future of xserver-xorg-video-(i810|intel)?

2007-06-30 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Hello everyone, I'd like to ask about the future of these two packages in Gutsy? Currently (Tribe 2), both are installed in parallel and you need to switch to intel by changing the driver in xorg.conf. As the i810 driver cannot handle odd resolutions well, when will the default be switched ove

gstreamer0.8|0.10-swfdec in launchpad

2007-06-30 Thread shirish
Hi all, i would like to know what is gonna happen to gstreamer0.8-swfdec package. There is no overview of it in launchpad, while the package is there in http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/libs/gstreamer0.8-swfdec , Similarly are there plans for having a gstreamer0.10-swfdec using swfdec0.4 [

Re: gstreamer0.8|0.10-swfdec in launchpad

2007-06-30 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gst-plugins0.8 Launchpad goes by source, not binary. Hobbsee shirish wrote: > Hi all, > i would like to know what is gonna happen to > gstreamer0.8-swfdec package. There is no overview of it in launchpad,

Re: gstreamer0.8|0.10-swfdec in launchpad

2007-06-30 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 To get the source packages, use... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache madison gstreamer0.8-swfdec gstreamer0.8-swfdec | 0.8.12-6ubuntu3 | http://mirror.pacific.net.au gutsy/universe Packages gstreamer0.8-swfdec | 0.8.12-6ubuntu3 | http://archive.ubuntu.co

Re: future of xserver-xorg-video-(i810|intel)?

2007-06-30 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 08:58:56PM +0200, Andreas Schildbach wrote: > As the i810 driver cannot handle odd resolutions well, when will the > default be switched over to intel? Will this happen at all for Gutsy? There's still a small number of important regressions in -intel compared to -i810. T

Re: gstreamer0.8|0.10-swfdec in launchpad

2007-06-30 Thread shirish
On 6/30/07, Sarah Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > To get the source packages, use... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache madison gstreamer0.8-swfdec > gstreamer0.8-swfdec | 0.8.12-6ubuntu3 | http://mirror.pacific.net.au > gutsy/universe Packages

Re: Checksums Done Right

2007-06-30 Thread scott
>> This is great until md5 collision attacks[1] and >> kernel-based rootkits are used on your system (common these days). > > Do you have any references to the use of md5 collision attacks being > common? Ahh, you are correct. I was thinking of kernel-based rootkits being common. I have no evidenc

Re: Checksums Done Right

2007-06-30 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 09:14:17AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ahh, you are correct. I was thinking of kernel-based rootkits being > common. I have no evidence that states collision attacks are currently > common. To clarify, it's trivially easy, using freely available source > code[1] (31 s

Re: future of xserver-xorg-video-(i810|intel)?

2007-06-30 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 01:15:19PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 08:58:56PM +0200, Andreas Schildbach wrote: > > > As the i810 driver cannot handle odd resolutions well, when will the > > default be switched over to intel? Will this happen at all for Gutsy? > > There's

santa rosa macbook pro in gutsy/feisty

2007-06-30 Thread Brian Barnes
Hello, I am wondering, are the new santa rosa chipset macbook pros expected or hoped to be working smoothly "out of the box" with gutsy? There are currently many known bugs at ubuntuforums.org that are not reported in launchpad. These mainly focus around sound (doesn't work), suspend (ditto)

Re: Checksums Done Right

2007-06-30 Thread scott
> Right, but being able to create a collision isn't the same as being able > to create a *useful* collision. You need to be able to alter the > functionality of the program in a very specific way in order to use it > to escalate privileges. Escalation of privileges is one attack, yes. Although the

Re: Checksums Done Right

2007-06-30 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 04:21:11PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Escalation of privileges is one attack, yes. Although the type of "attack" > I'm talking about is for users that already have the ability to write a > root-owned binary. I'm describing more of a DoS attack that basically just > k

Re: santa rosa macbook pro in gutsy/feisty

2007-06-30 Thread Forest Bond
On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 06:17:14PM -0500, Brian Barnes wrote: > There are currently many known bugs at ubuntuforums.org that are not reported > in launchpad. Beyond the obvious, there is one big difference between a bug at ubuntuforums.org and a bug in launchpad: the one in launchpad is a lot more

Re: santa rosa macbook pro in gutsy/feisty

2007-06-30 Thread Brian Barnes
> Perhaps you could encourage the residents of ubuntuforms.org to file bugs in > launchpad? > > -Forest Yes, in the very first thread that I linked in my previous mail, I did exactly what you suggested. About a day ago. :) I provided links to launchpad, debugging procedures, and a reporting b