[07:55] <Loder> Hi there. Is anyone around who could help me with some performance issues/questions in Lubuntu?
[07:58] <Loder> Here is a report of my system specs: http://pastehtml.com/view/cij0kq2im.html
[07:58] <Loder> I'm wondering if I should expect this system to capably run standard definition youtube videos, and to be able to play flash games on Lubuntu 11.10. I am also wondering if upgrading to 12.04 or 12.10 would improve or decrease performance.
[07:59] <Loder> I also have no sound at the moment, and I believe I may be lacking a proper graphics driver. Additional drivers does not list anything, and I'm not familiar enough with this operating system to take it much further without help
[08:00] <redderhs> i'd say yes, you should be able to play sd youtube vids, and play flash games.
[08:01] <redderhs> i don't believe you'd see too much of a performance increase between 12.04 to 12.10 unless a driver update related to your system had been applied..
[08:02] <Loder> I tried Xubuntu 12.04 previously, which ran worse
[08:02] <Loder> And had a lot of graphical issues
[08:03] <redderhs> From my experiences Lubuntu ran better than Xubuntu.
[08:03] <Loder> At the moment, youtube videos are very choppy and facebook games are very difficult to play
[08:03] <Loder> Do you have any ideas on how I might achieve better performance?
[08:04] <Loder> Or how I might perhaps get a better graphics driver? (The way some things are loading visually just seems like a display driver issue based on my experience, but I can't be certain)
[08:04] <redderhs> Which webbrowser are you using? Did you download the Flash Plugin from Adobe's page?
[08:04] <Loder> I checked the box to include third party software, and assumed that that would have downloaded it
[08:04] <Loder> I assume that I have it, since I am able to watch youtube videos
[08:04] <Loder> But maybe not the latest version
[08:05] <redderhs> that should be the same exact build iirc.
[08:05] <redderhs> if there were graphic updates for your card, it would appear as an update for anything else.
[08:06] <redderhs> via update manager
[08:06] <Loder> So there isn't perhaps some sort of legacy driver or something that I would have to manually acquire?
[08:06] <Loder> It just seems like this system is not performing as well as it should
[08:09] <redderhs> I wouldn't know if there were a legacy driver or not; according to your page the module "i915Intel Graphics" was loaded. perhaps someone else may chime in on your issues soon.
[08:09] <Loder> Alright, thanks. Maybe the integrated graphics has been installed correctly then
[08:10] <redderhs> are you most familiar with windows? if so, what resolution did you run under on there and did youtube videos and flash playback fine on there?
[08:11] <Loder> About the resolution, I have lowered it a lot now. I had already done that but it seems to be defaulting to the one that's listed on my specs page by default
[08:11] <Loder> And yes, I am a certified A+ professional with a lot of experience with windows
[08:11] <Loder> I'm just brand new to linux basically
[08:11] <redderhs> Ah ok. safe to assume no performance increase with lowering resolution?
[08:11] <Loder> It seems a little better actually
[08:12] <redderhs> how old is this pc? onboard video?
[08:12] <Loder> The resolution was probably about as high as it is now, and in windows this machine was able to run youtube videos
[08:12] <Loder> And facebook games were not great
[08:12] <Loder> Probably about the same, actually
[08:12] <Loder> I was hoping that I would see better performance in a light linux distribution. I'm going to give this machine to a coworker for her nephew to play facebook games on
[08:13] <Loder> And yes, the graphics are onboard
[08:13] <Loder> It's a very old machine
[08:13] <Loder> Bought in 2005 I think
[08:14] <redderhs> i'd imagine that, in terms of what the gpu can do, it should be equal or slightly better on linux
[08:14] <Loder> Yeah, I was hoping for slightly better
[08:14] <redderhs> you should see mostly an increase in the amount of ram free as a big plus.
[08:15] <Loder> I believe facebook games used to run a bit choppy
[08:15] <Loder> I was hoping that the slight choppiness would smooth out in linux
[08:15] <Loder> Yeah, RAM certainly doesn't seem to be an issue
[08:15] <redderhs> the system overall in terms of execution of software should be better too.
[08:15] <Loder> It boots and shuts down much better
[08:15] <Loder> I can open a lot of tabs without issue
[08:16] <Loder> I just wish I could squeeze enough performance out of this machine to accomplish what it's intended for
[08:16] <Loder> Do you have any idea what the bottleneck might be?
[08:16] <Loder> I'm not sure it would be the garbage celeron CPU or the onboard graphics
[08:16] <Loder> if it*
[08:17] <redderhs> let me take a look at the onboard
[08:17] <Loder> K
[08:18] <redderhs> what model number is the pc?
[08:19] <redderhs> nvm i see it in the paste html
[08:19] <redderhs> Dimension-2400
[08:19] <Loder> Yup
[08:20] <Loder> While you're here, is there a way to open a terminal window at the location that's in the foreground of the GUI?
[08:20] <Loder> In order to easily run commands from the required directory without having to cd a whole bunch?
[08:22] <redderhs> pretty sure there's a way to do it, not fully sure.
[08:22] <Loder> K
[08:26] <Loder> Any idea what to do about my sound not working, by the way?
[08:28] <redderhs> its kinda tough to say if its the gpu or cpu
[08:28] <redderhs> this link helped me with sound. http://askubuntu.com/questions/106224/no-sound-after-lubuntu-installation
[08:29] <redderhs> i installed pulseaudio and pavucontrol
[08:29] <redderhs> that allowed me to utilize the taskbars audio tray icon.
[08:29] <Loder> K thanks I'll give that a try
[08:30] <redderhs> np
[08:30] <Loder> Sound did not work in Xubuntu either, for the record
[08:30] <Loder> And in Ubuntu I'll never know, since all I got was a wallpaper after installing.. haha
[08:32] <redderhs> that may have had something to do with Unity and the older onboard video
[08:32] <Loder> Yeah
[08:32] <redderhs> but i'd imagine an error message should have arose
[08:32] <Loder> So for output devices, all I have is dummy output
[08:32] <Loder> Doesn't seem like I have a driver
[08:34] <redderhs> you tried the pulse audio and pavucontrol?
[08:34] <Loder> Yup
[08:34] <Loder> And that's all that's listed in pulse audio
[08:36] <redderhs> shouldn't you be looking under input?
[08:36] <Loder> I believe that would be a microphone
[08:36] <Loder> Nothing there at any rate
[08:37] <redderhs> yeah you're probably right. i'm too tired for this lol.
[08:38] <Loder> Haha
[08:38] <redderhs> i think that link would be very useful for other things to try
[08:38] <Loder> A terminal command to list soundcards says none found
[08:39] <redderhs> hopefully someone else would be more helpful to you than i within some time.
[08:39] <Loder> I feel like this is a driver problem
[08:39] <Loder> The system does not see the audio controller at all
[08:40] <redderhs> did any distribution of linux give you sound before?
[08:40] <redderhs> besides lu and xubuntu
[08:41] <Loder> Only tried Xubuntu 12.04 and Lubuntu 11.10
[08:41] <Loder> Well the first thing that I tried was Ubuntu 12.10
[08:41] <Loder> I did not get any sounds, I suppose maybe I would have heard a logon sound or something
[08:41] <Loder> If it had been working
[08:42] <Loder> Though I only got as far as a wallpaper and a terminal window
[08:43] <redderhs> one other thing to do..
[08:43] <redderhs> is to make sure the sound is enabled in the bios and to maybe match up your onboard sound with this: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Main
[08:43] <Loder> You know, the previous users of this had a dedicated soundcard installed, but I assumed it was only to accommodate their 7.1 system
[08:43] <Loder> But maybe they installed it because the onboard audio failed
[08:44] <Loder> And the BIOS settings are good unfortunately
[08:44] <Loder> I wouldn't have a clue what the name of the onboard sound would be
[08:44] <Loder> But maybe I should postpone the sound thing until I ask them about it tomorrow
[08:44] <Loder> It might just be dead on a hardware level
[08:46] <redderhs> if you find out the model of the mobo, you should be able to find out specific details from there using google by typing in the model # of the mobo
[08:46] <Loder> So in your opinion, would you say that a Core 2 duo system @ ~2.0GHz with 2GB of RAM would be more than capable of running the latest Lubuntu or Xubuntu kernels?
[08:46] <Loder> Capably enough to watch youtube videos and play facebook games with no issues?
[08:47] <redderhs> yes, there should be absolutely no issues with any basic usage
[08:48] <Loder> K
[08:48] <Loder> And woah, I just got some weird graphical glitches
[08:48] <Loder> Black screen for couple seconds, then my IRC tab got separated to a different window
[08:49] <Loder> Had blocks of screen loading all over the place individually
[08:49] <Loder> This is the type of thing that was happening in xubuntu as well
[08:49] <redderhs> no idea if this is related.. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1746497
[08:51] <Loder> Looks like it
[08:51] <redderhs> perhaps you dont have an i915 in this system and this module is getting loaded for some reason.. off guess.
[08:51] <Loder> Seems like I may be SOL with this machine though
[08:51] <Loder> Well, I have another system with almost identical specs kicking around
[08:51] <Loder> Maybe I'll just give that one a shot tomorrow
[08:51] <redderhs> if you can idle maybe hang out and see what someone else thinks.
[08:52] <redderhs> but i need to get some sleep. I wish you luck with your issue.
[08:52] <redderhs> issues*
[08:52] <Loder> Can't idle because I need to plug the regular computer back into this monitor for the morning, or I'm going to have some angry people.. haha
[08:52] <Loder> I will check back tomorrow though
[08:52] <Loder> Thanks for the help
[11:54] <Neverminder> hello all
[11:54] <Neverminder> someone (maybe) can help me with puppy?
[11:54] <Neverminder> im running it live from usb
[11:55] <Neverminder> i want to install it
[11:55] <Neverminder> but when installer starts,
[11:55] <Neverminder> and ask me for image file
[11:55] <Neverminder> i point it to /dev/sdb1 (usb stick)
[11:55] <Neverminder> it cant see it
[11:55] <Neverminder> and wants me to mount again
[12:40] <kingfisher64> is setting up samba shares the same on lubuntu as ubuntu. I'm assuming it is. If so I was planning to follow http://www.unixmen.com/howto-install-and-configure-samba-share-in-ubuntu/ instructions
[14:03] <holstein> kingfisher64: should be the same, exepct for the nautilus parts
[14:37] <adytza23> hello
[14:37] <adytza23> i have a problem
[14:37] <adytza23> my wireless connection on asus eeepc 1015bx keeps conecting and disconecting
[14:37] <adytza23> what should i do?
[14:42] <holstein> adytza23: i blacklisted the open module and installed the other
[14:42] <holstein> !broadcom
[14:42] <holstein> 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
[14:43] <holstein> https://sites.google.com/site/mtrons/howtos/eeepc-1015pn is what i referenced mostly, assuming that is the same wifi hardware
[14:43] <holstein> if not, i would do the same.. try a different driver..
[14:44] <adytza23> my laptop has Atheros AW-NE785H wireless card
[14:45] <adytza23> and it keeps conecting and discoencting
[14:45] <adytza23> :(
[14:45] <holstein> you can always try the windows drivers with ndisgtk
[14:45] <holstein> adytza23: i would test with different access points
[14:47] <holstein> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2035007
[14:47] <holstein> hmmm....
[17:01] <kingfisher64> was following this tut (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1623346&highlight=samba) holstein on lubuntu - win 7 sharing. I basically want to backup my laptop to desktop. Done what was suggested but win 7 isn't picking up lubuntu share and vice versa. Do you have any suggestions? Many thanks
[17:01] <bioterror> sudo apt-get install openssh-server
[17:01] <bioterror> from windows: install winscp and use that to move files
[17:14] <kingfisher64> right bioterror, i'll look into openssh-server. I use http://www.bitvise.com/index client. Quicker than winscp.
[17:16] <kingfisher64> thanks
[17:23] <kingfisher64> bioterror++
[19:05] <Zuperman> hello, i need help
[19:05] <Zuperman> i messed up with xrandr
[19:05] <Zuperman> and suddenly my system fonts become too small
[19:05] <Zuperman> i can vearly read
[19:05] <Zuperman> *bearly
[19:05] <Zuperman> just chrome fonts are ok
[19:06] <Zuperman> terminal, menus
[19:06] <Zuperman> all fonts are 6 px i think
[19:06] <Zuperman> please, save me, i don't want to reinstall
[19:06] <Zuperman> i just installed new system
[19:07] <Zuperman> *barely
[19:07] <Zuperman> lol
[19:13] <Zuperman> anyone?
[19:13] <Unit193> Zuperman: Install arandr or lxrandr and undo whatever you did.
[19:13] <Unit193> Or, open the preferences or system tools then "Display"
[19:13] <Zuperman> yes?
[19:14] <Zuperman> no, general resolution is ok
[19:14] <Zuperman> just fonts are small
[19:56] <Zuperman> hello, i have this output when i try to sudo X -configure
[19:56] <Zuperman> number of detected screens does not match number of detected devices
[19:56] <Zuperman> i have only one monitor... and graphic card
[20:00] <mircea_cj> hi everybody ! i have a question related to lubuntu software manager, is it possible to manage add-ons of installed applications ?
[20:03] <holstein> mircea_cj: just depends... its a software manager, so if the addons come in the repos or added sources or ppas, you'll see them there
[20:03] <holstein> if not, you do it through the specific application
[20:04] <mircea_cj> on ubuntu software manager you have them right there, you can install or delete them, i thought...that lubuntu software manager has that feature
[20:05] <holstein> mircea_cj: you can install the main software manager if you prefer it
[20:06] <mircea_cj> i prefer lubuntu software manager, it doesn't matter at preferences if i change to expert mode, it never saves the configuration
[20:07] <mircea_cj> or anything i change there
[20:12] <mircea_cj> anyway, thanks for the help holstein