| InHisName | I finally fixed my old linux box after 14 months of freezing at "Checking battery status". | 05:02 |
|---|---|---|
| InHisName | Now am missing my nvidia drivers. I've forgotten how to put the extras into ubuntu ? | 05:03 |
| JonathanD | Morning PA. | 11:10 |
| InHisName | Morning already, JonathanD | 11:12 |
| JonathanD | Yup. | 11:12 |
| JonathanD | Seems like it comes every day! | 11:12 |
| InHisName | amazine! | 11:13 |
| InHisName | can't even spell this early | 11:13 |
| jedijf | InHisName: check 'hardware drivers' | 12:36 |
| JonathanD | InHisName: ask your doctor about amazine. | 12:37 |
| jedijf | InHisName: System--Admin--Hardware Drivers | 12:37 |
| JonathanD | Side effects include muscle loss, nausea, insomnia, death, skin spotting, hair loss, and death. | 12:38 |
| InHisName | Thanks, jedijf, now on to delving into side effects of 'hardware drivers' - muscle loss, nausea, insomnia, death, skin spotting, hair loss, and death. | 13:39 |
| InHisName | Oops mixing threads | 13:39 |
| InHisName | no hdw drivers found. | 13:46 |
| InHisName | attempting to synaptic etc. to put them in. | 13:46 |
| InHisName | I wonder if my sound is gone too. | 13:47 |
| InHisName | jedijf: "no proprietary devices in use on this system". | 13:55 |
| InHisName | I used synaptic to install nividia173 - seemed to be good. | 13:55 |
| InHisName | STILL "no proprietary ..." | 13:56 |
| InHisName | Re-booted | 13:56 |
| InHisName | STILL "no proprietary ..." | 13:56 |
| InHisName | I'm still missing a step somewhere. | 13:57 |
| jedijf | InHisName: if there were no propreitary drivers.....then there are NO PROPREITARY drivers required...the open source ones should work | 14:04 |
| jedijf | required or available | 14:05 |
| jedijf | and if you are in synaptic......they are working...... | 14:06 |
| jedijf | if you /need/ them look here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia | 14:10 |
| PennBot | Title: BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia - Community Ubuntu Documentation (at help.ubuntu.com) | 14:10 |
| InHisName | No, I guess they got an open source one now. | 14:12 |
| InHisName | 'cept my mouse arrow disappeared. Mouse still working just no arrow to see. | 14:13 |
| knightzero | Morning lamalex | 14:25 |
| InHisName | morning knightzero and lamalex and jedijf and JonathanD and who ever else is awake | 14:29 |
| knightzero | A good morning to you as well, InHisName | 14:29 |
| InHisName | OK, so in mouse setup there is option: 'show location of mouse pointer whn ctrl key pressed' | 14:31 |
| InHisName | But it is SILL awkward to move mouse repeatedly pressing control to see if mouse is close enough to do what I want. | 14:32 |
| jedijf | is this in a virtual situation? | 14:34 |
| InHisName | no | 14:34 |
| jedijf | uncheck that control option....remove that nvidia stuff you installed willy nilly....*log* out..log back in | 14:35 |
| InHisName | ok | 14:35 |
| InHisName | wierd! I just switched KVM to old ubuntu with 10.04 now fixed. Mouse came to life, now has arrow. | 14:37 |
| InHisName | I've switched back and forth several times and this is first that had visible mouse arrow.! | 14:38 |
| InHisName | Going into synaptic and removing superfluous software drivers. | 14:39 |
| InHisName | while selecting for removal, screen went black and said: "unsupported screen, going to default 640x400" strange | 14:48 |
| InHisName | continuing with removal..... | 14:48 |
| jedijf | hmmm.....check display and options....maybe not as superfluous as previously thought | 14:48 |
| jedijf | either way... the cursor will now be big enough to see | 14:49 |
| InHisName | even wierder, I re-installed nvidia73. nothing. Rebooted, now can go hi res. | 15:12 |
| JonathanD | I need to fix graphics on crissis old laptop. | 15:12 |
| InHisName | Now NO mouse or ctrl locator function | 15:12 |
| JonathanD | It's an older ATI, I don't think it's very well supported. | 15:13 |
| InHisName | got mouse just no arrow or locator | 15:13 |
| InHisName | tried going into "appearance" screen went black, green led still lit though. | 15:15 |
| InHisName | Probably loosing all hi-res and dropping to default 640x480 | 15:16 |
| InHisName | things still are not stable yet | 15:24 |
| ChinnoDog | InHisName: what was wrong with it? | 15:24 |
| ChinnoDog | oops | 15:24 |
| ChinnoDog | My window was scrolled way up | 15:24 |
| ChinnoDog | n/m | 15:24 |
| InHisName | tried to go hi res and bungled a buncha stuff | 15:24 |
| InHisName | on a system I fixed after being frozen at "checking battery status" for 14 months. | 15:25 |
| andrew | You didn't even try turning off and back on during those 14 months? | 15:30 |
| InHisName | about 100 - 200 times | 15:31 |
| InHisName | this site got me to fix it: http://superuser.com/questions/163621/stuck-on-checking-battery-state-at-startup-in-ubuntu-have-splash-screen-no-start | 15:34 |
| PennBot | Title: Stuck on Checking battery state at startup in Ubuntu, have splash screen no startup - Super User (at superuser.com) | 15:34 |
| InHisName | now am up and running with old system. 'freshly' upgraded to 10.04 | 15:35 |
| InHisName | trying to get mouse arrrow and hi res to play nicely together | 15:35 |
| InHisName | dropped res to 1280 and try rebooting to see what that does. | 15:37 |
| InHisName | ok the mouse finder is back working, But no mouse arrow yet. | 15:40 |
| InHisName | Where do I change the shape of the mouse arrow ? | 15:41 |
| InHisName | how to spell Mr. Bacon's handle name ? | 15:43 |
| InHisName | Ok, I got my mouse arrow back. I had to type my password and there it was. | 15:48 |
| InHisName | I change screen size and need to wait for password prompt to test this hypothesis. | 15:48 |
| InHisName | Sound works but avi only plays sounds no picutures. | 17:05 |
| InHisName | Yes, waiting for password prompt 'restores' the mouse arrow. | 17:06 |
| InHisName | @monolog | 17:38 |
| PennBot | I don't have a clue. | 17:38 |
| InHisName | @help | 17:39 |
| PennBot | InHisName: (help [<plugin>] [<command>]) -- This command gives a useful description of what <command> does. <plugin> is only necessary if the command is in more than one plugin. | 17:39 |
| InHisName | help | 17:39 |
| InHisName | @list | 17:39 |
| PennBot | InHisName: Admin, Alias, Anonymous, BadWords, Channel, ChannelLogger, Config, Filter, Games, Infobot, Karma, Later, Math, Misc, Nickometer, Owner, Seen, Status, String, URL, Unix, Utilities, Weather, and Web | 17:39 |
| andrew | @monologue | 17:40 |
| PennBot | andrew: Your current monologue is at least 1 line long. | 17:40 |
| andrew | spelling helps | 17:40 |
| InHisName | @monologue | 17:40 |
| PennBot | InHisName: Your current monologue is at least 1 line long. | 17:40 |
| InHisName | you interrupted my 2 hour run.... | 17:40 |
| andrew | aww | 17:41 |
| andrew | you could have had it if you spelled correctly | 17:41 |
| InHisName | andrew: any thoughts on when I change screen size, the mouse arrow disappears until I get a password prompt. | 17:41 |
| InHisName | for Ubuntu 10.04 | 17:42 |
| InHisName | Do you know how to spell Mr. bacon's handle name ? | 17:42 |
| jedijf | InHisName: do you have any 'desktop effects' enabled? | 17:47 |
| jedijf | if so, try turning them off | 17:48 |
| InHisName | not yet, set at default bare level. | 18:12 |
| teddy-dbear | SamuraiAlba | 18:15 |
| InHisName | I want more stability before that kind of playing around. | 18:16 |
| InHisName | Thanks teddy-dbear | 18:17 |
| teddy-dbear | somebody needs to learn how to check logs | 18:17 |
| InHisName | @later tell SamuraiAlba Too bad I couldn't send to your fiance instead --- http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/ns_life/2011-04-16/bacon-scented-perfume-sizzles.html | 18:29 |
| PennBot | InHisName: The operation succeeded. | 18:29 |
| InHisName | anyone know of job/career fairs this mon-tues-wed ? | 18:43 |
| knightzero | No knowledge on fairs so to speak, but what field are you looking at, InHisName? | 18:54 |
| knightzero | If you are looking for IT field work, and don't mind the combination of contract work and helpdesk, my agency might have an opening that fits your requirements. | 18:57 |
| knightzero | I know that there's some hiring going on for my location at some point in the near future. | 18:58 |
| InHisName | knightzero: where in PA might that be. I'm near Doylestown. Approx 23mi NORTH of CC. | 19:03 |
| knightzero | The office I work for is in Oaks, PA. However, I know that the company I contract through has customers all over the tri-state area. | 19:12 |
| knightzero | For the location that I work in, you'd be looking at about 25 miles - the commute may or may not be worth it, depending on how much you like driving. | 19:17 |
| jrmy | anyone on? | 19:25 |
| ChinnoDog | We are all "on"... | 19:25 |
| jrmy | right.. | 19:26 |
| jrmy | been awhile.. | 19:26 |
| ChinnoDog | It has. | 19:26 |
| jrmy | anyways my os seems to be messed up and i wonder if theres a way to reinstall it without a cd | 19:26 |
| InHisName | OK, now I've updated grub 2 a few times and have added more pixels and a background. | 19:26 |
| jrmy | liek revert it to a fresh state | 19:26 |
| InHisName | Still need to add 2nd primary partition on sda1 to discover win2008, or do I need to hand code it ? | 19:27 |
| ChinnoDog | jrmy: What exactly is wrong with it? | 19:27 |
| jrmy | ChinnoDog: well it failed updating | 19:28 |
| jrmy | think it has a few other problems | 19:28 |
| ChinnoDog | That doesn't sound like a very good reason to reinstall. Why don't you just fix it? | 19:28 |
| InHisName | I had that, and finally fixed mine last night. | 19:28 |
| jrmy | thought i'd just make it easier | 19:29 |
| InHisName | It was hanging just after 'checking battery status' ??? it was a desktop. | 19:29 |
| ChinnoDog | Reinstalling isn't easier. Just fix it. | 19:29 |
| ChinnoDog | jrmy: first fix your updates. What is happening? | 19:30 |
| jrmy | not sure.. | 19:30 |
| InHisName | does it finish booting to something usable ? | 19:30 |
| jrmy | idk.. i'll try upadting again.. | 19:31 |
| jrmy | ChinnoDog: it says that some of the packages cant be recieved from the servers | 19:33 |
| jrmy | i dont know what packages so i dont know if i want to ignore them.. maybe theyre old and the servers are not existent | 19:34 |
| jrmy | its been forever since i used this thing | 19:34 |
| ChinnoDog | Do a 'sudo apt-get update' from the command line | 19:36 |
| ChinnoDog | It should tell you which sources are broken | 19:36 |
| jrmy | well first im installing the updates it did get | 19:36 |
| jrmy | and i hit yes on ignore so idk if it will show them | 19:36 |
| jrmy | ok im restarting | 19:37 |
| jrmy | should i have updates in the update manager when i do the upadte in terminal? | 19:54 |
| jrmy | and in terminal there isnt any new | 19:54 |
| jrmy | idk im confused | 19:54 |
| jrmy | is it possible i have a virus? | 19:55 |
| InHisName | no updates, maybe you are all updated now | 19:55 |
| jrmy | but im updating from the update manager right now | 19:56 |
| jrmy | however with sudo apt-get update there are none | 19:56 |
| ChinnoDog | jrmy: you don't understand the command you are running | 19:56 |
| jrmy | gotcha | 19:56 |
| ChinnoDog | 'sudo apt-get update' downloads the list of packages from all of your sources | 19:56 |
| jrmy | ive been away too long | 19:57 |
| ChinnoDog | 'sudo apt-get upgrade' is what installs new packages | 19:57 |
| jrmy | oh | 19:57 |
| ChinnoDog | So if 'sudo apt-get update' returns without errors, then run the upgrade | 19:57 |
| jrmy | well i assume thats what im doing with the ubuntu update manager | 19:57 |
| ChinnoDog | Sort of, but update manager won't dump out all the errors fror you | 19:58 |
| jrmy | well so far i havent gotten anymore arrors | 19:58 |
| jrmy | however when i restarted the screen went black.. left it for liek that for awhile then hit trh power switch.. (was still booting and updating.. had an error message or 2 idk) powered it back on and yeah no errors so far | 19:59 |
| jrmy | brb | 20:00 |
| ChinnoDog | That is probably a power management glitch | 20:01 |
| jrmy | back | 20:02 |
| jrmy | the computer is old | 20:03 |
| jrmy | guess i'll run sudo apt-get upgrade after it installs the stuff | 20:03 |
| InHisName | My server install from sat, is doing the 'upgrade' now. I have LOTS and LOTS of things upgrading. | 20:08 |
| jrmy | sheesh | 20:10 |
| InHisName | Oh it just finished. | 20:10 |
| jrmy | do you have slow internet? | 20:11 |
| jrmy | ChinnoDog: i think my sound drivers are gone | 20:13 |
| ChinnoDog | "gone"? | 20:13 |
| jrmy | no.. wait just looks liek the sound was muted.. lol | 20:13 |
| jrmy | ok i'll restart again since it says i have to and do the upgrade via terminal | 20:14 |
| InHisName | on my repaired linux, for 1st time the sound did NOT go away after a version upgrade. | 20:14 |
| InHisName | any grubbers around ? | 20:17 |
| jrmy | guess its fine now | 20:20 |
| jrmy | nothing needs to be updated or upgraded apparently | 20:21 |
| InHisName | 485 passed ? | 20:26 |
| InHisName | scratch that | 20:26 |
| jedijf | < jedijf> grub2? | 20:27 |
| jedijf | 15:26 < Pacs_Bot> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 | 20:27 |
| PennBot | Title: Grub2 - Community Ubuntu Documentation (at help.ubuntu.com) | 20:27 |
| ChinnoDog | jrmy: anything else broken? | 20:29 |
| jrmy | ChinnoDog: not that i know of | 20:31 |
| jrmy | how do i change the audio device? | 20:39 |
| jrmy | cant seem to find it | 20:43 |
| jrmy | as it seems i have power to my onboard audio but nothing comes out | 20:43 |
| jrmy | maybe this is missing | 20:44 |
| jrmy | well im following a thing on this site to update the alsa driver i guess | 20:55 |
| jrmy | dunno if it'll fix it | 20:55 |
| jedijf | lamalex: i want some | 20:58 |
| jedijf | like, immediately | 20:58 |
| jedijf | even properly named | 20:58 |
| lamalex | jedijf, you want some what? | 20:58 |
| jedijf | eggplant | 20:58 |
| lamalex | ha oh | 20:58 |
| lamalex | eggplant parmejawn sandwich would be bitchin | 20:58 |
| lamalex | and so messy | 20:59 |
| jrmy | what does eggplant taste like? | 20:59 |
| jedijf | about a month ago i was at a diner (surprise) and had a taste for eggplant....well eggplant was $60 per case so they didn't have any.....lame | 20:59 |
| jedijf | jrmy: chicken, of course | 21:00 |
| jrmy | lol | 21:00 |
| lamalex | i'm thinking about cooking up some eggplant tonight | 21:01 |
| InHisName | yum! | 21:12 |
| jrmy | so hows things in PA? | 21:27 |
| InHisName | ok, but jobs still hard to get hold of. | 21:31 |
| InHisName | The "Windows Recovery (loader)" option in grub 2, apparently is NOT a recovery partition but the boot for Win2008. | 21:40 |
| InHisName | How come grub comes up with that name ? I gave in and tried it when hd0,2 wouldn't boot or be found. hd0.1 booted just fine as before. When I rebooted again, and pressed nothing, default was still linux server. | 21:43 |
| InHisName | I've booted into linux server and the two nics are reversed from what I origionally setup. I want to reverse the info between the two nics. Where to find it at ? a xyz.conf file ? | 23:22 |
| jedijf | switch the cables | 23:23 |
| InHisName | I did. now to switch the data to follow the moved cables. | 23:24 |
| InHisName | the settings for eth1 is in eth0 and vice versa | 23:24 |
| jedijf | switch cables /one/ more time | 23:24 |
| InHisName | NO already did that to set windows back correct. I want to learn more of the ubuntu side of adjusting things this time. | 23:25 |
| InHisName | mostly need to find where default gateway is set for eth0 and remove it to eth1 | 23:28 |
| InHisName | maybe dns settings too. | 23:28 |
| InHisName | kids home, itermittent till 9pm | 23:29 |
| jedijf | cat 70-persistent-net.rules | 23:29 |
| jedijf | in /etc/udev/rules.d ^^^ InHisName | 23:30 |
| jedijf | put mac address in right spot..../etc/init.d/networking restart | 23:30 |
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