| frank | has anyone here used virtualbox? | 02:24 |
|---|---|---|
| nlsthzn | yup... | 02:24 |
| nlsthzn | but I got to run.. | 02:24 |
| nlsthzn | \ | 02:24 |
| nlsthzn | kthxbai | 02:24 |
| frank | anyone else used virtualbox? | 02:25 |
| stlsaint | frank: what is it you need? | 02:29 |
| frank | i installed vb so i can try and run orb to sling my media to my windows work laptop | 02:30 |
| frank | when im in windows i cant seem to access any of the files on my second hd, the one with all me media | 02:31 |
| stlsaint | what is orb? | 02:32 |
| stlsaint | and is windows in the vm? please explain full setup | 02:33 |
| duanedesign | frank: you can probablly see the windows hard drive from linux but seeing the linux hard drive from windows i am not sure. If you format the hard drive you share between OS in something like FAT32 you should be able to see it in both | 02:35 |
| frank | its not really a linux hd. its a secondary hd with nothing but media on it | 02:37 |
| barefootryan | Hello. I just recently installed the most recent version of Ubuntu 11.04 on my HP Pavillion dv2500 laptop. I love it but cannot run three things that I would love to run. 1)Epson VGA projector and two networked office printers. Any ideas? | 03:18 |
| philipballew | hey barefootryan let me try to help | 03:23 |
| philipballew | what are the model names of all the devices? | 03:26 |
| philipballew | you can use those and google that followed by ubuntu | 03:26 |
| barefootryan | Epson EX 51 projector for starters. I googled but the results don't seem that promising. | 03:31 |
| philipballew | what did they say? | 03:32 |
| philipballew | it can be there is just no driver for them? | 03:32 |
| stlsaint | i must go soon but for my two cents: | 03:34 |
| stlsaint | barefootryan: 1. Make sure you are using your proprietary video drivers and not the generic ones | 03:35 |
| stlsaint | 2. Check the printer websites for linux drivers (also what errors are you getting that show why you cant use these printers) | 03:35 |
| barefootryan | I just installed the proprietary drivers from the system section but that did not change anything. It still doesn't see the projector. | 03:40 |
| philipballew | barefootryan, hows the printer? | 03:51 |
| philipballew | sorrry, network trouble | 03:51 |
| stlsaint | barefootryan: take to google man, i have never used a projector with my install so im a dead duck to help ya | 03:54 |
| barefootryan | The printer, well number one is a Savin CO95 I think (out of the office right now) I can get it to recognize that data is coming in, a little light turns on and the wheels on the output side move. This is using the suggested drivers. | 03:56 |
| barefootryan | However no printing actually takes place | 03:57 |
| Omsniffiscent | I'm having major sound issues with VLC and I have no idea what's wrong or how to check. Anyone else having issues or can tell me where to start looking? | 04:50 |
| holstein | Omsniffiscent: what issues? | 04:50 |
| holstein | isolated to VLC for sure? | 04:50 |
| Omsniffiscent | The sound is really choppy. I can barely understand what's being said. | 04:50 |
| holstein | are there any upgrades available? | 04:51 |
| holstein | Omsniffiscent: try another player | 04:51 |
| holstein | try cvlc as well | 04:51 |
| Omsniffiscent | Movie Player works just fine. | 04:51 |
| Omsniffiscent | I'm having sound issues in wine also. When I click the test sound button it just says fail. But sound plays fine in most programs I run with wine. | 04:51 |
| Omsniffiscent | Only one program I run with wine has major issues with sound -- it crashes when a sound is played. | 04:52 |
| holstein | that sounds pretty good | 04:52 |
| Omsniffiscent | How do I check for VLC updates? | 04:52 |
| holstein | thats a great percentage of wine apps for you that work then | 04:52 |
| Omsniffiscent | Ubuntu Software Center only gives me the remove option. | 04:52 |
| holstein | Omsniffiscent: i run sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade | 04:53 |
| holstein | but, however you want to do it | 04:53 |
| holstein | update manager | 04:53 |
| holstein | synaptic.. whatever | 04:53 |
| Omsniffiscent | This won't upgrade me from 10.10 to 11.04 will it? | 04:53 |
| Omsniffiscent | ^ubuntu | 04:54 |
| holstein | whats that? | 04:54 |
| holstein | sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade ?? | 04:54 |
| Omsniffiscent | Yeah. | 04:54 |
| holstein | dont run those if you dont feel comfortable | 04:54 |
| holstein | use the update manager | 04:54 |
| holstein | but... no | 04:54 |
| Omsniffiscent | I don't want to change my OS version heh. I like 10.10 | 04:54 |
| Omsniffiscent | My system is up to date. | 04:56 |
| holstein | OK | 04:56 |
| Omsniffiscent | Maybe I'll just uninstall and re-install it... I don't know why I didn't try that yet. | 04:56 |
| holstein | so VLC is up to date | 04:56 |
| holstein | sure | 04:56 |
| holstein | Omsniffiscent: i would try and isolate the file type that you are playing | 04:56 |
| holstein | if its an ogg or whatever | 04:56 |
| holstein | just make sure its only that one kind | 04:57 |
| holstein | and just use the other player, and file a bug | 04:57 |
| Omsniffiscent | Movies. That I have played before and they worked fine. | 04:57 |
| Omsniffiscent | I'll check the filetypes after I re-install. | 04:57 |
| holstein | Omsniffiscent: played before? | 04:58 |
| holstein | Omsniffiscent: they will have a suffix | 04:58 |
| holstein | like .jpg .pdf | 04:58 |
| holstein | something like .mov or .avi | 04:58 |
| Omsniffiscent | reinstall worked. :) | 04:59 |
| holstein | AH... thats good | 04:59 |
| Omsniffiscent | thanks for the help, heh. I don't know why I didn't get the idea to reinstall until I came in here. I've been trying to figure out what to do all day lol | 04:59 |
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| bobweaver | hi there I kubuntu 11.04 and made a remastersys backup of the whole system now when I boot it at my friends house it works great but I go to install and it installes but wont change the uname or password how do I fix this ?????? THANKS | 19:57 |
| holstein | bobweaver: you can always add/remove users after the fact | 19:58 |
| holstein | AFAIK, there are a few ways to remastersys | 19:58 |
| holstein | you can make a copy of the system with the user and all that, or just a system with the same pacakges | 19:59 |
| holstein | you might want to try making the other kind of remastersys image and see if thats more what you were looking for | 19:59 |
| bobweaver | that is what I want option one | 19:59 |
| bobweaver | but to have ubiquity replace the user name and passwd but none of the /home files | 20:00 |
| holstein | try the other option and see, im not sure how that will work since the /home files are owned by a user | 20:01 |
| holstein | im sure theres a way... | 20:01 |
| bobweaver | keep my system all of it logs and everything but to be able to have ubiquity change the uname and passwd | 20:01 |
| holstein | not sure... | 20:01 |
| bobweaver | I have tried the other options kills menu and font and other things as well | 20:01 |
| holstein | i have seen folks set a gerneric user/pass | 20:02 |
| holstein | a temporary one | 20:02 |
| bobweaver | that would work | 20:02 |
| bobweaver | I know how to change passwd but how about user | 20:02 |
| bobweaver | IDK how to do that | 20:02 |
| holstein | i would probably be creating this in a VM or on a test machine | 20:03 |
| bobweaver | Thanks for helping me you ROCK | 20:03 |
| holstein | i would just have the one user | 20:03 |
| bobweaver | all ready am | 20:03 |
| holstein | lets say i want user/pass | 20:03 |
| holstein | i would have one user called user, and the password pass | 20:03 |
| holstein | then, make the remastersys backup image | 20:03 |
| holstein | you can mess with users in the terminal, or in the GUI... however you feel comfortable | 20:04 |
| bobweaver | is there a way to drop the root account make the user account #1 and then just make remastersys backup | 20:05 |
| holstein | well, this is linux | 20:06 |
| holstein | so the answer is literally always yes | 20:06 |
| holstein | if you want to give a user root privs, you should be able to do that | 20:06 |
| holstein | you probably dont want/need to though | 20:06 |
| bobweaver | so get ride of root acccount and make user account the root accont and then use the 2nd option in remastersys | 20:06 |
| bobweaver | here is more sorry about the slow typing | 20:07 |
| holstein | we already dont really have a root account though | 20:07 |
| holstein | we sudo | 20:07 |
| bobweaver | I dont get it | 20:07 |
| holstein | when you say 'get rid of root account' we alread dont have a traditional root user account | 20:08 |
| bobweaver | way it there menus under home and under root | 20:08 |
| holstein | again, anything is possible | 20:08 |
| holstein | i think you should try and get a clear vision of what you want the final goal to be, and go from there | 20:09 |
| bobweaver | So menu that is under /.config compared to menu that is under /usr is different | 20:09 |
| holstein | no reason to muck about with user accounts if theres a better way to get at what you want | 20:09 |
| bobweaver | ok start over | 20:11 |
| bobweaver | option 1 remastersys PROS works great only trouble is it will not change the user name and password | 20:12 |
| holstein | but, you can afterwards | 20:12 |
| bobweaver | option 2 remastersys Pro will Change uname and password but wont keep settings like menu font ect | 20:13 |
| holstein | right, and thats not an option, correct? | 20:13 |
| holstein | you want to customize | 20:13 |
| bobweaver | yes | 20:13 |
| holstein | so, you'll have to sort out something with the other option | 20:13 |
| bobweaver | the casper it makes is good but the ubiquity is bad ??? | 20:14 |
| holstein | ok... | 20:14 |
| bobweaver | option 1 use option 1 in remastersys then just change uname (I dont know how to do ) and passwd (I do know how to do) | 20:18 |
| bobweaver | so I guess the question is how to change the username kubuntu 11.04 | 20:19 |
| holstein | bobweaver: right, you'll just do that before you make the image | 20:19 |
| holstein | you do it however you feel comfortable | 20:19 |
| holstein | the user admin area where ever that is in KDE, or in the terminal | 20:19 |
| holstein | sudo adduser whatever | 20:19 |
| bobweaver | I am comfortable with just about anything just need some advice some one to talk about it and throw ideas off of | 20:20 |
| holstein | there should be a 'users and groups' GUI somewhere | 20:20 |
| bobweaver | yes it is locked "grey out " | 20:20 |
| holstein | what is? | 20:21 |
| bobweaver | under user and groups the uname is | 20:21 |
| bobweaver | cant change it there | 20:21 |
| holstein | thats where you'll change it | 20:22 |
| holstein | im not sure what you need to do in KDE | 20:22 |
| holstein | in gnome, i can click on 'users and groups' and unlock it to edit | 20:23 |
| holstein | if you cant do it there, you can do it with another tool | 20:23 |
| bobweaver | could just make my mom make new user and passwd but what about the dedualt on and security | 20:23 |
| holstein | you might need a different user temporarily to edit the account you are in currently | 20:23 |
| holstein | bobweaver: all you need to do is decide you're going to do it :) | 20:24 |
| bobweaver | I am doing it | 20:24 |
| holstein | cool :) | 20:24 |
| Chenthu | Could some one help me with installation? | 20:40 |
| holstein | Chenthu: whats up? | 20:40 |
| Chenthu | hey holstein....i am new to linux on the whole and right now installing ubuntu | 20:40 |
| Chenthu | now i am in the "configuring grub-pc" section | 20:41 |
| Chenthu | its asking me to choose the place of grub install | 20:41 |
| holstein | did you download the alternate image or something? | 20:41 |
| Chenthu | yeah i downloaded the alternate image | 20:41 |
| holstein | anyways... do you have only one hard drive in the machine? | 20:42 |
| Chenthu | yeah only one and windows 7 is already installed | 20:42 |
| Chenthu | i want this to be a dual boot | 20:42 |
| bioterror | install it on /dev/sda | 20:42 |
| holstein | whats going to happen is, grub will install, and allow you to boot windows or ubuntu | 20:43 |
| Chenthu | but my windows 7 is on /dev/sda | 20:43 |
| Chenthu | wouldn it affect windows 7? | 20:43 |
| holstein | not the way you think | 20:43 |
| bioterror | it will install it on MBR | 20:43 |
| Chenthu | i chose alternate because i wanted to download quickly using torrents | 20:43 |
| bioterror | !mbr | 20:43 |
| holstein | windows is likely on /dev/sda1 | 20:43 |
| ubot2 | GRUB2 is the default Ubuntu boot manager since 9.10 (Karmic). Lost GRUB after installing Windows? See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestoreGrub - For more information and troubleshooting for GRUB2 please refer to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 - See !grub1 for releases before Karmic (9.10) | 20:43 |
| Chenthu | i know mbr | 20:43 |
| holstein | Chenthu: the other installer 'just works' | 20:44 |
| holstein | i cant imagine it being any faster or slower to download | 20:44 |
| holstein | but this will work fine for you | 20:44 |
| Chenthu | oh ok...anyway...now that i have downloaded and installed...let me learn the hard way... :-P | 20:44 |
| Chenthu | wont this grub install on /dev/sda invalidate my windows | 20:45 |
| holstein | invalidate? | 20:45 |
| Chenthu | meaning wont it be problematic to start windows 7? | 20:45 |
| holstein | grub will not do anything that makes win7 not boot | 20:45 |
| Chenthu | oh ok...cause i ve had this problem previously | 20:46 |
| Chenthu | cause i am like a summer fag | 20:46 |
| holstein | i always suggest backing up data, and knowing how to revert | 20:46 |
| holstein | and having the tools to revert | 20:46 |
| Chenthu | i tried linux long back...same ubuntu and had probs | 20:46 |
| Chenthu | data backed up | 20:46 |
| Chenthu | i am just afraid would have to extra work if things get messed up | 20:46 |
| Chenthu | lol | 20:46 |
| holstein | if this hoses something, you need to know how to use gparted to regrow that ntfs partition, and a win cd to recover the MBR | 20:46 |
| holstein | then, you literally cant break anything | 20:47 |
| Chenthu | hmmmm | 20:47 |
| Chenthu | lol | 20:47 |
| Chenthu | k | 20:47 |
| Chenthu | k i ve chosen /dev/sda | 20:47 |
| holstein | but, linux/grub wont break windows | 20:47 |
| Chenthu | thanks for heklping me choose | 20:47 |
| Chenthu | thats good | 20:47 |
| holstein | that doesnt mean you cant ;) | 20:47 |
| Chenthu | but previously a year back when i installed linux as a dual boot to my windows 7 | 20:48 |
| Chenthu | my windows 7 wasnt able to come back...but that was back track | 20:48 |
| Chenthu | i hope things are ok | 20:48 |
| Chenthu | whats the difference between normal and alternate? | 20:48 |
| holstein | well, i can postulate several scenarios that could have happened | 20:48 |
| holstein | none of which involve linux or grub breaking anything | 20:49 |
| holstein | one thing, if you come here *before* doing anything, and ask | 20:49 |
| Chenthu | if u are free...and wouldnt mind telling me ....u could postulate those scenarios | 20:49 |
| holstein | or check in... | 20:49 |
| holstein | i would have suggested the normal CD just because i think the GUI is easier to wrap the mind around | 20:49 |
| Chenthu | yeah...but thats was not available in official torrents...and i am not using a cd i am using a usb | 20:50 |
| holstein | Chenthu: you could have had the ntfs partition deleted by accident | 20:50 |
| Chenthu | and torrents are easy | 20:50 |
| Chenthu | oh...is it?...yeah i culd have | 20:50 |
| holstein | right, but thats a more complex installer | 20:50 |
| holstein | these are the issues you face | 20:50 |
| holstein | whats gurb? where does it go? | 20:51 |
| Chenthu | yeah.....sure co,plex it is but i am learning | 20:51 |
| holstein | the other install just does it for you | 20:51 |
| holstein | automatically | 20:51 |
| holstein | not that you cant do it that way, its just arguably not the best choice for a beginner | 20:51 |
| Chenthu | yeah ... | 20:51 |
| holstein | AND, you can see the live CD running on your hardware | 20:52 |
| Chenthu | hey i have wondows but it detects as vista?..is that normal? | 20:52 |
| holstein | you have no idea if the hardware is supported right now | 20:52 |
| Chenthu | windows 7 | 20:52 |
| holstein | you are just going to boot and hope for the best | 20:52 |
| Chenthu | omg is it?...i dont know that... | 20:52 |
| holstein | IF you have the live CD, you can see the desktop running on your hard ware, test things, see the sound working, check the graphics, network, whatever | 20:52 |
| holstein | the live CD is an awesome tool we have that the proprietary systems cant provide | 20:53 |
| Chenthu | thats a sure thing....i used live cd of back track and recently "tails" | 20:53 |
| holstein | Chenthu: not to scare you, everything is fixable... im just saying, i would have suggested that | 20:53 |
| Chenthu | ok.... :) | 20:54 |
| holstein | i like to see everything working, or know whats not going to work and why before i partition the hard drive | 20:54 |
| Chenthu | is it ok...if my grub install detects windows 7 to be vista? | 20:54 |
| holstein | on a box i have, the recovery partition is labeled vista | 20:54 |
| holstein | i wouldnt sweat the labels | 20:55 |
| Chenthu | oh k...lol | 20:55 |
| Chenthu | k k | 20:55 |
| holstein | if it boots win7, its all good, and you can always change that label if you care | 20:55 |
| Chenthu | yeah.... | 20:55 |
| Chenthu | first i used USB tool specified by ubuntu to creatae my usb install disk | 20:56 |
| Chenthu | it dint work...then afetr a lot of research without answers tried doing that with unetbootin | 20:57 |
| Chenthu | and it worked | 20:57 |
| Chenthu | lol | 20:57 |
| holstein | yeah, i use unet | 20:57 |
| Chenthu | thats good | 20:57 |
| Chenthu | ok installed | 20:58 |
| Chenthu | restarted | 20:58 |
| Chenthu | now choose windows 7 on boot menu | 20:59 |
| Chenthu | to check if thats working | 20:59 |
| Chenthu | wow...windows 7 works fine | 20:59 |
| Chenthu | now for ubuntu | 20:59 |
| Chenthu | restarted...choose ubuntu... | 21:00 |
| Chenthu | waiting | 21:00 |
| Chenthu | working logged in | 21:01 |
| Chenthu | but mouse speed is fast | 21:01 |
| holstein | of course :) | 21:01 |
| Chenthu | lolk | 21:02 |
| Chenthu | three errors so far at the first startup | 21:02 |
| holstein | not bad considering | 21:02 |
| Chenthu | omg i think its frozen | 21:02 |
| holstein | you're not counting that mouse thing as an error are you? | 21:02 |
| Chenthu | u mean :the alternate version"? | 21:02 |
| Chenthu | nope | 21:02 |
| holstein | OK | 21:02 |
| holstein | the end result with the alternate and the normal are the same | 21:03 |
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| holstein | you just didnt get an opportunity to test | 21:03 |
| Chenthu | good then | 21:03 |
| Chenthu | but mine crashed | 21:03 |
| Chenthu | lol | 21:03 |
| Chenthu | i am restarting again to check if there is any luck | 21:03 |
| holstein | yeah? | 21:03 |
| Chenthu | yeah | 21:03 |
| holstein | im going to suggest you try to get to a terminal | 21:04 |
| holstein | and upgrade | 21:04 |
| Chenthu | three windows with errors popped up | 21:04 |
| Chenthu | i gave close | 21:04 |
| holstein | are you online? | 21:04 |
| Chenthu | not yet | 21:04 |
| Chenthu | then crashed | 21:04 |
| holstein | i would upgrade first | 21:04 |
| Chenthu | i ll check if i could connect to net after i log in and connect my 3G stick | 21:04 |
| holstein | can you just wire it up temporarily? | 21:05 |
| Chenthu | no way...lol | 21:05 |
| Chenthu | i am in a hotel and i use my 3g | 21:05 |
| Chenthu | "could not update ICEauthority file /home/.... | 21:06 |
| holstein | good luck with that... does your 3g support linux? | 21:06 |
| Chenthu | this sucks | 21:06 |
| Chenthu | yup it does...i think so | 21:06 |
| holstein | Chenthu: yeah, i hate it that you came so late... im not even sure what version you installed | 21:07 |
| Chenthu | cause when i used a live system (tails) it worked | 21:07 |
| holstein | i would have suggested the normal live CD for 10.04 which is the LTS | 21:07 |
| Chenthu | 11.04 | 21:07 |
| holstein | that being said, you can sort all this out i bet | 21:07 |
| Chenthu | omg...i should have come here met and have decided... | 21:07 |
| holstein | eh... you can sort it out... i just hate to see you have such a bad experience | 21:08 |
| Chenthu | :(....thanks man.....i think u must be a ubuntu lover | 21:08 |
| Chenthu | i ll try boooting up with the recobvery mode | 21:08 |
| holstein | Chenthu: i would try upgrading first | 21:08 |
| holstein | you dont need to recover anything really | 21:09 |
| Chenthu | why?... | 21:09 |
| Chenthu | cause it says no session found | 21:09 |
| holstein | what does? | 21:09 |
| Chenthu | thats not a priob with recovery? | 21:09 |
| Chenthu | i said three error right? | 21:09 |
| holstein | yeah, but upgrades could fix everything | 21:09 |
| Chenthu | hmmm..... | 21:10 |
| Chenthu | but to upgrade i should have atleast a terminal right? | 21:10 |
| holstein | for example, the netbook im using, i installed, no sound or wifi | 21:10 |
| Chenthu | i couldnt even see my desktop | 21:10 |
| holstein | i plugged it in, and upgraded, and everything just worked | 21:10 |
| Chenthu | its all black without any buttons even in taskbar | 21:10 |
| Chenthu | before i chose ubuntu | 21:11 |
| holstein | Chenthu: you can hit control+alt+F2 | 21:11 |
| holstein | that'll get you to a terminal | 21:11 |
| holstein | but, you'll need to be online | 21:11 |
| Chenthu | i made a comaprison of all linux and chose ubuntu tio be best... | 21:11 |
| holstein | eh, depends on what you need | 21:11 |
| Chenthu | i heared 11.04 is buggy but decided to go cause i wanna make it work...lol | 21:11 |
| holstein | ubuntu does desktop pretty well i think | 21:11 |
| Chenthu | oh ok | 21:12 |
| Chenthu | ctrl alt f2? | 21:12 |
| Chenthu | will try now | 21:12 |
| holstein | yup | 21:12 |
| holstein | control+alt+F7 or F8 to get back | 21:12 |
| Chenthu | yeah even desktop i chjecked abt gnome and kde | 21:12 |
| holstein | 11.04 has unity | 21:13 |
| Chenthu | but from what i have read kde seems good..but ununtu has gnome | 21:13 |
| holstein | ubuntu has unity actually | 21:13 |
| holstein | they just switched | 21:13 |
| holstein | but, to be more presice | 21:13 |
| holstein | ubuntu comes with unity | 21:13 |
| holstein | theres kubuntu which comes with KDE, and xubuntu with XFCE | 21:14 |
| Chenthu | oh...lol that part i never noticed | 21:14 |
| holstein | but, you can always add whatever you want | 21:14 |
| Chenthu | yerah kubuntu and xubuntu i heared | 21:14 |
| bioterror | or just install mini installation and build things yourself | 21:14 |
| Chenthu | unity?...how is it ?...nice from ur view point? | 21:14 |
| holstein | these linux systems are cusomizable by nature | 21:14 |
| holstein | bioterror: :) | 21:14 |
| bioterror | choose any window manager and add stuff | 21:14 |
| Chenthu | k | 21:15 |
| holstein | yeah, build your own as you want it to be | 21:15 |
| bioterror | it's the best! | 21:15 |
| Chenthu | cAN I BUILD MY OWN NOW? | 21:15 |
| Chenthu | sry for the caps thing | 21:15 |
| Chenthu | was a mistake | 21:15 |
| Chenthu | k my terminal is up.....what now? | 21:15 |
| holstein | http://www.edubuntu.org/vmmanager is a way to see unity in action, assuming you dont have it working | 21:16 |
| holstein | Chenthu: if i were you, i would want to get that online and upgrade | 21:16 |
| holstein | the problem is, you dont have a way to plug it in | 21:16 |
| Chenthu | how to do that?/...u have the tinme to guide me or i shoiuld search online? | 21:17 |
| Chenthu | i have wifi though... | 21:17 |
| holstein | well, can you plug it in? | 21:17 |
| Chenthu | tahts my other option | 21:17 |
| holstein | when you do you run in the terminal | 21:17 |
| holstein | sudo apt-get update | 21:17 |
| holstein | and | 21:17 |
| Chenthu | k | 21:17 |
| holstein | sudo apt-get upgrade | 21:17 |
| Chenthu | k | 21:17 |
| Chenthu | can i use my wifi? | 21:18 |
| holstein | maybe | 21:18 |
| Chenthu | any command or just have to connect it? | 21:18 |
| Chenthu | i mdean just on my wifi | 21:18 |
| Chenthu | ? | 21:18 |
| holstein | i wouldnt know where to begin to connect to wifi from the terminal | 21:18 |
| holstein | theres a package i could suggest, but you'd need to be online to get it ;) | 21:19 |
| holstein | i would reboot | 21:19 |
| holstein | try to get onlin from the normal desktop, and go from there | 21:19 |
| holstein | in the terminal you can run sudo reboot | 21:19 |
| Chenthu | mmm...ok | 21:19 |
| Chenthu | k | 21:19 |
| holstein | im just saying, dont waste time fixing things til you upgrade... fixes might already be available | 21:19 |
| Chenthu | k | 21:20 |
| Chenthu | i do that a lot..."waste time in fixing things thats been fixed already" | 21:20 |
| Chenthu | i have to change that attitude | 21:20 |
| Chenthu | rebootin | 21:20 |
| holstein | eh, its all a learning experience | 21:21 |
| Chenthu | :) | 21:21 |
| Chenthu | is it possible for me to rebuild my ubuntu | 21:21 |
| Chenthu | i mean can i change it completely and remove unwanted and add new wanted? | 21:22 |
| holstein | its linux... the answer is always yes pretty much | 21:22 |
| bioterror | !pure gnome | 21:22 |
| ubot2 | Factoid 'pure gnome' not found | 21:22 |
| bioterror | !puregnome | 21:22 |
| ubot2 | If you want to remove all !Kubuntu packages or !Xubuntu packages and have a default !Ubuntu system, follow the instructions here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PureGnome | 21:22 |
| bioterror | take from purekde command for removing gnome ;) | 21:22 |
| bioterror | and then fetch ubuntu-desktop metapackage | 21:22 |
| Chenthu | thanks bot noted down | 21:23 |
| Chenthu | bioterror: just purekde? | 21:23 |
| bioterror | !purekde | Chenthu | 21:23 |
| ubot2 | Chenthu: If you want to remove all !Gnome packages and have a default !Kubuntu system follow the instructions here « https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PureKDE » | 21:23 |
| Chenthu | will it remove all those installed extras? | 21:23 |
| bioterror | that's how you remove desktops ;) | 21:24 |
| bioterror | and install anothers | 21:24 |
| bioterror | without reinstallation | 21:24 |
| Chenthu | ubot2:thank you....so now that i have iunity on ubuntu 11.04...what should i use4? | 21:24 |
| ubot2 | Chenthu: Error: I am only a bot, please don't think I'm intelligent :) | 21:24 |
| Chenthu | lol...ok...i thought bot was a person | 21:24 |
| Chenthu | bioterror: tq | 21:25 |
| Chenthu | but can i just use the said commasnd to do it? | 21:25 |
| holstein | Chenthu: you might want to look at virtualbox | 21:26 |
| Chenthu | virtualbox?...u mean like a sandbox? | 21:26 |
| holstein | i remember using virtualbox in windows to try things out... you can really break something and easily revert | 21:26 |
| holstein | a lot of it is personal preference | 21:26 |
| Chenthu | i thought abt that...but i dont know whats the reason...i hate virtual box | 21:27 |
| holstein | well, VMware... whatever you use | 21:27 |
| Chenthu | do i have any terminal command to just revert back to pure ubuntu | 21:27 |
| Chenthu | i mean "uninstall everything? | 21:28 |
| holstein | theres probably a big paste in there at that link | 21:28 |
| Chenthu | oh ok...will read that | 21:28 |
| holstein | again, not really something i would say to do as a beginner | 21:28 |
| Chenthu | sisnce iw as chatting and diont wanna miss what u were saying i just opened and never lookd at that link | 21:28 |
| holstein | unless you have a clear idea of where you want to go | 21:28 |
| Chenthu | is this valid "i have a clear idea of removing all packages installed except for the drivers and some bacsic packs" | 21:29 |
| holstein | sure, but im just not sure whats what in there | 21:29 |
| holstein | might remove 3g support? im not sure | 21:30 |
| Chenthu | yeah thats agood question | 21:30 |
| holstein | you'd just have to try and and see | 21:30 |
| Chenthu | omg yeah thats there | 21:30 |
| holstein | and again, as long as you know how, and have the tools to revert, go for it :) | 21:30 |
| Chenthu | will giove some time over this...orelse i am just gonna revert...lol | 21:31 |
| Chenthu | k i ams treaming wifi from mobile | 21:31 |
| Chenthu | i just have to google to use it in termianal | 21:31 |
| holstein | if you are connected, thats it | 21:31 |
| holstein | just upgrade | 21:31 |
| holstein | theres an update tool you can use if you prefer | 21:31 |
| Chenthu | i am trying to connect now | 21:32 |
| Chenthu | i am using the 3g here | 21:32 |
| Chenthu | so i am streaming my mobile 3g as wifi | 21:32 |
| Chenthu | found a way to use wifi from terminal | 21:36 |
| Chenthu | need to have certain tools | 21:36 |
| Chenthu | and this pack do has that | 21:36 |
| Chenthu | but it says need to install driver | 21:37 |
| holstein | right, thats the rub | 21:37 |
| holstein | check out... https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx | 21:38 |
| holstein | see if that pertains ^^ | 21:38 |
| holstein | theres a way to download what you need and move it over via USB stick | 21:38 |
| Chenthu | terminal gave alink to download driver | 21:39 |
| Chenthu | first ill try thth | 21:39 |
| holstein | be sure you contact the vendor of your hardware and let them know how much of a hard time you had since they dont allow drivers to be included with linux | 21:39 |
| holstein | Chenthu: good luck... i gotta run... BBL | 21:40 |
| Chenthu | thank u verymuch holstein | 21:40 |
| Chenthu | BB | 21:40 |
| Chenthu | Tc | 21:40 |
| Chenthu | yeah will tell them...but my laptop is 5 years old | 21:40 |
| Chenthu | will be buying new one only next month | 21:40 |
| Chenthu | lol | 21:40 |
| Chenthu_ | k | 21:46 |
| === Chenthu_ is now known as Chenthu | ||
| ^aL-ITAngel^ | hellooo! salut tout le monde :-) | 21:57 |
| nit-wit | mmmmm megadeath | 21:58 |
| Chenthu | lo\ | 22:21 |
| ^aL-ITAngel^ | lo ibuclaw nhandler tronyx sardonyx en taro Adun starcraftman !!! | 22:28 |
| starcraftman | ^aL-ITAngel^: en taro tassadar! | 22:34 |
| ^aL-ITAngel^ | :-) | 22:35 |
| ^aL-ITAngel^ | do you remember me? | 22:35 |
| starcraftman | ^aL-ITAngel^: not really, my memory leaving me at that young an age? depressing :/ | 22:36 |
| ^aL-ITAngel^ | lol | 22:37 |
| ^aL-ITAngel^ | I will refresh it | 22:37 |
| === ^aL-ITAngel^ is now known as ^Zen-hoOb-bit | ||
| ^Zen-hoOb-bit | kaukola | 22:37 |
| starcraftman | ^Zen-hoOb-bit: still kinda lost me >.>. | 22:39 |
| ^Zen-hoOb-bit | lol | 22:40 |
| ^Zen-hoOb-bit | I'm a very old user, don't worry ^^ | 22:40 |
| ^Zen-hoOb-bit | I've been out for years | 22:41 |
| starcraftman | ^Zen-hoOb-bit: ok then, uh, I guess I'm not that old. Just been a bit inactive lately. Need more activity. | 22:42 |
| ^Zen-hoOb-bit | I need help : Do you know how can I upgrade the old ubuntu 8.04 to the 8.10 and more? I tryied with different servers but nothing happens... It's possible to upgrade it using the ubuntu 8.10 cd-rom? | 22:46 |
| charlie-tca | upgrade direct to 10.04 ? | 22:46 |
| starcraftman | ^Zen-hoOb-bit: you want to upgrade 8.04 to 8.10? Those are very old versions >.> | 22:47 |
| starcraftman | I'd recommend something a little more recent. 10.04 at least. | 22:47 |
| ^Zen-hoOb-bit | yes because I don't want to erase the disk or reinstall all from zero. | 22:48 |
| ^Zen-hoOb-bit | but I would like to have the 10.04 LL | 22:49 |
| charlie-tca | 8.04 to 10.04 is a supported upgrade | 22:49 |
| charlie-tca | You don't have to go through everything else | 22:50 |
| starcraftman | ^Zen-hoOb-bit: Instructions > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LucidUpgrades#Upgrade%20from%208.04%20LTS%20to%2010.04%20LTS | 22:50 |
| ^Zen-hoOb-bit | really??? | 22:50 |
| starcraftman | ^Zen-hoOb-bit: course, that's how lts always been with lts. | 22:51 |
| ^Zen-hoOb-bit | great!!! En Taro Tassadar! | 22:54 |
| starcraftman | ^Zen-hoOb-bit: have fun | 22:54 |
| ^Zen-hoOb-bit | why haven't I asked it before? I thought I had to reinstall all... waited for ages... I'm so stupid lol :-) | 22:55 |
| ^Zen-hoOb-bit | :-PPP | 22:57 |
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