[04:04] <Optical> I have a 2003 Dell Inspiron 2650, with 128Mb of RAM and 20gb hard drive.  I am installing Lubuntu but my PC goes to sleep and stops
[04:05] <Optical> How can I stop my computer from going to sleep? It makes me have to manually restart my computer and restart installation
[04:06] <Optical> I am currently trying nomodeset and at least its made it farther than before.  I cant see anyone having an issue with old hardware though
[04:10] <taserman21> Is it the computer or the OS?
[04:10] <taserman21> Because I know there is an option somewhere.
[04:12] <Optical> its the computer
[04:12] <Optical> I thought it was the OS but I dont have an OS on it atm
[04:13] <taserman21> Wait so what exactly is happening?
[04:13] <Optical> most people just make fun of me for installing it on an old laptop.  thanks for not doing that.
[04:14] <taserman21> Well, I have it on a chromebook, so I take a lot of shade for that too.
[04:14] <Optical> I have to boot Lubuntu from a CD. I slap it in, pick English, and start installing.  I come back about 10 minutes later to a black screen. Fan still running, LEDs still blinking, system still installing.  Eventually the system stops installing, and I am left with a black screen and I cant do anything
[04:15] <ianorlyn> does pressing the keyboard do anything
[04:15] <ianorlyn> could be it turns the screen off
[04:16] <Optical> I looked around for a few hours and tried a few changes using F6 options.  Right now its still installing, without a black screen... but I am constantly pressing keys.
[04:17] <Optical> ianorlyn - its in sleep mode when that happens, it doesnt accept inputs.  been happening for years. hoped installing a new OS would help
[04:18] <taserman21> Well, I guess it's Lubuntu Clickers.
[04:19] <Optical> i didnt even think of running an auto clicker... I was gonna build a thing from legos to click buttons for me...  I design hardware, I suck with software.
[04:20] <taserman21> Well, it shouldn't take that long.
[04:22] <taserman21> But it will be worth it
[04:22] <taserman21> Also this chromebook has an ssd so I wouldn't know
[04:22] <Optical> at 128Mb RAM and 1.4Ghz I just assumed it would take... all night. haha
[04:23] <Optical> how do you like your chromebook?  my friend threw his at a train.
[04:23] <Optical> and thanks for the vote of confidence
[04:24] <taserman21> Wait, what? At a train.
[04:24] <ianorlyn> Optical: are you using alternate?
[04:24] <taserman21> Also most of the transfer rate pertains to the hard disk/ssd
[04:24] <taserman21> but I am sure u r using a hard disk
[04:24] <ianorlyn> as I think desktop runs out of rma with 128 mb
[04:25] <taserman21> Wait I didn't see 128 mb of RAM?
[04:25] <taserman21> This might not work
[04:25] <taserman21> Go out and get yourself $80 worth of 8gb of ram
[04:25] <ianorlyn> yeah I would try alternate otherwise might not work
[04:25] <ianorlyn> taserman21: probalby won't accept that much in that old a motherboard
[04:26] <Optical> yeah its the original hard disk. and yes, a train. he didnt like his chromebook
[04:28] <Optical> its a laptop, I'm not sure how much modification I can do physically.  and its from 2002 so guides are too old to apply anymore.
[04:28] <Optical> I want to convert the laptop into a server dump/ router for a project
[04:28] <taserman21> Well, maybe because he didn't realize it was for internet only unless you used crouton or booted a whole new OS entirely
[04:28] <Optical> ianorlyn : What is alternate?
[04:29] <ianorlyn> a text mode installer that dones't use as much resources
[04:29] <taserman21> A different iso for smaller systems
[04:29] <ianorlyn> although I have found it worked better with virtualbox in the past for soem reason but I almost always use qemu kvm now
[04:29] <taserman21> You might be able to run a kernel and thats it
[04:29] <taserman21> jk
[04:30] <Optical> i just burned it onto a disk and slapped it into my old comp.  trying to replace OS entirely.  whats crouton?
[04:30] <taserman21> Make it a bitcoin miner
[04:30] <Optical> text mode installer makes sense
[04:30] <Optical> haha actually I have an updated kernel running in a virtual machine on this laptop
[04:31] <Optical> basically, the goal is to link my 4 laptops (3 old) together to make a server.  Server is medium between a web ap and the raspberry pis so I can control motors from my phone/laptop/email.
[04:32] <ianorlyn> taserman21: that would be like the worst perfomrance for watt with hardware that old
[04:32] <taserman21> lanorlyn: So your computer
[04:37] <Optical> so... I havent been able to use the mouse for a while now. but the screen isnt black yet.  Not sure if its stuck but the cd drive is still clickin and whirrin
[04:39] <taserman21> Just keep clickin'
[04:47] <Optical> so uh... its just sitting there now. not doing anything.
[04:48] <Optical> cant move the mouse and its quiet.
[04:53] <Optical> some people are saying lubuntu cannot be installed with less than 256Mb of RAM but is that just an opinion?
[15:56] <dzho> that seems awfully thin to me, so I'm guessing it's not just an opinion.
[16:28] <mig_> My connection dropped and came back and now I can access some sites, but not others.. I know a reboot will fix this, but is there another way?
[21:04] <taserman21> Can I have help with Lubuntu.
[21:04] <taserman21> I think I am addicted to it.
[21:04] <taserman21> Help me.
[21:05] <taserman21> It is ruining my life. I want to play games, but now I have broken the chains of Windows. HELP ME!!!
[21:05] <dzho> sounds serious
[21:06] <taserman21> Developers need to support LINUX.
[21:33] <taserman21> What should people who use Lubuntu be called?
[21:33] <Kamilion> people.
[21:33] <Kamilion> humans?
[21:34] <taserman21> lumans?
[21:35] <Kamilion> Oh, and if you want to play games, you don't have very long to wait. SteamOS arrives in november; and a large fraction of Steam games run on linux today, thanks to the efforts of the Unity Engine people spending time getting their runtime working on linux. Unity's just about to release a linux version of their game-editor as well.
[21:36] <taserman21> Steam OS is here
[21:36] <taserman21> I just can't get it cuz im on a Chromebook that I made into a Lubuntu Book
[21:36] <Kamilion> it's available; but they're doing an official launch in november with the controller.
[21:36] <Kamilion> oh, what's the tool they use for chrooting these days?
[21:36] <taserman21> Wait, what is Steam, is it like Origin, or Uplay. No nothing is as good as Uplay.
[21:36] <Kamilion> i thought chromeos tossed X and started talking right to the kernel DRM
[21:37] <Kamilion> ...
[21:37] <Kamilion> origin's terrible.
[21:37] <Kamilion> uplay's even worse.
[21:37] <taserman21> It is called crouton and I stopped using it because I wanted the whole SSD for Lubuntu.
[21:37] <Kamilion> but yes. Those are very poor clones of Valve Software (Half life)'s Steam platform
[21:37] <Kamilion> yeah, crouton. *scribbles note*
[21:37] <taserman21> Yeah I know, I was kidding. Origin is like Steam accept orange and annoying.
[21:38] <Kamilion> Desura's actually pretty good.
[21:38] <taserman21> And Uplay is like a Mental Hospital.
[21:38] <Kamilion> so is gog.com
[21:38] <taserman21> Yeah, I haven't tried gog, but desura only once for an indie game.
[21:38] <Kamilion> there's also http://www.greenmangaming.com/
[21:38] <Kamilion> most indie games support linux if their engine does
[21:39] <Kamilion> I personally run a windows 7 workstation with VMWare workstation 12 'pro', with 3-20 lubuntu VMs running
[21:40] <Kamilion> my windows installation is filled with the same open source software as lubuntu.
[21:40] <Kamilion> really, the only truly propritary software I have is part of my game development pipeline for unity.
[21:40] <taserman21> I had an awesome gaming PC, but then it broke, then I finally got it fixed, and then, *sniffles, I spilled coke on it and brushed it off and it is done for
[21:40] <taserman21> *needs a shoulder to cry on
[21:40] <taserman21> I KILLED HIM!!!
[21:40] <Kamilion> laptop?
[21:40] <taserman21> Desktop
[21:41] <bioterror> !offtopic
[21:41] <Kamilion> Top vent?
[21:41] <Kamilion> yeah, let's take it to #offtopic.
[21:41] <Kamilion> er
[21:41] <bioterror> sorry to ruin your party ;)
[21:41] <Kamilion> #lubuntu-offtopic
[21:41] <Kamilion> well, as long as we chat here, we're just wasting log-space in an HTML file.
[21:42] <taserman21> true
[21:43] <Kamilion> on the up side, most of that conversation did relate to *buntu as a runtime environment.