[02:31] My mic amplification keeps turning itself up to 100% which is way way way too loud. I put it back down to unamplified but when I talk it automatically shoots back up to 100% [02:31] How do I make my input volume not possessed? [02:31] Geocosm: in what application? [02:31] Sound Preferences [02:31] see if there are 'automatic' controls [02:32] Geocosm: right, but with what application? [02:32] that could be an application setting [02:32] It's in the Input tab in Sound Preferences [02:32] i remember seeing something in skype that says 'manage settings' [02:32] Geocosm: yes, but what are you using the mic with [02:32] Tons of things. [02:32] Mangler, Skype, G+ [02:33] Geocosm: well, im proposing that those applications have control of that, and are changing those settings [02:33] Interesting. [02:33] you can always open skype, look for the settings im mentioning, and try it while you wait on someone else [02:33] you can also install pavucontrol if its still available in whatever version of ubuntu you are running [02:34] Ah. Allow Skype to adjust my mixer levels. But... it's still doing it. [02:35] Geocosm: OK.. so we can call that 'ruled out' then [02:35] its not application specific then [02:35] Geocosm: is this something that has always happened, or something that has just started happening? [02:35] are you up do date with all package upgrades? [02:36] did you see anything helpful in 'pavucontrol' ? [02:36] I'm not sure. [02:36] I am. [02:36] I didn't look yet [02:37] cool... let me know when you have time to do some troubleshooting :) [02:37] Installing it now [02:42] ok. installed. [02:43] i assume you are looking in alsamixer? in the terminal? [02:43] applications>sound & video>Pulseaudio volume control [02:44] right, but prior to coming here, you were looking in alsamixer? [02:45] if you open a terminal and type [02:45] alsamixer [02:45] I clicked the sound preferences button on the speaker in my panel [02:45] you should be able to hit F5 and see all the settings, boost or whatever [02:45] oh, god. what is this [02:45] Geocosm: ? [02:46] it's all weird looking. my terminal. [02:47] AlsaMixer v1.0.24.2 [02:47] should be alsamixer [02:48] It's got like bars in it and stuff lol [02:48] if you hit F5 you should see the boost settings and all that [02:48] Geocosm: right, thats the mixer [02:48] i would try setting the settings there, and see [02:48] This is like weird. I don't know what to do lol. [02:49] Geocosm: you navigate to the boost settings after pressing F5 [02:49] turn them to the setting you chose [02:50] start an app, see if the settings change unwantedly again [02:51] aha. I have to use the keyboard. [02:51] ? [02:51] On this thing in my terminal. these bars. [02:51] Geocosm: you can hit escape and close it [02:52] and look for a bug report... if you dont see one you can file it [02:52] I closed G+ and it stopped messing up my mic. [02:52] But there's no setting like that on G+ [02:52] if it were my machine, i would try a few live CD's [02:52] the LTS... 10.04, and maybe knoppix [02:53] is there no way to deny my web browser mic permissions? [02:53] i would make a note of if it is happening or not, and make a note of the kernel version and ALSA versions [02:53] My sound has always been messed up. [02:54] Geocosm: you should probably be filing bugs with alsa then [02:54] Like, only one application can use it at a time. And when I close that application, all the other sounds that should have happened before happen. [02:54] Geocosm: open a terminal... and run a few commands and paste them for me here [02:54] http://paste.ubuntu.com/ [02:54] Like, when I close my music player, Skype will make all these sigh and blip noises. lol. [02:54] run... [02:54] lspci [02:54] aplay -l [02:54] arecord -l [02:54] hi. I'm running natty on an arm-based hercules cafe. works globally fine, except at boot I get a blinking curosr at the top left corner, and hav to do ctrl-alt-F1 to get a tty. It would be great if I could also know where to change my keyboard map at bott time instead of manually each time :-p [02:55] I've tried to hack together a simple inittab, no change, but maybe i made it wrong [02:56] http://paste.ubuntu.com/707124/ [02:56] obarthelemy: thats quite over my head, but feel free and pastebin what you got here, and maybe someone will be able to give you some feedback [02:57] I hink what I did amounts to nothing, we can start from scratch: how do I get natty to launch a tty at boot, and what will be that tty's onfig files ? (runlevel 3 preferred) [02:58] the GUI is running on one is it not? [02:58] anyways, again.. over my head [02:59] Geocosm: i found an interesting post [02:59] http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1055105.html [02:59] no, no gui, this is for a server... thanks anyway [02:59] suggests adding Add -> options snd-hda-intel model=6stack-dig probe_mask=1 <-at the end of the line in file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base [02:59] obarthelemy: right [02:59] im just not sure why you arent getting to a tty anyways [03:00] my server installs just boot up to a login prompt, no hacking needed... [03:00] Geocosm: as long as you understand how to add that to that file, and remove it if it doesnt work/help, i would try it [03:01] Got it. Thank you. [03:02] theres also http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/catalog/component/pci:3A3E:8086-AUDIO [03:03] Geocosm: ^^ those units should have the same audio hardware you have [03:04] "Make sure you don't have 2 applications sharing sound. It seems like a pulseaudio problem." [03:04] lol I have like 6 applications using sound right now. [03:05] Geocosm: thats not the issue [03:06] you dont share the exact same problem, you have sound, you just have a glitch [03:06] that could be a glitch no one has noticed [03:07] * Geocosm pulls his hair out. [03:09] That might have mostly fixed the problem, actually. [03:09] Geocosm: ? [03:10] I'm still not able to get sound on a youtube video, but like Skype is making noises while I'm using Rhythmbox. [03:10] Geocosm: sound with youtube? [03:10] i didnt know about that [03:10] that could be anything... i would try different browsers too just to be sure [03:10] flash is just awful [03:11] yeah I tried chromium, chrome, and FF. [03:11] It is. [03:11] Oh. I know. I'll try to find an HTML5 video. [03:11] anyways, i would also be interested in knowing how it workds with 10.04 and 11.10 [03:11] i was thinking it was the mic boost issue, and that was it [03:12] i would test with live CD's first so as not to break something, but updating alsa is not a bad idea [03:12] Geocosm: you'll just need to fiddle around with it [03:12] if its a desktop machine, i would go spent $4 at a charity shop and get *any* compatible card, and disable that one in the bios [03:13] can you get that one working? sure... but who knows how much of a pain it'll be [03:13] you'll need to pick a bug reporting path and be diligent about it [03:13] anyhow, im out.. GN folks and good luck [03:14] Night. Thanks. [05:06] hi [05:10] hi === mistrynitesh is now known as geekosopher [09:53] hello earthlings :P === Silent_Samurai is now known as Somebody === Somebody is now known as Silent_Samurai === 31NAAEFPN is now known as bobweaver === M0hi is now known as IAmNotThatGuy === tuxforprez is now known as B08VV3Av3R === B08VV3Av3R is now known as bobweaver [14:20] hello!! [14:21] so, what's up throw this lands? any new cool project or something? or are you having beers for the new release? [14:25] mey malev ... maybe you want to try one of the more social avenues like #ubuntu-beginners-team or #ubuntu-release-party [14:28] holstein: maybe, but I also asked about the channel it self. I've participate on this channel some time ago, and I saw there where to be big changes and ... that was what I was asking [15:58] malev: welcome back :) [16:03] hello can anyone help me with sed ? [16:03] Hi there I am trying to [16:03] echo "Your weather code is $CODE It is now being move to the correct place " [16:03] but I want to replace the 1st line in weather.conf to $CODE [16:03] echo $CODE >> /opt/Weather/weather.config [16:05] hm i don't know much about bash but i can try [16:06] u want to replace only 1 line? or does the file only contain that line [16:06] cause >> means append [16:06] so it will create a new line [16:06] tuxforprez: [16:07] thaks [16:07] thanks [16:07] I am just learning [16:07] so ? how many lines are in the config file? [16:08] 2 [16:08] 1st one is yahoo weather code [16:08] 2nd should be kept ? [16:08] 2 is Celsius or fer [16:08] c or f [16:09] is it possile to just create the file? or would that need more coding? [16:09] i mean is there a variable in the code that already knows the setting? [16:09] more coding [16:10] a guy @ # bash said to use sed [16:10] this is what he gave me [16:10] { echo "$CODE"; sed 1d /opt/Weather/weather.config; } > tempfile && mv tempfile /opt/Weather/weather.config [16:10] I guess that one 1d is the 1st line [16:11] idk if sed can read a certain line [16:11] neither do I :>) [16:11] I will try brb [16:12] ok i think i got what it meant [16:12] it's like an offset [16:12] skip first line [16:13] so yea that code should run successfully [16:14] hmm, now it doesn't seem to be an offset, its more like an ignore line [16:15] d = Delete pattern space. Start next cycle. [16:15] w//e that means [16:15] :D [16:16] thanks [16:17] almost there [16:17] Is the question solved? [16:19] \0/ [16:19] sed has two buffers, the pattern space and the hold space. normally it operates on the pattern space, where the input is read in line-wise. [16:19] each reading-in of a new line is "a new cycle." [16:19] That behaviour of the d command allows code like that: [16:19] cool Riviera thaks [16:19] yeah it worked [16:19] sed '/some pattern/d; s/^/hehe/' [16:20] the s command which prepends each line with the string "hehe" would be skipped for each line containing "some pattern" [16:20] which would then not appear in the output [16:20] $ printf %s\\n {a..c} | sed '/b/d; s/^/not deleted: /' [16:20] not deleted: a [16:20] not deleted: c [16:20] Real cool stuff right here [16:22] I actually use that a lot, for instead of doing [16:22] grep 'some pattern' | sed 's/some/thing/' [16:22] anything from a to c is that why the dots are there or is it just a and c that are not deleted [16:22] doing [16:22] sed '/some pattern/!d; s/some/thing/' [16:22] If you are into these insane things, ##sed is a very friendly and very helpful (though sometimes quiet) channel. [16:22] lol [16:23] I am joining now thanks [16:23] join ##sed [16:23] tuxforprez: that {a..c} thing is a feature of shells like bash, ksh and zsh: [16:23] v. cool [16:24] try, for example: echo {a..z}; echo {01..10} [16:24] this is going to make life so much more fun and easy [16:25] SO cool [16:26] echo {dog,cat,bird}{house,pool} [16:26] ;) [16:26] lol [16:26] So coll [16:26] cool [16:27] this is REGexp ? [16:28] sorry that I am so new [16:28] to all of this [16:28] no, it's something completely different, bash calls it 'brace expansion" [16:29] REGexp moves mords on ? like if I want to move up a step [16:29] from 1 to say 300 [16:30] echo {1..300} {300..1} [16:30] yes [16:31] thank you so much [16:31] :>) [16:33] i dont know much of sed, i usually like grep more, but i think i'll try to see what sed has to offer and maybe i'll find it useful some day :D [16:34] tuxforprez: regular expressions match things [16:34] tuxforprez: (or, well, in theory they define regular languages, but ignore that) [16:35] tuxforprez: that "changing" what you meant, as in sed's s command, only partly consists of regular expressions: [16:35] tuxforprez: s/pattern/replacement/flags [16:36] tuxforprez: where "pattern" is a regular expression, and "replacement" is not, both have different syntaxes [16:36] tuxforprez: the "s" stands for "substitute" [16:36] anyway, need to hurry now, back later :) [16:36] thanks again :>) [17:11] Hi everyone [17:12] How do I make my yamaha opl3-sa3 soundcard work? [17:12] There appears to be no drivers currently installed but I know NOTHING about linux. [17:12] hm [17:12] !sound [17:12] If you're having problems with sound, click the Volume applet, then Sound Preferences, and check your Volume, Hardware, Input, and Output settings. If that fails, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Sound - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting - http://alsa.opensrc.org/DmixPlugin - For playing audio files, see !players and !mp3. [17:13] there, check that [17:13] Thank-you [18:16] hi [18:17] does anyone know if you install a version of ubuntu on a usb does it affect your other files on the usb? [18:18] you need partitions [18:19] how do u do that? [18:24] how do u do partitions? [18:25] tonywade: i typically just use the normal ubuntu installer, and choose the USB as the destination [18:25] you can use the alternate installer too to ensure GRUB will go where you want it to go [18:26] but how about using startup disk creator [18:27] tonywade: use whatever you want to make the installer [18:27] but if you want to keep files on usb [18:27] you need two partitions [18:27] one for files, and one for ubuntu [18:27] i usually use a USB stick to install to another USB stick, or SD card [18:27] yeah, making a persistent stick is different [18:27] i personally dont see the benifit [18:27] i just make an install on the USB [18:29] ok can i use the files on the usb if i have the ubuntu running? === yofel_ is now known as yofel [23:22] hello all im having issues with getting my graphics hardware to be seen by ubuntu === tuxforprez is now known as bobweaver [23:24] http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/707607/ [23:26] http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/707632/ === SanbarComputing is now known as sanbar