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britannyHi, I'm a little bit new to xubuntu, and I guess linux in general.  Is there anyone around who could help me?01:23
bazhangwith what01:23
britannyI need to determine if there is a better video driver I could be using.01:24
bazhangwhich card, which driver, how installed01:24
britannyIt is an onboard intel chipset driver01:25
britannyI haven't manually done any driver installation.  I'm currently using whatever driver xubuntu started out with upon fresh installation01:25
britanny00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82815 Chipset Graphics Controller (CGC) (rev 02)01:25
bazhangyou could try the xorg edgers ppa for that. that card is never going to be superb though01:26
britannyYeah...01:26
britannyI can fetch this with apt-get?01:27
bazhangonce you add the ppa01:28
bazhangsearch at the launchpad ppa page01:28
bazhang!ppa01:28
ubottuA Personal Package Archive (PPA) can provide alternate software not normally available in the offical Ubuntu repositories - Looking for a PPA? See https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas - WARNING: PPAs are unsupported third-party packages, and you use them at your own risk. See also !addppa and !ppa-purge01:28
ben_sayshowdy everyone, tiny hp mini 311 netbook here, installed xubuntu on it.  had some fun, recenlty went a little willy nilly installing some video tools and such... anyway... long story short, can't hear audio any more,  mute is not on, speakers are on full volume, i have installed nvidia ion recommended nvidia drivers, there is hdmi out, so taht could be enables somewhere, but... any idea how to reset ?maybe the onboard audio to defa01:30
ben_saysult?01:30
ben_sayshttp://paste.ubuntu.com/922736/01:30
britannyThanks baz, this'll keep me busy awhile. Might come back later. ;)01:30
bazhangben_says, what exactly did you install. willy-nilly is not terribly helpful as a troubleshooting aid01:32
ben_saysah... a bunch of stuff... lets see. ardour jack01:32
ben_saysjust tried to open the software center to see, can't find the list.   but a bunch of stuff like x264 ffmpeg...01:34
ben_sayssomething... which must have changed whatever was default...01:35
bazhangdoubtful01:35
ben_saysok01:36
bazhangis alsamixer set to max? ie PCM01:36
ben_sayshow do i confirm that...01:37
bazhangtype alsamixer in the terminal and check01:37
ben_sayson my top panel i don't have an toggle...01:37
ben_saysiok01:37
bazhangset PCM to around 80%, also pavucontrol should tell you something01:38
ben_saysnot max but 84... is master...01:38
bazhang!info pavucontrol01:38
ubottupavucontrol (source: pavucontrol): PulseAudio Volume Control. In component universe, is optional. Version 0.99.1-0ubuntu1 (oneiric), package size 136 kB, installed size 1024 kB01:38
ben_sayseverything else is 10001:38
ben_saysit looks like headphone is selected..01:38
ben_sayshow do i toggle back to speakers01:38
ben_saysits red in <   >01:38
ben_saysi see f601:39
ben_saystry this01:39
ben_sayshuh01:41
ben_saysnot working...01:43
ben_saysin my alsa switcher... should that be - default or 0 hdmi01:44
ben_saysany guesses01:44
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ben_saysok pcm and everything is leveled to 8001:46
ben_saysinstalling pavucontrol01:49
ben_saysNICE!01:51
ben_sayspavucontrol got analog speakers working again.01:52
ben_saysbut  (pavucontrol:10473): DEBUG: Error reading config file /home/volar/.config/pavucontrol.ini: No such file or directory01:54
ben_says** (pavucontrol:10473): DEBUG: Failed to initialize device manager extension: No such extension01:54
ben_saysinteresting... the gui pops up upon running pavucontrol... but i get those errors...01:55
ben_saysany reason to use alsa vs pulse audio01:56
ben_saysvery big thanks to bazhang and ubottu01:57
mkultra_is it me or does xfce not like compiz02:06
ben_says'night all02:15
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FerchoLPIs "nothing" the default behavior on critical battery level? Or is it "hibernate"? I had it on "nothing" but maybe it was because some error in my laptop02:35
mkultra_i set mine to nothing, i think sleep's better for it02:36
mkultra_tell the pc to turn off ya know02:36
FerchoLPYEs, suspend is a good option because in suspend mode battery only decreases at about 1% per hour, so you would have almost 10 hours to plug it in again02:37
FerchoLPbut I think the safest default behavior would be hibernate. It is the same as discussing about the default "on close lid" behavior.02:40
mkultra_yeah 1 or the other02:41
mkultra_my machine just goes from running to dead02:42
FerchoLPOne half including me think that default should be suspension, but the other half thinks "Nothing" is better. it's a neverending debate02:42
mkultra_yeah i do nothing and hard restarts and fsck.jfs02:42
mkultra_just fsck ur unmounted drives when they freak out02:42
FerchoLPhaha02:43
maroteanyone available to help me with ati drivers issues?03:03
GridCube!anyone03:03
ubottuA high percentage of the first questions asked in this channel start with "Does anyone/anybody..." Why not ask your next question (the real one) and find out? See also !details, !gq, and !poll.03:03
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ubottuPlease don't ask to ask a question, simply ask the question (all on ONE line and in the channel, so that others can read and follow it easily). If anyone knows the answer they will most likely reply. :-) See also !patience03:04
maoranma!patience03:04
ubottuDon't feel ignored and repeat your question quickly; if nobody knows your answer, nobody will answer you. While you wait, try searching https://help.ubuntu.com or http://ubuntuforums.org or http://askubuntu.com/03:04
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pengemislol03:05
marotei dont know if it is correct to install the ati drivers directly from the "Additional Drivers" app, and whichone to install (the common driver or the post-release) Thxs03:05
maoranmaYou should be fine to install via the Additional Drivers, typically there's one called "recommended", use that03:06
joshcan't get terminal to work. seems after an 'apt-get upgrade', it "forgot" the defaults (i.e. 'open browser','read email',etc) but this also applies to opening a terminal both in the taskbar menu and secondary click on desktop03:38
joshrather, can't get terminal to open inside xfce03:39
well_laid_lawnjosh: can you open the terminal from the run dialog? alt+F2 and enter xfce4-terminal03:57
joshwell_laid_lawn: awesome, worked like a charm, lol. Opinions on a better terminal?04:35
malvi just discovered XFCE04:38
malvmuch better than unity04:38
joshoh yea, unity is just... so... ugh, lol. It might be good as a touch screen GUI, but with a mouse... it's just tedious.04:42
joshwell_laid_lawn: i just didn't realize that the terminal in xfce was prefixed with 'xfce4-' =)04:43
well_laid_lawnheh :)04:47
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MordFustangCan someone tell me how to search for files in folders ? :D07:34
well_laid_lawnfind /path -name file07:42
Sysior use catfish07:57
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martinphonehi11:48
martinphoneI need to format a newly bought 1TB HDD. for that I need to open gparted and create a partition table on a msdos filesystem, right?11:48
martinphonethen I can choose to make it EXT4, right?11:49
forestpiskiepretty sure that's what I did  martinphone11:50
martinphoneok11:51
martinphonemy 1tb hdd SHOWS 931 GB USABLE SPACE, rip off? sorry for caps11:51
forestpiskieyea - been there for that one ...11:52
forestpiskieyou can though change the amount of space that is reserved for root - normally 5%11:53
martinphonea yes, that can only be done via command line, right?11:53
forestpiskiebelieve so martinphone11:54
joeythesaintThere's also tuning the filesystem block size, depending on what you're using.11:54
martinphoneforestpiskie, please paste the command, or a link to it11:54
martinphoneand I still cannot mount ANY HDD, including this one that I can gpart11:54
forestpiskietrying to remember :p11:54
martinphoneI can cd to it and ls it11:54
joeythesaintI don't recall how df calculates space, whether it's based on block or inode count, but tweaking your sizes can produce different (apparent) results.11:54
Mofasahey I got a problem with using ssh socks for some reason. I can telnet to the port but when im trying to run it as socks no application will work with it.11:54
martinphonefile manager does nothing11:55
MofasaAnyone know what might be wrong?11:55
matteo75fehello11:55
matteo75feonly in english?11:55
martinphoneonly if you meet orthodox admins matteo75fe11:55
forestpiskiemartinphone: tunes2fs -m X% /dev/foo11:55
martinphoneDo decimals work? tunes2fs -m 0.5% /dev/foo11:56
forestpiskiemartinphone: no idea - I'd just 1 but try11:56
joeythesaintIt's also good to keep in mind that HDD manufacturers use different values for what a GB is.  Typically they still seem to be saying 1GB = 1000MB, which simply isn't true.  :-)11:56
forestpiskiejoeythesaint: +111:56
martinphonetrue joeythesaint11:57
joeythesaintCriminals.  :-D11:57
martinphoneworse than that....11:57
forestpiskiemartinphone: no idea about the mount thing - but I can have a look in a while - just about to go afk11:57
martinphonelol, No command 'tunes2fs' found, did you mean11:58
martinphonegoin to synaptic11:58
forestpiskiewhoops11:58
forestpiskietune2fs11:59
martinphoneaa. ok11:59
martinphonedoes that come by default in xubuntu?11:59
forestpiskieyep11:59
martinphonecrap: tune2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)12:00
martinphonetune2fs: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/foo12:00
martinphoneCouldn't find valid filesystem superblock.12:00
forestpiskiechange foo to wahtever the drive is :)12:00
MofasaCould someone please take a look at my issue.12:00
forestpiskiewhat did gparted call it12:00
martinphoneyes, i cd ed to it12:00
martinphonea crap, you mean the partition, not just usb...12:00
martinphoneok12:00
forestpiskieyea partition12:00
forestpiskieMofasa: if someone can answer you they will12:01
joeythesaintOh, martinphone, I wasn't paying attention.  Did you just partition this drive?12:01
forestpiskieyea12:01
martinphonejoeythesaint, I bought it, created an ext4 partition for all the thing12:02
martinphonefrom home dir, how do I cd to /dev/sdb1?12:02
joeythesaintAh.  If it's internal you'll likely need to reboot.  External you should just be able to power it down and power it back up again.12:02
martinphonei tried media/usb, but nothing12:02
joeythesaintA friend of mine a few years back patched his kernel to be able to invalidate it's understanding of partition tables while running but it was an ugly hack and nothing that would ever be accepted upstream, as I recall.12:03
joeythesaintYou can't cd to /dev/sdb1, it's a device, not actually a filesystem.12:03
forestpiskietune2fs should still see it12:03
joeythesaintYeah, if it doesn't it's likely because the kernel doesn't quite know about it yet.12:04
forestpiskieI've never had to reboot to fiddle with unmounted partitions12:04
joeythesaintIt's just when you create a new one on an internal drive.12:04
forestpiskiemmm - perhaps12:04
joeythesaintfdisk tells you that when you finish up with it, actually.12:04
joeythesaintOr it used to.12:04
* joeythesaint doesn't typically read the output from fdisk/cfdisk these days.12:05
forestpiskiek - long time since I could afford new hardware - probably not remembering :)12:05
forestpiskiebiab12:05
joeythesaintStill, if this is a usb external drive, it shouldn't matter.  The udev/hotplug stuff should take care of it if you just disconnect it and reconnect it after creating your partitions.12:06
joeythesaintThough you'll likely *then* need to do the 'mke2fs -t ext4 <other options>' step.12:07
martinphoneI have labelled the HDD, I can now open it with file manager. In terminal I still get: tune2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)12:09
martinphonetune2fs: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/foo12:09
martinphoneCouldn't find valid filesystem superblock.12:09
martinphoneIs that because it is owned by root?12:09
joeythesaintOh!  Okay, so at the terminal do this:  'sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb'  (no 1, just the sdb, or whatever your disk is.12:10
joeythesaintThat's a - little-L option.  List partition table info.12:11
martinphone/dev/sdb1            2048  1953523711   976760832   83  Linux12:11
martinphonedo you want to see the whole output?12:12
joeythesaintOkey doke.  So /dev/sdb is your disk, /dev/sdb1 is your partition.  tune2fs needs to be pointed at /dev/sdb112:12
joeythesaintNah, that's all I needed.12:12
joeythesaintSo then what does this do:  'sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb1 /mnt'?12:13
joeythesaintDoes it actually succeed in mounting your filesystem on /mnt?12:13
martinphonejoeythesaint, from home dir, right?12:13
joeythesaintYeah, doesn't matter where you do that command.12:13
joeythesaintExcept you shouldn't be in /mnt already.12:14
joeythesaintAnywhere else is fine.12:14
martinphonejoeythesaint, it doesnt appear in /mnt, but in /media12:14
joeythesaintOh, it's already mounted?12:14
martinphoneIm sorry, I may be confusing you, but the truth is I have no idea12:15
martinphoneapparently yes, but I dont recall how I did it12:15
joeythesaintIt's not safe to tune2fs on a mounted filesystem.  It's supposed to be possible in ext4 but it's still experimental and kind of dicey.12:15
martinphoneso gparted unmount, then terminal12:15
joeythesaintStuff that gets mounted in /media tends to be done automatically by your system.  Don't worry about that.12:16
joeythesaintYou've got several options for unmounting.  Obviously I'm most comfortable with the command line so I'd do this:  "sudo umount /dev/sdb1"12:16
joeythesaintThen, yeah, tune2fs away and you shold be good.12:16
joeythesaints/shold/should/12:16
joeythesaintOnce you're done you should just be able to unplug the device and plug it back in again and it should automatically mount again in the same spot.12:17
martinphonetune2fs -m 1 /dev/foo or tune2fs -m 1 /dev/sdb1?12:17
joeythesaintProbably some horrible hex number that is the device's UUID and not meaningful to humans at all.12:17
joeythesainttune2fs -m 1 /dev/sdb112:18
martinphoneis it normal that the newly formatted hdd is owned by root?12:18
joeythesaintYep.12:18
martinphoneCouldn't find valid filesystem superblock.12:19
joeythesaintOnce it's mounted you can create directories there owned by your regular user.  Something like "sudo mkdir /media/<device_name>/martin; sudo chown martin:martin /media/<device_name>/martin" and you're off to the races.12:20
joeythesaintAh, so that says there's partition information but the fs is borked.  You haven't put anything on there yet, have you?12:20
martinphoneno, nothing in there, just the lost+found directory12:21
joeythesaint... weird.12:21
joeythesaintOne sec.12:21
joeythesaintmanpage seems to indicate tune2fs should be able to identify it as ext4 properly.12:22
joeythesaintWell, if there's nothing else there, nuke and pave.  No harm in it.12:23
martinphoneim sorry if this is my fault: I just added sudo and the thing worked12:23
* joeythesaint checks the manpages.12:23
martinphonewere you assuming I was in the terminal as root?12:23
joeythesaintOh!12:23
joeythesaintYeah, sorry, everything you do on the devices you have to do it as root.12:23
joeythesaint:-)12:23
martinphoneok12:24
martinphonenow back to gparted to mount, right?12:24
joeythesaintYessir.12:24
martinphoneI get different total counts on gparted and filesystem, is that normal?12:29
martinphoneraining cats and dogs oer here12:30
martinphonecrap, I wanted to do some jogging12:30
matteo75fehi12:34
matteo75fewhen the 12.04 coming out???12:35
matteo75fesorry, my english is not very good..12:35
martinphone18 days12:35
martinphoneare you italian?12:36
matteo75feyes12:36
martinphonea, I only know swear words12:36
matteo75feswear?12:36
martinphoneyes, like van fan culo figlio di putana, or coglioni12:36
matteo75feyes, is international !12:37
martinphonedid I write that well?12:37
martinphoneego?12:37
matteo75fefiga culo tette12:37
martinphonewhat does that mean?12:37
martinphonei understand culo12:37
matteo75feis a dirty word in italian12:38
martinphonecould you give a similar meaning in english?12:38
matteo75febut the favorite is FIGA12:38
matteo75fefiga = pussy12:38
matteo75feculo = ass12:38
martinphoneahahahahaha12:38
matteo75fetette = boob12:38
bazhangmatteo75fe, stop that12:39
martinphonewhy bazhang ? its funny12:39
bazhangmartinphone, lets move on12:39
matteo75fethe italian girl is so beautiful bat she is a precius12:39
martinphoneok matteo75fe , dont risk a ban, pm if you wanna share more italian words12:39
joeythesaintmartinphone: Yeah, different counts is normal, all of the tools choose their own way to display 'size'.12:39
joeythesaintThe one I use is the command line tool (not surprisingly) df.12:39
martinphonebazhang, that was uncalled for12:40
joeythesaintdf12:40
joeythesaintFilesystem     1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on12:40
joeythesaint/dev/sda5      223991844 204818072   7960808  97% /12:40
bazhangmartinphone, perhaps you need to look at the channel guidelines12:40
joeythesaintHrm.  Time to do something about that.12:40
bazhang!guidelines > martinphone12:40
ubottumartinphone, please see my private message12:40
joeythesaintdf -h will probably give you something you're more interested in here.12:40
martinphoneubottu, I dont see any private message12:40
ubottumartinphone: I am only a bot, please don't think I'm intelligent :)12:40
joeythesaint'df -h /dev/sdb1'  <--- for that you don't need sudo.12:40
martinphonelol, smart me12:40
martinphonejoeythesaint, something weird is happening: for this newly formatted 1TB HDD labeled VOLUME3 file manager recognizes the mountpoint and mounts it as VOLUME3, but I have another older VOLUME1, and to access this one I must use /mnt/usb012:42
martinphoneI mean, if I clikc on VOLUME1, nothing happens12:42
martinphonebazhang, is yours a permaban?12:43
joeythesaintUgh.  Sorry, now you're into the realm of automounting and dbus-y stuff.  That's all way too new tech for me to understand.12:43
bazhangmartinphone, lets move on, not your issue12:43
joeythesaintProbably someone else here can help with that, martinphone.12:43
martinphoneill wait for babble12:44
martinphonegtg12:47
martinphonecrap, I cannot safely eject /mnt/usb0, the option does not exist12:48
martinphonei cannot eject volumes because daemon is inhibited13:16
martinphonehelp please13:16
martinphonevolume = HDD13:16
SandJGrrr.  I have just tried reporting a bug with KMail in Ubuntu 11.10.  At the end of the process bugs.kde.org came back and said "There is no version named '4.7.3' in the 'kmail2' product." but 4.7.3 is the version of KMail that is installed by the Ubuntu Software Centre.  Any ideas?15:10
SandJOops.  Ubuntu 11.10 --> Xubuntu 11.1015:11
bazhang!info kmail15:11
ubottukmail (source: kdepim): full featured graphical email client. In component main, is optional. Version 4:4.7.4+git111222-0ubuntu0.1 (oneiric), package size 1007 kB, installed size 3868 kB15:11
bazhanglooks like 4.7.4 SandJ15:12
SandJ"About KMail" says "KMail Version 4.7.3, Using KDE Development Platform 4.7.4 (4.7.4)"15:13
SandJI used "Help", "Report Bug" and it says it is version 4.7.3 and I used the "Launch Bug Report Wizard" where I entered all the details and when I clicked on "Submit Bug Report", the web site rejected it saying there is no version 4.7.315:16
SandJSo, it appears there is a bug in v4.7.4 that it reports itself as a non-existent 4.7.3 which means you can;t report bugs against 4.7.4  !   So How do I report THAT bug?   Aaaargghhh!15:17
babblehave you updated? There should be a 4.7.4 update available for you which (may?) fix whatever problem you're having. The current package in oneric-updates is the 4.7.4 git build bazhang just mentioned.15:18
babbleI'm also looking here:15:18
babblehttp://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=kmail&searchon=names&suite=oneiric-updates&section=all15:18
SandJI installed this Xubuntu a week ago, KMail 2 days ago.  There are no updates available.  The package I have installed is 4:4.7.4+git111222-0ubuntu0.115:20
babblewhy are you trying to file a bug against 4.7.3 in that case?15:21
SandJBecause KMail is reporting itself as being 4.7.3 and I cannot over-ride that.15:21
babblehave you checked the kmail maintainers' website, instead of using whatever internal bug reporting the app uses?15:21
babbleyou can file a bug against an unspecified version of kmail here: https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=kmail215:26
babble(you'll need to make an account), and then, in your bug description,  be sure and tell them what version you have installed (and possibly that it's reporting itself as 4.7.3)15:26
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SandJ@babble, thank you.15:32
babblejust about everything that accepts bug reports these days has a bugtracker on the web someplace.15:33
babbleif Oneric-updates is using a build from git, I suppose it's possible that version strings might not have gotten updated.15:36
SandJI had spent 80 minutes working out how to reproduce a KMail folder filing bug and typed it up into the bugs web page, but could not submit it.  I *hate* software that tries to be clever and then fails, and this was one of those instances.  "Hey, I'll report what version I am for you!  (and get it wrong!)"15:40
babbleit's probably not the KDE maintainers' fault the git build in that ubuntu package is a hint.15:41
babblethey're probably building that from an earlier git commit that will actually build in 11.10 successfully15:41
babbleso it's six of one, half a dozen of the other: disable oneric-updates and don't get updated packages, or accept that this is a backport that in this once instance is a little problematic and go around kmail's own bug reporting.15:43
babble(if that's the case, be prepared for your bug to be closed with no action taken, however.)15:44
babbleit looks like the tracker currently tracks 4.8 releases 4.8.3 and 4.8.4.15:46
babblesearch for things along the line of your problem and make sure it hasn't already been fixed in 4.815:46
babbleif your problem HAS been fixed in 4.8, there's a 4.8 package in Precise. be patient.15:48
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t800hi16:27
t800is someone here, who probably may help me with pulseaudio?16:28
SandJ@t800: This is one of the places where you don't ask if you can ask, you just ask.  :)16:30
SandJOr you give up without asking.  :-/16:42
martinphonehow is the part that mounts and unmounts usb HDD called? is there a package I can re install to see if it solves my defective mounts?16:51
martinphonewhy is my new HDD owned by root? I can only copy and paste data with nautilus...16:57
martinphonehello?16:58
SandJ@martinphone: is the USB HDD already partitioned and formatted?  Why do you say it is defective?17:07
martinphoneSandJ, because it does not automount: I can see the label , but if I cloick on it it does nothing17:07
martinphoneit is a problem that has been lagging for some months now... maybe 617:08
martinphoneclick*17:08
martinphoneand yes, already partitioned and formatted17:10
SandJIn my Xubuntu 11.10 that is set in: Settings, Settings Manager, Removable Drives & Media, Storage, Mount removable drives when hot-plugged17:10
SandJand Mount removable media when inserted17:10
martinphoneso do I SandJ17:13
martinphonedo you know how to change permissions from the terminal? I cannot copy data to it, because I am not root17:13
SandJWhen I formatted a UDB HDD to ext4 I could not access it; I had to reformat it as ext2.17:13
SandJThat was when I formatted it on another PC; root had access but I could not write to it.17:14
SandJUDB HDD --> USB HDD17:14
martinphoneand you could as ext2...17:15
martinphoneas --> in17:15
SandJAnd I could as ext2.17:15
martinphonehow odd17:15
SandJIt is something to do with ext3 and ext4 preserving rights.  I thought I was being clever when I did it.17:17
martinphonewhy didnt it happen to me back in ubuntu?17:19
SandJDunno.   Is that when you formatted the drive?17:20
martinphoneno, this is the 1st drive I format using xubuntu17:24
martinphonewill this work? sudo chmod a+xw /dev/sdb117:24
* SandJ is away: rebooting17:28
DinoMuffinSo has anyone here had issues with the intel graphics driver locking up when playing games? It seems to be a bit unstable now17:28
DinoMuffinSpecifically, X seems to go into an infinite loop at some point duing gameplay, so the keyboard and mouse become completely unresponsive17:30
DinoMuffinI see no evidence of a kernel panic or hard lock as it still responds to sysreq17:30
DinoMuffinX reports " EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop."17:31
DinoMuffinI'm unable to envoke the virtual terminal, however. :/17:31
Kingsyguys, I have just plugged in a usb mic and the levels are REALLY low, I can barely hear the play back and on audacity I can hardly see he wave form.. it IS recording tho.. I can hear it.. audacity says its using ALSA but alsamixer master volume is already set to 100% what am I missing?18:07
holsteinKingsy: i might try pavucontrol, assuming you are using pulse18:24
holsteinyou can try JACK with something like ardour, where there are things like jackmixer to boost the signal18:25
holsteinthough, i would prefer boosting the signal with a proper hardware, like a nice preamp18:25
holsteinUSB mics are not made for what you are trying to use them for typically... they are for speaking directly into them18:26
chiliblueHi folks, looking for help with audio over hdmi on a nvidia 210.18:47
chiliblueI have it sort of working, well the menu sounds work in xbmc, I can send sound to it, but no desktop sounds (or when video plays for that matter)18:47
chiliblueI get sound through Card 0, Device 7, but xubuntu is seeing 4 devices, how do I get it to see and use only the right one.18:49
chiliblueanyone know of a how to on this, everything I find is ubuntu rather than xubuntu.18:52
Kingsyholstein: sorry m8, about the late reply..18:53
holsteinchiliblue: should work fine18:53
holsteinchiliblue: xubuntu = ubuntu with XFCE and other customizations18:53
Kingsyholstein: I fixed it, I increased the mic capture volume.. it was really low18:53
holsteinchiliblue: i would try pavucontrol if you are using pulse18:53
chiliblueYes I wanted something lighter hence xubuntu18:54
Kingsyholstein: but now its my webcam.. giving me REALLY low res crappy framerate output from vlc18:54
Kingsyholstein: thanks for the advice tho18:54
holsteinchiliblue: im not suggesting ubuntu.. im saying that the how-to's for ubuntu should work.. and im suggesting the package pavucontrol18:54
chilibluei am using pulse, its really driving me nuts, sound was working in video but not in menus and now its the other way around. But I can't understand why I don't have any desktop sounds (I might be being dim...but I take it xubuntu does normally have desktop sounds18:55
chiliblueI have pavucontrol installed.18:56
holsteinchiliblue: i dont think there are sounds18:59
holsteinchiliblue: assume nothing... if you dont hear any, and havent, there's probably not any18:59
chiliblueThanks holstein, that is one thing I don't have to worry about then19:07
MokuraHow would I go about disabling keys on the keyboard?  My Thinkpad X40 has forward and back keys right next to the arrow keys and it's annoying when I accidentially hit them while web browsing.19:11
MokuraThinkWiki isn't exactly clear on the matter, and the page I was looking at was more for ENABLING the special functions.19:11
martinphonecan hidden files be copied if I ctrl+h to see them and copy them?19:22
forestpiskieyep19:23
MokuraAlright, repeating the question since there are more people about: how would I go about disabling certain keys on my keyboard?19:23
Mokuranotably, the forward/back keys19:24
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yrussqHi evrbdy! I have question - after updating to 12.04 beta - in Mozilla addon Flashaid i have message: "There was an error creating the child process for this terminal.20:11
yrussqgetpt failed: No such file or directory."  How can i fix it?20:11
babblelooks like a few similar bugs have been reported.20:15
babblehttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/24595620:15
ubottuLaunchpad bug 321927 in insserv (Ubuntu) "duplicate for #245956 /dev/pts and /dev/shm not mounted on boot" [Low,Confirmed]20:15
babbleit looks like a /dev virtual device isn't getting created.20:15
babblethis is a fix from that particular launchpad thread:20:16
babblehttp://paste.ubuntu.com/923918/20:16
yrussqbabble: thanx! i'll better go check the links :) Have found some solutions for Archlinux but they didn't help me yesterday.20:28
Mokurahttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdk-pixbuf/+bug/927393 not my post, but is there anything I can do about that other than possibly 'wait for 12.04 official'?20:29
ubottuLaunchpad bug 927393 in gdk-pixbuf (Ubuntu) "GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_scale_simple: assertion `dest_width > 0' failed" [Undecided,Confirmed]20:29
Mokuraer, well, "release", not official20:30
xubuntu550hi, who are speak french please ?20:50
martinphoneje peux parler un peut, mais ne tres bien21:30
martinphoneun peu*21:30
well_laid_lawn!fr | martinphone21:32
ubottumartinphone: Ce canal est en anglais uniquement. Si vous avez besoin d'aide ou voulez discuter en français, veuillez taper /join #ubuntu-fr ou /join #ubuntu-qc. Merci.21:32
Mofasamy computer keep shutting off itself from time to time. Says like when u use the shutdown cmd in all terminals Description: (unknown)21:33
martinphonethat I get for being nice21:33
Mofasaanyone know why this might happen?21:33
Mofasaor how to go deeper...21:33
Unit193Check the logs in /var/log/21:34
well_laid_lawnmartinphone: I had no idea what you had said - the other bloke had left21:35
BramborZdarec21:41
BramborHele jsem na xubuntu nový...vlastně celý linux je pro mě trochu španělská vesnice...může mi někdo dát pár rad do začátku? :)21:42
martinphoneif I copy .firefox (hidden file) and nuke it, I can still get FF as it was before the nuking by copying this hidden into my home folder, right?21:42
martinphonenuke the machine21:43
martinphoneso no french but czech is allowed??21:43
martinphoneor any other slavic language that may be...21:43
well_laid_lawnwas that czech? there is21:43
BramborSorry, I'm new here...is this english only channel?21:43
well_laid_lawn!cz21:44
ubottuČeské uživatele žádáme, aby mluvili v kanále #ubuntu anglicky. Česky je možno se domluvit v #ubuntu-cz. Děkujeme.21:44
martinphonejackpot21:44
Unit193martinphone: You should be able to just fine.21:44
martinphoneUnit193, I have like 20 apps I need to keep the config for21:44
martinphoneafter the nuking21:44
Unit193Well, hidden folder rather than file.21:44
martinphoneyes, that21:44
martinphoneall my hidden folders ammount to 12GB21:45
martinphonenever though could be that much21:45
babbleare you including .cache?21:45
Unit193You could nuke the cahce of ff for example.21:45
babble(if you're getting .firefox, I believe you are. let me check.)21:45
well_laid_lawnor .gvfs21:45
babbleand yes, if you've got mounted .gvfs volumes, there's that21:46
martinphonea, crap, yes babble that too21:46
martinphoneI can get rid of it, it wouldnt make any sense in a new installation, would it?21:47
babbleyou don't need to back up cache items, most typically.21:48
martinphonewithout it, still 11 GB21:49
babblewhat's in your home folder ~/.firefox? My ff profile is in ~/.mozilla21:49
martinphonemine too babble21:49
martinphonei hust wrote that without checking its real location21:49
babbleyou said .firefox21:49
Unit193I'd recommend using du or ncdu.21:49
martinphonejust*21:49
babblewhat do you have in ~/.gvfs, if anything?21:50
martinphonenothing at all babble21:50
babblecheck and see if any of your apps make their own cache folders outside of ~/.cache (Firestorm does this in its own prefs directory)21:51
martinphonewhat are .goutputstream-01NS5V hidden files?21:53
babblegstreamer, I think.21:54
babblelet me check21:54
babblethey're the results of a Gnome function called GoOutputStream in Gnome applications, and are safely deletable.21:55
martinphonethx babble21:57
martinphonesoon ill be ready to drop a nuke...22:02
babbleI always clean install my system on a new release.22:02
babblebut I told you that already.22:02
martinphoneyes babble22:04
MokuraAlright, so.  I seem to have painted myself into a corner.  I've installed some font patches from http://www.infinality.net/blog/infinality-freetype-patches/ , is there any way to go back to the default freetype?22:38
Mokurahttp://www.infinality.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=77#p794 the installation instructions I used, since I'm not on Fedora22:39
chiliblueanyone good with hdmi audio around22:39
GridCubenope, but what do you need chiliblue22:42
chiliblueI have a hp microserver with a nvidia 210 card, I can get the thing to make sound but I am struggling with it in xbmc22:44
martinphoneI still get this when trying to unmount a usb HDD: umount: /media/usb0 is not in the fstab (and you are not root)22:45
martinphoneshould I go sudo unmount /dev/sdb1 ?22:46
martinphonethats the gparted name for usb022:46
chilibluetry it22:46
GridCubechiliblue, tried configuring yuor sound e22:47
GridCubewith pavucontrol22:47
GridCube?22:47
chiliblueI have pavucontrol22:47
chilibluenot entirel I am meant to be setting up like thoughy sure what22:47
chilibluesorry, reclining with laptop22:48
chilibluenot sure I really understand what right looks like in pavucontrol22:48
GridCube?22:48
GridCubesay again?22:49
chilibluelet me fire it up, and perhaps you can explain what I am meant to be doing22:50
martinphonewow, it worked, but the HDD keeps making noise...22:51
martinphonethere it worked22:51
GridCubechiliblue, sure thing22:51
chiliblueok, output devices. there are 2 hdmi and high definition audio controller digital stereo (hdmi) nr 222:52
chilibluethe later is in port hdmi 222:52
GridCubechiliblue, are you playing the musics?22:53
chilibluealthough there is only on hdmi port on the card22:53
chilibluemainly audio for video22:53
chilibluemy issue in xbmc is that it plays sound for the menu until I play a video file, video audio plays but the menu sounds go...and then there is this issue with it hanging when I try to play a second video file, I think it might be audio related22:54
chilibluewhat should my fall back setting be? seems to defalt to the first hdac22:56
chiliblueother than volume that pretty much the only option I can alter in output deviced22:56
GridCubei would try them all while playing22:56
chilibluedevices22:56
GridCubechiliblue, its not like i dont want to help you, but i think you might get better answers at #xbmc22:57
chilibluein config I have 8 options22:58
babbledoes it give you problems in xbmc-unstable?22:58
chilibluethis eden I haven't tried unstable22:58
babbleshot in the dark, but I wonder if there may be wider hardware support in the development branch22:58
chiliblueI was hoping stable would be well stable22:58
babbleI'm running unstable, and I'm not having huge issues, but YMMV of course.22:59
chiliblueit isn't a new card to be honest22:59
babbleI wasn't thinking new, necessarily.22:59
chilibluebabble is the video wierdness at the begining of video play normal?22:59
babblenot for me, but again, I can't say what may or may not be happening on your hardware.23:00
chilibluewell the video card is handling decoding so perhaps it is something to do with that, all seems related to the hdmi audio.23:00
babbleit may be purely me talking out of thin air, but contributed code for things like particular patches for particular cards will land in svn before they roll into the stable release, right? so...23:01
babblegiven that the team xbmc ppa is building -unstable from snapshots, ...23:02
chiliblueno arguing with the logic23:03
babbleI'm not trying to argue anything23:03
babbleI'm just wondering23:03
chilibluesound is such pita in linux, I miss the sb16 days23:03
babbleI've spent three days trying to get a workable JACK/midi toolchain that doesn't make me want to claw my eyeballs out in frustration. hehe.23:04
chiliblueI guess I am used to things just working in linux, losing my edge when things go tits up23:05
babbleI'm normally up for figuring things out, getting things working.23:05
babbleaudio is one place where I generally just give up and hop back into Logic or Garageband on a Macintosh.23:05
babbleheh.23:05
chilibluethis is so sound related. With the wrong wettings the video fires straight up (no sound) no stuttering23:07
chilibluesettings rather23:07
babbleit sounds like it, but I can't offer any specific fixes for your hardware, unfortunately.23:08
Mokurabah, okay, sorry to bail like that23:08
babbletry unstable? It can't be any worse than what you have now, can it?23:08
chiliblueno really23:08
babblethe unstable ppa is here, if you need:23:09
babblehttps://launchpad.net/~team-xbmc/+archive/unstable23:09
chiliblueso frustrating, I am trying to dump a winxp mediaportal combo...which I ended up with because there was 0 support for my dvt-s/t card23:09
chilibluethanks babble,23:10

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