[03:23] <waylen> hi- looking for help with touchpad on new lubuntu installation
[03:23] <tsimonq2> !ask
[03:24] <waylen> My touchpad isnt recognised at all.  How do I troubleshoot?
[03:25] <lynorian> can you open a terminal control alt t will open it by default and run ` synclient -l`
[03:26] <waylen> output: Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?
[03:29] <lynorian> yes it really is not getting a driver loaded
[03:30] <lynorian> what version of lubuntu are you useing?
[03:31] <waylen> just upgraded, 16.10 I think it is
[03:31] <lynorian> waylen it worked in 16.04
[03:32] <waylen> no, I had .04 and it didn't work there at first either.  After a ton of searching I found a fix.  Had to reinstall and now I can't find the fix anymore  :-(
[03:33] <lynorian> waylen, ouch
[03:33] <waylen> I know right?
[03:43] <waylen> as best I can tell, this has something to do with my driver being "blacklisted".  Does that make sense to anyone?
[03:45] <lynorian> waylen, that sounds like something you would do manually
[03:49] <waylen> under software & updates I found one unknown device under additional drivers. I checked the option that isn't "do not use" and applied.  I'm going to reboot to see i that does anything for me
[08:04] <user__> hi there. I'm using my keyboard to control my mouse . I use the number 5 key to "click". Is there a button for right click? anybody know?
[08:30] <JohnDoe_71Rus> user__: menu key?
[08:31] <JohnDoe_71Rus> https://i.stack.imgur.com/YfgaL.jpg
[08:52] <user__> JohnDoe_71Rus: I tested it and it does't perform a right click, but it actually brings up the menu to where the cursor (line cursor in editor) is positioned. I'm using sublime text and like when i have my cursor over a variable i can now press the meny key and it will bring up the menu as if i right clicked the variable. So not a 100% right click but very useful when i'm programming. Thanks for that.
[10:23] <Stuff> Hi
[10:25] <Stuff> I don't know if I should download Lubuntu 16.10 or 16.04.1 LTS? Is the LTS one still active?
[10:27] <hateball> Yes, thats the whole point of an LTS
[10:28] <Stuff> Is there a lot of differences from the new one and the LTS one?
[10:28] <leszek> no
[10:31] <Stuff> OK thanks
[11:24] <Lavinho> good morning
[11:25] <Lavinho> how to disable permanently touchpad ?
[11:26] <leszek> Lavinho: creat an autostart entry for the command synclient TouchpadOff=1
[12:56] <dukisa> hey guys, should i update to 16.10 since i have 512 mb ram and pentium 4 processor? will it work better than 15.04 or will it make it worse?
[15:52] <faLUCE> hello. I need to set render setting in GLX options, which utility can I use on lubuntu 16.04 ?
[15:53] <leszek> faLUCE: not sure exactly what you mean. What do you want to do exactly ?
[15:55] <faLUCE> leszek:  On 16.04  the screen flickers often (and stop flickering when I change the current window) with this error:    [drm:intel_cpu_fifo_underrun_irq_handler [i915]] *ERROR* CPU pipe A FIFO underrun
[15:55] <faLUCE> someone suggested me to change that setting
[15:56] <leszek> what setting and where ?
[15:57] <faLUCE> leszek: [16:36] <BluesKaj> faLUCE, try your highest render setting in GLX options,3.1 for example
[15:58] <leszek> faLUCE: this sounds like an option in KDE Plasma but you are asking this question in the Lubuntu channel
[16:00] <faLUCE> leszek: anyway, I have this issue with flickering, and I don't know how to fix it
[16:01] <leszek> which intel generation is that ? which chip exactly ?
[16:02] <faLUCE> leszek: how can I obtain this info? lspci?
[16:02] <leszek> yeah lspci if you don't have inxi installed
[16:03] <leszek> lspci | grep -i vga I would suggest
[16:04] <faLUCE> leszek: http://paste.ubuntu.com/23918814/
[16:07] <leszek> you could actually try removing the free intel driver and see if with modesetting (gallium drm) it works better
[16:08] <leszek> just remove xserver-xorg-video-intel and reboot and see if it works better
[16:08] <faLUCE> leszek: I was using the proprietary driver
[16:08] <leszek> faLUCE: for intel ? There does not exists such a thing
[16:10] <faLUCE> leszek: in fact the strange thing is that the "additional driver" gui shows me "using processor microcode firmware for intel CPUs from intel-microcode (proprietary)"
[16:10] <faLUCE> I unselected it and selected "do not use the device"
[16:10] <leszek> thast has nothing to do with the graphics driver though
[16:11] <faLUCE> leszek: I see.
[16:11] <faLUCE> but what if I remove the intel driver? could I mess things?
[16:11] <leszek> thats like telling me its 14°C when I ask for the time
[16:11] <faLUCE>  leszek, I did not think that. I thought it comprised the video stuff too
[16:11] <leszek> faLUCE: it could mess things up indeed. But if you know how to chroot from a live system to reinstall the driver nothing really hard that can break
[16:12] <leszek> or how to boot in failsafe mode
[16:12] <faLUCE> leszek: I can' mess up things, now
[16:15] <faLUCE> leszek: thanks anyway for your help
[16:16] <leszek> no probs. Btw. there are other options to try out aswell. They require you to create config files. You can mess up there too but in fact if you change anything you can mess up :) But it might fix the issue
[16:17] <leszek> faLUCE: like trying this config in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf (needs root rights to create this file) with contents: https://paste.kde.org/pwiekdpj7
[16:19] <faLUCE> leszek: there's not  /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ dir
[16:20] <leszek> faLUCE: /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d
[16:22] <faLUCE> leszek: let's try. What if, after reboot I can't see anything?  Do I have to enter into console mode and remove the file?
[16:22] <leszek> yeah failsafe mode bootup and removing the file should help then
[16:23] <faLUCE> ok, let's try and reboot
[16:25] <faLUCE> leszek: I booted normally. I don't know if It's using your config
[16:27] <leszek> glxinfo | head -n 50 should show something useful maybe. just use a pastebin service to post the output of that command
[16:30] <faLUCE> glxinfo | head -n 50  | pastebini
[16:31] <faLUCE> sorry:
[16:31] <faLUCE> leszek: http://paste.ubuntu.com/23918944/
[16:32] <faLUCE> leszek: now I have to wait and cross fingers. I'll keep you informed
[16:33] <leszek> I hope that it is working fine :)
[16:34] <faLUCE> leszek: let's hope so, it was a weird bug
[16:34] <faLUCE> leszek: it can happen after hours after boot. I'll keep you informed, anyway, it's a really weird bug
[16:37] <leszek> the intel drivers are really bad for newer cards thats why even ubuntu decided to ditch them in newer versions and just use the generic gallium modesettings driver
[16:38]  * genii slaps i915 around
[16:59] <faLUCE> leszek: so it can happen to windows drivers too?
[17:02] <faLUCE> I think they are lazy for linux support
[17:02] <faLUCE> :-)
[17:09] <leszek> faLUCE: I am not sure if they use the same codebase for windows driver aswell
[17:09] <leszek> in general intel is a bit lazy version 2.9 of their driver now exists as "beta" version for more than a year without actually finally releasing 3.0
[17:10] <leszek> so distros basically need to git pull the changes to the 2.9 version which is a pain in the ass
[17:50] <taiebot> Hi i want to set up midori at my default browser unfortunately all the mime type are still set for firefox how to change this. i tried changing it in "Default applications for LXsession" without success
[17:56] <taiebot> ok look like i got something .config/mimeapps.list
[17:57] <taiebot> need to login logout to see if it works bye :-)
[17:59] <taiebot> shit did not work
[18:01] <taiebot> if any one go any idea that would be great apart from deleting firefox..
[19:56] <Tiberium> Hi everyone, can I upgrade from Lubuntu 16.04 to Lubuntu 16.10 ?
[19:56] <Tiberium> Without reinstalling it
[19:56] <wxl> sure can Tiberium
[19:56] <Tiberium> wxl, how?
[19:57] <Tiberium> do-release-upgrade shows that I'm running latest version
[19:57] <wxl> Tiberium: ah you need to toggle the switch that says you're on LTS
[19:57] <Tiberium> ah, ok
[19:57] <wxl> i think it's in /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades
[19:57] <wxl> Prompt=normal
[19:58] <Tiberium> yeah
[19:58] <Tiberium> found it myself googling, thank you!
[19:58] <wxl> then you can do do-release-upgrade
[19:58] <wxl> or just run update-manager
[19:58] <Tiberium> wxl, thanks!
[20:00] <Tiberium> just 1.8 gigabytes :)
[20:01] <Tiberium> (but it will be fast to me because I use mirror servers and I get 9mb/sec on them)
[20:01] <wxl> nice
[20:06] <nc__> hey I'm trying to install grub via boot-repair and I can't install boot-repair the repoes aren't being accepted
[20:06] <nc__> from ubuntu
[20:06] <nc__> error: could not resolve "archive.ubuntu.com"
[20:07] <wxl> sounds like a networking issue
[20:07] <wxl> i can ping it just fine
[20:07] <wxl> similarly, their webservice is up and running
[20:08] <nc__> odd it says I have internet connection though
[20:08] <wxl> might be a DNS issue then
[20:08] <wxl> you can always edit /etc/hosts and point it at 91.189.88.162
[20:09] <nc__> wxl: for both localhost and lubuntu?
[20:10] <nc__> change out the default IPs for that one?>
[20:10] <nc__> ?*
[20:10] <wxl> nonono
[20:10] <wxl> leave the 127. lines and everything else
[20:10] <wxl> add a new line that's:
[20:10] <wxl> 91.189.88.162 archive.ubuntu.com
[20:11] <wxl> then any time you call on archive.ubuntu.com, without using DNS or questioning it, it will reach out to 91.etc
[20:11] <nc__> oh ok cool
[20:12] <nc__> now it's working
[20:12] <nc__> thanks
[20:15] <nc__> "network service discovery disabled. Your current network has a .local domain, which is not recommended and incompatible with the Avahi network service discovery. The service has been disabled."
[20:15] <nc__> anyway I can fix that or is that something not to worry about right now?
[20:16] <wxl> don't worry about it
[20:16] <nc__> k
[20:17] <wxl> avahi makes it so that computers in your network can be referred to as hostname.local and it will automagically resolve the IP
[20:17] <nc__> ah ok
[20:17] <wxl> very useful if you have other computers in the network that you need to communicate with
[20:17] <wxl> we disabled it at work because it tends to be very chatty, network-wise, but man, do i miss it.
[20:23] <taiebot> no one for my problem?
[20:53] <taiebot> Oups solved my problem did not realised that pidgin was set to open with firefox as default browser by changing it to default midori works.
[20:59] <taiebot> From my afternoon test midori should be considered as an alternative browser. Firefox has really become slow on my PC with latest releases. Midori uses 311Mb ram with 6 tabs open with one tab open firefox uses as much. Midori uses as well far less CPU from my old aging graphic card.
[21:02] <nc__> fixed it
[21:02] <nc__> yay