[Bug 1694061] [NEW] ubiquity crashes on install step

2017-05-27 Thread Tim Towers
Public bug reported: running ubiquity from an ubuntu 16.04.2 installed to a USB stick. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: ubiquity 2.21.63.3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-52.55~16.04.1-generic 4.8.17 Uname: Linux 4.8.0-52-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.6 Arc

[Bug 989136] Re: visible sound device is HDMI, analog invisible.

2012-04-26 Thread Tim Towers
False alarm, somehow the sound device had got disabled in the computer's BIOS. ** Changed in: ubuntu Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/989136 Title: visibl

[Bug 989136] Re: visible sound device is HDMI, analog invisible.

2012-04-26 Thread Tim Towers
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/989136 Title: visible sound device is HDMI, analog invisible. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/98913

[Bug 989136] [NEW] visible sound device is HDMI, analog invisible.

2012-04-26 Thread Tim Towers
Public bug reported: Description:Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Release:12.04 I am have no sound output. The speaker cable is plugged into the usual green socket and I have also tried healphones in the front audio socket. The sound settings application does not provide any visibility of alternati

[Bug 420190] Re: VBoxHeadless has no way of accessing graphical console

2011-01-06 Thread Tim Towers
A further update to my comment, the feature seems to work mostly correctly - there seems to be some keyboard issues with using vnc through VBoxHeadless which do not occurr when using vnc provided by the client operating system. (e.g. shift key does not work, keys can get stuck). As the version that

[Bug 420190] Re: VBoxHeadless has no way of accessing graphical console

2011-01-05 Thread Tim Towers
Update to my comment above - VBoxHeadless does know about vlc, so as long as you invoke that directly this feature works correctly. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/420190 Title: VBoxHe

[Bug 420190] Re: VBoxHeadless has no way of accessing graphical console

2011-01-05 Thread Tim Towers
This issue is very interesting to me too. I enabled lucid-backports and downloaded the newer version of virtualbox. Unfortunately it does not seem to have the VNC option enabled any more as of 5th Jan 2011. ~# VBoxManage --version 3.2.8_OSEr64453 Typing 'VBoxManage --help' includes the following

[Bug 569273] Re: memory leak in gnome-power-manager

2010-12-20 Thread Tim Towers
I am seeing this behavior on a patched Ubuntu 10.10 desktop (no battery) gnome-power-manager was up to about 400\b and indicator-applet is up to 122Mb in about 30 days on a lightly used system -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to U

[Bug 552717] Re: Suspend on Lucid beta sometimes kills the r8192_pci module

2010-12-17 Thread Tim Towers
There is an unreliable workaround which removes the module on suspend and reinserts it on wakeup documented in http://www.backports.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8574835&postcount=3 Synopsis: Edit /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/55NetworkManager to add this functionality, example below: ... case "

[Bug 552717] Re: Suspend on Lucid beta sometimes kills the r8192_pci module

2010-12-17 Thread Tim Towers
problem still exists in the 2.6.35-23-generic kernel. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/552717 Title: Suspend on Lucid beta sometimes kills the r8192_pci module -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 572249] Re: Hard freeze on large file transfers with Atheros AR8132 / L1c

2010-08-20 Thread Tim Towers
I have reproduced the fix with the stock Ubuntu atl1c driver. -- Hard freeze on large file transfers with Atheros AR8132 / L1c https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/572249 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 572249] Re: Hard freeze on large file transfers with Atheros AR8132 / L1c

2010-08-19 Thread Tim Towers
[SOLVED] (I hope... I've now transfered 15Gb of data without a lockup, it usually locks after 250Mb) I found a possible solution in http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux- netdev/2009/10/6/6256977/thread where Jay mentions to add pci=nomsi to the boot parameters. To implement this I edited /etc/

[Bug 572249] Re: Hard freeze on large file transfers with Atheros AR8132 / L1c

2010-08-19 Thread Tim Towers
I have tried the latest source from Atheros, building the atl1e driver from the "AR81Family-Linux-v1.0.1.9" sources from http://partner.atheros.com/Drivers.aspx. I still got a lockup 260Mb into a large file. The Atheros notes suggest there can be a problem when you have 4Gb of memory - I have 2G

[Bug 572249] Re: Hard freeze on large file transfers with Atheros AR8132 / L1c

2010-08-18 Thread Tim Towers
I am having this problem with an eee 1201n, setting a large network download going (e.g. ISO images) will reliably freeze the system, no capslock or mouse movement possible. lspci | grep thernet 09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev

[Bug 318448] Re: [Hauppauge WinTV HVR-900/Hybrid][em28xx]Missing device files (/dev/dvb)

2010-06-15 Thread Tim Towers
Adding a me too I have a "Hauppauge WinTV HVR 900 (R2) (card=18)" and am missing the /dev/dvb devices. The UK is turning off analog TV and it is important that the DVB-T component works. -- [Hauppauge WinTV HVR-900/Hybrid][em28xx]Missing device files (/dev/dvb) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs

[Bug 552717] Re: Suspend on Lucid beta sometimes kills the r8192_pci module

2010-03-31 Thread Tim Towers
** Attachment added: "AlsaDevices.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/42687901/AlsaDevices.txt ** Attachment added: "BootDmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/42687902/BootDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: "Card0.Amixer.values.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/42687903/Card0.Amixer.valu

[Bug 552717] [NEW] Suspend on Lucid beta sometimes kills the r8192_pci module

2010-03-31 Thread Tim Towers
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: linux-image when resume fails, the following information is left in dmesg: [122147.278450] PM: resume devices took 1.764 seconds [122147.278523] PM: Finishing wakeup. [122147.278527] Restarting tasks ... done. [122148.502230] rtl819xE: PlatformInitFirmwa

[Bug 508746] Re: rtl819xE:request firmware fail!

2010-03-31 Thread Tim Towers
samsung N150 netbook, Running stock Ubuntu Lucid (10.4 beta) updated yesterday. Ever since I installed Lucid to get the wireless working I have noticed that suspending and resuming my system has a 30% chance of killing the wireless. The gnome NetworkManager Applet indicates that wireless is not r

[Bug 267269] Re: system GUI turn upside down when visual effects changed from none to normal

2010-03-01 Thread Tim Towers
I can confirm that I have this problem on a Samsung N150 pine trail laptop (Intel graphics chipset). Since all new accounts are set up with normal (metacity) visual effects they all suffer from this graphical corruption. Logging in with a Gnome Failsafe session allows you to disable visual effec

[Bug 453989] Re: Xephyr - unrecognised device identifier!

2010-01-24 Thread Tim Towers
Sometime in the last two weeks my Xnext (and now that I have tested it, Xephyr too) have also started failing with: (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2) unrecognised device identifier! I am not running amule, I have edited /etc/dbus-1/system.d/xorg- server.conf to add the 'allow' lin