| EtherMan | Hi so I'm hoping someone can help, but I have an old laptop with a touchpad that I can't seem to get to work right. In windows it works fine but in linux, I have both really poor sensitivity on it so I have to actually press on it for it to feel my finger, as well as that there's a weird delay between when I touch the pad and any inputs actually happen. Like half a second or so delay before it starts accepting movement. The weirdest | 14:30 |
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| EtherMan | part about that one is that if I use two finger scrolling, then it reacts right away :/ | 14:30 |
| EtherMan | Anyone know anything about either issue? For sensitivity, I'm only finding how to set up how far it moves which isn't the same thing. And for delay, I find nothing at all :/ | 14:33 |
| akemhp | EtherMan, I think you're out of luck on this one, your touchpad probably has bad support that's about it...Check in the bios of your laptop if you have a setting related to touchpad, like "advanced/basic", if yes set it to "basic" mode. | 14:34 |
| akemhp | I think you're better off with a USB or bluetooth mouse. | 14:35 |
| EtherMan | No settings in the cmos setup relating to it no. I can turn it off but that's how far the settings for it goes. | 14:36 |
| EtherMan | I do find references to changing the input from xinput to synaptics own but that doesn't seem to stick cross reboots on a liveusb. Any way to make that stick without fully installing? Don't really want to wipe out Windows if this doesn't work out anyway | 14:38 |
| akemhp | I don't know about this one sorry. | 14:39 |
| lubot | corncobweb was added by: corncobweb | 14:42 |
| lubot | <corncobweb> Hello, I am a newbie at linux. BalenaEtcher on MacOS is throwing an unhelpful error when I try to etch 20.04.1 to a USB pen drive. | 14:44 |
| lubot | <corncobweb> I have done the sha256 verification | 14:45 |
| lubot | <corncobweb> This is the error that etcher gives | 14:46 |
| lubot | <corncobweb> Attention … Something went wrong. If it is a compressed image, please check that the archive is not corrupted. … The writer process ended unexpectedly. | 14:47 |
| lubot | <N0um3n0> @corncobweb [Attention … Something went wrong. If it is a compressed image, please check that t …], https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/2933 | 14:51 |
| lubot | <N0um3n0> @EtherMan [<EtherMan> Hi so I'm hoping someone can help, but I have an old laptop with a to …], With what hardware? | 14:51 |
| lubot | <corncobweb> Dang, I'm using mojave (10) not catalina (11) | 14:52 |
| EtherMan | lubot, Toshiba C50D-A-133 | 14:52 |
| lubot | <N0um3n0> Is the same command | 14:52 |
| EtherMan | or N0um3n0 perhaps is who I should ping :) | 14:53 |
| lubot | <N0um3n0> @EtherMan [<EtherMan> lubot, Toshiba C50D-A-133], Restart your laptop and while restarting press Fn+F2 to enter into BIOS and press Fn+F5 in order to refresh the hardware settings (although you cant see the BIOS getting refreshed). That's it and now just save and exit from BIOS and your touchpad starts working. | 15:01 |
| lubot | <N0um3n0> It seems to be a general bug in Toshiba, try to see if it works | 15:02 |
| EtherMan | It's not that the touchpad isn't working though... It is. It's just having annoying issues in specifically linux. Or at least, both lubuntu and Debian | 15:04 |
| lubot | <N0um3n0> @EtherMan [<EtherMan> It's not that the touchpad isn't working though... It is. It's just h …], The forum spoke of malfunctions, especially not responding correctly | 15:09 |
| EtherMan | Well, I bit the bullet and installed it so I could reboot properly. Changed to synaptics driver and now it works like a charm. Well, almost. Still have to figure out how to get natural scrolling to work with these settings since they're different than xinput | 15:31 |
| lubot | <N0um3n0> @EtherMan [<EtherMan> Well, I bit the bullet and installed it so I could reboot properly. C …], Perfect | 15:32 |
| Guest_60 | Is it possible to make bootable USB or DVD of Lubuntu to boot on OLD MacBook? I tried many different methodes and failed so far. | 15:51 |
| lubot | <corncobweb> you're using an old macbook to make the USB, or you want to boot lubuntu on an old macbook? | 15:52 |
| Guest_60 | I am using latest imac with Catalina to make the USB/DVD and then I want to boot it on an OLD MacBook and install it as primary OS. | 15:53 |
| Guest_60 | MacBook is from like 2007 I think | 15:53 |
| lubot | <corncobweb> I'm having problems with Etcher on MacOS Mojave. Are you having the same issue? | 15:53 |
| lubot | <corncobweb> Oh, IRC. I'll repost. | 15:53 |
| Guest_60 | I used that and that other app as well...problem yes | 15:54 |
| lubot | <corncobweb> Hello, I am a newbie at linux. BalenaEtcher on MacOS is throwing an unhelpful error when I try to etch 20.04.1 to a USB pen drive. … I have done the sha256 verification … This is the error that etcher gives … Attention … Something went wrong. If it is a compressed image, please check that the archive is not corrupted. … The writer | 15:54 |
| lubot | process ended unexpectedly. | 15:54 |
| lubot | <corncobweb> Are you having the same issue, or are you having a different issue? | 16:06 |
| lubot | <corncobweb> I rebooted my mac and etcher worked, haha sorry | 17:10 |
| lubot | <Joe> acpi bios error (bug) \_sb.pci0._ osc excess arguments- asl declared 5, acpi requires 4 | 17:14 |
| lubot | <Joe> @Joe [acpi bios error (bug) \_sb.pci0._ osc excess arguments- asl declared 5, acpi req …], I got this error when I tried to install zorin over lubuntu | 17:15 |
| lubot | <Joe> How could I fix it | 17:15 |
| lubot | <aptghetto> Why don't you ask in a Zorin support channel? | 17:16 |
| lubot | <Joe> I don't have any | 17:16 |
| wxl | you do: https://forum.zorin.com/ | 17:20 |
| wxl | otherwise, there's ##linux which is more general | 17:20 |
| lubot | <Joe> Thankyou | 17:20 |
| nmzm | Hello everyone. I'm sorry for disturbing you with a lame question, but I didn't found anything about that on forums. First of all I want to try install a system using a mini.iso. I do understand that I need to install tons of packages, but here's the question -> If I'll forget to install something it will not work(Ofc), but can something like that kill the PC at all? | 17:59 |
| nmzm | I'm asking because one of my friends tried that and twice he needed to buy a new monitor for some reason(I don't think that's because of missing packages, maybe he's PC configuration was wrong or smth like that) but it's better to ask before trying :D | 18:01 |
| lubot | <corncobweb> Generally a bad OS install won't damage the PC, and especially won't damage peripherals like a screen. | 18:03 |
| lubot | <N0um3n0> @nmzm [<nmzm> I'm asking because one of my friends tried that and twice he needed to bu …], It is very possible that if packages are missing something does not work, but it should not break anything | 18:03 |
| nmzm | Thank you :) I hope all will be fine then, gonna try it at some point :D | 18:07 |
| wxl | anything you do with software should not damage hardware | 18:07 |
| wxl | and packages generally have dependencies to make sure you install all the right items and come with default configurations, so it should be pretty easy | 18:08 |
| lubot | <corncobweb> wxl: not entirely true, if you're bypassing driver restrictions on some devices. But a screen should not be damaged regardless. | 18:08 |
| wxl | i mean physical damage. there's ways you could stress things out i'm sure, but unlikely | 18:09 |
| nmzm | I think my friend had this issue because of wrong PC specs(Maybe some components were incompatible). But I don't think that missing packages caused this :D | 18:11 |
| lubot | <N0um3n0> @wxl [<wxl> i mean physical damage. there's ways you could stress things out i'm sure, …], Even with a bug | 18:11 |
| lubot | <corncobweb> Haha, I've read about people's cheap headphones blowing out from trolls in voice chat playing loud noises. But of course that's because the headphones weren't up to spec, not the computer's fault. | 18:11 |
| wxl | beyond that i struggle to come up with a good real world example | 18:13 |
| lubot | <emergencyrussia> Asus Transformer Book T100 … Some people have burned internal speaker … It has some software volume limit on windows as a protection | 18:19 |
| lubot | <emergencyrussia> But that's an exception rather than a rule | 18:19 |
| lubot | <aptghetto> Just ask the NASA or Boeing or ... for examples of destroyed hardware caused by software. | 20:44 |
| aller1a | hey guys i have an older motherboard i am planning on using for a router a couple of weeks ago i tried to install lubuntu to a number of different harddrives but I couldnt get through the install process. Would it be possible to boot the system off a dvd and actually use it as a router or would it be better to do something on the drbl route. | 20:46 |
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