[Bug 865111] Re: X quits, instead of waiting for kernel module to load

2012-11-10 Thread Russell Sears
I'm also seeing this in ubuntu 12.04. As a workaround, I added a "sleep 5" to the top of the "script" section in /etc/init/gdm.conf and /etc/init/lightdm.conf Like other posters on duplicate bugs, according to /var/log/Xorg.0.log and dmesg, X bombs out a bit under 5 seconds after boot (after the

[Bug 20871] Re: Improving navigation in large documents

2009-11-17 Thread Russell Sears
The toolbar button does not address this bug. It does not manage pages as a stack. I think it is based upon some web-browser user interface work that displayed the title of recently visited pages in a drop down list, based upon when the page was viewed. This is a reasonable way to present a brow

Re: [Bug 305609] Re: cannot disable low ink warning

2009-03-18 Thread Russell Sears
Thanks for responding; it's not clear the printer drivers are doing anything wrong, so this might belong with hplip. The bug report probably belongs to whatever package owns the gnome notification bubble; I think everything underneath the hood is working properly. Unless there is a way to twea

Re: [Bug 285098] Re: [i965] intel 965 + compiz + suspend -> corrupt alt-tab icons

2008-12-19 Thread Russell Sears
Confirmed w/ new drivers. Rebooted; still got corruption. This is what the upgrade did: libdrm2-dbg will be removed libdrm-dev (version 2.3.1-0build1) will be upgraded to version 2.4.1-0ubuntu7~intrepid libdrm2 (version 2.3.1-0build1) will be upgraded to version 2.4.1-0ubuntu7~intrepid xserver-x

[Bug 309906] Re: synaptic crashes when attempting to unlock package us regular user

2008-12-19 Thread Russell Sears
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20589958/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20589959/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcStatus.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20589960/ProcStatus.txt -- synapt

[Bug 309906] [NEW] synaptic crashes when attempting to unlock package us regular user

2008-12-19 Thread Russell Sears
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: synaptic I attempted to unlock a package with a locked version as a regular user: $ synaptic (pick a locked package) (click on Package->Lock Version, which already has a checkbox) error opening tmpfile: /var/lib/synaptic/.tmp_preferences Segmentation f

[Bug 305609] [NEW] cannot disable low ink warning

2008-12-05 Thread Russell Sears
Public bug reported: I have an HP printer, and it reports low ink when the cartridge still has a month or two of ink left in it. (By 'reports low ink', I mean it turns on a warning light for the cartridge, and the built-in diagnostic test page and hpilp report a ink level of zero). The printer h

[Bug 285098] Re: intel 965 + compiz + suspend -> corrupt alt-tab icons

2008-11-05 Thread Russell Sears
Just want to add that I wasn't seeing this with intel's 2.3 drivers (I think I grabbed them out of intrepid's repository a few months ago, or with the 2.2 series from hardy. However, 2.3 was ridiculously slow at running compiz. I don't remember what was wrong with 2.2, but it was something signif

[Bug 285098] Re: intel 965 + compiz + suspend -> corrupt alt-tab icons

2008-10-25 Thread Russell Sears
I'd like to add that the mouse cursor now sometimes disappears. Usually it's just one of the cursors, like the animated 'wait' circle. Killing and restarting compiz doesn't fix the mouse cursor, though it does fix the alt-tab icons. I mention it since I've seen the mouse cursor 'wait' bitmap sho

[Bug 285098] Re: intel 965 + compiz + suspend -> corrupt alt-tab icons

2008-10-17 Thread Russell Sears
Tested with compiz 1:0.7.8-0ubuntu4 and with AperTexSize commented out. No change. Suspend/resume was stable before I upgraded, though compiz was very slow. I may have hacked a few things in the suspend/resume scripts under feisty, but I think most of those customizations were blown away a long t

[Bug 285098] Re: intel 965 + compiz + suspend -> corrupt alt-tab icons

2008-10-17 Thread Russell Sears
Note that I've tweaked the AperTexSize option, and had to muck with the virtual desktop size. Otherwise, the rest of the customization for the intel driver is commented out, The laptop is a lenovo thinkpad x61t. ** Attachment added: "xorg.conf" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18652912/xorg.conf

[Bug 285098] Re: intel 965 + compiz + suspend -> corrupt alt-tab icons

2008-10-17 Thread Russell Sears
** Attachment added: "Xorg.0.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18652884/Xorg.0.log -- intel 965 + compiz + suspend -> corrupt alt-tab icons https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/285098 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- u

[Bug 285098] Re: intel 965 + compiz + suspend -> corrupt alt-tab icons

2008-10-17 Thread Russell Sears
** Attachment added: "lspci --vvnn" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18652881/lspcivvnn.txt -- intel 965 + compiz + suspend -> corrupt alt-tab icons https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/285098 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 285098] Re: intel 965 + compiz + suspend -> corrupt alt-tab icons

2008-10-17 Thread Russell Sears
** Attachment added: "corrupt.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18644559/corrupt.png -- intel 965 + compiz + suspend -> corrupt alt-tab icons https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/285098 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 285098] [NEW] intel 965 + compiz + suspend -> corrupt alt-tab icons

2008-10-17 Thread Russell Sears
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel After I suspend/resume my laptop, the compiz icons in the display are corrupted. Icons in the menubar, and icons for windows created after resume aren't affected. (See attached screenshot - gimp and synaptic were launched after

[Bug 201358] Re: [hardy] ext3 filesytem dont take care of a big size file > of total partition size

2008-04-29 Thread Russell Sears
Oops; looks like I spoke too soon. It's not taking advantage of sparse files when it converts from DD formats: $ vditool DD VistaQemu.vdi VistaQemu.bin vditoolCopyright (c) 2004-2008 innotek GmbH. Converting VDI: from DD image file="VistaQemu.bin" to file="VistaQemu.vdi"... Creating fixed i

[Bug 201358] Re: [hardy] ext3 filesytem dont take care of a big size file > of total partition size

2008-04-29 Thread Russell Sears
There are three issues here. I think the bug is in virtualbox's vditool. First, ext3 supports sparse files, which means that runs of zeros aren't actually stored anywhere on disk. The .img file is probably sparse, so the reported filesize is to be expected. You can check the actual size of a fi

[Bug 155121] Re: brightness applet cannot override battery dimming

2008-04-10 Thread Russell Sears
Pedro: Sorry I didn't respond to the earlier message. It must have slipped through the cracks. I think this is a user interface bug, not a hardware bug. (If it's a hardware bug, it might be because I've had to do strange things to get my backlight controls to work...) Gnome has two brightness s

Re: [Bug 124797] Re: CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor applet on dual-core doesn't work after resume

2008-02-26 Thread Russell Sears
I've been running 2.6.24-? on gutsy for weeks with no real problems. If you're worried, make sure it doesn't pull too much hardy stuff in... Last I checked, 2.6.24 didn't require very many (any?) package upgrades. (I haven't had a chance to play with the most recent one...) The old kernel sh

[Bug 133430] Re: [gutsy] screen resolution rotation does not rotate wacom

2007-12-31 Thread Russell Sears
The problem with having xrandr or the driver hardcode the policy is that it wouldn't work properly with other wacom hardware (not all wacom devices are built into screens, and it's unclear what to do when there are multiple displays, and the user rotates one of them...). Perhaps some sort of event

[Bug 124797] Re: CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor applet on dual-core doesn't work after resume

2007-12-10 Thread Russell Sears
Leann correctly marked my bug (141339) as a duplicate of this one. On my system, running "/etc/init.d/powernowd restart" reliably fixes the problem. I created a script in /etc/acpi/resume.d with these contents: #!/bin/sh /etc/init.d/powernowd restart This is automatically run when the system r

[Bug 124023] Re: X server I830WaitLpRing crash with PyMOL and direct rendering on Intel 965Q

2007-12-07 Thread Russell Sears
I'm running ubuntu gutsy with an intel 965gm (Lenovo x61 tablet), but with the newer intel video drivers from hardy (2:2.2.0-1ubuntu1). I haven't tested it heavily, but pymol doesn't seem to crash X on my system. Instead, if you move the window, pymol's rendering window (the 3d one) is no longer

Re: [Bug 129380] Re: It does not refresh well when dragging a window inthe rotated screen (Santa Rosa)

2007-11-12 Thread Russell Sears
I don't really recommend doing this for the current intel ubuntu package, given the bugs I mentioned above. Also, (according to the xorg mailing list) there are some performance regressions and other problems... Things should improve when version 2.2.0 of the driver is released. Also, it's n

[Bug 129380] Re: It does not refresh well when dragging a window in the rotated screen (Santa Rosa)

2007-11-12 Thread Russell Sears
It hasn't been fixed in gutsy. You'd need to update to the pre-release version in hardy. That version broke other, more important, things on my system, like synaptics and wacom drivers. Plus, compiz still isn't working properly. -- It does not refresh well when dragging a window in the rotated

Re: [Bug 129380] Re: It does not refresh well when dragging a window in the rotated screen (Santa Rosa)

2007-11-09 Thread Russell Sears
Done. Bryce Harrington wrote: > Russell, thanks for reporting this. Xiaoyang Yu, can you confirm that > the rotation and dragging is working for you as well? > > The other two issues with window borders and tablets need to be reported > as separate bugs, if they're not already. Russell, would y

[Bug 161759] screen corruption with compiz and intel driver

2007-11-09 Thread Russell Sears
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel Using an empty intel driver (from hardy; version 2:2.1.1-4ubuntu2) configuration section with compiz (from gutsy) leads to an unusable system. When windows appear, the first (?) frame they display is used to draw their window. T

[Bug 161756] xorg failed to load module wacom

2007-11-09 Thread Russell Sears
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-wacom I've just upgraded to hardy's version of xorg. Now I get this in my xorg.log, and my wacom stylus doesn't work. I have xserver-xorg-input- wacom version 1:0.7.7.7-0ubuntu2 installed. The synaptics driver (0.14.6-0ubuntu10) comp

[Bug 129380] Re: It does not refresh well when dragging a window in the rotated screen (Santa Rosa)

2007-11-09 Thread Russell Sears
Rotation with direct rendering is fixed in hardy as of yesterday (2:2.1.1-4ubuntu2) on my lenovo x61 tablet. Sadly, the window borders are corrupted and screen rotation breaks in a different way when I enable compiz. Also, Hardy's xorg breaks my tablet's stylus (it can't seem to find the wacom dr

[Bug 121738] Re: Font size in Firefox and Thunderbird

2007-10-20 Thread Russell Sears
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 118745 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/118745 This isn't quite a duplicate bug; firefox (at least when run under gnome) uses gnome's font settings and sizes, but it gets the DPI values from X. Why doesn't it get all the settings from gnome? In order to

[Bug 95390] Re: Login not possible after logout

2007-10-20 Thread Russell Sears
This is probably due to stray gnome processes. See bug# 126719 -- Login not possible after logout https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/95390 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists

[Bug 112751] Re: Brightness applet fails to function after restarting X server

2007-10-20 Thread Russell Sears
I have the same problem. In my case, it is due to stray gnome processes that aren't killed properly by --. Logging out and killing them from a text prompt fixes the problem. See bug# 126719 -- Brightness applet fails to function after restarting X server https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112751

[Bug 155121] brightness applet cannot override battery dimming

2007-10-20 Thread Russell Sears
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager When gnome-power-manager is set to dim the display on battery power, brightness applet "double counts" gnome's battery screen dimming setting. If the AC screen brightness is set to 100%, and the battery dimming is set to 20%, then bri

[Bug 133430] Re: [gutsy] screen resolution rotation does not rotate wacom

2007-10-01 Thread Russell Sears
** Attachment added: "rotscreen.new" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9624539/rotscreen.new -- [gutsy] screen resolution rotation does not rotate wacom https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/133430 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for

[Bug 133430] Re: [gutsy] screen resolution rotation does not rotate wacom

2007-10-01 Thread Russell Sears
I have attached two perl scripts that I use to rotate my screen on an x61 tablet. They should work (more or less) on the x60 tablet as well. They handle xrandr, wacom rotation, and also set the arrow buttons on the front panel to the appropriate keyboard arrow keys. rotscreen.new calls xrandr 1.

[Bug 147783] Intel 965GM rotation

2007-10-01 Thread Russell Sears
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel Screen rotation and video acceleration don't work together on my system. I have a lenovo thinkpad x61 tablet (intel 965gm chipset) In order to get rotation to work at all, I need to put "Option "DRI" "false" in my xorg.log, which

Re: [Bug 145445] Re: LyX should not embed type 3 fonts in PDFs.

2007-09-27 Thread Russell Sears
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 21:02 +, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > I don't perfectly understand: > > "The line in the exported latex that seems to be causing the problem is: > > \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} > > This command typically causes latex to use type 1 fonts." > > So, in exported latex files, you

[Bug 41427] Re: "slow keys" can turn on surreptitiously & cause confusion.

2007-09-27 Thread Russell Sears
Right now, the only workaround is to disable all of the keyboard accessibility stuff. I think that each of the accessibility features need an independent option to disable their keyboard shortcut key under system->preferences->accessibility->keyboard. If people that don't have problems with keybo

[Bug 145445] LyX should not embed type 3 fonts in PDFs.

2007-09-26 Thread Russell Sears
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: lyx The pdf files that lyx produces (pdflatex, ps2pdf and dvipdfm) have type 3 (bitmap) fonts embedded in them. They should have type 1 (vector) fonts instead. I'm not sure if this is a lyx or a tetex / texlive bug. lyx 1.4.3 and 1.5 exhibit the same b

[Bug 141339] ondemand governor sets cpu frequency to 100% after resume

2007-09-20 Thread Russell Sears
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: linux-source-2.6.22 This bug occurs on a Lenovo Thinkpad X61 Tablet (Low voltage core 2 duo, 1.6ghz) I'm running: linux-image-2.6.22-11-generic (2.6.22-11.33) powernowd (0.97-1ubuntu7) pm-utils (0.99.2-1) acpi-support (0.95) gnome-power-manager (2.18.2-0