xrogaan | fsmithred: my disks index restored itself after a shutdown and reboot. Mobo is fine too. Probably happened because I booted too fast after restoring the power. | 01:56 |
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amarsh04 | I've had an external USB drive take a while doing internal checks after an unclean shutdown before being visible as a mass storage device on boot-up | 01:59 |
FatPhil | Anyone know of any reason why a recentish lenovo (X250/X260) shipping with Win10 would not be convertable to boot Ascii? | 08:50 |
FatPhil | vague murmerings on teh internets did mention things along the lines of microsoft having the machine well "locked down". | 08:51 |
FatPhil | I'm running it happily on my X240, but g/f needs a new laptop to replace a dead desktop | 08:52 |
man_in_shack | probably "secure boot" stuff | 08:52 |
gnarface | yea | 08:57 |
gnarface | basically if you can't disable secure boot or add your own keys to it, you're SOL | 08:57 |
gnarface | it should be illegal, IMO. but sadly it is not... | 08:58 |
gnarface | check the BIOS settings anyway | 08:58 |
gnarface | BIOS/EFI? | 08:59 |
gnarface | if there isn't info onscreen at boot time there should be info in the motherboard manual at least of how to access it | 08:59 |
gnarface | er, system manual or whatever, if it's a laptop | 09:00 |
gnarface | find stuff about accessing firmware settings | 09:00 |
gnarface | it is entirely possible they don't give you any access i don't know actually | 09:00 |
FatPhil | OK, I'll ask to be taken into the bios settings and look for "disable secure boot". My custom-spec x240 came without an OS, IIRC, but all vendors here sell all off-the-shelf boxes with crapware preinstalled. | 09:02 |
FatPhil | I'm gonna get cheeky, and demand a discount to the value of an OEM Windows licence, obviously, as that shit ain't staying on my machine any longer than the length of the busride back to the office. | 09:04 |
gnarface | well, you might want to wait at least until you find out whether your have driver support in linux or not before you make that decision | 09:08 |
gnarface | assuming you can get it to boot | 09:08 |
gnarface | maybe try the live image | 09:09 |
gnarface | but in theory you can still use secure boot if it lets you add your own key | 09:10 |
FatPhil | ahhhh, now installing Ascii on my not-so-shiny not-so-new X250. | 11:27 |
gnarface | the win10 laptop? it's working? | 11:31 |
gnarface | congrats man | 11:31 |
gnarface | hope for kernel support | 11:31 |
gnarface | at least for the video card part | 11:31 |
gnarface | you could always use a usb ethernet device | 11:31 |
FatPhil | asked the g/f what she wanted the hostname to be - and, no joke, she chose "thot". | 11:33 |
gnarface | heh | 11:33 |
FatPhil | yeah, win 10 wiped. | 11:33 |
gnarface | nice | 11:35 |
FatPhil | I always do bare bones expert install, then do some scripted configuration, and pull in only the packages I need, so we haven't dropped into X yet. | 11:35 |
gnarface | did it boot right up or did you have to mess with firmware settings? | 11:35 |
FatPhil | fortunately it was already configured to not use secure boot, and everything just worked. | 11:59 |
FatPhil | lenovo have always been pretty linux friendly. | 11:59 |
gnarface | neat! | 12:01 |
gnarface | good to know | 12:01 |
fsmithred | I just installed linux on a friend's T430 recently and had no serious problems. Had to fiddle with it to get the speaker buttons to work. | 12:03 |
fsmithred | It was a refurb with win10 and it was already set to legacy boot. | 12:03 |
FatPhil | all hail refurbs! | 12:08 |
surrounder | ^ | 12:09 |
* surrounder pets his refurbished x220 | 12:09 | |
jaromil | real hackers use refurbs | 12:19 |
gnarface | hey guys | 12:20 |
gnarface | toshiba satellite 4015CDT | 12:20 |
gnarface | just took the ascii update successfully! | 12:20 |
gnarface | eh, too bad video support has been deprecated since jessie... | 12:23 |
DonkeyHotei | deprecated? | 12:24 |
gnarface | the cirrus logic driver | 12:25 |
omnio | I use deprecated video too and I had to compile xf86-video-sis on ascii. on beowulf it doesn't even compile anymore | 12:26 |
gnarface | DonkeyHotei: abandoned | 12:30 |
drawkula | http://www.homebrewcpu.com/ | 12:31 |
jaromil | gnu_srs1: good question on the packages needing attention for beowulf, anyone willing to make a list, can help a lot. all tests seem pretty smooth from what I read | 12:31 |
drawkula | DIY has to strik back... | 12:31 |
Guest8854 | jaromil: Pls add upower to "your" list for "needing attention for beowulf" (if not already)? | 12:53 |
Guest8854 | jaromil: ...and the dependencies conflict for b/c of slim/lightdm if task-xfce-desktop is installed with recommends [libpolkit-backend-consolekit-1-0]??? | 12:55 |
* FatPhil now writes the single most complicated makefile he's ever written, because 2 hours of scripting configuration can save 5 minutes of manual configuration! | 14:56 | |
FatPhil | It's a modification of the single most complicated makefile I'd ever written, which was definitely write-only, but alas my requirements have got more intricate. | 14:57 |
FatPhil | anyone know how to get a gnu to use -R -r behaviour (no builtins) using a directive in the makefile itself? | 16:14 |
FatPhil | info pages imply, through absense, that it's not possible. | 16:21 |
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