricaz: i'll take a look | 15:23 |
| seidos | if you have any ideas for mutsa's issue i'm all ears | 15:24 |
| mutsa | seidos: still the same :S | 15:24 |
| mutsa | seidos: a printscreen of the applet should help? | 15:26 |
| seidos | mutsa: i'm checking launchpad to see if anyone has created a bug already | 15:26 |
| Ricaz | "Due to different Linux support condition provided by chipset vendors, please download Linux driver from chipset vendors' website or 3rd party website." - This is what Gigabyte has to say about linux drivers -.- | 15:26 |
| Ricaz | I will do a quick restart to see if it fixes things, brb | 15:27 |
| Ricaz | i'm back | 15:30 |
| seidos | Ricaz: i saw, was trying to search launchpad | 15:31 |
| seidos | for mutsa's problem ( i search for yours, but only found hits with driver=HDA) | 15:31 |
| seidos | *searched | 15:31 |
| Ricaz | I have no idea what to do | 15:35 |
| Ricaz | I wish I could just start over | 15:35 |
| seidos | Ricaz: i know what you mean. has it ever worked in any ver. of ubuntu? | 15:36 |
| Ricaz | no, this is the first time I'm ever using ubuntu | 15:36 |
| Ricaz | the only reason i booted it was to get windows working again, but now i kinda like it here | 15:36 |
| seidos | Ricaz: i know what you mean. it isn't always easy getting a system working. i'm glad i'm using ubuntu now | 15:37 |
| seidos | i've been relatively lucky with hardware support, though. especially since Toshiba doesn't officially support linux | 15:38 |
| seidos | i need to try killing nm-applet to help with mutsa's problem. brb | 15:39 |
| Ricaz | alright | 15:39 |
| seidos | mutsa: it is strange that you can't pkill nm-applet and restart it | 15:40 |
| seidos | back | 15:40 |
| seidos | well, there's a driver loaded, i'm not sure why alsa isn't playing nice with it. | 15:41 |
| mutsa | seidos: i can kill it, but after restart it stills not working | 15:41 |
| seidos | mutsa: ah | 15:41 |
| Ricaz | is there a list of hardware that works properly with ubuntu? | 15:41 |
| seidos | mutsa: what if you sudo rmmod iwl3945 then restart nm-applet? does it still not work? | 15:42 |
| mutsa | seidos: when running sudo service network-manager stop && sudo service network-manager start the applet is refreshed but ends up the same | 15:42 |
| seidos | Ricaz: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecommendedHardware | 15:43 |
| mutsa | seidos: still not working | 15:44 |
| seidos | mutsa: what about pkill nm-applet and then nm-applet again after sudo rmmod iwl3945 | 15:44 |
| mutsa | seidos: i did: sudo rmmod iwl3945, then sudo pkill nm-applet, then nm-applet, then sudo modprobe iwl3945, and didn't worked | 15:46 |
| AceRimmer | need a how-to for compiling for a different kernel version then what i'm currently booted on | 15:46 |
| mutsa | seidos: that way didn't worked either | 15:46 |
| mutsa | seidos: i reinstall the networkmanager and the applet, and didn't work for me. it is strange, cause it worked just fine in previous ubuntu versions | 15:47 |
| seidos | mutsa: it worked in previous version of ubuntu though? you should create a bug in launchpad. | 15:47 |
| mutsa | seidos: yes, it worked. hum, ok | 15:48 |
| mutsa | seidos: is there anyway i could connect to wireless networks? i doing it to the wire networks. | 15:49 |
| seidos | mutsa: i'm sure there is a way. it used to work. i just don't know what the problem is. | 15:50 |
| seidos | work=function | 15:52 |
| mutsa | seidos: but is there another way i could connect to wireless networks as i do to wire? to wire networks i use "dhclient eth0" | 15:52 |
| Ricaz | seidos > sudo alsa force-reload returned this http://paste.ubuntu.com/568784/ | 15:52 |
| Ricaz | any clue? | 15:52 |
| seidos | mutsa: ohhhh. maybe. do a search for "connect to wireless command line ubuntu" | 15:53 |
| mutsa | seidos: ok ok, tks a lot ;) | 15:53 |
| seidos | Ricaz: it looks like alsa isn't recognizing the HDA driver that is loaded. | 15:54 |
| seidos | Ricaz: you're using 10.04? you might try upgrading alsa to the newest version, let me find the link for how to do that | 15:55 |
| seidos | !alsa | 15:55 |
| Ricaz | i'm using 10.10 | 15:55 |
| ubot2 | If you're having problems with sound, click the Volume applet, then Sound Preferences, and check your Volume, Hardware, Input, and Output settings. If that fails, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Sound - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting - http://alsa.opensrc.org/DmixPlugin - For playing audio files, see !players and !mp3. | 15:55 |
| seidos | Ricaz: you should consider trying 10.04, if you have a usb stick or a spare cd. | 15:56 |
| Ricaz | how do i downgrade, then? | 15:57 |
| JackyAlcine | o/ ddecator | 15:57 |
| seidos | Ricaz: you could try with a live usb to see if sound works, if it does, then you would have to reinstall. is your /home directory on a separate partition? | 15:59 |
| Ricaz | i don't know much about linux directories, but they should all be on the same partition | 16:00 |
| mutsa | seidos: i think i cannot create a bug in launchpad. I already logged in, and the option to report is disable, my problem? | 16:00 |
| seidos | Ricaz: i think / and /home *should* be separate by default. it makes it easier when reinstalling a different version | 16:01 |
| seidos | mutsa: try "ubuntu-bug nm-applet" from alt-f2 | 16:01 |
| Ricaz | im pretty clueless on the linux directories part, really | 16:01 |
| Ricaz | i suppose "/" is root | 16:01 |
| Ricaz | but I have no idea of how it structures anything, as I've been a windows user all my life | 16:02 |
| seidos | Ricaz: no worries. i'm clueless about tons of stuff. | 16:02 |
| seidos | Ricaz: there's an option during install to mount directories to a specific partition. i'm pretty sure windows doesn't have this capability. | 16:03 |
| Ricaz | exactly, which is why i wouldnt know much about it | 16:03 |
| Ricaz | also, ubuntu has tons of filesystems it supports, and i'm only familiar with FAT32 and NTFS | 16:04 |
| seidos | Ricaz: i didn't know much about it until i heard about it from the peeps here, then tried installing that way | 16:04 |
| Ricaz | i have a usb stick that might contain a windows trojan, would it be safe to plug it in here? | 16:04 |
| seidos | Ricaz: i'm not that familiar with the different filesystems. i tend to use the newest ext filesystem though | 16:04 |
| Ricaz | yeah, that should be what I'm using :) | 16:05 |
| seidos | Ricaz: i couldn't think why it wouldn't be. | 16:05 |
| Ricaz | okay, thanks | 16:05 |
| Ricaz | i'm just really uncomfortable when I try browsing around here | 16:06 |
| Ricaz | I go to the file explorer, and I just get confused | 16:06 |
| seidos | Ricaz: what do you mean "here"? | 16:06 |
| Ricaz | in ubuntu | 16:06 |
| Ricaz | i mean, where am I when i'm in home? can't i see filepaths in the explorer? | 16:06 |
| seidos | ah, yeah, i'm still learning about that. it makes some sense | 16:07 |
| seidos | at least more than before | 16:07 |
| seidos | home is /home/$USERNAME | 16:07 |
| Ricaz | which would be what translated to a windows filepath? | 16:07 |
| seidos | i see directories in nautilus (the explorer) | 16:08 |
| Ricaz | or do they not relate at all? | 16:08 |
| seidos | well, i'm not sure if translation is such a good idea | 16:08 |
| seidos | if you are trying to learn a new language, you're supposed to do the translating later i believe | 16:08 |
| pedro3005 | no u | 16:09 |
| seidos | i think because it doesn't exactly translate perfectly | 16:09 |
| Ricaz | but are these not similar to the ones in windows? | 16:09 |
| seidos | pedro3005: no u...buntu | 16:09 |
| johnny77 | Ricaz: I don't mean to interrupt but here is a link about some differences between Windows and the Ubuntu equivalents. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromWindows | 16:09 |
| seidos | Ricaz: similar, yeah, i guess. /home/$USERNAME has your Music, Documents, folders like this | 16:09 |
| Ricaz | hey, cool johnny77, i've been looking for something like that | 16:10 |
| seidos | johnny77: ^ 5 | 16:10 |
| Ricaz | so there are no real drive letters and stuff like that here? I can see that my other partitions/hard drives are located in /media/Games for example | 16:12 |
| seidos | Ricaz: yeah | 16:12 |
| Ricaz | okay, that clarified alot for me | 16:13 |
| Ricaz | im almost finished downloading 10.4 now, what do you recommend i do when I boot? do i need to overwrite this installation? | 16:14 |
| seidos | Ricaz: just boot from installation media, and see if sound functions | 16:15 |
| seidos | Ricaz: if it does, install over existing install. i have heard you shouldn't have any problems installing over an existing install of ubuntu. | 16:16 |
| Ricaz | so audio should just work right away? | 16:17 |
| seidos | and it should leave /home intact | 16:17 |
| seidos | Ricaz: yes | 16:18 |
| Ricaz | i doubt it will ever do that | 16:18 |
| Ricaz | right now it can't even detect any audio hardware | 16:18 |
| Ricaz | but if it does that next time, i will return :) | 16:18 |
| seidos | Ricaz: well, there is always creating a bug, then going from there | 16:19 |
| holstein | Ricaz: i think you should try a few things | 16:21 |
| holstein | with the audio issue | 16:21 |
| holstein | first thing | 16:21 |
| holstein | update the system after install | 16:21 |
| holstein | maybe the kernel will have an update that will help | 16:22 |
| holstein | then, you can go forward or back with alsa | 16:22 |
| holstein | either backports | 16:22 |
| holstein | or, upgrade alsa | 16:22 |
| Ricaz | http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10054115&postcount=43 | 16:23 |
| holstein | im going to say the backport would be most likely on that hardware | 16:23 |
| holstein | Ricaz: OH | 16:23 |
| holstein | is that you :) | 16:23 |
| Ricaz | Who? On the forum? no | 16:23 |
| Ricaz | I was just wondering what he meant | 16:23 |
| holstein | it seems that mainline kernel has support for his device | 16:24 |
| holstein | Ricaz: thats your device as well right? | 16:24 |
| seidos | that was in 10/31/2010 | 16:24 |
| Ricaz | whats a mainline kernel? | 16:24 |
| holstein | Ricaz: i would try that | 16:24 |
| holstein | before you wipe | 16:24 |
| holstein | and/or reinstall or anything | 16:25 |
| Ricaz | easy now | 16:25 |
| holstein | mainline is pretty much the upcoming kernel | 16:25 |
| holstein | i think its the proposed upcoming kernel to be released | 16:25 |
| seidos | i haven't figured out how to install different kernels from the kernel ppa yet | 16:25 |
| seidos | i have been distracted by other things | 16:26 |
| holstein | apt-get them :) | 16:26 |
| holstein | i usually just try and get the .debs though | 16:26 |
| Ricaz | I was just looking at that thread for solutions | 16:26 |
| holstein | because for me, its usually a temporary thing | 16:26 |
| Ricaz | And he said something worked, but I had no clue what anything he said meant | 16:26 |
| holstein | Ricaz: open a terminal | 16:26 |
| holstein | run | 16:26 |
| holstein | uname -a | 16:26 |
| holstein | and paste that... | 16:27 |
| Ricaz | Linux ubunTOSS 2.6.35-25-generic-pae #44-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 21 19:01:46 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux | 16:27 |
| holstein | SO | 16:27 |
| holstein | we are looking at a fix | 16:28 |
| holstein | from an older kernel | 16:28 |
| Ricaz | .. to this one? | 16:28 |
| holstein | which supports the backport idea i proposed | 16:28 |
| holstein | you have a 2.6.35 | 16:28 |
| holstein | and that mainline kernel from that older post | 16:28 |
| holstein | is a 2.6.32 | 16:28 |
| holstein | could be that during the move forward | 16:29 |
| holstein | support for your device has been taken out | 16:29 |
| seidos | holstein: sadly, that isn't helpful. i would need an entire example for what to put on the $ line | 16:29 |
| holstein | seidos: wget the .deb | 16:29 |
| holstein | and use dpkg :) | 16:29 |
| holstein | in theory* | 16:29 |
| seidos | holstein: that isn't apt-get | 16:30 |
| holstein | right | 16:30 |
| seidos | i'll read the email i got from the kernel ppa team | 16:30 |
| holstein | if you want to add the PPA | 16:30 |
| holstein | you would need to run sudo apt-add-repository whatever... | 16:30 |
| Ricaz | okay, I think I'm going to try and follow seidos' advice and reroll to 10.4 | 16:31 |
| holstein | but, i usually dont for temporary packages like that | 16:31 |
| holstein | Ricaz: try a live CD | 16:31 |
| holstein | those are such a handy tool | 16:31 |
| Ricaz | what IS a live CD? | 16:31 |
| holstein | coming from windows, this was quite progression for me | 16:31 |
| holstein | most of the linux installer discs are live CD's as well | 16:32 |
| holstein | which means | 16:32 |
| holstein | you can run the OS from CD or DVD or USB | 16:32 |
| holstein | or whatever | 16:32 |
| holstein | live | 16:32 |
| MrChrisDruif | You can boot up and try the system before installing | 16:32 |
| Ricaz | i come from windows, i've been "using" linux for a couple of hours | 16:32 |
| holstein | without effecting your current machine setup | 16:32 |
| Ricaz | okay, i'll try that | 16:32 |
| holstein | the hard drive will not be changed | 16:32 |
| Ricaz | i just made a USB drive | 16:32 |
| seidos | Ricaz: cool! \o/ | 16:33 |
| Ricaz | thanks for your help then, i'll probably return soon o/ | 16:33 |
| holstein | Ricaz: come ask it that gets fiddly | 16:33 |
| holstein | usually easy though :) | 16:33 |
| holstein | good luck | 16:33 |
| seidos | live usbs are nifty | 16:33 |
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| Ricaz | hey again | 16:42 |
| Ricaz | so my live USB disk didn't work. "Unknown keyword in configuration file: gfxboot" | 16:44 |
| Ricaz | "vesamenu.c32 not a COM32R image" | 16:44 |
| Ricaz | but! now my sound hardware is back, without sound | 16:45 |
| holstein | i usually format those USB sticks each time | 16:47 |
| javatexan | fixed it, had to delete the printer and remake it... :( almost reminded me about my time in captivity while using windows | 17:03 |
| Ricaz | Hello, I need some help. I recently had to format my other PC to re-install Windows 7, but everything really screwed up and the USB drive I had the win7 installer on has been corrupted. I need to know if there are apps to create bootable USB drives for win7 on Ubuntu? | 20:06 |
| Ricaz | Another thing is, I need to get the .iso from my PC, so I put in an Ubuntu USB installer and tried to boot directly from it, but after the initial loading screen, the screen just failed to find any input (screen went blank). | 20:07 |
| bioterror | use windows cd to repair windows partitions | 20:09 |
| bioterror | or dvd | 20:09 |
| Ricaz | I did try that at first, but my whole installation had been corrupted, so I wanted to re-install Windows. | 20:10 |
| seidos | Ricaz: couldn't get ubuntu functioning on your hardware? | 20:16 |
| Ricaz | well, as i wrote, when i launched it from the usb, the screen just went blank | 20:19 |
| Ricaz | then i tried it on my laptop, and it loaded it 10x as fast and had no problems at all | 20:19 |
| Ricaz | everything works perfectly on this | 20:20 |
| Ricaz | but i need to get windows back on my other PC, so i want to get the win7 iso from that PC, then make a bootable USB stick from ubuntu to install win7 from | 20:20 |
| bioterror | I would use gentoo or arch livecd which comes without X | 20:21 |
| Ricaz | without X? | 20:24 |
| Ricaz | im a complete noob when it comes to linux | 20:24 |
| Ricaz | what i need is something I can put on a CD or USB drive, that will let me boot my PC and take a file from the hard drive and put that on a media. | 20:28 |
| holstein | Ricaz: you can do that with any live CD | 20:29 |
| holstein | any of the normal buntu live install meida | 20:29 |
| holstein | media | 20:29 |
| Ricaz | the problem is, i put in my ubuntu live USB, and when i tried booting ubuntu, screen went blank after loading | 20:30 |
| holstein | Ricaz: have you ever seen the desktop? | 20:30 |
| holstein | from the live media? | 20:30 |
| Ricaz | yes, on my laptop I have, but not on the PC | 20:30 |
| Ricaz | I get to the menu where i can choose whether I want to start ubuntu, install it, run a memtest etc | 20:31 |
| holstein | well, the machine in question | 20:31 |
| holstein | OK | 20:31 |
| holstein | Ricaz: at that menu | 20:31 |
| seidos | Ricaz: did you type help at the prompt when you booted from live usb? | 20:31 |
| holstein | there are options at the bottom | 20:31 |
| holstein | F6 is one | 20:31 |
| seidos | sometimes you can just type "live" to start up the live usb | 20:31 |
| holstein | when you hit F6 | 20:31 |
| Ricaz | i didnt see anything | 20:31 |
| holstein | you'll see options in there | 20:31 |
| Ricaz | before that menu comes up? | 20:31 |
| holstein | Ricaz: which disc is this? | 20:32 |
| Ricaz | ill start it up again, one second | 20:32 |
| holstein | 10.10? | 20:32 |
| Ricaz | it is 10.4 on a USB drive | 20:32 |
| holstein | that should be right | 20:32 |
| Ricaz | it is, i just installed ubuntu on this machine from it | 20:32 |
| holstein | what you're interested in (i think) | 20:33 |
| holstein | is nomodeset | 20:33 |
| Ricaz | yes, i saw that | 20:33 |
| holstein | under that f6 menu | 20:33 |
| Ricaz | i dont know what you mean about the f6 menu, i wasn't prompted | 20:33 |
| holstein | when you see | 20:33 |
| Ricaz | okay, im starting it up now, with the usb | 20:33 |
| holstein | install ubuntu | 20:33 |
| holstein | try ubuntu live | 20:33 |
| Ricaz | going to the boot menu | 20:33 |
| holstein | memory test | 20:33 |
| holstein | whatever else | 20:33 |
| holstein | after selecting language | 20:34 |
| holstein | down at the bottom there | 20:34 |
| Ricaz | im there. a big white ubuntu logo and those options | 20:34 |
| holstein | should be several options | 20:34 |
| holstein | F6 is one | 20:34 |
| Ricaz | there are no options | 20:34 |
| Ricaz | it says "press enter to boot or tab to edit a menu entry" | 20:34 |
| Ricaz | i can take a picture for you, if you'd like | 20:34 |
| holstein | nah | 20:34 |
| holstein | its because of the USB | 20:34 |
| holstein | hmmm | 20:34 |
| holstein | might be worth burning a disc over | 20:35 |
| holstein | thats a good test | 20:35 |
| holstein | good thing to know | 20:35 |
| bioterror | why not just edit the bootline and add into the end nodemoset | 20:35 |
| bioterror | nomodeset | 20:36 |
| bioterror | even | 20:36 |
| Ricaz | i should burn a dvd now? | 20:36 |
| bioterror | it doesnt matter | 20:36 |
| Ricaz | whats this suggestion, bioterror? | 20:36 |
| bioterror | usb or dvd | 20:36 |
| Ricaz | excuse my cluelessness | 20:36 |
| holstein | bioterror: of cours | 20:36 |
| holstein | my brain is made of mush now | 20:36 |
| bioterror | but I think Kernel Mode Settings is not the issue | 20:36 |
| Ricaz | you want me to edit a meny entry? | 20:36 |
| bioterror | ricaz, is your desktop pc built from the scratch or is it by some manufacturer | 20:37 |
| Ricaz | menu even | 20:37 |
| holstein | bioterror: what is the equivalent to force-vesa | 20:37 |
| holstein | ? | 20:37 |
| Ricaz | built from scratch | 20:37 |
| bioterror | Ricaz, which gfx card you ahve? | 20:37 |
| bioterror | hace | 20:37 |
| bioterror | have | 20:37 |
| Ricaz | ATI Radeon HD5870 | 20:37 |
| Ricaz | i saw people having issues with this on nvidia cards though | 20:38 |
| Ricaz | they fixed it with the nomodeset thing | 20:38 |
| bioterror | yeah | 20:38 |
| bioterror | when you boot | 20:38 |
| bioterror | you get that grub | 20:38 |
| bioterror | Linux 2.6.35 or something | 20:38 |
| bioterror | and if you press E as edit | 20:38 |
| seidos | so the problem isn't with wanting to create a windows 7 live usb, that's a + | 20:38 |
| bioterror | you can add "nomodeset" without "" into the end of the boot line | 20:39 |
| bioterror | where's vmlinuz-asdasdasd ro splash quiet | 20:39 |
| bioterror | seidos, problem is to get stuff out from that computer which cant get desktop working | 20:39 |
| holstein | O I C | 20:40 |
| holstein | yeah, if you're not planning on installing ubuntu on that machine Ricaz | 20:40 |
| holstein | you can find friendlier fail-safe live media | 20:41 |
| Ricaz | i dont get that grub | 20:41 |
| bioterror | with Trinity Rescue Kit you can mount all media and samba share them ;9 | 20:41 |
| bioterror | not a bad idea | 20:42 |
| holstein | ^^ | 20:42 |
| holstein | thats a great idea | 20:42 |
| bioterror | it's in the boot options | 20:42 |
| holstein | if you want to install ubuntu on there | 20:42 |
| holstein | then, you'll have to tackle this grahics issue at some point | 20:42 |
| holstein | assuming its a graphics issue* | 20:42 |
| Ricaz | well | 20:43 |
| Ricaz | what i really need right now | 20:44 |
| Ricaz | is to grab that file from the hard drive | 20:44 |
| Ricaz | and i only have a laptop with buntu and a USB drive at my service | 20:44 |
| holstein | trinity rescue kit is handy to have around | 20:44 |
| holstein | that or http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ | 20:44 |
| holstein | or something like puppy | 20:44 |
| Ricaz | whatever is easiest | 20:45 |
| holstein | well, it depends | 20:45 |
| holstein | mostly on what you are used to | 20:45 |
| Ricaz | im not used to any of this | 20:46 |
| Ricaz | im used to windows | 20:46 |
| holstein | yeah, so you gotta learn about something anyways | 20:48 |
| Ricaz | so which would i choose | 20:48 |
| Ricaz | something i can put on a USB | 20:48 |
| holstein | http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ is my go-to | 20:48 |
| holstein | for the hard drive tools | 20:49 |
| holstein | vendor hard drive tools | 20:49 |
| holstein | but, trinity has some more advanced resuce tools | 20:49 |
| seidos | Ricaz: did you try typing *help* when you boot the ubuntu live usb? | 20:52 |
| seidos | Ricaz: or "live"? | 20:53 |
| Ricaz | where can i type? | 20:54 |
| Ricaz | holstein, so with UBCD, how do I make that bootable from USB? | 20:55 |
| holstein | Ricaz: i use unetbootin | 20:57 |
| holstein | http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ | 20:57 |
| holstein | its in the repos | 20:57 |
| Ricaz | will it let me do what i need? | 21:00 |
| Ricaz | how do i list all my drives and what they're called? | 21:11 |
| holstein | Ricaz: you got options | 21:11 |
| holstein | thats for sure | 21:11 |
| holstein | Ricaz: in the terminal | 21:12 |
| holstein | sudo fdisk -l | 21:12 |
| Ricaz | /dev/sdb1 could be my usb drive? | 21:12 |
| holstein | could be | 21:12 |
| Ricaz | so, now i just use unetbootin to make whatever live media i want, and that will let me extract the iso i need from my other pc? | 21:13 |
| holstein | i use unet to make bootable USB sticks | 21:14 |
| holstein | not everything works | 21:14 |
| holstein | buntu's work well | 21:14 |
| Ricaz | ill try ubuntu first, then we'll see if it works better than the one i have now | 21:14 |
| seidos | Ricaz: i thought there might be a prompt when you attempt to boot | 21:16 |
| Ricaz | well, i don't see any | 21:16 |
| seidos | Ricaz: it's happened where a live usb won't boot off the bat, but typing live, or live install will get it to work | 21:17 |
| seidos | Ricaz: 1 | 21:17 |
| Ricaz | i dont see where you would type that, though | 21:17 |
| Ricaz | i just start my pc, go to the boot manager and pick the live usb, then it takes me to the screen where i can choose between installing or running, and memtest etc | 21:17 |
| seidos | Ricaz: so you're able to boot the live usb? | 21:21 |
| Ricaz | if by boot you mean reach the menu, then yes | 21:23 |
| Ricaz | seidos, but i cant start nor install ubuntu from it | 21:23 |
| seidos | Ricaz: i meant completely boot it. | 21:24 |
| Ricaz | i can't enter ubuntu from it, no | 21:24 |
| seidos | Ricaz: so when it errors, there isn't a prompt that you can type in? | 21:24 |
| Ricaz | it doesn't error, my screen just goes blank after the loading if i try to install or start ubuntu | 21:25 |
| Ricaz | the only place i can type is when i hit TAB to edit the menu entries, then i can edit the commands for each button | 21:25 |
| seidos | Ricaz: ah, it goes blank. i didn't take what you said literally enough earlier. | 21:26 |
| seidos | and it's a 10.04 live usb? never seen that before. | 21:26 |
| Ricaz | yep | 21:27 |
| Ricaz | downloaded from www.ubuntu.com | 21:27 |
| Ricaz | i'm downloading a 10.10 right now, to see if that works | 21:27 |
| Ricaz | but earlier you suggested some stuff about using a command; can't i just edit one of the buttons in that menu to execute those? | 21:28 |
| krogith | hi everyone, not sure if I am in the right room or not but I am pretty much brand new to the whole linux and ubuntu thing and I am trying to get my printer (epson stylus NX215) working but have had no luck, I was wondering if anyone was available to help | 21:28 |
| holstein | hey krogith :) | 21:29 |
| holstein | welcome | 21:29 |
| holstein | is the printer plugged into the computer via USB ? | 21:30 |
| seidos | Ricaz: can you do an md5sum check on the 10.04 iso? that might have something to do with the error. weird. never seen that before | 21:30 |
| seidos | i have gotten HP printers to work, there was a printer that i used...it might have been an epson. i finally got it working. i had to press the "page feed" button to get it to print | 21:31 |
| seidos | but it finally did | 21:31 |
| Ricaz | seidos, i'm currently putting 10.10 on the USB, so if this one doesn't work, i'll do that | 21:32 |
| seidos | Ricaz: did you make the usb stick from a 10.10 install? | 21:33 |
| seidos | that reminds me, i need to make a 10.04 live usb for my mom's notebook | 21:33 |
| seidos | i think she may want to dual boot | 21:34 |
| Ricaz | this install is 10.4, i'm using UNetbootin to make a 10.10 usb stick | 21:34 |
| seidos | 10.04 | 21:36 |
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| lvnvgc | installed 10.10 dell laptop xps hdmi dont work. terminal typed xrandr. said hdmi is disconected how to connect . thinkyou | 22:08 |
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| Fanshawe | Hello. I can't get Empathy to connect to an MSN chat account. I'm sure I have the right password and settings, because those settings work on Pidgin from another computer. | 22:20 |
| MrChrisDruif | Fanshawe: Empathy from default repos? | 22:22 |
| Fanshawe | Yes. Maybe I've missed an update? | 22:23 |
| MrChrisDruif | I don't know if they put that update through... | 22:23 |
| MrChrisDruif | MSN protocol got some updates or something since 10-10-10 | 22:24 |
| Fanshawe | I'm updating my empathy packages and retrying... | 22:24 |
| Fanshawe | Still no dice. | 22:26 |
| Ricaz | Anyone know how to install nvidia display drivers? on the website it gave me a .run file and told me to use "sh <filename>" to install, but my terminal just returns "couldn't open file" | 22:26 |
| Ricaz | nevermind, didn't know file was case sensitive | 22:28 |
| MrChrisDruif | Ricaz: .run? Anyways, I think you should right click > properties > Permissions > Allow executing as program | 22:28 |
| Fanshawe | Still nothing over here. Are there any other updates I should perform? | 22:28 |
| MrChrisDruif | Ricaz: In Linux EVERYTHING is case sensitive :) | 22:28 |
| MrChrisDruif | Fanshawe: Did you add the empathy ppa? | 22:28 |
| Ricaz | MrChrisDruif, that should be the same, I can only open it in terminal, though. Now it complains about me running an X server, which I also don't know what is. | 22:29 |
| MrChrisDruif | Ricaz: X server is used for you graphical environment | 22:32 |
| MrChrisDruif | Ricaz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_server | 22:32 |
| Fanshawe | Mr.ChrisDruif: empathy ppa? | 22:33 |
| Ricaz | So, to fix it I need to ctrl+alt+f2 and disable that, then run that file again, and enable X once more? | 22:33 |
| MrChrisDruif | Ricaz: Did nvidia provide an readme file? | 22:33 |
| Ricaz | not really, but other people seems to have the same problem | 22:33 |
| Ricaz | can i still paste from clipboard if I go to ctrl+alt+f2? | 22:34 |
| MrChrisDruif | Ricaz: It should....otherwise you can reboot, it should restore to gnome :) | 22:34 |
| MrChrisDruif | !ppa | 22:35 |
| ubot2 | A Personal Package Archive (PPA) can provide alternate software not normally available in the offical Ubuntu repositories - Looking for a PPA? See https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas - WARNING: PPAs are unsupported third-party packages, and should be used at your own risk. | 22:35 |
| MrChrisDruif | Fanshawe: ^ | 22:35 |
| Fanshawe | Thank you. Are you talking about a particular PPA? | 22:38 |
| MrChrisDruif | Yeah, the one of empathy :) | 22:38 |
| GST | got a quick question if anyone's up for it? | 22:39 |
| Ricaz | Why is it so damn hard to install drivers? | 22:39 |
| MrChrisDruif | Fanshawe: https://launchpad.net/~telepathy/+archive/ppa and this ppa from it: ppa:telepathy/ppa | 22:40 |
| MrChrisDruif | Ricaz: Didn't Ubuntu invite you to install proprietary drivers in the beginning? | 22:40 |
| MrChrisDruif | GST: Sure, shoot | 22:40 |
| Ricaz | but I have no idea if they're the newest | 22:41 |
| GST | Looking for an app (may not have been official) that enabled Admin/Sudo for 15 minutes at a time, thought it would come in useful as I re-install programs over the next few days. I found something when I was using Wubi, but today I went ahead and shrank my partition to give 100GB for a "real" ubuntu partition. | 22:41 |
| MrChrisDruif | Ricaz: Probably not the bleeding edge, but still good enough right? | 22:41 |
| MrChrisDruif | GST: Why do you need it? :) | 22:42 |
| MrChrisDruif | Default is 5 mins... | 22:42 |
| GST | That works, so long as I can avoid typing in the password | 22:42 |
| GST | I have nothing against it as I'm a fairly fast typer, it's just a transitional thing | 22:43 |
| MrChrisDruif | GST: If your "really" want to prolong it, why not do sudo su? You go into super user mode | 22:43 |
| lvnvgc | installed ubuntu 10.10 dell laptop xps hdmi port dont work. at the terminal i typed xrandr. said hdmi is disconnected how do i connect hdmi port. thankyou | 22:44 |
| GST | Thanks, I'll look into it, I'm not all that well-versed in terminals/command prompt logic yet, but I'm working on it ; ) | 22:44 |
| aveilleux | GST: You can also use sudo -i instead of sudo su | 22:45 |
| MrChrisDruif | aveilleux: sudo -i? | 22:45 |
| MrChrisDruif | Interactive? | 22:45 |
| aveilleux | MrChrisDruif: Exactly | 22:45 |
| MrChrisDruif | And that prolongs it as well? | 22:45 |
| aveilleux | MrChrisDruif: Yes, it's essentially sudo su except you're running as yourself with elevated privileges rather than root | 22:46 |
| MrChrisDruif | Alright... | 22:46 |
| GST | I'll give that a shot. | 22:46 |
| MrChrisDruif | GST: As you see I'm no terminal wizard yet :P | 22:47 |
| Fanshawe | I updated the MSN connection manager package. Hanging on 'Connecting...' but I think I'm getting there. | 22:48 |
| GST | Yeah, I've done a little navigating, not much else though. | 22:48 |
| GST | @ lvnvgc - did you install the proprietary laptop / video-card drivers (if your XPS has a dedicated card) I'd think that that may be necessary | 22:49 |
| MrChrisDruif | Fanshawe: Great to hear :) | 22:49 |
| MrChrisDruif | XPS is eXtreme Performance System if I'm not mistaken...so your probably right GST | 22:50 |
| Fanshawe | Still hanging. I'm a bit stumped. | 22:50 |
| lvnvgc | I Installed them | 22:50 |
| GST | Well, it depends Chris. I used to have an XPS, I just hope the quality's gone up since 2009. | 22:51 |
| MrChrisDruif | Fanshawe: I prefer Pidgin above Empathy anyway O:-) | 22:51 |
| aveilleux | Empathy is not very good :/ | 22:51 |
| GST | I like it so far, but I'm not a very social person, so I wouldn't know. Simple, easy to use, good basic package =O | 22:53 |
| MrChrisDruif | aveilleux: +1 | 22:53 |
| MrChrisDruif | GST: So is Pidgin ;) | 22:53 |
| Fanshawe | True, but I like all the integration in Ubuntu. | 22:53 |
| GST | Same | 22:54 |
| MrChrisDruif | What does Empathy that Pidgin doesn't? :) | 22:56 |
| MrChrisDruif | (It's going a bit offtopic thou) | 22:56 |
| GST | I think that the main thing is that it's just bundled w/ Ubuntu for inital-use integration that makes it attractive, besides being a cross-IM client. | 22:58 |
| MrChrisDruif | GST: Pidgin "used" to be the default :) And not only is it cross-IM, it's also cross-platform :) | 22:59 |
| GST | Well no one was arguing about the capabilities, lol. I think my best friend uses Pidgin anyhow. | 23:00 |
| GST | Is it possible to manually install video drivers? Mainly configuring Lutris (for emulation) & POL at the moment | 23:00 |
| lvnvgc | i will try im a beginer thankyou | 23:03 |
| JackyAlcine | aveilleux: +1 | 23:03 |
| GST | lvnvgc > Administration > Additional Drivers | 23:04 |
| lvnvgc | lspci -nn | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:29c2] (rev 10) | 23:05 |
| MrChrisDruif | I hope I helped everyone ( GST, Fanshawe, Ricaz ) ok tonight, otherwise I hope that others can help you :) | 23:05 |
| GST | G'nite Mr. Chris | 23:05 |
| Ricaz | you sure did, thanks for your patience :) gnite | 23:05 |
| MrChrisDruif | Always a pleasure Ricaz :) | 23:06 |
| MrChrisDruif | Bye :D | 23:06 |
| Fanshawe | Whoops, missed my chance to say thanks. | 23:08 |
| Fanshawe | Thanks anyway, MrChrisDruif, where ever you may be. | 23:09 |
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