| ulysses_ | Goodday mate | 02:21 |
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| brobostigon | morning boys and girls. | 09:00 |
| Seeker` | popey: do you like Mischief Theatre stuff? | 13:17 |
| daftykins | i didn't know my cat, Mischief, was running a theatre! | 17:10 |
| * diddledan watching glittery dancers | 19:03 | |
| diddledan | strictly come dancing. my guilty pleasure. | 19:04 |
| daftykins | shocking :( | 19:04 |
| DisgruntledAnon | Anyone here willing to help a complete noob install Ubuntu? Because I'm totally stuck here. | 20:03 |
| DisgruntledAnon | I've been trying to get this sorted out for some time today, but it seems that Ubuntu won't do anything for me. I open my boot menu, choose my USB, and then pick either run or install Ubuntu; but as soon as I pick one of those, the screen goes black, a green and blue stripe appears, and then a bunch of random white lines on a black background clutter up the screen. | 20:03 |
| daftykins | what is this, a desktop or laptop? | 20:19 |
| daftykins | DisgruntledAnon: are you already asking in another place... | 20:21 |
| DisgruntledAnon | sorry daftykins, I have been downloading the ubuntu server for the last 20 minutes while doing other things | 20:45 |
| DisgruntledAnon | That's the only advice I've gotten in regards to ubuntu having that problem -- it's on desktop btw | 20:46 |
| daftykins | hah | 20:50 |
| daftykins | DisgruntledAnon: advice from where? is it 17.10 you downloaded? what's the hardware spec of that machine? | 20:51 |
| DisgruntledAnon | I just downloaded the thing off the official ubuntu site - latest version is what I THOUGHT it was, but it only gives me 16.04, so idfk | 20:53 |
| DisgruntledAnon | My computer has a GTX 970 GPU, I think an intel i5 processor, two 500GB SSDs, and more RAM than I could possibly ever need in my life | 20:54 |
| === zmoylan-pi is now known as chrome_browser | ||
| chrome_browser | ha ha ha ha ha ha | 20:54 |
| === chrome_browser is now known as zmoylan | ||
| brobostigon | DisgruntledAnon: keep in mind, the latest release is 17.10 and 16.04 is lts. | 20:55 |
| brobostigon | ie, lts means longest support release. | 20:56 |
| brobostigon | lts = long term support. | 20:56 |
| daftykins | DisgruntledAnon: ok easy on the language, obfuscated or not it's not necessary | 20:59 |
| daftykins | !nomodeset | 20:59 |
| lubotu3` | A 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 parameter | 20:59 |
| daftykins | DisgruntledAnon: see above ^ | 20:59 |
| daftykins | also ensure your flash drive was prepared properly | 20:59 |
| disgruntledanon | FFS | 21:04 |
| disgruntledanon | This stupid thing is so broke, I spent almost five straight minutes trying to post something | 21:04 |
| daftykins | yeah you're going to need to stop doing that, right now | 21:04 |
| disgruntledanon | stop doing what? | 21:04 |
| daftykins | using the language. | 21:04 |
| disgruntledanon | what you mean the abbreviation "FFS?" | 21:04 |
| disgruntledanon | okay, didn't know that that would be a big deal | 21:05 |
| disgruntledanon | So, like I said, I lost the page somehow, wasn't letting me say anything. Had to close and reopen. | 21:06 |
| daftykins | right, the webchat to freenode | 21:07 |
| daftykins | !nomodeset | 21:07 |
| lubotu3` | A 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 parameter | 21:07 |
| daftykins | try that with the 16.04 desktop image you downloaded first, assuming it was put on the flash drive happily | 21:07 |
| disgruntledanon | nomodeset? | 21:08 |
| daftykins | yes | 21:08 |
| disgruntledanon | okay, I THINK I got this, but IRC's gonna close because I've been on it on the computer itself. | 21:10 |
| daftykins | ok | 21:13 |
| diddledan | zmoylan: having issues with your google browser? | 21:33 |
| diddledan | methinks it didn't work, daftykins | 21:33 |
| diddledan | or maybe it did and they've forgotten about you | 21:33 |
| zmoylan | just commenting on the idea that someone thought they'd never run out of ram diddledan :-) | 21:34 |
| diddledan | aha | 21:34 |
| diddledan | yeah my desktop has 32GigaNuts, and I'm not sure it's enough | 21:34 |
| diddledan | I am darned sure the 8GN in this lappy isn't enough | 21:35 |
| diddledan | the squirrels like it though | 21:35 |
| zmoylan | my main system had 4gb. that's why i do all the important work on my rasp pi... :-) | 21:35 |
| zmoylan | *has | 21:35 |
| diddledan | lol | 21:35 |
| * penguin42 just put a 2GB video card into my main system that has 8GB - it feels very silly | 21:36 | |
| daftykins | :) | 21:36 |
| daftykins | my nvidia 1070 is an 8GB, really is weird | 21:36 |
| diddledan | nono, put a 12GB gfx in | 21:36 |
| zmoylan | i always remember the arcade game outrun. a car racing game that devoted 4mb to graphics... back when my zx speccy has 128k... | 21:37 |
| penguin42 | zmoylan: Well the thing is I just got a uHD monitor; that's about 22MByte of video memory at minimum | 21:37 |
| daftykins | are you having to use it with scaling? i tried 1:1 on my new 4K TV and it's pretty ridiculous even at 55" XD | 21:38 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: Running 1:1 | 21:39 |
| daftykins | what's the size? | 21:39 |
| penguin42 | 28" | 21:39 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: It's a dell s2817q courtesy of their black Friday discounts | 21:40 |
| === john is now known as Guest35191 | ||
| daftykins | ah har | 21:41 |
| daftykins | oh dear, it's a TN panel model | 21:41 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: Looks fine here, I'm not that fussy | 21:42 |
| daftykins | should do all that washed out colours at odd angles thing though | 21:42 |
| diddledan | damned those twisty numats | 21:42 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: a little, not much in it | 21:43 |
| daftykins | diddledan: also i think that user is just busy fuming in front of their PC XD | 21:46 |
| daftykins | RAH RAH RAH | 21:47 |
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