[07:31] <lordievader> Good morning
[08:31] <IrcsomeBot> <Anarchotaoist> Hello all! I just installed Kubuntu 18.10 on a new laptop! It looks beautiful of course, but I am having a couple of problems. The biggest - the machine will not respond to shutdown or reboot. It freezes instead. I also tried reebot in the Konsole. Freeze again! Is there a fix? Thanks!
[08:32] <hateball> Can you switch to a tty when this happens? Or does it freeze the machine entirely?
[08:33] <IrcsomeBot> <Anarchotaoist> err, what is a tty? sorry!
[08:33] <hateball> I am thinking if you could login to a tty and have a look at dmesg or ~/.xsession-errors
[08:34] <hateball> Anarchotaoist, it is a text console, you can switch to it with ctrl+alt+f2, and back again with ctrl+alt+f1
[08:35] <IrcsomeBot> <Anarchotaoist> Ok. I just shut down with the physical button. I'll boot back in and give that a go.
[08:35] <hateball> So does it freeze with the GUI still present, or does it freeze at a text console?
[08:35] <IrcsomeBot> <Anarchotaoist> Freeze at GUI.
[08:35] <IrcsomeBot> <Anarchotaoist> Soon as I hit shutdown or reboot it just freezes.
[08:37] <hateball> Hmmm
[08:37] <IrcsomeBot> <Anarchotaoist> ok. I am logged back in. I just tried ctrl+alt+f2 but it does nothing. I have not tired shutdown yet.
[08:38] <hateball> you should be able to switch to a tty, might be that your X is started on tty1 so you need to try F3 or F4 or something
[08:39] <hateball> anyhow, you can try looking at the file ~/.xsession-errors like I said, see if there is something there
[08:39] <hateball> it's not unusual for a GPU driver to make plasma freeze...
[08:40] <IrcsomeBot> <Anarchotaoist> f3 or F4 does nada either. Do I just type '~/.xsession-errors ' in a terminal?
[08:42] <IrcsomeBot> <Anarchotaoist> hmm, "no such file or directory"
[08:42] <hateball> Open it with Kate
[08:42] <hateball> so, "kate ~/.xsession-errors &"
[08:42] <IrcsomeBot> <Anarchotaoist> ok
[08:43] <IrcsomeBot> <Anarchotaoist> ok, I get an empty new file
[08:45] <IrcsomeBot> <Anarchotaoist> [1] 2072 in the Konsole
[08:46] <hateball> hmmm
[08:48] <IrcsomeBot> <Anarchotaoist> Is there anything in the BIOS that would be a problem?
[08:49] <hateball> well, ACPI issues exist, but those typically only happens once Plasma/X is shutdown and the kernel wants to halt the machine
[08:49] <hateball> IrcsomeBot: what GPU/Driver are you using?
[08:50] <IrcsomeBot> <Anarchotaoist> How do I bring that info up?
[08:51] <hateball> Run this in a terminal: lspci -k|grep VGA -A3
[08:56] <IrcsomeBot> <Anarchotaoist> ok, 00.02 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp UHD Graphics 620 (rev 07) subsys: Xiaomi UHD Graphics 620 Kernal driver in use i915 kernal moduls: 1915
[08:56] <IrcsomeBot> <Anarchotaoist> Now I just lost trackpad control also!😥
[08:57] <hateball> hmmm
[08:57] <IrcsomeBot> <Anarchotaoist> Should I just try re-installing?
[08:57] <hateball> IrcsomeBot: you can also run "dmesg" and look for any lines containing errors
[08:57] <hateball> Anarchotaoist ^
[08:59] <IrcsomeBot> <Anarchotaoist> ok, there is a lot of info. Which part would be pertinent?
[09:07] <IrcsomeBot> <Anarchotaoist> Can I pastebin it? I logged back in yet again and have mouse function.
[09:09] <IrcsomeBot> <Anarchotaoist> I just got a notification "Proprietary drivers may be necessary to enable function" - or something like that.
[09:29] <IrcsomeBot> <Anarchotaoist> Switching to Nvidia seems to have resolved the issue!
[09:29] <IrcsomeBot> <Anarchotaoist> I will try a bit more testing, but reboot via the Konsole has worked! yay!
[09:30] <IrcsomeBot> <Anarchotaoist> ok, reboot from the application dashboard work also!
[11:08] <IrcsomeBot> <Anarchotaoist> Ok, here's a weird one! Right clicking somehow without hitting anything has brought up a three sticky notes onto the desktop. I cannot delete them! 🙁 Uninstalling from Discover wants it to also erase about 20 other pieces of software. How can I delete them? Thanks.
[11:32] <hateball> Anarchotaoist, are you still here?
[11:33] <hateball> If so, you hold down the left mouse button when clicking a sticky note to get a menu where you can remove it
[11:52] <IrcsomeBot> <Anarchotaoist> @hateball, 🙏
[11:59] <hateball> Not sure what that is supposed to be, a sign my font doesnt support :p
[11:59] <hateball> I only see a square
[12:47] <BluesKaj> Hi folks
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[17:09] <drecondius> Ok, I'm having an issue here that doesn't appear in ubuntu Mate and just Ubuntu but does here in Kubuntu. I have an Alienware 14 with 3 3.5 mm jacks, Headphones, Mic, and Headset. The headset port isn't working in kubuntu 18.04 and 18.10
[17:16] <BluesKaj> drecondius, open alsamixer and increase the volume in the headphone vol ctrl, also make sure automute is disabled, you'll find that on the far right
[17:18] <BluesKaj> any vol ctrls that have MM in the box are muted , use the M key to unmute them if needed
[17:19] <drecondius> i've installed and since removed it and there is nothing affecting anything in  Kubuntu, but, like I said, it's working in the live environment and install base of Ubuntu and Mate flavors
[17:21] <drecondius> so the gui didn't even touch the configs it would seem.
[17:39] <drecondius> ok, now the only sound device,after reboot, is the hdmi ....
[17:51] <n0yd> Hey guys, I am sure I can figure this out, but am a little rusty in this area and wanted to know if there is a recommended solution
[17:52] <n0yd> My problem is this. I have an HP Envy laptop, dual booting windows 10 and kubuntu 18.10. At some point windows decided to take over as the primary boot, so I can only get into kubuntu by hitting ESC on boot and then choosing the partiution contating kubuntu and yusing grub to boot the kernel
[17:53] <n0yd> How do I go about getting grub back full time and also using it to boot windows
[22:36]  * Perdellian finds themself doubtful of this snappy thing
[23:13] <IrcsomeBot> <Valoriez> @perdellian snaps are great for checking out new apps
[23:14] <IrcsomeBot> <Valoriez> I prefer actual packages for daily use though
[23:15] <keithzg[m]> Snaps are also great for carrying the whole deb vs rpm thing into a fresh new realm of new competing packaging formats! ;)