[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
A major part of this bug was solved by disabling the viafb framebuffer driver - this was done by blacklisting viafb in /etc/modprobe.d /blacklist-framebuffer.conf (thanks to a suggestion by Ian Clark for bug #538893 regarding another system with a UniChrome display) - on the next update, the initrd

[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
So this problem was largely with the viafb driver, but the console problem is something different. -- [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 received this bu

[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

2010-04-16 Thread Peter Belew
I am adding Xorg.0.log before switching to a text console, after switching to a text console, and after switching back to the GUI Gnome screen. Xorg.0.log - before Xorg.0.log.console - after switching to (unusable) console Xorg.0.log.x - after switching back ** Attachment added: "Tar archive cont

[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

2010-04-16 Thread Peter Belew
The above Xorg.0.log files were obtained after updating the system around 14:30 UTC on Apr 16. The files were saved while logged in from another machine using ssh. Again, I advocate installation of an ssh server an option on live CDs and during installation (I believe the Sabayon Linux DVD allows

[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

2010-04-17 Thread Peter Belew
The booting problem described in #111 is still happening with the 17 April '10 daily build. It's impossible to log in to the X/Gnome display, since as soon as the system logs in, X fails and the GDM login screen reappears after several seconds. After some experimentation, I was able to log on in s

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

2010-04-18 Thread Peter Belew
** Summary changed: - [K8M800] Beta-2 boot failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid + [K8M800] Beta-2 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Luc

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

2010-04-18 Thread Peter Belew
A clarification to #111 and #117 and the problem description - the live CDs for beta-2 and the april 17 build do boot up, but it's impossible to log in once the live CD has booted. However if Lucid has been installed previously, and is updated to date, the principal remaining problem is that it is

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

2010-04-05 Thread Peter Belew
This is no longer an issue, as of comment #35. This laptop is a dual-boot into both Karmic and Lucid, and I've been keeping Karmic updated every few days and Lucid updated at least daily. I just re-checked the cardbus slot - a Netgear WG511T is functioning perfectly in that slot. The messages to

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

2010-04-05 Thread Peter Belew
I am currently running this kernel for Karmic: 2.6.31-20-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12 05:23:09 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux I'm not sure that running one of the upstream kernels would be a good idea. -- PC slot unsupported, and many "cardbus cards are not supported" messages running Karmic on

[Bug 555995] [NEW] Duplicate nonfunctional icons appear in Notification Area

2010-04-05 Thread Peter Belew
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-panel Running Karmic, with icons appearing in a Notification Area (version 2.28.0) in the top panel, often one or another icon will be duplicate. For example, right now the notification area shows the volume control and TWO battery indicators. Only

[Bug 555995] Re: Duplicate nonfunctional icons appear in Notification Area

2010-04-05 Thread Peter Belew
** Attachment added: "screenshot showing notification area with duplicate battery icon" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/43190282/two-batteries-UR.png ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/43189907/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "GConfNonDefault.txt"

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

2010-04-06 Thread Peter Belew
This is still happening on my Dell netbook with the standard (not netbook) version of Karmic installed, updated through this morning. It just happened to me after I logged off and logged back in to Gnome. There were duplicate volume-control icons. But then I looked away and looked back a minute or

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

2010-04-06 Thread Peter Belew
I re-logged-in again and now I have 2 battery icons right after logging in - then a fraction of a minute later I have network-manager, battery, and volume-control icons showing. -- notification area shows wrong icons. erratic behaviour https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/439448 You received this bug

[Bug 517920] Re: gnome-appearance-properties no longer provides tooltips about background image names

2010-04-22 Thread Peter Belew
I will have to wait for the 10.10 release on one of my systems, then, since it is certain that serious bugs affecting that, such as Bug #495553, won't be fixed in Lucid. Also, I don't consider this a 'cosmetic' bug - it's a functional bug. A function has been left out in Karmic. -- gnome-appeara

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

2010-04-22 Thread Peter Belew
I checked out the driver source specifying "-r 758". I get a fatal error on trying to make the driver - the header file xf86Resources.h is missing, also there are some warnings about formats not matching variables, in via_accel.c, function viaExaUploadToScratch() -- [K8M800] Beta-2 live-CD login

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

2010-04-22 Thread Peter Belew
The latest Karmic driver for this is xserver-xorg-video-openchrome/karmic 1:0.2.903+svn758-0ubuntu1 How, exactly, can I install that in Lucid? -- [K8M800] Beta-2 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid http

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

2010-04-23 Thread Peter Belew
The xserver-xorg-video-via driver installed ok, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. Should I change or remove xorg.conf? On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Bartosz wrote: > Try to install package from that (just double click on that): > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Lucid 10.04 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-05-30 Thread Peter Belew
There is no change with the lastest release kernel, as of today: 2.6.32-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 28 13:27:30 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux I still can't switch into text consoles - I just get garbage on the screen, as before. Also, the first time I tried to boot after today's updates, the sys

[Bug 588042] [NEW] Unable to change cursors with "Appearance Preferences" dialog

2010-05-31 Thread Peter Belew
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-control-center I am currently unable to change cursors or change cursor sizes (for variable-size cursors) on my Dell netbook. This running 10.04 Lucid. I had installed some additional cursor packages, then noticed I couldn't change the cursors from

[Bug 588042] Re: Unable to change cursors with "Appearance Preferences" dialog

2010-05-31 Thread Peter Belew
** Attachment added: "Installed package versions" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49461367/apt-show-versions.txt ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49459377/Dependencies.txt -- Unable to change cursors with "Appearance Preferences" dialog https://bugs.laun

[Bug 588042] Re: Unable to change cursors with "Appearance Preferences" dialog

2010-05-31 Thread Peter Belew
This is a duplicate of which bug? This is an issue which affects vision-impaired people. -- Unable to change cursors with "Appearance Preferences" dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/588042 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubunt

[Bug 439448] Re: visual corruption affecting several panel applets

2010-06-02 Thread Peter Belew
Christopher - I assume that you have updated the versions in both those partitions to date, so that in theory they should be the same (except for any customizations you may have made). If so, it would be interesting to run apt-show-versions in each partition (you may have to install that program),

[Bug 455954] Re: [K8M800] AntSpotlight screensaver causes system to lock up immediately

2010-05-15 Thread Peter Belew
I installed the latest kernel from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel- ppa/mainline/daily/current/ So I have Ubuntu version and kernel version DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04 LTS" Linux eros 2.6.34-999-generic #201005121008 SMP Wed Ma

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Lucid 10.04 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-05-15 Thread Peter Belew
After looking at a suggestion made for bug #455954, I installed the latest kernel from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/daily/current/ namely 2.6.34-999-generic. With that running, I can switch in and out of text consoles with ctrl-alt-F1 etc. (However the system complains about libr

[Bug 456977] Re: Lots of errors from the rt2x00pci driver

2010-05-16 Thread Peter Belew
I wonder if running a newer upstream kernel would show the same problem. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/MainlineBuilds Caveat: some other things may not work with such a non-customized-to- ubuntu kernel, but this can help diagnose some kernel-related problems. You will still be able to boot i

[Bug 588042] Re: Unable to change cursors with "Appearance Preferences" dialog

2010-06-03 Thread Peter Belew
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 459647 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/459647 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 459647 Cannot change mouse cursor theme when compiz is enabled -- Unable to change cursors with "Appearance Preferences" dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bu

[Bug 459647] Re: Cannot change mouse cursor theme when compiz is enabled

2010-06-03 Thread Peter Belew
My bug report #588042 appears to be a duplicate of this. I noticed, after submitting that report, that I can change the cursors other than the arrow cursor (such as the text vertical-bar cursor and cursors for dragging window boundaries, etc.), but usually the arrow cursor stays the same. This add

[Bug 459647] Re: Cannot change mouse cursor theme when compiz is enabled

2010-06-05 Thread Peter Belew
This appears to have been fixed in 10.10 maverick meerkat alpha-1. Hopefully this will appear in Lucid soon. -- Cannot change mouse cursor theme when compiz is enabled https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/459647 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subsc

[Bug 459647] Re: Cannot change mouse cursor theme when compiz is enabled

2010-06-05 Thread Peter Belew
Regarding comment #80 from Reynaldo Matos Hortensi: I just booted 10.10 "Maverick" from Thursday's live CD on my Averatec laptop. I then changed the cursor from the default to Redglass, and was able to resize it - with the size of the arrow pointer cursor changing as I moved the size slider. After

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Lucid 10.04 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-06-05 Thread Peter Belew
Aeb1barfo: This bug report has gone way too complicated - some of the problems were fixed a long time ago, others persist. Update: I've run the 10.10 Maverick Meerkat live CD on this Averatec 3280 system, and the remaining problems are: - I can't switch to a text console. Also that has gotten wo

Re: [Bug 438474] Re: Sound output with Rhythmbox and pulseaudio is extremely faint

2010-03-06 Thread Peter Belew
This system's sound works fine with up-to-date Karmic, and has been for some time. On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Daniel T Chen wrote: > Please note that the kernel you were using at the time that the bug was > reported has a bug where the DXS controls were erroneously removed; it > has since be

[Bug 517920] Re: gnome-appearance-properties no longer provides tooltips about background image names

2010-03-07 Thread Peter Belew
I've been meaning to report this myself for some time. It is rather inconvenient if one wants to determine the name and location of a background image in one's list of backgrounds, in order to repair or modify the image, or in order just to find it for use on another system, for example. Earlier r

[Bug 517920] Re: gnome-appearance-properties no longer provides tooltips about background image names

2010-03-07 Thread Peter Belew
The list of backgrounds is stored in ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml -- gnome-appearance-properties no longer provides tooltips about background image names https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/517920 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 517920] Re: gnome-appearance-properties no longer provides tooltips about background image names

2010-03-07 Thread Peter Belew
The shell commands grep filename ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml | sed -e 's///g' | sed -e 's/<\/filename>//g' | less will show all the paths and filenames of the list of background images. This will be of use if no change is made in Karmic to fix this problem. I attached a script with these commands

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

2010-03-26 Thread Peter Belew
This is still happening as of today. The screen is split, and wraps around, as described above, and switching to a text console results in a blank screen. This does not happen under Karmic on this dual-boot system, so the kernel used is possibly an issue. To Georg Duffner - when you use the 2.6.3

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

2010-03-27 Thread Peter Belew
Georg Duffner - thank you. It's possible that this is a problem in the kernel framebuffer or in some other Lucid component relating to the newer kernel. I still have kernel 2.6.31-20-generic in my Lucid /boot directory, and was able to boot into this. The login screen came up properly, and the Gno

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

2010-03-27 Thread Peter Belew
I'm attaching some logs. The current kernel version - from Karmic - is given here: Ubuntu version and kernel version DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu lucid (development branch)" Linux eros 2.6.31-20-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12 05:23:0

[Bug 492609] Re: potamus doesn't start

2010-01-28 Thread Peter Belew
On finding that Rhythmbox was remove on today's update of Lucid, I looked for an alternate music player, and installed Potamus. However it crashes when I try to run it. This happened twice in a row. It is version: potamus/lucid uptodate 0.10-1build2 This is on an Averatech 3280 laptop: Ubuntu ve

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

2010-01-28 Thread Peter Belew
This is still happening on my Averatec 3280, somewhat at random. -- 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 maili

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

2010-01-29 Thread Peter Belew
This may be related to bug #497299, but there is some doubt in my mine. For one thing, I have $ cat /etc/network/interfaces auto lo iface lo inet loopback Also, there seem to be problems specific to the display driver. In several Xorg.n.log files I see (II) Loading extension DRI2 (II) LoadModule:

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

2010-01-29 Thread Peter Belew
Some current versions: upstart/lucid uptodate 0.6.3-11build1 xserver-xorg-video-openchrome/lucid uptodate 0.6.3-11build1 I'm not sure if earlier versions than the above upstart will work with lucid. (The 0.6.3.10 version is suggested in #497299, but that was apparently for Karmic). I

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

2010-01-29 Thread Peter Belew
Also see bug #508456 regarding upstart problems on this laptop, which may be related to these display driver problems. Current issues remaining are: Unusable consoles - colored gibberish on the screen. Starting up in graphics mode results in wrong resolution, without an xorg.conf file. Ha

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

2010-01-29 Thread Peter Belew
I have an upstart problem which might be the same as or related to this one, on an Averatech 3280 laptop, running Lucid. This is described as Bug #508456. However it does seem to be related to the openchrome and viafb drivers. The boot process often hangs up while the display driver is starting up

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

2010-02-04 Thread Peter Belew
I am enclosing xorg.conf.new as created by executing 'Xorg -configure' before starting the X server. This shows that the openchrome driver has been selected. ** Attachment added: "xorg.conf.new" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38759809/xorg.conf.new -- [CLE266] Console screens unusable, strang

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

2010-02-04 Thread Peter Belew
As of Thu Feb 4 14:57:56 PST 2010, after more updates, my screen is now positioned properly, and console TTYs work ok on this laptop. I'm enclosing an archive of apt-show-versions output. ** Attachment added: "tar archive of apt-show-versions output" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38770965/apt

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

2010-02-04 Thread Peter Belew
BTW I am actually using the rt2500pci wi-fi device at the moment, when getting the messages in the last comment. -- [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 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-02-04 Thread Peter Belew
But now, when I switch to a tty, I start getting kernel messages like these from /var/log/kern.log: Feb 4 15:09:54 eros kernel: [ 1084.808079] phy0 -> rt2500pci_set_device_state: Error - Device failed to enter state 1 (-16). Feb 4 15:09:57 eros kernel: [ 1087.924034] phy0 -> rt2500pci_set_devic

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

2010-02-04 Thread Peter Belew
As of about an hour ago, the tty console screens now work. (See bug #495553, which also seems to have been fixed) -- [CLE266] Console screens unusable, strange background https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/448911 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is su

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

2010-02-04 Thread Peter Belew
I don't think those messages are a bug. :) -- [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 received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

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

2010-02-04 Thread Peter Belew
Actually, not - read the previous comment. On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Leann Ogasawara wrote: > Hi Peter, > > >From comment #76 is sounds like this issue you originally reported is > now resolved.  As a result I'm going to go ahead and close the linux > task.  For the messages you're seeing w

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

2010-02-04 Thread Peter Belew
Correction - the starting problems are bug #508456. Scott James Remnant feels that this is a screen driver problem, rather than an upstart problem, but I'm not sure about that. Yes, the wifi card messages are a separate issue. There is still an issue with the screen going into a strange mode wit

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

2010-02-04 Thread Peter Belew
The situation is still: If I start up in recovery (text) mode, I can use the script in comment #2 to start gdm and a couple of other daemons that I want. In this case, I can log in and run normally. However, if I try to start normally, I get to the login screen (a bit farther that I was getting ea

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

2010-02-05 Thread Peter Belew
This has just regressed severely. It is back to the situation where the x origin is in the middle of the screen in 1024x768 resolution. Also I get a black, blank screen when shifting to a tty. -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 r

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

2010-02-05 Thread Peter Belew
This is an archive of apt-show-versions output after this morning's update ** Attachment added: "apt-show-versions output" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38799965/apt-versions-201002051019am.tgz -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 32

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

2010-02-05 Thread Peter Belew
Here is an archive of Xorg.0.log* ** Attachment added: "Xorg.0.log, Xorg.0.log.old" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38800111/xorg.0.logs-201002051024am.tar -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

Re: [Bug 504381] Re: [K8M800] Xubuntu does not display properly on Lucid alpha-1 with updates, on Averatec 3280

2010-02-05 Thread Peter Belew
I have not tried Xubuntu since my last comment here. I'll try that when alpha-3 comes out. On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Bartosz wrote: > ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-openchrome (Ubuntu) >       Status: New => Confirmed > > ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-openchrome (Ubuntu) >   Importa

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

2010-02-05 Thread Peter Belew
This too has regressed. On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Bartosz wrote: > ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-openchrome (Ubuntu) >       Status: Incomplete => Confirmed > > ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-openchrome (Ubuntu) >       Status: Confirmed => Invalid > > -- > [CLE266] Console screens u

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

2010-02-08 Thread Peter Belew
This is still happening as of the latest updates this morning. The screen x-origin is still offset, and the screen image wraps around, as before. Selecting a text console with ctl-alt-F1 etc. results in a blank screen. When the system is booting (after a selection is made in grub), the screen gra

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

2010-02-08 Thread Peter Belew
Also see Bug #508456 - regarding startup. -- [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 received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, w

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

2010-02-08 Thread Peter Belew
See also my bug #495553 for the latest startup behavior on my Averatec 3280. This includes a list of installed modules as of this morning. -- Lucid frequently crashes while starting gdm on Averatec 3280 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/508456 You received this bug notification because you are a me

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

2010-02-15 Thread Peter Belew
This is still happening on my Averatec 3280 laptop as of Mon Feb 15 7:53 AM PST -- [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 received this bug notification beca

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

2010-02-15 Thread Peter Belew
This is still happening as of Mon Feb 15 07:50:22 PST 2010 on my Averatec 3280 -- 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. -- ubu

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

2010-02-16 Thread Peter Belew
This is still happening on my Averatec 3280 laptop as of Tue Feb 16 23:16:47 UTC 2010 (Tue Feb 16 15:17:07 PST 2010) -- [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 Yo

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

2010-02-16 Thread Peter Belew
Note that this problem was temporarily fixed earlier this month (see comment #76). I suspect examining the driver and other software versions installed at that point may lead to a solution to this bug. -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averate

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

2010-03-21 Thread Peter Belew
This is still happening on this system as of update to beta-1 and further updates through 20 March 2010. -- 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 U

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

2010-03-21 Thread Peter Belew
I upgraded to the Lucid beta-1 starting one instance of Karmic on this laptop yesterday (this is a dual-boot system now, with Karmic and Lucid on it) and have installed some updates since. The problem with the offset horizontal position of the screen (with wrapping around), as described above, rem

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

2010-03-21 Thread Peter Belew
I'd like to point out that the behavior of the driver looks to me like there is a 512-pixel delay or advance in the timing of horizontal sync. At 1024x768 this means the origin of the screen is shifted over half the screen width, and at 800x600 this means the origin is near the right side of the sc

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

2010-03-21 Thread Peter Belew
This has not happened for some time on my Averatec 3280 laptop. There is still a problem during startup: sometimes a clouded image partially obscures the screen during startup, but eventually X will start up, subject to some problems which are still happening (see Bug #495553 for that). (This under

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

2010-03-21 Thread Peter Belew
I was mistaken about one point in comment #96 - the login window IS centered when xorg.conf is in place. -- [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 received 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

2010-03-22 Thread Peter Belew
There is no impovement in this bug with the most recent build of the openchrome driver. apt-show-versions xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-openchrome/lucid uptodate 1:0.2.904+svn827-1 -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec

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

2010-03-22 Thread Peter Belew
Please ignore the what I said in comment #96 about the login screen, and all of #98 - those comments apply to Karmic on the same computer. Also, I was miscalculating in #97 regarding the 800x600 screen. The full screen is 246 mm wide, and the x-origin is shifted over to 226 mm. That is about 735 p

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

2010-03-22 Thread Peter Belew
This is still happening with today's update of the openchrome driver: pe...@lightning:~$ apt-show-versions xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-openchrome/lucid uptodate 1:0.2.904+svn827-1 Should this be reported directly to the openchrome project? (Along with Bug #495553) - would tha

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

2010-03-22 Thread Peter Belew
Should I report this directly to the openchrome project? Might that help? -- [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 received this bug notification because yo

[Bug 438474] Re: Sound output with Rhythmbox and pulseaudio is extremely faint

2009-10-04 Thread Peter Belew
Note: the Pulse utilities may seem a bit confusing at first, since there are many choices for configuration of output devices, only a few of which may work on a given machine. -- Sound output with Rhythmbox and pulseaudio is extremely faint https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438474 You received this

[Bug 323287] Re: pulseaudio don't play on rhythmbox

2009-10-04 Thread Peter Belew
This may be a duplicate of bug #438474, and the solution for that may apply here - to install the appropriate Pulse Audio volume and output chooser utilities. -- pulseaudio don't play on rhythmbox https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/323287 You received this bug notification because you are a member o

[Bug 436341] Re: Many "cardbus cards are not supported" booting Karmic on Averatec 3280

2009-10-04 Thread Peter Belew
This was an even more serious problem when I booted this system this morning: this message kept repeating for several minutes, and I was afraid the OS would never finish booting. The message shows up 199 times in dmesg (attached) ** Attachment added: "dmesg from boot at 07:23 PDT this morning"

[Bug 443326] [NEW] Update-manager tries to install grub-2 update on system with legacy grub

2009-10-05 Thread Peter Belew
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: update-manager This system was updated online to Karmic from 9.04, leaving the legacy grub in place (0.97-29ubuntu45). When I ran Update Manager today, one of the listed upgrades was for grub-common (version 2) - as follows: Changes for the versions: 1.

[Bug 443326] Re: Update-manager tries to install grub-2 update on system with legacy grub

2009-10-05 Thread Peter Belew
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33044240/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "XsessionErrors.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33044241/XsessionErrors.txt -- Update-manager tries to install grub-2 update on system with legacy grub https://bugs.laun

[Bug 443326] Re: Update-manager tries to install grub-2 update on system with legacy grub

2009-10-05 Thread Peter Belew
This sort of error would especially be a problem for someone updating with apt-get or aptitude, without carefully examining the list of updates. -- Update-manager tries to install grub-2 update on system with legacy grub https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/443326 You received this bug notification be

[Bug 443344] [NEW] Message "daemon died" appeared while running update-manager

2009-10-05 Thread Peter Belew
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: update-manager While trying to update this system a few minutes ago, Update Manager showed a list of updates, and then shortly after I clicked on the button for starting the downloads, the program froze after displaying a message saying that the "deamon d

[Bug 443344] Re: Message "daemon died" appeared while running update-manager

2009-10-05 Thread Peter Belew
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33044781/Dependencies.txt -- Message "daemon died" appeared while running update-manager https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/443344 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 443344] Re: Message "daemon died" appeared while running update-manager

2009-10-05 Thread Peter Belew
in `ps aux` output, I find peter 5193 2.8 9.1 86332 43704 ?S10:22 1:16 /usr/bin/python2.6 /usr/bin/update-manager So I killed it. -- Message "daemon died" appeared while running update-manager https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/443344 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 443344] Re: Message "daemon died" appeared while running update-manager

2009-10-05 Thread Peter Belew
I then tried running update-manager again. Both this time and the previous time I noticed that the program requested authentication twice, which is odd. After clicking on "Install Updates", a message popped up 'Waiting for other tasks', presumably the dead daemon. peter23332 7.3 8.9 85676

[Bug 443344] Re: Message "daemon died" appeared while running update-manager

2009-10-05 Thread Peter Belew
Then I tried to run `apt-get update` and found there's still a lock E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it? which is not surprising since update-manager d

[Bug 443344] Re: Message "daemon died" appeared while running update-manager

2009-10-05 Thread Peter Belew
After deleting the lock file, I was able to complete the update with apt-get. -- Message "daemon died" appeared while running update-manager https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/443344 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubunt

Re: [Bug 438454] Re: NetworkManager fails to set IP and route information entered

2009-10-05 Thread Peter Belew
Having tried this a few minutes ago, I'm convinced that this is still very buggy, and also very confusing to use. I'll have to wait until tomorrow to retest this and provide more details. On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Launchpad Bug Tracker <438...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > This bug was fixed

[Bug 443344] Re: Message "daemon died" appeared while running update-manager

2009-10-06 Thread Peter Belew
State of the update-manager process: peter 2610 1.1 9.9 170056 47624 ?Sl 08:08 0:21 /usr/bin/python2.6 /usr/bin/update-manager I -- Message "daemon died" appeared while running update-manager https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/443344 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 443344] Re: Message "daemon died" appeared while running update-manager

2009-10-06 Thread Peter Belew
This happened this morning while I was attempting to update on my Averatec 3280 laptop. Ubuntu version and kernel version DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10 DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu karmic (development branch)" Linux cupid 2.6.31-11-generic #38-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 2 1

Re: [Bug 443326] Re: Update-manager tries to install grub-2 update on system with legacy grub

2009-10-07 Thread Peter Belew
What actually happens, is that the update keeps the 0.9x grub, but updates the format of /boot/grub/menu.lst to a format which seems to me to be a bit less human-friendly, using hex labels like in recent installer-created versions of /etc/fstab. So I did let the upgrade happen, finally. I would as

Re: [Bug 438454] Re: NetworkManager fails to set IP and route information entered

2009-10-07 Thread Peter Belew
I'll test that tomorrow - possibly after further upgrades. What should be the state of /etc/network/interfaces before trying this? - before booting? Should this be run from the System>Preference menu or from the network-manager-applet icon on the upper panel? One issue which I keep repeating is

[Bug 438454] Re: NetworkManager fails to set IP and route information entered

2009-10-08 Thread Peter Belew
This is STILL not working for me. (I just reinstalled network-manager and network-manager-gnome a few minutes ago). If I start with /etc/network/interfaces in a 'clean' state - just showing the loopback interface, and try to set the IPv4 network parameters, including IP, mask. gateway, and an addi

[Bug 438454] Re: NetworkManager fails to set IP and route information entered

2009-10-08 Thread Peter Belew
Also I've attached a tar file containing the contents of /etc/NetworkManager/ It appears the settings I've made are actually saved here, but I don't know how to make networking use settings in this place. Possibly there is some setting necessary to make networking use this information. ** Attach

[Bug 438454] Re: NetworkManager fails to set IP and route information entered

2009-10-08 Thread Peter Belew
Also I've attached a tar file containing the contents of /etc/NetworkManager/ It appears the settings I've made are actually saved here, but I don't know how to make networking use settings in this place. Possibly there is some setting necessary to make networking use this information. ** Attach

[Bug 438454] Re: NetworkManager fails to set IP and route information entered

2009-10-08 Thread Peter Belew
Installed version of network-manager: 0.8~a~git.20091007t192810.e8982ab-0ubuntu1~nmt1 Version of network-manager-gnome: 0.8~a~git.20091008t034340.7619541-0ubuntu2~nmt1 An additional issue is that the icon for the panel applet doesn't show up, or shows up as only a faint grey triangle. -- Net

Re: [Bug 443326] Re: Update-manager tries to install grub-2 update on system with legacy grub

2009-10-08 Thread Peter Belew
se of a limited resource. On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Peter Belew wrote: > What actually happens, is that the update keeps the 0.9x grub, but > updates the format of /boot/grub/menu.lst to a format which seems to > me to be a bit less human-friendly, using hex labels like in recent > in

[Bug 436341] Re: Many "cardbus cards are not supported" booting Karmic on Averatec 3280

2009-10-08 Thread Peter Belew
This problem still occurs. Also, while the internal pcmcia wireless interface works, various cards that I have do not work in the cardbus slot. The internal wireless controller is: 00:09.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01) I've attached the /var/log/dmesg file

[Bug 436341] Re: Many "cardbus cards are not supported" booting Karmic on Averatec 3280

2009-10-09 Thread Peter Belew
As of today, the 'cardbus cards' message no longer appears, but now text consoles are even more unusable - instead of the constant messages, the screen appears as an array of random colors. (see bug report #447595). It is possible to switch in and out of a console with ctrl-alt-Fn and alt-F7, but y

[Bug 436341] Re: Many "cardbus cards are not supported" booting Karmic on Averatec 3280

2009-10-09 Thread Peter Belew
Since comment #6, and some updates, what happens now is that the multicolored bitmap screen appears while logging out or shutting down out of Gnome/X. This is something that used to happen on this system several versions of Ubuntu ago. Also, on trying to shut down one time, the Shut Down and Res

[Bug 436341] Re: Many "cardbus cards are not supported" booting Karmic on Averatec 3280

2009-10-09 Thread Peter Belew
** Attachment added: "lsmod output" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33383023/lsmod.txt -- Many "cardbus cards are not supported" booting Karmic on Averatec 3280 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/436341 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 436341] Re: Many "cardbus cards are not supported" booting Karmic on Averatec 3280

2009-10-09 Thread Peter Belew
** Attachment added: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33383064/Xorg.0.log -- Many "cardbus cards are not supported" booting Karmic on Averatec 3280 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/436341 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is su

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