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malaphusHey all.  Has anyone seen an issue that causes the screen to sort of freeze when opening an app occasionally?  If I close the app it immediately returns to normal, and it doesn't do it every time.00:35
holsteinmalaphus: sure01:48
holsteinmalaphus: when im expecting too much from under-powered hardware.. when, im expecting linux support for something that doenst provide linux support.. when a piece of hardware is failing.. when something is misconfigured..01:49
malaphusnot very helpful heh01:55
malaphusthe hardware isn't underpowered, and it seems to happen completely randomly01:55
holsteinmalaphus: im just saying, i have seen that.. and making alist01:56
malaphusI can have videos running, rendering in blender, and it won't happen at all... or I can have absolutely nothing open, go to run calculator, and it does it01:56
holsteinmalaphus: you should do the same.. does it seem to be only a browser?01:56
holsteinflash?01:56
holsteinanything?01:56
malaphusnah, its mostly small applications like leafpad, calculator01:56
holsteinis it always calculator?01:56
holsteinare you running out of ram? or low on ram? and swapping?01:57
malaphusits calculator and terminal most often, but that may be because every other app I use stays open all the time, so never really has a chance to cause it01:57
holsteinare you using some kind of encyption?01:57
malaphusNo encryption, 8GB or ram and never low01:57
malaphusno swap usage01:57
holsteinid use the vesa driver to remove my graphics driver from the equation01:58
johndowI still can't make lubuntu boot from a live cd, or a bootable usb...04:21
johndowthis is an odd problem.04:21
holsteinjohndow: ill say04:23
holsteinjohndow: i mean, its the basic function of the media04:24
johndowWell.04:25
johndowIt gives the english option, and then when i try 'install lubuntu' or 'try lubuntu before installing'...nothing works..04:25
johndowI could try and record the computer doing this, and showing...04:26
johndowI would love to try to get this work.04:26
holsteinjohndow: record the computer?04:27
holsteinjohndow: try your live media on another machine04:27
holsteinjohndow: try other live media on that machine04:27
johndowholstein, Windows 7 disc works fine.04:28
johndowThe live media works fine on other machines.04:28
holsteinjohndow: windows 7 is not an option04:28
johndowholstein, true.04:28
holsteinjohndow: you were proimsed windows support.. not linux04:28
johndoweh?04:29
holsteinjohndow: you didnt buy a machine that said "enjoy any version of linux you choose, we gurantee it'll work"04:29
johndowya..04:29
johndowIt has Ubuntu 13.10 on it now..04:29
holsteinjohndow: anyways, you can try boot options..04:29
holstein!nomodset04:29
holstein!nomodeset04:29
ubottuA common kernel (boot)parameter is nomodeset, which is needed for some graphic cards that otherwise boot into a black screen or show corrupted splash screen. See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1613132 on how to use this parameter04:29
johndowlet me give that a look04:30
holsteinjohndow: there are other options.. i usually just try them all04:30
johndowI see.04:31
johndowholstein, a genius...04:36
johndowholstein, the nomodeset worked...04:37
johndowthank you very much!04:37
johndowi have been trying this for days..04:37
johndownot sure how i missed this...but i did04:39
johndownot i am wondering when i install this, how i can make it boot like this everytime04:43
johndownot (now)04:43
johndowok i see that in the article how to do that04:54
johndowthanks again04:54
johndowtkae care holstein04:54
Theory``holstein, you still here?05:48
Theory``lubuntu installed and I am currently running it, but now it is stuck on 640x480 resolution, which looks bad....and its the only option I have...will not let me change it05:50
JohnDoe_71Ruslive session was fine with resolution?05:51
Theory``i chose install lubuntu05:51
Theory``using nomodeset05:52
Theory``this is o.s. is responding fast, and I like it..05:52
Theory``just the screen resolution needs to be smaller05:52
JohnDoe_71Russo think you need install driver05:53
Theory``thats probably right05:53
Theory``but i have no idea which driver it needs05:53
JohnDoe_71Rusintel/nvidia/amd/sis ?05:54
Theory``how do i install that/05:54
ianorlinhe was asking which kind of graphics05:54
Theory``to be honest, i have no idea05:55
JohnDoe_71Rusfirsl lspci | grep video05:55
JohnDoe_71Rus*first05:55
JohnDoe_71Rusand see /var/logs/Xorg.0.log05:56
Theory``neither of those told me anything05:57
Theory``Usage: first filename elements min_f f max_f step_f diameter05:58
Theory``       where frequencies are in MHz and diameter is in mm05:58
Theory``'first' is used to define an antenna quickly, according to DL6WU designs.05:58
JohnDoe_71Rustype in terminal "lspci | grep video" without quotes05:59
Theory``ok@ok-NY799AA-ABA-p6243w:~$ lspci | grep video05:59
Theory``ok@ok-NY799AA-ABA-p6243w:~$05:59
Theory``thats what i see05:59
JohnDoe_71Rusok just lspci and pastebin text06:00
Theory``whats the link for pastebin?06:00
JohnDoe_71Rushttp://pastebin.com/06:00
Theory``heh06:00
Theory``that was easy, eh06:01
JohnDoe_71Rusyep )06:01
Theory``im a newbie sorry06:01
Theory``im tryin06:01
Theory``http://pastebin.com/zRCssvzu06:02
JohnDoe_71RusVGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2)06:02
Theory``ok .. ?06:03
JohnDoe_71Rushttps://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia06:04
Theory``oh06:05
Theory``ugh06:05
Theory``ok06:05
Theory``thank you06:07
Theory``is lubuntu better than xubuntu for slower systems?06:08
Theory``lubuntu reaction time is awesome06:08
Theory``ubuntu was so lagged06:08
Theory``i guess this computer just didn't like unity06:08
TheBlindOwlHello guys. i'm on a modified ubuntu distro which is named lxle. i couldnt find the support channel for that distro so i've come here to ask about my issues. after the update my computer become much more slow and also some applications like VLC player stopped working11:11
simpleuserHi there.12:23
simpleuserI just installed lubuntu on an EEEPC 1215N (with additionnal programs, and with a dist-upgrade), but I can’t connect my wifi. It finds all networks, but when I choose mine and put my password, it does nothing. It just says "no network detected" instead of printing the list as before. Any idea ?12:25
simpleuserOther problem, my brightness control does not work. I have the applet telling me I’m changing it, but the screen brightness is still the same. I tried to replace "quiet splash" in GRUB by apci_osi=Linux and acpi_backlight=vendor but no success.13:07
simpleuserAnd actually if I put acpi_backlight=vendor in it, I even can’t have the applet changing.13:10
simpleuserProblem solved for wifi, using nm-applet.13:21
simpleuserIs there a way to remove all lxpanels ?14:02
simpleuser(I’d like to use tint2 instead)14:02
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acpiorwhathow can i format a floppy disk *without*  installing kfloppy?22:21
acpiorwhathow can i format a floppy disk *without*  installing kfloppy?22:30
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acpiorwhatare floppy disks supported by 14.04?22:41
DutchC64hey people anyone awake?22:49
DutchC64I am having a bt of a weird problem here22:50
Unit193acpiorwhat: Should be just fine.22:50
DutchC64I have just put a new harddrive in my laptop, and earlier I could just dualboot by installing windows first then boot a live USB stick and choose INSTALL LUBUNTU ALONGSIDE WINDOWS22:51
DutchC64now when I click the installer, it's not giving me that option22:51
DutchC64it says WIPE DISK or something else and that last option makes me partition my drive....an I don't have a clue on how to partition the drive and install a bootmanager22:52
wxlacpiorwhat: if it works, let me know. despite Unit193's encouragement, my last experience with ubuntu and floppies was not promising.22:52
Unit193wxl: He got it, didn't notice he crossposted to 3 channels (at least.)22:53
wxl…in fact, i ended up using a live bsd. ;)22:53
DutchC64very weird problem....22:56
DutchC64I have about 256GB of none partitioned space and I can't choose to dualboot my laptop?22:57
DutchC64can anyone walk me through partitioning my drive?23:00
DutchC64wtf...it says my drive isn't partitioned23:05
DutchC64but when I boot from harddrive, it boots straight to windows23:05
Unit193If it's new enough, it's UEFI which adds more fun and requires 64bit Lubuntu.23:06
DutchC64well it's a 2008 laptop...so no uefi here..23:23
DutchC64think I found the problem23:24
DutchC64nope...problem still here23:34
ianorlinDutchC64: what is your problem?23:48
DutchC64Well I just got an old laptop, put a 500GB drive in there. and since I spend 99% of my time in lubuntu these days I thought.....why not make a 120GB windows 7 partition and leave the rest unalocated so I can install lubuntu alongside. windows install went fine, all drivers and such were installed.23:49
DutchC64I just made a USB bootable media with lubuntu and clicked the install button, but whatever I do, there is no INSTALL LUBUNTU ALONSIDE WINDOWS option.23:50
DutchC64it's a 2008 laptop with a legacy bios23:50
DutchC64When I pick the SOMETHING ELSE option it says my drive isn't partitioned.....but there is a fully working windows 7 on there23:51
DutchC64the drive is initialized as MBR23:51
DutchC64gonna see what happens if I install windows on the whole disk, resize the partition and from there on try to dualboot23:54
ianorlinmaybe boot to live seession and create and open gparted23:55
DutchC64well gparted says my disk isn't allocated as well23:58

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