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fbot_need help00:35
szalcan't have been important ^^00:38
OerHeksnot as important as  Kernel.org Server Rooted and 448 users credentials compromised :(00:40
szal:o00:41
OerHekscan i post a url ?00:41
OerHeksnews it is on the site itself00:45
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mifsgoola pessoal01:59
mifsgoalguem pode me da uma ajuda01:59
mifsgopessoal eu to querendo entra en um circuito interno de cameras com o kubuntu mais não conecta diz que esta fatando um plugin chamado  nissinplug-in alguem sabe como resolver o poblema???02:04
claydoh!pt02:05
ubottuPor favor, use #ubuntu-br para ajuda em português. Para entrar no canal por favor faça "/join #ubuntu-br" sem as aspas. Para a comunidade local portuguêsa, use #ubuntu-pt. Obrigado.02:05
number4Resuming in non X mode: glxinfo not found in path02:06
number4System:    Host ham-Latitude-D410 Kernel 2.6.38-11-generic i686 (32 bit) Distro Ubuntu 11.04 natty02:06
number4CPU:       Single core Intel Pentium M (UP) clocked at 1067.00 MHz02:06
number4Graphics:  Card Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller tty res: N/A02:06
number4Disks:     HDD Total Size: 80.0GB (7.7% used)02:06
number4Info:      Processes 131 Uptime 2:50 Memory 408.6/993.1MB Runlevel 2 Client Quassel [M] v0.7.2 (dist-f93ace0) inxi 1.4.802:06
DaemonFCewww, quassel02:07
DaemonFCI wish they'd back that out and go back to Konversation already02:07
DaemonFCjust what I need, an IRC client that grinds my hard disk loading and saving its stupid mandatory logs :)02:07
number4i thought the sysinfo command would just paste that to my window not the channel02:08
number4i'm just trying it out, this is my first time using it, it seems to be eating up more memory than xchat02:09
DaskreechDaemonFC: You can just install Konversation02:25
shane2peruok, I have a question about using pulse audio and pavucontrol? or maybe padevchooser?  I'm not real familiar with either, however I have skype and want to set what it uses all the time for input and output audio devices.  How do I do that?02:51
shane2peruok, I got it, had to run skype, then chose the audio device with skype running in-order for it to select the device, all through pavucontrol, pretty simple, and slick.03:02
myhraI am unable to turn on the wifi adapter due to ubuntu not supporting the button on an acer laptop, anyone know how to manually activate it another way - the driver is installed and activated03:23
david1234567890hi04:49
david1234567890bulldog98 are u there04:49
david1234567890i have PRO/Wireless 4965 but it's not working right04:50
david1234567890i need help plz04:50
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david1234567890i have PRO/Wireless 4965 but it's not working right04:52
david1234567890plz help me fix it04:53
riffokay how do you see your hard drive setup and what file system your useing?04:53
well_laid_lawnriff: sudo fdisk -l04:55
dacresniis there a way to get Gnome_Shell installed on kubuntu?04:55
well_laid_lawnthat's a L on the end04:55
dacresnidavid1234567890: thats in intel card right?04:56
dacresniwell chipset anyway04:56
david1234567890yes04:56
well_laid_lawndacresni: install ubuntu-desktop maybe04:56
well_laid_lawn!find gnome-shell04:56
riffl means list? (recognizes fdisk from dos scary stuff if not sure what it does)04:56
ubottuPackage/file gnome-shell does not exist in natty04:56
david1234567890i can't find my router anymore04:56
well_laid_lawndacresni: yes -l means list04:56
david1234567890idk what happend every setting is 100% fine04:57
well_laid_lawnor mount should show it too04:57
well_laid_lawnuse mount dacresni04:57
dacresnihuh?04:57
dacresniim not the one asking about hard drives04:58
well_laid_lawnin a terminal type   mount04:58
well_laid_lawnoops riff ^^04:58
riffhey i'm trackin thanks for the help04:58
dacresniheh04:58
well_laid_lawnnot the last time I'll do that..04:58
dacresniaccording to this http://intellinuxwireless.org/ i think that's a supported wireless chipset04:59
dacresnihow do you know its not working right? david123456789004:59
david1234567890Well it show all other lans but not my lan04:59
david1234567890it did before05:00
riffdoesn't list the file system type05:00
david1234567890idk what happend05:00
dacresniriff: what does it list  ? paste please?05:00
riffDisk /dev/sda6: 26.5 GB, 26457669632 bytes05:01
riff255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3216 cylinders05:01
riffUnits = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes05:01
riffSector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes05:01
riffI/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes05:01
riffDisk identifier: 0x0000000005:01
FloodBotK1riff: Please don't flood; use http://paste.ubuntu.com to paste; don't use Enter as punctuation.05:01
well_laid_lawnmount lists the filesystem type05:01
dacresniwhat does ifconfig list ? paste please ( on  a pastebin)05:01
riffsorry05:01
well_laid_lawnheh05:01
well_laid_lawnmount lists the filesystem type05:01
david1234567890like this http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-994817.html05:02
riffgot it thanks alot05:02
dacresniwait, what am I asking? if you see any networks at all the chipsets working properly05:03
dacresnii thought you ment network devices by "lan"05:03
david1234567890sorry05:04
dacresniunless you have other devices detecting wireless access points, there is nothign wrong with the wireless device05:04
david1234567890but i can see all the Wifis but my05:05
david1234567890but not my wifi05:06
david1234567890sorry for the typos05:06
dacresniwell, the problem is definately with the access point and not your computer's wireless device05:07
dacresniwhat IS the configuration on your access point ?05:07
david1234567890hmm w8 i try some thing05:07
david1234567890brb change the settings for a sec05:08
dacresnialso, what kind of device is it? whats the name and manufacturer  of the wireless access point ? is it a router? a modem/router combo?05:12
david1234567890_ok back05:15
david1234567890_what Channel do i set?05:16
dacresnialso, what kind of device is it? whats the name and manufacturer  of the wireless access point ? is it a router? a modem/router combo?05:16
david1234567890_from 1 to 1305:16
david1234567890_oh05:16
dacresniis there an automatic setting?05:16
david1234567890_d-link05:16
david1234567890_DSL 2640t05:16
david1234567890_in my router what channel?05:17
david1234567890_do i set05:17
dacresnihmm05:19
dacresniagain, is there an automatic setting?05:19
dacresniotherwise i normally use 1 or 1305:19
david1234567890_w8 i restart05:20
dacresniwas there an automatic setting?05:24
david1234567890ok back05:24
david1234567890in my router?05:24
dacresniright?05:24
david1234567890no05:24
dacresnioh :-(05:25
dacresniwell, i doubt channel is the issue. How are you connected now?05:25
david1234567890what is  backports package05:25
david1234567890do i have to install them all in the list05:26
dacresnino,05:29
david1234567890ok05:30
dacresnihttp://backports-master.debian.org/05:30
dacresnihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backporting05:31
david1234567890w805:32
david1234567890i added deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main05:35
bazhangdavid1234567890, thats not for kubuntu05:36
david1234567890ah are u sure05:37
bazhangdavid1234567890, very. never mix distro repos05:37
david1234567890ah ok05:38
david1234567890what do i do then05:38
david1234567890how i get to fix it05:39
dacresniwhy did you add them anyway? did you ever fix your router situation ?05:41
david1234567890my router is fine05:42
david1234567890works with anything05:42
dacresniok,05:42
david1234567890even my phone05:43
dacresniwhat was your problem earlier05:43
dacresniwireless router05:43
dacresni?05:43
dacresnianyway https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Kubuntu this link should help you with changing kubuntu's repositories05:43
david1234567890see i can't see my Wifi in the list05:44
david1234567890i worked before but i think after the update stoped05:44
dacresnibut how are you connected to the internet now?05:44
david1234567890oh05:45
david1234567890with05:45
david1234567890 Wired Ethernet05:45
dacresnioh, that explains a lot.05:45
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david1234567890lol05:46
dacresnianyway, your wifi may just not be in range. try moving the computer closer to it just as a sanity check05:46
dacresniis it a laptop or desktop?05:46
david1234567890look the router and the laptop now is like 1mm close lol05:47
david1234567890idk it was working fine before the update :(05:48
david1234567890how i  install linux-backports-modules05:50
well_laid_lawn!backports05:52
ubottuIf new updated Ubuntu packages are built for an application, then they may go into Ubuntu Backports. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports - See also !packaging05:52
dacresnithat would be unfortunate if an updated kernel module changed the way it detects beacon frames from access points ...05:54
dacresniyou see why that seems a little far fetched, If your still convinced that the problem is with your computers wireless configuration and not with the device itself, i'm going to bed05:55
david1234567890well05:56
dacresnihttp://tinyurl.com/4y8k2tj05:56
david1234567890some ppl said installing that it helped05:56
well_laid_lawnif it works with other devices...05:56
david1234567890yah it do05:56
dacresnieven your phone detects it you say05:56
david1234567890yap05:56
david1234567890tell me how i install that for kubuntu this is for ubuntu https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Kubuntu05:57
david1234567890no this one https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports05:58
dacresnihttps://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/backports05:58
dacresniat the bottom of that page was this link05:58
dacresni^^05:58
dacresnialong with 4 other repositories,05:59
david1234567890ok05:59
david1234567890do i add this ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports06:00
david1234567890is it safe06:00
david1234567890brb06:04
dacresnik06:05
dacresninight06:05
dacresnitake care of him06:05
david1234567890ok06:06
david1234567890back06:06
LINKSWORD2Hello, all. :)06:08
david1234567890idk what backport-modules i must install and i am rly new on linux06:09
david1234567890idk anything can anyone plz help me06:09
david1234567890hi06:10
LINKSWORD2Sweet..... Docky works. :)06:10
david1234567890what is linux-headers-lbm-2.6.27-14-generic06:11
LINKSWORD2Hello, all. :)06:12
david1234567890hi06:13
david1234567890brb06:14
LINKSWORD2Chat seems pretty quiet tonight.06:14
LINKSWORD2Anybody know of a Synthesia alternative for Kubuntu?06:20
david1234567890ok back06:20
david1234567890i rly need help06:20
david1234567890after the updates my kubuntu wont work with my bluetooth and wont connect to my wifi06:21
david1234567890no one?06:22
david1234567890:(06:22
LINKSWORD2Hang on a second. I'm checking something.06:22
LINKSWORD2Hold Alt and hit F2 then type in BlueDevil06:23
david1234567890ok06:23
LINKSWORD2I don't know the name of the wireless system manager off the top of my head. It's 1 AM here and I feel like I've been hit by a train.06:23
david1234567890wow06:24
david1234567890here is 10am06:24
LINKSWORD2But BlueDevil is your Bluetooth manager.06:24
david1234567890wont open06:24
LINKSWORD2Hold on.06:24
LINKSWORD2Hey crew, who all is awake?06:25
LINKSWORD2... Figures. The duck ain't here.06:25
david1234567890ah ok06:25
LINKSWORD2It appears there aren't many people awake right now.06:26
LINKSWORD2I'm sorry that I can't be more help to you.06:26
LINKSWORD2... I need sleep. :(06:26
david1234567890oh it's ok06:26
david1234567890i will fix it06:27
david1234567890gn :)06:27
LINKSWORD2And with that....06:27
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ww_hi07:02
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alvinIs kivio still in development? I'm looking for a program to draw simple network diagrams.07:39
alvinkivio is no longer in the repositories it seems.07:40
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onebitxajaxhi to all08:17
onebitxajaxif i burn a miltisession DVD with K3b can i use Nero to continue the multisession? and is that possible if i did viceversa?08:17
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david1234567890why i have to set the channel to 6 or 7 for linux?09:07
david1234567890for my router09:07
well_laid_lawndavid1234567890: wireless? you can set the channel for your nic09:09
david1234567890in my router i had to set channel to 6 or709:10
david1234567890the WiFi09:10
david1234567890if i set it to 12 or 13 wont connnect09:10
david1234567890do u know why09:10
david1234567890?09:10
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well_laid_lawnset the network device in your computer to use the same channel as the router09:11
david1234567890oh how??09:11
well_laid_lawnman iwconfig knows all09:11
david1234567890whats that09:12
well_laid_lawniwconfig wlan0 channel 1209:12
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well_laid_lawnin a terminal - and use sudo09:12
david1234567890oh09:13
david1234567890thanks a lot09:13
well_laid_lawnluck :)09:13
david1234567890Error for wireless request "Set Frequency" (8B04) :09:14
david1234567890    SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.09:14
david1234567890this was my command sudo iwconfig wlan0 channel 1209:14
well_laid_lawnyep looks fine09:15
david1234567890do i have turn the wifi off?09:15
david1234567890then run the command09:16
well_laid_lawnhttps://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WiFiHowTo09:16
well_laid_lawnis it wlan0 david1234567890 ?09:17
well_laid_lawnyour device09:17
david1234567890yah09:17
well_laid_lawnk09:17
well_laid_lawndavid1234567890: what does     ifconfig -a   return?09:18
david1234567890w809:18
david1234567890brb09:18
david1234567890ok back09:20
david1234567890i had to stop my wifi09:20
david1234567890then i did sudo iwconfig wlan0 channel auto09:20
david1234567890with no error09:20
david1234567890:)09:20
david1234567890this is good http://kwifimanager.sourceforge.net/?09:21
david1234567890http://kwifimanager.sourceforge.net/09:22
david1234567890well_laid_lawn u there09:23
david1234567890_hey sorry09:27
david1234567890_thanks a lot for the commands09:27
david1234567890_do u know anything good but not commands09:28
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david1234567890anyone know anything like  iwconfig with GUI?09:32
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MephHi all. I'm pretty terrible at linux. I've installed Kubuntu on my laptop. That worked fine, but when I set up my wireless connection it's just not working. It finds the right network, connects with the WEP password, but will not give me access to the internet.10:51
susundberg!wireless10:51
ubottuWireless documentation, including how-to guides and troubleshooting information, can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs10:51
susundbergand https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessTroubleShootingGuide10:52
susundbergSee if those help10:52
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MephI'm going through the network troubleshooting documents linked before, and one of the suggestions is to disable IPv6. It states "Open the file /etc/modprobe.d/aliases" but in the /modprobe.d folder there is no file or folder named "aliases".11:30
susundbergOh, they might unfortunately be bit out-dated11:32
susundbergDid you get IP from the Wireless connection ok ?11:33
susundbergor could you ping the wireless router?11:33
MephI can't ping the wireless router.11:33
susundbergSo problem is forming the WEP connection ?11:33
susundbergAre you 100% sure your password etc are proper? And have you tested the router with other clients?11:34
MephBut I checked my DNS, subnet and gateway and they are fine.11:34
MephThe password was working on my windows machine before I formatted.11:34
MephAnd on my iphone.11:34
susundbergDNS should have nothign to do with pinging the wireless router11:34
susundbergOk, so problem is with your linux and wireless11:35
susundbergUmm, i guess you do not have possibility to try another network in range?11:35
MephUnfortunately not.11:35
susundbergopen network would be fine -- just to test that the card & drivers work well11:35
susundberghave you googled the card and ubuntu for possible driver problems & solutions?11:36
MephI do have a USB wireless card I can try instead of my onboard...11:36
MephI haven't. It's the onboard for my laptop.11:36
well_laid_lawncan you ping the router?11:36
MephNup.11:36
susundbergI would guess for driver problems -> lspci to find out what card are you using and google for possible solutions11:37
well_laid_lawnand ifconfig -a says the wirless is up?11:37
Mephifconfig -a seems to think the wireless is up, I think... But I can't ping the router.11:39
James147Meph: do you have an ip?11:39
MephYes. But it's just saying the IP I assigned myself.11:39
well_laid_lawntried   sudo iwlist scan   ?11:40
James147Meph: does your router do dhcp? if so try using that11:40
MephHang on. I've googled my wireless card (atheros AR5001) with ubuntu and there are some forum posts from people who have had issues.11:41
well_laid_lawnthey'd be old afaik11:41
James147how old are they? atheros generally just works these days11:42
MephMay 201011:42
well_laid_lawnold enough - atheros has kernel support now11:43
well_laid_lawnyour card being up says that11:44
MephIt's so frustrating, because I installed ubuntu and my wireless worked fine. But I didn't like the GUI and am not proficient enough to figure out how to change it, so I just formatted and installed kubuntu, and it doesn't work...11:44
James147Meph: my guess is its a problem with the config you have set up11:44
MephSame. But I can't see where my error is.11:45
James147Meph: i would suggest trying to use dhcp and see if that works11:45
operator89hi @ all11:47
MephOk I'm a bit out of my depth here, so just let me know if I did something wrong and I'll change it. I went in to my router and unticked the "use Router as DNS server" then added a primary and secondary DNS server (192.168.1.50/51). The DNS name is home.gateway.11:48
MephNow in KDE control modul I've change the Method from Manual to DHCP addresses only, set the dns servers as 192.168.1.50,192.168.1.51, DHCP client ID as home.gateway. Do I need to put something in Search Domains ?11:49
MephNow when I try to connect to my wireless network it gets stuck on "setting network addresses".11:50
James147Meph: dont put anythig in client id ^^11:52
alvinI could have sworn it was possible to indent/unindent blocks of text with kate. Anybody knows how?11:57
* James147 knows how in vi mode :D11:58
James147alvin: tab works here just a selection (when not using vi)11:59
James147and shift tab to unindent11:59
alvinJames147: aaah, nice. I couldn't find it in the menu or the KDE help (without a search function)12:00
James147(that is tab works with a selection ^^ )12:00
alvintyvm. I never even tried tab :-)12:00
James147alvin: also crtl+i12:00
alvinIndeed!12:01
alvinIt should be put back into the menu, but I think I can remember that.12:01
James147alvin: for any real reason? tab or ctrl+i are normally the way to indent and are quicker then menus12:02
James147and there is already allot of stuff in the menus12:02
alvinWell, to remind me of course. Where else could you find the shortcuts? The help is getting better, but it's still not there yet.12:03
James147alvin: settings > configure shortcut12:03
alvinYes, already did :-)12:03
James147^^ though it dosnt list tab thats generally what the tab key does (indents or inserts a tab)12:03
alvinUnless the text is selected. In that case you'd think the tab would place a tab. Not that I'm complaining.12:04
alvinKate is a pretty nice editor. The only thing I'm missing from the good ol' KDE4 days is the HTML Tidy plugin.12:05
alvin*KDE312:05
James147alvin: in kate you can configure how the tab key behaves12:07
James147by default i think it indents if in the leading blank space12:08
MephI tried using DHCP, still no dice.12:21
MephI think the universe is telling me I'm too old to try a new OS. I should probably just reinstall windows and be done with it.12:24
BluesKajhey folks12:57
szalmoin BluesKaj12:58
James147heya BluesKaj13:00
BluesKajhi szal , James14713:01
BluesKajkwin is still in a mess ..but that's what I get for using a dev alpha OS...the beta version is supposed to come down the pipe today ..it'sll be interesting to see if any graphical fixes are in the mix.for kde . I think gnome is getting all the attn tho13:04
szalKDE and Gnome are 2 different beasts anyway, and I guess that KDE has their own developers13:07
alvinBluesKaj: Are you talking about Oneiric?13:08
BluesKajalvin, yes'13:09
alvinIsn't that just KDE 4.7 like in the natty ppa?13:09
BluesKajnope13:10
BluesKajI have no natty ppas13:10
James147alvin: its not that simple :) allot of other packages also get upgraded and various other things get changed13:12
alvinJames147: Even on the KDE layer? I mean: I basically see Kubuntu as Ubuntu (unstable anyway) with KDE on top. During a 6-month Kubuntu lifecycle KDE gets its monthly update.13:13
alvinIsn't Oneiric at this point just an even more unstable Ubuntu with the same KDE on top? (+kdepim)13:14
BluesKajalvin, kdepim is still optional13:16
James147alvin: Its not that simple as kde can be compiled and packaged in different ways and there are some components that arn't part of kde but still reply on it ^^13:16
alvinOh? So, it's not another version, but it's differently packaged?13:16
alvinand what kdepim version will Oneiric have?13:17
James147alvin: ^^ not vastly, but things like kdepim have to be tested and tweaked untill they work so it varies slightly13:17
EvilRoeyHaiiiii13:18
EvilRoeyanyone here using VirtualBox?  I've tried googling this but am not sure I found a description of the problem I have:  Kubuntu host, VirtualBox 4.0.12, Windows 7 guest, trying to access Sharepoint shares off our Sharepoint server is really slow.  Specifically, opening a folder takes 10 seconds; why could this be?13:18
Drakmor_hey, I was messing around with dual monitors a few days ago but I decided to stick with just one. Thing is, this seems to have left a hidden X screen, and the fact that it also had a system tray on the panel seems to be causing issues... anyone know how I can remove it?13:18
James147Drakmor_: what driver?13:19
Drakmor_I'm using a nvidia card with the proprietary drivers13:19
Drakmor_I had set up separate X monitors instead of twinview also13:19
Drakmor_if that makes a difference...13:19
James147Drakmor_: seperate monitors dosnt really work yet with kde ^^13:20
Drakmor_ah13:20
Drakmor_but how do I undo it?13:20
Drakmor_what's happening is all my apps are docking in the other tray13:20
Drakmor_so I can't see any of them13:20
James147Drakmor_: twinview should work though...13:21
Drakmor_it didn't for what I was trying to do :/13:21
James147Drakmor_: hmm, if you have disabled the other monitor then you could try resetting plasma (by moving ~/.kde/sahre/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc)13:21
Drakmor_that being having a small crt monitor for terminal and email while running fullscreen games and the like on the nice one13:21
Drakmor_okay13:21
Drakmor_I'm just trying to find a way to remove all the system trays on the desktop13:22
Drakmor_could I theoreticallly edit that file and delete out the second system tray as well?13:23
mudassarHello people, I have a question relating to image processing ...... can you tell me how can I search and join the related channel ?13:23
James147Drakmor_: yes, though i would copy it first :)13:23
Drakmor_okay13:24
Drakmor_but yeah, two system trays are showing up13:24
Drakmor_so I'll delete both then add a new one13:24
Drakmor_gotta relogin to change it right?13:26
James147Drakmor_: just kill and restart plasma-desktop13:27
Drakmor_kk13:27
Drakmor_brb then13:27
Drakmor_sweet, that worked! thank you!13:32
Wojtulashey, when kubuntu 11.10 will be released?13:37
dacresniis kubuntu dev on freenode or ubuntu's irc network?13:37
James147dacresni: #kubuntu-devel?13:38
dacresnithanks13:38
dacresnii didn't think that existed13:39
James147Wojtulas: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricReleaseSchedule13:39
dacresnicannonical put ubuntu support on its own irc network13:39
Picino13:39
James147^^ hmm didnt know aobut that... but then again I dont follow #ubuntu :)13:39
dacresnii've been there, im pritty sure they did13:40
Picidacresni: you're on freenode right now. irc.ubuntu.com is a CNAME to irc.freenode.net13:40
dacresnioh,13:40
dacresniwell. thats kind of obtuse13:40
Picilots of communities do it.13:41
dacresnisure13:41
chompghello, how can i use a shortcut to turn off the sound (or decrease/increase it)? (kde 4.6.2)14:25
James147chompg: look at the golbal shorcuts for kmix14:29
James147global shortcuts ^^14:29
hplpbchompg: looks like system settings > shortcuts & gestures > global keyboard shortcuts > kde component: kmix will do it14:31
chompgthanks14:38
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akpowerhello14:53
akpoweri have a boner14:53
akpowerOW YOU NIGGERZ14:54
akpowerokamura14:54
James147akpower: please stop14:54
akpowerok :(14:54
akpower:((((14:55
Alarmhello. i got a problem with my wireless (on my laptop) after installing the compact-wireless driver .14:59
Alarmthe ifconfig does not show anymore any wlan15:00
Alarmfurthermore the on my NetworkManager widget the "Wireless connections" checkbox is disabled15:00
Alarmso i cannot see any available networks15:00
James147Alarm: was it woprking before installing teh dirvers?15:01
Alarmyes, they were totaly fine. i might have unloaded something by mistake15:01
James147Alarm: then why install the drivers?15:01
Alarmi needed to fix a bug15:02
Alarmthe bug was fixed.15:02
Alarmbut i it seems that i somehow change the configuration. after the installation manual i remember typing some make unload , or something like that15:03
Alarmand unloading some iwlan ? i dont know if those things have to do with15:03
Alarmecho options iwlagn swcrypto=1 >> /etc/modprobe.d/options15:05
Alarmthis is one of the commands that i used15:05
Alarmand did some modifications in scripts/update-initramfs , which i am unsure if that is the case15:06
h2ohola a todos16:29
davhi16:37
davhardware question16:39
ubuntu_some GRUB help please16:41
cherubuntu_: Maybe if you'd actually ask a question...16:54
ubuntu_How can I recover my Kubuntu after Windows installation16:56
kbroulikwhich drivers are more stress-free and capable for all the KDE effects? Intel Sandy Bridge HD Graphics (open source driver), or a cheap AMD graphics with open source, or with proprietare (which I want to avoid)16:56
kbroulikwith stress-free I mean: supports KMS, is configurable through KDE's own config utilities, without stupid messy 3rd party amdcccle or whatever16:57
rekcuFniarBubuntu_: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows16:57
cherkbroulik: On Kubuntu 11.04, AMD sucks. On Kubuntu 9.04, AMD rocks.16:59
cherkbroulik: All or at least most of the effects of Kubuntu 11.04 KDE work on AMD if you use the proprietary driver, but it involves some hassle and workarounds for some bugs.17:00
hplpbcher: desktop effects worked perfectly for me with the proprietary driver with no workarounds on 11.0417:01
hplpbprevious versions of kubuntu always seemed to give me problems so I was rather suprised17:02
kbroulikbut the proprietary has the downside, it has no KMS which is annoying, and you can only configure it through that [insert many swearing words here] amdcccle17:02
kbrouliksame goes for the nvidia propr17:02
kbroulikall my other machines have Intel graphics which works so nice17:02
kbroulikbut I was wondering whether a cheap AMD would also be as stress-free as the intel open source (because theyre cheaper?)17:02
cherStrange: On Kubuntu 9.04, configuring the amd proprietary driver through KRandR worked.17:02
hplpbI've always had better luck using nvidia cards17:03
kbroulikcher: on my friend's computer it did not work using the systemsettings randr module17:04
kbroulikhplpb: that's why my new machine was given a nvidia card when I bought it :D17:04
kbroulikbecause the old ATI was just a mess17:04
cherI have 4 AMD E-350, 1 AMD A8-3850 and a Mobility Radeon HD 3850. The proprietary driver works on all of them. Using Kubuntu 11.04 KRandR works on none of them. And on the Llano, you get this "unsupported hardware" watermark.17:04
kbroulikhm, so I think I will stick with Intel :D17:05
cherPlus, using a 3D screensaver behaves very strange on all of them.17:05
kbroulikcher: I dont use screensavers at all :) they just waste power and serve no purpose for me :)17:06
cherI use keuphoria.kss, and on all of them when you move the mouse after the screen saver, the password dialog is invisible. It is there, you can enter the password, but you don't see the dialog. And after entering, you don't see the desktop until you do Ctrl+Alt+F1 and Ctrl+Alt+F7 to switch back and forth to X.17:06
cherThat multi-display settings can only be changed in amdcccle as root and require a reboot also is extremely inconvenient. It renders the combination of AMD + Kubuntu, or maybe AMD in general, pretty much useless on Laptops for presentations.17:07
ubuntu_Thanks for the link )(17:11
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Kumatzinhola17:17
chompghello, where can i find firefox 3.6? (which package?)17:19
jmichaelxkde 4.7 sucks17:38
SporkWitchCould be worse, it could be gnome (or windows...)17:42
hplpbjmichaelx: then don't use it :)17:43
cherjmichaelx: Why does kde 4.7 suck?17:45
rekcuFniarBKDE rocks17:45
jmichaelxcher: i could make you a list17:45
jmichaelxcher: KDE is great, etc etc... but 4.7 is so buggy that it is clear that the quality control system is broken17:46
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James147jmichaelx: its less bugy the the previous version here ^^ sounds like an issue with your system/distro17:47
cherI think the same about whole Kubuntu 11.04. The previous version that I used was Kubuntu 9.04. However, I can't tell whether it's the distro or the upstream packages or both.17:47
James147jmichaelx: and kubuntu hasnt offically packaged 4.7 in a release yet ^^17:48
jmichaelxJames147: 4.6 was much better on my 3 machines at home...17:49
jmichaelxJames147: that is true17:49
James147jmichaelx: I suggest creating a new user ^^ see if they behave any better, some times config errors can cause all sorts of issues17:50
jmichaelxJames147: i have done all of that17:50
James147jmichaelx: and your using 4.7 from the backports?17:50
jmichaelxJames147: it is just that i am discovering new bugs every day. just realized that the keyboard layout switcher is broken17:50
jmichaelxJames147: yes, i did not complite it myself (i have thought about it, though)17:51
jmichaelxcompile*17:52
James147jmichaelx: The problem with backports is that they dont go through as much testing as the version that comes with the next release does ^^17:52
jmichaelxJames147: i am sure that is the case17:52
kbroulikjmichaelx: in what respect is the keyboard switcher broken?17:52
jmichaelxkbroulik: right now, i have a german layout if i set it to 'en' and an english layout if set to 'de'17:53
kbroulikhm maybe the labels are misconfigured17:53
kbroulik;;;;;;;;;; now i have english lazout17:53
jmichaelxkbroulik: i have to test more to see if the problem is not bigger than that17:53
kbrouliköööö now german. i did not touch the configs when moving over17:53
kbroulikjmichaelx: check your configs and/or try deleting and adding the layouts, maybe it got confused somehow on update :)17:54
jmichaelxenglish lazout?17:54
kbroulikjmichaelx: layout :) in english Y and Z are swapped in contrast to german ;)17:54
jmichaelxkbroulik: i know that.... and if i select 'en', y and z are wrong17:54
jmichaelxi have used english, german and arabic keyboard layouts in KDE for years17:55
kbroulikif you select 'en' Z should be in the lower left corner of the keyboard?17:55
jmichaelxkbroulik: yes17:55
kbroulikand what's the problem then? :)17:55
* jmichaelx rolls eyes17:55
kbroulikYXCVBNM;:_ is german, ZXCVBNM<>? is english ..17:56
jmichaelxkbroulik: i already explained to you that the y and z are reversed from what they should be17:56
kbrouliki dont get it17:57
jmichaelxi have an american english keyboard, but if i set the layout switcher to 'en', i get a 'z' when i press 'y' (and also the reverse)17:57
kbroulikah okay17:58
jmichaelxactually, it is appearing that the 'de' keyboard layout just is not working...17:58
jmichaelxok, none of them seem to be working correctly17:59
jmichaelxif i set it to 'de', i get something at least similar to 'us'... if i set to 'us', i am not sure what i have... y and z are reversed, but the characters with umlaut are not present18:01
kbroulikhm it seems the keyboard thing indeed is broken in 4.7. I can not add any layouts than the default. My neo 2 is gone -.- and although I have "eliminate deadkeys" german I cannot add it18:01
jmichaelxkbroulik: MANY things are broken in 4.718:01
SporkWitchjmichaelx: did you tell it that it is physically an english qwerty?  I don,t know if the physical zkey sends the same messafe on both keyboards, maybe that could be throwing it off?  Guessing, and doing a poor job of explaining18:01
SporkWitchHard to type quickly and clearly on a tablet lol18:02
jmichaelxSporkWitch: i believe that is how it is configured, but i need to check again18:02
kbroulikSporkWitch: :D i got used to it on my vacation 3,5 weeks :D18:02
jmichaelxSporkWitch: yes, it can be lol18:02
SporkWitchkbroulik: i'm not too bad touchtyping on the default keyboard on this xoom, but when you're used to 97wpm, it's frustrating lol18:02
jmichaelxi just got a touchpad a week ago... my first experience with any tablets18:02
cherWoah I finally found out what to do in order to make gimp not crash at startup.18:02
kbroulikjmichaelx: it is android? do you use Smart Keyboard? :D18:03
jmichaelxkbroulik: no, it is webOS18:03
kbroulikSporkWitch: umm, where do I tell it what kind of keyboard it is? it just is set as "Generic PC keyboard with 101 keys"18:03
jmichaelxi do use swype on my android phone18:03
SporkWitchKbroulik, do you want it to behave like a german keyboard or english?18:03
kbroulikSporkWitch: it works fine, just wanted to know how I could tell it to be an english keyboard ;)18:04
SporkWitchAhh lol18:04
SporkWitchI can't remember where im the menus lol18:04
jmichaelxgod i wish i had just been ever so slightly conservative, and stayed with 4.6.5.... it was buggy, but nothing like this18:04
SporkWitchIs it a brand name keyboard? I think logitech makes linux drivers and software18:04
kbroulikI did the mistake of upgrading to KDEPIM2 :D good if you have backups :D18:05
cherOuch gimp just crashed in a way that X was kind of halted. Nothing moved, only cursor visible. Change to console back to X: Black screen, only cursor visible. I had to kill -9 gimp on console to get everything working again.18:05
SporkWitchMight help to use the official software instead of the generic, maybe?18:05
jmichaelxcher: are you using gimp from the official repos?18:06
kbroulikjmichaelx: and what else is broken in 4.7? :D18:06
cherjmichaelx: Yes.18:07
kbroulikthat Kickoff no langer has a back button is a "feature" *duck*18:07
jmichaelxkbroulik: task manager icons remain, after windows are closed... calendar widget partially broken, and does not respond to changes in settings, weird spacing issues in task manager (not a huge deal)18:07
cherAh this is reproducible. Run konsole. From konsole, run strace gimp -> X hangs, only mouse works. Go to console, kill -9 gimp, and everything works again.18:08
jmichaelxkbroulik: yes, i do not like that change, but at least it works18:08
kbroulikcher: weird thing. what kind of graphics and mesa version do you use?18:08
cherstill might be a race condition on accessing X.org.18:08
cherMobility Radeon HD 3850 with proprietary driver. (MSI GT735 laptop)18:08
jmichaelxnow i noticed keyboard layout switcher is broken18:09
cherI can have a look if this is reproducable on AMD E-350s and a Llano as well.18:09
cherBut I will not look right now.18:09
kbroulikjmichaelx: I cannot reproduce any of your bugs (un)fortunately. okay that calendar thing is indeed a bit broken, but thats if you dont use KDEPIM2 and those settings changes, well, do you mean changes to the locale or to the widget itself?18:09
SporkWitchAck, ati linux drivers are the worst i've ever seen; on got better performance from on-board than a high-end ati card before18:09
jmichaelxkbroulik: i cannot disable 'display events'.... which i want to do to get rid of that awful split window18:10
kbroulikjmichaelx: ah, that split thing is also a feature in 4.7 :)18:11
kbroulikit does not get rid of the split view18:11
kbroulikit just disables the events18:11
jmichaelxkbroulik: that split thing is really stupid18:11
kbroulikholidays remain in the right column18:11
kbroulikI like it :) at least if you use kdepim2, then it shows all your calendar appointments there right away, which is handy18:11
kbroulikunfortunately it has some issues when you resize it (just dont touch its size and youre all set :P)18:11
jmichaelxkbroulik: for me, i wind up with the calendar itself being squished to the side, and only halfway readable18:12
jmichaelxplus, i use google calendar, not any of the KDE stuff18:12
kbrouliktry holding alt and right clicking it, so you can freely(!) resize it18:12
kbroulikjmichaelx: google calendar works with akonadi? I use google calendar only, and it displays them just fine18:12
cherHmm, I guess it's oxygen-gtk that's broken. When I use Raleigh, I  cannot reproduce the gimp-X-hang.18:13
jmichaelxkbroulik: interesting, did not know that.18:14
jmichaelxkbroulik: alt+right click is not allowing me to resize the left half... only the right18:14
kbroulikjmichaelx: it's actually nothing you should be able to, but they are (not yet) able to prevent this because KWin doesnt care whether it is a plasma extender or a real window, so you can resize ANY plasma extender with that ;)18:14
kbroulikyou can move it around freely on the screen when pressing alt and dragging it with the left mouse, maybe you can move it to another position or something18:14
kbroulikonly widget that you can not resize with that method is the notifications history which is really a bummer because that has NO resizing capability at all which really ... me off since 4.618:15
jmichaelxkbroulik: i do appreciate this info... althoug i'd love to lose the slit window, and be able to resize the actual calendar18:15
kbroulikjmichaelx: just use the 4.6 Calendar :D like i do with kickoff (because I cant stand the loss of the back button)18:16
jmichaelxhow do you use the 4.6 calendar in 4.718:16
kbroulikjmichaelx: check out KDE/4.6 branch from git, compile the plasmoid, install it, restart plasma and it's gone ;)18:16
jmichaelx(sorry if that is a silly question)18:16
kbroulikjmichaelx: I query you for a detailed description?18:16
cherI think I have found quite a lot of bugs and issues in Kubuntu 11.04. Is it still worth reporting, or should I rather go for bug hunting in the Kubuntu 11.10 beta?18:17
cher(A list can be found here: http://www.riedquat.de/blog/2011-08-21-02)18:18
jmichaelxcher: i have though about doing something very similar! i'll be interested to read your list. in the long run, i'd love to be more involved with kde beta testing18:24
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kbroulikcher: hmm, let's have a look at your list :D18:31
kbroulikLine 1: didnt test, dont have AMD; Line 2: confirmed; Line 3: confirmed but amdcccle issue?; Line 4: dunno; Line 5: I hate Java :D; Line 10: I dont think this is natty related?; Line 11: confirmed but I could workaround it somehow; Line 12: didnt test; Line 14: works here WITH oxygen-gtk; Line 16: not experienced here, try another Phonon Backend such as vlc? Line 17: You need to restart any application that should use a new18:37
kbrouliklanguage or try manually changing it in the Help menu. Line 18/19: I dont have audio cds :D and if: I rip them using audiocd kio slave direcvtly from dolphin :D Line 22: what about upstart? Okay, they should go to systemd but well, it works fine here? Line 23: think that is a amd issue; Line 24: dunno; Line 25: I use bleeding edge X server, not experienced here; Line 26: I just have that the lock takes a second to appear when18:37
kbroulikswitching terminals leaving the desktop visible for a brief moment; Line 27: dunno; Line 28: didnt test/watch out for; Line 29: dunno; Line 30: dunno; Line 31: never experienced; Line 32: maybe there is a ppa like for chromium? Line 33: I dont do such stuff :D; Line 34: hmm, krfb/krdc works fine here18:37
FloodBotK1kbroulik: Please don't flood; use http://paste.ubuntu.com to paste; don't use Enter as punctuation.18:37
kbroulikoh, sorry, seems my irc client split the messages up :(18:37
szalwell, it has to, otherwise it would've been truncated18:38
kbroulikmh, ok, so IRC is from the middle age? okay :D18:43
kbroulikunfortunately quassel doesnt show this and just shows it as one single mesage18:43
cherkbroulik: On line 17: Language issues persist even after reboot. The restart thing is obvious since the locale settings usually are environment variables.18:44
cherkbroulik: The remote admin stuff: krfb / krdc? Lmao. How do you use them if it's X what crashes?18:46
cherkbroulik: Thanks for your feedback. It shows what headlines are ambiguous, I'll improve them.18:47
cherOn upstart: When X crashes on SuSE Linux, I have two options: a) if X crashes, so that keyboard and display are corrupted, but networking still works, I can ssh into it. b) I can boot without X by booting into runlevel 3 instead of runlevel 5. Neither option works on out-of-the-box kubuntu, because per default there's no sshd, and because of upstart.18:51
cherI actually had to boot from CD to recover one of my Kubuntu 11.04 boxes although I already had far better recoveribility possibilities 10 years ago on SuSE Linux.18:52
kbroulikcher: and could you please use an ordered list, so it has line numbers? :D hmm, okay, I am not that sort of stuff, I dont even touch the console and never experienced X problems, so.. ^^18:54
cherkbroulik: Changed to ordered list now.18:55
cherAnd I updated some of the descriptions so they are (hopefully) less ambiguous.18:55
kbroulikcher: could you please rant about the kubuntu installer as well, thanks :D18:57
cherI think I'll buy another Zotac Zbox AD02 to make a really good and reliable comparison which issues are AMD driver related.18:57
cherAh yes, the installer... I think it has something like 8 default package group selections, and only 3 or 4 of them actually were working. Of my 10 or so Kubuntu 11.04 installations that I did so far there was not a single one without trouble, right.18:58
cherBut I'm only going to write about things for which I have at least shown to myself how to reproduce them.18:59
cherWoah... lucky. Amazon.de still has a stock of Logitech MX-518 mice. Alternate already has none.19:01
Pici.3619:02
kbroulikcher: hmm, well, the partitioner is still slow as hell even on a four core 3,7 ghz processor :D19:20
kbroulikin the installer19:20
avihayI've always had issues with sound recording. in the past, the internal mic's output shifted about 1/3  of the scale away from the center of the scale, entering alot of noise while connecting an external mic worked fine. ( suspect that that's a feature of the soundcard that isn't supported by the linux driver, somth like electronic disturbance noise reduction that I saw in my parents twon windows machine where the mic works fine. a while passed of not19:26
avihayuseing the microphone, and pulse audio has arrived... now when I try to record in audecious, if I record mono, only loud voices are recorder. if I record sterio, it looks like the microphone's zero is at the lower edge of the right channle, and as I raise my voice, I can se the half wave pattern reach all the way from negative right to positive right to negative left to positive left. that's abnormal, and I don't know what to do. advice please.19:26
Rexonauhm i have one little question for someone??19:42
Rexonais someone here?19:42
avihayRexona: just ask. if someone knows he'll help you19:44
OerHeks:-)19:44
Rexonaokay19:44
Rexonajust want to know if my wireless network card would work on kubuntu its a SMC WPCI-G 54mpbs19:46
avihayyou can try it with a livecd/usb19:48
hallmanAnyone know why xorg sucks up 25-100% of my cpu? Seems to be a common problem, yet the many suggested solutions doesn't seem to work for me.19:48
hallmanI've also looked through the ubuntu wiki on X troubleshooting, HighCPU in particular.. I find it hard to believe that it's a client application. It's not software rasterizing. I've tried various drivers. Logs seem fine.19:49
cherRexona: I had some SMC equipment running successfully on Linux. It was Prism-GT based 54 mbps PCMCIA cards. This doesn't mean yours will run, but I think it is quite likely.19:54
cherMy Kubuntu bug hunting setup is nearly done. I'll be back on again in 15 minutes or so, and then I'll start to hunt down the bugs that I've found real hard.19:55
Rexonabut mine is a PCI card so19:55
Rexonaand where do i find those livedvd?19:55
cherRexona: Usually whether PCI, PCIe, PCMCIA, PC-Card, Mini-PCIe or whatever doesn't really matter, usually it's mostly the chipset that matters.19:56
Rexonaoh okay19:56
Rexonadesktop dvd is that the livedvd?19:56
Rexonaam i right? desktop dvd is supposed to be the livedvd?20:06
avihayRexona: the live cd should be a smaller download20:21
avihayjust download the desktop CD20:22
avihayalso read http://www.kubuntu.org/getkubuntu/download#desktop-dvd20:23
andybrinehey everyone20:23
andybrinedoes anyone know a good application for webcams on ubuntu20:24
cherMy kubuntu bug hunting hardware setup is done: http://www.riedquat.de/blog/2011-09-01-03 - now let's hunt bugs!20:38
bodomHi there. Does anybody knows how kdm is started in kubuntu?20:51
bodomHow and when20:51
cherbodom: upstart starts kdm. What exactly do you need to know?21:00
bodomcher: what I'm trying to achieve is having KDM started earlier21:01
James147bodom: for what reason?21:01
cherOne of the good things about upstart is that it has a dependency system. It will start everything as soon as possible, just not before the dependencies are not fulfilled. So I think it wouldn't work to start kdm earlier.21:02
* cher can't believe he actually said something good about upstart.21:02
bodomJames147: because I have some early task (probably the firmware loading into my DVB card) that holds it from starting for about 120 secs.21:02
bodomcher: damn, I hope there's also a way to tell im "send deps to /dev/null and start kdm when I tell you"21:03
bodom*him21:03
cherI don't know if upstart allows you to ignore dependencies.21:04
bodomif not, I want the good old and trustworty init back :P21:04
bodombtw, you pointed me to the right direction, I'm reading upstart doc now. ty!21:05
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yofel_bodom: feel free to edit the 'start on' statement in /etc/init/kdm.conf , it can be tricky to get right though21:16
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bodomyofel: yes, I was just trying to understand that statement before editing it :)21:17
cherbodom: I want good old and trustworthy init back, too. I have my issues with upstart :D21:19
bodomwell', I'm gonna try a reboot, cya21:23
BarkingFishcher, join the club.  I'm not too keen on upstart either - in fact I have an even bigger issue - the fact that (k)ubuntu only provide pulseaudio as a sound server without giving people an alternative, like artsd, which kicked pulseaudio's butt :)21:26
cherI miss artsd, too. I know artsd from SuSE Linux.21:27
BarkingFishEvery computer I have had on which I've used linux, I've done my best to rip old plugins from elsewhere, update them and switch my systems from pulseaudio to artsd21:27
BarkingFishI've tried that on kubuntu to no avail.21:27
BarkingFishIt's either pulse or nothing - really pulseaudio should be called flatlineaudio, since it's effectively dead.21:28
* szal does fine w/ Pulse21:28
BarkingFishszal, you're one of the lucky ones.21:29
BarkingFishEnjoy it :)21:29
* James147 also has no issues with pulse21:29
SIR_TacoI guess I'm lucky too21:31
SIR_Tacoshould be playing the lottery I guess21:31
BarkingFishI had no issues with artsd in the past.  With pulseaudio, I have no control over my mic volume in audacity, my mic won't work through firefox / flash pages, I can't use paltalk's flash version because I can't talk to anyone, and the mic on my webcam has feedback which could deafen an elephant21:32
cherI hate today's BIOS. They are so awfully slow. My Llano takes ~25 seconds to boot into Kubuntu login screen. But 14 seconds or so is the BIOS until it loads the OS.21:32
BarkingFishNone of those things occurred on systems where I've had arts.21:32
SIR_TacoBarkingFish: like it or not, the idea behind it is sound... the implimentation has caused problems for some21:34
BarkingFishSIR_Taco, I don't mind the idea. The idea is good.  It's just that it's been thrown together like a badly made stuffed toy, and it's about as usable as chocolate suncream on a wasp infested beach.21:35
BarkingFishAnd until it's rewritten and built in such a way that it doesn't interfere with the normal operation of a pc or laptop, it should be dropped and we should go back to something which worked.21:36
* szal wouldn't go as far as speaking of no problems w/ Pulse21:38
szale.g., I couldn't get a mic to work on my PCI soundcard21:38
cherAmazing. An A8-3850 with an SSD and Kubuntu is so frightening fast that I can forgive all the quirks of Kubuntu.21:39
* cher is forced to work with Windows and regular hard disks at work.21:39
bodomI've removed almost any upstart constraint for kdm, leaving only filesystem. Now my sistem boots up fast as a shark and everything works fine. Ty21:39
cherbodom: You could've also instead bought an SSD :-D21:40
SIR_TacoBarkingFish: It adds a lot of features that ALSA/OSS didn't have, but I admit that there are cases of it being bad for some21:40
bodomcher: I've almost bought it, but price and write count kept me away21:41
BarkingFishAnd for that reason there should be alternatives for people who can't use pulseaudio, SIR_Taco.   We offer alternatives for everything else almost, I mean damn, there's over 30 different media players.  We have 2 progs (kate and kwrite) as basic text editors...21:42
BarkingFishbut we can't offer an alternative to a sound system which is far from sound...21:42
cherbodom: write count is not a reason. Even with 3000 erase/write-cycles MLCs and a flash translation layer with only mediocre wear levelling you'd have to write multiple gigabytes per day to trash it within its first 5 years.21:42
cherAs soon as the Llano does multitasking, I miss the level 3 cache :(21:43
bodomcher: Mhhh that's interesting. Didn't knew that. I'm gonna check prices once again :P21:43
* James147 notes that kate just embeds kwrite (as with many other applications) and adds some more advanced featurers ontop21:43
SIR_TacoBarkingFish: there are ways to revert to ALSA, but they aren't exacly user friendly (ie. you can't just click a button)21:43
bodomJust to let you know, I have pulseaudio too :P21:44
James147SIR_Taco: not as simple as uninstalling it then?21:44
bodomand hate it hard ^^21:44
SIR_TacoJames147: for instance http://www.jeffsplace.net/node/12 (a little older, not sure if it works with the current)21:45
BarkingFishSIR_Taco, I don't really care if it means having my goolagongs removed without anesthetic, I need to completely annihilate pulseaudio on this machine :)21:46
cherForget what I said about the level 3 cache. There's a bug in the application that I'm using for performance profiling.21:47
cherIs there a recommendation on how to use Kubuntu when I have multiple PCs and want to share my user settings between them? Should I use an NFS server?21:49
cher(The best setup would be a setup that's comparable to Sun Ray.)21:50
SIR_TacoBarkingFish: wether you like it or not, PulseAudio just translates things to ALSA (or OSS if you have an older card) anyway... it could be possible, as James147 brought up, to just remove the PulseAudio packages21:53
SIR_Tacojust make sure it's not going to remove important packages21:53
BarkingFishIf you have the instructions on how to completely trash pulse on here, please, please link me to them :)21:55
BarkingFishIf I could reach through the monitor, I'd hug you.21:55
mark___I'm having some really strange issues with my sound... For some reason the audio that plays is really high pitched, like someone turned the bass off and the treble to max. Anyone have any clue as to how to fix this?21:56
kbroulikweird, i have 750 MB of free memory and still it is doing stuff on the hard drive and has used 17% swap space o.O21:56
SIR_Tacohaha21:56
mark___Nevermind it fixed itself somehow21:57
mark___I am so confused21:57
SIR_Tacokbroulik: swap space is used for pages that the OS has deemed to not be useful for the near future21:57
kbroulikah, okay, thought it would just keep everything in swap till it is used or so21:58
James147kbroulik: ^^ and will keep files in memory that have been recently used incase they are needed again21:58
kbroulikit is okay that it does this way but if swapping slows down the system so extremely, it should just make the ram full as hell (like it used to normally)21:58
James147(at elast untill that memory is needed by something else)21:58
SIR_Tacokbroulik: it is possible that it was sent to swap because another program needed the ram space at that time... and hasn't been called back because it hasn't been needed, yet21:59
James147kbroulik: if the swaped memory isnt being used why load it? then the memory can be used for actual stuff (like loading data) and the swap be broght back when its actually needed21:59
James147kbroulik: if swapspace is emptied as soon as it can and the process dosnt actually need it back yet then it could just be swapeed out again if another process needs the memory... slwoing everything down22:00
kbroulikbut it is still insane how much memory chromium actually consumes22:00
kbroulikand the worst technology ever invented: Flash. it consumes … damn!22:01
bodomkbroulik: if you want, you can tune system "swappiness"22:01
James147kbroulik: thats why you should encrouage people to use html5 :)22:01
kbrouliktell those the stupid people just putting preview on youtube (which does support html5) and then linking to another page, that5 does not -.- like blip of gtametrailers or so22:02
bodomkbroulik: changing vm.swappiness value on sysctl.conf and/or /proc/sys/vm/swappiness22:03
James147bodom: unless your actually having a problem with it that isnt advised... it can just make programs slower22:04
kbroulikI think the problem is more the hdd which has some bad transfer rates which seem to cause all sorts of trouble22:04
kbrouliksuch as slow as hell dolphin browsing, etc22:04
kbroulikbut I think I will replace it next week anyway when I buy lots of stuff22:04
kbroulikand yes, I have back ups :p22:04
bodomkbroulik, James147: In my experience, setting a value of 15-20 instead of default (60) speed up things on desktops22:04
James147bodom: depends on the amount of ram you have/use :)22:05
kbroulik12 gig? :D22:05
cherOn most of my boxes, I do not configure swap spaace.22:06
SIR_Tacokbroulik: a quicker HD will help with speeding up swaping pages from the disk to ram and visa-versa, but it won't stop paging... only more ram will stop/decrease swapping22:06
bodomJames147: That's true. We can say the rule is lot of ram and slow hd -> low value, less ram and fast hd -> high value22:06
James147cher: same :)22:06
cherIn the long run, having 8 GiB instead of 4 or 16 instead of 8 usually is cheaper if the PC would swap otherwise and the user time = money.22:07
bodomcher: as long as you don't use suspend-to-hd, this could be a solution too22:07
kbroulikI dont use suspend-to-hd, as this takes like 10 times longer than a complete start :D22:07
James147kbroulik:  :D22:08
cherso true :)22:08
BarkingFishi don't believe it.22:08
bodomkbroulik: it depends on how many windows/app you got opened when you decide to suspend :D22:08
kbroulikwriting/loading 12 GB of ram from drive vs. a SSD? :D22:08
kbroulikmy system starts in 20 seconds of which 10 are the bios POST22:08
BarkingFishDebian have been a huge help to me :)  I've just nabbed all the main packages and deps from debian, for arts and artsd, and installed them without so much as a moan from kubuntu :)22:09
kbroulikor lets say 30 seconds and then it is fully usable with Kopete, Amarok, Chrome autostarted22:09
cherSimilar here. My Llano takes 25 to start, of which 14 seconds are the BIOS.22:09
kbroulikmy mother's pc is even quicker with EFI22:09
James147kbroulik: and a wake from hibernate has to load through th bios anyway ^^22:09
BarkingFishAnd if we want to be really good, we can chuck pulseaudio - nothing, and I mean *nothing, in debian, needs pulseaudio to run.22:09
kbroulikyep :D22:09
SIR_Tacoyou need to keep in mind also, that the more ram you have, the more the system will use (because it's faster than swap)... a lot of people complain that they have X amount of ram and it's using 60% of it.... they don't get that it's better to have most/everything in ram than in swap22:09
kbroulikhm okay I use pulseaudio22:09
kbroulikI hated it but now I love it :D22:09
cherswap is something for systems with in-memory databases or laptops that need suspend-to-hd for usability reasons.22:09
kbroulikSIR_Taco: that's what I always tell em22:10
bodomWell, usually I got about 20-30 windows opened at the end of a work day and I don't want to spend 15 min or emore next mrning to get them back22:10
bodomsuspend-to-hd works fine for me22:10
kbroulikmaybe one day I will have a computer with coreboot and systemd which will be ready in 10 seconds :D22:10
James147SIR_Taco: I like how my computer (6gigs) slowly fills up to about 98-100% full over a few hours :)22:10
SIR_TacoBarkingFish: so you have it working?22:10
SIR_TacoJames147: exactly :)22:11
kbroulikonce i figured out how to move around audio streams, I will never stop using pulse again :D22:11
SIR_TacoJames147: I only fill my 8 gigs when I'm doing 3D rendering22:11
BarkingFishSIR_Taco, Give me 5 minutes and I'll tell you, I'm going to reboot now22:11
BarkingFishSee you in a bit22:11
cherNow let's see if a Llano can do 3 monitors.22:11
cherAh no let's not see this, I have no HDMI cable... :(22:12
SIR_Tacokbroulik: I agree.... but there are the odd card that doesn't like Pulse... usually older OSS drivers22:12
James147SIR_Taco: but is that just application memory? or with buffers/caches?22:13
cherYou know what would be cool... if I could change the window of a running application to appear on another PC. Does X.org support something like this? (I.e. the same semantics as changing the value of the DISPLAY variable during runtime would have if this would be possible.)22:14
SIR_TacoJames147: what are we talking about? swap, or audio? haha22:14
James147SIR_Taco: just ram :)22:15
SIR_TacoJames147: ah, no that's buffers and cache22:15
* kbroulik can't wait for systemd, wayland, coreboot, whatever :D22:16
SIR_Tacospeaking of audio... I remember walking to the computer store.... barefoot, in the snow, uphill both ways, to get a SoundBlaster Live card, because it had kernel drivers... ;)22:18
cherThat's pretty cool :)22:19
James147SIR_Taco: uphill both ways?   :)22:19
SIR_TacoJames147: yea... there was no google maps or map quest.... I took a wrong turn :P22:19
James147:D22:19
BarkingFishJames147, I'm not quite there yet.  I've killed pulseaudio by segfaulting it, and started artsd - I still have no sound though, I suspect I need to find a phonon backend for arts, and I'm sure there's one somewhere.22:21
SIR_Tacoanyway... lol.... my point is that I find the contrast of then and now kind of funny. When we got QT upgraded, or got a peice of hardware working on a Linux system, it was awesome.... an achievement even... Now everyone expects things to work out of the box, which is not a bad thing but not what I'm used to22:23
SIR_TacoBarkingFish: can you change the "backend" setting under Multimedia in System Settings?22:25
BarkingFishyes, but i only have a gstreamer backend right now22:26
BarkingFishSIR_Taco, What is wrong with expecting things to work out of the box?  I know most if not all of linux's stuff comes with no warranty, but it shouldn't be too much to expect things to work like they're meant to, surely.22:27
BarkingFishLinux as a whole has clearly lost the KISS philosophy.  Instead of making bigger and better things which may actually be totally and utterly useless, we should be looking at improving on the stuff which we *knew* worked.22:29
SIR_TacoBarkingFish: I wasn't saying that things working out of the box was a bad thing.... I was just saying that when I started with Linux, half of the fun was getting things to work22:29
BarkingFishIt was for me too, SIR_Taco22:29
SIR_TacoIt's much more KISS than it was over a decade ago22:29
BarkingFishIt took me 9 weeks to get my first usb wifi stick to work on linux.  Fun? Not entirely, but once I learned how to do it properly, the next stick I got (my new one just 2 days ago) took 4 minutes to install and start scanning.22:30
SIR_TacoI'm not going to argue with you that Linux is trailing as far as new hardware goes22:31
BarkingFishIt just annoys me we have so many different types of other things, and so few of others.22:31
BarkingFishI'd be delighted to see us go the way of debian, their entire distro does not use or rely on pulseaudio anywhere.  Everything runs without need of it.22:32
SIR_Tacowe have many different options for things we have control over.... we don't have control over drivers for the most part22:32
BarkingFishIf only kubuntu was like that, I'd have a friend for life22:32
BarkingFishHell, I may even migrate to Debian just to get rid of it :P22:33
SIR_TacoDebian sticks with older, yet reliable, software.... but if there was not innovation we'd be stuck on windows 3.122:33
BarkingFishreliable being precisely my point.22:34
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BarkingFishThere's a difference between innovation, which is good, and sending out stuff which doesn't work right and not appearing to attempt to fix it (which is bad) :)22:34
SIR_Tacoif what you want/need is super stable, but a little behind the times... than go with debian. You might not have the newest browser or some of the apps22:35
BarkingFishI'm not arsed with stable, SIR_Taco :D  What I want is *working* :P22:35
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SIR_TacoBarkingFish: I agree, but you need to look at the larger picture.... for a large proportion of the Kubuntu community, pulseaudio works as intended. Without feedback though, they can't do anything about it. If someone tries Kubuntu and says "crap, my sound doesn't work, screw this" then no on knows.... if someone says "hey my sound doesn't work, here's my card and here's  the problem" that helps them22:38
BarkingFishsorry about that, plasma crashed :P22:40
SIR_Tacodid you get my last message?22:40
BarkingFishyes22:40
BarkingFishit's in my scrollback :)22:41
BarkingFishYou see, I'm one of those kind of people, SIR_Taco - I expect **** to work when I want it to work, and I don't expect people to issue stuff which is broken from the word Go.22:41
BarkingFishFor me, across 2 different distros, pulseaudio has been broken.22:41
BarkingFishOn mandriva, I was shown by one of their devs, Thiago, how to completely strip pulseaudio out of my system and revert to alsa only.  It worked like a charm.22:43
BarkingFishI don't have the instructions to do that here, the ones I had from the other distro don't work.22:43
cherCu guys22:43
BarkingFishIf I could find out how to do it, believe me SIR_Taco - I'd be all over it like chickenpox in a kindergarten22:44
SIR_Tacook.... let me see if I can find something to get you back to ALSA.... what verion of Kubuntu do you have?22:44
BarkingFish11.0422:44
SIR_Tacook, after removing PulseAudio, did you install alsamixer?22:49
BarkingFishon the other distro? yes22:50
BarkingFishI haven't been able to nuke PA here yet22:50
SIR_Tacoare we talking about 2 different things now?22:50
BarkingFishI don't think so22:51
BarkingFishI thought you were referring to me removing PA on the other distro, which I mentioned above.22:51
BarkingFishWhen I did that, I installed alsamixer after doing so.22:51
SIR_Tacoah ok22:51
SIR_Tacodo you know the sound card?22:52
BarkingFishoff the top of my head, no. I'll lspci and find out for you22:52
SIR_Tacogreat thanks22:53
BarkingFish00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)22:53
BarkingFishhow do I find out the actual model?22:53
BarkingFishalsamixer tells me the chip is an Intel Cantiga HDMI22:55
SIR_Tacois your system settings -> multimedia -> set to HDMI as default?22:59
BarkingFishwhat, for output?23:00
SIR_Tacoyes23:00
BarkingFishthe output device just says "Internal analog audio stereo"23:00
BarkingFisher, Internal Audio Analog Stereo23:00
SIR_TacoBarkingFish: ok, and it's not muted?23:01
BarkingFishno23:01
SIR_Tacoyou get absolutely no sound from any application and/or start-up/shutdown?23:01
BarkingFishi get nothing from nowhere, whatsoever.23:01
BarkingFishIt's so quiet I could here a cockroach blow off in the hallway :)23:02
BarkingFish*hear23:02
SIR_Tacohaha ok23:02
BarkingFishmy fan is making more noise than my speakers :(23:03
SIR_Tacoin a console (or Konsole) "aplay -l" might give you more information about your sound card23:04
BarkingFishit does, lots more. I'll pastebin it23:05
SIR_Tacoalso, you don't have two sound cards? (ie. one on board and one as a card?)23:05
BarkingFishno, one card, built in to the laptop23:05
SIR_Tacook23:05
BarkingFishhttp://paste.ubuntu.com/680189/23:06
BarkingFishthere are 2 output devices available, one is the regular sound (STAC92xx) and device 3 is for the hdmi socket on the side, for when I plug into my hd tv23:08
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SIR_Tacohttp://paste.ubuntu.com/680191/23:11
SIR_Tacoyou'll likely have to reboot23:12
BarkingFishdone23:13
BarkingFishI hope this gives me some sound, but I'd still like pulse off here if I can figure out how :)23:13
BarkingFishI'll see you in a mo, SIR_Taco23:13
BarkingFishsorry dude, i got nothing.23:20
BarkingFishbeen end to end on alsamixer, turned everything up as high as it will go and i have nada.  I've tried a sound test in systemsettings/multimedia and i still hear nothing.23:21
SIR_Tacowhat laptop do you have?23:22
BarkingFishCompaq Presario CQ6123:23
BarkingFish105-SA version23:24
SIR_Tacolikely close to my HP laptop, that I had audio problems with23:24
SIR_Tacohttps://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+question/63526 try reply #223:25
BarkingFishthis one is mine - http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/10/Compaq1_01.JPG23:25
BarkingFishI can't follow those instructions too well, they appear to be made out for a gnome based system23:28
BarkingFishI'll give them a shot though23:28
SIR_Tacoyes, they are... just replace gedit with nano, or whatever you use23:28
SIR_TacoBarkingFish: it really isn't a PulseAudio problem... it's a driver problem23:32
SIR_Tacolike my laptop... HP added some "unique" features to a normal soundcard from Intel.... and it breaks things23:32
BarkingFishwell I sorta have a problem now, I'm looking at the HD Audio model codes under STAC92 types, and my laptop isn't listed in the STAC92 set23:32
BarkingFishhttp://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt23:33
billy__what?23:33
SIR_Tacobut, HD audio isn't what you're after23:33
BarkingFishno, but I need the model type for one of the commands in that list23:33
BarkingFishoptions snd-hda-intel model=23:34
SIR_Tacolet me dig my laptop out23:34
SIR_Tacoha, it is the same sound card for my HP :)23:37
SIR_Tacogive me a second and I'll put it to pastebin and you can copy it and see if it works23:38
BarkingFishAll I need is the model id of the card if you can pull it please :)23:38
SIR_TacoBarkingFish: paste.ubuntu.com/680204/23:43
BarkingFishokies, one sec23:44
SIR_TacoBarkingFish: that should be close to the same laptop, if not the same sound card atleast. which the alsa-base.conf files should be the same23:45
BarkingFishok, I've done that. Is a reboot needed?23:46
SIR_Tacoreboot is the easy way yea23:46
BarkingFishok then, back in a bit.23:46
BarkingFishhopefully with sound :)23:46
BarkingFishwe're getting further from the goalmouth here, SIR_Taco23:55
BarkingFishnow I have no sound, and aplay -l is saying DeviceList:240 - no soundcards found23:55
SIR_Tacoyou'll likely have to have your evil pulse audio installed again :)23:56
BarkingFish**** that, I'd rather have my balls passed over barbed wire :P23:56
SIR_Tacohaha ok23:56
BarkingFishI still have my evil pulseaudio installed, I haven't been able to take it off yet :)23:57
BarkingFishThat's what I wanted the help with!23:57
BarkingFishThe next question is, how do I get my alsa-base.conf back to how it was?23:58
SIR_TacoI'm not sure, that at this point (11.04) you can pull pulse audio out... without breaking KDE23:58
BarkingFishi.e, do we have alsaconf or a gui setup for alsa, detects card, etc23:59

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