| nnonix | Well there are certainly more people in here since I visited last. | 05:02 |
|---|---|---|
| seidos | hi Guest6587 :) | 06:02 |
| Guest6587 | hi | 06:03 |
| seidos | greetings ubuntu brethren. I'm visiting from California, i hope that's okay. | 06:03 |
| tonyyarusso | I suppose we can put up with you for a while :P | 06:04 |
| seidos | i was talking to Guest6587 in #ubuntu-beginners. he's in Minneapolis. he's having an issue with a livecd that's blank. Nvidia 6150LE integrated graphics. | 06:05 |
| seidos | i thought it would be cool to hook him up with you guys or a LUG or something | 06:05 |
| tonyyarusso | and by this you mean his screen is blank after booting it, not that the CD itself is blank? | 06:06 |
| seidos | indeed, screen is blank. | 06:06 |
| seidos | sorry, i should be reading what i type out loud | 06:07 |
| tonyyarusso | Tried the "Safe Graphics" mode? | 06:07 |
| seidos | i didn't know there was a safe graphics mode from a livecd | 06:07 |
| tonyyarusso | Indeed there is. | 06:08 |
| tonyyarusso | I think it's one of the function keys on the first screen. | 06:08 |
| seidos | never used it. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD doesn't have anything on a "safe graphics mode" | 06:08 |
| seidos | Guest6587: did you catch that? apparently there's a safe graphics mode from a livecd/liveusb you can try | 06:09 |
| Guest6587 | I think I heard something about holding the left shift key | 06:09 |
| tonyyarusso | https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions | 06:09 |
| seidos | Guest6587: i think it's F4 | 06:10 |
| tonyyarusso | Guest6587: That's for picking a kernel in grub on an installed system - I don't think it applies to anything on the LiveCD. | 06:10 |
| seidos | thanks tonyyarusso | 06:10 |
| Guest6587 | Hmm... the menu doesn't look like in the screenshots when I boot up and F4 doesn't do anything | 06:13 |
| tonyyarusso | If you have just the blank screen with the tiny icons of a keyboard and a person, press enter once. | 06:15 |
| seidos | Guest6587: what version? 10.04 64bit? | 06:16 |
| Guest6587 | 10.04 32bit | 06:17 |
| seidos | i'm installing virtualbox so i can try it out | 06:17 |
| seidos | ah, i better start downloading that iso. i only have 32bit 10.10 | 06:17 |
| Guest6587 | I get a menu like in the screenshots, but it doesn't have the Fn options on the bottom and the logo is different | 06:18 |
| seidos | i'll download 10.04.2 32bit desktop and see what it looks like in virtualbox | 06:18 |
| * tonyyarusso downloads too | 06:20 | |
| seidos | 11 min on torrents here | 06:21 |
| Guest6587 | trying 10.10 64bit next | 06:21 |
| tonyyarusso | Ah, it does just start booting right away. Interesting. | 06:21 |
| seidos | dang, what kind of connections do you guys have out in MN o_o | 06:22 |
| tonyyarusso | hehe | 06:22 |
| tonyyarusso | seidos: Local mirror. | 06:22 |
| tonyyarusso | So, gigabit. | 06:22 |
| Guest6587 | I just got a shiny new modem too | 06:22 |
| seidos | profane rouge :| | 06:23 |
| tonyyarusso | Guest6587: Okay, actually the holding the shift key advice was correct as it turns out. Then you'll select your language. Now I just have to find where they moved this option to. | 06:24 |
| Guest6587 | oh crap, this guy told me to do exactly this stuff in #ubuntu-installer but that was before I performed a voodoo ritual and got the screen to keep working in the menu and not immediately go blank | 06:27 |
| Guest6587 | and then I logged out and lost the chat | 06:28 |
| tonyyarusso | Guest6587: Found it. Press F6 ("Other options") and select "nomodeset". Then Esc to get out of that menu, and Enter to boot. | 06:29 |
| Guest6587 | ah, yes that was it | 06:29 |
| Guest6587 | geez, creating the install USB is taking forever | 06:36 |
| seidos | thanks tonyyarusso, this was cool. i should see about hooking up beginners to their ubuntu user group's more often | 06:45 |
| tonyyarusso | Indeed :) | 06:45 |
| seidos | tonyyarusso: are you in the ubuntu beginners team? i know i've seen your name around. perhaps in #ubuntu-offtopic? | 06:46 |
| tonyyarusso | seidos: mostly -ot. I've done some stuff with -beginners, but not lately. | 06:46 |
| seidos | tonyyarusso: right on | 06:47 |
| seidos | well i gotta' go to bed guys. hopefully i'll see you around | 06:47 |
| Guest6587 | Whelp, the menu I get looks like this: http://www.thomasvjames.com/blog/uploads/20100609004.jpg | 06:50 |
| Guest6587 | ...except where it says netbook | 06:51 |
| tonyyarusso | Guest6587: are you sure that's 10.04? | 06:52 |
| Guest6587 | supposed to be 10.10 64bit | 06:52 |
| tonyyarusso | what's under the advanced options stuff? | 06:55 |
| Guest6587 | just an option to go back | 06:55 |
| Guest6587 | there is a terminal like thing with some menus I can bring up by selecting Help, but it automatically boots just a second after I do | 06:58 |
| tonyyarusso | hmm | 06:59 |
| Guest6587 | I think it's from when I mistakenly used the alternate install .iso: the same menu came up then, but I just redid the USB with the regular download so I don't see how it's carrying over | 07:05 |
| tonyyarusso | oh, that could be | 07:08 |
| tonyyarusso | Might be that your flashing just didn't work or something. | 07:09 |
| tonyyarusso | Anyway, I have to go to bed, so I'm afraid we'll have to follow up some other day. | 07:09 |
| Guest6587 | yeah | 07:09 |
| Guest6587 | good night and thanks for your help | 07:10 |
| Guest6587 | SUCCESS! | 07:38 |
| damian | Is there a way to get a usb's serial number and its block device in /dev? "lsusb -v" is unreliable (it says the connection is timing out), the files in /proc/scsi/usb-storage/ don't mention the device and the numbers don't seem to mean anything. | 18:08 |
| damian | hdparm doesn't work on usbs | 18:09 |
| damian | I have three usbs that look exactly and I can have them connected all at once I want some way to identify each of them. Naming partitions worked until I started playing too much | 18:12 |
| damian | Does anyone know how disk utility gets the serial number? | 18:14 |
| damian | I want to setup a server in the future for an installfest and frankly, its a hell of a lot easier to use a gui. Can I set everything up in a graphical session, do CTRL+ALT+F1 (switch to TTY1), then use "kill -s STOP $(pidof Xorg)"? | 21:06 |
| damian | killing Xorg outright kills the session and everything spawned from it. | 21:07 |
Generated by irclog2html.py 2.7 by Marius Gedminas - find it at mg.pov.lt!
