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thetejualright guys00:06
thetejuI am giving up00:06
melodietheteju you seem to have lots of00:06
melodietheteju I would like to suggest something to you: have you even used the plop boot manager to try booting to usb on machines which can't?00:06
melodieif the plop boot on CD would work on that machine of your's then you could try as many distros as  you would want from usb, all using just one CD burned and not more00:07
thetejuno I have not00:07
melodieI get the url for you?00:08
thetejuwould be perfect00:08
melodiehttp://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/download.html00:09
melodiethe one version which worked best for me was the00:09
melodiehttp://download.plop.at/files/bootmngr/plpbt-5.0.13.zip00:09
melodiethis one00:09
melodienot even free for commercial use ;)00:09
melodie(it's not free software, but written in assembler, low level language so, and it worked really well on several oldies I had)00:10
melodietheteju the other thing which would have been neat would have been to see the full specs of your machine, as in "sudo lshw -sanitize"00:10
melodieand you could make a file with the output00:10
melodiesudo lshw -sanitize > lshw.txt00:11
melodiethen paste the content of the newly lshw.txt file to http://pastebin.com for example00:11
thetejuMelodie :  Should I burn data cd after extracting that zip file?00:11
melodiethen if let's say, your machine has a hard drive with "ide" instead of recent ones with sata, there is a switch which can be used to boot to it00:12
thetejuMy machine has ide00:12
melodietheteju is there an iso in the zip ? I need to check, it's been a long time00:12
melodieha ha00:12
melodiethen you may want this switch (I seek in my files wait a second)00:12
melodieide.all_generic.ide=100:13
melodiethis is what I sometimes use at the end of the kernel boot line00:13
melodiethe line ends with --00:13
thetejuyes there is an .iso in the zip00:14
melodieit has to be placed just before the final '--'00:14
melodiethen you can burn it00:14
melodieslow burning, so you will get a result which might be better00:14
melodieI could also suppose your machine may have a CD reader which is tired, if you boot from a CD with few data, it will tend to work better00:14
melodiehow much ram does this machine have?00:15
melodieif you use the ide generic switch above sayd: you must be careful to respect the exact way it is presented00:15
theteju1 g00:16
melodieI had pulled it from a list of "save me" options in an Ubuntu00:16
melodie1 GB is way enough for Lubuntu00:16
melodiewhat is the graphic card?00:16
thetejuI dont know that00:16
melodiedo you know where the console is? If so can you check if lswh is installed?00:17
melodielshw lists the hardware00:17
melodiels for list hw for hardware00:17
thetejumelodie,,, i cant get to the system00:17
thetejui am stuck at the log screen Lubuntu,,, this is after fresh install00:17
melodieok, what is the brand and model then?00:17
thetejuaveratec 3200 seriese with AMD athlon processor00:18
melodieaveratec? Never heard of that brand00:18
melodieI look in the web00:18
melodieI think I found info00:19
melodiestay tuned00:19
melodieis that the one? http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=214500:20
thetejuyes00:20
thetejuyou see,,, on installer amazing video display... but does not work after install00:21
melodieso you can't get paste the lightdm login screen? Is that the point?00:22
melodieor you just cannot boot?00:22
melodiecan you reach Grub first?00:22
thetejuI can't get to grub as well,,, trying all the keys,, but it does not get me to grub anymore00:23
thetejuI think the hd is dying?00:23
melodienot sure what is wrong00:23
thetejuMelodie,,:  please dont feel bad,, but i have to go,, been trying since 4 hours,, now.. I will join tomorrow00:24
melodieI try to think of something00:24
melodietheteju tomorrow try to do a dd from the lubuntu iso to a usb stick and boot with the help of the plop boot manager started from CD00:25
melodiethen next, you could try antiX : very light distro based on Mepis and Debian testing, then see how it goes00:25
thetejuok00:26
thetejuperfect00:26
melodietheteju the issue if it comes from the graphics might be00:26
melodiethe driver: your's: S3 Unichrome display00:26
thetejuthis machine used to run lubuntu 12.04 just fine00:26
melodieone of the worst out there00:26
melodietheteju then you might like to try the one I put up, here is the presentation (not an official one):00:27
thetejuoh00:27
melodiehttp://linuxvillage.org/en/2013/11/bento-ubuntu-remix-rc/00:27
melodiethe graphic of your machine needs the driver openchrome00:27
melodieand it might be better in some versions than in others (or less worse let's say)00:28
thetejuok,, will try that too00:28
melodie:)00:28
thetejuis that lightweight?00:28
melodieit is yes00:28
melodieit takes a few components from lxde, but not all of them00:29
melodieyou will read the description, that should talk to you00:29
thetejuok.00:29
thetejuthanks Melodie00:29
thetejuhope I will see you tomorrow00:29
melodietheteju try to let me know how it goes,00:29
melodieone way or the other00:29
melodieif you don't see me, drop a word as a comment, or at the related forum?00:30
thetejuOK00:30
melodietheteju I had done contribs to pclos in the paste also00:30
melodiesame sort of recipe, worked well. :D00:30
melodietheteju the one I put up: there are several isos00:31
melodieI suggest the latest for your machine00:31
melodiewell anyhow if you can succeed in booting to usb... there will be more possibilities00:31
melodieok, good night00:33
thetejuyou too00:34
thetejuthanks much00:34
melodiegood night00:50
danuxguys i am trying to compile a program and keep getting this error on "make" --- /usr/bin/ld: ../pdf/libmaitreya_pdf.a(pdffontmanager.o): undefined reference to symbol 'FcPatternAddInteger'04:08
danuxhow to fix this  please help04:08
holsteindanux: might have to seek support with the program creator04:11
danuxholstein,  okay i will mail him  thanks for the tip04:12
holsteinmaybe its as simple as a dependancy that is needed.. a font or something easy04:12
danuxholstein,   google didnt help at all   only clue was this https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/maitreya/?setlang=en  but even that did not help :((04:17
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nannesHi everybody16:30
melodiehi nannes16:36
nanneshi melodie16:41
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AG4Hi, I've got a celeron D machine that I'm able to install to, but after the reboot, I get the boot flash, and after that a bad screen with many ghost of the login dialog, it won't take the password, I've tried several different displays17:58
AG4 I have not tried the alternate install of 13.10...17:59

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