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| benoliver999 | I've been poking around for a while now, and I just can't get this set of USB speakers working, no matter what I try. | 08:00 |
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| benoliver999 | I've tried pulse audio. | 08:00 |
| benoliver999 | Alsamixer | 08:00 |
| benoliver999 | Some other stuff | 08:00 |
| benoliver999 | Nothing wants to swtich to them. | 08:00 |
| benoliver999 | Bizarrely, the buttons on the speakers (mute/vol up/vol down), work perfectly... on the built in laptop speakers! | 08:01 |
| benoliver999 | So right now I have a very large USB volume controller. | 08:01 |
| benoliver999 | I've googled the thing to death, and I'm getting no luck. Maybe it's just a driver thing. Not tried them in Ubuntu yet. | 08:03 |
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| beparas | Hi, I want to give my user to admin privileges for some command, how to give that | 09:50 |
| Wulong | chmod +s /bin/command | 09:54 |
| beparas | I did chmod +s /bin/mount | 09:58 |
| beparas | and run "mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb" command it gives me error | 09:58 |
| beparas | mount: only root can do that | 09:59 |
| beparas | sdb1 is my Pendrive | 09:59 |
| Wulong | You know that Lbuntu autodetects and mounts these devices? | 10:00 |
| Wulong | It should atleast. | 10:00 |
| Wulong | If you ever want a regular user to use mount you will have to write this in /etc/fstab | 10:00 |
| beparas | I know that Lubuntu autodetevts the Pendrive, I took it as a example, | 10:04 |
| beparas | I want to run some admin command in my program, e.g. reboot, mount | 10:06 |
| beparas | I did some changes in /etc/sudoers file, but it not working, | 10:07 |
| Myrtti | why not just use sudo? | 10:07 |
| Wulong | beparas: ah, yes, sudoers is the way to go. Remember to use visudo. | 10:09 |
| beparas | I will ask me for passwd, It is not comfortable for me to enter password everytime, as my programme is continously running | 10:11 |
| Myrtti | it asks it only every fifteen minutes or so, and you can get a root terminal if you *really* *really* want it anyway | 10:11 |
| bkm | but he does not want to enter a password. he wants elevated privileges on certain programs for his username. | 10:12 |
| beparas | @Wulong: I did some changes in sudoers: changes are, In User privilege I add following line, user1 ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL | 10:12 |
| Wulong | If it's not working then your syntax is wrong. I've had syntax errors with this many times. | 10:13 |
| Wulong | It's also important to use visudo and not edit sudoers manually. | 10:13 |
| beparas | I use visudo | 10:14 |
| beparas | where do I find syntax error | 10:14 |
| beparas | @bkm: thats I want | 10:15 |
| Wulong | I mean, if it's not working, you have done something wrong. | 10:15 |
| Wulong | username ALL= NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/program | 10:16 |
| beparas | https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo#Enabling%20the%20root%20account, I get info form this link, | 10:16 |
| Wulong | You have to use "sudo /usr/bin/program" to make it work. | 10:17 |
| beparas | @ Wulong: I tried user1 ALL= NOPASSWD: ALL | 10:17 |
| beparas | also but it didnt work | 10:17 |
| beparas | @Wulong: is it not possible to remove sudo when entering the command | 10:19 |
| Wulong | No | 10:19 |
| beparas | ok | 10:19 |
| Wulong | sudo checks in sudoers if your user has nopasswd access. | 10:19 |
| beparas | ok, Thanks for the information | 10:21 |
| beparas | :) | 10:21 |
| beparas | one more question, If I want to run my program at boot time, which file I have to edit for it | 10:22 |
| Wulong | If it's your X11-user then you put it inside ~/.config/autostart/ | 10:23 |
| Wulong | If not you should make a startup script in /etc/init.d/ maybe | 10:24 |
| Wulong | I often tend to use crontab | 10:24 |
| beparas | If I copy my program at /etc/init.d/ but, whom is going to start it at booting time | 10:33 |
| beparas | Is there any file where I have to say start this progam | 10:34 |
| Myrtti | ... | 10:34 |
| Myrtti | this sounds a bit like you've skinned the catch before having caught it | 10:34 |
| Wulong | Read about it. | 10:35 |
| Myrtti | if you want it to start when the system starts, you don't need to break the whole concept of sudo and user priviledge escalation Ubuntu has in place just for that | 10:35 |
| Myrtti | if you had asked the whole question "I have a program I need to start at boot with root priviledges" instead of "I need to run this with root priviledges without root password, oh and can I make it run at boot", it would have been easier to help | 10:37 |
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| beparas | @Myrtti: you are right I have a program I need to start at boot with root priviledges. | 10:39 |
| Myrtti | beparas: good luck with that. | 10:40 |
| beparas | This is the first time I am using IRC so Little bit confused | 10:40 |
| AlanBell | morning all | 10:47 |
| * AlanBell reads back to figure out what beparas is up to | 10:47 | |
| AlanBell | what kind of program is it beparas? I am confused | 10:49 |
| AlanBell | is it a gui program or a command line thing? | 10:52 |
| beparas | In the program I check for Pendrive is connected, if it connected then copy some data file form pendrive to PC, | 10:52 |
| beparas | It is command line program | 10:52 |
| beparas | It must be start when system start | 10:52 |
| beparas | and it run continuously in while(1) | 10:53 |
| beparas | So In my program when I run mount command it gives me wright error | 10:54 |
| beparas | don't have permission to run mount command | 10:55 |
| beparas | As this program is started at boot time, so It is not possible to enter passwd | 10:56 |
| AlanBell | ok, make sure the program isn't at 100% cpu all the time just spinning | 10:56 |
| AlanBell | that will use loads of power and slow things down | 10:56 |
| AlanBell | !runlevels | 10:57 |
| ubot5 | In Ubuntu all runlevels except 0,1 and 6 are by default equal. Also keep in mind that Ubuntu now uses !Upstart instead of System V init so there is normally no /etc/inittab. | 10:57 |
| AlanBell | !upstart | 10:57 |
| ubot5 | Upstart is meant to replace the old Sys V Init system with an event-driven init model. For more information please see: http://upstart.ubuntu.com/ | 10:57 |
| beparas | no I use sleep in it | 10:57 |
| AlanBell | you can have an upstart job to run your daemon at boot time, that will run as root normally | 10:57 |
| AlanBell | even better, make it a udev script | 10:57 |
| AlanBell | !udev | 10:57 |
| AlanBell | http://hackaday.com/2009/09/18/how-to-write-udev-rules/ | 10:58 |
| beparas | I am using Lubuntu 11.04 | 10:58 |
| AlanBell | then you can have your application auto run when you insert the USB device you want it to run with | 10:59 |
| AlanBell | I don't think it really matters what desktop environment you are using for this, it is all low level stuff | 11:00 |
| beparas | ok | 11:01 |
| AlanBell | also, this sounds very similar to stuff like copying photos off a camera | 11:01 |
| AlanBell | http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html#external-run | 11:02 |
| beparas | In my case I am copying *.jpg file from Pendrive to PC | 11:02 |
| AlanBell | yeah, that is a pretty standard use-case for this | 11:03 |
| AlanBell | udev is the right way to do it | 11:03 |
| AlanBell | https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsbDriveDoSomethingHowto | 11:08 |
| beparas | Thank you very much | 11:09 |
| beparas | I have one quiry, How to detect the type of USB device, whether it is Storage device, USB Bluetooth adapter, USB modem | 11:11 |
| beparas | I use this entry to read device node /proc/scsi/usb-stroge/ | 11:14 |
| kvarley | How can I extract the contents of a subfolder to the folder which I am running the tar command from? | 11:15 |
| AlanBell | beparas: that is a good question, I think udev sets some environment variables for your program to look at | 11:17 |
| beparas | ok | 11:18 |
| head_victim | Ah I'm too slow, was going to point out http://cafuego.net/2007/11/11/time-machine-kinda | 11:19 |
| head_victim | More reading if you're interested though. | 11:19 |
| AlanBell | you are checking for SUBSYSTEM=='block' I think | 11:19 |
| ryannathans | after changing cloned mac address to connect to a wifi network it never connects | 13:08 |
| ryannathans | connects fine with the box left empty though | 13:08 |
| ryannathans | i keep getting deauthenticated according to dmesg | 13:10 |
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| Aleski | Could I get some help with running/installing Lubuntu? | 19:48 |
| holstein | sure... you have the ISO downloaded Aleski ? | 19:49 |
| Aleski | Yeah. I've loaded it on a USB and upon boot it stays on a "ubuntu$" command line-esque thing. It's been a recurring problem with several Ubuntu deviations. | 19:50 |
| jmarsden | Aleski: Do you know what video card your machine has? Also, try typing startlubuntu at that prompt | 19:51 |
| Aleski | I tried startlubuntu and it pretty much does nothing. I believe my netbook's video card is an Intel-something, but it's factory made so give me a second to look it up. | 19:53 |
| Aleski | Intel GMA 500. | 19:54 |
| holstein | Aleski: how about startx | 19:55 |
| holstein | is it "pretty much" nothing? or nothing? | 19:55 |
| Aleski | It did something (startx) , but whatever it was, it definitely wasn't a GUI. | 19:56 |
| holstein | i think the graphics card is not a bad route to go thought http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1746934 makes me think it should work | 19:57 |
| holstein | if it were my box, i would try something like knoppix live... sometimes i grab xorg.conf files from knoppix | 19:58 |
| Aleski | Knoppix...? | 19:58 |
| holstein | http://www.knoppix.com/ | 19:58 |
| Aleski | So there's no way I can use lubuntu without a lot of editing? | 19:59 |
| holstein | knoppix is just a really good live CD.. i would want to see *any* linux boot on the hardware.. then i could poke around and learn whats going on and see what the deal is | 19:59 |
| holstein | Aleski: srue | 19:59 |
| holstein | sure* | 19:59 |
| holstein | if you havent tested the iso image download sum, thats a good place to start | 19:59 |
| Aleski | I'm trying to make this as simple as it can be. I wouldn't have a clue how to do that. | 20:00 |
| jmarsden | Aleski: The GMA500 is mot one I'm familiar with, but some Intel chipsets do seem to have "issues" with X drivers. Sounds like it is going to be fiddly to get Lubuntu to run on that machine, basically. | 20:00 |
| Aleski | I do believe I got 11.04 to run once, but it's not ideal due to limited space and computing power. | 20:00 |
| Aleski | Anything similar to lubuntu in the sense of power and space consumption? | 20:01 |
| holstein | Aleski: lets try and test with definites in mind.. trouble-shoot and make notes.. know for sure... otherwise, its just an assumption | 20:01 |
| Unit193 | Ubuntu has problems with that one, but someone built the testing version of Ubuntu with support http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/ubuntu-gma500-live-cd/ | 20:01 |
| jmarsden | Aleski: You may be able to write a custom xorg.conf file and get X working that way, but you need to be willing to play... ah, use Unit193's link :) | 20:02 |
| Unit193 | That's 12.04 Ubuntu, but you should be able to do a !purelxde on it :P | 20:03 |
| Aleski | So I could replace the xorg.conf in my already prepared lubuntu or should I go for that one? | 20:03 |
| holstein | Aleski: you likely wont have one.. you can put one in place though | 20:03 |
| Aleski | 12.04 wasn't exactly what I was looking for... | 20:06 |
| Myrtti | you were looking for stability? | 20:06 |
| Myrtti | :-P | 20:06 |
| Aleski | Yes, and speed. 11.04 was horrible enough for me. | 20:07 |
| Unit193 | I figured may as well give it as an option though | 20:07 |
| Myrtti | Aleski: it is a dev version, I wouldn't expect miracles from it yet | 20:07 |
| holstein | what was horrible about 11.04? i would expect performance to be similar | 20:08 |
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| Aleski | It's just bad for a netbook like mine. | 20:08 |
| Aleski | Then again, so is everything else. | 20:08 |
| holstein | 11.04 is bad for a netbook? | 20:08 |
| Aleski | Yes. | 20:08 |
| Wulong | GMA500 is some crap. I have it in my fit-pc. You'll find how-to threads on this. | 20:08 |
| holstein | yeah, its the intel graphics chip | 20:08 |
| Wulong | No, it's not Intels work. | 20:08 |
| holstein | Wulong: what is your solution? | 20:09 |
| Aleski | GMA is really, really bad. The only OS I can find suitable is, well, XP, but I broke my hard drive so yeah | 20:09 |
| holstein | well, its labeled intel.. thats all i know | 20:09 |
| Wulong | It is. Intel bought it from another firm. | 20:09 |
| Wulong | holstein: hold on, I'll find my blog post. | 20:09 |
| holstein | Aleski: i actually run several linux's with no issue | 20:09 |
| holstein | Aleski: i just have different GMA's... i have used normal ubuntu 10.04... 10.10.. 11.04... debian ..whatever | 20:10 |
| Aleski | I'm saying that when it did, it wasn't nearly as smooth. | 20:10 |
| holstein | i would just choose the version you want to run, and tweak it as Wulong is about to suggest | 20:10 |
| Wulong | Imagination Technologies made GMA500 | 20:10 |
| Wulong | http://vegard.hammerseth.com/2011/05/fit-pc-2-as-htpc-using-l-ubuntu-11-04-natty-narwhal/ this is my post on "the" subject | 20:11 |
| Wulong | Otherwise use; sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gma500/emgd | 20:11 |
| Aleski | Not really looking to buy a pc if that's what you're suggesting | 20:12 |
| Aleski | Interesting article, though. | 20:12 |
| holstein | Aleski: the hardware Wulong is referencing is the same as yours | 20:12 |
| holstein | so the procedure will help you get support for your device | 20:12 |
| holstein | the current one you are using | 20:12 |
| Aleski | I have to do all this from the command line? | 20:13 |
| holstein | Aleski: you dont have x right? | 20:13 |
| Aleski | How would I even know that...? | 20:14 |
| Wulong | X (X11) is the graphical interface. | 20:14 |
| Aleski | It's not running, I guess. | 20:14 |
| holstein | Aleski: i know this might be frustrating.. and it sucks when hardware is not supported, but let us know what you need help with | 20:14 |
| Aleski | Which I assume everything above 11.04 uses | 20:14 |
| holstein | from the command line, if you are online, sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gma500/emgd will add a repositor to help give you access to packages that better support your hardware | 20:15 |
| Aleski | I can't repair it from Windows or something? | 20:16 |
| holstein | when you say "i have to do this from the command line" i was saying, if you dont have access to X, that will be your only option | 20:16 |
| holstein | Aleski: you see at Wulong 's really nice post?.. there are 4 lines basically that will help you | 20:16 |
| Aleski | Just those four? | 20:17 |
| holstein | http://paste.ubuntu.com/812273/ | 20:17 |
| holstein | then, if it were me, i would test and then try adding Wulong | 20:18 |
| holstein | 's xorg.conf if needed | 20:18 |
| Aleski | So, reboot with an ethernet connection, and enter these commands? | 20:18 |
| holstein | Aleski: that would be what i would call step one... then you can go from there | 20:18 |
| holstein | its nice that Wulong has that hardware, and has made that post, and is willing to share... that is your best resource | 20:18 |
| Aleski | There isn't any way I can edit the ISO instead of doing this manually? | 20:20 |
| Wulong | This can be tricky if you are not used CLI before, because GMA500 is the worst hardware I've ever dealt with in my decade of Linux experience. | 20:20 |
| holstein | sure, but that would be *way* more challening | 20:20 |
| Wulong | Aleski: you probably can edit the ISO, but I wouldn't know were to start. | 20:20 |
| Wulong | However, computlab has an ISO for fit-pc which fixes this. | 20:21 |
| Wulong | It might work for your computer. | 20:21 |
| Aleski | It's 11.04 right? | 20:21 |
| holstein | Wulong: did you try the vesa driver? | 20:21 |
| Wulong | Another approach would be to google "ubuntu <and your computers name>" to follow someone elses recipie. | 20:22 |
| Wulong | Aleski: I think so. You find it at compulabs pages. | 20:22 |
| Wulong | holstein: I tried mesa, but it sucks, as usual. | 20:22 |
| Wulong | This emgd driver I use today works, but I'm not happy with it. | 20:23 |
| holstein | for video playback? | 20:23 |
| Wulong | Yes, it has trouble with full HD. | 20:24 |
| Aleski | That's if to say the GMA could play HD in the first place | 20:24 |
| Wulong | I know it can. | 20:25 |
| Aleski | 500? | 20:25 |
| Wulong | Yes | 20:25 |
| Wulong | GMA500 worked fine until there was a new linux kernel which broke the driver dependencies or something like that. | 20:25 |
| Aleski | Huh. Never ran so hot in fullscreen for me. | 20:25 |
| Wulong | Well, Windows is greedy, but thats another subject. | 20:26 |
| Wulong | Anyways, after this happend, Intel refused (by license) to release the code or update the driver sufficient. | 20:27 |
| Aleski | Would Xbuntu work or would I suffer the same issues? | 20:27 |
| Unit193 | Xubuntu is the same at the core | 20:28 |
| Wulong | Same issue. | 20:28 |
| Unit193 | Wulong: Do you know at what kernel/Ubuntu version? | 20:28 |
| Aleski | at what kernel | 20:28 |
| Wulong | I think it broke in 9.10, so 9.04 should be fine. | 20:29 |
| Wulong | I can check. | 20:29 |
| Unit193 | Doesn't matter, that's well past EOL :/ | 20:29 |
| Aleski | Just something that I can have a GUI on, and runs sufficiently, preferably better then the official distros | 20:29 |
| Wulong | The info has been removed, but I slightly recall 9.10 being the last working version. | 20:33 |
| Aleski | Of Xbuntu? | 20:34 |
| Wulong | All of them. | 20:34 |
| Wulong | The first letters of the *buntus only describe desktop enviroment. | 20:34 |
| Aleski | Ah, okay. | 20:35 |
| Aleski | Can you believe my netbook came pre-installed with Vista Basic? | 20:37 |
| Wulong | Sure. It's how they do it. | 20:40 |
| Wulong | They sell you crap so you have to buy new. | 20:41 |
| Wulong | More money in their pockets. | 20:41 |
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