[08:48] <diplo> Morning all
[08:48] <zmoylan-pi> o/
[08:51] <SuperMatt> Morning all
[08:54] <SuperMatt> So, with the rising tide of ridiculousness in politics, I want to volunteer my techy skills with some grassroots campaigns. Anyone know of any?
[08:57] <zmoylan-pi> you could give classes on how to keep your communications safe to various groups
[08:59] <SuperMatt> That's not a bad idea
[09:07] <davmor2> Morning all
[09:10] <zmoylan-pi> even regular presentations on malware, phishing attempts and latest insecurities might help
[09:20] <popey> SuperMatt: perhaps get in touch with the mySociety people. They do good things. https://www.mysociety.org/
[09:20] <popey> e.g. they run https://www.writetothem.com/
[09:20] <SuperMatt> ah right, that's cool
[09:20] <SuperMatt> I just remembered the EFF exists too
[09:20] <SuperMatt> and ORG
[09:22] <popey> ORG deffo needs help
[09:22] <SuperMatt> Yeah, I just looked at their meetup page, and the only event they have planned is a trip to the science museum
[09:49] <brobostigon> morning boys and girls.
[10:05] <SuperMatt> morning
[10:06] <brobostigon> morning
[10:20] <JamesTait> Good morning all! Happy Tuesday, and happy Inspire Your Heart With Art Day! 😃 🖌
[10:27] <davmor2> JamesTait: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmY4fNaXXgc easy
[19:44] <Azelphur> having a fun issue on Ubuntu 16.10, turn machine on, it boots, I can see the wallpaper, screen flickers on for about 500ms, before turning off for around 3 seconds, then repeating. Checked xorg and lightdm logs but nothing is going on in them. any ideas?
[20:00] <davmor2> Azelphur: what's the graphics stack?
[20:04] <Azelphur> davmor2: just a radeon r9 390 on the open source drivers
[20:05] <davmor2> Azelphur: hmm not sure then sorry, only thing I can think of is to maybe have a look in systemctl rather than the logs if you can
[20:06] <Azelphur> I was looking in systemctl for lightdm
[20:06] <Azelphur> Can you look at systemctl for X?
[20:07] <davmor2> Azelphur: more general issues than specifically for x but I think it will tell you if x crash, other thing would be to check /var/crash
[20:11] <Azelphur> davmor2: empty directory :(
[20:13] <Azelphur> davmor2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsV8Z-qe0EY for reference, flickering starts after it boots at 50 seconds-ish
[20:18] <popey> Azelphur: did you say it logs in then you see the flicker?
[20:18] <popey> or crapping out at login screen?
[20:18] <Azelphur> nah, it's crapping out at the login screen
[20:18] <Azelphur> although I can't remember if I set it to automatically login
[20:20] <popey> Yeah, I'd be inclined to look in the usual /var/log places
[20:20] <popey> but also if you have autologin, look in ~/.xsession-errors.log (I think it's called)
[20:28] <Azelphur> popey: that unity-settings-daemon stuff looks dodgy, https://dpaste.de/vB0k
[20:32] <popey> Azelphur: there's an askubuntu question about resetting unity somewhere
[20:32] <popey> might be worth doing
[20:32] <popey> just puts all the compiz nonsense back to default
[20:33] <popey> http://askubuntu.com/questions/17610/how-do-i-reset-my-unity-configuration
[20:33] <popey> part way down
[20:33] <Azelphur> oO, found a problem
[20:33] <Azelphur>  [drm:radeon_dp_link_train [radeon]] *ERROR* channel eq failed: 5 tries
[20:33] <Azelphur> getting that being spammed like mad in journalctl -xef
[20:34] <popey> ooh
[20:34] <popey> no idea about ATI/AMD, sory
[20:34] <popey> *sorry
[20:34] <Azelphur> There's a PPA for newer kernels right? might try bumping onto that
[20:34] <popey> yeah
[20:34] <popey> !mainline
[21:12] <SebthreeBQM10HD>  
[21:20] <daftykins> AMD and 16.04+ still seems to be a nightmare atm :)