[08:00] <mar77i> hello world
[08:02] <mar77i> what is jockey-gtk and why does it break?
[08:08] <highvoltage> mar77i: it detects newly installed hardware and detects whether you need any additional drivers for existing hardware
[08:08] <highvoltage> mar77i: what does it do? do you get an error message? those are usually safe to silence (I think there's a button that says "don't warn me again about this error" or something like that)
[08:09] <mar77i> yup. although the UI "this program has crashed and we want you to send an error report" wasn't too helpful. I'll try logging in again in a minute
[08:12] <mar77i> this being a laptop of average age surprised me that wlan didn't just work, although I guess it can be toggled through an fn key
[08:17] <mar77i> negative. Let's first set up wlan, so I can make the rest work a bit more comfortably. Networkmanager shows grayed out wireless connection / scan entries which can be configured but not activated.
[08:18] <mar77i> ip link shows a device wlan0 which is down. networkmanager seemed not to be managing that device though.
[08:21] <mar77i> erk
[08:38] <mar77i> still no wlan. tried setting it up with iwconfig, which leads to a message "SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported."
[08:44] <mar77i> okay. found the hardware button
[08:45] <mar77i> ...no updates? I hate the people I have to work with
[08:48] <mar77i> (obviously that doesn't mean it got updated recently but that support has been cancelled and )
[09:30] <mar77i> okay. now... I haven't got the jockey error message any more, but I have no idea how I could make this laptop's dvi output work.
[09:32] <mar77i> xrandr is showing vga-0, dvi-i-0, tv-9 and dvi-i-1 as disconnected and an lvds-0 as connected... hmm, the release is "precise", the laptop is a maxdata thingy which doesn't look very promising
[11:39] <mar77i> how can I boot to rescue mode?
[11:39] <mar77i> there seems to be no grub menu or something