[00:53] <earthling_> anyone know of a way to make a snap-to feature like they have in XP?
[00:53] <earthling_> where the mouse cursor goes to the dialogue button automatically
[01:02] <DarkwingDuck> Snap to?
[01:02] <DarkwingDuck> You mean like dragging a window to the right and it resizes to the the right half
[01:02] <DarkwingDuck> ?
[01:02] <DarkwingDuck> earthling_:
[01:02] <DarkwingDuck> ^^^^
[01:06] <earthling_> the cursor goes on top of a button
[01:08] <earthling_> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/accessibility/snapto.mspx
[01:14] <DarkwingDuck> Not that I know of
[01:24] <earthling_> ok
[01:24] <DarkwingDuck> Sorry mate
[01:24] <DarkwingDuck> You can dig google for it.
[01:25] <DarkwingDuck> someone might have figured out how.
[01:25] <earthling_> no prob
[01:25] <earthling_> I put in an idea in the brainstorm forum
[01:25] <earthling_> didn't find any
[01:26] <DarkwingDuck> Lots of stuff on google that isn't there.
[01:26] <earthling_> yep
[01:26] <earthling_> I checked google too
[01:27] <earthling_> I'm always looking for ways to speed things up
[01:30] <DarkwingDuck> :D
[01:31] <earthling_> :)
[05:17] <yax51> anyone know where I can find linux drivers for asus g50vt x-5? they don't have any on the asus page and I need my webcam drivers...
[05:21] <bioterror> indout which chipset it uses
[05:21] <bioterror> find
[05:22] <bioterror> would help more finding the drivers
[05:25] <yax51> Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd 1.3 MPixel UVC Webcam
[05:26] <yax51> I find it in lsusb, but nothing works with it
[05:27] <yax51> cheese says its there, but I get no picture
[05:28] <yax51> skype also
[05:30] <bioterror> then you have drivers
[05:30] <bioterror> you need to file a bug raport
[05:33] <yax51> I had it working at one point just fine, maybe I turned it off somehow with out realizing it....
[05:33] <yax51> is there a way to access the setting of my webcam?
[05:35] <duanedesign> yax51: can you try the  command:   lsmod | grep video
[05:36] <duanedesign> I think the driver is called uvcvideo
[05:37] <yax51> http://paste.ubuntu.com/580008/
[05:39] <duanedesign> yep, as bioterror already noted itis not because of lack of driver...
[05:39] <duanedesign> hmm
[05:39] <yax51> yeah, but I was going to reinstall them and see if that did anything
[05:45] <duanedesign> yax51: does this command return something:   ls /dev/video*
[05:48] <duanedesign> yax51: if you have ffmpeg installed you can test the camera with:   ffmpeg -f oss -f video4linux2 -s 320x240 -i /dev/video0 out.mpg
[05:48] <yax51> /dev/video0
[05:49] <duanedesign> also some troubleshooting steps here:  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Webcam/Troubleshooting
[05:49] <yax51> sweet!
[05:50] <yax51> the funny thing is that it was working fine like 3 days ago
[05:50] <duanedesign> yax51: coould be a brightness issue
[05:51] <duanedesign> yax51: see the picture is dark section on that wiki page
[05:52] <duanedesign> yax51: one more link :) this is specific to the driver you are using. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UVC
[05:52] <duanedesign> best of luck I gotta get a few hours sleep. Let us know hoe it goes
[05:53] <yax51> Thanks!!
[06:18] <yax51> ok that was dumb
[06:19] <yax51> it was my NVidia graphics driver, switched to the current one, and Bingo everything works
[06:20] <bioterror> good
[09:32] <mR0> I need help with my canon "CanoScan Lide 100". It detected when check it via terminal. But when I open it from Applications >>> Graphics >>> Simple Scan, it tells me that no scanners detected.
[09:32] <mR0> I need help with my canon "CanoScan Lide 100". It detected when check it via terminal. But when I open it from Applications >>> Graphics >>> Simple Scan, it tells me that no scanners detected.
[09:33] <mR0> http://paste.ubuntu.com/580050/
[10:13] <ikt> mR0, what version of ubuntu are you using?
[10:17] <mR0> ikt Im using 10.10 (maverick)
[10:27] <ikt> mR0, I don't think it is compatible
[10:27] <ikt> actually
[10:27] <ikt> looks like there is a hack
[10:29] <ikt> have you seen this thread? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1033181
[10:29] <mR0> How to... ikt?
[10:29] <mR0> I'll try & report back later
[10:31] <ikt> gl :)
[10:31] <ikt> It's unfortunate that canon don't offer better support :/
[10:33] <mR0> btw, do I need to configure "git", ikt?
[10:34] <ikt> hrmm
[10:34] <ikt> one sec
[10:38] <duanedesign> morning all
[10:39] <mR0> gud afternoon duanedesign :P
[10:46] <ikt> mR0, sorry I can't see where git is mentioned
[10:48] <mR0> ikt, it doesn't mentioned on ur suggested URL... But another one in Indonesian lang...
[10:50] <ikt> ah ok
[10:50] <ikt> git is used for storing code
[10:56] <mR0> wht about this http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1033181&page=2 ikt?
[10:58] <ikt> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9462309&postcount=14
[11:01] <mR0> oke ikt, thanks for ur helps.... I'll try it later, I've company come to my desk. See u later...
[11:37] <s-fox> Hello.
[11:37] <duanedesign> hello hello s-fox
[17:10] <KinkyPinkie> how much space would you reccomend me giving a partition for 64bit 10.10?
[17:11] <holstein> KinkyPinkie: i think 8 to 10 should be minimal
[17:11] <holstein> GB's
[17:11] <KinkyPinkie> ok, thanks :)
[17:11] <holstein> you can probably fit on 6 alright
[18:01] <s-fox> Goodbye.
[18:57] <kristian-aalborg> hi
[18:58] <kristian-aalborg> I was thinking of something... can I have a menu for different sessions when I boot up
[18:59] <kristian-aalborg> for instance: 1) run gnome session --- 2) run cli session with program A --- 3) run cli session with program B ?
[19:18]  * kristian-aalborg thinks aloud... this could be done in bash + dialog, hurm...?
[19:42] <hggdh> kristian-aalborg, you already have something like that on GDM -- you can select to run Gnome, or an X term, etc
[19:46] <kristian-aalborg> hggdh: gdm is too heavy
[19:47] <hggdh> kristian-aalborg, there is XFCE, for example (Xubuntu), and other WMs as options
[19:47] <kristian-aalborg> I was thinking something as light as possible
[19:48] <kristian-aalborg> there's a thing called quingy, I think... that might fit the job
[19:48] <kristian-aalborg> ah - SLIM will be fine, I think
[19:48] <kristian-aalborg> also that one is rather easy to work with
[20:50] <KinkyPinkie> anyone know a good tool to defragment and partition an external drive?
[20:51] <head_victim> KinkyPinkie: use a livecd with gparted on it for partitioning and fsck is a good file system checking tool.
[20:51] <KinkyPinkie> gparted doesn't seem to recognise my drive
[20:52] <holstein> KinkyPinkie: maybe its dead?
[20:52] <KinkyPinkie> nono
[20:52] <holstein> in a terminal
[20:52] <holstein> sudo fdisk -l
[20:52] <holstein> KinkyPinkie: have you used gparted before?
[20:52] <holstein> theres a drop down in the upper right
[20:52] <KinkyPinkie> yes
[20:52] <holstein> where you choose the drive*
[20:53] <KinkyPinkie> i'll just try some more googling. thanks anyway :)
[20:53] <holstein> well, i would think google will say gparted
[20:54] <holstein> what do you get when you run sudo fdisk -l?
[20:54] <holstein> do you see the drive?
[21:04] <hggdh> well, one must specify the disk on fdisk: 'fdisk /dev/sda'
[21:05] <holstein> i was going for more of a list of what is mountable
[21:06] <hggdh> even on -l; also you will need root
[21:07] <holstein> sudo fdisk -l ??
[21:07] <holstein> for me that just lists what the computer can see
[21:07] <holstein> what would be mountable if its not mounted
[21:07] <KinkyPinkie> yea well i'm giving up on the defrag thing anyway, don't want to risc it with some home-made tool :P better boot to w7 (shoot me)
[21:08] <holstein> i dont know why gparted is not doing that though..
[21:08] <KinkyPinkie> and maybe things will work out after the restart
[21:08] <holstein> lol
[21:08] <holstein> home-made tool ;)
[21:08] <KinkyPinkie> :P
[21:08] <holstein> do what makes you feel safe :)
[21:47] <kristian-aalborg> hi holstein
[21:47] <kristian-aalborg> would anybody have a .nanorc file that's good for prose?
[22:37] <head_victim> Anyone know how I can track down the cause input hanging (both keyboard and mouse lag badly) that occurs locally on the machine and even when SSH'd into the machine
[22:37] <LukasB> Hi all, I am trying to install Ubuntu 10.10 with vmplayer on windows xp. In the end of the installation it tells it installs vm tools and I have to wait until the graphical environment appears... Insteat I get a comand line screen to login... I tried to enter my username and password. Username works but the password line doesnt show any response... Can anyone please help me?
[22:53] <charlie-tca> password will appear to be blanks or not working, just type it in correctly and hit enter
[22:53] <charlie-tca> It will let you log in
[22:55] <LukasB> Thank you charlie, that didnt work but I changed some settings and it goes straight to the ubuntu environment now :-)
[22:56] <charlie-tca> Glad I couldn't help, then ;-)