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 @DarinMiller, are you in russia? hehehe
 j/k, everything normal here including kde neon channel and others
[11:07] <BluesKaj> Hi Folks
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[14:50] <zys> help
[14:53] <diogenes_> !ask | zys
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 A disabled secure boot by entering bios settings
 Thank you all again
[15:49] <D0U91E> so quiet in here you can hear a 'ping' drop
 i forgot how i got into the telegram relay lol
 i kinda fell into the relay of this channel this morning, can someone remind me how i did that for a friend? :)
[19:00] <shahzad> After fresh install --> Boot --> Black blinking cursor ONLY!
[19:01] <shahzad> I have googled and found several blogs suggesting to modify boot with nomodeset etc.  But i can never get to the screen where i can modify this.  I do have a NVIDIA GT FX55 series
[19:02] <shahzad> any help is greatly appreciated!
[19:03] <diogenes_> shahzad, do you see grub menu when you boot?
[19:05] <shahzad> I do not.  "Checking NVRAM" are the very quick last famous letters that i see before getting the blinking cursor
[19:06] <diogenes_> shahzad, I mean when you start the pc you have to see the grub which is offering you to boot kobuntu or advanced settings and bla bla bla
[19:07] <Lard> sounds like it's not even getting that far but isn't actually reporting an invalid system disk
[19:08] <Lard> maybe change to legacy boot mode from UEFI in BIOS?
[19:08] <shahzad> oh and unfortunately i don't see that.  So the flow: I get the BIOS boot screens and related information --> a flash of 'Checking NVRAM' --> blinking.
[19:10] <diogenes_> shahzad, that's very very strange
[19:10] <shahzad> Indeed!  I can install the OS successfully but the darn booting w/out the InstallerUSB just sin't playing nice
[19:12] <shahzad> I am trying to switch from WindowsOS to Linux and this hump might just push me back to Windows.  Been trying to resolve this boot issue with no avail
[19:14] <om26er> shahzad: well try a different version of Kubuntu, maybe ?
[19:15] <diogenes_> shahzad, looks like a hardware problem
[19:15] <shahzad> it is hardware issue!  I have tried Linux Mint Mate and Ubuntu and same issues
[19:16] <shahzad> more like Graphics card
[19:16] <diogenes_> shahzad, yep, then it's hardware, does windows boot fine?
[19:16] <shahzad> yes
[19:16] <om26er> shahzad: which version of those OS have you tried ?
[19:16] <shahzad> never had issue with Windows
[19:16]  * om26er thinks its more like hardware support issue than the actual hardware issue.
[19:16] <shahzad> Across all of them the latest
[19:16] <diogenes_> shthen my advice is to install windows and update your bios to the latest available version, then try linux again
[19:16] <shahzad> it's mainly graphics card issue
[19:20] <ConIT> hi
[19:22] <shahzad> hmmm...this is interesting.  While in my BIOS, i selected 'default' settings on everything and now I do get the 'GRUB' boot screen and able to log in
[19:23] <shahzad> wondering what setting in BIOS was preventing it ... Virtulaziation turned on?
[19:25] <om26er> virtualization most probably got nothing to do with boot.
[19:25] <om26er> Wonder if your system had switchable graphics and now its using Intel, shahzad
[19:26] <shahzad> om26er, while within the OS is there a way to tell (GUI or terminal)?
[19:28] <om26er> shahzad: try: glxinfo | grep OpenGL
[19:28] <om26er> might need to install mesa-utils
[19:28] <om26er> ...in terminal
[19:30] <user|50698> :)
[19:33] <shahzad> om26er, it says "Vendor string: nouveau"
[19:33] <shahzad> man may be i had too high of hopes with Linux but computer just froze!  I thought freezing was for Windows only
[19:35] <om26er> nvidia support in this land isn't always great unfortunately.
[19:35] <om26er> if possible try switching off nvidia completely in bios settings and you'll be in a new world
[19:36] <shahzad> thank you.  If i were to change my graphics card, what cards have better Linux support
[19:38] <shahzad> it's probably a Newbie thing on my part but isn't Kubuntu 17 supposed to be solid?  Trying to adjust the height of the task bar just froze the computer seconds time in a row
[19:52] <shahzad> thank you for all the help
[21:12] <Guest29709> hi all
[22:16] <metalbiker> is there a way to turn on the night light where it warms the screen like it ubuntu gnome does?
[22:18] <acheronuk> if you are running X there is the app redshift to install, and a plasmoid to control it
[22:26] <metalbiker> acheronuk: ok. is x a display server? i'm testing kubuntu 18.04 LTS from default. so whichever it's using, then that's it.
[22:29] <acheronuk> metalbiker: correct
[22:29] <acheronuk> the packages are redshift and plasma-applet-redshift-control
[22:29] <metalbiker> ok cool
[22:30] <metalbiker> thank you kindly! i'll check it out for sure