| mario_ | hello | 02:16 |
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| mario_ | I installed Lubuntu to a friends PC, but then he sell it to me and I want to know if it is possible to change the name of the system and user | 02:17 |
| cdoublejj | well if al else fails you can reinstall with a different name | 02:18 |
| wxl | hostname: issue "hostname <desired hostname>" in terminal and restart | 02:18 |
| wxl | well actually | 02:18 |
| wxl | you may not have to restart | 02:18 |
| wxl | you can check it with just "hostname" | 02:18 |
| wxl | if it hasn't taken effect, restart | 02:18 |
| mario_ | wxl, Ok, so, open a terminal and type: hostname newhostname | 02:19 |
| wxl | yep | 02:20 |
| wxl | may have to sudo it | 02:20 |
| wxl | then for the user: | 02:20 |
| wxl | usermod -l <new name> -d /home/<newname> -m <old name> && groupmod -n <newgroup> <oldgroup> | 02:21 |
| mario_ | ... | 02:24 |
| Unit193 | Wow. Also have to edit /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts | 02:25 |
| wxl | shouldn't | 02:26 |
| wxl | afaik hostname edits both | 02:27 |
| wxl | typically on reboot | 02:27 |
| wxl | i did this once a long time ago and don't remember the details but it was totally painless | 02:27 |
| Unit193 | Ah, I may have edited the files to be safe, don't know. Could test in a vm. | 02:28 |
| wxl | overkill ftw | 02:28 |
| Unit193 | http://dc379.4shared.com/download/ZmlWNWAe/tsid20121003-023124-a9e0c16e/Overkill.jpg wxl | 02:31 |
| wxl | hah | 02:32 |
| wxl | Unit193: can i ask you to move this discussion to #lubuntu-offtopic? | 02:32 |
| wxl | ;) | 02:32 |
| * wxl prepares for the kick | 02:32 | |
| Unit193 | Yep, thought about that, wrong channel and all. | 02:32 |
| wxl | doh, i need some aloe vera | 02:32 |
| wxl | cuz that's a burn | 02:32 |
| tweakster | using the Lubuntu Alternate _ISO worked out very well for me, especially in light of the fact that I could not get Lubuntu installed with the regular ISO. But even more than that, the options presented during installation using the Alternate_ISO were clearer and better suited to my conditions. For one thing, it allowed using LUKS whole disk encryption and LVM. That did not appear as an option for me, not that I could see an | 06:05 |
| tweakster | Using the Ubiquity GUI was preventing my installation due to RAM constraints. This approach got past the problem. | 06:08 |
| cdoublejj | well it seems i may have to wait a good while before i find help, if any about gfx drivers. | 07:28 |
| cdoublejj | how do i know in lubuntu that that the nvidia drivers it wants to install are the correct drivers? | 09:59 |
| cdoublejj | made a thread, might take me another 10 hours or so before i get any if any responses but, at the least i am making progress | 10:06 |
| cdoublejj | if i don't get any more out side help i do have plan | 10:06 |
| cdoublejj | i'll reinstall with no internet again and make double sure it runs fine with out drivers, i'll even install updates. i might even take the extra step to leanr how to save boot and check logs before the next step, reinstalling the drivers to make double sure they cause the lock up | 10:08 |
| cdoublejj | i'll probably save my bio settings some where and set those to defaults if need be. for now i might try and go lay down fora bit. | 10:08 |
| donny | Salve vorrei sapere quale sistema per iniziare con un vecchio hp pavilion ze4500. grazie | 13:07 |
| donny | quale sistema operativo tra i tanti mi consigliereste ? | 13:08 |
| donny | pc hp pavilion ze4500 | 13:10 |
| starkers | <english :( | 13:10 |
| donny | sistem linux for hp pavilion ? | 13:10 |
| starkers | ahh | 13:10 |
| starkers | 64-bit | 13:11 |
| donny | 32 | 13:11 |
| starkers | scusate ho sbagliato | 13:13 |
| donny | ok | 13:13 |
| starkers | installare la versione a 32 bit: http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/precise/release/lubuntu-12.04-desktop-i386.iso | 13:13 |
| donny | merci | 13:14 |
| starkers | buona fortuna, buon divertimento | 13:14 |
| donny | ;-) :-) | 13:15 |
| nannes | woooah | 14:45 |
| nannes | Lubuntu channel | 14:45 |
| nannes | didn't know it existed | 14:45 |
| silverarrow | hi | 17:10 |
| silverarrow | is anyone clever with alsamixer trouble on fresh intsall? | 17:10 |
| silverarrow | hi | 17:12 |
| silverarrow | hi | 17:15 |
| nannes | silverarrow: what kind of trouble? | 17:20 |
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| calmarcus | I have been trying to connect my Toshiba portege m200 laptop to my projector, and have succeed in connecting then. Though now I disconnect my projector and reboot my computer it causes tan screen with backward lettering on it, and the computer will not boot past that. | 17:51 |
| holstein | calmarcus: no need to leave it hooked up.. i ould just boot, make sure both the ports are useable from the bios, and plug and configure after boot | 17:52 |
| holstein | s/ould/would | 17:52 |
| calmarcus | but my computer does not work right if I disconnect them, and how do I make sure my ports are usable from the bios | 17:54 |
| holstein | calmarcus: i would look in the bios.. under whatever graphics settings there are | 17:55 |
| holstein | calmarcus: can you get to tty? | 17:56 |
| holstein | !tty | 17:56 |
| ubottu | To get to the TTY terminals 1-6, use the keystroke ctrl + alt + F1-F6 respectively (Alt+F7 will get you back to your graphical login). To change the resolution for your TTY, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ChangeTTYResolution. | 17:56 |
| calmarcus | would that also explain the tan screen and backwards letters | 18:01 |
| holstein | calmarcus: tty will just get you to a terminal.. its a troubleshooting step more than an explanation | 18:02 |
| calmarcus | sorry yes I can get to tty | 18:02 |
| holstein | calmarcus: what happens when you get back? how did you enable the dual head? do you have an xorg.conf file? | 18:03 |
| calmarcus | All that happens is I go from tty to the graphical desktop. I enabled the duel head by typing in the lxterminal "nvidia-settings" and then changing the computer screen and the projector to dual head? I am not sure if I have the xorg.conf file | 18:08 |
| holstein | calmarcus: i would check the xorg.conf... i would have just use arandr.. i would say something is borked in your xorg.conf.. | 18:09 |
| calmarcus | where do I find my xorg.conf file . | 18:10 |
| starkers | ls -l /etc/X11/xorg.conf* | 18:11 |
| starkers | ...if you don't know where your xorg.conf is the question holstein asked before still stands "how did you enable dual head?" | 18:12 |
| holstein | yeah.. i would say, thats what has borked your display.. theres a recover console at boot. but what i typically do is boot knoppix, grab that xorg after all is looking "good" and specify whatever in there like driver | 18:13 |
| starkers | also there are a few tools to to configure it, I find grandr is the most "new user" friendly however I've never used it on intel | 18:14 |
| starkers | hangon.. nvidia-settings? I thought the m200 was an intel video card | 18:15 |
| holstein | starkers: me too... | 18:15 |
| holstein | "I enabled the duel head by typing in the lxterminal "nvidia-settings" and then changing the computer screen and the projector to dual head | 18:15 |
| holstein | ^^ from above... | 18:15 |
| redderhs | How do I set lxpanelctl's font color when set to "solid color with opacity? http://i.imgur.com/J4H2V.jpg | 18:16 |
| starkers | actually after a quick google I've found these m200's can have intel and others have nvidia (so much for "model numbers") | 18:18 |
| calmarcus | I typed in lxterminal nvidia-settings and changed the moniter and projecter to dual head, but I cannot change the settings back to default because I get the message "you do not appear to be using the X nvidia driver. Please edit your x configuration file (just run nvidia-xconfig as root), and restart the X service | 18:19 |
| starkers | is it definately nvidia? "lspci | grep VGA" | 18:19 |
| holstein | i would just be looking at the xorg.conf.. thats what nvidea config will be doing | 18:20 |
| starkers | ye nvidia-settings will have modified that (look at timestamps on xorg.conf* ) | 18:20 |
| starkers | ...although I might be wrong but be on the lookout for an xorg.conf in your home directory | 18:21 |
| calmarcus | it is nvidia geforce fx Go5200 32m/64m | 18:21 |
| starkers | good to know | 18:22 |
| holstein | yeah.. there should be a backup there somewhere.. you can just move the xorg and try others.. i would just back it up and be relatively careful | 18:22 |
| starkers | man I want a laptop with nvidia :-( | 18:22 |
| calmarcus | # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig | 18:23 |
| calmarcus | # nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder63) Thu May 31 12:36:44 PDT 2012 | 18:23 |
| calmarcus | # nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings | 18:23 |
| calmarcus | # nvidia-settings: version 295.33 (buildd@zirconium) Fri Mar 30 13:43:34 UTC 2012 | 18:23 |
| holstein | calmarcus: i wouldnt get excited til you boot into X.. is it working? did you generate a new one? did you look in the file manaually? are there backups? | 18:24 |
| * starkers heads home | 18:24 | |
| redderhs | Believe I found my answer here: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXPanel "fontcolor=#ffffff # color of text on the panel (Currently this is only supported by clock applet)" If anyone knows differently feel free to mention when you are free but just wanted to say thanks again for always being so helpful. | 18:24 |
| starkers | gl calmarcus | 18:24 |
| holstein | redderhs: i use tint2 | 18:25 |
| starkers | redderhs: I don't use lx sry I can't help, but yes, tint2 = win | 18:25 |
| calmarcus | yes there is a backup, but how do I generate a new one? | 18:27 |
| holstein | calmarcus: there is a recovery console.. at boot.. in the kernel list.. might have to tap shift to see it | 18:27 |
| holstein | !xorg | 18:27 |
| ubottu | The X Window system is the part of your system that's responsible for graphical output. To restart X, type 'sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm' on an ubuntu system. replace with kdm on Kubuntu. To fix screen resolution or other X problems: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Resolution . Also see !xorgconf | 18:27 |
| holstein | !xorgconf | 18:27 |
| ubottu | The /etc/X11/xorg.conf file is deprecated, but sometimes may still be needed to pass values to specific drivers. Generic xorg.conf generation: http://ubottu.com/y/xorgconf - ATI/AMD ( fglrx driver ) specific: http://ubottu.com/y/atiamd - NVidia ( nvidia driver )specific: http://ubottu.com/y/nvidia man xorg.conf for file structure and syntax. | 18:27 |
| holstein | calmarcus: all your troubles are in that xorg.conf file.. im 90+% sure of it | 18:28 |
| calmarcus | Usage: /etc/init.d/lightdm COMMAND | 18:28 |
| holstein | calmarcus: i would just open it, and look at it.. phyically take a look at the text... see what enteries are there | 18:28 |
| holstein | calmarcus: im not sure where you are going with lightdm.. i could be wrong | 18:29 |
| calmarcus | yes I see the entries but how do know which ones are incorrect | 18:29 |
| holstein | calmarcus: i would try specifying the vesa driver.. i would consider purging the nvidia driver and reinstalling.. i would try copying a known good xorg from a live instance such as knoppix and specifiy the nv driver.. iwould try a backup | 18:30 |
| holstein | calmarcus: purge the nvidia driver... remove the xorg.conf, and you should be back to square one... then you can reinstall the driver when you get x going | 18:31 |
| calmarcus | okay I will purge the nvidia driver | 18:31 |
| holstein | calmarcus: you might also need to manually remove the xorg.conf.... you can rename it or whatever | 18:32 |
| calmarcus | I cannot edit or rename the xorg.conf file. I get the message permission denied | 18:33 |
| holstein | !sudo | 18:34 |
| 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 | 18:34 |
| holstein | sudo rm /path/to/file... sudo mv /path/to/old path/to/new | 18:34 |
| calmarcus | I have reinstalled the nvidia driver and now I need to leave so i can reboot the computer. | 18:40 |
| calmarcus | thanks now all it works fine. | 18:44 |
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| cdoublejj | is there a way to find what is causing the nivida drivers to lock up the system, or find out in general whats causing the lock up | 19:18 |
| wxl | cdoublejj: you can look through dmesg and/or Xorg.0.log | 19:18 |
| wxl | the answer isn't always obvious tho | 19:18 |
| cdoublejj | can i do that through some sort of safe mode? | 19:19 |
| cdoublejj | i have a thread | 19:19 |
| cdoublejj | http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12274459#post12274459 | 19:19 |
| wxl | you may be able to get to a tty depending on the nature of the apparent freeze | 19:20 |
| wxl | if not you can always use recovery mode | 19:20 |
| wxl | let's try | 19:20 |
| wxl | !recovery | 19:21 |
| ubottu | To rescue a broken system, boot the alternate install CD and select "Rescue a broken system" | 19:21 |
| wxl | :/ | 19:21 |
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| silverarrow | nannes, i have no alsamixer in terminal, and no adudio icon on taskbar | 19:51 |
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