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Jacob Vlijm

19:14

:)

lewis4u

19:31

Hi all! especially Zanna, i have an easy question

I want to install ubuntu on my new laptop but not the default way...i want to get to expert mode...for example when i run a virtualbox i get that option with pressing the F6 key and on my laptop i get to default gui installation immediately...ist this because of the UEFI bios??

@Zanna

Zanna

hmm? I am not sure what you mean...

what is this expert mode?

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

installation on Virtual Box and actual hardware is slightly different. Especially with UEFI, you'd need to play around with settings from within Windows. Been a while since i've done it, so won't be able to help with exact steps

Zanna

I know nothing haha

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Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@Zanna in virtual box there is "expert mode"

Zanna

19:38

fancy ^_^

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

Which is basically same thing as basic, except that it takes you more steps

lewis4u

how to get inot that

into

actually i want to install desktop ubuntu without gui

is this even possible

with UEFI

Seth

@lewis4u the only "desktop" ubuntu without a GUI is the GUI. Install the server version.

Or the minimal install.

lewis4u

ok i have already done that....and i am not sure is there some difference concerning the kernel

because i think on server the kernel is lower version

is that possible

i have kernel 4.4

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

As far as I know desktop and server are pretty much use the same base system.

lewis4u

19:44

and i have been reading that there are higher versions for desktop 4.8 or even 4.9

can you check which kernel version do you have

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

I've 4.4.0-75 and I'm on 16.04 LTS

Nathan Osman

Really wish UnrealEngine 4 didn't crash.

lewis4u

ok

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

Different release versions get different versions, though

lewis4u

i don't have sound at all and i don't know how to install it

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

19:45

Anyway, I'll go back to youtube

David Foerster

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy That's what I know too. Ubuntu Desktop just has a graphical installer and installs a display server and a graphical desktop environment in addition to everything in Ubuntu Server.

lewis4u

i have installed everything what i have found... and still nothing

maybe it's because the laptop is very new

???

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Seth

@lewis4u ask a question on the main site

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Q: HEELP My pc is ffriickken crazy it's so fast!

The secconds are faster, my kkeyyboard arrre fffaaasteeer, firefox is faaster , what i shhhould do? Debian 8.5555

Ask Ubuntu Meta

19:47

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Q: Should we do something about the [lowgraphics] tag?

I just noticed that we have a tag lowgraphics. This seems like a suboptimal situation. Lowgraphics isn't a even a word. If we really need a tag for that, shouldn't it be low-graphics-mode? And since we have this canonical post: How to fix "The system is running in low-graphics mode" error? (wh...

discussion tags

Seth

include the output of lspci

lewis4u

What to ask i mean it's too broad....can you narrow it down

How to install and enable sound on ubuntu? that sounds terrible

Zanna

@UbuntuQuestionsonU&L chillax

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Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@UbuntuQuestionsonU&L Untag that carp as Ubuntu. OP is using Debian

@Zanna You meant to say , cccchilaaaaxxxx ?

Zanna

I installed so many packages trying to get one app to run (to answer a question of course) it seems like less effort to reinstall that clean up my system package by package

Jacob Vlijm

19:51

@Zanna I know the situation. We do crazy stuff to be able to answer a question haha

"Now since when do I have this package on my computer?"

Seth

@lewis4u "can't get sound working on Ubuntu [server|minimal]"

Zanna

@JacobVlijm ikr!

@JacobVlijm and I need a clean system so I can make sure the answer to the next question like that doesn't miss any dependencies...

also my toaster only has 32GB total storage...

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy I'll leave that to the OP haha

lewis4u

Thank you @Seth

TheWanderer

who pinged me

and then deleted the message

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@TheWanderer wasn't me, but here's a fresh ping which won't be deleted

<3

Zanna

20:00

not I

TheWanderer

oh it was @Chan-HoSuh

probably trying to ping @TheXed

Chan-Ho Suh

what is this? a retaliation ping?? :D

TheWanderer

muahahahahahaha

Nathan Osman

Lol.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@Chan-HoSuh No , it's a love ping. @TheWanderer is a fluffy bunny who spreads luff and heppinez

TheWanderer

20:04

wat

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

NUFFIN

runs away back to youtube

RobotHumans

geez askubuntu.com/questions/909924/…

TheWanderer

@RobotHumans it just does, ok

RobotHumans

well, i'm not letting it rep farm. it caught a DV from me until it finds an edit to make it useful instead of a copy paste from the dupe.

TheWanderer

pls

RobotHumans

20:16

If it's the same answer and it magically starts working when a user posts it, then it should be closed as a dupe, not left open as a new QA

OP explicitly states "previous answers didn't work"

TheWanderer

what is "sarcasm"

RobotHumans

okok. was just saying.

Nathan Osman

Gogs is doing something weird, every so often, it jumps to 100% CPU utilization without anything unusual showing up in the logs.

TheWanderer

Gogs?

Nathan Osman

The problem goes away as soon as I restart it.

@TheWanderer gogs.io

Self-hosted GitHub clone thing.

The only reason I notice the problem is that I have Monit set to watch for excessive resource usage on the server.

TheWanderer

20:29

is this macOS?

Nathan Osman

Nope, x86 server running 16.04.

Chan-Ho Suh

20:52

maybe it's compressing files

Nathan Osman

But then it should eventually quit.

RobotHumans

I'm pegged at 100% right now, but it's because I restarted my pandas/talib precompute store b/c with the upgrade to pandas 0.19 rounding rules changed, and I want it homogenous.

lewis4u

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Q: Can't get sound on ubuntu server minimal

I have installed ubuntu server on my new laptop and followed this tutorial: How to Resolve no sound problem on Ubuntu 14.04, 13.10, 13.04 and Older versions but no luck. I have installed dkms, linux essential headers, alsa-base, pulseaudio when i run lspci | grep Audio i get this ubuntu@ubun...

server sound

RobotHumans

21:15

try unmuting in alsamixer and the pulseaudio config purge takkat recommended somewhere. those two always fix it for me

on intel onboard audio

lewis4u

alsamixer is not muted. what is takkat???

RobotHumans

mv ~/.config/pulse ~/.config/pulse.old

@Takkat is our resident sound subsystem guy.

sometime pulse crashes and it just needs a reset

lewis4u

i have run that command and now restarted

rebooted

still no sound

it's like the soundspeakers are off

I have only dummy output...under hardware devices it's empty

And under that dummy output the soundbar is moving when i play a video from youtube for example

but i can't hear that sound

RobotHumans

21:30

I had a problem with doom4 taking over alsa and corrupting the pulse config, but moving the config and reset fixed it. no idea what's doing it to you. last time i had the problem, i had to reset pulse and close all browsers. a pulse conf reset and reboot would have done it

might be hard selecting hdmi or something

lewis4u

how to check that

RobotHumans

sure you're not on an rpi or something?

alsamixer

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I have an annoying problem with my Elantech touchpad for at least a half a year now. Most of the time it randomly loses sync and got recognized as PS/2 Elantech Touchpad or BYD Touchpad. It varies from update to update but in essence these errors persist in dmesg: psmouse serio1: Failed to enabl...

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RobotHumans

or pulsectl

lewis4u

how to check that also?

i have used ubuntu only as a virtual machine 2 or 3 years until today

this is first time that i am trying to install it on real hardware

and the laptop is very new

RobotHumans

21:34

well, if you have hdmi plugged in, it might be defaulting to that like it does with headphones. unplug all audio outs and start over. just what i'ld do

lewis4u

nothing plugged in

RobotHumans

then i'm stuck. wait for @Takkat

lewis4u

OK thank you anyway for your time

i appreciate it

RobotHumans

crap, pavucontrol was the one i was thinking of.

not pulsectl

lewis4u

???

i dont know if i have that

pavucontrol

RobotHumans

21:37

try and run it. if it won't run, it will recommend a package to install

Kaz Wolfe

pavucontrol is gui iirc

RobotHumans

yes

lewis4u

i have GUI installed

lxdm

Kaz Wolfe

ok then, nevermind.

RobotHumans

since his question is "server minimal" he may be missing packages. overinstalling to get it working the checking the diff would be an option

lewis4u

21:37

i'll try now to install pavucontrol

Kaz Wolfe

also, hello everyone. i'm back from my little hiatus such as to not explode in the face of a few people here for... reasons. Instead of throwing things at people's faces, I will instead be taking a page from @ThomasWard's book and throwing things into /dev/null.

RobotHumans

sup @Kaz

lewis4u

i already have pavucontrol

how can i run it

RobotHumans

run it...

Kaz Wolfe

just pavucontrol in a terminal

lewis4u

21:40

yeah that's the same thing from my video

like here youtube.com/watch?v=uDCpml-pCiM

That's my video BTW

but still no sound on speakers

RobotHumans

that audio is REALLY low

lewis4u

how to crank it up haha

RobotHumans

alsamixer

lewis4u

yes

i did that also

RobotHumans

you pavumixer should look more like this:

Damila Whi Shadow

21:45

High

RobotHumans

either the app is turned down or alsamixer is turned down

and yes, i like my stuff loud

lewis4u

well it seems to me that i don't have some packages installed because this is very minimalistic and custom

RobotHumans

probs

that's why i shot for reinstalling pavuctl or reinstalling pulse

maybe --with-recommends just in case

lewis4u

yeah i will probably go all over again

but anyway i have one more final question

RobotHumans

if you went too custom (like custom kernel) you probably pooched the driver somewhere

lewis4u

21:48

when you install ubuntu custom....what is a common procedure to install drivers for hardware--- looking it from a windows os user perspective

RobotHumans

drivers just happen on ubuntu

Kaz Wolfe

most drivers come from the kernel, so unless you're installing a custom kernel...

RobotHumans

theoretically

lewis4u

ok so it's like auto

RobotHumans

yeah, it's like win 10 caught up to ubuntu from 5 years ago

lewis4u

21:49

you shouldn't have anything to do with drivers normally it's like "out of the box"

Kaz Wolfe

ofc there is the occasional userland driver (printers) or odd driver that installed as a post-install proprietary (graphics, networking) , but for the most part everything most people need is in the kernel.

lewis4u

ok i see

thanks

RobotHumans

yep. unless you get corner case hardware - or want blob drivers for performance

Kaz Wolfe

^--

lewis4u

heh

Kaz Wolfe

21:51

i have access to some very specialized hardware, which needs a third-party driver as an example.

(ofc, it also works without the third-party stuff, but is just missing some features because yay linux)

RobotHumans

don't get me started on AIO printers

or bumblebee dual gpu switching. both are nightmares

Kaz Wolfe

doubly so when it's nvidia prime instead of true gpu switching

RobotHumans

It seemed like a good idea at the time

Kaz Wolfe

It is a good idea on Windows where there's driver support for it.

It's not the worst idea, but it's just so poorly executed that it's 100% worthless

lewis4u

one more question i wanted to see only how much battery do i have left some indicator and i installed the indicator from apt and it took 333MB...that is way to much....for just showing the percentage of battery

is there something else lightweight

Kaz Wolfe

21:56

really lightweight:

grep POWER_SUPPLY_CAPACITY /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/uevent

of course, if you want something in the GUI, that's also doable. The large size is probably due to all of the dependencies the battery indicator wants.

lewis4u

yeah that's what i was thinking also....because i don't have anything on my machine....that's probably why there is no sound

Kaz Wolfe

if you're on LXDE, there should already be one built in. see: forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1505

lewis4u

i installed lxde core

so that is also crippled

Kaz Wolfe

there is such a thing as "too light"

lewis4u

yeah my machine is too light installed heh...nothing works

on virtual machine it wasn't important

but now it matters

nah... i need to reinstall it....totally

Kaz Wolfe

22:03

just a question... what's the purpose behind such a light OS?

RobotHumans

i ran lxqt with kwin on top of a server install for a while, just for funsies.

lewis4u

I had till now such a virtual machine in windows host and i was developing in it and now i bought laptop

all was working fine

but i had no sound

and it didn't bother me

i have a whole procedure how to make it so light that it is under 1.9GB when all is installed including GUI

but for a laptop i need some additional things that I am yet to find out

RobotHumans

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A: How to install LXQt DE in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS?

As previously stated, if you want to install lxqt on top of openbox you can: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lubuntu-dev/lubuntu-daily sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gilir/q-project sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install openbox obconf sudo apt-get install lxqt-metapackage lxqt-panel If y...

^^ that gets you under 4Gb with everything working on lxqt

lewis4u

i see...LXQt is successor of LXDM right

RobotHumans

yes. it's the bastard child of lxdm and razor-qt

lewis4u

22:22

:)

roger & out

good night guys

and thank you all

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