[02:21] <ulysses_> Goodday mate
[09:00] <brobostigon> morning boys and girls.
[13:17] <Seeker`> popey: do you like Mischief Theatre stuff?
[17:10] <daftykins> i didn't know my cat, Mischief, was running a theatre!
[19:03]  * diddledan watching glittery dancers
[19:04] <diddledan> strictly come dancing. my guilty pleasure.
[19:04] <daftykins> shocking :(
[20:03] <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.
[20:19] <daftykins> what is this, a desktop or laptop?
[20:21] <daftykins> DisgruntledAnon: are you already asking in another place...
[20:45] <DisgruntledAnon> sorry daftykins, I have been downloading the ubuntu server for the last 20 minutes while doing other things
[20:46] <DisgruntledAnon> That's the only advice I've gotten in regards to ubuntu having that problem -- it's on desktop btw
[20:50] <daftykins> hah
[20:51] <daftykins> DisgruntledAnon: advice from where? is it 17.10 you downloaded? what's the hardware spec of that machine?
[20:53] <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
[20:54] <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] <chrome_browser> ha ha ha ha ha ha
[20:55] <brobostigon> DisgruntledAnon: keep in mind, the latest release is 17.10 and 16.04 is lts.
[20:56] <brobostigon> ie, lts means longest support release.
[20:56] <brobostigon> lts = long term support.
[20:59] <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
[21:04] <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?"
[21:05] <disgruntledanon> okay, didn't know that that would be a big deal
[21:06] <disgruntledanon> So, like I said, I lost the page somehow, wasn't letting me say anything. Had to close and reopen.
[21:07] <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
[21:08] <disgruntledanon> nomodeset?
[21:08] <daftykins> yes
[21:10] <disgruntledanon> okay, I THINK I got this, but IRC's gonna close because I've been on it on the computer itself.
[21:13] <daftykins> ok
[21:33] <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
[21:34] <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
[21:35] <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
[21:36]  * 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
[21:37] <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
[21:38] <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
[21:39] <penguin42> daftykins: Running 1:1
[21:39] <daftykins> what's the size?
[21:39] <penguin42> 28"
[21:40] <penguin42> daftykins: It's a dell s2817q courtesy of their black Friday discounts
[21:41] <daftykins> ah har
[21:41] <daftykins> oh dear, it's a TN panel model
[21:42] <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
[21:43] <penguin42> daftykins: a little, not much in it
[21:46] <daftykins> diddledan: also i think that user is just busy fuming in front of their PC XD
[21:47] <daftykins> RAH RAH RAH