[14:30] <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] <EtherMan> part about that one is that if I use two finger scrolling, then it reacts right away :/
[14:33] <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 :/
[14:34] <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.
[14:35] <akemhp> I think you're better off with a USB or bluetooth mouse.
[14:36] <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.
[14:38] <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
[14:39] <akemhp> I don't know about this one sorry.
[14:42] <lubot> corncobweb was added by: corncobweb
[14:44] <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.
[14:45] <lubot> <corncobweb> I have done the sha256 verification
[14:46] <lubot> <corncobweb> This is the error that etcher gives
[14:47] <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.
[14:51] <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?
[14:52] <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
[14:53] <EtherMan> or N0um3n0 perhaps is who I should ping :)
[15:01] <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.
[15:02] <lubot> <N0um3n0> It seems to be a general bug in Toshiba, try to see if it works
[15:04] <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
[15:09] <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
[15:31] <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
[15:32] <lubot> <N0um3n0> @EtherMan [<EtherMan> Well, I bit the bullet and installed it so I could reboot properly. C …], Perfect
[15:51] <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.
[15:52] <lubot> <corncobweb> you're using an old macbook to make the USB, or you want to boot lubuntu on an old macbook?
[15:53] <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.
[15:54] <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.
[16:06] <lubot> <corncobweb> Are you having the same issue, or are you having a different issue?
[17:10] <lubot> <corncobweb> I rebooted my mac and etcher worked, haha sorry
[17:14] <lubot> <Joe> acpi bios error (bug) \_sb.pci0._ osc excess arguments- asl declared 5, acpi requires 4
[17:15] <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
[17:16] <lubot> <aptghetto> Why don't you ask in a Zorin support channel?
[17:16] <lubot> <Joe> I don't have any
[17:20] <wxl> you do: https://forum.zorin.com/
[17:20] <wxl> otherwise, there's ##linux which is more general
[17:20] <lubot> <Joe> Thankyou
[17:59] <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?
[18:01] <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
[18:03] <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
[18:07] <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
[18:08] <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.
[18:09] <wxl> i mean physical damage. there's ways you could stress things out i'm sure, but unlikely
[18:11] <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.
[18:13] <wxl> beyond that i struggle to come up with a good real world example
[18:19] <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
[20:44] <lubot> <aptghetto> Just ask the NASA or Boeing or ... for examples of destroyed hardware caused by software.
[20:46] <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.