[Bug 495063] Re: Karmic's xrandr doesn't update when connected to different external monitor

2010-04-12 Thread macavity
Hi, sorry I am not testing this issue with a Beta build at this time but I'll give another try when Lucid is deemed ready by Ubuntu AND the community agrees that it is ready. Last time I reported bugs against an LTS version I was told to test a newer alpha version. I am really bad as a resource for

[Bug 406999] Re: crash during update

2010-03-25 Thread macavity
Hi guys, I am terribly sorry but I am no longer available to assist with troubleshooting this issue. There wasn't anyone picking up this and many other bugs and in general I encountered just too many regressions that kept me from being productive on my laptop. I had no choice but switch to a Ma

[Bug 495063] Re: Karmic's xrandr doesn't update when connected to different external monitor

2009-12-11 Thread macavity
I have some additional data about this bug. Just restarting X doesn't trigger xrandr to re-poll for the new monitor. I have to reboot before I can connect to a new external monitor. I also found a ton of these lines in my /var/log/messages: Nov 27 22:07:16 x200 kernel: [ 474.120523] i915 :0

[Bug 495063] Re: Karmic's xrandr doesn't update when connected to different external monitor

2009-12-10 Thread macavity
** Attachment added: "Xorg.0.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36659624/Xorg.0.log -- Karmic's xrandr doesn't update when connected to different external monitor https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495063 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscr

[Bug 495063] [NEW] Karmic's xrandr doesn't update when connected to different external monitor

2009-12-10 Thread macavity
Public bug reported: Hi guys, A typical busy day at work requires me to connect my laptop and switch between various external displays (projector, monitor, video conf equipment) about 20 times a day, all while going through sleep/resume cycles inbetween.. (I hope you do test against these use cas

[Bug 406999] [NEW] crash during update

2009-07-30 Thread macavity
Public bug reported: Linux sammie 2.6.28-13-generic #45-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 30 19:49:51 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux Ubuntu 2.6.28-13.45-generic ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Dependencies: DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 Package: linux-restricted-modules None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-re

[Bug 370819] Re: notecase consumes 100% CPU

2009-05-08 Thread macavity
The workaround works for me. So the issue might be that notecase is unable to pick up the system language settings (?) Just guessing but maybe that narrows it down for the developer. -- notecase consumes 100% CPU https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370819 You received this bug notification because y

[Bug 281868] Re: iwl3945 (v1.2.25) still broken for WPA wifi networks on Thinkpad X60, Xubuntu 8.04 LTS

2009-02-08 Thread macavity
I have tried to disabled hardware scanning with sudo rmmod -f iwl3945 sudo modprobe iwl3945 disable_hw_scan=1 which at least allowed me to connect to my wireless network. But then I am still having the same problem of an extremely slow and eventually dropping network connection. Thinkpad X60, u

[Bug 281868] Re: iwl3945 (v1.2.25) still broken for WPA wifi networks on Thinkpad X60, Xubuntu 8.04 LTS

2009-02-07 Thread macavity
Wireless is still not working on my X60. I installed Windows XP just to see if I had a hardware problem but under Windows wireless is working fine. So I have upgrade my X60 to 8.10, ran a full system update and installed linux-backports-modules-intrepid but it still doesn't work. Am I supposed

[Bug 281868] Re: iwl3945 (v1.2.25) still broken for WPA wifi networks on Thinkpad X60, Xubuntu 8.04 LTS

2008-11-16 Thread macavity
** Attachment added: "messages.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19689053/messages.txt -- iwl3945 (v1.2.25) still broken for WPA wifi networks on Thinkpad X60, Xubuntu 8.04 LTS https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/281868 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs

[Bug 281868] Re: iwl3945 (v1.2.25) still broken for WPA wifi networks on Thinkpad X60, Xubuntu 8.04 LTS

2008-11-16 Thread macavity
** Attachment added: "lsmod.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19689047/lsmod.txt -- iwl3945 (v1.2.25) still broken for WPA wifi networks on Thinkpad X60, Xubuntu 8.04 LTS https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/281868 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whic

[Bug 281868] Re: iwl3945 (v1.2.25) still broken for WPA wifi networks on Thinkpad X60, Xubuntu 8.04 LTS

2008-11-16 Thread macavity
** Attachment added: "dmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19689043/dmesg.txt -- iwl3945 (v1.2.25) still broken for WPA wifi networks on Thinkpad X60, Xubuntu 8.04 LTS https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/281868 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whic

[Bug 281868] Re: iwl3945 (v1.2.25) still broken for WPA wifi networks on Thinkpad X60, Xubuntu 8.04 LTS

2008-11-16 Thread macavity
** Attachment added: "lspci.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19689039/lspci.txt -- iwl3945 (v1.2.25) still broken for WPA wifi networks on Thinkpad X60, Xubuntu 8.04 LTS https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/281868 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whic

[Bug 281868] Re: iwl3945 (v1.2.25) still broken for WPA wifi networks on Thinkpad X60, Xubuntu 8.04 LTS

2008-11-16 Thread macavity
Yes this is still an issue for me, even under Intrepid Ibex. I still can't connect to my WPA network at all, or when I am connected it only works for about 5min before the connection becomes slower and slower until it eventually drops altogether. It works OK on enterprise WPA-EAP networks. Slackw

[Bug 115774] Re: syslog.0 and kern.log.0 grow huge

2008-11-04 Thread Macavity
> Are your systems running cron? Have you, at any time while running hardy, enabled, then disabled your root account? Personally - no, and no. I haven't had this problem since I upgraded from 7.04 - either in 7.10 or in any of the subsequent releases, although it appears that other people have.

[Bug 281868] Re: iwl3945 (v1.2.25) still broken for WPA wifi networks on Thinkpad X60, Xubuntu 8.04 LTS

2008-10-11 Thread macavity
** Attachment added: "messages.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18446909/messages.log -- iwl3945 (v1.2.25) still broken for WPA wifi networks on Thinkpad X60, Xubuntu 8.04 LTS https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/281868 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs

[Bug 281868] Re: iwl3945 (v1.2.25) still broken for WPA wifi networks on Thinkpad X60, Xubuntu 8.04 LTS

2008-10-11 Thread macavity
** Attachment added: "dmesg.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18446899/dmesg.log -- iwl3945 (v1.2.25) still broken for WPA wifi networks on Thinkpad X60, Xubuntu 8.04 LTS https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/281868 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whic

[Bug 281868] Re: iwl3945 (v1.2.25) still broken for WPA wifi networks on Thinkpad X60, Xubuntu 8.04 LTS

2008-10-11 Thread macavity
** Attachment added: "lspci-vvnn.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18446893/lspci-vvnn.txt -- iwl3945 (v1.2.25) still broken for WPA wifi networks on Thinkpad X60, Xubuntu 8.04 LTS https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/281868 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 281868] [NEW] iwl3945 (v1.2.25) still broken for WPA wifi networks on Thinkpad X60, Xubuntu 8.04 LTS

2008-10-11 Thread macavity
Public bug reported: My Thinkpad X60 has been without a wireless network connection for 2 months now. Is there no fix coming for the LTS release of Ubuntu 8.04? Initially when I first installed Hardy everything was fine. But around mid August-2008 I started experiencing connectivity problems. My

[Bug 271463] Re: iwl3945 performance loss during file transfer over network

2008-10-05 Thread macavity
I know that the wifi connections of my Thinkpad+Intel3945ABG(rev2) Network controller to my WPA Enterprise and WPA personal network worked flawlessly before mid Aug. 2008. So I wiped my disk and reinstalled the original Hardy version 8.04 from scratch but I got the same problem. I installed othe

[Bug 271463] Re: iwl3945 performance loss during file transfer over network

2008-09-29 Thread macavity
Sorry, my previous syslog.txt attachment was generated when I tried Intrepid Alpha6. Here is my syslog running Hardy. ** Attachment added: "syslog-hardy.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18028510/syslog-hardy.txt ** Attachment removed: "syslog.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18028105/

[Bug 271463] Re: iwl3945 performance loss during file transfer over network

2008-09-29 Thread macavity
** Attachment added: "lspci.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18028403/lspci.txt -- iwl3945 performance loss during file transfer over network https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/271463 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 271463] Re: iwl3945 performance loss during file transfer over network

2008-09-29 Thread macavity
I have the same bug as of end of August-2008 but I am running Hardy 8.04.1 LTS. iwl3945 can connect (although sometimes with great difficulties) to my WPA personal network. It works for about 2-3minutes and then it gets slower and slower until it stops working altogether. I never had these proble

[Bug 267830] Re: iwl3945, hardy - N-M 0.7 caused system to become unresponsive when trying to connect wirelessly

2008-09-22 Thread macavity
Sorry. Initially I was also testing N-M 0.7 with Intrepid but I guess it turned into something else. I am having strange wireless problems so I'll just open a new bug. -- iwl3945, hardy - N-M 0.7 caused system to become unresponsive when trying to connect wirelessly https://bugs.launchpad.net/b

[Bug 267830] Re: iwl3945, hardy - N-M 0.7 caused system to become unresponsive when trying to connect wirelessly

2008-09-21 Thread macavity
I thought, maybe I needed to to update my iwl3945 firmware to iwlwifi-3945-ucode-15.28.1.6.tgz from http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/?p=iwlwifi&n=downloads , extracted and copied it into /lib/firmware/as well as updating the existing one in /lib/firmware/2.6.24-19-generic/ After the first re

[Bug 267830] Re: iwl3945, hardy - N-M 0.7 caused system to become unresponsive when trying to connect wirelessly

2008-09-20 Thread macavity
I installed linux-backports-2.6.24-19, no luck. Then I booted up on Intrepid Alpha6. Still no wireless connection to WPA networks. Here is the data: uname -a: Linux ubuntu 2.6.27-3-generic #1 SMP Wed Sep 10 16:02:00 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux lsmod | grep iwl iwl394598804 0 mac802

[Bug 267830] Re: iwl3945, hardy - N-M 0.7 caused system to become unresponsive when trying to connect wirelessly

2008-09-19 Thread macavity
I am running Hardy and I was able to connect to the WPA-Enterprise and normal WPA networks without any problems until some time in August'08. I completely reinstalled xubuntu 8.04.1 but still can't connect to any WPA encrypted network. I tried Intrepid Alpha5 from a USB stick and got it working bu

[Bug 226294] Re: No printers listed in print dialog-8.04-amd64

2008-08-09 Thread macavity
Same for me. Qcad is my only app that is unaware of my printers. Is it doing something non-standard to discover printers? sudo ln -s /var/run/cups/printcap /etc/printcap did help. Xubuntu 8.04 on a Thinkpad X60 $ uname -r 2.6.24-20-generic $ apt-cache policy qcad qcad: Installed: 2.0.5.0-1-2u

[Bug 213158] Re: [Hardy] ipw2200: No Wireless Network after suspend resume

2008-06-05 Thread Macavity
Also affects my Thinkpad T40, using a Cardbus wireless device (Broadcom) via ndiswrapper. -- [Hardy] ipw2200: No Wireless Network after suspend resume https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213158 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 52321] Re: Displayed Image on TFT is 2 pixels off, of what it normally should be

2008-04-22 Thread Macavity
I have the same problem in Xubuntu 7.10 on a Gericom A440. -- Displayed Image on TFT is 2 pixels off, of what it normally should be https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/52321 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mai

[Bug 115774] Re: syslog.0 and kern.log.0 grow huge

2008-01-30 Thread Macavity
I'm hoping the following new tool in Hardy may prevent future occurrences of this bug: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyFullDiskHandling -- syslog.0 and kern.log.0 grow huge https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/115774 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is th

[Bug 156407] Re: knetworkmanager dissociates wireless link

2008-01-11 Thread Macavity
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 156413 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156413 This problem goes away with the workaround I suggested for bug 156413. So this bug is likely just a different manifestation of 156413. Am marking as duplicate. ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug

[Bug 156413] Re: knetworkmanager forgets association with AP after reboot

2008-01-11 Thread Macavity
As a workaround for this bug, one can configure knetworkmanager to save the wireless key in kwallet, and than set a blank password for kwallet. Both knetworkmanager and kwallet will open 'silently' upon boot and the connection will activate. Obviously this isn't an ideal solution! If anyone readi

[Bug 115774] Re: syslog.0 and kern.log.0 grow huge

2007-12-05 Thread Macavity
As I mentioned in the description, I deleted the problem files and all was well. So no, it is not still an issue for me. But I am concerned that this can just happen for no apparent reason. Does Ubuntu have some way of limiting the size of log files? 7Gb should be plenty big enough for /. I am

[Bug 34979] Re: Totem will no play DVDs: No reason.

2007-11-03 Thread macavity
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 28605 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/28605 I went for a normal Ubuntu installation with Totem as the default Movie Player, added a few Gstreamer plug-ins via 'Add/Remove' but I still cannot play my DVDs anymore. All this used to work under Feisty. (Very

[Bug 125947] Re: Screen blanks after ten minutes when watching video in Mplayer with XGL and Compiz Fusion turned on

2007-10-27 Thread macavity
my screen brightness dims to lowest level every time I just open power manager while I am on battery, and I have visual effects completely disabled. It seems my power manager settings are just ignored. Here are my platform details: Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Hardware: IBM/lenovo X60 (Intel integrated G

[Bug 156663] firefox mplayer-plugin can't play realvideo correctly

2007-10-24 Thread Macavity
Public bug reported: Firefox mplayer-plugin will play realaudio, but when realvideo is accessed, one of two things happens: (1) the plugin freezes at 'Connecting to server xxx.yyy.com..." Sometimes this crashes the browser; sometimes it eventually gives up and reports 'Stopped'. (2) only the au

[Bug 156413] knetworkmanager forgets association with AP after reboot

2007-10-23 Thread Macavity
Public bug reported: knetworkmanager loads at startup and will connect to APs when selected manually. However, upon reboot, knetworkmanager 'forgets' the association and one must manually select the network again. There doesn't seem to be a way to do the equivalent of Windows XP's 'Automatically

[Bug 156407] knetworkmanager dissociates wireless link

2007-10-23 Thread Macavity
Public bug reported: The first time an AP is selected in knetworkmanager, a link briefly appears then disappears. dmesg reports: [ 186.408000] wlan1: Initial auth_alg=0 [ 186.408000] wlan1: authenticate with AP 00:0d:xx:f9:xx:24 [ 186.42] wlan1: RX authentication from 00:0d:xx:f9:xx:24 (a

[Bug 154859] xrandr (or X) can't drive 2nd screen at 1920x1200 anymore

2007-10-20 Thread macavity
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: linux-source-2.6.22 Hardware: 13"Macbook, integrated Intel 950 GMA graphics OS: ubuntu 7.10 full release Xorg: 1:7.2-5ubuntu13(gutsy) Xrandr: 1:1.2.2-0ubuntu1 uname -a: Linux macbook 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux xo

[Bug 125919] Re: [Gutsy RC] Wireless adapter not detected on MacBook Pro rev.3 (santa rosa)

2007-10-20 Thread macavity
Installed Gutsy (full release) on my 13"Macbook and no wireless interfaces come up at all. Kernel modules ath_pci, ath_hal, wlan don't get loaded at bootup and there are no messages/warning/errors whatsoever in any of the logs about the wireless interface. When I try to load the wireless kernel

[Bug 126047] Atheros wifi kernel modules refuse to load under 2.6.20-16-generic

2007-07-14 Thread macavity
Public bug reported: Summary: Atheros kernel modules ath_pci and ath_hal loaded and worked fine under 2.6.20-15 but for the recent update to -16 those modules would not autoload at startup and when I tried to modprobe ath_pci I saw the following ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel

[Bug 109193] Re: Embedded players in websites wont work

2007-05-31 Thread Macavity
This appears to be a similar problem to Bug 117302 which has recently been accepted and assigned to the mozilla team. Essentially, the mozilla mplayer plugin seems very fussy as to which audio and video streams it will play. -- Embedded players in websites wont work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bu

[Bug 115774] syslog.0 and kern.log.0 grow huge

2007-05-20 Thread Macavity
Public bug reported: These two log files recently grew to over 1 Gb each. I only noticed when I booted up and X failed to start, giving a warming about not being able to write to /tmp. I later discovered that this error was due to lack of partition space and that /var/log had become bloated. I

[Bug 65033] Re: mozilla-mplayer doesn't play videoclips in Edgy

2007-04-22 Thread Macavity
I have a similar problem to Anthony, which persisted in my recent upgrade to kubuntu feisty. audio works fine and some video streams play back audio only, but I cannot play video. -- mozilla-mplayer doesn't play videoclips in Edgy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/65033 You received this bug notif

[Bug 70827] Re: mplayer can't play videos with firefox 2

2007-04-22 Thread Macavity
I have a similar problem. The mplayer plugin in firefox is partially functional w.r.t. realmedia. Audio-only streams work fine, but video streams are problematic. Sometimes I get just audio and no video, and sometimes the video buffers correctly, I get about one frame of video showing and them t

[Bug 104277] Re: [apport] rhythmbox crashed with SIGSEGV

2007-04-07 Thread macavity
** Attachment added: "CoreDump.gz" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7215806/CoreDump.gz ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7215807/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "Disassembly.txt" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7215808/Disassembly.txt ** Attachm

[Bug 104277] [apport] rhythmbox crashed with SIGSEGV

2007-04-07 Thread macavity
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: rhythmbox 1. imported my mp3 library, which went OK. I see all my albums, artists and songs which are all in mp3 format 2. wanted to play the first song-> crash - for mp3 decoding I installed gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 (0.10.4.debian-1) from the Univers

[Bug 95978] Re: [apport] invest-applet crashed with ValueError in parse_yahoo_csv()

2007-03-25 Thread macavity
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6933421/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6933422/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcStatus.txt" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6933423/ProcStatus.txt ** Attachm

[Bug 95978] [apport] invest-applet crashed with ValueError in parse_yahoo_csv()

2007-03-25 Thread macavity
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-applets - add invest applet to Panel - click on properties or just add a stock symbol - However, it doesn't look like the crash is caused by the immediate user interaction because the applet crashes after about 5-10secs after having added a stock