| === scott_ is now known as Guest33682 | ||
| FloatingGoat | whats the best way to record guitar? looped at every 4th beat or try to play through the whole song? | 11:40 |
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| smartboyhw | Now where is ailo!? | 11:41 |
| smartboyhw | HE would be the best to answer this | 11:41 |
| smartboyhw | Also len-dt maybe | 11:41 |
| FloatingGoat | he answers a lot of my questions lol | 11:42 |
| FloatingGoat | i guess i could ask again tomorrow | 11:45 |
| FloatingGoat | or later today | 11:45 |
| === _dancer is now known as MOSMarauder | ||
| Ubuntu_Issues | Hey guys ive got maaajor resolution issues | 18:20 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | just did an update and im stuck at 640 x 480 | 18:20 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | does anyone know any way to rollback all updates or force resolution? | 18:21 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: i would just try the old kernel | 18:23 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | sorry im a real new user here :) | 18:23 |
| holstein | i would look and see if a proprietary driver installation has installed a custom xorg.conf and that it looks as expected | 18:23 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | just upgraded from win 7 | 18:23 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: thats not an upgrade | 18:24 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | I have absolutely no idea how to | 18:24 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: thats a different operating system | 18:24 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | oh hey holstein! I used to be known as presonus :P | 18:24 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: i was assuming an upgrade had broken your display | 18:24 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: i would just look for a proprietary driver | 18:24 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | yeah it seems to have, I didnt have a problem till I rebooted | 18:24 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: ok.. then try the earlier kerne | 18:25 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | ok sorry for stupiud questions but what is a kernal -facepalm- and how do I try an earlier one | 18:25 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | I used the damn updater | 18:25 |
| holstein | well, you can search around and find out what a kernel is if you need | 18:26 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | no idea about terminal window.. yet | 18:26 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | but im learning | 18:26 |
| holstein | at boot, you'll see a list of boot options | 18:26 |
| holstein | if you dont, you can either tap shift to show them, or refer to | 18:26 |
| holstein | !grub2 | 18:26 |
| ubottu | GRUB2 is the default Ubuntu boot manager since 9.10 (Karmic). Lost GRUB after installing Windows? See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestoreGrub - For more information and troubleshooting for GRUB2 please refer to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 - See !grub1 for releases before Karmic (9.10) | 18:26 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | hmmmm | 18:26 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | I dont have grub installed i dont think | 18:27 |
| holstein | you'll find the last kernel that was working in the list under "previous entries" or something like that | 18:27 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | it boots straight to ustudio | 18:27 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: you can confirm that if you'd like, by referring to that link i gave you | 18:27 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: but, if linux is booting, and you installed from the default installation CD, you have grub | 18:27 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | booted from usb, installed to hd | 18:28 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | it auto boots, no options | 18:28 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | is there ashortcut key I need to hit? | 18:28 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | it was a blank drive in a blak machine | 18:28 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | *blank | 18:28 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | sorry for text formatting, my zoom is all fucked since my resolution is huge | 18:29 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: you can tap shift to show the boot menu as i mentioned earlier, or you can refer to that link | 18:29 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: this is a troubleshooting step.. try the earlier kernel | 18:29 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | oh ok cool I missed it, my window is TINY | 18:29 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | thanks man rebooting and trying now | 18:29 |
| Ubuntu_lUser | Hey rebooted and back | 18:33 |
| Ubuntu_lUser | im getting invalid format on my display until it boots | 18:33 |
| Ubuntu_lUser | cant access any menus | 18:33 |
| Ubuntu_lUser | is there anything I can do from the terminal to force resolution? | 18:33 |
| Ubuntu_lUser | oh good my nick timed out | 18:34 |
| === Ubuntu_lUser is now known as Ubuntu_Issues | ||
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: you tried the earlier kernel? | 18:37 |
| holstein | is there an earlier kernel? | 18:37 |
| holstein | there are recovery options, and one of them is graphics | 18:37 |
| holstein | thats in that menu that im still not sure you are getting to or not | 18:37 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | sirry bad crash | 18:38 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | no chat history, I cant log into xchat cos the buttons are off the screen | 18:38 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | SUCH a pain | 18:39 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | does anyone know a way to force resolution? | 18:39 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | thx :) | 18:39 |
| holstein | there are recovery options, and one of them is graphics | 18:40 |
| holstein | thats in that menu that im still not sure you are getting to or not | 18:40 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: you can put an xorg.conf in place | 18:40 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | cant get any boot menus | 18:40 |
| holstein | you can remove the kernel upgrade asssuming thats what has caused the issme | 18:40 |
| holstein | issue* | 18:40 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: you'll need to tap shift, or refer to that link i gave on how to unhide the grub menu | 18:40 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | cant access kernal menu, invalid format warning on my screen | 18:40 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: then thats screen related | 18:41 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | cant get to grub. no display till the desktop loads | 18:41 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: i would look and see if you have changed any settings there | 18:41 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | screen was running fine till I updated and rebooted | 18:41 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: then, if you are early one, maybe just reinstall, and dont update | 18:42 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | damn I dont have time to :P I was hoping it was any easy command line to force resolution :) sitting round with a bunch of mates smashed as hell | 18:42 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | playing music its like 5am here | 18:43 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | oops 7am man im wasted | 18:43 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | googled it a few times but couldnt find anything that worked :) thats why I logged on here | 18:44 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: you can explore those options i gave earlier | 18:44 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | really appreciate your guys help thanks heaps | 18:44 |
| holstein | you can try #xubuntu or #ubuntu since this is not really an ubuntustudio issue | 18:44 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | yep rebooted a few times hence the nick change holstein, cant get grub menu | 18:45 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: you can if you edit the menu in tty | 18:45 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: have you tried tty? | 18:45 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: have you tried checking out that linke? | 18:45 |
| holstein | !grub2 | 18:45 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | dumbass question whats a tty | 18:45 |
| ubottu | GRUB2 is the default Ubuntu boot manager since 9.10 (Karmic). Lost GRUB after installing Windows? See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestoreGrub - For more information and troubleshooting for GRUB2 please refer to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 - See !grub1 for releases before Karmic (9.10) | 18:45 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | im so sorry :P I know I must look like a retard haha | 18:45 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: that is another way of getting to your system | 18:45 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: you look frustrated and rightly so | 18:45 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: you'll need to be patient and ready to try some troubleshootins steps though to resolve this | 18:46 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | haha its not so much that ive lost grub, cos it is loading, but the resolution its loading in isnt supported by my tv | 18:46 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: reinstalling should take about 20 minutes.. that would be the easiest | 18:46 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: you didnt "lose" grub | 18:46 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: you *never* said tv til just now | 18:47 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | oh crap sorry | 18:47 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: i would get to a monitor.. make life easier | 18:47 |
| holstein | set it up there, and then go to the TV | 18:47 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | tv has vga input | 18:47 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: sure... and hows that working for you? | 18:47 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | cant get to a monitor today | 18:47 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: you *can* sort this out with the tv, but id have to be there | 18:47 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: i would just reinstall and dont update | 18:48 |
| holstein | just dont update til you know what you are doing a little more and you have more hardware for troubleshooting purposes | 18:48 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | yeah ill have to reinstall tomorrow when my heads clear :P all my windows are off the screen and its driving me nuts | 18:48 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | yeah definately, I installed all the updates I could find cos im trying new firewire card | 18:49 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | im the guy that had the firewire problems | 18:49 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | didnt expect it to screw with the display | 18:49 |
| holstein | it might not have | 18:49 |
| holstein | its not a display anyways, its a TV | 18:50 |
| holstein | thats an extra layer of complexity that you might not want to deal with | 18:50 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | for the record I bloody love ustudio its awesome | 18:50 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | well its a plasma | 18:50 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | but yeah tv, it showed up as a standard monitor untill I updated | 18:50 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | *-l | 18:50 |
| holstein | if it were me, i would just go in with a live CD and put an xorg.conf in place | 18:50 |
| holstein | OR, ssh in | 18:50 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | its an empty box im perfectly happy to open it up | 18:51 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | ill have to reburn an iso to usb and redo it, internet is pretty crap here so thats atlease a 3 hour ordeal | 18:52 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | sorry for spelling, all my typing is offscreen bc of resolution | 18:52 |
| holstein | internet doesnt have anything to do with it | 18:53 |
| holstein | just use the one you have already downloaded | 18:53 |
| holstein | make a USB stick reinstall.. you should be done in 20 minutes | 18:54 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | already blanked the damn usb to transfer my files | 18:54 |
| holstein | sure, use the iso you have downloaded | 18:54 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | and the iso is on my dead windows box | 18:54 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | nightmarrrre | 18:55 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: you have no live diagnostic CD's? | 18:55 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | nope | 18:55 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | no optical drive | 18:55 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | :P | 18:55 |
| holstein | maybe just download a lighter one.. puppy... ubcd | 18:55 |
| holstein | get the iso off the windows box | 18:55 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | puppy is awesome :) I just really love ustudiop | 18:55 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | the sequncing program is prefect for writing drums | 18:56 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | and geequie is amazing for my photography | 18:56 |
| holstein | im not suggestion you use puppy instead | 18:56 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | o really? I may have puppy lying around | 18:56 |
| holstein | im staying the puppy iso is under 200mb's and you need a live diagonistics CD anyways | 18:56 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: when i say "you have no live diagnostic CD's" thats what im asking | 18:57 |
| holstein | *anything* that boots up live.. right now.. that you can get that iso off the "dead" windows box with | 18:57 |
| holstein | then, you transfer instead of download | 18:57 |
| holstein | remake a USB. boot.. install.. enjoy | 18:57 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | mobo is dead, nothings comin off it without a hd transfer | 18:57 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: i would take the hard drive to another machine ..plug it in | 18:58 |
| holstein | or, just q up the iso download | 18:59 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | stupid asus hp box has these green shit in the way its gonna be a cunty teardown | 18:59 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | qing up the dl now | 19:00 |
| holstein | asus hp? | 19:00 |
| holstein | whatever... if its trash, its trash... tear it down with a hammer | 19:00 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | yeah its a bastard pc :P | 19:00 |
| holstein | i can only offer solutions... i dont deal with limitations well | 19:00 |
| holstein | i just get things done, or throw them out | 19:01 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | :P im in the resurrection business haha building a junkyard network | 19:01 |
| holstein | sure... but if its trash, its trash | 19:01 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | got a bunch of boxes out of the trash - broke student artist | 19:01 |
| holstein | either he mobo is dead or not | 19:01 |
| holstein | yup.. i got a stack of those as well | 19:01 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | well one box had a mobo that worked, one had a power supply and the other four had 3 gigs each of hd :P | 19:04 |
| holstein | so, you can build a functional machine, and get the info from the hard drive | 19:05 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | resurrected a laptop with puppy linux and it worked well so I thought id go for a serious ubuntu install, and this is the first one thats worked | 19:05 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | I know my questions are pretty stupid but im learning :P thanks so much for your patience | 19:06 |
| holstein | i dont think your questions are stupid... you have some excuses mixed in with the questions though | 19:07 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | yep! Probably due to inexperience | 19:08 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | if you can spot what the excuses are def call me on it :) ill be as honest as I can | 19:09 |
| holstein | its challenging... you really got to be willing to tinker since no one is getting paid to make sure your linux experience is "good" on your hardware | 19:09 |
| holstein | OR, buy something with linux already on it, like from system76 | 19:09 |
| holstein | but, i feel confident we can get you going in the right direction here | 19:09 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | Heres the story from boot, I get my DOS screen, then nothing but a blank invalid format display until the desktop loads with a default monitor showing only 2 resolution options | 19:09 |
| holstein | you can force different options with a custom xorg.conf | 19:10 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | cant afford to buy anything, im on student allowance and trying to get a computer thatll do my projects without actually shelling out more than a hundy :P | 19:11 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | and im so close! | 19:11 |
| holstein | i didnt mean to imply that was mandatory | 19:11 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | oh good :P started wondering if ive pushed my hardware luck to capacity | 19:12 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | its a dual core though but ddr2 ram so kinda old | 19:12 |
| holstein | i can do anything i do on a p4 with a gig of ram | 19:13 |
| holstein | 512 prolloy | 19:13 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | wow! | 19:13 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | I resurrected a p2, ive got 4 p4s in my junk server atm | 19:14 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | working my way up with ubuntu so I can attack it once ive got more knowledge | 19:14 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | its a long road though | 19:14 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | ive got the stickability, just trying not to piss off my few avenues of help haha | 19:14 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | is unetbootin the program to load isos to in ubuntu? Or do you guys use a better one | 19:15 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | thats what I used on my win7 box before I formatted it | 19:16 |
| holstein | unet is the one i use... there are plenty and "better" is a matter of opinion | 19:16 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | good, as long as 'junk' isnt in the description, I know windows ports are dodgy sometimes | 19:16 |
| holstein | unet is in the repos | 19:16 |
| holstein | its well supported | 19:17 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | right! unet installing, gona roll right back to a clean install and leaave the updates off | 19:20 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | is there somewhere with update advice I can check to decide whats vital and what isnt? | 19:21 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | once again, apologies for the spelling, I cringe every time | 19:21 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: i would just learn for now | 19:21 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: if you get some more "generic" hardware, you can run a normal setup | 19:21 |
| holstein | kernel upgrades can break things | 19:22 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | problem is ive got no contingency, so if I take it offline I can't get online to check any help files, so I make hard copy note before I do anything | 19:22 |
| holstein | they can also add functionality | 19:22 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | its the only box in the house thats working now | 19:22 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: if its not "online" then theres nothing to worry about security wise | 19:23 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | I cannibalised everything to get it running | 19:23 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | not security wise, as in if something fucks out and doesnt install I cant google the error to fix it | 19:23 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | its a blank box I dont care about security atm theres nothing on it | 19:23 |
| holstein | if you arent online, you wont be installing anything anyways | 19:23 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | operating systems | 19:24 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | ustudio installer screwed up for weeks when I tried to load it | 19:24 |
| holstein | i dont take updates or install anything while installing the OS | 19:24 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: it worked first time and everytime for me | 19:25 |
| holstein | i had issues taking upgrades while installing so i dont anymore | 19:25 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | example: With puppy I had to load another program first to recognise the usb port and boot from it, I wouldnt have known that if I hadnt hit up puppylinuxs chatroom and asked | 19:25 |
| holstein | either your machine boots USB or it doesnt | 19:26 |
| holstein | you needed something like plop? | 19:26 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | cant remember the name but the menu looked like the old ps2 screens | 19:26 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | yeah plop! | 19:26 |
| holstein | thats got nothing to do with puppy | 19:26 |
| holstein | thats because you have legacy hardware that doesnt USB boot | 19:26 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | THANKS! My windows machine needs it, and google as I might I couldnt find the name | 19:26 |
| holstein | *any* thing you want to boot from USB will require that | 19:26 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | yeah it was oooold :P | 19:27 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | acer aspire | 19:27 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | no cd drive, ony floppy! I nearly took it fully apart to get at the hd till someone mentioned plop | 19:27 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | Can I ask some dumb questions? Do you guys use utorrent or is there a special linux one? What about winamp? Are there any common applications I SHOULDNT install? (Acrobat, Office etc) | 19:33 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | im 26 btw not 13, I'm reading back over these questions and realising I actually know stuff all about linux | 19:33 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | :P | 19:34 |
| holstein | i dont think there is winamp for linux, though nothing about linux or ubuntu prevents winamp from making a version for it | 19:34 |
| holstein | there are *lots* of media player.. i always come back to VLC | 19:34 |
| holstein | !vlc | 19:34 |
| ubottu | Audio (Ogg, MP3...) players: Audacious, Banshee, Listen, Quod Libet, Rhythmbox, Exaile, XMMS2 (GTK/Gnome based) and Amarok, JuK (Qt/KDE based). Video players: Totem, Xine, MPlayer, VLC, Kaffeine - See also !codecs | 19:34 |
| holstein | i dont torrent things, though i have hosted iso's for friends | 19:34 |
| holstein | there are defaults in the main ubuntu distro, and in xubuntu | 19:35 |
| holstein | there are plenty of torrent applications | 19:35 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | Im using Audacious atm, but I really loved the visualisations in winamp, can you run these on audacious? The matrix screensaver is doing fine for now, I freakin love this OS | 19:35 |
| holstein | transmission was the torrent application i used | 19:35 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: there are plenty of heavy application for media playback with visualization | 19:36 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: i would look at one of the big ones... rhythymbox or banshee or amarok | 19:36 |
| holstein | i dont install adobe acrobat reader since we have pdf viewers and adobe has been causeing some unecessary sucurity risks with th reader application | 19:37 |
| holstein | i dont use microsoft office, i use either google docs online, or libre office, which is in the repos | 19:37 |
| holstein | i would take it slow, and just ask | 19:38 |
| Ustudio_Somethin | oops did I get kicked or did I accidentally quit | 19:38 |
| holstein | "i want visualizations" | 19:38 |
| Ustudio_Somethin | sorry mods if i did | 19:38 |
| holstein | Ustudio_Somethin: no one kicked you or got kicked | 19:38 |
| Ustudio_Somethin | ok cool im using a webchat atm so no chat history or server window | 19:38 |
| holstein | http://paste.ubuntu.com/1219270/ | 19:39 |
| holstein | ^ history | 19:39 |
| holstein | i would try and just "get your feet wet" | 19:39 |
| Ustudio_Somethin | Im going back to my screen name to make things easier | 19:39 |
| Ustudio_Somethin | :) | 19:39 |
| === Ustudio_Somethin is now known as TripleFFF | ||
| holstein | think about how long you used windows before you started using winamp, or even knew what a visualization was | 19:39 |
| holstein | i mean, i could be doing the same.. showing up with windows asking about apt-get and repositories | 19:40 |
| holstein | these are different operating systems, and i urge you to take a more open-minded computer science approach like "how can i accomplishe this task" rather than "how can i exaclty emulate the experience that im used to" | 19:40 |
| TripleFFF | -whoosh for now- I dedicate myself to learning what the heck that means | 19:41 |
| TripleFFF | :) I'd love to! I think I just don't know how to ask, as I don't know the capabilities yet | 19:42 |
| holstein | you say "how do i get visualizations in my media player" | 19:42 |
| holstein | instead of "is there anything like winamp" | 19:42 |
| TripleFFF | and what I think is the only possible way to do something is the most difficult, since its using mostly windows knowledge | 19:42 |
| TripleFFF | ok cool! | 19:43 |
| TripleFFF | I get you, winamp is the best possible thing I could think of | 19:43 |
| holstein | sure, and i just happened to have used winamp | 19:43 |
| holstein | so i know what you are asking.. but we have lots of visualization options | 19:43 |
| holstein | if a person is new to computers, i think its easier just sit down and use linux... its the switching that is challenging | 19:45 |
| TripleFFF | can you recommend any cool linux media players with visualizations that are comparable to something like milkdrop | 19:45 |
| holstein | theres a certain level of functinalitiy that a user expects that has taken years to cultivate, and they want that immediately | 19:46 |
| holstein | TripleFFF: i would try one of the major big ones.. like i mentioned above... rhythymbox.. banshee, amarok | 19:46 |
| holstein | http://linuxrevolution.blogspot.com/2007/11/howto-get-more-visualizations-in.html | 19:47 |
| holstein | http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/09/enable-visualisations-in-banshee-ubuntu | 19:47 |
| holstein | http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Amarok_1.4/User_Guides/ProjectM_HowTo | 19:48 |
| holstein | amarok will pull in a bunch of KDE stuff... though it is quite nice | 19:48 |
| TripleFFF | have you had any experiences with the visualisation control? We use winamp a lot at dance parties for the screens | 19:49 |
| holstein | TripleFFF: i dont do visualizations.. the most if done is disable the automatic ones in rythymbox | 19:50 |
| holstein | there are plenty of nice ones... JACK ones | 19:50 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | Ok I desperately need to know how to format a drive as /root or whatever it is | 19:57 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | my phone locked my sd card as read only and now I cant record to it | 19:57 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | we're in the middle of a jam session | 19:57 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | I need to format it | 19:58 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | drives recognised, but it says error creating trash item | 19:59 |
| Ubuntu_Crash | oops thats where my other login went | 19:59 |
| TripleFFF | test | 20:00 |
| TripleFFF | damn multi desktop voodoo | 20:00 |
| TripleFFF | sorry if theres another way to ask that, umm does anyone know how to zero write an sd card from the terminal as admin? | 20:01 |
| TripleFFF | I tried googling, wikihow said to install gparted Ubuntu but I got htis Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package gparte | 20:05 |
| TripleFFF | oops just read it, sorry for the flood, my eyes arent so good this morning | 20:05 |
| TripleFFF | this resolution is such a pain | 20:08 |
| TripleFFF | ok stil cant format my sd card, cant find disk utility in settings or the blue menu thing, and the resolution makes all the windows too big for the screen | 20:11 |
| holstein | TripleFFF: i would just get a gparted live CD | 20:32 |
| holstein | !sudo | 20:32 |
| ubottu | sudo is a command to run command-line programs with superuser privileges ("root") (also see !cli). Look at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo for more information. For graphical applications see !gksu (GNOME, Xfce), or !kdesudo (KDE). If you're unable to execute commands with sudo see: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/fixsudo | 20:32 |
| holstein | !gksudo | 20:32 |
| ubottu | If you need to run graphical applications as root, use « gksudo », as it will set up the environment more appropriately. Never just use "sudo"! (See http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/graphicalsudo to know why) | 20:32 |
| holstein | i assume you have tried to just set the resolution in arandr | 20:32 |
| holstein | TripleFFF: ^ | 20:32 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | sorry for delay, scrolling and trying | 20:34 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | text is huge | 20:34 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | im getting four words a line at 540 x 480 om a 48 inch haha this sucks\ | 20:35 |
| holstein | yup... i had the same issue on a TV once in windows XP | 20:36 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | uhoh whats an andrar | 20:48 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | I went to settings and display.. | 20:48 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: try arandr | 20:49 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | I dont really know what that is | 20:49 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: you can just open it | 20:50 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: run arandr from the menu | 20:51 |
| holstein | open a terminal and type "arandr" | 20:51 |
| len-dt | I don't think that will help... you need to use a really small default font. This is still not a guarantee as some programs will set their own font size. With TV resolutions you are looking below what _everything_ is designed for anymore. That is smaller than plain old VGA after all. | 20:51 |
| holstein | hit alt+f2 and type "arandr" | 20:51 |
| holstein | yup.. i dont think it will work.. and i assumed you had already tried it | 20:51 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | :) sorry google gave me a total blank | 20:51 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | its not doin anything | 20:52 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | its got a red circle with a line next to it | 20:52 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | :S | 20:52 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: it? | 20:52 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | hit alt f2 typed in andrar and nothin happened | 20:53 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | blast I think im gonna have to strip this system back | 20:54 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: arandr | 20:55 |
| holstein | its also in the muneu | 20:55 |
| holstein | menu* | 20:55 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | ahhh damn | 20:55 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | ok i checked all the options and im still only getting 640 res max | 20:57 |
| len-dt | makes sense that is the limit the TV gives you. | 20:58 |
| holstein | len-dt: Ubuntu_Issues says the TV gave him higher before an upgrade | 20:59 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | way higher | 20:59 |
| len-dt | Maybe it didn't know what it was feeding before... | 20:59 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | maybe my graphics drivers are gone | 20:59 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | the onboard one is a nvidia | 21:00 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: the graphics drivers are in the kernel... i would open a package manager and remove the latest kernel upgrade, effectively booting the last known good kernel | 21:00 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | :) thx len no worries this is a pretty long chat history | 21:00 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: or, check the xorg.conf that the nividia drive put in place likely | 21:00 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | the problem is, as soon as it restarts, it shows the (motherboard?) graphic and dos options, I tap shift the whole way anyway | 21:02 |
| len-dt | In settings->settings manager-> Appearance->Fonts there is a DPI setting that may help too. | 21:02 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: you can remove the upgraded kernel from where you are now | 21:03 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: you can view the xorg.conf from where you are now | 21:03 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | can I do it without the boot screen? | 21:03 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: you can do it from where you are right now. the desktop.. as is.. all blown up | 21:04 |
| len-dt | Also, I find that Settings->settings manager->Display does some things a bit better than A/x RanadR | 21:04 |
| holstein | right now | 21:04 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | As soon as anything boots, the display screws up | 21:04 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | im guessing its trying to run an invalid resolution, and then it times out and defaults to.. THISS | 21:04 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: with the display "screwed up" you can view the xorg.conf, or remove the last kernel | 21:04 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: you can use the tab-click to move the window around | 21:05 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | youre a lifesaver | 21:05 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | both of you | 21:05 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | got the dpi down to 80 and I can finally see the bottom of the screens | 21:06 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | workable workaround :P Im gonna live with it! Thanks heaps roomies! I need a drink haha | 21:07 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: you can hod the tab key, click and drag *any* window around | 21:08 |
| holstein | hold* | 21:08 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | at the old dpi the display window wouldnt move and its not resizable vertically | 21:09 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: you can hold the tab key, and click and drag them around | 21:09 |
| holstein | Ubuntu_Issues: you wont need to resize, you can just drag them around and get to what you need to get to | 21:10 |
| holstein | holding down tha tab key, and hovering the mouse over *any* part of a window, then holding down the main left mouse button and draging them around with the mouse... with the tab and the moust button held down | 21:11 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | it was hitting the top of the screen it was ridiculous | 21:11 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | custom dpi was at 140 because I had it at 1080 | 21:12 |
| holstein | it? | 21:12 |
| holstein | you can drag it past the top of the screen | 21:12 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | how do you do a blush emoticon on IRC.... | 21:13 |
| Ubuntu_Issues | cheers for the tips, im gonna live with it for now :P suns coming up so im gonna get drunk and probably head to beach | 21:15 |
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| FloatingGoat | hey how do i install the realtime kernel in 12.04 | 23:12 |
| FloatingGoat | ? | 23:12 |
| len-dt | Are you sure you need it? Normally lowlatency is enough. | 23:13 |
| FloatingGoat | well jack is lagging | 23:13 |
| len-dt | Meaning? | 23:14 |
| FloatingGoat | idk | 23:16 |
| FloatingGoat | like | 23:16 |
| FloatingGoat | if i play guiatar pluck a string | 23:16 |
| FloatingGoat | when its ran through jack | 23:16 |
| FloatingGoat | the sound output is just a hair off | 23:16 |
| FloatingGoat | but its easy to notice when playing guitar/singing | 23:16 |
| len-dt | Using guitarix or something? | 23:17 |
| FloatingGoat | well rakarak | 23:17 |
| FloatingGoat | but also using jack rack with vocals seems to lag a little too | 23:17 |
| len-dt | So you are using it as a live filter or for recording? | 23:18 |
| FloatingGoat | sorta yeah | 23:18 |
| FloatingGoat | but just to get a rough idea | 23:19 |
| len-dt | For live work, jack needs to be set with frames/period to max 128, 64 or less is better. | 23:20 |
| len-dt | But if you are recording at the same time 128 is probably as good as you will get. | 23:20 |
| len-dt | It depends on the HW. Mine is older. | 23:21 |
| FloatingGoat | okay im going to try it out | 23:22 |
| FloatingGoat | len-dt: your the best bro, always helpin a brotha out | 23:30 |
| len-dt | It depends on the HW. Mine is older. | 23:37 |
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