| Geodude | I just installed Ubuntu 10.04 on an old computer I found in the trash at my brother's work. I can't get the sound to work. I can see the card, it says Audigy SB [unknown]. But I can't get it to make sound. It has like 8 jacks in it and I can't figure out which jack is the right jack. But I've been messing with it for like an hour now and I still have no sound. :/ | 01:17 |
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| Geodude | SB Audigy 2 [unknown]* | 01:17 |
| Geodude | I added snd-emu10k1 in /etc/modules. That did nothing, AFAIK. | 01:20 |
| philipballew | what driver is the sound card running? | 01:29 |
| philipballew | Geodude, | 01:29 |
| Geodude | Uhh how do I check that? | 01:31 |
| philipballew | open a terminal | 01:31 |
| philipballew | lspci -vvv | 01:31 |
| philipballew | paste it into pastebin or something or if you want to isolate the sound card your welcome to | 01:32 |
| Geodude | From googling, everyone else's card says "SB Audigy 2 [SB0240]" where mine says "SB Audigy 2 [Unknown]". I only found one search result that listed it as unknown and their problem was that they had their sound muted so that didn't help me at all. | 01:32 |
| philipballew | well paste the output to here | 01:33 |
| philipballew | pastebin.com/ | 01:33 |
| Geodude | http://paste.ubuntu.com/795579/ | 01:37 |
| philipballew | even better | 01:37 |
| Geodude | Sorry I'm on IRC on my windows computer and the linux computer is across the room so I have to go back and forth lol. | 01:38 |
| philipballew | you should switch to ubuntu full time | 01:38 |
| philipballew | also, whats alsamixer show? | 01:39 |
| Geodude | I actually just switched from Ubuntu full time. | 01:39 |
| Geodude | I used it for a year as my only OS. | 01:39 |
| Geodude | Uhg I hate alsamixer. I dont know. I can't ever figure out what it is doing or how to move it. I can't use my mouse so it's extremely debilitating lol. | 01:39 |
| philipballew | did you want to hate yourself so you decided to switch back :) | 01:39 |
| Geodude | Unity and lack of gnome2 support made me switch to Windows again. | 01:40 |
| philipballew | you dont need a mouse. its all in the terminal, thats why its so good | 01:40 |
| Geodude | CLI is not my strong side :) | 01:40 |
| Geodude | I prefer GUI when I can. | 01:40 |
| Geodude | It's showing soudn at 100%. other than that i can't read alsamixer. | 01:40 |
| Geodude | sound* | 01:40 |
| philipballew | have you ever thought about xfce,lxde,kde,openbox,fluxbox? | 01:40 |
| philipballew | your welcome to take a screen shot | 01:41 |
| Geodude | I've tried kde, xfce, lxde, et c. et c. ad nauseum. | 01:41 |
| Geodude | I like gnome2. | 01:41 |
| Geodude | I tried Unity and Gnome3 for about 3 weeks each and I could not get them to work. My games would not even render on the screen. | 01:41 |
| Geodude | I could hear the sound and interact with menus with my mouse and keyboard, but it would just show my desktop. | 01:42 |
| Geodude | Unity and Gnome3, IMO, are still in beta. | 01:42 |
| Geodude | They need major work before I will consider them again. | 01:42 |
| philipballew | sorry, im not a gamer so i never messed with those. unity is nice imo. but i have customized the hell out of it | 01:42 |
| Geodude | That's what I've heard. Unity is nice if you spend a long time customizing it. Which I did. But I don't like change. I like my gnome2. | 01:43 |
| Geodude | I'm not sure how to get a screen shot from that computer to this computer... | 01:43 |
| Geodude | picasa URLs are giant. | 01:43 |
| philipballew | tiny url? | 01:44 |
| philipballew | did you use linux before gnome2? | 01:44 |
| Geodude | No. | 01:44 |
| Geodude | And, granted, I also customized the crap out of gnome2 but I can actually use it stock. Unity is unusable unless I spend at least 30 minutes changing stuff. | 01:45 |
| Geodude | So I'm sticking with 10.04 until Mint gets MATE off the ground. | 01:45 |
| Geodude | Or they fix Gnome3. | 01:45 |
| philipballew | maybe if you dont like change then if you were using linux before gnome 2 you probably would not have like gnome 2. sometimes these things are confusing at first but its all linux really. if yiu have a terminal and a web browser you got most everything | 01:46 |
| philipballew | I really hate mint | 01:47 |
| philipballew | and i normally like most things, but mint bugs the shit out me | 01:47 |
| philipballew | did you get that screen shot? | 01:47 |
| Geodude | tinyurl.com/79xcueg | 01:48 |
| Geodude | I need windows for my games anyways. I got most of my games working in Linux but they just look so much better in DX10. | 01:49 |
| philipballew | what kind of games do you play? | 01:49 |
| Geodude | Dungeons and Dragons Online, Guild Wars, Star Wars The Old Republic | 01:50 |
| Geodude | Guild Wars works almost natively on Linux because the developers coded it to play nicely with Wine. | 01:50 |
| philipballew | sounds like a total fun time! | 01:50 |
| philipballew | star wars is cool | 01:50 |
| Geodude | SWTOR is super buggy right now. I'm going to give it a few months. It's pretty agrevating. | 01:51 |
| Geodude | But I'm really enjoying it. | 01:51 |
| philipballew | what are the two things in alsamixer that are muted? | 01:52 |
| Geodude | the things that have the [MM] on them? | 01:53 |
| Geodude | Tone and 3d contr | 01:53 |
| Geodude | But I can't un-mute them. | 01:53 |
| philipballew | how old is this computer? | 01:54 |
| Geodude | I found it in the trash. | 01:54 |
| Geodude | lol | 01:54 |
| philipballew | so you put linux on it! | 01:54 |
| Geodude | Yes. lol. | 01:54 |
| Geodude | It only has 1 gig of ram but it has a really nice CPU for some reason lol. | 01:54 |
| philipballew | my laptop has four and it has run ubuntu since the day i got it | 01:55 |
| Geodude | Intel 4 3.00GHz, 3.00GHz | 01:55 |
| philipballew | alright, well since you got this in the trash, im wondering if the card is dammaged | 01:59 |
| Geodude | I had Win7 on it for a hot minute and the sound worked. | 02:01 |
| Geodude | But, yeah. I'm at the end of my rope here. I don't know what the problem is. Ubuntu sees the card. | 02:01 |
| * philipballew thinks | 02:02 | |
| philipballew | could be a pulse thing | 02:02 |
| Geodude | I have always had issues with sound since Ubuntu 10.04 | 02:13 |
| Geodude | How do I check to see if Pulseaudio is working correctly? | 02:15 |
| philipballew | !pulse | 02:16 |
| ubot2` | PulseAudio is a sound server intended as a drop-in replacement for !ESD - See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio for information and installation instructions | 02:16 |
| Geodude | Well, it's running. | 02:18 |
| Geodude | But I do not have this: Now, go into Applications -> Sound and Video -> click on PulseAudio Preferences. | 02:19 |
| Geodude | It also says to enable software sound mixing and set devices to Autodetect in my Sounds panel but I don't have those options anywhere. | 02:22 |
| pjkaiser | Hi all... Linux n00b here. Been trying to install Lubuntu on an old, old system (P3 500) with problems... any helpers out there? | 03:28 |
| Geodude | It's pretty quiet tonight. I've never installed Lubuntu before. | 03:28 |
| pleia2 | pjkaiser: I suggest asking specific questions, if people know the answers they'll make some suggestions | 03:29 |
| pjkaiser | That's OK... I'm thinking there may be hardware issues, but I'm not sure. I installed 32-bit Ubuntu, and it worked - sort of | 03:29 |
| pjkaiser | really slow, the mouse left pointer trails all over the screen | 03:29 |
| Geodude | That is odd. | 03:30 |
| pjkaiser | Lubuntu installed, but when I booted up after the install, it did the POST checks fine, and hung just after that | 03:30 |
| pjkaiser | All I saw was the flashing cursor in the top left corner of the screen | 03:30 |
| pjkaiser | The other thing is (here's where the hardware issues may come in), I'm installing it on a system with a dead CD-ROM and dead 3.5" drives. The way I did it was to phyiscally remove the HDD and hook it up to another tower with a working CD drive | 03:32 |
| pjkaiser | then, after the install but before the reboot, I reconnected to the P3 500 | 03:32 |
| pjkaiser | my only other thought might be to remove the CD drive from the newer tower and transfer it to the P3 for the install... | 03:33 |
| pleia2 | sounds like it's not loading the boot loader, which may be because it can't find it (referencing a drive name which doesn't exist, which may due to installing it on another system) or something is broken on it | 03:33 |
| pjkaiser | when I got the old compo (free, btw), it had win98 on it... it worked, but sluggishly, and had trouble finding internet | 03:34 |
| pleia2 | you don't actually need to install ubuntu and lubuntu separately, if ubuntu worked you can just try out lubuntu by installing the lubuntu-desktop package and switching to lubuntu in the login screen | 03:34 |
| pjkaiser | ah | 03:34 |
| pjkaiser | I looked for Lubuntu in the software center after seeing regular U running so choppily | 03:34 |
| pjkaiser | and didn't find anything | 03:34 |
| pleia2 | which version of ubuntu? | 03:34 |
| pjkaiser | 10.04 | 03:35 |
| pjkaiser | I'm running that (with no problems) on the other tower | 03:35 |
| pleia2 | ah, yeah, lubuntu only became official with the latest release, 11.10 | 03:35 |
| pjkaiser | Oh | 03:35 |
| pjkaiser | running regular Ubuntu 10.10LTS on the 2GHz machine, and that's the version that ran (slowly) on the P3 | 03:36 |
| pleia2 | 10.04 LTS? | 03:36 |
| pjkaiser | and that install worked with the cross-drive install | 03:36 |
| pleia2 | (10.10 wasn't an LTS) | 03:36 |
| pjkaiser | sorry, yeah | 03:36 |
| pjkaiser | 10.04LTS | 03:37 |
| pleia2 | you can also try other things, like just installing an alternate desktop environment | 03:37 |
| pjkaiser | can I get those via the software center? | 03:37 |
| pleia2 | install xfce, or fluxbox, again you just select the nalternate window manager when you log in | 03:37 |
| pleia2 | yes | 03:37 |
| pjkaiser | awesome | 03:37 |
| pleia2 | I use fluxbox on my old p3 laotop | 03:38 |
| pjkaiser | cool | 03:38 |
| pleia2 | very basic :) but I just need to start up a web browser and chat really | 03:38 |
| pjkaiser | all righty then... I have a few more ideas to try out now. Thanks a bunch, and here's hopin'! :-) | 03:38 |
| pleia2 | good luck | 03:38 |
| pjkaiser | Hey... another random question | 03:40 |
| pjkaiser | with Ubuntu, I have to click the mouse arrow way down near the bottom to click where I want to... is there a fix for that? | 03:40 |
| pleia2 | not sure what you mean | 03:40 |
| pjkaiser | everything works just fine, but when I click the mouse button on something, it reads a bit low, or... | 03:41 |
| pjkaiser | instead of clicking right where the tip of the mouse arrow is, it's more toward the bottom | 03:41 |
| pleia2 | never seen that before, sorry | 03:41 |
| pjkaiser | the bottom left corner of the arrow head, to be exact | 03:41 |
| pjkaiser | oh well | 03:42 |
| pjkaiser | not a big deal, just a bit weird | 03:42 |
| pleia2 | sounds weird :) | 03:42 |
| pleia2 | might try a different mouse and see if it still happens/ | 03:42 |
| pjkaiser | when I switch back to another compo, I find myself clicking too high the first few times :-P | 03:42 |
| pjkaiser | anyway, off to try the reinstall | 03:42 |
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| pjkaiser | Hi all. Just got Lubuntu running on this system, and I want to get Folding@Home running on here too... Any helpers? | 09:35 |
| Culiforge | somewhere along the line, kernel 2.6.32-37 (I think) got added to my grub. It's set as default kernel before 32-33 but it doesn't boot correctly. How can I remove/reinstall it so I dont break anything? | 11:45 |
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| harleydude | Where do I change screen resolution? | 18:26 |
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