| hba | hi guys | 04:03 |
|---|---|---|
| hba | is anyone alive ther/ | 04:04 |
| hba | ? | 04:04 |
| JoseeAntonioR | hi, hba | 04:20 |
| hba | hey hi josee | 04:20 |
| hba | good that someone is there :) | 04:20 |
| hba | I've installed Ubuntu 10.04.3 on my dell laptop | 04:21 |
| hba | lshw -html > file.html shows some of the columns red colored | 04:22 |
| hba | and the brightness shortcuts does not work | 04:22 |
| hba | guys...please help me | 14:34 |
| hba | if someone can | 14:34 |
| hba | function key with my ubuntu 10.04 on dell vostro 1450 doesnt :( | 14:34 |
| hba | and im not able to find ANY solution for this | 14:35 |
| hba | there is NO graphic card in the laptop | 14:35 |
| hba | any pros here? | 14:37 |
| Blazemore|Work | Sorry back up... what are you doing? What are you expecting to happen? And what actually happens? | 14:39 |
| Blazemore|Work | I think you accidentally a verb, you see | 14:39 |
| Blazemore|Work | I have a similar Dell laptop so I might be able to help you | 14:39 |
| Blazemore|Work | Dell Vostro laptops use integrated graphics, which means you don't have a seperate graphics card. The graphics processing is done on a particular part of the processor | 14:40 |
| Blazemore|Work | hba | 14:40 |
| hba | ok | 14:41 |
| hba | so how to I proceed with it | 14:41 |
| Blazemore|Work | What is the problem? | 14:41 |
| hba | lshw -html > file.html shows "VGA compatible controller" in red | 14:41 |
| hba | im not able to change the brightness | 14:42 |
| Blazemore|Work | What are you running on it? Why are you running Ubuntu 10.04? | 14:42 |
| Blazemore|Work | Ubuntu 11.04 onwards are actually certified for that laptop | 14:42 |
| Blazemore|Work | http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/hardware/201104-7889/ | 14:42 |
| hba | i gave a try with 12.04 and it jus .. sucks with unity :( | 14:43 |
| hba | and wanted LTS only | 14:44 |
| Blazemore|Work | OK. If you're dead set on using the older version of Ubuntu which doesn't work out-of-the-box with your particular laptop, you must be prepared to spend some time and effort fixing it. If you like the old version of Gnome there are a couple of other distros you can try | 14:44 |
| hba | as I already am using 10.04.3 on my desktop, and really very happy with it | 14:44 |
| Blazemore|Work | However, let's solve this problem for 10.04 | 14:44 |
| Blazemore|Work | I agree, 10.04 was a really good release | 14:44 |
| hba | the way it works even with ATA | 14:45 |
| hba | ok | 14:45 |
| hba | im all game for fixing it hard way :) | 14:45 |
| Blazemore|Work | Could you please pose the results of running the command "lsmod" onto paste.ubuntu.com ? | 14:45 |
| hba | sure | 14:45 |
| hba | here http://paste.ubuntu.com/1110243/ | 14:46 |
| hba | brb | 14:48 |
| Blazemore|Work | OK I'm going to get you to try something, but it does involve a reboot | 14:50 |
| Blazemore|Work | What I need you to do is edit the /etc/default/grub file: "sudo gedit /etc/default/grub" | 14:50 |
| Blazemore|Work | Look for the line that says GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" | 14:50 |
| Blazemore|Work | And change it so it says GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_backlight=vendor acpi_osi=Linux" | 14:51 |
| Blazemore|Work | Then save the file, close the text editor and run the command "sudo update-grub" | 14:51 |
| Blazemore|Work | Then reboot and test out the brightness keys | 14:51 |
| Blazemore|Work | Come back here and let me know if it worked | 14:51 |
| Blazemore|Work | hba: are you still there? | 15:09 |
| hba | Blazemore: just back | 15:44 |
| hba | let me just follow what u said | 15:44 |
| hba | ok. need to reboot | 15:46 |
| Blazemore|Work | £10 says he doesn't come back because it worked | 15:48 |
| hba | Blazemore: no luck :( | 15:49 |
| hba | GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_backlight=vendor acpi_osi=Linux" | 15:50 |
| hba | @Blazemore plz reply... | 15:50 |
| Blazemore|Work | Hello | 15:52 |
| hba | hi | 15:52 |
| Blazemore|Work | OK give me a minute | 15:52 |
| hba | ok sure | 15:52 |
| Blazemore|Work | OK do you know how to add a PPA? It's OK if not | 15:53 |
| hba | i know | 15:54 |
| Blazemore|Work | Well, either way, run the command " sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kamalmostafa/linux-kamal-mjgbacklight " | 15:54 |
| Blazemore|Work | Then do "sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y" | 15:54 |
| Blazemore|Work | Then, (sorry), it's best to edit that /etc/default/grub file again, remove "acpi_backlight=vendor acpi_osi=Linux" | 15:55 |
| Blazemore|Work | Then run "sudo update-grub" and reboot | 15:55 |
| Blazemore|Work | SO basically we're reverting the changes we tried before, and installing the updates from this PPA | 15:55 |
| hba | ok.... | 15:56 |
| hba | hope its for gnome ;) i just saw letter 'k' in there ;-) | 15:56 |
| Blazemore|Work | Should be linux, linux-meta and gnome-power-manager | 15:57 |
| Blazemore|Work | Plus whatever updates you had already, which could be "kernel" something-or-other | 15:57 |
| hba | W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/kamalmostafa/linux-kamal-mjgbacklight/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz 404 Not Found | 15:59 |
| hba | something went wrong here? | 16:06 |
| hba | @Blazemore u there? | 16:07 |
| Blazemore|Work | Sorry. Yes it seems that PPA is only for Natty and Maverick sadly | 16:07 |
| Blazemore|Work | sudo software-properties-gtk, remove the repository or that error will annoy you in future | 16:08 |
| hba | oops | 16:08 |
| Blazemore|Work | And I'm fresh out of ideas, sadly. The only thing I can recommend is download something based on Ubuntu + Gnome but more up-to-date, like Linux Mint Mate Edition | 16:08 |
| Blazemore|Work | http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=104 | 16:08 |
| Blazemore|Work | If you are dead-set against Unity. Or you can install a classic Gnome session in Ubuntu 12.04 | 16:09 |
| Blazemore|Work | OMG! has a guide here http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/03/gnome-classic-in-ubuntu-12-04-its-like-nothing-ever-changed | 16:09 |
| Blazemore|Work | Actually I'd recommend the latter option | 16:10 |
| hba | well i tried installing gnome over 12.04 with no luck | 16:10 |
| hba | and from OMG only | 16:11 |
| Blazemore|Work | You only need to install the gnome-panel application | 16:11 |
| Blazemore|Work | And don't forget at the login screen you need to select "Gnome Classic" instead of "Ubuntu" | 16:11 |
| Blazemore|Work | http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/login.jpg | 16:12 |
| Blazemore|Work | It will remember your setting, and it is done on a per-account basis | 16:12 |
| hba | but no seriously i already tried that, then I gave up and tried to get used to unity | 16:13 |
| hba | then got too much fed up....or maybe because Im pretty much used to gnome | 16:14 |
| Blazemore|Work | You tried gnome-panel | 16:19 |
| Blazemore|Work | It's the same | 16:19 |
| Blazemore|Work | Unity is pretty good these days if you make it smaller | 16:19 |
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| hba | @Blazemore : thanks. I installed 12.04 and gnome classic (gnome-panel) looks good | 19:29 |
| hba | Alt+Tab wasnt working but, then compizconfig did work for me | 19:30 |
| hba | now im just trying to figure out how to add applets to panel :-( | 19:30 |
| yeehi | i used tightvnc on a windows host to see the desktop of Ubuntu | 21:33 |
| yeehi | I would now like to use something like tightvnc on ubuntu to do the same thing - but I don't think I need to install the server... as far as I remember with windows i just needed the client... | 21:34 |
| yeehi | is tightvnc the best one for ubuntu? | 21:34 |
| Unit193 | Vewing client? I typically use remmina, but there *should* be one installed by default. | 21:36 |
| Unit193 | x11vnc is what I use for linux VNC server, and UltraVNC for windows. | 21:36 |
| yeehi | Hi, Unit193! | 21:40 |
| Unit193 | Howdy. | 21:42 |
| bodhi_zazen | yeehi: I highly suggest FreeNX | 21:48 |
| Unit193 | Could never get a NX working correctly, didn't login to the session right. | 21:50 |
| yeehi | bodhi_zazen - I can't find FreeNX in synaptic | 21:52 |
| yeehi | I am using Trisquel... | 21:52 |
| bodhi_zazen | Yea, you will need to install FreeNX | 21:52 |
| yeehi | download the debian... | 21:53 |
| bodhi_zazen | you using Virtualization ? | 21:53 |
| yeehi | I am on a bare metal installation at the moment | 21:53 |
| yeehi | but would later install into a virtual machine | 21:53 |
| bodhi_zazen | http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11459903 | 21:53 |
| bodhi_zazen | http://www.humans-enabled.com/2012/04/how-to-install-freenx-server-on-ubuntu.html | 21:53 |
| yeehi | you know all the best threads! hehe! | 21:54 |
| bodhi_zazen | FreeNX is both more secure and much much faster then other VNC clinets | 21:54 |
| yeehi | I didn't know that | 21:54 |
| yeehi | I hope it is easy to use - I was amazed at how easy tightvnc was on windows | 21:54 |
| bodhi_zazen | It is a bit of a pain , but not too bad | 21:55 |
| yeehi | haha! | 21:55 |
| yeehi | It will be good for me! | 21:55 |
| yeehi | so FreeNX is a client - the thing I interface with to bring up an image of the other computers desktop | 21:56 |
| yeehi | i need to run some other software to make FreeNX work? | 21:56 |
| Espens1 | Hey i recently switched over to ubuntu, and wish to install skype. To my suprise the version i downloaded is very old, some said the version is the same as on skype.com | 22:38 |
| Espens1 | but it isn't for me?? | 22:38 |
| yeehi | Hello! What is some good software to see how long your internet surfing is taking through the various stages / computers it meets ? | 23:15 |
| yeehi | for example, maybe all your traffic has to get routed through one computer and this is a bottleneck... that sort of thing.... | 23:16 |
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