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viewer|57hello all! Is there a form of textmode install for kubuntu (18 LTS)? I am trying to install but the installer doesn't work on my screen, a UHD/UWS Samsung monitor.06:21
viewer|57Is there some way to start wayland right away during install?06:21
viewer|57or some way to not be directly booted into an invisible session?06:25
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Wizhi, can"t get my hdmi audio to work when plugged on a tv, with kubuntu 18.10 and 19.04, works fine on windows... Nvidia GTX 1050 Mobile. Anyone familiar with that ?07:43
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mevenWiz: What have you tried ? Did you have a look in the settings : mulimedia > audio volume, if your HDMI chipset is recognized you should see it09:16
mevenin the available output list09:17
Wizmeven, I looked at the audio volume. In the output tab, I only see the internal speakers and the headset (shown as not plugged, which is true).10:00
Wizmeven: I do not see an HDMI output in this tab10:00
diogenes_Wiz, pavucontrol > configue > prifile > digital hdmi ...10:02
diogenes_configure* > profile*10:02
Wizmeven: when I go to the configuration tab and look at the hdmi profiles, they are all reported as not available10:02
Wizdiogenes_: this is what I just said above, hdmi profiles listed as not available / unplugged, when selecting any of them, no audio10:04
Wiz(I am using kubuntu and that is the qt version of pavucontrol)10:05
diogenes_is it a fresh install?10:06
Wizdiogenes_: nope, upgrade from 18.10, where I had the same problem10:06
Wizusing nvidia drivers10:06
diogenes_i would try 19.04 boot live off of a usb drive.10:07
WizI cannot do it, because when I try the live (adding "nomodeset" on grub so that the pc does not freeze), it freezes when I use "live session" instead of the install10:08
NoCodeIs there anyway to treat Latte Dock as just a dock for icons without notifications/window tasks?10:09
diogenes_Wiz, but have you tried the newest 19.04? and is still freezes?10:10
Wizdiogenes_: it just reminds me I did a fresh install (on another partition) to test 19.04 before upgrading my usual one. I had the same issue with hdmi audio and broke the system when trying to fix it, following instructions on a website10:10
diogenes_Wiz, what i mean is you to try hdmi with oss drivers, nouveau and see that maybe with nouveau it works instead of proprietary nvidia.10:11
diogenes_for me nouveau works fine.10:12
Wizdiogenes_: the newest 19.04 (official release of end april) does freeze when booting the usb drive as is. Need a nomodeset, and then from memory, installing on hard drive works, but selecting "try it" does freeze the display (terminals can be opened and have commands run)10:12
Wizwhat is the oss drivers ?10:12
diogenes_in linux, nvidia cards run by default on the oss (open-source) driver called nouveau10:13
Wizdiogenes_: with nouveau I think there was problems : can set the light, cpu running very high when viewing videos10:13
Wizdiogenes_: oh ok, I did not know oss stood for open source, sorry10:13
diogenes_Wiz, that's already a second question, the first task is to verify if your hdmi works under nouveau.10:13
diogenes_i mean without installing any nvidia drivers.10:14
Wizdiogenes_: I can relaunch a fresh install (unless I can boot on the live usb) and test nouveau driver for the hdmi10:14
diogenes_Wiz, that would be a good idea also, for testing purpuse, you can fire up a fedora 30 live iso too because they are on the leading edge with drivers and kernels and so on.10:15
Wizdiogenes_: never tried it. I can launch download, but it will take some time... low dsl here, fiber is coming, but not before the end of the year... The fiber itself is in front of my land since feb...10:17
Wizdiogenes_: download started...10:19
Wizbrb10:20
NoCodeAs weird as this sounds, Plasma/KDE reminds me ofoldGnome. Can't stand Gnome-3, and I did for a couple years until I bought this off-lease $400 laptop and put another distro on it, and noticed how fast KDE/Plasma was. So I switched to KDE/Plasma on my Desktop10:20
NoCodeThough, I am starting to see little hiccups. Like currently, I searched for an Aurorae theme in the discovery window thing, and it's still searching which looks to be NIL results and no way to stop it10:21
BluesKajHey folks10:27
jubo2hello and thanks for the awesome OS for humans10:41
jubo2got a problem. When plugging in a NTFS partition and trying to mount it via automatics says "malformed URL..." and I cannot mount the volume via the GUI10:42
BluesKajjubo2, run sudo blkid with the drive plugged in and add the NTFS UUID to fstab10:45
jubo2tried the same with another Kubuntu .. same thing "Malformed URL.." (rest of the text does not display due to the small size of the popup10:45
jubo2BluesKaj: uhh.. are you sure that is the way to go10:47
jubo2I mean fstab entry just for a spare HDD I use to stash backups of stuff10:47
BluesKajjubo2, depends is it a separate drive or just a partition, and if it's just temporary or is it a permanent ?10:48
jubo2BluesKaj: It is the only partition on a disk I am attaching via USB3-to-SATAIII connector10:49
jubo2I'd just like to mount it ad-hoc, copy files, unmount and safely remove10:49
jubo2but something broki10:49
jubo2.. broke this10:49
jubo2and I'm a bit worried if the next HDD I'm plugging in will go to error too10:50
jubo2Like sometimes people would like to KEEP the contents of the HDDs10:50
jubo2BluesKaj: I don't want to automount it (via /etc/fstab), but I would just like the disk to come back to normal operation10:51
BluesKajjubo2, try a different usb port, sometimes that works on newer machines usb3.0 vs 2.problems10:51
jubo2BluesKaj: Tried 2 on this machine and one on the ohter10:51
jubo2not an USB problem10:51
jubo2BluesKaj: "Malformed URL" it says when I try to plug it in and choose open with Dolphin10:53
jubo2I want to rescue this disk10:53
jubo2.. coz it got valuables on it10:53
BluesKajjubo2, try live session media and see if the usb mounts thru that ...then you may be able to transfer the files10:54
jubo2BluesKaj: The media mounted just fine and now neither of the Kubuntus will mount it10:55
BluesKajI mean live kubuntu session on a dvd or usb10:55
jubo2BluesKaj: ok. I do that. I boot the other machine from Live USB10:58
jubo2but it not gonna make a differnce since 2 Kubuntus are giving the same error10:59
jubo2How bad people can be at giving errors "Malformed URL" and that it..10:59
BluesKajtry it anyway11:01
jubo2BluesKaj: same error11:07
jubo2maybe Kubuntu should come with a warning message "Plugging and unplugging drives to Kubuntu may cause you to lose access to them" .. that's my feeling. I did not do any wrong to the disk afaik11:08
jubo2This maybe the same bug https://www.mail-archive.com/kde-bugs-dist@kde.org/msg290663.html11:09
jubo2Says disks mount just fine with Windows 811:10
jubo2If that is true we should change the warning to "After mounting and unmounting an NTFS partition, you will no longer be able to access it on Linux"11:10
BluesKajjubo2, does it show up in kde partition manager11:11
BluesKajif so , unmount it if possible11:11
jubo2BluesKaj: yeah it shows in KDE partition manager. How do I unmount it? at least it is not mounted under /media/username11:13
BluesKajjubo2, right click on said partition11:14
jubo2BluesKaj: uhh.. mount is grayed out. the onlyt thing that could be useful is "edit mount point"11:15
jubo2I gonna see if it is broken for Windows 7 as well11:15
jubo2BluesKaj: Windows opens it with no probs11:17
NoCodeThat reminds me, KDE should deal with LUKS mounted partitions in different manner because it'll suggest that the drive is mounted to a different mount point and throws an error-like message until you enable automatic mounting in "removable devices". Like, it'll say something like, "already mounted on */sr0/ or something like that. I forget what it says. But automatically mounting kinda fixes it.11:21
jubo2So Linux says "Malformed URL" and no other help with the situation. Now I don't want to plugin any of the disks with actually important stuff, because Linux can just break 'em11:21
jubo2fuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11:21
jubo2Usually it ain't Linux that breaks shit .. what do I do?11:24
jubo2I would just like to make my backups. But if mounting and unmounting NTFS partitions may result in the partition no longer being mountable in Linux, I don't want to plug in any disk11:25
NoCodeThere's still issues mounting NTFS partitions? >.> I remember that being almost a non-issue about 13 years ago after installing a driver to make it work.11:26
jubo2So possibly making an NTFS disk with Gparted is not the way to go11:27
jubo2.. since this happens to the partitions11:27
jubo2Ok.. I'ma assume Linux does not break EXT4s11:28
NoCodeno idea on that.11:28
BluesKajjubo2, make sure you have ntfs-3g installed...it should be default11:29
NoCodeyeah it was that driver!11:29
NoCodeI wasn't sure if it was 3g or 3u11:29
NoCode:D11:29
jubo2ntfs-3g is version 1:2017.3.23-2ubuntu0.18.04.211:29
NoCodeI remember 3g being experimental11:30
NoCodeYears ago11:30
BluesKajyeah, that was a while back11:30
BluesKajjubo2, is windows necessary for your job ?11:31
jubo2BluesKaj: Linux is very much needed for the job11:35
jubo2I don't touch Windows unless I really need to11:36
jubo2Now the situation is becoming worse. An EXT4 external disk also gives "Malformed URL"11:36
jubo2and two other disks don't say anything... except the other makes beeping noises. I've never heard a HDD beep like this11:37
BluesKajjubo2, you mentioned setting a mount point, maybe giving the moutpoint a name like /media-user or some such might work11:37
jubo2BluesKaj: I do not know what broke the normal mounting via GUI11:37
BluesKajjubo2, which kubuntu11:38
jubo218.04.211:38
jubo2All the disks showing life signs all give "Malformed URL" and I am unable to mount them11:39
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jubo2I'd hate it if this turned out to be "Install everything again or switch to Windows"-type of incident11:40
jubo2This.. This is not cool11:40
jubo2Last try with 64GB stick. If this doesn't mount either I have no way of moving files from or to Linux except maybe booting from a live stick11:42
BluesKajmy earlier suggestion11:42
jubo2BluesKaj: sorry, which one was that11:45
BluesKajlive media11:45
jubo2I tried that. Did not helå11:45
jubo2*help11:45
BluesKajthen why did you just mention it?11:46
jubo2The USB stick mounted just fine ... but being unable to mount any external HDD is nooooot cool11:47
BluesKajthink you may need to search for a bug on 18.04.2 LTS11:48
jubo2Uhhh.. there are tons of people with this problem it seems https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=kubuntu+says+malformed+url+when+trying+to+mount+a+disk&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-811:51
BluesKajso there must be a fix11:53
jubo2BluesKaj: From what I'm seeing it is a Plasma problem. People are reporting the disks are just fine when accessed on a system that does not run KDE11:54
jubo2https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=370975 is a looong thread11:56
ubottuKDE bug 370975 in Device Notifier "device notifier pretends it cannot mount usb device while actually mounting it" [Normal,Resolved: fixed]11:56
jubo2People are discussing adding a sleep(5) or something like that to make the Plasma bug go away11:56
jubo2I'd like to know how the Plasma broke, I didn't do any violence to it.11:57
jubo2The thread says this was patched away in Arch a year ago11:58
jubo2and this is likely not the right bug. as it says that "pretends it cannot mount usb device while actually...". I mean where would the partitions be mounted if not /media/username/UUID ?11:59
jubo2this is messed up12:00
jubo2I like KDE, but if KDE does not work then I prlly need to switch to something else12:00
jubo2I12:00
jubo2I'll boot a MINT MATE on the other laptop and see if that sees the partitions fine12:00
jubo2Yeah. It has no probs detecting and automounting12:05
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jubo2I was supposed to get stuff done today, but now I am instead wondering how the Plasma broke itself12:14
jubo2One minute disks are mounted just fine, the next moment no HDD will mount but USB will12:14
jubo2and the only workaround so far is to use an OS that doesn't use Plasma12:15
BluesKajI'm on plasma here testing Kubuntu 19.10, no probs with usb outboards or sticks or any other devices12:17
BluesKajsometimes all this emphasis on LTS is misplaced, especially when an important bug fix seems buried somewhere12:19
jubo2Uhhh.. this "something broke the earlier versions, upgrade and cross fingers"-thingy is not cool. I want an OS that just works and doesn't break down by itself12:23
NoCodeI had a rough time with 19.04, I thought it was a LTS report. So after tons of errors and stuff, I went back to 18.04, and updated to a mainline kernel. Not optimized, but I wanted the version 19.04 has.12:23
jubo2I got other obstacles in life, my Linux should not be one of them12:23
NoCodeIs there an easier way to get Kubuntu's optimized 19.04 kernel in 18.04 with UKUU or another utility?12:24
NoCodeUKUU is pretty nice, but it only offers mainline kernels from kernel.org or whatever. So it's not optimized for Ubuntu.12:25
jubo2One minute everything is fine and the next one, no more mounting external HDDs for you12:28
jubo2So ... USB sticks still mount, but no partition on HDD is mountable, except in every other OS, tahn Kubuntu12:30
NoCodeDid you verify that kubuntu ISO before using it?12:33
jubo2NoCode: nope12:34
jubo2Besides the verification has been broken for a long time iirc .. It complains that "one faulty file found", but does not bother to tell which file would be broken. No fix was found for this one either iirc12:35
jubo2So the disks are fine as they open nicely in Win7 and Linux Mint MATE, but Kubuntu just stopped working re mounting partitions from external HDDs just quit working today12:36
NoCodeuhhh12:36
jubo2So what should I do.. Buy  512GB USB stick?12:36
NoCodeNot sure, but you should verify the ISO you've downloaded and install once it is verified correctly.12:38
NoCode!verify12:38
ubottuTo verify your Ubuntu ISO image (or other files for which an MD5 checksum is provided), see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM or http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/LQ_ISO/Checking_the_md5sum_in_Windows12:38
jubo2NoCode: oh that one. It is fine12:38
jubo2I checked it iirc12:38
jubo2rechecking it now12:40
jubo2100% match12:41
jubo2I'd like the LTS to work. Kinda sucks for the disto if the situation is that something breaks the LTS and then all that can be offered is "upgrade to something even more unstable"12:42
NoCodeMaybe you messed something up or maybe your hardware is messed up?12:43
jubo2NoCode: Oh.. Two hardware broke at the same time in the same way12:43
jubo2I've tried with 2 machines that have Kubuntu installed on 'em and the Live USB and all of them just say "Malformed URL"12:44
NoCodeAh, no idea.12:44
jubo2.. this is not cool12:45
jubo2"Kubuntu is otherwise a nice distro, but you cannot use external HDDs." would the review read atm12:45
NoCodeWell, thankful that's only a review from one user while there are thousands12:46
jubo2Somewhere they are saying that Plasma is not broken, but Dolphin is12:47
jubo2'k.. where are the instructions to mount the partitions with something else than the (broken) Dolphin?12:48
jubo2I didn't break plasma, and I have no idea how to figure out who broke it. I'm not a texy person.12:49
BluesKajjubo2, don't make generqal statements that are misleading,l you problem is confined to 18.04.2 LTS , not all other Kubuntu disto versions12:50
jubo2How do we know?12:50
jubo2I got a 19.04 on the stick. Should I try with that?12:50
BluesKajbecause I don't have that problem as i mentioned above12:51
jubo2.. I'll do that. The day is ruined anyways12:51
jubo2just gotta wait a few minutes for it to finish downloading backups12:56
jubo218.10 is not affected by this bug13:05
jubo2Did not have 19.04, but 18.10 on the stick13:05
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jubo2There has gotta be a reasonable way forward. Install new junk and pray it starts working does not sound cool13:08
jubo2Can I somewhere see a list of what was upgraded last. I mean I ran some upgrades today and have not seen this bug before13:09
jubo2Coz today I ran 'sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade' so that prlly broke the thing13:09
jubo2So.. where should I submit a bug report? "Did nothing and suddenly none of external HDD:s in 18.04.2 will mount via Dolphin. Always just complains "Malformed URL" with no additional info."13:27
jubo2that about all I know about this13:27
jubo2It was the 'apt upgrade' today I gather .. can I undo that somehow? Maybe I reboot and try an older kernel (I have a faint recollection it installed a new one today)13:28
jubo2yeah. reboot for older kernel. be back soon.13:28
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jubo2Hi. Cannot mount external HDDs problem exists only partially with kernel 4.15.0-48-generic13:36
jubo2One disk it said "Malformed URL", but 'mount' showed that it did get mounted. Another disk opens in Dolphin with no errors13:36
jubo2So what is the conclusion if Kubuntu with kernel 4.15.0-50 fails to mount external drives and 4.15.0-48 does not fail consistently as the newer one does?13:39
jubo2What comes to my mind is that the newer kernel introduces some bug. I'm not a texy person so I cannot know for sure, but this is what it looks like13:41
jubo2Oh this is nice. The unable to mount HDDs stopped exhibiting, but now cryfs is using ~30% of CPU without doing anything14:10
jubo2just having a vault open draws 20-30% of CPU14:11
jubo2I can understand it is slow to read or write, but just having a vault open renders Dolphins unresponsive14:12
jubo2what is kidle_inject and why are there 4 treads of it an all of them are drawing the same amount of CPU. 40% of CPU is used by it14:16
jubo2According to the internets it is something to stop the CPU from overheating14:19
jubo2Oh nice.. Stopping CPU from overheating eats 35-40% of CPU. I'm having a really flowered up day today14:20
jubo2Oh this is even nicer ... 'cp' from CryFS to HDD @ 1MB / s ... 19.2GB will only take several hours14:22
jubo2Oh well ... No relying on HDDs being able to be connected. IO performance of max 1MB / s and CPU utilization at over 50% when idle. Apparently a Linux these days needs to be installed again and again as frequently as windows in the 90's14:25
jubo2All of this leads me to think this Linux has been sabotaged14:27
jubo2I installed as clean as I could a few months ago and idle utilization was 10-15%14:27
jubo2after a few months idle is at 50514:27
jubo250%14:27
jubo2first it copied at ok speed (25MB / s) for 1.6 GB and now it looks like the rest is gonna go for 10 hrs @ 0.5MB / s ... really nice.14:30
jubo2I'm not a texy person i.e. I don't know all of what is wrong nor how to fix it .. I guess Kubuntu just needs a reinstall every 1 months14:31
jubo2and the system is half frozen with nothing runnig14:35
jubo2I'll reboot. Too bad a Linux stays operational only for a few months after its installation14:36
IrcsomeBot<DarinMiller> jubo2, I have serverl boxes here with a few of them multi-booting multiple versions of Kubuntu & Neon  and I have never seen the issue you are experiencing.  What is the make/mode your PC?14:45
jubo2Ok. This Linux is no longer usable14:48
jubo2Copying from CryFS Vault to HDD starts off at 20 MB / s, but soon moves to a "really usable level of IO" of few hundreds of KB / s write14:51
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jubo2It looks like this Linux is never gonna get well. Last time I reinstalled, I did copy the .config .. prlly bringing over something corrupt from the old OS, allowing the attacker to continue to destroy my system14:57
IrcsomeBot<ericadams> @jubo2, You've mentioned a number of issues you are asserting relate to Kubuntu. I'm not saying that isn't the case but I'm curious if you have tried any other distributions to see if there aren't more general issues you are having or perhaps even hardware based? You linked to a bug report where the poster did eventually state that it was a hardware issue. Again, just curious if you'd have these same issues on another distro or DE.15:30
jubo2ericadams: I noticed the HDD-issue on Kubuntu 18.04.2 on 2 machines and I did try with other OS, Linux Mint MATE and Windows 7 did not have problems seeing and mounting the disk. Then I notice the problem "goes away" without me changing any settings anywhere..15:37
jubo2Kubuntu 18.10 booted from an USB stick had no problem mounting the partitions.15:37
jubo2I have no idea what is the issue, what started it exhibiting, what stopped it from exhibiting and naturally no clue when it will return15:39
jubo2When there is this weird things going on one usually starts to think of malicious parties having gained access again15:39
analogicalare there different themes available for the Konversation IRC client?15:39
jubo2How would it be a HW problem if it appears identical on 2 pieces of hardware. How would it not be a problem of this Kubuntu version, if no other OS suffer from it?15:40
jubo2If I drank alcohol I'd be ~ 1.5‰ long time ago. I was supposed to get stuff done, but then all the day goes into not having a clue, why disk mounting just broke on two 18.04.2s, what the hell "fixed" it and with the "comfortable" feeling of "I don't know if I can mount external HDDs on this system at any point in time."15:43
* jubo2 gets a zero.zero beer from the fridge15:43
jubo2pro-tip: If you have desparate need of getting drunk, zero beer will give you a bad panic attack15:44
jubo2So there are 2 alternatives I see: #1 Intruder broke it and #2 apt upgrade broke it. Please if you see more, please do tell15:45
IrcsomeBot<ericadams> I read a post that said if the person chose the Mount and view in Dolphin option they would get the URL message. If they chose the other option they wouldn't see the message and the drive would show as mounted after a few seconds in Dolphin. Have you tried that by any chance?15:49
WizHi, ran some suggested tests for the hdmi audio output with nvidia, without success... anyone here can help ?15:54
Wizwith nouveau driver : hdmi output (tv) not even detected15:54
Wizwith nvidia driver : hdmi detected, image goes to the tv, but hdmi audio device not detected in pavucontrol15:55
BluesKajWiz, do you have pavucontrol installed?15:56
BluesKajoops15:56
BluesKajWiz, what about alsamixer F6 ?15:57
BluesKajalso make sure spdif is enabled16:02
WizBluesKaj:  pavucontrol is installed that is through it that I can see the hdmi output not available16:04
BluesKajyes, i saw that too late, what about the other 2 suggestions?16:05
WizBluesKaj: alsamixer F6: I see: - (default)16:07
BluesKajis HDMI listed?16:07
Wiz0 HDA intel PCH16:07
Wizenter device name16:07
Wiznope, no HDMI listed16:08
Wizspdif enabled (00)16:08
BluesKajok, now check SPDIF  in alsamixer16:08
BluesKajWiz, escape from alsamixer16:09
Wizok16:10
BluesKajin the terminal, sudo modprobe snd-hda-intel, if the driver loads properly there won't be any output16:11
Wizbruno@PC-Bruno:~$ sudo modprobe snd-hda-intel16:11
Wiz[sudo] Mot de passe de bruno :16:11
Wizbruno@PC-Bruno:~$16:11
BluesKajok so no output16:12
BluesKajthat means the audio driver loaded properly16:12
Wizthe nvidia driver does not care about audio ?16:13
BluesKajyes it 's fine16:13
BluesKajnow open system settings>hardware>multimedia>audio&video>device preference tab> is HDMI listed?16:15
IrcsomeBot<DarinMiller> wiz, on my laptop I had to go to Sys settings -> Multimedia -> Audio Volume -> Advanced (tab) and select Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output in the Profile drop down.  Do you have that option?16:18
BluesKajif not, choose the audiovolume tab, click on advanaced the device profile drop down , choose HDMI16:18
WizBluesKaj: it was not selected, I selected it, and then clicked on "test" on the HDMI, no audio16:20
WizDarinMiller: yes I did try that16:21
BluesKajWiz, sometimes the test button is buggy ...i've seen it it before , try playing some audio or video in a player16:22
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WizBluesKaj: the hdmi is the only line not grayed, I can select it but not click on apply. Trying audio16:23
WizBluesKaj: still no audio16:24
BluesKajWiz, try the audio volume device tab, make sure it's at least 80%16:25
BluesKajstill in system settings>hardware>multimedia>audio volume >devices16:28
WizBluesKaj: it is at 100%16:31
BluesKajwiz the check you TV input audio/hdmi and make sure the audio volume is set to your source/hdmi16:32
BluesKajthen check your TV16:34
WizBluesKaj: the hdmi output works fine on the same tv & computer under windows16:41
WizBluesKaj: I can try again, rebooting, will be back in a few minutes16:41
WizBluesKaj: back : works fine "out of the box" on windows16:51
WizBluesKaj: but when I just checked in alsa mixer, s/pdif was muted16:54
BluesKajthat will defintely mute the audio to hdmi16:55
WizI unmuted it again16:57
BluesKajwiz well, i have my hdmi video to the TV and the audio looping via optical audio to an audio receiver and all works perfectly16:57
BluesKajWiz,, what about your alsamixer master and PCM volume ctrls16:59
BluesKajalso make sure automute is disabled16:59
WizBluesKaj: alsa all are up to 100%17:01
Wizwhere is the automute ?17:01
BluesKajand automute ?17:01
BluesKajon the far right in alsamixer17:01
WizBluesKaj: it was enabled17:02
WizI disabled it17:02
BluesKajok , now try17:02
WizBluesKaj: same :(17:04
BluesKajit's always enabled after new release install or a kernel upgrade...something to remember...reboot17:04
WizBluesKaj: rebooting17:05
WizBluesKaj: 1st reboot automute was enabled again, 2nd reboot it remaint disabled17:11
Wizbut still no audio17:11
BluesKajthen i'm out of ideas, except check everything again including pavucontrol17:12
WizBluesKaj: all i tried (about the same as you suggested gave me the same result... none17:12
BluesKajwhich kubuntu version /release?17:13
WizBluesKaj: 19.0417:13
WizBluesKaj: it was already the same on 18.1017:14
BluesKajperhaps I've forgotten something, try asking in #ubuntu17:14
Wizdiogenes_: welcome back ! I tried some of what you suggested and then BluesKaj made me test other things, without success (for hdmi audio output problems)17:15
WizBluesKaj: yes it might be an idea17:15
diogenes_Wiz, what exactly you have tried?17:16
WizBluesKaj: and thanks a lot for your help !17:16
BluesKajwell, I'm all out of ideas, maybe someone else can help you17:16
Wizdiogenes_: booting on live usb : as explained, won't allow me to start a test session, I have to install17:16
Wizdiogenes_: I installed, and with the nouveau driver (nomodeset in the grub in order to boot) : x does not start automatically, I had to open a shell session to launch it17:17
Wizdiogenes_: and when plugging the hdmi in, it is not detected at all17:18
diogenes_Wiz, ok and how can you make sure the cable is ok?17:18
Wizdiogenes_: so i am never able to test the hdmi audio, as the output is not detected17:18
Wizdiogenes_: hdmi output (audio + video) works great on the same pc & tv when the pc is running windows17:19
Wizdiogenes_: with the same cable17:19
BluesKajprobly needs the nvidia driver installed17:20
BluesKajI assumed it was17:21
BluesKajanyway gotta go17:21
diogenes_i see, it's a difficul case then, right now i'm lowo n battery so i won't stay long but meanwhile you could read this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Examples17:21
Wizdiogenes_: I will, thank you17:25
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jackpetrilliIt's a shame really. I really wanted to use Kubuntu on my computer but it's simply not usable. Specifically, the network connection keeps dropping (or sometimes just seriously slowing down).20:18
jackpetrilliI tried getting rid of all IPV6 settings. That didn't work.20:18
jackpetrilliAfter hours of fiddling around, I finally got rid of network-manager (after stopping its service) and replaced it with WICD. That worked for about 2 days. Imagine my dismay when I started getting dropouts again today. Assuming that the system had auto-updated, I got rid of network-manager again and put in the commands to block auto-updating. (I cou20:18
jackpetrillild always manually use the Konsole commands to update, if needed). No luck. Now even WICD can't sustain a reliable internet connection.20:18
jackpetrilliThis is really a pretty serious bug. Apparently it's an official bug now based on what I've been reading. The system is unusable if one has to continually disconnect and reconnect to get decent internet connectivity. I guess I'll have to return to Windows (sigh).20:18
jackpetrilliIf anyone does have a solution, feel free to contact me at petrillijack1@gmail.com as I really would like to use this Plasma desktop.20:18
jackpetrillinetwork keeps dropping in Kubuntu 19.0420:19
jackpetrillialready tried disabling all IPV6 references20:20
bpromptjackpetrilli:   what about kubuntu 18.04?20:23
bprompt:)20:23
jackpetrilliApparently this is an official bug with both 18.04 and 19.0420:23
bpromptan official bug? hehe20:24
bpromptoddly enough, I never got it in 18.04 myself20:24
bpromptjackpetrilli:   offhand we can say is either the network manager/applet OR the network drivers, are you referring to WLAN connection or NIC?20:25
jackpetrilliAccording to Internet, recognized as official bug - but not everyone gets it20:25
jackpetrilliWLAN20:25
bpromptjackpetrilli:    well, I use kubuntu, but I run LXQT, not exactly Kwin, so I don't use the networking plasmas20:25
jackpetrilliI replaced network-manager with WICD and that worked for a whole 2 days and then the problem reappeared20:26
bpromptjackpetrilli:    well, assuming is may just the plasma applet for the connection, you can always just use WICD instead for that, and it can sit on the systray just the same20:26
jackpetrilliI might try finding 16.0420:27
bpromptwhich is what I run =)20:27
jackpetrilliYeah, I thought I had the problem solved20:28
bpromptjackpetrilli:     if WICD is doing it too, chances are is the network drivers, but I don't see it happening just to kubuntu alone, so it must be specific in this case20:30
jackpetrilliI'm burning the 16.04 edition as we speak20:31
bprompthmmm20:31
bpromptI don't use 18.04 due to connection issues, it simply broke too many apps I use, I fix some and it broke more than desired, whilst in 16.04 everything runs smooth20:32
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IrcsomeBot<ericadams> @jackpetrilli, What kind of wireless card do you have? I'm just one person but I've used Kubuntu 18.04, 18.10 and 19.04 on this laptop and have never had that issue. If you have it with WICD as well I wonder if it's not more of a kernel/driver issue than KDE/Kubuntu specific.21:13
IrcsomeBot<ericadams> I am using a well-supported card though. Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 9260 driver: iwlwifi21:14
IrcsomeBot<acheronuk> jackpetrilli quit IRC :/21:18
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