tambu 2017-01-28 07:45:12
Bashing-om: my apologies I see now the rc^ was grabbing only nvidia packages.. ok well Tally Ho! .. hopefully I'll survive
k1l 2017-01-28 07:45:28
raspi_noob: and there is #raspberrypi channel
Bashing-om 2017-01-28 07:46:07
tambu: K; clear the clutter so we see the forrest for the tree .
tambu 2017-01-28 07:46:46
Bashing-om: oooh very nice Bashing, I did that and did a systemctl restart lightdm that ducasse suggested and I have the loging.. it's in like 800x600 or something stupid but this is a big improvement
tambu 2017-01-28 07:47:12
ducasse Bashing-om: Should I try the nvidia repo method u mentioned. lemme google for a page
ducasse 2017-01-28 07:47:53
!nvidia | tambu
ubottu 2017-01-28 07:47:53
tambu: For nvidia and matrox graphics cards, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VideoDriverHowto . For AMD/ATI graphics cards, see « /msg ubottu ati » and « /msg ubottu fglrxmissing »
k1l 2017-01-28 07:48:11
what card is it?
tambu 2017-01-28 07:48:22
chuckle.. actually just tried to login via the graphic login and now it's as soon as I login I see a message box "system program problem detected" and it resets back to the login screen
Bashing-om 2017-01-28 07:51:00
tambu: ducasse As k1l advises I too thionk we need to know the hardware we are targetting . what shows ' sudo lshw -C display ' ?
k1l 2017-01-28 07:51:41
because if its not a 1000 nvidia card, the very new ones. the official repo nvidia drivers should be handling that quite well.
tambu 2017-01-28 07:51:47
Bashing-om ducasse k1l Sorry guys should have said Nvidia 580M -- I'm doing an apt-get install nvidia-367 at the moment
k1l 2017-01-28 07:52:17
first make sure to remove all of that manual nvidia stuff so its not making any more issues
Bashing-om 2017-01-28 07:52:39
tambu: Might be best to make sure of a clean slate ' sudo apt purge nvidia ' .
tambu 2017-01-28 07:52:41
k1l: I think Bashing-om dpkg --purge command did that for me.
k1l 2017-01-28 07:53:17
sudo apt purge nvidia*
ducasse 2017-01-28 07:53:18
tambu: that was only for rc packages iirc
tambu 2017-01-28 07:53:46
Bashing-om ducasse k1l Ok after the nvidia-367 (yes Bashing I did a apt-get purge on nvidia) I restarted lightdm and the graphical login page loaded and is in a normal resolution. Let me try a login.
Bashing-om 2017-01-28 07:53:49
tambu: That ^ command only removes config files that dpkg thinks it is safe to remove .
tambu 2017-01-28 07:56:09
Bashing-om ducasse k1l Ok so now I can login and I get a desktop background but there .. I don't have any menus or bars or anything I'd expect to see it's like only the desktop loaded :) much improved though thanks guys
Bashing-om 2017-01-28 07:56:57
tambu: 367 vrsion "should" work ; See http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us . nVidia shows several alternatives .
k1l 2017-01-28 07:57:01
tambu: i suggest a reboot. the on reboot see if things change. try the guest account or another user to login, too, to see if its a user issue or a system wide issue
tambu 2017-01-28 07:57:29
k1l excellent idea. ok I will reboot try a different user login. I'll disconnect for a minute or so.
tambu 2017-01-28 08:01:16
k1l It appears the reboot didn't do much when i login as my normal user it has the same result just desktop, but another user.. I get the normal desktop, menu bar and the sidebar thing.. so clearly there is something in my user profile it doesn't like
tambu 2017-01-28 08:02:12
k1l I don't really have anything I care about in my user settings, so if there is a way to reset to defaults for Xwindows for the user I could try that
ioria 2017-01-28 08:03:19
tambu, check cat ~/.xsession-errors or you might backup .config and .compiz folders
tambu 2017-01-28 08:04:09
ioria: http://pastebin.com/s5efAb35 for xsession-errors
k1l 2017-01-28 08:04:19
tambu: rename the .config folder in your users home. that should make it work agan
k1l 2017-01-28 08:04:23
*again
tambu 2017-01-28 08:05:21
k1l: did a mv .config .old_config and then logged in again.. still have desktop but this time I got a "software update" notification box..
tambu 2017-01-28 08:06:11
is there a hot-key to log out of Xwindows? the only way I know to get out is to restart lightdm and I'm not sure that is logging me out
k1l 2017-01-28 08:06:58
does the desktop work now?
tambu 2017-01-28 08:07:16
k1l no it's still just desktop, no menubar or sidebar unusable.
ioria 2017-01-28 08:08:37
tambu, gnome-session-quit works ?
k1l 2017-01-28 08:08:39
tambu: try a "cd .cache && mv configcompiz-1 configcompiz-1_oops" then relogin
tambu 2017-01-28 08:09:31
ioria it doesn't from a remote ssh session, i did a rightclick open termin and ran it there but nothing happened
Bashing-om 2017-01-28 08:10:11
tambu: ^ or maybe like ' gnome-session-quit --logout ' ?? Mind ya I am not unity savvy .
tambu 2017-01-28 08:10:39
k1l Woot.. the move of the .configcompiz-1 folder worked.. I now appear to have a normal desktop
k1l 2017-01-28 08:10:44
"gnome-session-quit --no-prompt" should work for log out
tambu 2017-01-28 08:11:09
Bashing-om: ioria ducasse k1l Thank you everyone for the help this was awesome!! :)
ioria 2017-01-28 08:11:27
tambu, good
tambu 2017-01-28 08:11:59
Bashing-om I can't say I love unity much either it seems to friendly to me.. just need something working. what are the other popular options if I can ask?
k1l 2017-01-28 08:12:55
tambu: there is gnome3-shell, xubuntu(xfce), kubuntu(kde), lubuntu(lxde), mate, cinnamon, budgie, a bunch of tiling wms,...
Bashing-om 2017-01-28 08:12:58
tambu: I must confess I am partial to xfce4 .
tambu 2017-01-28 08:13:47
Bashing-om Chuckle nothing wrong with that.. :)
ioria 2017-01-28 08:15:21
tambu, can you reboot and paste again xsession-errors ?
tambu 2017-01-28 08:18:24
ioria: the only one I'm getting is openConnection: connect No such file or directory // cannot connect to brltty at :0 it doesn't appear to be a problem though. not sure what it is
ioria 2017-01-28 08:19:24
tambu, do you have some files in your ~ owned by root ? find ~/ -not -user $USER
raj_iiitg 2017-01-28 08:22:37
#drupal-support
tambu 2017-01-28 08:22:51
ioria I did have some hidden files owned by root.. I did a chown -r tambu:tambu /home/tambu but the error in .xsession-errors still persists
raj_iiitg 2017-01-28 08:23:22
I want contribute into your Gsoc project