IRC log for #fredlug on 20091117

02:39.13*** join/#fredlug plarsen (n=plarsen@67.166.188.224)
03:25.08plarsenanyone around?
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18:55.39GGDhey stickster
18:55.43GGDhey plarsen
18:55.53sticksterHey there
18:56.05jsmith-teachingHowdy, all!
18:56.11GGDhow are things over there Paul
18:56.16GGDhey jsmith-teaching
18:56.27plarsenHey GGD
18:56.35GGDi have a question about f12 for you stickster
18:56.41plarsenstickster: ARGH - of course the preupgrade script fails on my laptop :(
18:56.43jsmith-teachingloves his F12
18:56.54sticksterplarsen: Do you get an AttributeError?
18:56.59plarsenyup!
18:57.10sticksterplarsen: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538118
18:57.11GGDi saw the email thread on the novalug list
18:57.23plarsenAttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'opts'
18:57.35sticksterprepares to get on phone for meeting
18:57.38plarsenstickster: I downloaded the test version
18:57.55plarsenisn't sure the meeting he's supposed to be at 2 is even happening
18:57.56sticksterplarsen: It doesn't fail for most people. I just ran it successfully on the workstation upstairs
18:58.04sticksterBut that bug tracks the problem
18:58.07GGDi downloaded f12 as well
18:58.43GGDbut when i installed it on a clean system..  it installs only as a CLI OS and not the GUI.... is that normal?
19:00.55GGDany ideas?
19:06.50GGDstickster: ?  plarsen
19:06.51GGD?
19:47.07GGDhey jsmith-teaching
19:51.58jsmith-teachingGGD: Heading into another module... I should have some time in an hour or so
19:52.16GGDno prob
19:52.31GGDhit me up when you have some time
20:21.27sticksterGGD: Did you install via text mode?
20:22.32GGDno
20:22.41GGDi installed it via gui mode
20:22.55GGDand when i reboot after installing
20:22.59GGDit goes to CLI
20:24.57GGDi attempt to do a startx and it doesn't work
20:32.24GGDstickster: anything i should try?
20:32.42sticksterGGD: Make sure you don't have a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file
20:32.46sticksterWhat kind of video card is in this box?
20:33.22stickster(you can do 'lspci -nn | grep -i vga' to find out)
20:36.44GGDits an Inell chip card i think
20:38.07sticksterGGD: You should be able to find out using the command above
20:38.15sticksterOr just 'lspci -nn' -- in case I got the grep wrong
20:38.23sticksterlook for "video" or "VGA" in the output
20:40.01GGDok hold on...
20:47.20sticksterjsmith-teaching: There's an email waiting for you from someone famous :-)
20:52.13plarsenstickster: sorry, was called to a meeting
20:58.22plarsenstickster: manually removing the preupgrade cache and starting over again worked
20:58.50plarsen1/1935 packages :)
20:59.01jsmith-teachingstickster: I noticed, but haven't had time to read it :-/
20:59.15jsmith-teachingstickster: Wondering why someone famous would stoop down to my level, though
20:59.38sticksterjsmith-teaching: Just a chance for you to provide a modicum of experience and testimonial
20:59.46sticksterre: Fedora 12 on a MacBook
20:59.50sticksterer, MacBook Pro
20:59.55jsmith-teachingAye... gotcha
21:00.05jsmith-teachingI will go out of my way to help said famous person
21:10.01GGDquestion for anyone here,,,  what is a good desktop OS?
21:10.15GGDF11?  open suse?  pclinux?
21:16.36plarsenGGD same answer as if you asked: What's a good car
21:17.11plarsenOne of the real good things about linux is choices. Fedora comes with 4 main full-featured desktops out of the box. Choose your own "poison" so to speak.
21:17.23plarsenthey differ in features and in how heavy they are to run
21:18.01GGDi know plarsen  that its a time asked question and i understand your question and what you are trying to say
21:18.26GGDi have one running mint7 and the other has centos5.3 on it
21:38.58jsmith-teachingruns Fedora on his desktops and RHEL or CentOS on his servers
21:45.24GGDawesome jsmith-teaching
21:45.27plarsendittos jsmith
21:45.55plarsen1200/1935 ... getting there! :)
21:46.36GGDwow thats alot of files
21:55.39plarsenhopes the F12 upgrades fixes his nvidea "no 3D" problem
22:15.10jsmith-teachingplarsen: I don't think it will, unless you're using a closed driver.  nouveau still doesn't do 3D, from what I understand
22:15.52plarsenI am used the closed driver - nouveau didn't work on the live image on my laptop, so I went for the closed driver for now.
22:47.59stickster_afkis really not here, but notes for plarsen anyway that RPMFusion has a kmod-nvidia package in their testing repo
23:06.53plarsenstickster_afk: that's the one I'm using
23:07.10plarsenstickster_afk: I'm gonna head out of here and when I boot up tonight I should be on F12 - wish me luck :)

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