[Bug 422536] Re: EDAC amd64: WARNING: ECC is NOT currently enabled by the BIOS. Module will NOT be loaded.

2009-10-29 Thread Hendrik van den Boogaard
I get this error when I boot my Ubuntu partition in VirtualBox, so no real ECC problem there... -- EDAC amd64: WARNING: ECC is NOT currently enabled by the BIOS. Module will NOT be loaded. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/422536 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubunt

[Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

2009-04-22 Thread Hendrik van den Boogaard
@Thomas, I can try the 'time cat..' line later but I don't think it will reveal information other than that catting the SATA harddisk is probably faster, because the drive is generally faster (higher capacity per platter, more cache). @KhaaL, I must say that for the last test I used Anticipatory a

[Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

2009-04-21 Thread Hendrik van den Boogaard
Update: running with 'mem=512m' seems to make performance just as bad as on older/other kernels. Then I recalled some information about native command queueing (thanks for the hint on your picture Jamie :)) and how this could trash your disk on some older drive models. I already disabled it on my f

[Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

2009-04-21 Thread Hendrik van den Boogaard
KhaaL: thanks for pointing to that thread, but there is so much information there that I cannot really separate all the issues at hand. The test suite does not give any satisfactory results which I could interpret. For now my best test is just to copy big files from PATA to SATA disk, however the X

[Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

2009-04-20 Thread Hendrik van den Boogaard
Milan: I did a fresh install of Jaunty on an empty SATA harddisk. The rest of the machine is the same and I kept my PATA harddisk in to copy the old files. That's when I noticed that while copying the interface was sluggish. Something I always cursed Windows for and was one of my true beliefs Linux

[Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

2009-04-19 Thread Hendrik van den Boogaard
I just installed a fresh Jaunty and I am experiencing the same problem. When I'm copying large files the responsiveness of the system goes down dramatically. You practically cannot use the system any more. It takes ages for the top menu to load (its icons) and when you start a simple program like t

[Bug 96968] Re: When auto-open a revelation password file, it gives an error

2008-11-10 Thread Hendrik van den Boogaard
Although the bug persists, there is quite an easy workaround for this: * Instead of opening Revelation and configure it to open a password file on start up, open the password file directly. Gnome has associated the application to open the password file with (which is Revelation) and will start Rev

[Bug 278153] Re: [Intrepid] nm-applet VPN tab greyed out

2008-10-18 Thread Hendrik van den Boogaard
I have the same problem on my Ubuntu 8.10 beta/64 Bit. What I find particularly strange is that I do have some VPN connections setup manually in the /etc/ppp folder and these are working fine when I start them with pon or poff. -- [Intrepid] nm-applet VPN tab greyed out https://bugs.launchpad.net

[Bug 96978] Re: [VLC] 'Open file' dialog fails when typing a directory in the location bar (or even crashes VLC)

2008-10-17 Thread Hendrik van den Boogaard
No, the interface has changed in a way that when you select 'open file' it will immediately give you a browse window, so the problem seems to have disappeared. -- [VLC] 'Open file' dialog fails when typing a directory in the location bar (or even crashes VLC) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/9697

[Bug 96968] Re: When auto-open a revelation password file, it gives an error

2008-10-17 Thread Hendrik van den Boogaard
I haven't tried the patch suggested above but I can confirm that the problem still exists in version shipped with the current beta of Ubuntu 8.10. -- When auto-open a revelation password file, it gives an error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96968 You received this bug notification because you a

[Bug 106821] Re: smartmontools/smartctl does not work on SATA drives on Linux Kernel 2.6.20-15.27

2007-07-27 Thread Hendrik van den Boogaard
Some more info about when I discovered this bug: - The bug was not present until the very latest beta from Feisty Fawn. Only the last release candidates gave these bugs, all versions I have run before from Edgy Eft and Dapper Drake did not have this problem either. - I now changed my computer mo

[Bug 25105] Re: incorrect test page printing with SAMSUNG ML1210 (on breezy)

2007-04-24 Thread Hendrik van den Boogaard
The attachment (A working ML-1430 PPD (from Fedora Core 3) from a few posts above seems to solve the bar problem on Feisty Fawn (AMD64) for me as well! First I gunzipped the driver from the attachment in /tmp. Then I installed a new printer, choose the option 'Install Driver'. There I pointed to /

[Bug 106821] Re: smartmontools/smartctl does not work on SATA drives on Linux Kernel 2.6.20-15.27

2007-04-21 Thread Hendrik van den Boogaard
Interesting. I thought the problem might have been NVidia related because I read some stuff about the libpata (?) driver for NVidia and that they changed things around. I have a Asus A8N-VM CSM myself, but the SIL3114 is really different from my 'IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA C

[Bug 97630] Re: A Openoffice Impress presentation is not correctly exported to PDF

2007-04-18 Thread Hendrik van den Boogaard
Note that the bug status has changed from confirmed -> In progress. The OpenOffice bugs site itself has set target for the fix in OO.org 2.3. That probably means that we will be stuck with this bug when using Feisty.. -- A Openoffice Impress presentation is not correctly exported to PDF https://b

[Bug 106821] smartmontools/smartctl does not work on SATA drives on Linux Kernel 2.6.20-15.27

2007-04-15 Thread Hendrik van den Boogaard
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.20-15-generic On my ASUS A8N-VM CSM motherboard my PATA harddisks are reported OK but the SATA drives are not. Requestingall S.M.A.R.T. info from the drive result in an error like the one below. On the older kernel (2.6.20-14.22) the outp

[Bug 96978] [VLC] 'Open file' dialog fails when typing a directory in the location bar (or even crashes VLC)

2007-04-06 Thread Hendrik van den Boogaard
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: vlc Feisty Fawn, AMD64, VLC 0.8.6.release-0ubuntu4 Some application (but I know it happens at least with VLC) suffer from this. If you open a file go to browse, type in a location and press ENTER the path is not changed. If you press OPEN in the right bo

[Bug 75213] Re: FTP icon seems to be missing

2007-04-06 Thread Hendrik van den Boogaard
In Feisty Fawn Beta the icon seems to be fixed -- FTP icon seems to be missing https://launchpad.net/bugs/75213 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 31336] Re: seahorse clutters ~/.gnome2

2007-04-02 Thread Hendrik van den Boogaard
I am experiencing the same problem in Feisty now. I was using Dapper before but now my .gnome2/ dir also fills up with seahorse-?? files. Dapper did not have this kind of behavior. -- seahorse clutters ~/.gnome2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/31336 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 31336] Re: seahorse clutters ~/.gnome2

2007-04-02 Thread Hendrik van den Boogaard
I am experiencing the same problem in Feisty now. I was using Dapper before but now my .gnome2/ dir also fills up with seahorse-?? files. Dapper did not have this kind of behavior. -- seahorse clutters ~/.gnome2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/31336 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 25105] Re: incorrect test page printing with SAMSUNG ML1210 (on breezy)

2007-03-31 Thread Hendrik van den Boogaard
On Feisty [amd64] this problem is still there. I have a Samsung ML1210 which worked perfectly fine under Dapper. I skipped Edgy and I am now also noticing the same bar on the test page as well as faulty printed images when I tried to print those on my clean Feisty install! However I have not insta

[Bug 58232] Re: gnome-terminal does not start when using xinerama and nvidia

2007-03-30 Thread Hendrik van den Boogaard
In Feisty I have the same problem with Nvidia/Xinerama/AMD64. The workaround posted above (Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True") works around the problem and gnome-terminal will start OK again. -- gnome-terminal does not start when using xinerama and nvidia https://launchpad.net/bugs/58232 -- ubun

[Bug 97630] Re: A Openoffice Impress presentation is not correctly exported to PDF

2007-03-28 Thread Hendrik van den Boogaard
In Impress (2.2.0~rc3~oof680m10-0ubuntu3) it looks like this ** Attachment added: "The screen in Impress" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7038419/Impress.jpg -- A Openoffice Impress presentation is not correctly exported to PDF https://launchpad.net/bugs/97630 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ub

[Bug 97630] Re: A Openoffice Impress presentation is not correctly exported to PDF

2007-03-28 Thread Hendrik van den Boogaard
This is what it looks like in Acroread (from Edgy 7.0.9-0.0.ubuntu0.6.10), but it is the same in Evince ** Attachment added: "The screen in Acroread" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7038425/pdf-export.jpg -- A Openoffice Impress presentation is not correctly exported to PDF https://launchpad.

[Bug 97630] A Openoffice Impress presentation is not correctly exported to PDF

2007-03-28 Thread Hendrik van den Boogaard
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: openoffice.org-impress Last week I made presentations in OpenOffice.org Impress in Ubuntu Dapper (amd64). Exporting to PDF works fine. If I export the same presentations to PDF now in Feisty (amd64), the background is not rendered correctly. It's very ea

[Bug 96968] Re: When auto-open a revelation password file, it gives an error

2007-03-27 Thread Hendrik van den Boogaard
** Attachment added: "Error when entering preferences menu" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6995089/Revelation-Error2.jpg ** Description changed: Binary package hint: revelation Feisty-Beta, Revelation 0.4.11-0ubuntu3 When in preferences 'Open file on startup' is set to a password

[Bug 96968] Re: When auto-open a revelation password file, it gives an error

2007-03-27 Thread Hendrik van den Boogaard
** Attachment added: "Error given on auto-open" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6995088/Revelation-Error1.jpg -- When auto-open a revelation password file, it gives an error https://launchpad.net/bugs/96968 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mai

[Bug 96968] When auto-open a revelation password file, it gives an error

2007-03-27 Thread Hendrik van den Boogaard
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: revelation Feisty-Beta, Revelation 0.4.11-0ubuntu3 When in preferences 'Open file on startup' is set to a password file it seems to work, but as soon as the 'master password' for this file is given, it will give a error message (see attachment). On my co

[Bug 85897] Revelation tries to use Python 2.4 module Gnome and cannot find it

2007-02-17 Thread Hendrik van den Boogaard
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: revelation Appeared on Ubuntu Feisty - Herd 4 with latest updates om AMD64 architecture. When I tried installing Revelation after all updates for Feisty applied at feb 17, 22:58 (CET) it gives me the following error when starting up: Traceback (most rec