| Cigam | hey all again. anyone else know of a way to fix my 24bit to be 32bit? | 00:30 |
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| k_sze | When changing BIOS settings, what difference does the "Plug and Play O/S" option make for ubuntu? Can Xubuntu handle all the PnP hardware correctly (my biggest concern is my nVidia-based PCIx graphics card)? | 01:46 |
| Justakill | why oh why are most games on windows.... | 02:27 |
| drc | $ | 02:28 |
| Unit193 | !steam | 02:28 |
| ubottu | Valve have officially announced that they are developing Steam and are working with !ubuntu during their devlopment, see http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/steamd-penguins/ for further details | 02:28 |
| Justakill | things are changing at the moment which is awesome but why!!! | 02:28 |
| Justakill | yea | 02:28 |
| Justakill | Hows that getting along, anyone a tester for the beta? | 02:30 |
| benTQ7 | Hello, is this thing on? | 03:44 |
| holstein | benTQ7: feel free to check the topic and ask a question of the volunteers here if you need | 03:47 |
| benTQ7 | never used IRC before, but I'm looking for some help with a new xubuntu install | 03:48 |
| benTQ7 | OK, I've just installed xubuntu on my laptop, dual booting with winXP. took a while but got there eventually. installed updates and all seen | 03:55 |
| benTQ7 | oops, ...all seemed ok but now it's all locked up - mouse frozen and I don't know how to proceed, short of hitting the power button. btw I'm new to linux. Is there a ctrl,alt,del equivalent? | 04:00 |
| holstein | sure.. theres control alt delete... but remember in windows, when that doenst work, its similar in windows | 04:02 |
| holstein | benTQ7: you need to decide what you would like to do... i might reinstall if i were at your stage, and just not update | 04:02 |
| holstein | !tty | 04:02 |
| 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 | 04:02 |
| holstein | ^^ you can use that to seee if the system is locked up, or if its just the graphics | 04:03 |
| holstein | you can also tap the shift key, and look in the grub list and boot the last kernel that was working... | 04:04 |
| benTQ7 | I can't get to the terminal or type anything | 04:06 |
| holstein | benTQ7: that will help you determine the issue | 04:12 |
| holstein | benTQ7: if you try tty and cant, that is data... the machine might be frozen | 04:13 |
| benTQ7 | holstein: I somehow found a shutdown dialogue, and rebooted to recovery mode. Tried repair broken packages and I'm now back at recovery menu. any advice? | 04:16 |
| holstein | benTQ7: sure... after it "locks up" use tty as i mentioned above to determine if the machine is still running and its just the graphics that are locked up | 04:24 |
| holstein | benTQ7: OR, just reinstall, and dont upgrade anything | 04:25 |
| benTQ7 | OK rebooted and logged in. mouse froze immediately. I don't understand what you mean by tty. nothing happens if i type it. should i type it in the terminal? how do I get there without a mouse? | 04:40 |
| holstein | !tty | 04:41 |
| 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 | 04:41 |
| holstein | benTQ7: you use the keys above | 04:41 |
| holstein | control and alt and F1.. | 04:41 |
| holstein | if you get a command prompt, the machine is not locked up | 04:41 |
| benTQ7 | holstein: ctrl,alt +F1 gives me a black screen | 04:44 |
| holstein | benTQ7: can you type in it? or no? | 04:47 |
| benTQ7 | No | 04:48 |
| holstein | benTQ7: if you can type in the top, your machine is not locked up | 04:48 |
| holstein | benTQ7: you tried booting an earlier kernel? | 04:49 |
| benTQ7 | holsten: Just pressed the power button and some text popped up... and yes I can type in it. seems it's a terminal. just logged in with it and have a prompt (never seen a terminal before - I said I was new! | 04:56 |
| holstein | benTQ7: you can type 'h' or 'hol' and hit the tab key. that will auto complete my nick | 04:57 |
| holstein | benTQ7: you can use sudo reboot if you need | 04:57 |
| holstein | benTQ7: i would try rebooting using the older kernel.. tapping shift | 04:58 |
| benTQ7 | holstein: older kernel? | 05:01 |
| holstein | benTQ7: if you upgraded the kernel could be something that is breaking functionality | 05:01 |
| holstein | benTQ7: you reboot... tap shift.. you'll see "previous ubuntu kernels" or versions... previous something | 05:02 |
| holstein | benTQ7: second in the list.. then you choose an earlier kernel.. the one that workd.. boot in.. see if that is the issue | 05:02 |
| Unit193 | holstein: Do you know much about configuring kernels? :P | 05:02 |
| holstein | Unit193: its a good thing im not configuring a kernel and just booting an older one :) | 05:03 |
| Unit193 | Hah, alright. | 05:03 |
| holstein | Unit193: i was thinking it would be kernel upgrade broke it or force fsck on reboot | 05:04 |
| Unit193 | (This was actually an unrelated question) | 05:04 |
| holstein | lol.. Unit193, not enough about kernels to be helpful im afraid, whats up? | 05:05 |
| benTQ7 | previous versions gives me 3.2.0-29-generic and same with recovery mode | 05:06 |
| Unit193 | holstein: Heh, just having a little bit of an issue with compiling one, and using another. | 05:06 |
| holstein | benTQ7: i would try the oldest one there | 05:06 |
| holstein | Unit193: i need to get into it.. i'd like to help with the ubuntustudio lowlatency one.. i still havent complied my own | 05:07 |
| benTQ7 | holstein: tried that, just got a static splash screen, no progress | 05:11 |
| holstein | benTQ7: and tty? | 05:12 |
| holstein | benTQ7: tty is a nice troubleshooting step.. plus, you can reboot | 05:12 |
| benTQ7 | holstein: booted previous kernel (3.2.0-29-generic) and same issue - no mouse. tty does nothing. ctrl,alt,F1 gives blank screen. power button brings up terminal log-in dialogue.... | 05:23 |
| holstein | benTQ7: i would consider reinstalling.. you can try fsck | 05:24 |
| holstein | !fsck | 05:24 |
| ubottu | fsck is the FileSystem ChecKer, which runs automatically when you boot if you didn't shutdown cleanly. Type "man fsck" for information on running it manually. The command "sudo touch /forcefsck && sudo shutdown -r now" will force a reboot and a filesystem check; "sudo touch /fastboot" will skip a filesystem check at next reboot | 05:24 |
| xubuntu380 | hi | 05:26 |
| xubuntu380 | I wolu know if somebody has solved the known bug | 05:27 |
| xubuntu380 | about the visualization of two icons for every one partition on desktop | 05:28 |
| xubuntu380 | I "would" | 05:28 |
| holstein | xubuntu380: i know that is being addressed.. iwould just add yourself to the bug | 05:28 |
| xubuntu380 | ok add me | 05:29 |
| xubuntu380 | it's a really mind-break this bug | 05:31 |
| holstein | xubuntu380: you make an account and add yourself to the bug, so you will be able to keep up | 05:31 |
| holstein | xubuntu380: i just disabled one set of them | 05:32 |
| xubuntu380 | ok | 05:32 |
| xubuntu380 | i'll do | 05:33 |
| Unit193 | It's in proposed. | 05:33 |
| benTQ7 | holstein: thanks for your help. gotta sleep now - I'll try again tomorrow. I think you're right that a re-install is the way to go. | 06:05 |
| nikolam | Hi I downloaded 12.04 alternate and used windows-based unetbootin to write it to a 1 Gig flash drive. | 06:09 |
| nikolam | But installation to a 4 gig drive on asus eeepc 701 , divided as 3.5G for Btrfs / and 512MB for swap (there is 512MB RAM) is VERY slow and HD LED lights all the time | 06:10 |
| nikolam | it is doing install straigth 10+ hours now | 06:10 |
| nikolam | I did something wrong / not advised? Is using Btrfs not advised on small cheap SSD found inside eeepc? | 06:11 |
| nikolam | is 3.5G of space too little for Xubuntu and should I download some other image but alternate .iso to burn on usb, etc? | 06:12 |
| nikolam | installing alternate 12.04 on btrfs on eeepc 701 is very slow. I reinstall on ext4. | 09:36 |
| nikolam | i have no idea how to pass -noatime before mounting to speed it up for btrfs. | 09:39 |
| nikolam | but I think I can convet to btrfs post-install | 09:39 |
| nikolam | or stay with ext4 if I forget snapshots | 09:39 |
| nikolam | OH. If I set up Lan network prefernces and network is unavailable, I can not make install , it fails on package selection... | 09:40 |
| GrandCouillon | Hello guys ! did anyone figure out how to make google earth work on 12.10 ? | 10:17 |
| baizon | GrandCouillon: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GoogleEarth | 10:21 |
| GrandCouillon | baizon, Ok but this doesn't point to version 7 of google earth | 10:26 |
| baizon | GrandCouillon: http://www.upubuntu.com/2012/11/install-google-earth-7-in-ubuntu.html | 10:26 |
| GrandCouillon | baizon, yes but this doesn't work (look at the comments, I am not alone) | 10:27 |
| baizon | GrandCouillon: what doesnt work? | 10:28 |
| baizon | do you got an error msg? | 10:28 |
| GrandCouillon | baizon, if you start it the splash screen appears and google earth crashes | 10:29 |
| baizon | with what error msg? | 10:29 |
| GrandCouillon | baizon, version seems ok | 10:29 |
| baizon | GrandCouillon: with what error msg? | 10:31 |
| baizon | do you get the crash | 10:31 |
| GrandCouillon | yes it crashes | 10:31 |
| GrandCouillon | version 6 is ok | 10:31 |
| baizon | GrandCouillon: with what error msg? | 10:32 |
| GrandCouillon | but version 7 doesn't work | 10:32 |
| baizon | i need more input | 10:32 |
| GrandCouillon | Major Version 7 | 10:33 |
| GrandCouillon | Minor Version 0 | 10:33 |
| GrandCouillon | Build Number 0001 | 10:33 |
| GrandCouillon | Build Date Oct 29 2012 | 10:33 |
| GrandCouillon | Build Time 19:13:39 | 10:33 |
| GrandCouillon | OS Type 3 | 10:33 |
| GrandCouillon | OS Major Version 3 | 10:33 |
| GrandCouillon | OS Minor Version 5 | 10:33 |
| GrandCouillon | OS Build Version 0 | 10:33 |
| GrandCouillon | OS Patch Version 0 | 10:33 |
| GrandCouillon | Crash Signal 11 | 10:33 |
| GrandCouillon | Crash Time 1352455347 | 10:33 |
| GrandCouillon | Up Time 0,638647 | 10:33 |
| baizon | GrandCouillon: please use paste.ubuntu.com for that | 10:33 |
| GrandCouillon | Stacktrace from glibc: | 10:33 |
| GrandCouillon | ./libgoogleearth_free.so(+0x1e9cfb)[0xf75e3cfb] | 10:33 |
| GrandCouillon | ./libgoogleearth_free.so(+0x1e9f43)[0xf75e3f43] | 10:33 |
| GrandCouillon | [0xf778e400] | 10:33 |
| GrandCouillon | sorry | 10:33 |
| Yotson | /ignore GrandCouillon | 10:33 |
| Yotson | ff. | 10:33 |
| baizon | GrandCouillon: launch google earth from terminal and watch the output | 10:34 |
| baizon | when it crashes post it on paste.ubuntu.com | 10:34 |
| GrandCouillon | Just a minute, I reinstall it | 10:37 |
| baizon | ok | 10:37 |
| baizon | GrandCouillon: you can try to purge the config file | 10:37 |
| GrandCouillon | baizon, it nearly only says : Google Earth has caught signal 11. | 10:38 |
| GrandCouillon | and points to a crashlog like the one a "stupidly" pasted here | 10:39 |
| baizon | GrandCouillon: check /home/<username>/.googleearth/crashlogs/ | 10:39 |
| baizon | and thats what you have posted here? | 10:40 |
| GrandCouillon | yes | 10:41 |
| GrandCouillon | the problem seems to be present on all 12.10 flavors | 10:41 |
| baizon | well yes | 10:41 |
| baizon | so it has to be fixed from google :) | 10:42 |
| GrandCouillon | I hope so :) | 10:42 |
| GrandCouillon | thanks, have a nice day | 10:43 |
| Justakill | i'm far from the sort of person who engages in trolling, but i get this urge to troll the windows channel every once in while. | 11:35 |
| Justakill | Luckily i don't act on it though. | 11:36 |
| Justakill | Is the're an IRC channel made for venting out on these issues? | 11:36 |
| Yotson | ##vent ? | 11:37 |
| Justakill | ?? thought that might be a ventrilo channel or something | 11:38 |
| Justakill | i will try it out | 11:38 |
| Yotson | :P | 11:39 |
| Justakill | no its empty. | 11:39 |
| Yotson | well, i was there. | 11:39 |
| Yotson | lame joke. nevermind. | 11:39 |
| Justakill | lol np | 11:40 |
| Justakill | i guess the best thing to do is not watch a video with steve ballmer talking | 11:40 |
| Yotson | i'm sure that will help. :) | 11:42 |
| Justakill | How a guy like that ever became a billionaire is proof the're is something wrong with this world. | 11:42 |
| TheSheep | do you know that there is a #xubuntu-offtopic channel that is is excellent for this kind of chat? :) | 11:42 |
| Justakill | thanks TheSheep | 11:42 |
| emanoeljulio | basileiros????? | 12:19 |
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| deebo | been browsing the internets and can't find info on replacing xscreensaver in 12.10, anyone got any tips/links? | 16:14 |
| holstein | deebo: i just removed it and installed another | 16:14 |
| deebo | laptop installation so black screen + lock is fine, xscreensaver is just ugly as hell | 16:14 |
| deebo | holstein: i tried gnome-screensaver, but seems the packaging has changed some since 12.04 or 11.10, the instructions had references to binaries i didnt find | 16:15 |
| holstein | deebo: cool... i would just search 'screensaver' and start trying them.. | 16:15 |
| nelson2 | I've searched for this for a while but can't find an answer: how to you turn off auto arrange for desktop icons in Xubuntu 12.10? thanks | 16:33 |
| holstein | nelson2: read down through all of them.. #6 specificaly http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1800660 | 16:38 |
| holstein | maybe http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=6097 | 16:39 |
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| xubuntu075 | dougpol1 | 16:48 |
| xubuntu075 | Just installed xubuntu and checking out Irc | 16:50 |
| baizon | welcome :) | 16:50 |
| nelson2 | I dont have a log of my previous chat, but thanks to the people that helped me with the desktop icon auto arrange in 12.10! It worked. | 18:03 |
| holstein | nelson2: anytime! | 18:07 |
| xubuntu980 | Hi, I just installed Xubuntu, and am having trouble connecting to the wifi in my house now | 18:36 |
| xubuntu980 | anyboldy able to help? Thanks | 18:36 |
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| xubuntu732 | I have a toshiba satellite A215-S4767 laptop that I just put Xubuntu on. I seems to run just fine, except it will not restart. I can shut it down and then power it up and it comes on fine, but it will not automatically restart. I have updated to the latest BIOS with no change. | 19:22 |
| xubuntu732 | I also have Xubuntu installed on an HP Pavilion laptop with no problems. Any help with the restart issue would be appreciated. Thanks | 19:24 |
| Justakill | What would happen with corrupted memory on a linux system? | 19:39 |
| Justakill | if something went wrong in the connection between memory and cpu? | 19:40 |
| Justakill | i | 19:42 |
| genii-around | Justakill: Almost always you'll end up with a kernel panic and core dump | 20:02 |
| genii-around | Justakill: If you're concerned you may have bad ram, should run memtest on it | 20:02 |
| Justakill | genii-around: does that mean shut down, i did do a memtest i havnt' got anything out of it though did 9 passes didn't register anythin | 20:04 |
| Justakill | genii-around: i actually have a lot of bluescreens on my windows install, just wondering if xubuntu could give me a more understandble explanation compared to windows | 20:05 |
| genii-around | Justakill: If it went 9 passes fine, i'd say your ram is fine. | 20:05 |
| Justakill | genii-around: yea was just wondering what would happen on xubuntu because i've had enough of windows, i use it only for games but at this point i'm willing to give up on gaming | 20:06 |
| genii-around | Justakill: In *buntu the usual symptoms of bad ram when the machine is running will either be kernel panic ( the computer locks up and all three keyboard lights blink on and off ) or an application you are running will crash for no reason. | 20:09 |
| Justakill | genii-around: is the're anyway an OS can specifically detect the problem? | 20:11 |
| genii-around | Justakill: Not usually. If you have ECC ram then maybe, but otherwise not. That's what utilities like memtest are for. | 20:12 |
| Justakill | genii-around: thanks for you're help, feel kinda helpless not sure where to look for the problem... | 20:16 |
| bird_ | do I really need adode flash player to view videos in firefox or is there a non corporate, like open source alternative. | 20:36 |
| adnanh | hmm, maybe lightspark? | 20:39 |
| bird_ | cool thanks. will try. | 20:39 |
| adnanh | bird_, http://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2012/02/lightspark-open-source-alternative-to.html | 20:40 |
| adnanh | that might help | 20:40 |
| deebo | anyone running xmonad with xfce? im having weird problems using mod4mask | 20:42 |
| bird_ | cool thanks for that link. im installing it. | 20:57 |
| adnanh | :) | 21:01 |
| Hibikin | Does the open source ati driver have better or worder hardware acceleration then the fglrx driver? I need to find a way to have vlc or so play a h264 mp4 file capturing x11 with ffmpeg and encoding it, but VLC is eating alot of resources. | 22:41 |
| holstein | Hibikin: i usually try them both.. it can depend on your hardware | 22:42 |
| Hibikin | Well, it's a Q6600 with a ati radeon x1300, unfortunally, when I install fglrx it falls back to a lower resolution and CCC says that there is no driver | 22:43 |
| holstein | Hibikin: i would expect to make a custom xorg.conf.. typically the proprietary ones that come fromt he vendors are "better" | 22:44 |
| Hibikin | Hm, that might be a idea. However, not sure where to start | 22:45 |
| holstein | !ati | 22:46 |
| ubottu | For Ati/NVidia/Matrox video cards, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VideoDriverHowto | 22:46 |
| Hibikin | Ah thanks, let's see how that goes | 22:47 |
| holstein | Hibikin: there are some changes in the "jockey" that usually tells you what is available.. but AFAIK installing them manually will work | 22:47 |
| Hibikin | Well I tried to install the fglrx driver manually, but it didn't had the latest distro so I couldn't do much with --buildpkg | 22:48 |
| adnanh | Hibikin, my mobility worked better with fglrx | 22:53 |
| xubuntu486 | good evening | 22:53 |
| adnanh | and then it got broken with 12.10 | 22:53 |
| Hibikin | Hm, downgrading might be a option as well | 22:54 |
| adnanh | but in 12.04 it worked great | 22:54 |
| Hibikin | Well there are many possibilities to archieve what I want in the end | 22:54 |
| xubuntu486 | This is cool. The xubuntu installer is running right now. Still I'm able to get in here to say hi. | 22:54 |
| adnanh | :-) | 22:54 |
| adnanh | hi to you too :) | 22:54 |
| xubuntu486 | :-) | 22:55 |
| adnanh | and welcome :) | 22:55 |
| xubuntu486 | Thank you. | 22:55 |
| Hibikin | I've got to get this server working perfectly before a live video event as it will handle the streaming to a remote host | 22:55 |
| adnanh | as holstein, try them both and see :) | 22:56 |
| Hibikin | Yup, another way would be to use mpeg2/4 for the playback file | 22:56 |
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