[Bug 460631] Re: Incorrect warning about eeepc battery

2009-11-12 Thread Thomas Meixner
I observed the same problem on a Dell Inspirion 6000 although it shows the battery at around 40%. What is much more annoying than the message, in the last session with AC power plugged in and 100% charged battery, the system siren (beeeuuubeeeuu ...) for a critically low battery appeared twice

[Bug 343716] Re: KIO filebrowser in amarok doesn't play files on a network share (smb/sftp)

2009-10-31 Thread Thomas Meixner
>From what I can tell upstream has fixed parts of it. I'm now on Arch with KDE 4.3.2 and amarok 2.2.0 and playing files fine if the folder is mapped via sshfs. smb I still have no luck though. -- KIO filebrowser in amarok doesn't play files on a network share (smb/sftp) https://bugs.launchpad.net

[Bug 296610] Re: ALPS DualPoint Touchpad flaky performance

2009-10-06 Thread Thomas Meixner
Nothing new to add regarding the bug, just something I found easing the pain a little for me. 'm on Arch in the meanwhile but I think the issue is the same. At some point the psmouse driver crashes and loads a generic one. If this happens the Trackpoint scroll doesn't work anymore. I usually fix

[Bug 363672] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty 64 bits hangups often with nvidia-glx-180

2009-07-09 Thread Thomas Meixner
@trelayne >when you say manually compiled, I assume you mean the procedure where you do: >sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-185.18.14-pkg1.run ? yes, I used the installer and the instructions found on the NVIDIA Forum. I posted some more details in my post on 2009-06-12. It's strange - this bug seems quite pi

[Bug 363672] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty 64 bits hangups often with nvidia-glx-180

2009-07-09 Thread Thomas Meixner
I've been using 185.18.14 (manually compiled from NVIDIA website) on my dell latitude e6400 64Bit for almost a month and haven't experienced a single crash since. -- Kubuntu Jaunty 64 bits hangups often with nvidia-glx-180 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/363672 You received this bug notification

[Bug 363672] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty 64 bits hangups often with nvidia-glx-180

2009-06-16 Thread Thomas Meixner
I've been running the NVIDIA180.60 which I installed manually for a week now and just experienced my first crash with the same symptoms: Psychedelic pixelated screen. The crashes on 180.44 were far more often though (once a day at least) and this time I was also still able to shut down the System

[Bug 363672] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty 64 bits hangups often with nvidia-glx-180

2009-06-12 Thread Thomas Meixner
I have manually installed the nvidia drivers for 180.60 and my system is stable since. I upgraded recently to KDE 4.3 Beta 2 and tried at the same time 180.44 again which resulted in 2 crashes in one afternoon (pixelated screens etc ...) I will keep testing this driver release from NVidia and repo

[Bug 363672] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty 64 bits hangups often with nvidia-glx-180

2009-06-03 Thread Thomas Meixner
There has been a driver update to the 180 series of drivers. Amongst the other issues mentioned I thought this was interesting: Fixed stability problems with some GeForce 6200/7200/7300 GPUs on multi- core/SMP systems. More information here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_180.60

[Bug 363672] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty 64 bits hangups often with nvidia-glx-180

2009-05-25 Thread Thomas Meixner
I have reinstalled my kubuntu jaunty 64 Bit installation recently. This time I selected the 177 driver and since then I don't have problems anymore. I couldn't help but notice that all problems reported here are also for the Quattro or NVS Series of NVidia Drivers for laptops. -- Kubuntu Jaunty

[Bug 363672] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty 64 bits hangups often with nvidia-glx-180

2009-05-10 Thread Thomas Meixner
I just realized while going through my Xorg.0.log file that the RAM of my GfX Card (NVidia NVS 160m Quattro with 256MB RAM) is reported incorrectly: (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU Quadro NVS 160M (G98) at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0) (--) NVIDIA(0): Memor

[Bug 363672] Re: Kubuntu Jaunty 64 bits hangups often with nvidia-glx-180

2009-04-28 Thread Thomas Meixner
I have a similar problem on my Dell e6400 with an NVidia NVS 160m graphics card. Depending on how hard the crash is I can still use the system or switch to a console. Here is what I have in my Xorg.0.log.old after a reboot. It looks to me the NVidia Driver crashes. (II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU

[Bug 349685] Re: mirror ca.archive.ubuntu.com slow - possibly throttled at 20-30k/sec

2009-03-27 Thread Thomas Meixner
Just some more info: The university of Waterloo is the only Canadian mirror with a 1Gpbs Connection. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors Their network load can be seen in the following graphs. https://strobe.uwaterloo.ca/~twiki/bin/view/ISTNS/ExternalNetworkStats -- mirror ca.archive

[Bug 349685] Re: mirror ca.archive.ubuntu.com slow - possibly throttled at 20-30k/sec

2009-03-27 Thread Thomas Meixner
** Summary changed: - mirror ca.archive.ubuntu.com slow - throttled at 20-30k/sec + mirror ca.archive.ubuntu.com slow - possibly throttled at 20-30k/sec ** Description changed: - The Canadian ubuntu mirror at ca.archive.ubuntu.com is very slow. It seems to be throttled at around 20-30k/sec arou

[Bug 349685] [NEW] mirror ca.archive.ubuntu.com slow - throttled at 20-30k/sec

2009-03-27 Thread Thomas Meixner
Public bug reported: The Canadian ubuntu mirror at ca.archive.ubuntu.com is very slow. It seems to be throttled at around 20-30k/sec around the clock without exception. Since after setting the timezone to a Canadian City ubuntu automatically defaults to the Canadian mirror, especially new users

[Bug 296610] Re: ALPS DualPoint Touchpad flaky performance

2009-03-27 Thread Thomas Meixner
I wrote a step by step how to make a patched psmouse.ko module from the descriptions of slinkp and kadawer in a forum thread. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6964479#post6964479 With the patch applied on jaunty 64 Kubuntu I am really happy. I no longer have erratic jumping of the curser,

[Bug 296610] Re: ALPS DualPoint Touchpad flaky performance

2009-03-25 Thread Thomas Meixner
Above patch seems to be included in kernel 2.6.29 rc6 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12577 Anyway of getting it included in the current ubuntu kernel line? -- ALPS DualPoint Touchpad flaky performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/296610 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 296610] Re: ALPS DualPoint Touchpad flaky performance

2009-03-25 Thread Thomas Meixner
ALPS driver flakey or "crashing and falling back to standart PS2 mouse" on Dell E6400/E6500 is still an issue in Jaunty (Kubuntu Alpha 6) I found an alleged fix here (.diff attachement of 4th reply) http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/991762 however it's for the 2.26.27 kernel, ja

[Bug 344184] Re: [Dell Inc. Precision M6400] suspend/resume failure [non-free: nvidia]

2009-03-23 Thread Thomas Meixner
I've just had the same problem on an Dell E6400 which is basically the same hardware so I post my additional info here: I'm on Kubuntu 9.04: uname -a Linux lt2-tom 2.6.28-11-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 20 19:51:24 UTC 2009x86_64 GNU/Linux Usually sleep works just fine. Unfortunately I haven

[Bug 343716] [NEW] KIO filebrowser in amarok doesn't play files on a network share (smb/sftp)

2009-03-16 Thread Thomas Meixner
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: amarok 1) System information: Kubuntu 9.04 Alpha 5 with all updates till today (2009-03-16) 2) Package Information - amarok: Installed: 2:2.0.2mysql5.1.30-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 2:2.0.2mysql5.1.30-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 2:2.0.2mysql5.1.30-0ubu