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daftykins!info linux-generic00:48
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daftykins!info linux-generic yakkety00:48
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R13oseBashing-om: I am here01:38
daftykinshi01:38
R13osehi, I was the one with the graphics problem01:39
daftykinsah har01:39
Bashing-omR13ose: K ..  Like I say the btter responses to your grahics's issue will be in the main channel . Here is "discussion" of on-going things .01:39
R13oseSeems everyone is stuck01:40
Bashing-ombetter*01:40
daftykinsi was playing along from home, curious what make + model system it is and whether the live session behaved differently?01:40
daftykins"dmesg | nc termbin.com 9999" on a fresh boot would be handy01:40
R13osewell I don't want to get into the live session01:40
daftykinsthere a particular reason for that?01:41
R13oseI don't want to restart at the moment01:41
R13osehttp://termbin.com/ryat01:41
daftykinsok an acer aspire01:41
Bashing-omdaftykins: R13ose ouch ! Acer with vendor lockin to Windows ??01:42
daftykinsi see v5-572 - but does it have any letters after, R13ose ?01:42
R13oseI deleted Windows01:42
daftykinsmight either be on the hinge of the screen or on a label underneath01:42
daftykinsacer have a G, a P and a PG01:43
R13osedaftykins: I don't think there are any letters01:44
daftykinsok lets see01:44
daftykinsso you're on BIOS 2.09 and their latest is 2.10 which fixes something completely irrelevant01:45
daftykinsi think 16.10 is a bad choice for that machine personally01:46
daftykinsand your options are dwindling01:46
daftykinsdid you boot to 'try' mode before installing? just curious whether it behaved at all before installation01:46
R13osemodel # is zrk01:47
Bashing-omdaftykins: change the DSDT table ? ' sudo strings /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/DSDT | grep -i windows ' to know the options ??01:47
R13osedaftykins: some issue always on KDE.  I don't think this happened when I was using gnome.01:47
daftykinswell you have one of the very problematic families of laptop for Linux, as it goes01:48
daftykinsBashing-om: yeah could be worth a go :)01:48
R13oseshould I try that what Bashing-om said?01:48
daftykinsyes01:49
Bashing-omR13ose: is a shot .. amd maybe not too long of one ^^ .01:49
R13osehttp://pastebin.com/R0jSrW1r01:50
daftykinsBashing-om: i don't recall the rest, 'Windows 2012' it is i guess :)01:52
Bashing-omR13ose: daftykins 2012 .. maybe NOW  a long shot . R13ose, To test you woild have to reboot into grub to alter the setting .01:52
Bashing-omdaftykins: Yeah - "acpi_osi=Windows 2012" on the kernel command line .01:53
R13osewhat does that mean?01:54
daftykins"boot pretending to be this OS and use its' ACPI data"01:54
R13osemeaning?01:55
daftykinshmm a full explanation would take longer than just trying it really :/01:55
daftykinsessentially sometimes Linux doesn't work so well because laptop manufacturers spend more time and effort making Windows power management work properly01:55
daftykinsso the OS lacks the information it could benefit from to run properly01:56
R13oselets try this.01:56
Bashing-omR13ose: ACPI == Advanced Configuration and Power Interface. It provides a way for the PC firmware (UEFI/BIOS) to declare to an Operating System how to control its platform-specific hardware.  ACPI provides several in-firmware 'tables'. One such is the Differentiated Services Description Table (DSDT). This actually contains executable code in a special ACPI 'language' which the OS has to execute. Rather like Java and its Virtual Machine. 01:56
R13osehow do I do this when I restart?01:56
daftykinsyou hold left shift just before the disk is about to be read from in a normal boot - still i think to get GRUB to come up01:57
daftykinsanywho i will let Bashing-om do this bit as i have a date with some food, back shortly :>01:58
Bashing-omhold down Shift to get the GRUB boot menu. highlight the default entry, press 'E' to edit it, navigate to the line starting "linux ..." ... and add to the end the string (including double-quotations) "acpi_osi=Windows 2013"   - then press Ctrl+X or F10hold down Shift to get the GRUB boot menu. highlight the default entry, press 'E' to edit it, navigate to the line starting "linux ..." ... and add to the end the string (including double-q01:58
Bashing-om2013/2012** // we want 2012 .01:59
R13oseBashing-om: okay 2012 but do I need the quotes?02:01
Bashing-omsmoke break .. smokers draw one . // R13ose Yes the quotes are needed . That silly space that Windows uses .02:03
R13osebrb02:03
R13oseback02:09
R13osehow do I make sure everything is correct?02:10
Bashing-omR13ose: Yhat was qyuck .. any the verdict is ?02:10
daftykinsre-run "dmesg | nc termbin.com 9999"02:11
R13oseBashing-om: This doesn't happen all the time so I have to wait.02:11
R13osehttp://termbin.com/98np02:11
daftykinsnot sure if there should've been spaces either side of = as there are there02:12
daftykins"acpi_osi=Windows 2012" vs. "acpi_osi = Windows 2012"02:13
R13osewell let me know what to do and I will restart again and fix if wrong.02:13
daftykinsdid you type it like my first or second?02:14
R13osesecond02:14
daftykinsBashing-om: what do you think?02:14
R13oseBashing-om: wrote "acpi_osi=Windows 2013" so maybe I did this wrong02:15
daftykinsmy instinct says no spaces, mmm02:15
R13osewhich I want to make sure before I restart again02:15
Bashing-omdaftykins: R13ose boot line looks good to me . and "  0.000000] Reserving Intel graphics memory at 0x00000000aba00000-0x00000000af9fffff ' is an encouraging sign .02:15
R13oseBashing-om: meaning?02:16
Bashing-omR13ose: entered on the grub boot line as - "acpi_osi=Windows 2012" - those quotes are needed because of the space between Windows and 2012 .02:18
daftykinsturns out he entered it with spaces either side = though, not sure if that's good02:18
Bashing-omdaftykins: Ouch ,, did not see that of " = " /nope that ain't good . but what is still look'n good " 0.207700] vgaarb: bridge control possible 0000:00:02.0 " .02:22
R13oseDo I have to change this?02:22
R13oseI will do acpi_osi=Windows 2012 now, if both of you think that is good02:23
daftykinsyep :)02:25
R13oseyep as in?02:25
daftykinschange it02:25
R13osebrb02:26
Bashing-omR13ose: Vjange it , daftykins Is this " 2.403692] fbcon: inteldrmfb (fb0) is primary device " saying it is not going to load the Intel driver ??02:27
daftykinsdon't think so02:28
Bashing-omdaftykins: OR is this saying Intel driver is loaded " 3.418684] i915 0000:00:02.0: fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device " ?02:28
daftykinsearlier i did a search through the first dmesg paste for "i915" and "drm" and couldn't find any obvious issues, we might have to see another Xorg.0.log02:29
daftykinsit's definitely a model sold with nvidia configurations, whether it is one or not :)02:30
R13oseback.  http://termbin.com/mj4m02:31
daftykinsyep that looks better02:31
daftykinsbe interesting what Xorg's log says now, i think it's "pastebinit ~/.local/xorg/log/Xorg.0.log" but i can't remember02:32
Bashing-omR13ose: daftykins We have lift off ! " 1.896599] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20160711 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0 " .02:32
daftykins:O02:33
R13osethe text didn't save in the grub02:33
R13osedaftykins: Unable to read from: /home/shawn/.local/xorg/log/Xorg.0.log02:35
daftykinsyeah you'll need to browse into ~/.local and find it, i had the path wrong02:36
daftykinssilly 16.10 changing things i'm used to!02:36
R13osedaftykins: http://paste.ubuntu.com/23395570/  there is also a Xorg.1.log tpp02:38
R13osetoo*02:38
Bashing-omR13ose: I expect that 16.04 still maintains the xorg log ; ' pastebinit /var/log/Xorg.0.log ' should be productive on the cuurent boot.02:39
daftykinsi spy the proper intel driver labels :)02:40
daftykinsfrom line 16002:40
R13oseBashing-om: http://paste.ubuntu.com/23395582/02:41
daftykinsso it looks like that edit has solved it, so you'll need to put it in permanently now so it's used on every boot02:41
daftykinsyeah we're gonna need to see modified times on both those files02:41
Bashing-omyeah .. but we are not booting with osi= on this log file .02:41
daftykinsthe paste ending 82 is outdated i think02:42
daftykinsoh02:42
daftykinsoh dear.02:42
R13oseAs I said there is Xorg.1.log too02:42
daftykinsoh so you didn't pastebin that one? can you?02:42
R13oseI didn't because you said 002:42
R13osedaftykins: http://paste.ubuntu.com/23395585/02:43
R13oseBashing-om: http://paste.ubuntu.com/23395586/02:43
daftykinsyeah i'm still new to 16.10, they've changed all the things i could rely on02:44
R13osewell is 1 better then 002:45
daftykinsit's not about better, it's about appropriate or not02:45
daftykinsand the timestamps on these files are still important, you'd need to check them to see whether they're from the current boot or not02:45
R13oseToday is Oct 28 so I don't think so02:47
daftykinswell i can't see the timestamps on the log files on your disk from here02:47
Bashing-omR13ose: What is the date on ' ls -al /var/log/Xorg.0.log ' ?02:48
R13oseBashing-om: Oct 28 22:29 /var/log/Xorg.0.log02:49
Bashing-omR13ose: And your local time is now about 10:29 PM ?/ Such that file is the current one ??02:52
R13oseBashing-om: yes 24 mins ago02:53
Bashing-omR13ose: K. then that is the current fole ! .. show that one to us . ( booted with the  osi= boot parametr ) .02:54
R13oseBashing-om: I am in that currently02:55
R13oseBashing-om: from line 1, I believe this is the one you are asking for: http://paste.ubuntu.com/23395582/02:56
Bashing-omR13ose: yepper, reading .02:58
R13oseI thought both of you thought this was good02:58
Bashing-omR13ose: Looks good to me EXCEPT ,,, I do not see where the i915 driver is loaded .. daftykins HUH ?03:02
daftykinswell to me, that one goes back to that modeset rubbish instead of seeing the intel driver03:03
daftykinsso i'm quite puzzled03:03
Bashing-omR13ose: Be aware I have limited expreience with the Intel chip set .03:03
R13oseno worries03:04
daftykinsi'm feeling really lost with 16.10's behaviour, too :/03:04
daftykinsyou would always look for the lines with drivername(#): at the start before to indicate which driver is in use03:04
daftykinsfor intel, it should be intel(#):03:05
daftykinsnow it's got modeset(#): in there i am very lost03:05
Bashing-omYeah ,,, I have yet to see 16.10 . I stil have my hands full with 16.04 .03:06
daftykinsLTS \o/03:06
Bashing-omR13ose: show us ' sudo lshw -C display ' . Bet what we have here is that modeset(#) is linked to " Matched modesetting as autoconfigured driver 0" -> LoadModule: "fbdev" . Maybe that here fbdev is Intel 915 (???) .03:10
R13oseBashing-om: http://pastebin.com/quYd4AnT03:11
daftykins"fbdev  is  an  Xorg  driver  for  framebuffer  devices.  This is a non- accelerated driver"03:11
daftykinshrmm03:12
Bashing-omwelp. Maybe trouble shooting graphics is going to get as troublesome as troubleshooting resolve.conf in systemd. That I915 driver got loaded - somewhere/sometime !03:19
daftykins:D03:19
* daftykins nuked resolvconf in the past and hardcoded it03:20
daftykinsbut that's servers :D03:20
Bashing-omAll I know to do at this point is try the DE and see how it performs .. and if stable make the iso= parameter permanent . R13ose That gets a bit trickier //03:22
daftykins*nod*03:24
daftykinsnot much else to try (other than dumping 16.10 because non-LTS is never good)03:25
Bashing-omdaftykins: :) R13ose LTS on a production machine .03:26
R13oseok03:29
R13oseThis was happening in 16.04 too03:32
Bashing-omR13ose: K. Just at a lose presently to know what else to do . or where else to look . Is this 16.10 install from fresh, or as a upgrade from 16.04 ( in that you carried your problems forward ?) ?03:37
R13oseupgrade03:39
Bashing-omR13ose: :( on the upgrade . Seems the problem got carried forward . However, appears It will take greater experience and knowledge than I posses to see where the problem is .03:43
R13osebe back tomorrow my time04:02
R13osethanks for help04:02
Bashing-omR13ose: K .. U am clearing my board . we take this back up tomorrow .04:03
Bashing-om!info aplay05:00
ubot5`Package aplay does not exist in xenial05:00
ducassemorning all06:16
* Bashing-om waves at ducasse in getting ready to pass it on .06:25
* ducasse wishes Bashing-om a good nights sleep06:26
Bashing-omThankee ,, and a good day to you .06:27
* xXEoflaOEXx has 17.04 development branch by upgrading from 16.10 using sudo do-release-upgrade -d06:31
=== JanC_ is now known as JanC
Ben64xXEoflaOEXx: cool?06:54
R13oseHi10:23
BluesKajHi folks13:11
R13oseHi13:13
OerHeksdon't drink & sudo22:59
Bashing-omThat ^ is great advise, did you not, and now there are bad consequences ?23:02

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