[00:33] <mrd2689a> tHi everyone.  I just did a clean install of Xubuntu on an Asus X551M laptop, with the hard drive completely formatted.  The wireless/bluetooth adaptor is an Atheros AR9485.  I cannot get the bluetooth to work.  Every time that I click on "Bluetooth manager" or "bluetooth adapters", nothing loads/happens.  Can anyone please help me out?
[00:40] <mrd2689a> I formatted my hard drive and did the clean install of Xubuntu per the recs from another user from this IRC channel, because before I had a (broken) dual-boot setup with Windows 10, and that user thought that might have been related to my troubles with the bluetooth.
[00:41] <genii> That chipset does not have Bluetooth
[00:42] <raccoon_dog> mrd2689a: Did you give us the correct model of chipset?
[00:43] <raccoon_dog> mrd2689a: I'm searching online, and that chipset only has wireless -- it has no Bluetooth radio that I can see.
[00:43] <mrd2689a> I suppose that I am not 100% on the chipset.  I googled my laptop and I that's the chipset that I got via the Google search, but it might have been incorrect info.  Is there an easy way to verify?
[00:46] <genii> Usually lspci and lsusb will tell you what the hardware is
[00:47] <mrd2689a> Holy crap genii you are right .  I just Googled my laptop again and it appears that it does not have bluetooth!  How embarrassing!  And frustrating.....
[00:47] <mrd2689a> I really thought that it did.
[00:47] <genii> When combined with the swtiches which report vendor:device codes, ambiguous ones can be further investigated
[00:47] <raccoon_dog> mrd2689a: I hope you didn't just reformat to try and fix this issue, only to find out your hardware doesn't have Bluetooth.
[00:48] <genii> mrd2689a: Well, this might explain why trying to enable it has been problemmatic....
[00:49] <mrd2689a> I just did lsusb and lspci and I did verify that it's the AR9485
[00:49] <mrd2689a> No other mention of bluetooth, neither
[00:49] <raccoon_dog> Yes. That chipset does not have Bluetooth capabilities.
[00:49] <mrd2689a> Yes, this seems to explain the problem!!
[00:50] <mrd2689a> I *did* do the reformat to fix this issue.... but to be honest, I had a Win10 that I could not boot into, so I suppose that it was worth getting rid of the dual-boot
[00:50] <mrd2689a> Thanks for your help!
[00:50] <raccoon_dog> I see, so it wasn't totally useless. No problem!
[18:36] <mrfree> hi all, I upgraded my xubuntu 20.04.1 yesterday and today it doesn't boot anymore (black screen with the pointer=
[18:37] <mrfree> Xorg.0.log shows
[18:37] <mrfree> (EE) Failed to open authorization file "/var/run/sddm/{xxxxx}": No such file or directory
[18:39] <mrfree> here is the apt history of what got actually updated yesterday
[18:39] <mrfree> https://pastebin.com/AdpQnjrK
[18:43] <tomreyn> does xubuntu use sddm as a login manager? i was thinking it uses lightdm
[18:43] <diogenes_> mrfree, sddm?
[18:44] <diogenes_> right that's odd.
[18:44] <mrfree> yeah, it looks like it's using sddm
[18:44] <tomreyn> yours is, a fresh installation wouldn't
[18:44] <mrfree> should I try to switch to lightdm?
[18:45] <mrfree> perhaps I tried it in the past and forgot
[18:45] <diogenes_> i never heard Xubuntu to use sddm.
[18:47] <Maik> Xubuntu uses lightdm by default
[18:48] <mrfree> Oops sorry guys... I'm connected remotely and I didn't realize that's a lubuntu box :P
[18:49] <diogenes_> lol
[18:49] <Maik> good morning to you :D
[18:49] <tomreyn> :)
[19:03] <Brinso> hi
[19:03] <Brinso> im new here
[19:07] <tomreyn> yes you were
[19:39] <Bischoop> I had disable lightdm (systemctl disable lightdm) but now I'm stuck on /dev/sda7 clean, xxxx files xxxx blocks
[19:42] <Bischoop> I went to recovery mode and tried systemctl enable lightdm.services but seen a notices, I've done then: systemctl unmask lightdm it was done but then according to Google I should done systemctl demon-reload (thought it's more Debian thing) but it was also on Buntu site.
[19:42] <Bischoop> However it showed command not recognised. Any thoughts?
[19:47] <Bischoop> Ok needed to get into terminal lol