[02:04] <lotuspsychje> good morning to all
[02:06] <pragmaticenigma> nighty night
[02:06] <lotuspsychje> hey pragmaticenigma
[02:06] <pragmaticenigma> yo
[02:07] <pragmaticenigma> think we finally got B|akops straightend out
[02:07] <pragmaticenigma> at least for now
[02:07] <lotuspsychje> oh yeah? what served him finally?
[02:07] <daftykins> until next time? :)
[02:08] <pragmaticenigma> What it appears to be, is the hope that Ubuntu (linux) will magicially breath new life into a 13 year old computer and have all the bells and whistles
[02:09] <pragmaticenigma> tonight it was glitchy graphics, because they were attempting to install the proprietary drivers and manually trying to install other drivers for an ATI Mobility Radeon X1400
[02:09] <pragmaticenigma> A chipset that is so old, it is best served by the default opensource drivers
[02:09]  * daftykins chuckles
[02:09] <pragmaticenigma> They even claimed as much when they said everything was running smoothly on the USB live instances
[02:09] <daftykins> polishing a turd is a true favourite of open source converts
[02:09] <lotuspsychje> i explained him, i ran xenial/bionic for years on my amd3200 + ati x800 with 2gb
[02:10] <lotuspsychje> tweaked of course but..
[02:10] <pragmaticenigma> lotuspsychje: but I imagine you are not installing the proprietary drivers for that... or if you are, you sought out the ones for that particualr chipset
[02:13] <pragmaticenigma> I think they come away with a better understanding of what's going on at the very least... now we just have to get them to move away from Unity
[02:14] <lotuspsychje> pragmaticenigma: my x800 finally died, so i had to buy other goodies :p
[02:14] <pragmaticenigma> The statement I gave them about if they don't like the changes made, then move over to Lubuntu or Xubuntu ... since neither has changed much at all since 12.04
[02:15] <pragmaticenigma> at least interface wise... under the hood they've had lots of changes, but they strive to keep a familiar interface through and through
[02:15] <lotuspsychje> yeah he didnt want lightweight, cause ubuntu-desktop is 'purple' bling bling
[02:15] <pragmaticenigma> right... not that you can't achieve the same feel on Lubuntu
[11:17] <BluesKaj> Howdy folks
[11:17] <EoflaOE> Hi BluesKaj
[11:17] <BluesKaj> hi EoflaOE
[11:54] <TJ-> Sunday morning progress - fixed the mouse sending spurious scroll-wheel events... took it apart again, opened the rotating switch itself, IPA-ed it and generally poked about, and re-assembled. Must have been something conductive caught in the spring-loaded prongs
[12:22] <EoflaOE> TJ-: Nice. Are there any problems left?
[12:23] <TJ-> I think I've made it smoother than it ever was but that may just be me being hyper-sensitive to it after suffering for a month or so!
[12:24] <TJ-> It's a definite relief though to not have to use the touchpad to scroll!
[12:26] <EoflaOE> OK. Would you be able to help me about making GRUB use 1440x900 resolution? Since I use 19.10 I will have to ask in #ubuntu+1.
[12:37] <Mathisen> EoflaOE, edit /etc/default/grub GRUB_GFXMODE=whatever
[12:38] <EoflaOE> Mathisen: I already did that in the past and updated GRUB, but it still is 1024x768
[12:39] <Mathisen> try adding GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD="keep"
[12:40] <EoflaOE> I already have it added as well.
[12:40] <Mathisen> then im out of ideas
[12:40] <Mathisen> but that should work
[12:41] <EoflaOE> Yes, should have worked, but didn't.
[12:44] <lotuspsychje> hey EoflaOE
[12:44] <Mathisen> EoflaOE, may be related https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1753837
[12:44] <ubot5> Ubuntu bug 1752767 in grub2-signed (Ubuntu Bionic) "duplicate for #1753837 grub2 regression, simultaneous console and video graphical glitches with new patch" [Undecided,Fix released]
[12:44] <lotuspsychje> and hi Mathisen TJ-
[12:50] <EoflaOE> Mathisen: I can't see --append on the 00_header. Where can it be found?
[12:51] <TJ-> EoflaOE: because the fix mentioned in those bugs removed it
[12:53] <EoflaOE> OK.
[12:57] <EoflaOE> I put the quotes around the resolution, still nothing. Did I found a bug? My GPU is AND Radeon 9200 Series.
[12:58] <EoflaOE> AMD*
[13:11] <lotuspsychje> EoflaOE: did you test physical vs VM ?
[13:12] <EoflaOE> Physical on my old PC.
[13:13] <lotuspsychje> EoflaOE: no grub res problem there?
[13:14] <EoflaOE> I told it to set it to 1440x900 and updated grub, however it reverts back to 1024x768.
[13:18] <OerHeks> radeon 9200 .. too old
[13:18] <EoflaOE> Yes. Too old.
[13:18] <OerHeks> i remember it is an onboard GPU
[13:19] <EoflaOE> Radeon 9200 is the dedicated GPU that you can insert and remove.
=== lotus|i7 is now known as lotus|NUC
[13:23] <TJ-> EoflaOE: use 'videoinfo' from GRUB shell to find out what modes it detects (from firmware) https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/grub.html#videoinfo
[13:25] <EoflaOE> TJ-: OK. I saw resolutions like 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, etc. Although the preferred mode is 1440x900, it's not listed there. The 0x123 is selected. I can't go up to see the rest.
[13:26] <TJ-> EoflaOE: use "set pager=1" then rerun the command
[13:27] <OerHeks> it is not a bug, just a too old gpu, RV280 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver#Supported.2C_but_hardware_is_too_old_for_Unity
[13:29] <EoflaOE> TJ-: Thanks. The Cirrus CLGD 5446 PCI Video driver, Bochs PCI video driver, and the VGA Video Driver say "No Info Available",   then, on VESA BIOS Extension Video Driver, I first saw my VRAM which is 12MB which is wrong, then the paletted planar and paletted resolutions of 800x600 and 1024x760. But there is no 1440x900 resolution available on the I
[13:29] <EoflaOE> nfo.
[13:34] <TJ-> EoflaOE: which is why GRUB cannot set the mode correctly then
[13:35] <EoflaOE> OK Thanks anyways.
[13:39] <TJ-> EoflaOE: is that system UEFI or BIOS boot ?
[13:40] <EoflaOE> BIOS. My old PC can't do UEFI because it's from 2004.
[13:40] <TJ-> EoflaOE: If UEFI there ought to be a GOP driver which would correctly report modes
[13:40] <TJ-> Ahhh... ouch, that is old!
[13:40] <ZaZaGX> update it!
[13:41] <TJ-> Back then even VGA BIOS functions often didn't report a correct list of modes, only hard-coded standard SVGA modes, and 1440x900 isn't one of them
[13:41] <ZaZaGX> ohhh ok
[13:42] <EoflaOE> OK. Thanks for the clarification.
[13:45] <ZaZaGX> I think Ubuntu doesn't like my laptop
[13:45] <OerHeks> not only ubuntu, whole linux does not like your gpu :-(
[13:46] <ZaZaGX> :(
[13:47] <OerHeks> not sure there are AGPx2/x4 cards supported
[13:47] <ZaZaGX> thats pretty old
[13:47] <EoflaOE> ZaZaGX: What is your GPU?
[13:48] <ZaZaGX> Intel UHD graphics 620
[13:49] <OerHeks> oh, i swiched cards, intel 620 should work fine
[13:49] <EoflaOE> Too new. Mine on my new PC is UHD 630.
[13:51] <ZaZaGX> hmmm
[13:53] <ZaZaGX> Does the new Ubuntu 18.04.3 kernel saves more battery life like in the 19.04?
[13:53] <OerHeks> ZaZaGX, there are no stats about that, it depends on the services installed i guess
[13:54] <ZaZaGX> well i remember reading since 18.10, its supposedly support better battery life
[14:01] <ZaZaGX> well, i kind of miss Ubuntu. it gave me like 1-2 more hours of battery life
[14:58] <Kon-> lotuspsychje: You asked me if I'd reported my bug, here it is https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-signed-hwe/+bug/1839750
[14:58] <ubot5> Ubuntu bug 1839750 in linux-signed-hwe (Ubuntu) "40% performance loss in Mesa with Linux 5.0" [Undecided,New]
[15:24] <lotuspsychje> tnx Kon-
[15:25] <lotuspsychje> Kon-: can you also attach your dmesg booting 5.0.0.23 please
[15:27] <Kon-> Actually have no idea what that is
[15:27] <lotuspsychje> !dmesg | Kon-
[15:27] <ubot5> Kon-: dmesg is a console command which outputs the kernel ring buffer - an important log for diagnosing problems in  Linux. Often when something errors with hardware it will result in additional lines reported which can be seen by running dmesg in a console.
[15:31] <Kon-> Interesting, thanks
[15:36] <lotuspsychje> Kon-: you can save it in a .txt if you like, then add to the bug as attachment (booted from 5.0.0.23)
[15:38] <lotuspsychje> Kon-: it might also be interesting to describe, how you measured the 40% loss exactly? do you benchmark?
[15:39] <Kon-> Sure thing, let me go do that real quick
[15:39] <lotuspsychje> Kon-: tnx for taking your time to do this
[15:39] <Kon-> Well, I certainly want this fixed lol
[15:50] <lotuspsychje> dmesg has been attached to bug #1839750
[15:50] <ubot5> bug 1839750 in linux-signed-hwe (Ubuntu) "40% performance loss in Mesa with Linux 5.0" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1839750
[15:53] <daftykins> going so new probably needs a PPA'd newer shiny mesa
[15:55] <lotuspsychje> not sure whats going on, he's fine on kernel 4.18
[16:01] <lotuspsychje> Kon-: tnx for updating your bug + dmesg, pretty useful!
[16:02] <Kon-> No problem
[16:05] <lotuspsychje> Kon-: can you show us: sudo lshw -C video plz?
[16:10] <Kon-> Sure
[16:12] <Kon-> added that to the description
[16:13] <lotuspsychje> tnx
[16:20] <lotuspsychje> TJ-: i know youre all over the place, but its raining install bugs in #ubuntu-bugs-announce
[16:21] <jeremy31> failed to install grub-efi-amd64 to /target?
[16:23] <lotuspsychje> grub-installer & ubiquity filed against
[16:23] <lotuspsychje> bug #1839761
[16:23] <ubot5> bug 1839761 in grub-installer (Ubuntu) "grub" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1839761
[16:23] <lotuspsychje> bug #1839762
[16:23] <ubot5> bug 1839762 in grub-installer (Ubuntu) "grub error" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1839762
[16:23] <lotuspsychje> bug #1839770
[16:23] <ubot5> bug 1839770 in ubiquity (Ubuntu) "NVMe. Crash during installation" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1839770
[16:23] <lotuspsychje> bug #1839771
[16:23] <ubot5> bug 1839771 in ubiquity (Ubuntu) "Install of 19.04 failed on Lenovo Thinkpad W520" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1839771
[16:24] <jeremy31> It seems grub has problems installing to EFI with an internet connection after any update to grub packages
[16:27] <TJ-> is that for 19.10 or others ?
[16:27] <jeremy31> TJ-: pretty much everything since 18.04
[16:33] <jeremy31> There was a big outbreak on July 10, 2018
[16:33] <TJ-> this may be related to gst568293's questions earlier, note in bug #1839761 UbiquitySyslog.txt " grub-installer: info: Identified partition label for /dev/sda6: msdos"
[16:33] <ubot5> bug 1839761 in grub-installer (Ubuntu) "grub" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1839761
[16:33] <TJ-> What's changed in that time-frame for ubiquity to have it selecting a partition rather than whole device ?
[16:39] <lotuspsychje> grub-installer: info: Calling 'apt-install grub-efi-amd64-signed' failed
[16:39] <lotuspsychje> those all over the place
[16:50] <jeremy31> 1839761 That one is trying to EFI install with msdos partitioning
[16:55] <TJ-> jeremy31: which is perfectly valid
[16:55] <OerHeks> UEFI needs GPT, no?
[16:57] <TJ-> No
[16:57] <TJ-> UEFI spec requires support for both GPT and MSDOS labels
[17:01] <TJ-> finally found where in ubiquity source the install device is set:
[17:01] <TJ-> db_subst grub-installer/progress/step_install_loader BOOTDEV "$bootdev"
[17:01] <TJ-> d-i/source/grub-installer/grub-installer:1002:db_subst grub-installer/progress/step_install_loader BOOTDEV "$bootdev"
[17:02] <TJ-> so whatever is setting that debconf var
[17:23] <jeremy31> TJ-: is $bootdev in preseed file
[17:26] <jeremy31> https://gist.github.com/boxrick/3a4022d003daa63b7d27cca7f0f99894#file-gistfile1-txt-L48
[17:33] <TJ-> jeremy31: from what I can tell it can be but it is set from the (default) choice made in the GUI... it looks like grub-install does the correct thing now even when given a partition number. I can't be bothered to track down when that changed though!
[17:34] <TJ-> lotuspsychje: I've been going through several of those bugs and so far each one is 'user error' or 'network failure' or some form - in one case trying to install to an NTFS file-system!
[17:34] <TJ-> lotuspsychje: so maybe this a a by-product of the installer allowing/selecting a partition as the install target.
[17:37] <TJ-> this was a funny one  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1838070
[17:37] <ubot5> Ubuntu bug 1838070 in grub2 (Ubuntu) "Unable to add dyndbg to command line" [Undecided,Invalid]
[19:08] <OerHeks> lotuspsychje, "I had to turn up the brightness and it stopped"  ...?  https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/cojwj8/i_was_running_ubuntu_18042_on_lenovo_thinkpad/