[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 221112]

2014-05-12 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
BTW, about the punctuation signs that, in French, requires a nbsp before them, i.e. " ; : ! ? " (for perfect typographic correctness, while usually few people know about this and nobody really cares...) : Usual word processing programs, such as OpenOffice / LibreOffice, when configured to the fren

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1013881]

2014-05-12 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
BTW, about the punctuation signs that, in French, requires a nbsp before them, i.e. " ; : ! ? " (for perfect typographic correctness, while usually few people know about this and nobody really cares...) : Usual word processing programs, such as OpenOffice / LibreOffice, when configured to the fren

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 221112]

2014-05-11 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
About a "short nbsp" in french, let's make it perfectly clear that there must be about a hundred professionnal typographists in the whole country who care about it - most of them not using Linux BTW - and the rest of the ~40 million computer users here don't give a shit about a "short nbsp" and don

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1013881]

2014-05-11 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
About a "short nbsp" in french, let's make it perfectly clear that there must be about a hundred professionnal typographists in the whole country who care about it - most of them not using Linux BTW - and the rest of the ~40 million computer users here don't give a shit about a "short nbsp" and don

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1013881]

2014-04-30 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Okay, your "vote" is currently happening on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1013881 with 4 new entries today (from different people), 100% of them saying : « PLEASE GIVE US OUR RIGHT [CTRL] KEY BEHAVING AS A [CTRL] KEY BACK !!! » To summarize further, AFAIK, there is ONE person in the world hap

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 221112]

2014-04-30 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Okay, your "vote" is currently happening on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1013881 with 4 new entries today (from different people), 100% of them saying : « PLEASE GIVE US OUR RIGHT [CTRL] KEY BEHAVING AS A [CTRL] KEY BACK !!! » To summarize further, AFAIK, there is ONE person in the world hap

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1013881]

2014-04-21 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Great ! Now the FR right [Ctrl] is B.R.O.K.E.N on Ubuntu 14.04 as well. Given the number of french Ubuntu users (+ upcoming derivatives) I think you'll have your "vote" and "survey" very soon, just by taking a look at lauchpad bug entries and new comments on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1013881

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 221112]

2014-04-21 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Great ! Now the FR right [Ctrl] is B.R.O.K.E.N on Ubuntu 14.04 as well. Given the number of french Ubuntu users (+ upcoming derivatives) I think you'll have your "vote" and "survey" very soon, just by taking a look at lauchpad bug entries and new comments on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1013881

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 221112]

2014-04-17 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
BTW Sergey, I'm a bit surprised that you want a "vote" to fix something that people complain about, when you didn't need any vote to break it in the first place... Would you need a vote, I suggest that you put a survey system online by yourself on any web page that you'd like (so you know the vote

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 221112]

2014-04-17 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Sergey, you might want to check Ubuntu bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xkeyboard-config/+bug/1013881 , which is a "downstream reflection" of this one. There are some other "loud voices" there that you might consider as taking part to the "vote" that you want. I had in my office 2 pe

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1013881]

2014-04-17 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
BTW Sergey, I'm a bit surprised that you want a "vote" to fix something that people complain about, when you didn't need any vote to break it in the first place... Would you need a vote, I suggest that you put a survey system online by yourself on any web page that you'd like (so you know the vote

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1013881]

2014-04-17 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Sergey, you might want to check Ubuntu bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xkeyboard-config/+bug/1013881 , which is a "downstream reflection" of this one. There are some other "loud voices" there that you might consider as taking part to the "vote" that you want. I had in my office 2 pe

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 221112]

2014-03-19 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Even though I've been an IT professional for the past 3O years, I went to a large computer store in France over lunch time, to find out if such thing as a [CtrlGr] key could possibly exist on a french keyboard. Let me tell you : I couldn't find any. OTOH, I was surprised to notice that some table

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1013881]

2014-03-19 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Even though I've been an IT professional for the past 3O years, I went to a large computer store in France over lunch time, to find out if such thing as a [CtrlGr] key could possibly exist on a french keyboard. Let me tell you : I couldn't find any. OTOH, I was surprised to notice that some table

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 221112]

2014-03-19 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Repeating : 1/ Standard French keyboard has NO [CtrlGr] key. It does have 2 normal [Ctrl] keys bearing the exact same label. The right [Ctrl] key actually is a right [Ctrl] key and no other modifier or whatever. 2/ There are quite a *lot* of common, daily used by professional IT staff, keyboard s

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1013881]

2014-03-19 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Repeating : 1/ Standard French keyboard has NO [CtrlGr] key. It does have 2 normal [Ctrl] keys bearing the exact same label. The right [Ctrl] key actually is a right [Ctrl] key and no other modifier or whatever. 2/ There are quite a *lot* of common, daily used by professional IT staff, keyboard s

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 221112]

2014-03-18 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I had yet another good reason to revert to a "normal right [CTRL] key" on a Fedora this morning: I was working in a terminal with several open terminal tabs. Switching between tabs is made using [Ctrl]-[PageUp] and [Ctrl]-[PageDown] - same goes with other Gnome tabbed apps, as well as Firefox and

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1013881]

2014-03-18 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I had yet another good reason to revert to a "normal right [CTRL] key" on a Fedora this morning: I was working in a terminal with several open terminal tabs. Switching between tabs is made using [Ctrl]-[PageUp] and [Ctrl]-[PageDown] - same goes with other Gnome tabbed apps, as well as Firefox and

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1013881]

2014-03-16 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
(In reply to comment #50) > Could someone create poll on some french(belgian) web site, linux-oriented. > Which behavior would be preferable? A poll would be pointless as its representativeness would be very hard to determine. Most users don't care "as long as it works" and may not even know ther

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1013881]

2014-03-16 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I spent a couple days extremely disappointed to have a broken right [CTRL] key on a french keyboard on recent Arch installs, thus being unable to use VirtualBox properly, and googling around (and let me tell you that my googling showed me a *lot* of french people are really upset with this as well)

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 221112]

2014-03-13 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I spent a couple days extremely disappointed to have a broken right [CTRL] key on a french keyboard on recent Arch installs, thus being unable to use VirtualBox properly, and googling around (and let me tell you that my googling showed me a *lot* of french people are really upset with this as well)

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 221112]

2014-03-13 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
(In reply to comment #50) > Could someone create poll on some french(belgian) web site, linux-oriented. > Which behavior would be preferable? A poll would be pointless as its representativeness would be very hard to determine. Most users don't care "as long as it works" and may not even know ther

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 560104] Re: ATI X display flickers badly after system resume

2014-01-08 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
This bug is still there and has been there for around 4 years without a fix. ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) Status: Expired => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-ati in Ubuntu. htt

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 576181] Re: Lucid - Screen flickering with ATI Radeon Xpress 1100

2014-01-08 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Thi bug is most probably still there, and most probably still the same as bug #560104 that has been around, unfixed, for about 4 years (and is still there), and went thru all "future and development releases" without any fix, so the eternal request "please test latest development version" without e

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1063969] Re: NVIDIA does not work with framebuffer drivers

2012-11-15 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
The instructions in bug #1063969 comment #7 allowed me to re-enable graphical splash on all of the 3 following NVidia configs - and all keep properly working framebuffer text consoles 1-6 : - Toshiba Satellite L735-101 : NVIDIA GPU GeForce 315M (GT218) - Dell Inspiron 9300 : NVIDIA GPU GeForce Go

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1047306] Re: [Quantal] [Intel Atom] Mesa 2012/09/07 updates broke it all

2012-09-07 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Can't test further updates for now, promised my squaw not to install any update on any computer till monday ;-) - Would run in serious trouble otherwise, unless I find a fix for my squaw as well ;-)) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed t

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1047433] Re: Can't run unity or gnome-shell

2012-09-07 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1047306 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1047306 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1047306 [Quantal] [Intel Atom] Mesa 2012/09/07 updates broke it all -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is su

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1047306] Re: [Quantal] [Intel Atom] Mesa 2012/09/07 updates broke it all

2012-09-07 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
No time for further tests today ; lost too many hours on this and now I have a big pile of urgent work to do... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to mesa in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1047306 Title: [Quantal] [Intel Ato

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1047306] Re: [Quantal] [Intel Atom] Mesa 2012/09/07 updates broke it all

2012-09-07 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Confirming that installing : libgl1-mesa-dri_9.0~git20120821.c1114c61-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb libglapi- mesa_9.0~git20120821.c1114c61-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb libgl1-mesa- dri_9.0~git20120821.c1114c61-0ubuntu2_i386.deb libglapi- mesa_9.0~git20120821.c1114c61-0ubuntu2_i386.deb libgl1-mesa- glx_9.0~git20120

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1047306] Re: [Quantal] [Intel Atom] Mesa 2012/09/07 updates broke it all

2012-09-07 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Would you mind giving the recipe ? ;-) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to mesa in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1047306 Title: [Quantal] [Intel Atom] Mesa 2012/09/07 updates broke it all To manage notifications about th

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1047306] Re: [Quantal] [Intel Atom] Mesa 2012/09/07 updates broke it all

2012-09-07 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
** Attachment added: "What broke the EeePC 1005PE" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa/+bug/1047306/+attachment/3298192/+files/fnix_up120907.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to mesa in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1047306] Re: [Quantal] [Intel Atom] Mesa 2012/09/07 updates broke it all

2012-09-07 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
In case it may help, here's the set of updates that broke it on both of my machines ** Attachment added: "What broke the eMachines eM355" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa/+bug/1047306/+attachment/3298191/+files/xtro_up120907.log -- You received this bug notification because you

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1047306] Re: [Quantal] [Intel Atom] Mesa 2012/09/07 updates broke it all

2012-09-07 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
One of my 2 machines (eMachines eM355) had JUST been upgraded (started yesterday) from Precise to Quantal Beta1. Upgraded, rebooted => Worked great Applied latest set of today's (and possibly yesterday's) updates, rebooted => Failed, *cry* -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1042211] Re: [quantal] [regression] [i915] Corrupted display, desktop and menus don't repaint correctly using Mesa 9.0 (8.0.4 works)

2012-09-07 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
@Omer I could finally report above issue as separate bug #1047306 . Unity staging PPA does NOT fix it. (I tried...) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to mesa in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1042211 Title: [quantal] [regr

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1042211] Re: [quantal] [regression] [i915] Corrupted display, desktop and menus don't repaint correctly using Mesa 9.0 (8.0.4 works)

2012-09-07 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
This is most probably not the right place for reporting this, bug I can hardly create a new bug report outside of any working GUI... Today's (2012/09/07) latest updates on Quantal Beta completely broke graphics on 2 different Intel Atom netbooks : - Asus EeePC 1005PE running Quantal Beta 1 AMD64

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1042211] Re: [quantal] [regression] [i915] Corrupted display, desktop and menus don't repaint correctly using Mesa 9.0 (8.0.4 works)

2012-09-01 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Installing updates from ppa:unity-team/staging solved my issue in bug #1043171 as well. Marking bug #1043171 as a duplicate of the present one. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to mesa in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10422

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1043171] Re: [Quantal] [Regression] corrupt X11 background (white) on Intel

2012-09-01 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1042211 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1042211 Installing updates from ppa:unity-team/staging solved my issue, thanks ! Marking this bug as a duplicate of bug #1042211... ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1042211 [quantal] [regression]

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1043171] Re: [Quantal] [Regression] corrupt X11 background (white) on Intel

2012-09-01 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
My symptoms here do not look like bug #1044552 but may, or may not, be related to bug #104221. However moving windows around is not what causes most screen corruption (unless Windows moves and touch the launchbar, then the background isn't repainted properly). My symtoms are : 1- Screen backgrou

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1043171] Re: [Quantal] [Regression] corrupt X11 background (white) on Intel

2012-08-29 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1043171 Title: [Quantal] [Regression] corrupt X11 background (white) on Intel To manage notifications about this bug go to: htt

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1043171] [NEW] [Quantal] [Regression] corrupt X11 background (white) on Intel

2012-08-29 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Quantal, Asus EeePC 1005PE, Intel display netbook. Screen background goes plain white instead of background image. Hovering the mouse and right-clicking on the background causes it to reappear. Hovering the mouse on the Unity laucher causes white corruption to reappear on t

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 713864] Re: Black screen with nouveau on a GeForce 8600M GT, either LiveCD or fresh install

2012-03-24 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Warning ! I have already seen 3 different machines with video cards : - Nvidia C77 (Geforce 8200) and - Nvidia GeForce 315M (GT218) and - Another Nvidia which I don't remember That will not boot Precise at all (and hang on black screen) if nouveau isn't blacklisted with "nouveau.blacklist=1" in g

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 901675] Re: apport-gtk assert failure: python: ../../src/xcb_io.c:273: poll_for_event: Assertion `!xcb_xlib_threads_sequence_lost' failed.

2012-03-14 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Got it this morning (all updates applied) and yesterday evening on another system (all updates applied) while trying to report another "system software problem". apport crashes trying to report a bug, then reports a bug about itself ;-) -- You received this bug notification because you are a memb

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 864876] Re: [i965gm] GPU lockup

2011-10-02 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/864876 Title: [i965gm] GPU lockup To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserv

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 864876] [NEW] [i965gm] GPU lockup

2011-10-02 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Appearead only since this week-end / latest couple of days updates - Oneiric Beta, 2011/10/02 - Machine is Dell XPS M1330 => After suspend to RAM then resume, Ubuntu (Gnome+Unity) session dies, I'm back to DM. At next login into the Ubuntu session, this error pops up. Comes

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 318325] Re: [X1100] flickering after resume from ram

2011-04-28 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Bug still present in Natty. Looks to be "a slight bit less of flickering", but still there is :-( -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-ati in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/318325 Title: [X1100] flickerin

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 694813] Re: [Maverick] X11 radeon fails badly with [Radeon Xpress 200M]

2011-04-28 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Some issues described in this bug report seems to be better now (although bug #318325 is still present). Starting KMail doesn't cause immediate display failure anymore and there are no other "immediately visible" issues. However I haven't used this machine in Natty for long, so some issues may app

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 318325] Re: [X1100] flickering after resume from ram

2011-04-28 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-ati in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/318325 Title: [X1100] flickering after resu

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 694813] Re: [Maverick] X11 radeon fails badly with [Radeon Xpress 200M]

2010-12-27 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Adding that using xorg-edgers ppa instead of "standard Maverick X11" doesn't help in any way... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-ati in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/694813 Title: [Maverick] X11 rade

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 694813] [NEW] [Maverick] X11 radeon fails badly with [Radeon Xpress 200M]

2010-12-27 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-radeon System: Acer Aspire 3104 WLMi Video board : *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200M] vendor: ATI Technologies Inc

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 318325] Re: [X1100] flickering after resume from ram

2010-12-26 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Confirming. On Acer Aspire 3104 WLMi, xorg-edgers gives no improvement on this bug (alas !) and disabling KMS causes X to segfault immediately. (However I could acces my system's VTs) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is the registrant for xserver-x

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 318325] Re: [X1100] flickering after resume from ram

2010-04-10 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Added new bug #560104 which is certainly a duplicate of the present one, but creating a new bug was the only way I found to upload my system's data gathered by "ubuntu-bug". So my machine is Acer Aspire 3104 WLMi, ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200M] Suffering from this bug since fglrx

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 560104] Re: ATI X display flickers badly after system resume

2010-04-10 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Confirming that on my system X display is correct after resume from "hibernate to disk" even if the display was flickering (from a resume from suspend) at the time the system got hibernated to disk. -- ATI X display flickers badly after system resume https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/560104 You rec

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 560104] Re: ATI X display flickers badly after system resume

2010-04-10 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Suspending my system using « pm-suspend --quirk-radeon-off --quirk- vbemode-restore --quirk-vbestate-restore --quirk-vbe-post » as proposed in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video- ati/+bug/318325/comments/9 doens't help. At resume my system's dispaly's still flickering. --

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 560104] Re: ATI X display flickers badly after system resume

2010-04-10 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
** Attachment added: "BootDmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/43693088/BootDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: "CurrentDmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/43693089/CurrentDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/43693090/Dependencies.txt ** A

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 560104] [NEW] ATI X display flickers badly after system resume

2010-04-10 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-ati This is probably a duplicate of #318325 but I didn't know how to submit my system's "ubuntu-bug" collected-data without submitting as a new bug ;-) Furthermore #318325 is more than 1 year old, but still there in Lucid Beta2, so let