| JackXu | Hey, latest Xubuntu, screen brightness won't change on a Samsung N150 (Atom 1.66). Hotkey gives brightness indicator, but no change, and my brightness changes in Power Settings don't "save" | 00:58 |
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| JackXu | Any ideas? | 00:58 |
| holstein | JackXu: how about in gnome? | 00:59 |
| holstein | or unity? | 00:59 |
| holstein | have you tried that with a live CD ? | 00:59 |
| JackXu | No Gnome, and in Xu, it wouldn't change before, but i rebooted it while on battery and now it's stuck at 20% | 01:00 |
| JackXu | *Xfce | 01:01 |
| holstein | right, xubuntu is running XFCE | 01:01 |
| JackXu | Yeah, lol, just sounded funny to say "Xu" | 01:01 |
| holstein | what im wondering is.. is there a scenario in which you have encountered normal functionality ? | 01:01 |
| JackXu | Nope | 01:03 |
| JackXu | I looked, I don't even have a "VGA" or anything graphical in my /proc/acpi dir | 01:04 |
| holstein | i found a bug | 01:04 |
| holstein | https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/574250 | 01:04 |
| ubot2 | Ubuntu bug 574250 in udev "SAMSUNG N150 Laptop : Brightness issue" [Undecided,Fix released] | 01:04 |
| holstein | down the page a bit | 01:04 |
| holstein | sudo add-apt-repository ppa:voria/ppa | 01:04 |
| holstein | sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade | 01:04 |
| holstein | sudo apt-get install samsung-tools samsung-backlight | 01:04 |
| holstein | JackXu: as long as you are comfortable with ppa-purge, it wont hurt to try it | 01:05 |
| JackXu | not familiar with it, not afraid to try | 01:05 |
| holstein | JackXu: well, just so you know whats going on, and you're not just copy and pasting randomly | 01:06 |
| holstein | looks like a nice PPA https://launchpad.net/~voria/+archive/ppa/ | 01:06 |
| holstein | JackXu: you'll want to reboot after installing those pacakges | 01:07 |
| JackXu | ok, and i should probably nab all of them? | 01:08 |
| holstein | well, those 2 | 01:08 |
| holstein | samsung-tools samsung-backlight | 01:08 |
| holstein | JackXu: open a terminal | 01:08 |
| holstein | copy and paste in.. | 01:08 |
| holstein | sudo add-apt-repository ppa:voria/ppa | 01:08 |
| JackXu | Yup yup | 01:09 |
| JackXu | I'm installing them now | 01:09 |
| holstein | ^ that will add that source and give you access | 01:09 |
| holstein | JackXu: AH, ok | 01:09 |
| JackXu | yeah, add rep, update the rep listing, install the packages | 01:09 |
| JackXu | i understand more or less, just don't know what to type/ or understand all the commands "&&" does both or something, but i don't know when to use or not use them | 01:10 |
| JackXu | holdstein: thanks for the help, gonna reboot now and let you know if it didn't work | 01:11 |
| holstein | JackXu: it'll get more common though | 01:11 |
| JackXu | whew, lol, big learning curve | 01:11 |
| holstein | i just didnt want to drop a bunch of copy and paste in commands without telling you what they do | 01:11 |
| JackXu | appreciate it | 01:11 |
| jackxu | holstein: it worked, keyboard brightness, and the fn- keys work too, nifty control panel and all. thank you | 01:25 |
| holstein | jackxu: :) | 01:41 |
| holstein | anytime | 01:41 |
| jackxu | holstein: :) | 01:44 |
| ranilynn | my internet wont work | 01:53 |
| ranilynn | hi everyone my internet won't connect even though it detects wireless networks it just says ralink 802.11 bg WLAN then disconnected followed by my home internet | 02:23 |
| ranilynn | hi everyone my internet won't connect even though it detects wireless networks it just says ralink 802.11 bg WLAN then disconnected followed by my home internet | 02:23 |
| holstein | ranilynn: i would try a different driver... maybe even the windows driver with ndiswrapper | 02:24 |
| ranilynn | can i install the windows driver? | 02:24 |
| holstein | ranilynn: assuming you have a known good access point, and you know the machine is the issue | 02:24 |
| holstein | ranilynn: you dont install the windows driver, you use it with ndiswrapper | 02:25 |
| holstein | ranilynn: is it a known good access point? | 02:25 |
| ranilynn | holstein: it has to be my laptop connects to the internet and i've reset my modem/router | 02:25 |
| ranilynn | holtein: it's a good access point | 02:25 |
| holstein | OK | 02:26 |
| holstein | ranilynn: do you have a windows driver handy? | 02:26 |
| holstein | you'll just need the .inf part | 02:26 |
| holstein | driver.inf or whatever | 02:26 |
| holstein | ini? | 02:26 |
| ranilynn | holstein: no i don't have them handy | 02:26 |
| * holstein looking | 02:26 | |
| holstein | ranilynn: would you like to look at the manufacturers site? | 02:27 |
| holstein | see if you can dig them up | 02:27 |
| holstein | i usually go for the XP ones | 02:27 |
| ranilynn | holstein: i went to the manufacturer's site for the linux ones to get 404 not found | 02:27 |
| holstein | ranilynn: right, we are interested in the XP ones right now | 02:28 |
| ranilynn | holstein: ok | 02:28 |
| ranilynn | holstein: i'm at the manufacturer's website under windows support | 02:29 |
| ranilynn | http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php | 02:29 |
| holstein | cool, go for it... you'll want to unzip it | 02:29 |
| holstein | i was thinking more like, at the dell site or whatever | 02:30 |
| holstein | but, give it a go | 02:30 |
| ranilynn | does it matter which ones i go with or just pick one | 02:31 |
| holstein | ranilynn: i would suggest, again, going to the manufacturers site, such as dell or toshiba, and getting the drivers for XP | 02:31 |
| holstein | but, you can just get them, and try them | 02:32 |
| ranilynn | ok i'm doing that | 02:32 |
| holstein | ranilynn: tell me what chipset you have, and we'll look at other potentially easier options | 02:34 |
| ranilynn | how do i find the chipset | 02:35 |
| holstein | open a terminal | 02:35 |
| holstein | run.. | 02:35 |
| holstein | lspci | 02:35 |
| holstein | and you'll see it there | 02:35 |
| holstein | you can run | 02:35 |
| ranilynn | and hp only has lightscribe drivers | 02:35 |
| holstein | lspci -v | 02:35 |
| ranilynn | do you want me to paste this to you | 02:36 |
| holstein | ranilynn: before we do any of this, can you plug it in to a router, and check for, and apply upgrades? | 02:36 |
| holstein | ranilynn: you can pastebin if you want | 02:37 |
| ranilynn | already did that | 02:37 |
| holstein | or just paste that one line* | 02:37 |
| ranilynn | there's a lot of lines | 02:37 |
| ranilynn | :/ | 02:37 |
| holstein | http://paste.ubuntu.com/ | 02:37 |
| ranilynn | http://paste.ubuntu.com/622200/ | 02:38 |
| holstein | ranilynn: hmmm, it doesnt seem to be picked up | 02:40 |
| holstein | ranilynn: what is the unit? | 02:40 |
| holstein | hp mininote? | 02:40 |
| ranilynn | hp slimline | 02:40 |
| ranilynn | s5150t | 02:41 |
| ranilynn | holsein: hp slimline s5150t | 02:47 |
| ranilynn | holstein: would my win7 backup disk have the drivers? | 02:48 |
| holstein | ranilynn: maybe.. are you plugged in? | 02:49 |
| holstein | you need to get a package | 02:49 |
| holstein | sin a terminal | 02:49 |
| holstein | sudo apt-get install ndisgtk | 02:49 |
| holstein | you can run that from the menu (called windows drivers, or something like that) | 02:49 |
| ranilynn | it's running | 02:50 |
| ranilynn | now should i reboot when it's done? | 02:50 |
| holstein | nope | 02:50 |
| holstein | ndisgtk is running? | 02:50 |
| holstein | http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1172535/temp/netathr.inf | 02:50 |
| holstein | try that driver | 02:50 |
| holstein | i extracted it from the .exe on the HP site | 02:51 |
| holstein | *didnt say ralink though | 02:51 |
| ranilynn | do i just copy all this into terminal | 02:51 |
| holstein | nah | 02:52 |
| holstein | ranilynn: you have ndisgtk running? | 02:52 |
| holstein | thats what i thought you meant by 'its running' | 02:52 |
| ranilynn | it's already done | 02:52 |
| holstein | OK | 02:52 |
| ranilynn | i put that in and hit enter | 02:52 |
| holstein | so, download that driver | 02:52 |
| holstein | ranilynn: put what it? | 02:52 |
| holstein | that URL? | 02:53 |
| holstein | you need to download it, right? | 02:53 |
| holstein | you did that? | 02:53 |
| holstein | then, point ndisgtk at the downloaded netathr.inf | 02:54 |
| holstein | it'll either magically fire up, or you'll need to do some research | 02:54 |
| philipballew | can someone help me with recovering my files off a messed up flash drive | 03:35 |
| holstein | philipballew: sure | 03:36 |
| holstein | sudo apt-get install testdisk | 03:36 |
| holstein | and use photorec | 03:36 |
| holstein | http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec | 03:36 |
| philipballew | sudo photorec i assume. my friend was copying files from a flash drish drive when the drive was while still in the laptop came up with a message saying unsafe removel of hardware | 03:38 |
| philipballew | then the files on the flash drive were not in the folder | 03:38 |
| philipballew | holstein, | 03:39 |
| ch3ckmatez | hello~ | 03:41 |
| philipballew | holstein, photorec can not find file headers, i get errors when it starts the recovery | 03:56 |
| holstein | maybe they didnt go at all | 03:56 |
| holstein | if it got pulled before the files got actually written | 03:56 |
| philipballew | well the files would still be there untill something is wrotten over | 03:57 |
| holstein | photorec'll copy them then | 03:57 |
| holstein | im not sure about headers | 03:58 |
| holstein | it doesnt preserve filenames | 03:58 |
| philipballew | maybe i'm doing it wrong | 03:58 |
| holstein | plausible :) | 03:59 |
| holstein | i had to try several times the first go around | 03:59 |
| philipballew | if ubuntu ever goes mainstream i expect a bunch og gui programs will be written for terminal programs | 04:00 |
| philipballew | ill probably still use terminal stuff though | 04:01 |
| philipballew | http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntucat/recoverdeletedfiles/ this is the guide im using | 04:03 |
| holstein | philipballew: but, you didnt delete them | 04:05 |
| holstein | right? | 04:06 |
| philipballew | no i did not. i belive osx's default is to when you drag and drop it copys is | 04:07 |
| philipballew | *it | 04:07 |
| philipballew | holstein, | 04:08 |
| holstein | most every OS i know of assumes copy from different disks | 04:08 |
| holstein | i mean, if you lost them in a copy | 04:08 |
| holstein | just go to the original | 04:08 |
| holstein | the USB stick is the original? | 04:08 |
| philipballew | yeah it is | 04:09 |
| holstein | nah, that doesnt make sense | 04:09 |
| philipballew | the files were orinigaly on the flash drive | 04:09 |
| holstein | well, there still there then | 04:09 |
| holstein | just let photorec copy all the stuff off, and weed through it | 04:10 |
| philipballew | ill try. it keeps giving a weird error | 04:13 |
| holstein | just let it chew on the whole thing | 04:13 |
| philipballew | how so? | 04:14 |
| holstein | i mean, i just select the options as they come | 04:14 |
| holstein | i dont remember the particulars | 04:14 |
| philipballew | the guide im using seemes good | 04:14 |
| philipballew | http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntucat/recoverdeletedfiles/ | 04:14 |
| holstein | eh, i just read the options | 04:15 |
| holstein | choose a source and destination and wait | 04:15 |
| philipballew | sounds easier then it really is | 04:16 |
| holstein | well, best case scenario, in a couple hours, you got a bunch of files to go through | 04:17 |
| holstein | data recovery is not trivial, thats why those recovery folk do so well | 04:18 |
| holstein | but, im sure you can sort it out | 04:18 |
| philipballew | holstein, what type of partition would it be? | 04:26 |
| holstein | philipballew: whatever type it is | 04:27 |
| holstein | i forget the options, but i just go with the most appropriate for the partition type | 04:27 |
| philipballew | haha. i think this flash drive is coroupted :( | 04:27 |
| holstein | sure, but if its showing up, photorec is the deal | 04:28 |
| philipballew | it mounts though | 04:28 |
| holstein | i had one on my phone that died | 04:28 |
| holstein | it didnt mount | 04:28 |
| holstein | but, it showed up after a LONG wait | 04:28 |
| holstein | i even tried writing a new table | 04:28 |
| holstein | then, i just let photorec chew on it overnight | 04:28 |
| holstein | got all the stuff | 04:28 |
| holstein | this was actually a microSD card | 04:29 |
| philipballew_ | i'm probably just doing the options wrong | 04:29 |
| holstein | philipballew_: maybe | 04:29 |
| holstein | is it just an ext3 or 4? | 04:30 |
| holstein | something normal? | 04:30 |
| holstein | or FAT? | 04:30 |
| philipballew_ | its fat i belive | 04:30 |
| philipballew_ | maybe ntfs | 04:30 |
| holstein | i pretty much go with the defaults | 04:30 |
| philipballew_ | its just a simple flash drive | 04:30 |
| holstein | pretty sure i did intel as type | 04:31 |
| holstein | and did the whole disk | 04:31 |
| philipballew_ | ill try it | 04:31 |
| holstein | philipballew_: are the errors relating to the destination maybe? | 04:31 |
| philipballew_ | holstein, it sayd there are zero files to recover | 04:33 |
| holstein | philipballew_: thats not good | 04:33 |
| holstein | are you pointing to the right place? | 04:33 |
| holstein | i mean, you can mount it right? | 04:33 |
| holstein | and you see files on it? | 04:33 |
| philipballew_ | no. i dont see files on it. yes it mounts. i think the files were lost when they were being copied off them and the drive glitched | 04:35 |
| holstein | philipballew_: thats very odd | 04:35 |
| holstein | if photorec dont see anything to save, then you can give up i say | 04:35 |
| holstein | thats my go-to for jobs like that | 04:36 |
| philipballew_ | well they were being copied and the drive somehow unmounted and yet it was still in the drive | 04:36 |
| holstein | philipballew_: :/ | 04:36 |
| holstein | yeah, who knows | 04:36 |
| philipballew_ | then it said dont remove stuff without saftly ejecting | 04:36 |
| philipballew_ | i dont know. crazy stuff | 04:36 |
| holstein | yeah, you should unmount in OSX too | 04:37 |
| philipballew_ | thats what is weird because it was still phsyically inside the drive. intresting | 04:40 |
| ApOgEE | hi all | 04:59 |
| philipballew_ | ApOgEE, hello! | 04:59 |
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| dvz- | wuz good ppl | 05:42 |
| coalwater | if i have a command that needs a display, and i can pass it the display as a parameter, can i start it on an ssh and let it start on the running session that has x server running? | 12:11 |
| geirha | Yes, if you know the displaynumber of the remove display, you can do ssh user@remote DISPLAY="displaynum" command | 13:26 |
| geirha | s/remove/remote/ | 13:26 |
| geirha | If you want the remote command to use the local display, then ssh -X user@remote command | 13:28 |
| coalwater | geirha, could u please explain the -X parameter | 13:37 |
| geirha | It enables X11 forwarding | 13:39 |
| geirha | ssh -X user@remote will do some magic and set a DISPLAY variable on the remote end, which in turn means that any X11 programs you run from the remote shell will be displayed on your local display. | 13:40 |
| coalwater | hm | 13:41 |
| coalwater | ok that's cool but i think it needs a port | 13:41 |
| coalwater | ** Message: err: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-MF6a6ExfDr: Connection refused | 13:41 |
| geirha | That seems unrelated to X11 forwarding. | 13:48 |
| Sidewinder1 | bodhi_zazen, And a hearty Good Afternoon to you! Or is it an hearty/.. | 18:18 |
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| philipballew | holstein, I managed to get all the data off from last night! thought i'd let you know | 21:58 |
| elks294 | how would i view connections under http or https | 22:12 |
| elks294 | or network ports in use | 22:12 |
| elks294 | im running a newsreader and downloading but want to confirm port 443 is being used | 22:13 |
| elks294 | ok nevermind | 22:23 |
| coalwater | elks294, use network tools, ull find a netstat tab, try active network services option and choose scan | 22:23 |
| coalwater | or u can just run 'netstat' on terminal | 22:23 |
| elks294 | yes | 22:23 |
| elks294 | i seen netstat but cant scroll up | 22:23 |
| elks294 | the list is too long | 22:24 |
| elks294 | how do i get to top of list in terminal | 22:24 |
| coalwater | use | less or | more, or use shift + page up | 22:24 |
| coalwater | or output the whole output in a file | 22:24 |
| coalwater | using > | 22:24 |
| coalwater | like netstat > output.txt | 22:25 |
| coalwater | then u can do a gedit output.txt | 22:25 |
| coalwater | so many options :P | 22:25 |
| elks294 | ;] | 22:25 |
| coalwater | i like the pipe + less | 22:25 |
| coalwater | like netstat | less | 22:26 |
| elks294 | shift + pgup does not get me to top of list | 22:26 |
| elks294 | its cut out | 22:26 |
| coalwater | then use |less or | more or > output_file.txt | 22:27 |
| elks294 | what is |less or| more | 22:27 |
| coalwater | lets try a fast command | 22:28 |
| coalwater | like try "lshw | less" | 22:28 |
| coalwater | then u can scroll up and down with arrows | 22:28 |
| coalwater | or use "more" instead of "less" | 22:28 |
| coalwater | little different functionality | 22:28 |
| coalwater | try both | 22:28 |
| coalwater | more can't go back up i suppose | 22:29 |
| elks294 | now its saying log file: | 22:29 |
| coalwater | what did u type? | 22:29 |
| elks294 | lshw | less | 22:30 |
| elks294 | ''lshw | less'' | 22:31 |
| coalwater | lshw is just a command that has a huge output, just like netstat, the output it self isn't important, it's just the way u scroll | 22:31 |
| elks294 | oh | 22:31 |
| coalwater | u can use it with netstat | 22:31 |
| elks294 | how do i get back to terminal its sitting at END | 22:31 |
| coalwater | netstat | less | 22:31 |
| elks294 | and the says log file: | 22:31 |
| coalwater | press Q | 22:31 |
| coalwater | letter q | 22:32 |
| elks294 | that works | 22:32 |
| elks294 | thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | 22:32 |
| coalwater | any time :P | 22:33 |
| coalwater | u should try the output file once when ur done too | 22:33 |
| coalwater | netstat > out.txt or something, then u'll find that file created, u can open it with gedit or any program | 22:34 |
| elks294 | cool | 22:35 |
| elks294 | found what i needed | 22:35 |
| kristian-aalborg | hi ppl | 22:40 |
| kristian-aalborg | my usb pen is acting up | 22:40 |
| kristian-aalborg | this is a "netinstall" ubuntu for which I added a desktop etc | 22:40 |
| kristian-aalborg | I'm wondering if I miss some lib or other? first the thing automounted at /mnt/disk - second time around it won't mount | 22:41 |
| kristian-aalborg | (automatically) | 22:41 |
| kristian-aalborg | also, holstein - yo! | 22:42 |
| holstein | kristian-aalborg: wow | 22:44 |
| holstein | good timing | 22:44 |
| holstein | whats up? | 22:44 |
| kristian-aalborg | not much apart from me saying "yo" and cursing about that USB pen | 22:44 |
| holstein | hehe | 22:45 |
| holstein | yeah, who knows | 22:45 |
| holstein | kristian-aalborg: its showing up though right? | 22:45 |
| holstein | just not mounting? | 22:45 |
| holstein | see if it shows up in sudo fdisk -l | 22:45 |
| kristian-aalborg | it does | 22:45 |
| kristian-aalborg | /dev/sdb1 1 985 7911981 7 HPFS/NTFS | 22:46 |
| holstein | and you can manually mount it? | 22:46 |
| kristian-aalborg | aha! | 22:48 |
| kristian-aalborg | Failed to mount '/dev/sdb1': Input/output error | 22:48 |
| kristian-aalborg | I also got out of nowhere the last time I tried | 22:48 |
| holstein | yeah, who knows.. those things go bad | 22:49 |
| kristian-aalborg | this is quite new - 8 gb thingy | 22:49 |
| holstein | unfortunately, those things come bad sometimes | 22:49 |
| holstein | ive had more than 5 new ones bad out of the box | 22:50 |
| holstein | anyways... i would just reformat it | 22:50 |
| holstein | see how it acts on a nother machine too | 22:50 |
| kristian-aalborg | damn it... this time I go with ext2 | 22:52 |
| kristian-aalborg | this dude I'm giving some stuff can get serious about file system, I shall not pander to his primitive system! | 22:52 |
| kristian-aalborg | sorry if this is a bit o/t - but anyone know how I can check the status of a dropbox upload? | 22:54 |
| holstein | i just look at the applet in the tray | 22:57 |
| holstein | if it looks susupicious, i kill it, and re-start dropbox | 22:57 |
| charlie-tca | I look at the website interface to see if it made it, when I need to verify one. | 23:01 |
| holstein | charlie-tca: good call | 23:03 |
| holstein | kristian-aalborg: ^^ | 23:03 |
| holder | How can I test if my ISP is throttling my bittorrenting? | 23:04 |
| kristian-aalborg | yeah, I don't have much success with the nautilus implementation.... I'll use the browser interface, I guess | 23:04 |
| holstein | holder: id probably call them up and ask | 23:08 |
| kristian-aalborg | http://www.ext2fsd.com/ <--- anyone tried this (on Win)? Looks pretty solid... | 23:28 |
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