[Bug 202939] Re: quadro nvs 130m not supported by nv driver

2008-05-31 Thread tweedledee
Not sure if this reflects a bug in the package or not, but the solution (which I came across for entirely unrelated reasons) is that kernel framebuffering must be enabled in the grub menu.lst. Using vga=792 (1024x768x32) results in an X session that can see the 1024x768 & lower resolutions; using

[Bug 194947] Re: computer hibernates a few times, then fails

2008-05-19 Thread tweedledee
Solved by moving to Debian. ** Changed in: ubuntu Status: New => Invalid -- computer hibernates a few times, then fails https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194947 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailin

[Bug 225351] Re: OO.o Calc: selected cell goes to last one after cut

2008-05-16 Thread tweedledee
According to upstream response, this has been fixed, although I'm not sure if it will be for the 2.4.1 release or 3.0, nor if Hardy will be able to pick it up regardless. -- OO.o Calc: selected cell goes to last one after cut https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/225351 You received this bug notificati

[Bug 225351] Re: OO.o Calc: selected cell goes to last one after cut

2008-05-16 Thread tweedledee
I was beginning to wonder if I was the only person to have ever observed this. I've posted a bug report on the OO tracker: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=89560 I'm not sure if this is an issue with the OO version distributed from their website, but I see it in both Ubuntu and D

[Bug 160988] Re: [Ubuntu] [hardy] openoffice uses proprietary (non-free) fonts by default

2008-05-03 Thread tweedledee
Based on upstream bug reports, it appears the remaining font issues have been fixed for OO 3.0 (e.g., http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=85934). -- [Ubuntu] [hardy] openoffice uses proprietary (non-free) fonts by default https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160988 You received this bug n

[Bug 158387] Re: Resolution on login screen incorrect

2008-05-03 Thread tweedledee
Although this is still ongoing in Ubuntu with Hardy (fresh install or upgrade), Debian testing/unstable work correctly with my monitor (as did Fiesty), suggesting something is odd with the Ubuntu X configuration. The situation is sufficiently bad that I've basically been forced to switch to running

[Bug 204423] Re: ctrl+alt+backspace sometimes reboots instead of restarting X

2008-05-03 Thread tweedledee
This appears to have been fixed in Hardy. ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- ctrl+alt+backspace sometimes reboots instead of restarting X https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204423 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is su

[Bug 39890] Re: characters change when selecting text

2008-04-29 Thread tweedledee
Still ongoing in Hardy. However, as upstream is not seeing these posts, please post there instead to try to encourage something to happen. Although frankly Evince is worse in Gutsy than it was in Hardy (major memory leaks, font rendering problems, and printing quality is poor), so I think after mo

[Bug 210897] Re: sudo *something which uses poliykit?* doesn't work

2008-04-29 Thread tweedledee
This is particularly a problem for users upgrading from previous versions of Ubuntu, as several menu items (e.g., network) have "gksu" in the command line, and the menu entries are not properly reverted during upgrade. It took me a while to figure out that I had to revert (or manually remove the "

[Bug 203481] Re: [regression] policykit requires re-authentication every time

2008-04-29 Thread tweedledee
This policykit behavior is actually extremely annoying - I don't want to have to enter my password several times in the course of a couple of minutes to make changes to different areas when configuring my computers, and polickit doesn't work if I invoke the programs using gksu. -- [regression] po

[Bug 45977] Re: [Upstream] [hardy] Usability Issue: Insert Special Character always defaults to the previously used font

2008-04-29 Thread tweedledee
Upstream has decided to ignore this issue - basically the developers prefer the existing behavior over the proposed change, even though my wife is ready to strangle me over it for forcing her to use OO instead of MS programs (Ubuntu itself doesn't matter to her). I don't suppose there's any chance

[Bug 202936] Re: Can't hibernate with radio kill switch in off position

2008-04-29 Thread tweedledee
I'm going to mark this "fix released," as the problem has disappeared for my computer in Hardy - the radio switch appears to work correctly and not interfere with hibernate or standyb. ** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.22 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- Can't hibernate with radio ki

[Bug 202939] Re: quadro nvs 130m not supported by nv driver

2008-04-29 Thread tweedledee
Hardy final, 64-bit fell back to the 738x414 resolution problem, although I found some configurations where it would display the correct range of resolutions in the drop-down box (none actually worked, but they showed up as options). Given other problems with closed-source driver, I'm currently ru

[Bug 127092] Re: lightning-sunbird crashed with SIGSEGV in raise()

2008-04-29 Thread tweedledee
Still true with Sunbird using Redmond theme, either 32-bit or 64-bit, with Hardy final. -- lightning-sunbird crashed with SIGSEGV in raise() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/127092 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubunt

[Bug 160988] Re: [Ubuntu] [hardy] openoffice uses proprietary (non-free) fonts by default

2008-04-29 Thread tweedledee
While some of the default fonts now default to non-proprietary ones, that's not true of all of them for 2.4 in Hardy. I still get Albany as the default font for all plots, regardless of any configuration options. -- [Ubuntu] [hardy] openoffice uses proprietary (non-free) fonts by default https:/

[Bug 180251] Re: Default SAMBA configuration allows guest access unexpectedly

2008-04-29 Thread tweedledee
I'd just like to point out that the severity of this bug is made worse in Hardy by the removal of all centralized options for configuring shares (at least on the menus - obviously you can still run shares-admin manually if you know it exists). As shares-admin is actually quite useful for configuri

[Bug 132612] Re: memory leak in evince?

2008-04-29 Thread tweedledee
For what it's worth, this is definitely not resolved in Ubuntu Hardy - I had a 300 KB PDF using 900 MB of RAM earlier today. It was an old research artcle that had been scanned in, and although it was OCR'd, Evince was still treating it as an image for memory purposes (although I could copy text o

[Bug 224499] [NEW] Time synchronize results in running a local ntp server

2008-04-29 Thread tweedledee
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ntp In Ubuntu Hardy, the ntp package installs a version (or configuration of, I'm not sure) ntpd that actually runs a local ntp server by default. Frankly, for the purposes of keeping my clock in sync with time servers, this is absurd, not to mention the

[Bug 127092] Re: lightning-sunbird crashed with SIGSEGV in raise()

2008-04-11 Thread tweedledee
Most, not all. It fails with at least the Redmond and one other (that escapes me at the moment) with a default install. In my recent test, I used the beta live cd, installed sunbird 0.7 from repos; it works with the Human theme, crashes once I change the theme to Redmond. -- lightning-sunbird c

[Bug 127092] Re: lightning-sunbird crashed with SIGSEGV in raise()

2008-04-10 Thread tweedledee
I tried with the beta live CD - no change, problem still exists. I've noticed that it appears to only happen with engines that have not been updated in several years, so while I only encounter this problem with sunbird/mozilla apps, I'm wondering if it instead has to do with some change in GTK tha

[Bug 202939] Re: quadro nvs 130m not supported by nv driver

2008-04-09 Thread tweedledee
Update: I tried the Hardy beta live CD. 32 bit was no different than what I've already reported, which is what I expected. However, I got radically different behavior with the 64-bit live CD. I was forced into safe graphics mode, with the vesa driver & 800x600 resolution. Manually configuring u

[Bug 42121] Re: Symlinks for umountnfs / sendsigs wrong: hang on shutdown / reboot

2008-04-01 Thread tweedledee
I have also observed this bug a few times when trying to hibernate with a share that has dropped without being unmounted first. Because of the long delay during whatever process is happening to generate the error messages, hibernate fails due to processes not shutting down. (Hibernate will work if

[Bug 202939] Re: quadro nvs 130m not supported by nv driver

2008-03-28 Thread tweedledee
No change. Neither did Option "DPMS" or Option "DDC" "false" which have helped in the past with resolution issues on other computers; but as those don't have nvidia cards, I didn't really expect it to work. Playing with resolution, color depth, etc. also don't matter. -- quadro nvs 130m not supp

[Bug 115528] Re: Logitech USB mouse sometimes recognized as keyboard

2008-03-28 Thread tweedledee
This bug is the same as https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/159824 This was first, so 159824 should probably be marked as the duplicate, but the actual cause and solution are in that thread. -- Logitech USB mouse sometimes recognized as keyboard https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1

[Bug 202939] Re: quadro nvs 130m not supported by nv driver

2008-03-27 Thread tweedledee
** Attachment added: "xorg log following update/restart" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12920861/Xorg.0.log.8-1 -- quadro nvs 130m not supported by nv driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/202939 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed t

[Bug 202939] Re: quadro nvs 130m not supported by nv driver

2008-03-27 Thread tweedledee
No change with your package vs. the the 2.1.8 package I'd already tried. Attached to this post is the initial xorg.0.log after loading the Alpha 6 live cd (haven't gotten Beta yet) with the 2.1.7 driver. Attached to the next post is xorg.0.log following updating to your package, dpkg- reconfigure

[Bug 204423] [NEW] ctrl+alt+backspace sometimes reboots instead of restarting X

2008-03-20 Thread tweedledee
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xorg Using Ubuntu 7.10 or 8.04 alpha 6 live CD, pressing ctrl+alt+backspace sometimes reboots rather than just restarting X. Upon first login, ctrl+alt+backspace restarts X correctly. However, if the user has at some point prior clicked on the "exit" bu

[Bug 158387] Re: Resolution on login screen incorrect

2008-03-19 Thread tweedledee
Unfortunately, that's not a solution for me. I have an ATI card that is no longer supported by ATI/AMD, and the last supported driver release does not work with xorg 7.3. So in Fiesty+, I'm limited to the open- source driver. -- Resolution on login screen incorrect https://bugs.launchpad.net/bu

[Bug 202936] Re: Can't hibernate with radio kill switch in off position

2008-03-19 Thread tweedledee
dmesg following failed hibernate: turned on radio kill switch, told computer to hibernate. Following failed hibernate, wireless is dead until reboot, even after disabling radiokill. Reboot requires hard reboot (holding power button), as it hangs during the shut down sequence. If radiokill switc

[Bug 202936] Re: Can't hibernate with radio kill switch in off position

2008-03-19 Thread tweedledee
dmseg immediately following boot ** Attachment added: "dmesg.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12757255/dmesg.log -- Can't hibernate with radio kill switch in off position https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/202936 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 202936] Re: Can't hibernate with radio kill switch in off position

2008-03-19 Thread tweedledee
lspci attachment ** Attachment added: "lspci-vvnn.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12757250/lspci-vvnn.log -- Can't hibernate with radio kill switch in off position https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/202936 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is su

[Bug 202936] Re: Can't hibernate with radio kill switch in off position

2008-03-19 Thread tweedledee
version attachment ** Attachment added: "version.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12757247/version.log -- Can't hibernate with radio kill switch in off position https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/202936 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscr

[Bug 202936] Re: Can't hibernate with radio kill switch in off position

2008-03-19 Thread tweedledee
uname attachment ** Attachment added: "uname-a.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12757245/uname-a.log -- Can't hibernate with radio kill switch in off position https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/202936 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscrib

[Bug 158387] Re: Resolution on login screen incorrect

2008-03-19 Thread tweedledee
This problem persists in Hardy alpha 6, and in fact is even worse, in that I can't seem to get the system to stop using 1600x1024 using any tool at all after login (displayconfig-gtk, screen resolution), although I did not try the DDC option I'm using in Gutsy. This is getting to be rather more th

[Bug 160988] Re: [Ubuntu] [hardy] openoffice uses proprietary (non-free) fonts by default

2008-03-19 Thread tweedledee
I've actually found that my system, both Gutsy and Hardy alpha 6, use a combination of Nimbus_Sans and Albany (which is not even available for Ubuntu except as a purchase direct from the company) as de facto defaults. The use of Albany for the font in graphs persists even after changing all defaul

[Bug 202939] Re: quadro nvs 130m not supported by nv driver

2008-03-17 Thread tweedledee
I didn't know you could do that with a live CD. Unfortunately, the new driver also does not work. It is slightly better, in that I now get 4 resolution choices, but the three new ones are all lower than the 738x414 I was already getting. Attempting to force something higher in xorg.conf still di

[Bug 202939] Re: quadro nvs 130m not supported by nv driver

2008-03-16 Thread tweedledee
Unfortunately the machine in question is my wife's work laptop - I'm reluctant to install Hardy. The new nv driver depends on the libc6 in Hardy (2.7), not Gutsy (2.6). Attempting to install the new libc6 conflicts with tzdata in Gutsy, and I decided not to continue pursuing that dependency chain

[Bug 202936] [NEW] Can't hibernate with radio kill switch in off position

2008-03-16 Thread tweedledee
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: linux-source-2.6.22 On a Toshiba Tecra M9 with Intel iwl4965 wireless, the computer will not hibernate if the radio kill switch on the front of the computer is switched to off. Nothing happens at all, except the following is added to the system logs seve

[Bug 202939] [NEW] quadro nvs 130m not supported by nv driver

2008-03-16 Thread tweedledee
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xorg On a Toshiba Tecra M9, with a Quadro NVS 130M video card, the nv driver is just shy of useless. Using either Gutsy or the Hardy Alpha 6 live cd, the nv driver recognizes the card but provides a resolution of 738x414 (rather than the native 1280x800)

[Bug 127092] Re: thunderbird-bin crashed with SIGSEGV in raise()

2008-03-16 Thread tweedledee
This problem is reproducible on multiple computers with Gutsy and sunbird (either 0.5 or 0.7): some themes cause the program to crash with a traceback very similar to above (e.g., Redmond), while others (Human, Clearlooks, Raleigh) allow the program to work fine. The crash always occurs upon spawn

[Bug 34043] Re: Nvidia binary driver requires Option "NvAGP" "1" for reliable suspend/resume.

2008-03-16 Thread tweedledee
Confirmed on a Toshiba Tecra M9 w/ nvidia Quadro NVS 130M running Gutsy. To hibernate with the nvidia driver (with is required with this card, nv does not work), must edit acpi-support and xorg.conf as described above, and blacklist both modules. Suspend does not work even with all those changes (

[Bug 104553] Re: upgrade failed when fontconfig cache dirs are newer than system date

2008-03-11 Thread tweedledee
This bug is still very simple to reproduce - simply do a fresh Gutsy install, then immediately apply all updates. ttf-opensymbol will fail, causing all openoffice packages (15 more) to also fail, due to dependency problems. A really frustrating few minutes while I sorted this out, especially as t

[Bug 159824] Re: lmpcm_usb doesn't work with mx1000 mouse

2008-03-11 Thread tweedledee
I did some brief testing with the Alpha 6 Live CD (the machine is essential, so I can't do more rigorous). The lmpcm_usb module did load, and none of the MX1000 buttons were recognized as keyboard buttons. However, the cruise & forward/back buttons have historically been recognized as "double" eve

[Bug 178169] Re: Computer will not hibernate following kernel update

2008-03-11 Thread tweedledee
The Hardy kernel appears to resolve the problem. -- Computer will not hibernate following kernel update https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178169 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists

[Bug 194947] Re: computer hibernates a few times, then fails

2008-03-07 Thread tweedledee
** Attachment added: "Examples of failed hibernations" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12167747/bad.txt -- computer hibernates a few times, then fails https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194947 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu

[Bug 194947] [NEW] computer hibernates a few times, then fails

2008-03-07 Thread tweedledee
Public bug reported: Using a Sony Viao desktop and 7.10, the computer will hibernate fine approximately 4-10 times, then simply stop. No obvious errors are generated. The logs indicate that the computer does go through the hibernate process, but seems to abort it and wake up before finishing. Th

[Bug 194947] Re: computer hibernates a few times, then fails

2008-03-07 Thread tweedledee
** Attachment added: "Examples of working hibernations" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12167746/good.txt -- computer hibernates a few times, then fails https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194947 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubun

[Bug 159824] Re: lmpcm_usb doesn't work with mx1000 mouse

2008-01-24 Thread tweedledee
I can confirm this issue. Moreover, use of the lmpcm_usb driver causes additional problems, besides causing most of the mouse buttons to be recognized as keyboard (manifested as the mouse having a "kbd" handler when this driver is used): the mouse is unreliable, the keyboard is quirky, the mouse i

[Bug 178169] Computer will not hibernate following kernel update

2007-12-22 Thread tweedledee
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: linux-headers-2.6.22-14-generic Following the recent kernel update on Ubuntu 7.10 (linux-headers-2.6.22-14-generic (2.6.22-14.46) to 2.6.22-14.47), my computer no longer will hibernate. (Suspend continues to work.) I'd had no problems entering and ex

[Bug 158387] Re: Resolution on login screen incorrect

2007-12-22 Thread tweedledee
I have solved part of the problem. I determined upon a thorough examination of the xorg log and a lot of Googling that DDC and EDID were the problem. If I add the line Option "DDC" "false" to the "Monitor" section of xorg.conf, it eliminates about half the extraneous monitor modes and now uses

[Bug 132612] Re: memory leak in evince?

2007-12-19 Thread tweedledee
In regards to Jesse's comment: I tested a few files on my computer and noticed the same sort of pattern using Gutsy. If I use a PDF that has embedded fonts, Evince works fine; a 7 MB PDF uses 20-40 MB of RAM as I scroll many times throughout the document, depending mostly on when figures are loade

[Bug 158387] Re: Resolution on login screen incorrect

2007-12-16 Thread tweedledee
I've also found that if I go to a full-screen mode application, then exit the application, my resolution returns to that of the login screen rather than my set resolution. In fact, at that point my list of available resolutions includes nearly every "normal" (and a few abnormal) resolutions betwee

[Bug 158387] Re: Resolution on login screen incorrect

2007-12-12 Thread tweedledee
I can confirm this. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/147242 also appears to be the same problem. In my case, none of the various solutions being tossed around launchpad or in the forums has worked (e.g., remove the "virtual" line from xorg.conf, because I don't have one to begin with). My

[Bug 83224] Re: ndiswrapper doesn't work in feisty

2007-04-22 Thread tweedledee
This appears to also be a problem with non-Atheros cards. Multiple people are reporting problems with the Netgear WG311v3 (a Marvell chipset)- in my case, the v1.38 ndiswrapper that ships with Feisty reports driver installed, but not hardware present; the compiled 1.42 version (last right now) als

[Bug 108656] Re: ndisgtk can't remove installed driver

2007-04-22 Thread tweedledee
I can confirm this for drivers for the Negear WG311v3 as well. Immediatetly after my Feisty upgrade, I was actually showing two installed drivers (only one before upgrade), and neither could be removed (nor could I add anything). The GTK interface was basically just dead. I suspect this is relate

[Bug 42121] Re: Looks like symlinks for umountnfs and umoutfs is wrong

2007-03-11 Thread tweedledee
I have the problem described in the duplicate of this bug (CIFS only, not SMBFS or other types) and above. However, the workarounds posted here do not solve the problem in my case - the computer still waits 30-60 seconds for each network connection to fail to shut down. Is there any other way to

[Bug 87584] Re: Gnome-panel launchers cause shared pgid

2007-02-24 Thread tweedledee
To clarify - it is the group ID (PGID) that is the same, not the PID. A simple "ps -ej" in the terminal shows each process with its own PID, everything launched from the gnome enviornment sharing a PGID but other programs with different ones, and most everything sharing the SID. Gnome - when this

[Bug 87584] Gnome-panel launchers cause shared pgid

2007-02-24 Thread tweedledee
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: metacity All applications launched from gnome-panel launchers, menu, or alt-f2 share the same pgid. Gnome developers claim this is not typical behavior for the panel, so may be a result of an Ubuntu customization. The same applications launched from the

[Bug 80370] Re: gossip-telepathy out of the panel when gnome-panel respawned

2007-02-17 Thread tweedledee
You may well be correct. Gnome developer claims to have resolved this as a GTK bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401481. -- gossip-telepathy out of the panel when gnome-panel respawned https://launchpad.net/bugs/80370 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https:

[Bug 80370] Re: gossip-telepathy out of the panel when gnome-panel respawned

2007-02-09 Thread tweedledee
It appears that bug 81107 is a duplicate of this. In addition, this appears to be happening to a variety of people with many programs. There is a forum thread here about this issue: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=347023. It may be related to the fact that all programs launched from

[Bug 76184] Re: xsane runs as root without password

2007-01-18 Thread tweedledee
I have determined it all boils down to the permissions that the Samsung installer apparently sets on xsane - it sets the SUID to root, apparently because the smfp module it adds to /etc/sane.d/dll.conf requires root permissions to load. However, if you do not have a Samsung multifunction printer (

[Bug 76184] Re: xsane runs as root without password

2007-01-18 Thread tweedledee
This is apparently a known problem with the Samsung drivers, and has been for a while. I've found some additional pages that seem to explain why it occurs, although I think this is still a bug within Ubuntu (in addition to the drivers), as Debian seems to simply fail rather than successfully run x

[Bug 76184] Re: xsane runs as root without password

2007-01-09 Thread tweedledee
I have tracked the cause of this behavior to installation of the Samsung Unified Printer Drivers for Linux (which I install because I have a Samsung printer that works poorly without them). As soon as these drivers have installed, regardless of whether or not I actually configure a printer, xsane

[Bug 76184] xsane runs as root without password

2006-12-17 Thread tweedledee
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xsane I have a Canon N1240U scanner and am running 6.10 (Edgy). When I connect it and run xsane (via menu, terminal, or GIMP), xsane gives a warning that it is dangerous to run as root, and I should not continue. If I continue anyway, xsane runs as root