[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-25 Thread Peter Belew
Note that running 'lspci -vvk' tells me: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800/K8N800/K8N800A [S3 UniChrome Pro] (rev 01) Subsystem: TWINHEAD INTERNATIONAL Corp Device 0315 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SE

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-25 Thread Peter Belew
Note that booting in recovery mode and running "Xorg -configure" does produce an xorg.conf.new file that sets 'openchrome' to be the screen driver. -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver https://bu

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-19 Thread Peter Belew
The TTY problem is still happening - switching to tty1...tty6 with ctl- alt-Fn results in a screen covered with random colored blocks, and alt-F6 switches back normally. The same colored screen shows while shutting down or rebooting. -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN

Re: [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-20 Thread Peter Belew
Hi Bartosz - The result of doing this patch is ... Xorg.0.log:(II) CHROME(0): Module DDC loaded Xorg.0.log:(II) CHROME(0): Detected I2CBus1 Xorg.0.log:(II) CHROME(0): Not detected DDC2 I hope that information helps! Thanks, - Peter On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Bartosz wrote: > Hi. > Try

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-20 Thread Peter Belew
And here is the whole Xorg.0.log, after doing the patch above and rebooting: ** Attachment added: "Xorg.0.log after above patch has been done" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38154435/Xorg.0.log -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 328

Re: [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-20 Thread Peter Belew
Should I apply that to the original via_driver.c file or on top of the previous patch? On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Bartosz wrote: > Hi > Apply this patch and attach your Xorg.0.log file after that. > > ** Attachment added: "ddc2.patch" >   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38168035/ddc2.patch >

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-20 Thread Peter Belew
(I applied the patch to the original file) Here's the Xorg.0.log file ... ** Attachment added: "Xorg.0.log after latest patch and reboot" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38170511/Xorg.0.log -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 run

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-20 Thread Peter Belew
I'm not sure the last Xorg.0.log was valid ... I'm going to start with a new source tree later this evening and try again. I ended up with X not starting the last couple of times I tried booting - I had to start in text mode and start daemons manually. -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center

Re: [Bug 497299] Re: upstart not starting init-scripts (event net-device-up IFACE=lo missing)

2010-01-30 Thread Peter Belew
FYI: My Lucid bug is Bug #508456. On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Kees Cook wrote: > This bug is for the karmic update to upstart.  If you're running Lucid, > please open a new bug.  This bug is closed. > > ** This bug is no longer flagged as a security vulnerability > > ** Changed in: upstart

[Bug 508456] Re: Lucid frequently crashes while starting gdm on Averatec 3280

2010-01-30 Thread Peter Belew
nicobrainless - what kind of computer do you have? -- Lucid frequently crashes while starting gdm on Averatec 3280 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/508456 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-02-02 Thread Peter Belew
SEVERE REGRESSION This has regressed to coming up in the split- screen mode - i.e. at 1024x768 the x-origin of the screen is in the middle. I had just done an apt-get update/dist-upgrade in which the latest change was a new 'plymouth' with its associated library file. Ubuntu version and kerne

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-02-02 Thread Peter Belew
I am attaching Xorg.0.log from before and after this update. ** Attachment added: "Xorg.0.log, Xorg.0.log.old, ..." http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38673905/xorg.logs-20100202.tgz -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

Re: [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-02-02 Thread Peter Belew
Hi - I had Virtual set that way already. I just tried booting with the latest updates, a few minutes ago, with the 2.6.32-12-generic kernel, and it failed in recovery mode as well as in normal mode. But it does boot properly with the 2.6.32.11 kernel, at least in recovery mode, with the proper scr

Re: [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-02-03 Thread Peter Belew
I've had the 'Option "modeSwitch" "new"' in xorg.conf already. What is happening with the 2.6.32-12-generic kernel is that the screen starts getting dark (mostly dark gray) after selecting the recovery mode, but I can type commands 'blind' to start up Xorg - first selecting the root shell from the

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-02-03 Thread Peter Belew
Here's the Xorg.0.log file. In this case, I booted in recovery mode, and as the screen darkened, I was able to type commands to log in as root and start Xorg and other daemons even though I couldn't see what I was typing. Part of xorg.conf: Section "Device" Driver "openchrome" Ve

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-02-03 Thread Peter Belew
Here is ~/.xsession-errors ** Attachment added: ".xsession-errors" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38712873/xsession-errors-20100203 -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver https://bugs.launchpad.

[Bug 448911] Re: [CLE266] Console screens unusable, filled with random colors

2010-02-03 Thread Peter Belew
This bug has reappeared today, with the most recent updates to Lucid. Instead of seeing random small colored pixel blocks, I now see a magnified portion of the X screen background (or the background for the login screen), when switching to a tty with CTL-ALT-F1 ...CTL-ALT-F6. I can login and type i

[Bug 448911] Re: [CLE266] Console screens unusable, filled with random colors

2010-02-03 Thread Peter Belew
I'm adding .xsession-errors, but don't know if it's relevant to this problem (since the problem appears from the login screen as well as from the Gnome screen). ** Attachment added: ".session-errors" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38716172/xsession-errors-201002031115 -- [CLE266] Console scree

[Bug 448911] Re: [CLE266] Console screens unusable, filled with random colors

2010-02-03 Thread Peter Belew
** Description changed: - Binary package hint: xorg + Binary package hint: openchrome, viafb, vt8623fb + + [Update 2010-02-03: See comments starting with #6. The TTY screen + background is now a magnified image derived from the X screen + background, and text is unreadable. Also I'm not sure this

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-02-03 Thread Peter Belew
Note that I just updated another bug relating to tty screens on another system with a VIA chipset - Bug #448911. -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495553 You re

[Bug 526862] Re: System often reboots when doing `su -` from gnome-terminal

2010-02-24 Thread Peter Belew
** Description changed: Binary package hint: gnome-terminal Since 2010-02-22, approximately, when I try to `su -` from gnome- - terminal, the system will often reboot as soon as I type the root - password. + terminal, gnome will often restart as soon as I type the root password, + going bac

[Bug 526862] Re: System often reboots when doing `su -` from gnome-terminal

2010-02-24 Thread Peter Belew
This happened again after I booted the laptop this morning. Also, I corrected the description to clarify that the X server restarts, rather than that the system reboots from scratch. -- System often reboots when doing `su -` from gnome-terminal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/526862 You received

[Bug 528767] [NEW] Lucid alpha-3 fails to boot completely on Averatec 3280, Jetway, and gBox P4

2010-02-26 Thread Peter Belew
Public bug reported: I downloaded the Ubuntu Lucid alpha-3 live/desktop ISO yesterday and tried to run it on 5 different systems. In each case, I booted the CD, tried the CD test in some cases, and requested running the system live. For two of the systems, the system froze up while booting, usual

[Bug 528767] Re: Lucid alpha-3 fails to boot completely on Averatec 3280, Jetway, and gBox P4

2010-02-26 Thread Peter Belew
Regarding to the Averatec laptop 'eros': This will not boot past the appearance of the rotating 'wait' cursor during booting the live CD Some bugs while running earlier 'lucid': Bug #495553, Bug #508456, Bug #436341,Bug #526862. I am enclosing some informational and log files generated on the cu

[Bug 528767] Re: Lucid alpha-3 fails to boot completely on Averatec 3280, Jetway, and gBox P4

2010-02-26 Thread Peter Belew
Regarding the system 'lightning' using the Jetway motherboard: This will not boot past the appearance of the rotating 'wait' cursor during booting the live CD. Earlier bugs for this system: Bug #448911. I am enclosing some informational and log files generated on the current pre-beta-3 system.

[Bug 528767] Re: Lucid alpha-3 fails to boot completely on Averatec 3280, Jetway, and gBox P4

2010-02-26 Thread Peter Belew
Regarding the gBox system 'billy': This system is currently running Karmic, with no significant problems. When I try to run the Lucid alpha-3 live CD, the system boots to the point where the system tries to log in to Gnome. Apparently it does log in automatically without a password, but immediate

[Bug 528767] Re: Lucid alpha-3 fails to boot completely on Averatec 3280, Jetway, and gBox P4

2010-02-26 Thread Peter Belew
Regarding the 400 mHz AMD-P6 system 'max': This system has been running the previous LTS system, and seems to run the alpha-3 system reasonably well. I'm likely to upgrade to 10.04 alpha-3 soon, since this isn't a critical system. It also runs FreeBSD 7.1 well, given its slow speed, by today's st

[Bug 528767] Re: Lucid alpha-3 fails to boot completely on Averatec 3280, Jetway, and gBox P4

2010-02-26 Thread Peter Belew
Regarding the Dell 400SC system 'dude' This system currently runs 'Jaunty', and is my main desktop system and server for various things. It seems to run the Lucid alpha-3 well from the live CD, so I will most likely upgrade when the final release of Lucid comes out in April, assuming there aren't

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-02-26 Thread Peter Belew
This bug is still in effect up through immediately before release of Lucid alpha-3 yesterday. I tried alpha-3 (as a live boot) on 5 of my computers today (including this one), and submitted Bug #528767 regarding my results. I haven't tried updating yet. -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to cente

[Bug 528767] Re: Lucid alpha-3 fails to boot completely on Averatec 3280, Jetway, and gBox P4

2010-02-28 Thread Peter Belew
Regarding to the Averatec laptop 'eros': Today I upgraded it using the alpha-3 alternate CD. I updated first with just the CD, disconnected from the Internet, rebooted, then found there were a few updates online and installed those. All the bugs regarding the screen driver still exist. The only ch

[Bug 530334] [NEW] Update from 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS alpha-3 has serious problems on AMD K-6 system

2010-03-01 Thread Peter Belew
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: update-manager Yesterday I downloaded the Lucid alpha-3 ISO and started to upgrade the following system from 8.04 LTS, after updating the 8.04 system to the latest packages. The upgrade took about 11 hours, and resulted in a partially functional system. I

[Bug 530334] Re: Update from 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS alpha-3 has serious problems on AMD K-6 system

2010-03-01 Thread Peter Belew
** Attachment added: "xorg.conf files and Xorg.n.log* files" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39934434/xorg-stuff.tar ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39934435/Dependencies.txt -- Update from 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS alpha-3 has serious problems on AMD K-6 s

[Bug 528767] Re: Lucid alpha-3 fails to boot completely on Averatec 3280, Jetway, and gBox P4

2010-03-01 Thread Peter Belew
Regarding the 400 mHz AMD-P6 system 'max': (See comment #4 above): While the live CD booted Ok on this system, using an appropriate display driver and screen resolution, upgrading using the alternate CD and Internet for module sources resulted in a virtually unbootable system, and took many hours.

[Bug 530334] Re: Update from 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS alpha-3 has serious problems on AMD K-6 system

2010-03-01 Thread Peter Belew
After the system was successfully updated, I noticed that some mysql and mysql-server packages were missing. I had to reinstall mysql-client and mysql-server metapackages. On the other hand, the openssh-server settings were maintained through the upgrades, so that I didn't have to change the ~/.ss

[Bug 526862] Re: System often reboots when doing `su -` from gnome-terminal

2010-03-02 Thread Peter Belew
Yes, I have plymouth installed. This is still happening as of the latest updates (10:24 am PST Tue Mar 2) It just happened as I ran the 'date' command in a shell window while updating this report! Note that the OS doesn't reboot - the Gnome session logs off, so I have to log in again. ** Summar

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-03-02 Thread Peter Belew
The system has been updated to alpha-3 and updated since then, up to a few minutes ago. These problems are still happening. A this point, I am close to give up on testing lucid, in which case I will install Karmic instead and check to see if any bugs have been fixed in that since the release. Hope

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-03-02 Thread Peter Belew
I have installed Karmic instead of the Lucid alpha-3 on this laptop, but will check the Lucid beta-1 live CD release when it appears. There has been one minor improvement with this bug - the cloudy image which obscures boot messages while the system was booting disappeared with todays Lucid update

[Bug 436341] Re: PC slot unsupported, and many "cardbus cards are not supported" messages running Karmic on Averatec 3280

2010-03-02 Thread Peter Belew
I reinstalled Karmic on this system today, and updated it as of about 15:00 PST. The kern.log messages no longer appear, and the cardbus slot now works (I was able to use a Netgear WG511T card in it). I'm enclosing an archive containing the output of apt-show-versions. ** Attachment added: "apt-s

[Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2009-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
I don't have Karmic 9.10 on this system anymore, only the Lucid 10.04 alpha-1. The initial release of the latter worked well, except that the login screen resolution was something like 1600x1200 - but once logging in, the correct 1024x768 resolution was set. Then overnight the bug #495553 showed

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
Yes, it's likely to be an xorg issue. The driver is xserver-xorg-video-openchrome, dpkg -s xserver-xorg-video-openchrome Package: xserver-xorg-video-openchrome Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: x11 Installed-Size: 556 Maintainer: Ubuntu X-SWAT Architecture: i386 Version: 1

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
The current openchrome driver is dated -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 333172 2009-12-07 08:15 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/openchrome_drv.so -- Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495553 You received this bug notificati

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
I just booted from the original 10 December live CD. In this case, the login screen appears to be something like 1600x1200, clipped to the upper-left 1024x768 which this panel will display. The small login 'window' thus appears in the lower-right of the screen, but is accessible. Once logged in, I

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
At this point, it is clear to me that part of the problem is in low- level xorg code - code handling the mapping between the internal X coordinate system and the UniChrome display's coordinate system. It looks, though, like the mapping is correct for the UniChrome display's hardware cursor, when th

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
** Description changed: - Binary package hint: gdm + Binary package hint: xorg-server I installed Lucid on the Averatec 3280 laptop from the Alternate CD on 10 December 2009. I then updated the system with apt-get several times. On booting this morning, the logical screen origin was shift

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
Note that after I installed from the alternate CD, while the login screen came up a 1600x1200, the Gnome display came up at 1024x768. Yet when I ran the live CD, the Gnome display initially came up at 1600x1200. Why the difference? After a bit of reflection, I realized that, since I had kept my hom

[Bug 495901] Re: No openchrome drivers included on live cd (for via processors)

2009-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
I have a Averatec 3280 laptop with a VIA chipset and a VIA K8M800/K8N800/K8N800A S3 Unichrome Pro display controller. I installed Jaunty, Karmic, and Lucid (beta-1) on it from alternate install disks. Also for a test I tried booting the Lucid beta-1 live/desktop CD. I did have some trouble booting

[Bug 449061] Re: [K8M800] Console screens unusable on Averatec 3280 laptop

2009-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
I have a new variant of this problem running Lucid beta-1 (with some updates) on the same system: screen coordinates are shifted, and the console tty's do not work. See Bug #495553 "Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver" I'm not sure whether this is

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
** Summary changed: - Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver + Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver -- Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't wo

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-15 Thread Peter Belew
A number of xorg modules were just updated. This has had no effect on this bug, unfortunately. -- Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495553 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-16 Thread Peter Belew
To Sebastien Bacher - I've attached a photo of the login screen. For the login screen, the X-origin is always the center of the screen, no matter what resolution was previously set in the Gnome preferences dialog. I just noticed the image is blurry - I was aiming at the center of the screen and t

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-16 Thread Peter Belew
To Sebastien Bacher - I've attached a photo of the login screen. For the login screen, the X-origin is always the center of the screen, no matter what resolution was previously set in the Gnome preferences dialog. I just noticed the image is blurry - I was aiming at the center of the screen and t

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-16 Thread Peter Belew
Here is what the Gnome screen looks like at 800x600. Here the screen x-axis origin is a couple of cm from the right side of the screen. Here I have placed the red mouse pointer at the edge of the screen, so that it wraps around to the other side of the screen. Likewise the terminal window wraps ar

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-16 Thread Peter Belew
Here is the 800x600 screen. ** Attachment added: "Gnome screen at 800x600" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36878660/IMG_3926.JPG -- Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495553 You receive

[Bug 291987] Re: mysql-server-5.0 installation fails

2010-02-23 Thread Peter Belew
I'm running Dell's release of Ubuntu on a 10v netbook. I installed Apache2, php, and then attempted to install mysql and mysql- server (mysql-server-5.0), using synaptic. The mysql server failed to install completely, and cannot be removed, with synaptic, Ubuntu version and kernel version DISTRI

[Bug 291987] Re: mysql-server-5.0 installation fails

2010-02-23 Thread Peter Belew
I put INITOUTPUT=yes in /etc/default/rcS, and I was able to install mysql-server (after rebooting) from synaptic - I specifically installed the metapackage mysql-server. (Again, this is in the netbook version of hardy 8.04.2 which comes with the Dell 10v netbook). -- mysql-server-5.0 installation

[Bug 526862] [NEW] System often reboots when doing `su -` from gnome-terminal

2010-02-23 Thread Peter Belew
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-terminal Since 2010-02-22, approximately, when I try to `su -` from gnome- terminal, the system will often reboot as soon as I type the root password. This is on Lucid alpha-2 updated up almost to alpha-3. This is on an Averatec 3280 laptop. Ubun

[Bug 526862] Re: System often reboots when doing `su -` from gnome-terminal

2010-02-23 Thread Peter Belew
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39695766/Dependencies.txt -- System often reboots when doing `su -` from gnome-terminal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/526862 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 436341] Re: PC slot unsupported, and many "cardbus cards are not supported" messages running Karmic on Averatec 3280

2009-11-25 Thread Peter Belew
There may be a relationship to the Openchrome display driver or other component of the X system: If I open up the gnome-terminal and run `tail -f /var/log/kern.log` I see the 2 messages per second as described in comment #25 above. Also the size of kern.log is constantly increasing. However, if I

[Bug 436341] Re: PC slot unsupported, and many "cardbus cards are not supported" messages running Karmic on Averatec 3280

2009-12-02 Thread Peter Belew
This system has XFCE as well as Gnome installed - when I start XFCE the behavior is somewhat different: As before, cards in the cardbus slot don't work, but the two-per-second messages regarding the cardbus don't happen. Another problem happens under XFCE: I see at the end of kern.log the followin

[Bug 436341] Re: PC slot unsupported, and many "cardbus cards are not supported" messages running Karmic on Averatec 3280

2009-12-02 Thread Peter Belew
Ubuntu version and kernel version for above comment #27 DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10 DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.10" Linux cupid 2.6.31-15-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 10 14:54:29 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux model name : Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+

[Bug 436341] Re: PC slot unsupported, and many "cardbus cards are not supported" messages running Karmic on Averatec 3280

2009-12-02 Thread Peter Belew
In fact, when I start Gnome, I can see the powernow-k8 messages in kern.log by filtering with grep: $ grep powernow /var/log/kern.log Dec 2 09:59:49 cupid kernel: [1.016530] powernow-k8: Found 1 Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+ processors (1 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00) Dec 2 09:59:49

[Bug 432254] Re: FreeBSD not detected by os-prober

2009-09-19 Thread Peter Belew
I would like to create an entry in grub.cfg by creating a file for that in /etc/grub.d and running ubdate-grub2 I have tried modifying /etc/grub.d/40_custom as follows: #!/bin/sh exec tail -n +3 $0 # This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the # menu entries you wa

[Bug 432254] Re: FreeBSD not detected by os-prober

2009-09-21 Thread Peter Belew
Actually I have given up on this issue, for all practical purposes. I just installed 9.04 first, then did the online update with Update Manager - which is advertised NOT to replace the legacy GRUB with GRUB 2. The procedure is described here: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/karmic/alpha5 I do intend

[Bug 432254] Re: FreeBSD not detected by os-prober

2009-09-22 Thread Peter Belew
I just updated the above Karmic installation (which uses the legacy GRUB 1) and noticed an update of os-prober. In this contact (without GRUB 2 installed) it produces no screen output when run. I would assume this program requires that GRUB 2 is installed, though. -- FreeBSD not detected by os-pr

[Bug 239912] Re: Thank you for overwriting my bootloader

2009-09-22 Thread Peter Belew
I think that if Ubuntu is being installed in separate partitions from existing Linux partitions, one reasonable approach would be to install GRUB in the new partitions, and somehow inform the user that one should set up chainloading from the original. If some other OS's boot loader is in the MBR,

[Bug 432254] Re: FreeBSD not detected by os-prober

2009-09-22 Thread Peter Belew
FreeBSD is installed in one or more primary partitions, which FreeBSD refers to as 'slices'. Then the slices are broken down into partitions, identified by lower-case letters. This subdivision is different from the usual DOS/Windows/IBM scheme of dividing extended partitions. In Linux fdisk, a Fre

[Bug 432254] Re: FreeBSD not detected by os-prober

2009-09-22 Thread Peter Belew
Some Links http://www.bsd.org/ http://www.freebsd.org/ http://www.pcbsd.org/ http://www.openbsd.org/ http://www.netbsd.org/ -- FreeBSD not detected by os-prober https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432254 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 432254] Re: FreeBSD not detected by os-prober

2009-09-22 Thread Peter Belew
I would suggest downloading the boot-only mini-CD image from here: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/7.2/ and doing a minimal install after booting from that (it will allow you to install from an FTP site, such as that one). That will take up a whole primary partition ('slice').

[Bug 436341] Re: PC slot unsupported, and many "cardbus cards are not supported" messages running Karmic on Averatec 3280

2009-12-10 Thread Peter Belew
This no longer happens running Lucid: Ubuntu version and kernel version DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu lucid (development branch)" Linux EROS 2.6.32-7-generic #10-Ubuntu SMP Sun Dec 6 13:43:20 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux model name : Mo

[Bug 495553] [NEW] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Belew
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gdm I installed Lucid on the Averatec 3280 laptop from the Alternate CD on 10 December 2009. I then updated the system with apt-get several times. On booting this morning, the logical screen origin was shifted to the center of the screen. With some diffic

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Belew
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36698576/Dependencies.txt -- Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495553 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Belew
I am attaching a photo of the screen. The red pointer on the left is at the physical left side of the screen, but the logical left of the screen is in the center, so the background lynx image is split. The hide buttons for the top and bottom panels appear in the center of the screen. Note that the

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Belew
I am attaching /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /etc/X11/xorg.conf. The Xorg.0.log was generated when booting WITHOUT an xorg.conf file. ** Attachment added: "Xorg.0.log - no xorg.conf file" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36701274/Xorg.0.log -- Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps https://bu

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Belew
Here is an xorg.conf file which I used earlier when the issue was that the boot login screen was too large - this problem was similar to an earlier bug I reported on the same laptop, running earlier Ubuntu releases: Bug #296142. With the initial installation of lucid, only the login screen was the

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Belew
I tried an experiment: I put the xorg.conf file back in /etc/X11, but changed 'openchrome' to 'vesa', and restarted. The screen ends up being split the same way, with the left-hand part of the logical screen showing in the middle, but the mouse pointer position is the same as the logical position:

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Belew
I changed the driver back to "openchrome", and added Option "SWCursor" "true" to the "Device" section for the display. Now the cursor appears as with the vesa driver, making it easier to point at objects on the reversed screen. I suspected the problem with the cursor position was due to using a

[Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Belew
Starting with yesterday's Lucid alpha-1 release, there has been both improvement and then regression regarding the driver for this hardware. See bug #495553 "Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps". The driver is setting the right screen resolution, but the left and right halves of the scre

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Belew
I notice that the right side of the screen is a pixel or so higher than the left side - that can be seen where the ends of the top and bottom panels meet in the middle of the screen. -- Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495553 You received this bug noti

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-12 Thread Peter Belew
** Summary changed: - Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps + Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver -- Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495553 You rece

Re: [Bug 382397] Re: [K8M800] Video Card is not functioning properly

2009-11-12 Thread Peter Belew
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 186103 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/186103 What's needed is a way to make this sort of adjustment without going in and directly editing xorg.conf, such as making a selection at boot time, as with some older live CDs. On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:44 PM, d

[Bug 436341] Re: PC slot unsupported, and many "cardbus cards are not supported" messages running Karmic on Averatec 3280

2009-11-18 Thread Peter Belew
This is still happening as of today (after the latest update). After booting, I can see that 2 messages per second are being added to kern.log: $ tail -f /var/log/kern.log Nov 18 08:36:30 cupid kernel: [ 2980.444036] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: cardbus cards are not supported. Nov 18 08:36:

Re: [Bug 410568] Re: Firefox 3.5 crashes frequently

2009-11-18 Thread Peter Belew
I have given up using Firefox on Karmic, due to its crashing all the time. I use Epiphany instead, usually. Hopefully this will get some attention by the time 10.04 LTS goes into alpha. On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Fibonacci wrote: > This is a backtrace I got from one of the many Firefox cras

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Beta-2 boot failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-04-15 Thread Peter Belew
The problem with text consoles is still happening as of 15 Apr 2010. For example, ctrl-alt-F2 results in an unintelligible colored screen. The same for F1 through F6. alt-F7 switches back to Gnome. I'll try the live-cd booting problem on the RC release, unless someone suggests trying a daily build

[Bug 528767] Re: Lucid alpha-3 fails to boot completely on Averatec 3280, Jetway, and gBox P4

2010-03-14 Thread Peter Belew
Thank you for the feedback. I will file some separate bugs - in fact it looks like a bug I thought I had reported regarding the jetway system was in fact not reported, so I will do so. This will be an openchrome driver bug, similar to some that have been reported on other Jetway motherboards with d

[Bug 538893] [NEW] Console screens unusable on Jetway system with VT8623 [Apollo CLE266], boot problems

2010-03-14 Thread Peter Belew
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-openchrome This is regarding Lucid alpha-3 as updated to today, a few days before the beta release. When I try to switch to a console with, say ctrl-alt-F2, I get a distorted, magnified background image with a large text cursor. Text t

[Bug 528767] Re: Lucid alpha-3 fails to boot completely on Averatec 3280, Jetway, and gBox P4

2010-03-14 Thread Peter Belew
For the jetway console screen problem, which has gotten worse, see Bug #538893. -- Lucid alpha-3 fails to boot completely on Averatec 3280, Jetway, and gBox P4 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/528767 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed t

[Bug 538893] Re: Console screens unusable on Jetway system with VT8623 [Apollo CLE266], boot problems

2010-03-14 Thread Peter Belew
Here is a photo of the text-mode screen when I try to get a console screen with ctrl-alt-F3. ** Attachment added: "Screen shot of distorted text console" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/40939888/LARGE3970.JPG -- Console screens unusable on Jetway system with VT8623 [Apollo CLE266], boot probl

[Bug 538893] Re: Console screens unusable on Jetway system with VT8623 [Apollo CLE266], boot problems

2010-03-14 Thread Peter Belew
Here is a screen shot of the normal graphics screen, showing the same bobcat kitten. In the previous screen shot, note that there is a block cursor above the kitten's right ear (on its right). ** Attachment added: "Gnome screen with full background image." http://launchpadlibrarian.net/4093994

[Bug 538893] Re: Console screens unusable on Jetway system with VT8623 [Apollo CLE266], boot problems

2010-03-14 Thread Peter Belew
This seems to be #448911, but with the additional problems booting with the 2.6.32-16-generic kernel, and with today's photos of the console screen problem. -- Console screens unusable on Jetway system with VT8623 [Apollo CLE266], boot problems https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/538893 You received

[Bug 448911] Re: [CLE266] Console screens unusable, strange background

2010-03-14 Thread Peter Belew
After a system update earlier today, I found that this is definitely still happening, and, since I couldn't immediately find this bug report, I reposted it as #538893. There are additional problems when booting, and I added a screen photo in that report, showing what happens to the text console scr

[Bug 538893] Re: Console screens unusable on Jetway system with VT8623 [Apollo CLE266], boot problems

2010-03-15 Thread Peter Belew
Here is an archive containing apt-show-versions.txt dmesg lspci.vvnn.txt Xorg.0.log Xorg.0.log.old I updated the system in the last half hour, so I included apt-show-versions output. The system starts up X properly on boot now (I no longer have to press ALT-F7 as described above) but otherwise

[Bug 448911] Re: [CLE266] Console screens unusable, strange background

2010-03-15 Thread Peter Belew
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 538893 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/538893 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 538893 Console screens unusable on Jetway system with VT8623 [Apollo CLE266], boot problems -- [CLE266] Console screens unusable, strange background https:/

[Bug 439448] Re: notification area shows wrong icons. erratic behaviour

2010-04-06 Thread Peter Belew
This is also happening to me when I first log on. I'm attaching an image of the top right of my screen, after logging on to my Dell 10v netbook. I'm running the standard Gnome version of Karmic, not a netbook remix. Ubuntu version and kernel version DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10 DISTRIB_C

[Bug 439448] Re: notification area shows wrong icons. erratic behaviour

2010-04-06 Thread Peter Belew
As someone noted above, I've also observed that removing and re-adding the notification area will generally restore the proper icons. I notice that this has been seen in both Karmic and Lucid, by various people. -- notification area shows wrong icons. erratic behaviour https://bugs.launchpad.net

[Bug 432254] Re: *BSD not detected by os-prober

2010-04-07 Thread Peter Belew
I'm glad to see some progress is being made in this problem! - Peter Belew -- *BSD not detected by os-prober https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432254 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-04-10 Thread Peter Belew
The Beta-2 live cd will not boot properly. First of all, the screen resolution is STILL set wrong initially, so the screen is cropped to the upper-left 1024x768 corner of a larger (1600x1200?) screen. I was able to get around this by changing the screen resolution after logging in. Also, I still

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Beta-2 boot failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-04-10 Thread Peter Belew
Incidentally, this system boots properly with the correct screen resolution from the live CD for the Cuban Nova Linux 30012009 V1 (BAIRE-1.1.2-30012009-V1) which I downloaded today. This is a Gentoo- based distro. It appears to use an openchrome driver for this Averatec system. I've attached a tar

[Bug 538893] Re: Console screens unusable on Jetway system with VT8623 [Apollo CLE266], boot problems

2010-04-01 Thread Peter Belew
The situation is unchanged as of this morning. -- Console screens unusable on Jetway system with VT8623 [Apollo CLE266], boot problems https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/538893 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bug

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-04-01 Thread Peter Belew
The situation is unchanged as of this morning. Spit screen, hazy image while booting, no text consoles, etc. -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495553 You receiv

Re: [Bug 538893] Re: Console screens unusable on Jetway system with VT8623 [Apollo CLE266], boot problems

2010-04-01 Thread Peter Belew
That seems to have cured the problem on the system with the Jetway motherboard. I did get both my custom boot splash and my custom login-screen splash, though. (Actually I just updated the system with apt-get after blacklisting the viafb, and the initrd happened to be rebuilt in the process) Thank

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