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| xu-irc95w | Hi all! I've installed Xubuntu on an external USB drive. However, when I plug it into a different port it doesn't boot (black screen, nothing happens, cannot get to console, Numlock still reacting). Grub and fstab access the disks by uuid. Any ideas? | 09:31 |
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| tomreyn | hmm, maybe it's your bios failing to find grub then? | 09:32 |
| tomreyn | you could edit /etc/default/grub and remove the "quiet splash" options there and then run sudpo update-grub and then boot the way it did not work previously | 09:33 |
| tomreyn | yIF it will then get to boot linux but fail after that, you should at least get to see logs on screen | 09:33 |
| tomreyn | xu-irc95w: ^ | 09:33 |
| xu-irc95w | I'll try that, thanks! Could also be an USB3 issue I think. Right now it booted off an USB2 port and I tried to move it to an USB3 one. | 09:34 |
| xu-irc95w | Any BIOS options I should look out for? | 09:34 |
| === twinsen is now known as twinsenbrim | ||
| tomreyn | xu-irc95w: all i can think of is that the bios stores the physical (hardware) path to your usb stick in its efi parameter store in nvram / cmos (if legacy bios). | 11:08 |
| tomreyn | usb 2 vs 3 should not really make a difference other than it'll be a different physical / device path, too | 11:09 |
| tomreyn | if the issue is that linux doesn't get to boot (see above on how to tell) then you should use the uefi / bios boot menu (which can usually be accessed by a model specific hotkey during POST - power on self test / while the vendor logo displays) to select the usb stick after changing its position | 11:11 |
| cousteau | OK, Xubuntu installed :D | 18:20 |
| cousteau | Now the complaints start! | 18:20 |
| cousteau | gdebi doesn't work | 18:20 |
| cousteau | There's a very silly bug in the Python code, should replace "...\S..." with r"...\S..." | 18:21 |
| tomreyn | !bug | 18:22 |
| ubottu | If you find a bug in Ubuntu or any of its official !flavors, please report it using the command « ubuntu-bug <package> » - See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs for other ways to report bugs. | 18:22 |
| tomreyn | before you do, please check on launchpad as to whether it has been reported before | 18:22 |
| cousteau | Oh and this is on the command line. GUI mode doesn't install at all. | 19:09 |
| cousteau | But OK, I will :) | 19:09 |
| cousteau | But I'm confused. I can't be the only one who can't install packages via double clicking a deb. Someone else would have noticed, right? | 19:09 |
| cousteau | Another thing (and this is more a question to see where to fix the problem). Does Xubuntu disable the touchpad by default when using the keyboard? Or is that my laptop's firmware? | 19:21 |
| cousteau | Didn't find anything relevant on the bios so I'll blame the system | 19:27 |
| tomreyn | cousteau: i'm not sure what disables the touchpad during keyboard input (my guess would be on the window manager). i don't currently use xfce / xubuntu myself. as for what happens when you double-click on a deb: i don't think this happen all that ofte, most people install software using a package manager. and on gnome, when you double-lick a .deb, i'm not sure anything would happen at all, but if it does, then it's probably that software center | 20:12 |
| tomreyn | loads, not gdebi. | 20:12 |
| tomreyn | and i'd guess it's discover on kde | 20:13 |
| tomreyn | personally, in the rare case that i'll install a .deb manually, i'll do so in a terminal emulator using apt because i'd really want to make sure i know whether its dependencies can be resolved properly. | 20:14 |
| cousteau | tomreyn: but both Steam and Discord are distributed as debs | 20:27 |
| * cousteau wants to play gamez | 20:27 | |
| tomreyn | both are available through package managers | 20:28 |
| tomreyn | there is a snap for discord, and for steam there is steam-installer | 20:31 |
| tomreyn | (apt) | 20:31 |
| cousteau | Re: touchpad not working when pressing keys. I installed synaptics and that seems to do the trick. Plus, I get to use the synaptic-based script I was using on my old laptop to tweak the touchpad settings. | 22:01 |
| tomreyn | chances are it is / was just a libinput option | 22:02 |
| banka_eshkeree | oh hey | 22:11 |
| tomreyn | hello there | 22:12 |
| banka_eshkeree | this is my first day using xubuntu, i was researching the app., and then i came this messenger, do pple often sit here? | 22:15 |
| cousteau | tomreyn: possibly. But I also wanted to mess with the one/two/three finger options and some other stuff and I couldn't figure out how to do it in libinput | 22:21 |
| cousteau | Oh and circular scrolling is cool too, not sure if libinput has that. | 22:21 |
| cousteau | And pinch to zoom... I think neither do :/ | 22:22 |
| tomreyn | banka_eshkeree: there are a bunch of folks using this irc support, yes | 22:22 |
| tomreyn | cousteau: i'm afraid i wouldn't know what the two support (or don't) | 22:22 |
| tomreyn | i never cared enough | 22:22 |
| cousteau | Well, I'm sort of a "middle button power user" myself so I quickly figured out how to use it easier :) | 22:23 |
| * cousteau suspects tomreyn doesn't even use a touchpad... or maybe even a mouse | 22:24 | |
| tomreyn | oh i used *that* as well | 22:24 |
| cousteau | (or maybe sporadically, when there's no other way around) | 22:24 |
| tomreyn | rarely a touchpad, yes | 22:24 |
| cousteau | Yeah they're not the best input method, I'll give you that | 22:25 |
| tomreyn | i even like the rubber pins better :) | 22:25 |
| cousteau | I never learned to use those | 22:25 |
| cousteau | OK so the good news is that this new laptop is actually very sweet. You know how laptop / hardware manufacturers randomly introduce annoying design features that cause things not to work? Well, so far I haven't found any obvious one | 22:29 |
| cousteau | (This even has the Ctrl key where it should be, instead of swapping places with Fn like they do on other models of the same vendor) | 22:30 |
| tomreyn | you could submit a probe to linux-hardware.org | 22:31 |
| cousteau | Only, the power button isn't detected by the OS for some reason. Pity; I kinda liked pressing the power button to get the shut down dialog | 22:31 |
| cousteau | (great feature of Xubuntu/XFCE, btw. Instead of just shutting down, nicely ask the user what they actually wanted to do) | 22:32 |
| * cousteau once accidentally shut down a desktop pc because he tripped and hit the "power" key on the keyboard... don't ask me why there was a "power" key on a keyboard | 22:32 | |
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