| <MattJ> How do I enter special characters? | |
| <TheSheep> MattJ: can you be a little more specific? | |
| <MattJ> Like in Windows... Alt + <keycode> | |
| <TheSheep> MattJ: how special and where? | |
| <MattJ> Very special :) | |
| <TheSheep> MattJ: enable the compose key | |
| <MattJ> Which is where? | |
| <TheSheep> MattJ: whereever you set it to be | |
| <TheSheep> MattJ: I'd recommend using the capslock key | |
| <MattJ> Where do I set it? | |
| <TheSheep> MattJ: no idea, in xorg.conf probably, tell me if you find out ;) | |
| <MattJ> ^^ | |
| <MattJ> TheSheep: xmodmap -e "keycode 66 = Multi_key" | |
| <MattJ> Thanks :) | |
| <MattJ> Though I'm not sure it's what I expected | |
| <MattJ> http://www.ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-174435.html | |
| <MattJ> That doesn't work, but I think it did in Dapper | |
| <sensei> lol.. I just saw my first Rugby match ever.. and da-amn, they made american football players look like old ladies with knitting kits! | |
| <sensei> .. with all their protective gear that is | |
| <somerville32> <g> | |
| <sully86> how do i set my default browser? | |
| <TheSheep> sully86: settings->prefferred applications | |
| <jason0_> I just built the wavelan plugin and did a make install, but I'm not seeing it when I go to add new item. Is there anything special I need to do? | |
| <TheSheep> jason0_: where did it install? | |
| <jason0_> TheSheep: /usr/local/share/xfce4/panel-plugins | |
| <TheSheep> jason0_: make a link to /usr/share/xfce4/panel-plugins | |
| <jason0_> TheSheep: how can i just tell it to install it in the correct place? | |
| <TheSheep> jason0_: --prefix=where-to-install | |
| <TheSheep> jason0_: when you do ./configure | |
| <jason0_> so in this case --prefix=/usr/share | |
| <TheSheep> no /usr | |
| <TheSheep> ./configure --prefix=/usr | |
| <TheSheep> then it can put some files to /usr/bin and some to /usr/share, etc. | |
| <jason0_> Okay, I'll give that a shot. Thanks. | |
| <jason0_> Hm.. still can't see it | |
| <wayne> jason0_: for my own information, why do you build yourself the wavelan plugin instead of using the one from xubuntu's distribution? | |
| <jason0_> wayne: The current release package has a bug that prevents it from recognizing my wireless card. Looks like it was fixed in version 0.52 | |
| <wayne> i see | |
| <wayne> maybe you could install the one from xubuntu, and then build your new plugin and overwrite the file? perhaps the build process is omitting something that the apt-get install would take care of for you | |
| <sully86> how can a friend send me his screen with vnc if we both are behind routers? | |
| <Buddha|> TheSheep - you still around? | |
| * somerville32 waves goodnight. | |
| <wayne> sully86: fixing the router is probably your only choice | |
| <wayne> any recommendation for a good, lightweight GUI ftp client? | |
| <drbreen> rxvt with ftp ;) | |
| <wayne> you missed the word "gui" :) | |
| <wayne> it's just that i have to move the same files back and forth over and over again, typin their names with terminal ftp would be a waste of time | |
| <sc0tt_> script it? | |
| <wayne> well it's MOSTLY the same files but they vary a bit | |
| <wayne> i'm a cli guy normally but this operation is best done in gui | |
| <drbreen> o.0 | |
| <drbreen> there is no operation best done in GUI | |
| <drbreen> for images there is script-du or image magick | |
| <drbreen> s/du/fu | |
| <wayne> that's a very bold statement | |
| <drbreen> yeah but moving files is a very CLI type of thing | |
| <wayne> given that you have no idea what i have to do, you make a lot of assumptions | |
| <drbreen> regarding my non-experience (duh), in GUI its typically difficult to grab only files that have exactly three 'X's and are larger than 45MB | |
| <wayne> grabbinb files that have three x's is not what i need to do | |
| <drbreen> then use konqueror ;) | |
| <drbreen> why "lightweight" ? | |
| <wayne> then WOW that was like 20 lines ago that I asked that simple question | |
| <wayne> lightweight cause this laptop is puuunyyy :( | |
| <drbreen> oh i forgot | |
| <drbreen> i am in #xubuntu | |
| <wayne> ah yeah heh | |
| <wayne> ah least this gives a new life to this old machine | |
| <drbreen> mhhh... | |
| <drbreen> have u tried gftp ? | |
| <wayne> i found kftpgrabber, looks small | |
| <drbreen> many ppl don't like it | |
| <wayne> if this one doesn't do it, i'll try it thanks | |
| <drbreen> haph luck | |
| <wayne> if all else fail, know of a good cli ftp client? with features like recursiveness | |
| <drbreen> uh-oh | |
| <drbreen> perhaps it's my own stupidity or it's my inability to read properly at 3:21 am but what exactly do you mean with "recursiveness" ? | |
| <wayne> that tcan download folder X and everything under it | |
| <wayne> or upload | |
| <drbreen> ah | |
| <drbreen> could be possible with mget on simple 'ftp' | |
| <drbreen> but i don't know | |
| <wayne> so i'll stick with GUI for now then | |
| <drbreen> or mput respectively | |
| <wayne> so far, KFTPgrabber is very neat. simple, quick, light | |
| <wayne> haha oh my ! Abuse of the pop up balloon :) | |
| <wayne> xfce's taskbar has the notification are or something with orage and battery and whatnot.. kftp is flashing every second because a new file is done hehe | |
| <wayne> and it concludes by crashing :( damn | |
| <drbreen> rofl | |
| <drbreen> orage is the king | |
| <wayne> well i guess i'll just use my wife's windows laptop instead and be done with this shit | |
| <wayne> i'll give a try to gftp first | |
| <wayne> drbreen: well so far i like it. Why do people say they don'T like gftp? | |
| <wayne> it could be multithreaded though | |
| <drbreen> i fo not know | |
| <drbreen> they just don't like it | |
| <drbreen> like one does not like windows xp LUNA styl | |
| <wayne> k | |
| <Jester45> !XGL | |
| <ubotu> Compiz (compositing window manager) and XGL (X server architecture layered on top of OpenGL) - Howto at http://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompositeManager - Help in #ubuntu-xgl - See http://tinyurl.com/pw5ez for Kubuntu systems | |
| <Jester45> is it faster with opengl or what | |
| <ellioTb> woohoo! borat is out | |
| <Nameless-One> O.O | |
| <Jester45> whats ip passthrough | |
| <ellioTb> google it! | |
| <ellioTb> hehe, jk, i dunno | |
| <sully86> borat has been out a couple weeks lol | |
| * ellioTb was talking about a GOOD *download* | |
| <ellioTb> i saw it in the theatre's opening night | |
| <ellioTb> was waiting for that movie for years | |
| <Lilandra> hey, so i installed xubuntu edgy and FC6 and realized that xubuntu had a (larger?) resolution than fedora...and i didn't know why. so i experimented and copied FC's xorg.conf to xubuntu and...things were now tinier (larger resolution?) but...on xubuntu it doesn't fit on a screen completely...there's about some slide. what i want to know is how do i get higher resolutions on xubuntu? | |
| <Jester45> if you have a lcd screen try useing the auto ajust button on it | |
| <Jester45> might fix the "not fitting on screen" | |
| <Lilandra> old crt | |
| <Jester45> o | |
| <Jester45> well you can manually move the screen over | |
| <Jester45> and increase/decrease it | |
| <Lilandra> i tried but it..oh..the move...hmmm...i was trying | |
| <Lilandra> okay i will try that again later | |
| <Lilandra> but why would it work on fedora with no fiddling? | |
| <Jester45> settings | |
| <Jester45> fc could be telling it to start an inch to the right | |
| <Jester45> while xubuntu says stay put | |
| <Lilandra> oh! | |
| <Lilandra> sounds a tad bit right, i know that even with ubuntu, debian, knoppix on the same system...and same xorg...things...look...different...as in positioning | |
| <Lilandra> i will try to see if i can modify it again | |
| <Lilandra> but why doesn't xubuntu recognize that my monitor can do the higher resolutions? | |
| <Jester45> i think it can ask the moniter | |
| <Jester45> or its dose trial and error | |
| <Lilandra> oh ok | |
| <Jester45> i know my friends xp machine setes itself higher than his moniter can go and the moniter shuts off | |
| <Jester45> but in xubuntu it only showed the max | |
| <Lilandra> heh | |
| <Jester45> how high is yours trying to go | |
| <Nuked> can anyone point me to a definitive guide where I can enable beryl in xubuntu | |
| <Nuked> using aiglx | |
| <Nuked> and xubuntu is not the primary wm | |
| <Lilandra> it goes 1024x something....but...i will check what fedora is | |
| <Jester45> i cant | |
| <Jester45> im useing 2840 × 1895 1024 was so small | |
| <sully86> can someone sugguest how i can view network files in xubuntu? | |
| <Nuked> anyone? | |
| <Lilandra> fedora is 1600x1200 | |
| <Lilandra> i wouldnt mind that | |
| <sully86> i mounted a share with smbmount but can't see the files in the share | |
| <Commander-Crowe> whats a good pdf writer application? | |
| <Jester45> !pdf | |
| <ubotu> pdf is the Portable Document Format created by Adobe; viewable in GNU/Linux with xpdf/kpdf/gpdf, evince and also adobe reader (free download, but closed source) | |
| <Nuked> yeah but he asked what creates them | |
| <Jester45> i waS HOPEING IT WOULD TELL ME | |
| <Lilandra> i use pdflatex | |
| <Jester45> oops caps lock | |
| <Lilandra> or i use openoffice and print to pdf | |
| <Lilandra> export to pdf, sorry | |
| <Lilandra> or i create pdf files via latex/pdflatex | |
| <Commander-Crowe> you can do that with OpenOffice? | |
| <Lilandra> Wait, doesn't OpenOffice export to pdf? | |
| <Lilandra> file > export to pdf? | |
| <Lilandra> export as pdf | |
| <Lilandra> the other thing i was talking about was i create files in LaTeX and run it thru pdflatex | |
| <Commander-Crowe> eh | |
| <Lilandra> eh? | |
| <Commander-Crowe> openoffice is easier | |
| <Commander-Crowe> eh=yeah in Canadian | |
| <Lilandra> yeah! :) | |
| <Lilandra> but i didn't know what kind of file you wanted! :) | |
| <Lilandra> and most things can probably print to postscript and i think there are ps 2 pdf converters around | |
| <Commander-Crowe> text applications and forms is all I need | |
| <Commander-Crowe> it works fine | |
| <ellioTb> whats the command to check free disk space? | |
| <Lilandra> df ? | |
| <ellioTb> yeah, thanx | |
| <ellioTb> df -h | |
| <Lilandra> well i use -h...i dont know if others do..im lazy | |
| <Lilandra> :) | |
| <ellioTb> this old server of mine has a much bigger hd than i though | |
| <Lilandra> lol | |
| <ellioTb> u see the new 300GB cd's coming out | |
| <ellioTb> wow | |
| <ellioTb> 20MB/s transfer rate too | |
| <Commander-Crowe> Blu-ray or HDdvd? | |
| <ellioTb> holographic cd's | |
| <ellioTb> and they are working on 800GB and 1.5TB ones too | |
| <ellioTb> with 40MB/sec xfer rates | |
| <Commander-Crowe> ok | |
| <Commander-Crowe> gonna go now | |
| <Lilandra> k | |
| <Nuked> how can I get beryl to run on xubuntu? | |
| <Nuked> I have it installed and using aiglx | |
| <Nuked> but it wont run on xubuntu | |
| <Nuked> how do I get it to work | |
| <PuMpErNiCkLe> What are you doing to run it? | |
| <Nuked> beryl-manager | |
| <Nuked> should I use beryl and emerald instead | |
| <PuMpErNiCkLe> use 'killall xfwm4 && beryl-manager' instead | |
| <Nuked> thats it? | |
| <PuMpErNiCkLe> Because xfwm is a compositing manager, beryl usually refuses to start. | |
| <Nuked> ahhhhh | |
| <Nuked> ill try iy | |
| <Nuked> t | |
| <Nuked> PuMpErNiCkLe: excellent! | |
| <PuMpErNiCkLe> Nuked: cool | |
| <Nuked> very | |
| <Nuked> I dont use that water plugin thing though | |
| <Nuked> never got it to work | |
| <cellofellow> exit | |
| <Lilandra> so i managed to make my resolution right for my login and my login alone...how do i make it so for gdm? | |
| <Nameless-One> O.O | |
| *** NotJKnife is now known as JKnife | |
| <Surghi> hi | |
| <maxamillion> hello all | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> hello world | |
| <maxamillion> hi hi | |
| <nante> lol, hi bigfuzzyjesus | |
| <nante> im new to ubuntu, and im told to download xubuntu because i have an older pc | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> whats going on in this room | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> yeah | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> its a solid flavor of ubuntu | |
| <maxamillion> nante: that's not the only reason to use xubuntu imo, but yes ... you should | |
| <nante> the install went ok, and i read some faqs on how to make the serial mouse go | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> im on a 900 mhz celeron with 256 of ram and it runs like xp on my 1.6 p4 | |
| <maxamillion> bigfuzzyjesus: nothing at all ... been quiet since i logged in | |
| <nante> i have trouble with enabling the nvidia glx something | |
| <nante> it says md5 error, i dont know how to work around it | |
| <maxamillion> i run xubuntu on powerful machines that would make childs play of gnome, i just prefer xfce | |
| <nante> is there a way to download the nvidia stuff to make it work on my pc at home? | |
| <maxamillion> nante: its just a bad download ... re-do "sudo apt-get update" and try again | |
| <nante> pc at home, no internet | |
| <nante> pc here at school, have internet | |
| <nante> is there a way to transport it at home? | |
| <nante> anyway, i'll be back after class, i left my stuff at the classroom just to peek here, nice community :P | |
| <maxamillion> nante: uhmmm... yeah, but you would have to make sure you installed the nvidia-glx dependencies first | |
| <Lilandra> there's webpages with the dependencies...i forget and u just have to make srue to click almost all the lnks to download what u need. it's a pain but idid it once | |
| <Lilandra> 'night all | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> maxamillion, way to make me jealous | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> maxamillion, what kind of "powerful machines"? | |
| *** atarinox is now known as pilibeen | |
| <maxamillion> bigfuzzyjesus: home machine is an Athlon64 3200+ w/ 1gb ddr ram, nvidia geforce 6200 (nothing special, but can handle gnome) .... work machine: Athlon64 X2 4600+, 2gb ddr2 ram, nvidia geforce 7900+ (power house), and my older iBookG4 1ghz, 768mb of ram, 32mb ati mobility 9200 (again, nothing special but still able to handle gnome with ease) | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> ass hat | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> lol | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> i hate you | |
| <pilibeen> maxamillion: do you do graphics work? | |
| <maxamillion> pilibeen: nope, i'm just a student position sys-tech for my university ... that's just the machine they gave me | |
| <maxamillion> pilibeen: i'm a full time student (computer science major) | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> i have a pc with a athlon64 1200+ with no ram (need to get some) and a nvidia geforce 6200 i can oc it up to 2.5 and it has a 120 gb drive, bought it for 20 bucks just need some cheap ram :( | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> have any ram for cheap | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> i want a gig | |
| <crimsun> Pentium 233 MMX, 80 MB RAM. | |
| <crimsun> so shush. | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> the pc im on right now is 900 mhz and my pc with xp is 1.2 ghz with 256 ram and a nvidia 5600 (it sucks donkey balls) | |
| <maxamillion> bigfuzzyjesus: there is not such thing as an athlon64 1200+ | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> and a 3/4 full 60 gig and full 120 gig ext | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> we have a shit load of music | |
| <maxamillion> crimsun: and that is all the power you _should_ need | |
| <crimsun> maxamillion: depends on the use case(s) | |
| <maxamillion> crimsun: i actually plan on getting an old machine from a friend over the holidays to test software on | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> maxamillion, well its a athlon64 clocked at 1.2 ghz what ever that means | |
| <crimsun> it's completely inadequate for simulations | |
| <maxamillion> crimsun: true | |
| <maxamillion> bigfuzzyjesus: ohhhh ... yeah, biiig difference ... that's probably around a 3200+ | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> oh sorry i dont know how amd breaks down their proc's, never had a AMD before | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> yeah so any cheap ram you wanna give me lol | |
| <pilibeen> maxamillion: why do you prefer xfce when speed isn't an issue? | |
| <maxamillion> bigfuzzyjesus: yeah, they have interesting naming conventions but it started out as "our 3000+ means it will perform as fast as a 3.0GHz intel" | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> oh | |
| <maxamillion> bigfuzzyjesus: wait ... sorry, i was wrong ... a 1.2ghz is probably a 2400+ | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> sweet balls | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> is it true though | |
| <maxamillion> bigfuzzyjesus: no, normally the amd performs a little better | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> oh well i booted it with ram i knicked off a my dads computer to test it and its pretty fast without being oc'd | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> but if i get a bigger heat sink i should be able to oc it up to 2.5 and still have it stabole | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> stable | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> it will be pretty good for what i use it for | |
| <maxamillion> i don't like over clocking ... i enjoy knowing things are stable | |
| <nante> lol | |
| <nante> just like my friend, he does not want to upgrade his celfone software, he says its tampering with nature | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> maxamillion, eh, i just want to so i can actually get some power out of this baby, so i can run itunes ok | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> lol | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> my dell runs it like shit | |
| <maxamillion> itunes on linux? | |
| <maxamillion> !language | |
| <ubotu> Please watch your language and keep this channel family friendly. | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> plus it only has 1.2 | |
| <nante> ok i have little question, i have a kingston 512 usb flash disk and i cant use it anymore in windows | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> no | |
| <nante> it detects the flash disk and but when i click it, it says insert disk | |
| <nante> can i do something about it in xubuntu | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> i dual boot on my 1.2 and would dual boot on the AMD, right now im an a all linux pc | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> and my dell only has usb 1.1, 2.0 is so much faster | |
| * maxamillion is away: reading BSD info | |
| <Surghi> I found something which needs to be changed | |
| <Surghi> There is a 7 Euro per day additional charge for single occupancy of a room. | |
| <Surghi> this sentence | |
| <Surghi> actually the situation is, that if someone does not come together with a partner, so if someone comes ALONE, he will get a SINGLE room. This costs 7 Euros more per day. | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> an additional charge of 7 euros will be applied to rooms with single occupancy | |
| <Surghi> if the person wants to stay ALONE in a double-bed room (made for 2 people) this costs 14 Euros more per day | |
| <Surghi> bigfuzzyjesus, your sentence does not give a difference between both situations | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> yeah | |
| <Surghi> I need to split it up in 2 different list items | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> yeah | |
| <Surghi> because of the summer prices page which makes a difference | |
| <Commander-Crowe> can you use some program to edit a PDF document? | |
| <Surghi> bigfuzzyjesus: are you still there? | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> yeah sorry | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> im really tired | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> sorry i was spacing out | |
| <Surghi> no need to be sorry | |
| <Surghi> I am grateful that you helped me at all | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> i think im going to go to bed | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> sorry | |
| *** bigfuzzyjesus is now known as bigfuzzyjesus_sl | |
| <Surghi> have a nice night :) | |
| <Surghi> sleep fine and thank you bigfuzzyjesus_sl | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus_sl> good night and good luck | |
| *** bigfuzzyjesus_sl is now known as bigfuzzyjesus | |
| <maxamillion> well i just learned more about freebsd than i ever thought i would | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> where did you read it at? | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> link | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> an iteresting read | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> maxamillion, where did you read it at? | |
| <maxamillion> oh, sorry .. i was checking email | |
| <maxamillion> uhmm... just a moment | |
| <maxamillion> bigfuzzyjesus: i will warn, its long ... but very informative, re-affirms my faith in the fact that i'm a debian user (xubuntu is 'a' debian) | |
| <maxamillion> http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php | |
| <maxamillion> he's very educated and its a great article | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> ty | |
| <maxamillion> yw | |
| <maxamillion> i need sleep | |
| <maxamillion> laters | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> see ya | |
| <arch> good morning | |
| <arch> i'm having an issue that maybe someone here can assist with | |
| <arch> just did the edgy upgrade yesterday, but for some reason my browser still says it's firefox 1.5 | |
| <arch> synaptic says that ff2 is what is installed | |
| *** bigfuzzyjesus is now known as sleep | |
| *** sleep is now known as bugfuzzysleep | |
| *** bugfuzzysleep is now known as bigfuzzysleep | |
| <catalytic> whats a good vpn client for linux? | |
| <MattJ> TheSheep: http://getjabber.no-ip.info/thunar_again.png | |
| <MattJ> Icons not so huge now :) | |
| <Olathe> Xfce is awesome. My system is actually responsive now. | |
| <MattJ> Yay :) | |
| <Olathe> Heheh | |
| <drbreen> and now try fluxbox ;) | |
| <icheyne> firefox has been crashing my xubuntu box completely when writing long emails in Gmail. I switched to Opera and the crashes seem to have stopped. Has anyone else reported this? | |
| <esc2> theSheep? | |
| <esc2> ah yes, i see you. sorry, i'm conecting via pjirc | |
| <esc2> reckon a pentium 445 Mhz will be ok as file server and gateway and possibly printserver for a school network of apprx 30 machines, running win 98 2000 and XP??? and will ubuntu be ok as server? | |
| <esc2> at the moment it has 356 megs of RAM, but i think it will need more.. | |
| <esc2> TheSheep? | |
| <arch> i'm having an issue that maybe someone here can assist with | |
| <arch> just did the edgy upgrade yesterday, but for some reason my browser still says it's firefox 1.5 | |
| <arch> synaptic says that ff2 is what is installed | |
| <icheyne> Try installing firefox manually - outside apt-get. That worked for me. | |
| <MattJ> icheyne: Someone said in #ubuntu that sice the last libpng update, their FF crashes | |
| <arch> haven't had crashing problems | |
| <MattJ> They said Ctrl + F crashed theirs | |
| <MattJ> It doesn't mine | |
| <arch> icheyne: did you have the same issue? | |
| <icheyne> MattJ, interesting - did it crash their entire machine or just ff? | |
| <MattJ> Just FF | |
| <icheyne> 'cos this one is an instant bsod (without the blue) | |
| <icheyne> ok | |
| <icheyne> well maybe it's my dodgy display drivers | |
| <icheyne> I am having problems on that machine with the display - so it could be linke | |
| <icheyne> linked | |
| <icheyne> :) | |
| <darrend_laptop> icheyne: what gfx card/driver? | |
| <icheyne> onboard intel | |
| <icheyne> onboard intel i850 I think | |
| <darrend_laptop> I have an issue with i810/i915 on my intel cards (845G and 855G) | |
| <darrend_laptop> the drivers DO cause total lockup under some circumstances | |
| <icheyne> darrend, interesting | |
| <darrend_laptop> the system keeps running (you can usually ssh into it ok if you have ssh running and see everything working) but the display freezes and no input is accepted | |
| <icheyne> darrend_laptop, maybe it's the same? The open office writer title bar looks awful too. Totally scrambled. | |
| <icheyne> darrend_laptop, well the symptoms are the same | |
| <darrend_laptop> likely to be your drivers then. | |
| <icheyne> yeah - I changed to vesa in xorg.conf but then nothing worked at all :( | |
| <icheyne> it's an ancient machine anyway | |
| <icheyne> time we upgraded | |
| <darrend_laptop> or just buy an old nvidia card or something to bypass the gfx | |
| <icheyne> oh yes that's a point | |
| <icheyne> but the monitor is scrambled most of the time anyway | |
| <icheyne> bios mode wobbles about and is offset on the screen, so I suspect it's the monitor at least partly | |
| <icheyne> but you are right that I should try ebaying for an old nvidia card | |
| * icheyne puts on a thoughtful face | |
| <darrend_laptop> hmm. With me, it's a fairly rare occurrence. Usually when playing bzflag and something like a gaim window pops up and steals focus. | |
| <darrend_laptop> the other thing that triggers it is opening a new X session (using the "New Login" button on the xscreensaver dialog) and then logging out of that 2nd session | |
| <icheyne> that's where most OS's have problems | |
| <icheyne> Windows hated windows popping up during 3d games | |
| <darrend_laptop> yeah, but windows locks hard for a wide variety of reasons anyway so it's difficult to pin it down :) | |
| <icheyne> sure! | |
| <MattJ> Haha :) | |
| <MattJ> Windows Vista solves that | |
| <MattJ> A dialog pops up, and tells you when it has bluescreened | |
| <MattJ> A bluescreen, without the blue, and turned into a dialog ^^ | |
| <Sp4rKy> hi | |
| <Sp4rKy> how can i change the keyboard keymap with xubuntu ? | |
| <Gloubiboulga> Sp4rKy: setxkbmap keymap | |
| <Sp4rKy> ^^ | |
| <Gloubiboulga> Sp4rKy: ;) | |
| <Gloubiboulga> hopfully we'll have a graphical tool for feisty | |
| <Sp4rKy> ^^ | |
| <hyper_ch> how to correctly install the nvidia drivers for a nVidia GeForce2 GTS/Pro | |
| <TheSheep> !nvidia | |
| <ubotu> To install the Ati/NVidia drivers for your video card, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto | |
| <hyper_ch> TheSheep: hmm, I got that nVidia screen upon boothing but glxinfo just returns errors | |
| <hyper_ch> !nvidia | |
| <BlueEagle> hyper_ch: Odds are that it would be helpful to anyone helping you to know what the help messages were. | |
| <BlueEagle> s/were/are/ | |
| <MattJ> How do you change the priority of a process? | |
| <PuMpErNiCkLe> 'renice' | |
| <MattJ> Ah, thanks :) | |
| <drbreen> is there a way to deattach a prozess from another ? | |
| <TheSheep> drbreen: not really, unless the programs are specially written to allow that | |
| <drbreen> mmmhhh | |
| <drbreen> is it possible do write a general "de-attacher" ? | |
| <TheSheep> screen | |
| <TheSheep> or nohup | |
| <drbreen> !nohup | |
| <ubotu> Sorry, I don't know anything about nohup - try searching on http://bots.ubuntulinux.nl/factoids.cgi | |
| <drbreen> !screen > drbreen | |
| <TheSheep> drbreen: man nohup | |
| <MattJ> Imagine that I run a program over SSH (I did last night from my laptop) | |
| <MattJ> Then, I wanted to switch PCs | |
| <drbreen> TheSheep: thanks | |
| <MattJ> ANy way to move the process? | |
| <TheSheep> screen | |
| <MattJ> I tried that | |
| <MattJ> But is there a way to attach it to a running process | |
| <MattJ> ? | |
| <TheSheep> no | |
| <drbreen> TheSheep: i don't really get that immunity to HUP signal gives me an advantage ?! | |
| <MattJ> ok :/ | |
| <TheSheep> MattJ: when the parogram starts, it attaches to the terminal input, output and error -- as if it was openning files | |
| <TheSheep> MattJ: unless the program is written so that it can re-open those files on demand, there is no way to reconnect it | |
| <MattJ> Ok, thanks | |
| <MattJ> I tried things like Ctrl+Z | |
| <TheSheep> MattJ: what screen does is providing 'fake' files, that can be reconnected | |
| <MattJ> and screen %1 | |
| <MattJ> but that gave me something wierd | |
| <MattJ> :) | |
| <MattJ> TheSheep, did you see the screenshot I pasted? | |
| <TheSheep> MattJ: no | |
| <MattJ> TheSheep, http://getjabber.no-ip.info/thunar_again.png | |
| <MattJ> My icons are not big this time :) | |
| <MattJ> Not in the tree, at least | |
| <TheSheep> MattJ: I can't think of a good procedure to collect data for a bug report | |
| <TheSheep> MattJ: unless you manage to reproduce it | |
| <MattJ> Me neither, because I can't reproduce it at will | |
| <MattJ> I just have to 'use Thunar' | |
| <MattJ> :) | |
| <TheSheep> MattJ: anything 'special' with your install or hardware? | |
| <TheSheep> MattJ: does it happen on different users? | |
| <MattJ> I have an ATI, with the fglrx driver... nothing else special | |
| <TheSheep> MattJ: maybe some files with weird names? | |
| <MattJ> I haven't tried other users | |
| <MattJ> No, I don't think so | |
| <MattJ> It happens in various places | |
| <TheSheep> files missing or owned by root? | |
| <TheSheep> (I mean config files) | |
| <TheSheep> sometimes you run some program as root and it creates config files in your user's home, and then the user can't access them... | |
| <MattJ> I have one such file... and it's nano's history | |
| <TheSheep> shoudn't matter, but you can fix it with sudo chown mattj.mattj filename | |
| <hyper_ch> strange, now my sound is gone | |
| <TheSheep> hyper_ch: maybe some app is using it, and your card can't do mixing? | |
| <hyper_ch> TheSheep: nothing is running that uses sound | |
| <hyper_ch> and vmware just told me can't connect to it | |
| <hyper_ch> just testing amarok now | |
| <hyper_ch> there is sound in amarok | |
| <hyper_ch> I'll reconfigure vmware | |
| <hyper_ch> TheSheep: nVidia legacy is running fine now but I had to remove the "composite" and that means no beryl | |
| <TheSheep> hyper_ch: well, that's what you get with binary drivers when the company drops support | |
| <TheSheep> hyper_ch: that woudn't happen with an open source driver | |
| <hyper_ch> TheSheep: well, I'll get myself a new comp anyway for xmas | |
| <hyper_ch> but not sure whether I should get intel or amd | |
| <hyper_ch> I still get that sound warning... hmmm | |
| <TheSheep> hyper_ch: best check some hardware forums, or even post on them asking for advice -- describe what you want the computer for, etc. -- those guys *love* to give advices :) | |
| <TheSheep> hyper_ch: be prepared for a flame war though | |
| <hyper_ch> well, what dual 64bit processor is better supported by *buntu? | |
| <TheSheep> no idea, look at forums | |
| <hyper_ch> : | |
| <esc_on_lucidrine> evening TheSheep | |
| *** esc_on_lucidrine is now known as esc | |
| <TheSheep> esc: hi | |
| <TheSheep> esc: how's your job? | |
| <esc> Fun! | |
| <TheSheep> it's good to get paid for having fun :) | |
| <esc> lots of stuff to learn, and basically do big iron, the hardware is in good shape and the network cabeling is great too, but the whole thing lacks software organization | |
| <esc> user accounts, harddrive space etc.. | |
| <TheSheep> esc: using ldap? | |
| <esc> i have a small budget with which to buy upgrades too :-) and they are basically giving me free hands | |
| <esc> !info ldap | |
| <ubotu> Package ldap does not exist in any distro I know | |
| <TheSheep> !ldap | |
| <ubotu> Sorry, I don't know anything about ldap - try searching on http://bots.ubuntulinux.nl/factoids.cgi | |
| <TheSheep> bah | |
| <esc> i was thinking samba myself | |
| <esc> its gonna be Win XP, 2000 and 98 clients | |
| <TheSheep> esc: active directory is ldap 'mbraced and extended' by ms | |
| <esc> ok | |
| <TheSheep> esc: ah, I thought it's all linux :) | |
| <esc> guess i'll have to do more reading | |
| <esc> noflex, not quite | |
| <esc> unfortunately | |
| <esc> but maybe i can pursuade them to use edubuntu | |
| <esc> they are already using firefox and openoffice | |
| <esc> which will be the two main applications anyway | |
| <esc> but the file server and gateway will be the main priorities | |
| <esc> but we will see | |
| <esc> TheSheep, what do you reckon as a server, xubuntu? | |
| <esc> or ubunutu without gnome | |
| <TheSheep> esc: no | |
| <esc> better said | |
| <TheSheep> esc: debian, I think | |
| <esc> grml | |
| <esc> debian's a bitch | |
| <TheSheep> esc: ubuntu is good for desktops | |
| <TheSheep> esc: servers need something a little bit more solid | |
| <TheSheep> esc: either debian, or slack, maybe :) | |
| <esc> Open School Server | |
| <esc> ubuntu is solid | |
| <esc> ist about 30 machines | |
| <esc> i think it should be fine, tbh | |
| <TheSheep> suse maybe? :) | |
| <esc> yeah, Open School Server is based on SuSe | |
| <esc> but i don't like SuSe and yast and what not | |
| <esc> it will need raid support obviously | |
| <esc> DebianEdu aka skoollinux looks interesting | |
| <esc> guess i'll look for something suitable | |
| <esc> one more question | |
| <esc> AMD 500 with 786 megs of ram, should be fine right? | |
| *** oem is now known as markinux | |
| <PuMpErNiCkLe> esc: Definitely. | |
| <MattJ> TheSheep, why is Ubuntu not solid enough for a server? | |
| <TheSheep> MattJ: takes time to build reputation :) | |
| <MattJ> :) | |
| <MattJ> Just that I plan to use it for just such a thing | |
| <MattJ> We shall see :) | |
| *** maverick`- is now known as maverick | |
| <TheSheep> I'm recently very disappointed in the linux kernel at all | |
| *** maverick is now known as maverick`- | |
| <MattJ> TheSheep, I've read people recommend the 2.4 kernel for high-load business | |
| <TheSheep> maybe it's true that Linux moves to the desktop -- *moves* | |
| <MattJ> Do you have any idea on that? | |
| <hyper_ch> maybe esc should explain more precicely what constitutes for him a "server" | |
| <esc> true | |
| <esc> should be a network file server | |
| <esc> and probabyl a NAT gateway | |
| <esc> and thats it | |
| <hyper_ch> then I'd go for a debian | |
| <esc> for 30 clients, ubuntu should be fine | |
| <TheSheep> nat is not expensive, file server depends on the disks | |
| <esc> i'll use a RAID for the file stuff | |
| <esc> and probabl one the custom school-servers | |
| <TheSheep> esc: software or hardware? | |
| <esc> hardware | |
| <hyper_ch> actually how would a openbsd be? | |
| <esc> i.e. two disks | |
| <TheSheep> esc: which raid? | |
| <esc> the backup one | |
| <esc> ist it Raid 1?? | |
| <esc> not sure | |
| <esc> not striping anyway | |
| <esc> i think the linux kernel should fork | |
| <esc> one for servers, one for clients | |
| <TheSheep> esc: what discs? scsi? | |
| <esc> SATA | |
| <esc> or even IDE | |
| <MattJ> esc, I think I agree | |
| <MattJ> I think it will happen anyway | |
| <esc> though since they are roughly the same price prolly SATA | |
| <Flosoft> hey | |
| <esc> on linux fork; its a very logical consequence based on the given neccesities :-) | |
| <MattJ> esc, perhaps Ubuntu will do it themselves :) | |
| <esc> as for disks: i'll check what scsi disks cost these days | |
| <TheSheep> esc: shoudn't be so expensive. ide won't hold long | |
| <TheSheep> especially if it's a file server | |
| <esc> yeah thats what i thought | |
| <Flosoft> how can I set the Default Keyboard Language? | |
| <esc> so i'll prolly go for SATA | |
| <esc> how are RAID controllers these days anyway? do they still require identical disks? | |
| <esc> geez i should really start turning off soon, its not good to be still working from Home. i'll take my notebook in with me 2 morrow and see if i can use it from within the network :-) | |
| <esc> then again i am the admin, so i'd be pretty poor if i fail to hook it up | |
| <Flosoft> anyone? | |
| <esc> setxkbmap maybe | |
| <esc> !info setxkbmap | |
| <ubotu> Package setxkbmap does not exist in any distro I know | |
| <esc> !keyboard | |
| <ubotu> Keyboard shortcuts can be set in system->preferences->keyboard shortcuts (Gnome) or "input actions" in Kcontrol (KDE). If your multimedia keys don't work with that, try keytouch - http://keytouch.sourceforge.net | |
| <esc> Flosoft, i have heard setxkbmap will work, but i have never tried it myself | |
| <esc> Flosoft, othersiwe you could try dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg | |
| <Flosoft> I did | |
| <esc> Flosoft, for setting the keyboard config for the terminal try kbd-config | |
| <Flosoft> I set the language to be | |
| <esc> hope that helps | |
| <Flosoft> but it is still de | |
| <esc> what did u use? | |
| <Flosoft> kbd-config : Command not found | |
| <esc> hmmm, i think thats a zsh command then | |
| <esc> cause i use zsh (like all of you should for my terminal) | |
| <esc> Flosoft, maybe restarting X with ctrl-backspace might do it, not sure though | |
| <Flosoft> already did that | |
| <esc> no luck? | |
| <Flosoft> nope | |
| <Flosoft> the login screen is still DE | |
| <Flosoft> (keyboard layout) | |
| <esc> ok, sorry i can't really help you right now, but keep trying :-) | |
| <PuMpErNiCkLe> !info xkbutils | |
| <ubotu> xkbutils: X11 XKB utilities. In component main, is optional. Version 1:1.0.2-0ubuntu1 (edgy), package size 161 kB, installed size 448 kB | |
| <PuMpErNiCkLe> Was that what you were looking for? | |
| <esc> probably :-) | |
| <Flosoft> hmm ... I can't find the setting for the stupid language | |
| <Flosoft> any other location? | |
| <ochosi> hi, anyone there who can help me with an alsa mic problem? | |
| <ochosi> nobody here? | |
| <TheSheep> ochosi: nobody experienced with alsa mics | |
| <ochosi> TheSheep, ok, thanks. that's what i assumed... | |
| <Flosoft> ok ... still noone here who can tell me how I can change the default keyboard layout? | |
| <Grem> hi | |
| <TheSheep> hi Grem | |
| <Grem> could someone paste his menu.xml for me please? | |
| <TheSheep> Grem: you can find a copy in /etc/xdg/xfce4/desktop/menu.xml | |
| <Grem> oh | |
| <Grem> the thing is, I'm doing a minimal ubuntu install | |
| <Grem> installed the command line version of ubuntu, and then xfce4 | |
| <Grem> but I don't have the debian menu integrated in the xfce menu | |
| <Grem> so I'd like to see the xubuntu menu.xml | |
| <TheSheep> Grem: it's not integrated | |
| <Grem> I added debian menu to the top of my menu.xml, but its not the same thing | |
| <TheSheep> Grem: xfce4 uses the freedesktop.org menu standard | |
| <TheSheep> Grem: the menu is created from files in /usr/share/applications/ | |
| <Grem> mm | |
| <Grem> I see, the .desktops | |
| * TheSheep nods | |
| <Grem> what is happening to me is that if I install some new app, it appears in the debian menu, but not in the xfce menu | |
| <Grem> what do I need to make it appear in the xfce menu? | |
| <TheSheep> Grem: apparently the developer forgot to prepare apropriate .desktop file | |
| <TheSheep> Grem: create it | |
| <Grem> ok =) | |
| <TheSheep> Grem: the syntax is very simple | |
| <Grem> gonna check it out | |
| <Grem> tks TheSheep | |
| <esc> can i see this channels log anywhere online? | |
| <esc> !log | |
| <ubotu> Channel logs can be found at http://people.ubuntu.com/~fabbione/irclogs | |
| <esc> :-) nice | |
| <crimsun> #xubuntu isn't logged. | |
| <crimsun> (by fabio's bot, that is) | |
| <esc> grml | |
| * Zeqfreed commits a suicide | |
| <ellioTb> a suicide? | |
| <Zeqfreed> right, a suicide | |
| <esc> just one? | |
| <Zeqfreed> it's enough | |
| <TheSheep> not funny | |
| <Zeqfreed> right, it isn't | |
| <Zeqfreed> i'm feeling like a stanger at home | |
| <Zeqfreed> *stranger | |
| <Zeqfreed> but it's not a topic for #xubuntu channel, sorry | |
| * TheSheep comforts Zeqfreed | |
| <TheSheep> Zeqfreed: you can always feel at home here | |
| <Zeqfreed> yup, thanks | |
| <TheSheep> and family *is* a good thing, they just try to hide the fact ;) | |
| <ellioTb> for homocide and suicide, you commit suicide, no article needed | |
| <ellioTb> genocide, etc | |
| <Zeqfreed> thanks, i'll remember | |
| <Zeqfreed> i think this is very useful knowledge :) | |
| <ellioTb> yeah, lol, no one uses it very often | |
| * TheSheep genocides regularly in Nethack | |
| <cellofellow> window-maker dockaps, how do I dock them in xfce? | |
| <Zeqfreed> don't even understand what are you talking about, so no idea | |
| <TheSheep> cellofellow: you don't | |
| <TheSheep> cellofellow: they are specific to windowmaker | |
| <cellofellow> TheSheep: fluxbox has the slit that does window maker dockapps, and KDE has the dockapp panel. | |
| <cellofellow> does xfce4 have something similar? | |
| <TheSheep> no | |
| <Zeqfreed> cellofellow: have you finished you game? | |
| <Zeqfreed> *your | |
| <cellofellow> anything third party that will do it. | |
| <cellofellow> Zeqfreed: I have the player movements down. | |
| <TheSheep> no idea | |
| <cellofellow> Zeqfreed: gonna try to get the monster's movements today. | |
| <Zeqfreed> cellofellow: ok, will you please share it with me when finished? | |
| <cellofellow> Zeqfreed: of course :-) | |
| <Zeqfreed> good | |
| <cellofellow> you sure there's no windowmaker dockapp programs that are wm-agnostic or xfce4? | |
| <cellofellow> or whatabout using fluxbox/blackbox in xfce? | |
| *** bigfuzzysleep is now known as bigfuzzyjesus | |
| <Zeqfreed> what time is it? | |
| <TheSheep> 21:30 | |
| <bigfuzzyjesus> hello | |
| <Zeqfreed> hey | |
| <Zeqfreed> thanks, TheSheep :) | |
| <TheSheep> Zeqfreed: ymmv | |
| <Zeqfreed> one new abbreviation into collection | |
| <hyper_ch> huhu | |
| <Zeqfreed> The Huhu beetle (Prionoplus reticularis) is the largest native beetle found in New Zealand, a member of Cerambycidae, the family of longhorn beetles. | |
| * TheSheep faints | |
| <hyper_ch> zeg is a bot? | |
| <Zeqfreed> yup, for sure | |
| <hyper_ch> ;) | |
| * Zeqfreed goes to bed and wishes everybody all good | |
| <maxamillion> hello all | |
| <hyper_ch> hiho | |
| <hyper_ch> oh, any of you is a bash guru? | |
| <maxamillion> i think i am an advanced user ... not quite guru, what's up? | |
| <maxamillion> hyper_ch: ? | |
| <hyper_ch> is it possible to delete all folders in a directory that are older than xx days? | |
| <maxamillion> hyper_ch: oooo ... uhmmm, yeah i'm sure there is, but i would probably recommend using a program, script, or file manager for such things | |
| <hyper_ch> maxamillion: well, I have written my own backup script in bash but now I want to delete the oldest backups :) | |
| <hyper_ch> automatically :) | |
| <hyper_ch> but I just don't know how to do that | |
| <maxamillion> ah ... yes, that would be something i believe we need to consult a guru about ... sorry i wasn't of more help | |
| <hyper_ch> maxamillion: no worries :) I don't even know if that's possible | |
| <hyper_ch> actually, instead of naming my backups YYYY-MM-DD_HH:mm I could all put together to YYYYYMMDDHHmm | |
| <maxamillion> this is true, and just do if statements to check the fields | |
| <hyper_ch> getting a timestamp then... substracting the "days" | |
| <maxamillion> yeah, could work | |
| <hyper_ch> and then I would need to delete all folders that are smaller then .... | |
| * TheSheep hints at 'find' | |
| <hyper_ch> !find | |
| <ubotu> Sorry, I don't know anything about find - try searching on http://bots.ubuntulinux.nl/factoids.cgi | |
| <hyper_ch> too bad *smile* | |
| <TheSheep> hyper_ch: 'info find' | |
| <hyper_ch> thx | |
| <TheSheep> hyper_ch: in a terminal | |
| <kalikiana> Is there a way to see any text on boot? As there is a poll in the forum, I wondered if it's already possible. | |
| <TheSheep> kalikiana: switch to text console | |
| <maxamillion> F2 if its enabled | |
| <TheSheep> kalikiana: one of the m has the text | |
| <kalikiana> but usplash can't do it? | |
| <luckyone> hello all | |
| <kalikiana> hello, luckyone | |
| <luckyone> I am trying to reinstall apache | |
| <maxamillion> ? and? | |
| <luckyone> I got fed up with my Apache2 install, so I decided to blow away /etc/apache2 thinking, it will recreate the defaults when I reinstall the package... problem is that it doesn't | |
| <luckyone> I am *attempting* to follow a very simple Apache2 + SSL how to to set up an HTTP server with SSL support | |
| <luckyone> http://www.linode.com/wiki/index.php/Apache2_SSL_in_Ubuntu | |
| <luckyone> I have done this on windows lots of time with much success, but I am struggling to do it in Linux | |
| <hyper_ch> luckyone: how did you remove apache2? | |
| <luckyone> sudo apt-get remove apache2 | |
| <maxamillion> luckyone: sudo dpkg --purge <apache2 package name> will get rid of the config files and when you re-install it will get the defaults again | |
| <luckyone> sudo rm -r /etc/apache2 | |
| <maxamillion> luckyone: do the dpkg --purge after you removed via apt-get | |
| <hyper_ch> maxamillion: he just deleted the files | |
| <luckyone> I then tried sudo aptitude purge apache2 && sudo aptitude install apache2 | |
| <maxamillion> hyper_ch: its worth a shot | |
| <luckyone> also, does that look like a good Apache2+SSL how to for those that have done it? | |
| <luckyone> dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove apache2 which isn't installed. | |
| <hyper_ch> luckyone: I personally like the HowTos from Falko very much: http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_apache2_ssl_php5_zendoptimizer_ioncubeloader | |
| <luckyone> that is what I get trying to purge | |
| <hyper_ch> luckyone: delete the apache2 files that you have got | |
| <luckyone> they are gone | |
| <hyper_ch> then do: sudo apt-get install apache2 | |
| <hyper_ch> then do: sudo apt-get remove apache2 | |
| <luckyone> yup, I have | |
| <luckyone> Package apache2 is not installed, so not removed | |
| <hyper_ch> then do: sudo dpkg --purge apache2 | |
| <maxamillion> hyper_ch: he did | |
| <hyper_ch> ups, didn't see :) | |
| <luckyone> dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove apache2 which isn't installed. | |
| <maxamillion> hyper_ch: that's what the dpkg - warning he pasted was about | |
| <maxamillion> ;) | |
| <luckyone> do you have to purge it when it is installed/ | |
| <hyper_ch> luckyone: just making sure everything is clean first :) | |
| <maxamillion> luckyone: naw, it just kinda cleans up anything left behind | |
| <luckyone> yep, still doesn't create /etc/apache2 | |
| <luckyone> I don't understand what is wrong | |
| <maxamillion> ohhh .... you deleted the dir | |
| <luckyone> yes | |
| <maxamillion> luckyone: sudo mkdir /etc/apache2 | |
| <luckyone> I got tired of my conf | |
| <luckyone> that is all I have to do? | |
| <maxamillion> luckyone: oh no | |
| <luckyone> why doesn't it create it when the package is installed | |
| <luckyone> like it does the first time/ | |
| <luckyone> ? | |
| <luckyone> I also removed /etc/apache | |
| <luckyone> btw, it is cool that irssi tab-completes in IRC chat! | |
| <maxamillion> luckyone: yeah ... it should ... i dunno why its not | |
| <hyper_ch> luckyone: well, as said above I like very much the howtos from Falko... I normally don't have any problems following them :) | |
| <luckyone> me either | |
| <hyper_ch> luckyone: http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_apache2_ssl_php5_zendoptimizer_ioncubeloader | |
| *** atarinox is now known as pilibeen | |
| *** cellofel1ow is now known as cellofellow | |
| <cellofellow> anybody have any knowledge on midi? | |
| <kalikiana> midi is what causes the most trouble on my system, speaking of sound :-( | |
| <cellofellow> I have a usb midi device plugged into a digital piano, and rosegarden won't play a thing. | |
| <hyper_ch> g'night | |
| <cellofellow> no midi card, just usb gizmo | |
| <cellofellow> lsusb says: Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0763:1010 Midiman Midisport 1x1 | |
| <cellofellow> how do I set it up? | |
| <cellofellow> anyone? | |
| <crimsun> upload the firmware. | |
| <cellofellow> how? | |
| <crimsun> $ apt-cache search alsa firmware | |
| <cellofellow> ok | |
| <cellofellow> josh@josh-desktop:~$ apt-cache search alsa firmware | |
| <cellofellow> alsa-firmware-loaders - ALSA software loaders for specific hardware | |
| <JKnife> HeathenDan: ping? | |
| <cellofellow> now what? | |
| <crimsun> download the firmware package, upload it, use your device. | |
| <HeathenDan> pong | |
| <JKnife> can i pm ya? | |
| <cellofellow> k | |
| <crimsun> I'm not going to walk you through it; there are existing howtos, and I'm busy. | |
| <HeathenDan> sure | |
| <cellofellow> the firmware must be non-opensource, cause the package is in multiverse. oh, well, I don't really care. | |
| <cellofellow> what now? no man page. | |
| <crimsun> < crimsun> I'm not going to walk you through it; there are existing howtos, and I'm busy. | |
| <cellofellow> ok | |
| <cellofellow> crimsun: can you point me to an existing howto? I've tried looking. | |
| <JKnife> cellofellow: firmware loaded? | |
| <JKnife> module loaded? | |
| <doopy> hay friends | |
| <JKnife> hey yourself... | |
| <JKnife> XD | |
| <cellofellow> JKnife: I don't know what to do. I installed the alsa-firmware-loader, and crimsun said to upload it. :? | |
| <JKnife> try searching the gentoo wiki for setting up alsa | |
| <cellofellow> JKnife: ok | |
| <doopy> is automatix good to go with? | |
| <JKnife> NO... don't use programs like that... | |
| <JKnife> well that is my advice... but i do not run *buntu... | |
| <cellofellow> JKnife: were would the wiki be? | |
| <JKnife> one sec | |
| <JKnife> wiki.gentoo.org IIRC XD | |
| <JKnife> gentoo-wiki.com | |
| <cellofellow> tried that | |
| <cellofellow> ok | |
| *** Ubug2 is now known as Ubugtu | |
| *** joejaxx_ is now known as joejaxx | |
| <KeenEars> hi there | |
| <KeenEars> installed xubuntu, but it hasn`t asked users passwd, and now i can`t login ;( can`t find this in faq.. | |
| <cellofellow> not again | |
| <KeenEars> =) | |
| <KeenEars> fix it then | |
| <cellofellow> I don't know how to fix that, I'm sorry. Others do too I think. :( | |
| <KeenEars> well, i`ll try to boot in single user mode ... | |
| <cellofellow> by default init loads like nothing in that mode. | |
| <KeenEars> well, haven`t tried xubuntu as passwd | |
| <trond> evening/morning all, greetings from Norway. | |
| <cellofellow> greetings | |
| <KeenEars> hi | |
| <KeenEars> greetz from Russia | |
| <trond> got a q, and I have searched the web... How do I make nautilus become the default fm instead of Thunar. I have nautilus installed (followed the howto on ubuntuforums.org) but thunar is used when choosing ctrl+o in applications. | |
| <KeenEars> was my question too often ? | |
| <trond> btw. xubuntu finally seems to make my old laptop stable... (compaq EvoN160) | |
| <KeenEars> seems to make my qemu very busy =) | |
| <cellofellow> KeenEars: just no one here to or listening that can offer help, I'm sorry. | |
| <KeenEars> ok =) | |
| <cellofellow> KeenEars: you running in qemu? | |
| <KeenEars> yep. | |
| <KeenEars> for a while | |
| <cellofellow> what's the host system? | |
| <KeenEars> winxp | |
| <cellofellow> ok | |
| <KeenEars> with kqemu also | |
| <cellofellow> KeenEars: you can i theory after you install in qemu, copy the disk image to a real disk and run that native. | |
| <cellofellow> s/i/in | |
| <KeenEars> if it was raw.. | |
| <KeenEars> i guess it is possible | |
| <BlueLobster> ahah, so if the system is freezing when booting form the livecd... as it is bringing up the window manger, it seems, what would the likely cause be? | |
| <KeenEars> but can require some itching with diskeditor | |
| <BlueLobster> (tremendous question, I know) | |
| <KeenEars> low mem ? | |
| <KeenEars> scratced or misburned cd ? | |
| <BlueLobster> I believe she says it has 128mb... I have suggested she try the alternate cd. | |
| <KeenEars> mem errors ? | |
| <KeenEars> alternate isn`t live cd | |
| <BlueLobster> shit. | |
| <KeenEars> it is install. | |
| <BlueLobster> well | |
| <BlueLobster> that's adequate | |
| <BlueLobster> if it works, that is. | |
| <TheSheep> !language | |
| <ubotu> Please watch your language and keep this channel family friendly. | |
| <TheSheep> :P | |
| <KeenEars> ? | |
| <cellofellow> BlueLobster: the livecd is graphical, the alternate is text. | |
| <BlueLobster> hmmm. I don't have very high hopes for this hardware, but we'll see. | |
| <cellofellow> TheSheep: know anything about usb midi cables? | |
| <KeenEars> i guess there`s a graphics installer on alt too | |
| <TheSheep> cellofellow: no :( | |
| <KeenEars> i have one | |
| <cellofellow> KeenEars: in linux? | |
| <KeenEars> at least my mk461c works by usb | |
| * cellofellow has one that refuses to work in winME | |
| <KeenEars> not yet =) | |
| <KeenEars> i need to make it up first | |
| <KeenEars> wtf. what the passwd is ... | |
| <cellofellow> I suspect it would work on win98SE, and Win2K and XP, and it is recognized by linux, but not running. | |
| <cellofellow> KeenEars: try the forums. | |
| <cellofellow> search them | |
| <cellofellow> ubuntuforums.com | |
| <KeenEars> already | |
| <KeenEars> it`s all about changing the passwd. maybe i`ll go this way | |
| <KeenEars> ok, thanx all | |
| <cellofellow> is there a xubuntu specific forum somewhere? | |
| <KeenEars> xubuntu isn`t specific i guess | |
| <KeenEars> it`s just an xfce-desktop | |
| <cellofellow> it's still a seperate distro | |
| <KeenEars> well it`s all to simplify | |
| <KeenEars> hm. how can i set linux to runlevel 1 with kernel options ? | |
| <cellofellow> grub | |
| <cellofellow> besides that, I don't know. | |
| <KeenEars> =) | |
| <KeenEars> well, i just need an param | |
| <cellofellow> well, there's always google.com/linux | |
| <KeenEars> heh | |
| <KeenEars> i need to sleep. really. because i`ve _did_ setup the passwd..and forget abt it ! | |
| <KeenEars> laters all, and thanx ! | |
| <ellioTb> what does runlevel 1 do | |
| <TheSheep> ellioTb: restart | |
| <TheSheep> no, wait | |
| <TheSheep> debian has it borked | |
| <TheSheep> :/ | |
| <TheSheep> ellioTb: see the comments in /etc/inittab | |
| <ellioTb> /etc/inittab doesn't exist | |
| <TheSheep> ok, I had it mixed up, 1 is single, 6 is reboot | |
| <asthla> hi i am new to ubuntu and was having trouble getting my screensaver daemon to start on boot | |
| <ellioTb> single as in processor? | |
| <TheSheep> ellioTb: as in single-user mode | |
| <TheSheep> ellioTb: the same as the recovery mode | |
| <Cadteach> Hi all. Anyone use LinNeighborhood? | |
| <ellioTb> Cadteach, i could never get it to work | |
| <asthla> anyone have any ideas? | |
| <Cadteach> I just downloaded and I'm trying to figure out the configuration. |
