| connorp | tom_kelleher, now that you have the menu.lst open, put a # before hiddenmenu |
| tom_kelleher | connorp: sudo'd and opened the list |
| owh | PrimoTurbo: Only that it's something I've never seen. |
| happyguy | strabes: wow, i sure wish i had some clue as to how to fix it, i'm just not willing to re-install it without a fight. that's not how an operating system is supposed to wrk, reinstalling every couple weeks at least not imho |
| connorp | tom_kelleher, now, add the following text to the bottom :) http://pastebin.ca/482196 |
| happyguy | anybody have a clue how to re-install apt or synaptic? would that possibly fix my update problems? |
| strabes | happyguy: i did that for like the first month but after a few months you learn how to not break your system, just like with windows |
| tom_kelleher | connorp: thats it? |
| andres | \join #mexico |
| strabes | happyguy: just back up your home folder and format happyguy: it takes maybe an hour |
| PrimoTurbo | owh: any suggestions? unlikley it's hard drive? I don't think it's the video card either. But I did notice that no matter what settings I get 25FPS in doom3 most of the time in the timedemo |
| connorp | tom_kelleher, should be! if you still cant boot, just boot back into Ubuntu, and ask here again. If my rootnoverify doesnt work, play with that :) |
| phorsaken | finally a distro where my wireless works right out of the box |
| PrimoTurbo | around 30-35 under windows |
| happyguy | strabes: yeah, i guess you're right... i hope it's just something i need to learn |
| connorp | tom_kelleher, but it certainly won't kill your system, so nothing to worry about there :) |
| dougie | how do i figure out what my hard drive is mounted under? |
| strabes | happyguy: something like your problem never happened to me though. the frustrating part is that it's probably some boolean variable in some config file somewhere |
| owh | PrimoTurbo: Well, from this page: http://forums.storagereview.net/index.php?showtopic=22131 I see that your drive has an 8Mb cache, so technically you should be able to set it to read chunks of that size. Not sure if that would significantly improve things. |
| tom_kelleher | connorp: great I'll reboot and let you know, thanks. |
| PrimoTurbo | but it's probally because the cpu is underpowered for doom3 |
| connorp | tom_kelleher, see you soon :) |
| dougie | i need to mount it as a cdrom for the installer to continue |
| connorp | dougie, which installer? |
| dougie | Ubuntu Feisty i'm installing from a USB Hard drive |
| PrimoTurbo | owh: my cpu goes to 100% when I do any visual tasks like when I move a window across the sceen |
| owh | PrimoTurbo: So, on your things to investigate, you can add, the drive access speed. Over to the next thing. Have you done any graphics speed tests? |
| PrimoTurbo | screen* |
| connorp | dougie, so you're booting off of a USB HD, and attempting to install to a local HD on a Desktop/Laptop |
| PrimoTurbo | yes I have I get around 20-25 fps in doom3 timedemo demo1 |
| owh | PrimoTurbo: That's not normally what I would expect. |
| happyguy | strabes: yeah i hear ya, it's been frustrating searching for solutions becuz searching for "re-install synaptic" just turns up lots of stuff about installing with synaptic.... duh |
| dougie | connorp, yes thats correct |
| owh | PrimoTurbo: 100% cpu on screen movement I mean. |
| dougie | connorp, the guide i'm useing says to mount it as a cdrom drive when it comes up saying that it can't mount the cdrom |
| connorp | oh, I see! ok |