[Bug 321128] Re: windows seem to want to be at the top-left

2009-01-27 Thread John S. Gruber
@kennydude: Are you running version 0.99.3-1ubuntu2 or later of xserver-xorg-input- synaptics? This was noted as breaking late last week and, as far as I know, fixed with 0.99.3-1ubuntu2 released Saturday/Sunday. See Bug 320632. -- windows seem to want to be at the top-left https://bugs.launchp

[Bug 321128] Re: windows seem to want to be at the top-left

2009-01-27 Thread John S. Gruber
I see this same problem. It doesn't happen when dragging with my mouse. I don't see anything unusual when I running synclient -m 1 simultaneously with reproducing this anomaly--the coordinates reported don't jump. I found that the problem goes away if I disable the compiz plugin called Snapping Wi

[Bug 321128] Re: windows seem to want to be at the top-left

2009-01-27 Thread John S. Gruber
My first comment addressed to kennydude was referring to his immediate preceding comment of his losing the ability to left touch-click. (At least I think that is how I interpreted his comment). My second comment was referring to the original report of this bug-- windows jumping to the top left (go

[Bug 321355] Re: syndaemon no longer works without SHMConfig

2009-05-04 Thread John S. Gruber
duanedesign: I'm the original reporter and at present I don't believe this problem is a duplicate of bug 295236. The message reported is different and my problem started with Jaunty -- Intrepid was ok. As far as I'm concerned the status of Fix Released is correct for this particular bug report--xs

[Bug 295236] Re: Syndaemon: X Error of failed request: BadDevice

2009-05-04 Thread John S. Gruber
Without enabling SHMconfig I'm successful using the follwing command: syndaemon -i 2 -d Leaving off -S as directly above tells updated syndaemon's to use xinput rather than SHMconfig shared memory. If I leave off the -d and run from the command line I can see the touchpad be disabled and enabled

[Bug 302728] Re: usbvision-core.c: cannot change alternate number to 1 (error=-22)

2009-05-07 Thread John S. Gruber
I see the same results. The expected result would be no error message in the syslog when the device was plugged in, and a proper avi test.avi file that would contain the captured video. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- usbvision-core.c: cannot change altern

[Bug 295317] Re: sweet home alabama plays at start

2008-11-07 Thread John S. Gruber
Just as a wild guess--Where is the mouse pointing before you move it? By any chance do you have a clip or MP# of Sweet Home Alabama on your desktop where your mouse points on startup? I ask because I am sometimes surprised to hear something unexpected and realize it is because I have accidentally

[Bug 16429] Re: missing 100 hz refresh rate in the "Screen Resolution Preferences"

2008-06-06 Thread John S. Gruber
File of EDID data produced from Xorg.0.log file above. ** Attachment added: "EDID.data" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15087185/EDID.data -- missing 100 hz refresh rate in the "Screen Resolution Preferences" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/16429 You received this bug notification because you a

[Bug 16429] Re: missing 100 hz refresh rate in the "Screen Resolution Preferences"

2008-06-06 Thread John S. Gruber
Mantas Kriaučiūnas: Would you mind attaching the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file related to the above files? -- missing 100 hz refresh rate in the "Screen Resolution Preferences" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/16429 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a

[Bug 16429] Re: missing 100 hz refresh rate in the "Screen Resolution Preferences"

2008-06-07 Thread John S. Gruber
I'm sorry. That was ddcprobe that incorrectly listed the above mode as 104HZ. -- missing 100 hz refresh rate in the "Screen Resolution Preferences" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/16429 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. --

[Bug 16429] Re: missing 100 hz refresh rate in the "Screen Resolution Preferences"

2008-06-07 Thread John S. Gruber
In private mail Mantas Kriaučiūnas declined to provide the xorg.conf file for his configuration. -- missing 100 hz refresh rate in the "Screen Resolution Preferences" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/16429 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direc

[Bug 16429] Re: missing 100 hz refresh rate in the "Screen Resolution Preferences"

2008-06-07 Thread John S. Gruber
This is output from parse-edid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/16429 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 16429] Re: missing 100 hz refresh rate in the "Screen Resolution Preferences"

2008-06-07 Thread John S. Gruber
I'm not surprised that there is no [EMAIL PROTECTED] mode. I don't see where that mode would come from. There is a default mode for [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the Ubuntu supplement to extramodes, however. I can't see in the log where defaultmodes are being considered. They are seen clearly with my nv dr

[Bug 306719] Re: ath5k driver on Jaunty Alpha1

2009-01-08 Thread John S. Gruber
@David Bensimon I had the same problem, including the "failed to wakeup the MAC Chip" message. I discovered that I had the proprietary Atheros driver enabled in Hardware Drivers. I saw from the log that its ath_pci was starting before ath5k. When I disabled the proprietary driver in System->Hardw

[Bug 306719] Re: ath5k driver on Jaunty Alpha1

2009-01-08 Thread John S. Gruber
@David: I should have mentioned to be complete that a reboot is necessary after disabling the proprietary driver. -- ath5k driver on Jaunty Alpha1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306719 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 320632] Re: tap-to-click and edge-scrolling broken in Jaunty

2009-01-24 Thread John S. Gruber
While waiting for the above patches the following command works for me to enable tap-to-click: xinput set-int-prop 7 258 8 2 3 0 0 1 0 0 -- tap-to-click and edge-scrolling broken in Jaunty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/320632 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubunt

[Bug 320632] Re: tap-to-click and edge-scrolling broken in Jaunty

2009-01-24 Thread John S. Gruber
Sorry, I should have mentioned: 7 is the device number reported for the touchpad by "xinput -list" and 258 is the property called Synaptics Tap Action by "xinput list-props 7" Others will no doubt see different device numbers and a different set of property numbers. -- tap-to-click and edge-s

[Bug 320632] Re: tap-to-click and edge-scrolling broken in Jaunty

2009-01-24 Thread John S. Gruber
@Romain1101, Doing xinput list-props 7 (substituting for your device number) do you have the first number of "Synaptics Edge Scrolling" as a 1? This is what I believe is being set to True by Alberto's patch. I'll bet that's what you need. Perhaps the double click detection is something you have

[Bug 320632] Re: tap-to-click and edge-scrolling broken in Jaunty

2009-01-24 Thread John S. Gruber
@Romain1101: I expect that we will see the launchpad janitor add some messages here about a fix being released (I don't know for sure) and if so it will automatically change the status. Some time after that (minutes or hours, not days) you should see the updates are available icon in your panel

[Bug 321355] [NEW] syndaemon no longer works without SHMConfig

2009-01-25 Thread John S. Gruber
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics syndaemon in Intrepid was able to function without SHMConfig. This functionality is gone in Jaunty with 0.99.3-1ubuntu1 when 104_syndaemon_xinput_props.patch was dropped as obsolete. Message: Can't access shared memory area.

[Bug 321355] Re: syndaemon no longer works without SHMConfig

2009-01-25 Thread John S. Gruber
** Attachment added: "108_syndaemon_xinput_props.patch for version 0.99.3-1ubuntu2" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21636429/108_syndaemon_xinput_props.patch ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21636430/Dependencies.txt -- syndaemon no longer works without

[Bug 321544] [NEW] Persistence Slider Wrong; Takes more than 3 hours to produce largest persistence file

2009-01-26 Thread John S. Gruber
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: usb-creator usb-creator fails to create a persistence file as large as requested, producing the message dd: writing "`/media/disk/casper-rw': File too large". Creating the largest file can take 3 hours 25 minutes. This consumes most of one core in my two

[Bug 321544] Re: Persistence Slider Wrong; Takes more than 3 hours to produce largest persistence file

2009-01-26 Thread John S. Gruber
** Attachment added: "Path to use 1K as blocksize when creating persistence file" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21651049/persistencefile-creation-blocksize.patch -- Persistence Slider Wrong; Takes more than 3 hours to produce largest persistence file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321544

[Bug 321544] Re: Persistence Slider Wrong; Takes more than 3 hours to produce largest persistence file

2009-01-26 Thread John S. Gruber
** Attachment added: "Limit the slider to the maximum size persistence file that can actually be written" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21651093/max-persistence-filesize.patch -- Persistence Slider Wrong; Takes more than 3 hours to produce largest persistence file https://bugs.launchpad.net

[Bug 321544] Re: Persistence Slider Wrong; Takes more than 3 hours to produce largest persistence file

2009-01-26 Thread John S. Gruber
** Attachment added: "Before patches: persistence file created when 5G file was requeste with slider" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21651174/persistence-size -- Persistence Slider Wrong; Takes more than 3 hours to produce largest persistence file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321544 You r

[Bug 321544] Re: Persistence Slider Wrong; Takes more than 3 hours to produce largest persistence file

2009-01-26 Thread John S. Gruber
** Attachment added: "dot-usb-creator.log showing error message and long creation time" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21651213/dot-usb-creator.log -- Persistence Slider Wrong; Takes more than 3 hours to produce largest persistence file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321544 You received thi

[Bug 321544] Re: Persistence Slider Wrong; Takes more than 3 hours to produce largest persistence file

2009-01-26 Thread John S. Gruber
** Attachment added: "Before patches: top shows cpu consumption creating large persistence file" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21651231/Screenshot-gruber%40gruber-laptop%3A%20%7E.png -- Persistence Slider Wrong; Takes more than 3 hours to produce largest persistence file https://bugs.launc

[Bug 321544] Re: Persistence Slider Wrong; Takes more than 3 hours to produce largest persistence file

2009-01-26 Thread John S. Gruber
See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/313364 which reports the long creation time issue. -- Persistence Slider Wrong; Takes more than 3 hours to produce largest persistence file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321544 You received this bug notification because you are a m

[Bug 321544] Re: Persistence Slider Wrong; Takes more than 3 hours to produce largest persistence file

2009-01-26 Thread John S. Gruber
** Attachment added: "dot-usb-creator.log showing time improvement with blocksize patch" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21651242/dot-usb-creator.log.after.log -- Persistence Slider Wrong; Takes more than 3 hours to produce largest persistence file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321544 You r

[Bug 321544] Re: Persistence Slider Wrong; Takes more than 3 hours to produce largest persistence file

2009-01-26 Thread John S. Gruber
** Description changed: Binary package hint: usb-creator + + Does not affect Intrepid usb-creator fails to create a persistence file as large as requested, producing the message dd: writing "`/media/disk/casper-rw': File too large". Creating the largest file can take 3 hours 25 minutes

[Bug 313364] Re: usb-creator 0.1.11 regression: creates persistence file with incredibly slow single-byte writes

2009-01-26 Thread John S. Gruber
Relates to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb- creator/+bug/321544 -- usb-creator 0.1.11 regression: creates persistence file with incredibly slow single-byte writes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/313364 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whic

[Bug 316430] Re: [Jaunty] Sound channels are muted after reboot

2009-01-18 Thread John S. Gruber
I can confirm that deleting those two lines solves my case as well. @Daniel: In udev rules is forking a process which waits for a file or files deprecated? I notice that the hotplug.functions file is added to udev with a debian patch and that Ubuntu no longer uses the debian udev package. --

[Bug 306719] Re: ath5k driver on Jaunty Alpha1

2009-01-10 Thread John S. Gruber
@David: I'm glad you were successful. I think I see your point, but in his first post above Tim Gardner said the proposed solution is to move the traditional (ath_pci) driver from linux-restricted-modules (managed by Jockey). I'm reading between the lines, but I assume that means people won't b

[Bug 278800] Re: ath5k giving frequent, intermittent wireless dropouts on EeePC 900

2009-01-22 Thread John S. Gruber
@Dave: I don't know if I can help but I'll jump in anyway. I wonder if you are having a problem where the wireless device needs to be turned off in order to come back to life. Will one boot suffice to get your wireless working if you turn your computer off for a few seconds rather than just resta

[Bug 278800] Re: ath5k giving frequent, intermittent wireless dropouts on EeePC 900

2009-01-22 Thread John S. Gruber
By the way: I can't use the current closed-source atheros drivers for my AR2425 wireless. On the other hand the August 15, 08 drivers from the ppa work very well at higher speeds, and without the above dropouts. I hope these will come in Jaunty before its release. -- ath5k giving frequent, inter

[Bug 153800] Re: Cannot logon after using Screens and Graphics program with nvidia-glx-legacy driver

2007-10-21 Thread John S. Gruber
** Description changed: Binary package hint: displayconfig-gtk + + Cannot logon after installing xgl (xserver-xgl) under the circumstances + below. Those with NVIDIA legacy graphics devices running the proprietary nvidia-glx-legacy driver with Xgl cannot login once they have used the S

[Bug 151141] Re: When switching from nv to nvidia driver lose screen resolution; nvidia doesn't use EDID freq. data even though that data is correct

2007-10-13 Thread John S. Gruber
Allessandro: Thanks for writing. Well, as I said, I'm new at reporting Ubuntu bugs and at changing xwindows configurations. I'f you would like to know if it is this same problem there are several things to do. What is the vendor and the model of your flat panel? Which nvidia driver package do

[Bug 151141] Re: When switching from nv to nvidia driver lose screen resolution; nvidia doesn't use EDID freq. data even though that data is correct

2007-10-15 Thread John S. Gruber
If vertical and/or horizontal frequencies were specified by debconf, or if the file was edited by hand, note 1 would still apply. Perhaps it would be better if UseEdidFreqs were only enabled if both vertical and horizontal frequencies were omitted. -- When switching from nv to nvidia driver lose

[Bug 151141] PnP resolution not used when switched

2007-10-09 Thread John S. Gruber
Public bug reported: nvidia driver, unlike nv driver, doesn't try to use EDID data that is correct This is related to problem 3731. Possibly a dup of 105967, related to nvidia-glx Its particular circumstances: 1. Resolution is fine with nv driver, but after using the Restricted Drivers Manager

[Bug 151141] Re: PnP resolution not used when switched

2007-10-09 Thread John S. Gruber
Using displayconfig-gtk already removes UseEDIDFreqs, so Note 1 doesn't apply. -- PnP resolution not used when switched https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/151141 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 151141] Re: When switching from nv to nvidia driver lose screen resolution; nvidia doesn't use EDID freq. data even though that data is correct

2007-10-10 Thread John S. Gruber
** Summary changed: - PnP resolution not used when switched + When switching from nv to nvidia driver lose screen resolution; nvidia doesn't use EDID freq. data even though that data is correct -- When switching from nv to nvidia driver lose screen resolution; nvidia doesn't use EDID freq. dat

[Bug 153800] Cannot logon after using Screens and Graphics program with nvidia-glx-legacy driver

2007-10-17 Thread John S. Gruber
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: displayconfig-gtk Those with NVIDIA legacy graphics devices running the proprietary nvidia-glx-legacy driver with Xgl cannot login once they have used the Screens and Graphics program to make any kind of change. (I believe those with these devices who wi

[Bug 215396] Re: gnome-display-properties crashed with SIGSEGV in _start() [when running xgl]

2008-04-14 Thread John S. Gruber
@Bryce Thanks. I'll try to have it ready soon, with an explanation of the problem. When it's done I'll let you know. @James The fix worked as expected. I now get a polite dialog box rather than the rude crash. Thank you. -- gnome-display-properties crashed with SIGSEGV in _start() [when runnin

[Bug 210620] Re: When hardy's ubiquity is running from a live cd it sometimes hangs, its migration assistant gives an incomplete list of userid candidates, and nautilus pops up /home/ubuntu windows

2008-04-15 Thread John S. Gruber
The hang and migration assistant omission due to this root cause are fixed. Thanks for both the fix and the good words, Colin. -- When hardy's ubiquity is running from a live cd it sometimes hangs, its migration assistant gives an incomplete list of userid candidates, and nautilus pops up /home

[Bug 217925] [NEW] migration assistant doesn't offer to migrate users from my debian system

2008-04-15 Thread John S. Gruber
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: migration-assistant Under hardy beta's live-cd, recently migration assistant stopped offering to migrate accounts from a partition containing a debian distribution. The live cd is from 4/14/08. I investigated this and it appears to me it is because of a

[Bug 217925] Re: migration assistant doesn't offer to migrate users from my debian system

2008-04-15 Thread John S. Gruber
/var/installer/debug log ** Attachment added: "debug" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13473345/debug -- migration assistant doesn't offer to migrate users from my debian system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217925 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whi

[Bug 217925] Re: migration assistant doesn't offer to migrate users from my debian system

2008-04-15 Thread John S. Gruber
/var/log/syslog . I didn't notice anything useful in either this log or the last. Problem happens about 16:00:00 AFAIK ** Attachment added: "syslog" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13473386/syslog -- migration assistant doesn't offer to migrate users from my debian system https://bugs.launchpa

[Bug 215396] Re: xserver-xgl patch for root cause--wrong randr protocol version reported

2008-04-15 Thread John S. Gruber
Three line patch to Xgl so that it reports the version of the randr protocol it implements, rather than the protocol that the build system defines. xserver-xgl only implements RRQueryVersion, RRSetScreenConfig, RRSelectInput, and RRGetScreenInfo, the transaction types defined for version 1.1. Versi

[Bug 210620] Re: When hardy's ubiquity is running from a live cd it sometimes hangs, its migration assistant gives an incomplete list of userid candidates, and nautilus pops up /home/ubuntu windows

2008-04-09 Thread John S. Gruber
I figured that was what the hal-lock was for. During my test of mount umount sequences the hal-lock used by ubiquity did me no good either. I just ran dbus-monitor --system on the live-cd system during a failing install. It has many of the following messages. The whole output file is attached, sta

[Bug 198046] Re: Gnome fails to load settings with xserver-xgl installed

2008-04-09 Thread John S. Gruber
Confirmed with nvidia-glx-legacy driver and [GeForce2 GTS/Pro. Compiz won't run on my system without xserver-xgl. This worked fine with a hardy version from a few weeks ago. -- Gnome fails to load settings with xserver-xgl installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198046 You received this bug n

[Bug 198046] Re: Gnome fails to load settings with xserver-xgl installed

2008-04-10 Thread John S. Gruber
I applied maintenance today and no longer see the problem. I believe it was fixed with gnome-desktop (1:2.22.1-0ubuntu5) release some hours ago. That patch is related to bug 199960 which also relates to gnome-settings-daemon not starting. Well done. -- Gnome fails to load settings with xserver

[Bug 215396] [NEW] gnome-display-properties crashed with SIGSEGV in _start() [when running xgl]

2008-04-10 Thread John S. Gruber
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-control-center Up-to-date Hardy beta as of today, 4/10/08 gnome-display-properties; gnome control center 1:2.22.1-0ubuntu2 This crash happens before anything is displayed. I just get the apport screen while expecting the screen resolution panel to

[Bug 215396] Re: gnome-display-properties crashed with SIGSEGV in _start() [when running xgl]

2008-04-10 Thread John S. Gruber
** Attachment added: "CoreDump.gz" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13342979/CoreDump.gz ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13342980/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "Disassembly.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13342981/Disassembly.txt ** Attachm

[Bug 215027] Re: jockey-gtk crashed with AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'getSections'

2008-04-10 Thread John S. Gruber
Nice work, Thorsten. The fix worked for me for installing a proprietary driver. Removing a driver still gave me a similar problem with a UI traceback below the tuple problem. Using your research I found another call of readConfig later in the code and made the same change you made above. Then I wa

[Bug 153800] Re: Cannot logon after using Screens and Graphics program with nvidia-glx-legacy driver

2008-04-10 Thread John S. Gruber
Martin, thanks for replying. As noted in the patch I proposed, the nvidia-legacy driver doesn't use AddARGBGLXVisuals. Bug 211752's report is correct. For my system, using nvidia-legacy with glx, AllowGlXWithComposite True and USEEDIDFreqs True are the needed clauses AllowGLXWithComposite is

[Bug 181561] Re: Hardy alpha [2-6] daily-live i386 don't boot

2008-04-10 Thread John S. Gruber
The fix above is a move from the AMD and VIA drivers to newer PATA ones. When I moved to the new kernel yesterday my computer would no longer boot. I found that the reason was that the PATA drivers renamed my drives from /dev/hd? to /dev/sd? with my partitions similarly renamed. Now I have my own

[Bug 97565] Re: location> Gadsden AL after I save it defaults to Gadsden AZ

2008-05-01 Thread John S. Gruber
I can confirm InsClusoe's report. According to the US Board on Geographic Names http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/index.html there is no Gadsden in Arkansas. Like InsClusoe, I assume that Pendragon's weather was confused with the Arkansas name, not one in Arizona. There is no data in the Locations.

[Bug 223948] Re: Error message: bzr: ERROR: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '../tarballs'

2008-05-01 Thread John S. Gruber
** Description changed: Binary package hint: bzr-builddeb Get the message: Looking for ../tarballs/_0.5.orig.tar.gz to use as upstream source bzr: ERROR: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '../tarballs' After entering the following commands: bzr branch http://bazaar.

[Bug 215396] Re: gnome-display-properties crashed with SIGSEGV in _start() [when running xgl]

2008-04-28 Thread John S. Gruber
Hello Bryce, Thanks for getting back to me. I've redone the patch to change the names to SERVER_RANDR_MAJOR and SERVER_RANDR_MINOR (in both places). Not only is that more consistent with xserver, different things should have different names to prevent (more) conceptual confusion. The patch tested

[Bug 223948] [NEW] Error message: bzr: ERROR: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '../tarballs'

2008-04-28 Thread John S. Gruber
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: bzr-builddeb Get the message: Looking for ../tarballs/_0.5.orig.tar.gz to use as upstream source bzr: ERROR: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '../tarballs' After entering the following commands: bzr branch http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~james-w/

[Bug 153800] Re: Cannot logon after using Screens and Graphics program with nvidia-glx-legacy driver

2008-04-11 Thread John S. Gruber
For the record, nvidia-legacy also requires the installation of xserver- xgl. My research last Fall indicated that AddARGBGLXVisuals (not AddArgbVisuals) is needed for newer nvidia drivers. -- Cannot logon after using Screens and Graphics program with nvidia-glx-legacy driver https://bugs.launc

[Bug 215027] Re: jockey-gtk crashed with AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'getSections'

2008-04-11 Thread John S. Gruber
@BC7333 Did you change both lines in /usr/lib/python2.5/site- packages/jockey/xorg_driver.py when you made the changes or just the one suggested by Thorsten earlier? I don't know when you read the error report and did your test. If you made them both you might try it again against the reinst

[Bug 215027] Re: jockey-gtk crashed with AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'getSections'

2008-04-11 Thread John S. Gruber
I see that the diff I posted got changed by the launchpad software. It looks like embedded whitespace is deleted. The indentation is off and indentation is all important in python programs. Attached is the diff. Let me try again, (gambling that initial whitespace will be respected by the posting

[Bug 162544] Re: Custom calendar alarm causes computer to beep rather than to play the specified sound; evolution-alarm-notify treats sound URI as simple filename

2008-04-11 Thread John S. Gruber
** Changed in: evolution (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- Custom calendar alarm causes computer to beep rather than to play the specified sound; evolution-alarm-notify treats sound URI as simple filename https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/162544 You received this bug notification becaus

[Bug 16429] Re: missing 100 hz refresh rate in the "Screen Resolution Preferences"

2008-04-11 Thread John S. Gruber
I'm just a bystander and I don't know the answer to your question about ddcprobe/xresprobe. On my system, under X, a ddc module acquires information through the video display adapter from the monitor and uses frequency, size, and mode information to select available modes. I'm assuming you are ask

[Bug 215396] Re: gnome-display-properties crashed with SIGSEGV in _start() [when running xgl]

2008-04-13 Thread John S. Gruber
** Tags removed: 199960 ** Description changed: Binary package hint: gnome-control-center Up-to-date Hardy beta as of today, 4/10/08 gnome-display-properties; gnome control center 1:2.22.1-0ubuntu2 This crash happens before anything is displayed. I just get the apport screen wh

[Bug 215396] Re: gnome-display-properties crashed with SIGSEGV in _start() [when running xgl]

2008-04-14 Thread John S. Gruber
** Also affects: xserver-xgl (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- gnome-display-properties crashed with SIGSEGV in _start() [when running xgl] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/215396 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 215396] Re: gnome-display-properties crashed with SIGSEGV in _start() [when running xgl]

2008-04-14 Thread John S. Gruber
What would be the best way for me to submit a proposal for a patch I'm working on so that xserver-xgl admits that it only does randr 1.1? My research says that it fibs. -- gnome-display-properties crashed with SIGSEGV in _start() [when running xgl] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/215396 You recei

[Bug 162544] Calendar alarm causes computer to beep rather than to play the specified sound; evolution-alarm-notify treats sound URI as simple filename

2007-11-13 Thread John S. Gruber
Public bug reported: When a custom audio alarm is set by the evolution calendar function, it is stored in the calendar.ics file in a VALARM entry as an ATTACH line. The entry is entered as a file:// url. RFC 2445 defines the contents of an .ics calendar file and specifies that ATTACH lines must co

[Bug 162544] Re: Custom calendar alarm causes computer to beep rather than to play the specified sound; evolution-alarm-notify treats sound URI as simple filename

2007-11-13 Thread John S. Gruber
** Summary changed: - Calendar alarm causes computer to beep rather than to play the specified sound; evolution-alarm-notify treats sound URI as simple filename + Custom calendar alarm causes computer to beep rather than to play the specified sound; evolution-alarm-notify treats sound URI as sim

[Bug 162544] Re: Custom calendar alarm causes computer to beep rather than to play the specified sound; evolution-alarm-notify treats sound URI as simple filename

2008-02-09 Thread John S. Gruber
Thanks for getting back to me. I'm using Gutsy. To trigger the error: I selected calendar under evolution I enter an appointment, then double click the entry to edit its details I press the alarms button on the dialog box for an alarms dialog box I select Customize as the alarm type and press

[Bug 162544] Re: Custom calendar alarm causes computer to beep rather than to play the specified sound; evolution-alarm-notify treats sound URI as simple filename

2008-02-09 Thread John S. Gruber
Sorry, I left out an important detail-- in the add-custom-alarm box I also selected the audio file (wav) I wanted to be used as the alarm. -- Custom calendar alarm causes computer to beep rather than to play the specified sound; evolution-alarm-notify treats sound URI as simple filename https:/

[Bug 151141] Re: When switching from nv to nvidia driver lose screen resolution; nvidia doesn't use EDID freq. data even though that data is correct

2007-11-01 Thread John S. Gruber
Here's a suggested patch for the problem. The patch looks for the use of the EDID related options in all the pertinent sections and only adds the option UseEDIDFreqs if none are present and no monitor frequencies are specified. Comments are added to alert the owner that the option should be removed

[Bug 153800] Re: Cannot logon after using Screens and Graphics program with nvidia-glx-legacy driver

2007-11-01 Thread John S. Gruber
** Also affects: displayconfig-gtk Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: restricted-manager Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Cannot logon after using Screens and Graphics program with nvidia-glx-legacy driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/153800 You receiv

[Bug 153800] Re: Cannot logon after using Screens and Graphics program with nvidia-glx-legacy driver

2007-11-01 Thread John S. Gruber
Whoops, that was the whole patched file, not the diff. Here's the diff file. ** Attachment added: "Patch to nvidia.py in Restricted Manager for 153800 diff" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10241759/nvidia.py.diffs153800 -- Cannot logon after using Screens and Graphics program with nvidia-glx-le

[Bug 153800] Re: Cannot logon after using Screens and Graphics program with nvidia-glx-legacy driver

2007-11-01 Thread John S. Gruber
Attached is a patch to restricted-manager to put the options needed for Xgl and compiz in the screen section of xorg.conf so that displayconfig- gtk won't overwrite them. It seems to me that it is probably better for displayconfig-gtk to own the device section rather than have both it and restricte

[Bug 210620] [NEW] When hardy's ubiquity is running from a live cd it sometimes hangs, its migration assistant gives an incomplete list of userid candidates, and nautilus pops up /home/ubuntu windows

2008-04-01 Thread John S. Gruber
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ubiquity When hardy's ubiquity is running from live cd it sometimes hangs, its migration assistant gives an incomplete list of userid candidates, and nautilus pops up /home/ubuntu windows. Description:Ubuntu hardy (development branch) Release:

[Bug 210620] Re: When hardy's ubiquity is running from a live cd it sometimes hangs, its migration assistant gives an incomplete list of userid candidates, and nautilus pops up /home/ubuntu windows

2008-04-01 Thread John S. Gruber
I determined that ubiquity, and particularly os-prober, was leaving partitions mounted and that subsequent mounts would be mounted atop older ones. Ubiquity's components necessarily try to access already mounted partitions through existing mount points. When it does so it makes no attempt to remoun

[Bug 210620] Re: When hardy's ubiquity is running from a live cd it sometimes hangs, its migration assistant gives an incomplete list of userid candidates, and nautilus pops up /home/ubuntu windows

2008-04-01 Thread John S. Gruber
Reproducing: Running os-prober several times on a live-cd system may produce error messages. This is less time consuming than running ubiquity to reproduce the errors, but I verified the success of the suggested patches below by running both os-prober and ubiquity (up to the verification screen).

[Bug 210620] Re: When hardy's ubiquity is running from a live cd it sometimes hangs, its migration assistant gives an incomplete list of userid candidates, and nautilus pops up /home/ubuntu windows

2008-04-01 Thread John S. Gruber
ubiquity debug log ** Attachment added: "debug" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13040038/debug -- When hardy's ubiquity is running from a live cd it sometimes hangs, its migration assistant gives an incomplete list of userid candidates, and nautilus pops up /home/ubuntu windows https://bugs.l

[Bug 210620] Re: When hardy's ubiquity is running from a live cd it sometimes hangs, its migration assistant gives an incomplete list of userid candidates, and nautilus pops up /home/ubuntu windows

2008-04-01 Thread John S. Gruber
syslog, please note the errors from umounts ** Attachment added: "syslog" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13040046/syslog -- When hardy's ubiquity is running from a live cd it sometimes hangs, its migration assistant gives an incomplete list of userid candidates, and nautilus pops up /home/ub

[Bug 210620] Re: When hardy's ubiquity is running from a live cd it sometimes hangs, its migration assistant gives an incomplete list of userid candidates, and nautilus pops up /home/ubuntu windows

2008-04-01 Thread John S. Gruber
partman log (just in case, I don't think it is necessary) ** Attachment added: "partman" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13040052/partman -- When hardy's ubiquity is running from a live cd it sometimes hangs, its migration assistant gives an incomplete list of userid candidates, and nautilus

[Bug 210620] Re: When hardy's ubiquity is running from a live cd it sometimes hangs, its migration assistant gives an incomplete list of userid candidates, and nautilus pops up /home/ubuntu windows

2008-04-01 Thread John S. Gruber
Patch to ubiquity's gtk_ui.py --- gtk_ui.py.old 2008-04-01 13:02:20.917370401 + +++ gtk_ui.py 2008-04-01 13:14:14.753433264 + @@ -271,6 +271,11 @@ self.gconf_previous[gconf_key] = gconftool.get(gconf_key) if self.gconf_previous[gconf_key] != 'false':

[Bug 210620] Re: When hardy's ubiquity is running from a live cd it sometimes hangs, its migration assistant gives an incomplete list of userid candidates, and nautilus pops up /home/ubuntu windows

2008-04-01 Thread John S. Gruber
os-prober patch: --- 50mounted-tests 2007-11-22 18:15:48.0 + +++ /usr/lib/os-probes/50mounted-tests 2008-03-31 04:31:50.773366540 + @@ -32,17 +32,24 @@ if [ -f $test ] && [ -x $test ]; then if $test $partition $tmpmnt $ty

[Bug 210620] Re: When hardy's ubiquity is running from a live cd it sometimes hangs, its migration assistant gives an incomplete list of userid candidates, and nautilus pops up /home/ubuntu windows

2008-04-01 Thread John S. Gruber
Output of mount command after running into problems running ubiquity. Notice the mounts to /var/lib/os-prober/mount proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) tmpfs on /lib/modules/2.6.24-12-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755) tmpfs on /lib/modules/2.6.24-12-generic/volatile

[Bug 210620] Re: When hardy's ubiquity is running from a live cd it sometimes hangs, its migration assistant gives an incomplete list of userid candidates, and nautilus pops up /home/ubuntu windows

2008-04-01 Thread John S. Gruber
Output from os-prober: /dev/hda1:Microsoft Windows XP Professional:Windows:chain /dev/hda5:Ubuntu hardy (development branch) (8.04):Ubuntu:linux /dev/hda6:Windows 95/98/Me:Windows9xMe:chain umount: /var/lib/os-prober/mount: device is busy umount: /var/lib/os-prober/mount: device is busy /dev/hdb2:

[Bug 210620] Re: When hardy's ubiquity is running from a live cd it sometimes hangs, its migration assistant gives an incomplete list of userid candidates, and nautilus pops up /home/ubuntu windows

2008-04-01 Thread John S. Gruber
Screen shot of popped up nautilus window. The same window pops up running just os-prober. ** Attachment added: "Screenshot.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13040133/Screenshot.png -- When hardy's ubiquity is running from a live cd it sometimes hangs, its migration assistant gives an incomp

[Bug 210620] Re: When hardy's ubiquity is running from a live cd it sometimes hangs, its migration assistant gives an incomplete list of userid candidates, and nautilus pops up /home/ubuntu windows

2008-04-01 Thread John S. Gruber
An earlier hardy live-cd had nautilus popping up windows reflecting the mount points, rather than /home/ubuntu -- When hardy's ubiquity is running from a live cd it sometimes hangs, its migration assistant gives an incomplete list of userid candidates, and nautilus pops up /home/ubuntu windows

[Bug 145712] Re: Gutsy beta - Desktop CD install hangs on migration screen

2008-04-01 Thread John S. Gruber
Dave, you are probably correct. I've opened another bug in launchpad against hardy pre-release. I'm not having a problem with gutsy. If you were having the same problem as I experience you could tell that by opening a terminal window under applications->terminal and entering the mount command with

[Bug 210620] Re: When hardy's ubiquity is running from a live cd it sometimes hangs, its migration assistant gives an incomplete list of userid candidates, and nautilus pops up /home/ubuntu windows

2008-04-01 Thread John S. Gruber
** Tags added: cd live ** Tags added: live-cd ** Tags removed: cd live -- When hardy's ubiquity is running from a live cd it sometimes hangs, its migration assistant gives an incomplete list of userid candidates, and nautilus pops up /home/ubuntu windows https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/210620

[Bug 162544] Re: Custom calendar alarm causes computer to beep rather than to play the specified sound; evolution-alarm-notify treats sound URI as simple filename

2008-03-18 Thread John S. Gruber
I tried it with Hardy alpha 6, and then updated hardy with the updates available today (3/18/2008). It still doesn't work, I'm afraid. In fact, it no longer beeps either (using gnome beep). I believe I'm doing what I did under Gutsy to produce the problem originally. Please let me know if I can

[Bug 153800] Re: Cannot logon after using Screens and Graphics program with nvidia-glx-legacy driver

2008-03-18 Thread John S. Gruber
I tried this with Hardy alpha 6. While the problem isn't fixed (displayconfig-gtk still messes up xorg.config, which stops xgl and compiz from working) the problem is less severe. The xserver does start now, despite the absence of the option mentioned above. -- Cannot logon after using Screens

[Bug 145712] Re: Gutsy beta - Desktop CD install hangs on migration screen

2008-03-28 Thread John S. Gruber
I seem to be having the same problem with the Hardy beta (+) live- install CD. I can free up the system by unmounting all (or some) of the partitions left mounted by os-prober and migration-assistant. When I run with --debug the problem doesn't occur. I suspected the mounts as multiple devices were

[Bug 145712] Re: Gutsy beta - Desktop CD install hangs on migration screen

2008-04-03 Thread John S. Gruber
Thanks for confirming our issues are separate. We'll see with time if others report trouble like mine. I have installed hardy in a test partition and I don't have problems with ubiquity if I run with everything already mounted, but it does produce problems if nothing but the root directory is moun

[Bug 151141] Re: When switching from nv to nvidia driver lose screen resolution; nvidia doesn't use EDID freq. data even though that data is correct

2008-03-25 Thread John S. Gruber
Working correctly in Hardy Alpha 6. Thank you. -- When switching from nv to nvidia driver lose screen resolution; nvidia doesn't use EDID freq. data even though that data is correct https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/151141 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 495745] Re: Distorted Captured Analog Stereo Audio with Hauppauge HVR-950Q

2010-04-26 Thread John S. Gruber
The bug still exists in 2.6.32 (with Lucid) and should be fixed in 2.6.33 for the HVR-950Q I have (usbid 2040:7200). (I tested 2.6.33-rc6 under Lucid and the problem is gone there for my device). The kernel patch for this problem includes quirks and it appears I made a mistake creating the quirk fo

[Bug 495745] [NEW] Distorted Captured Analog Stereo Audio with Hauppauge HVR-950Q

2009-12-11 Thread John S. Gruber
assisVersion: dmi.product.name: Satellite L355D dmi.product.version: PSLE0U-01000R dmi.sys.vendor: TOSHIBA ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Assignee: John S. Gruber (jsjgruber) Status: New ** Tags: alsa apport-bug i386 -- Distorted Captured Analog Stereo Audio

[Bug 495745] Re: Distorted Captured Analog Stereo Audio with Hauppauge HVR-950Q

2009-12-11 Thread John S. Gruber
quot; http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36709430/UdevLog.txt ** Attachment added: "WifiSyslog.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36709431/WifiSyslog.txt ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => John S. Gruber (jsjgruber) -- Distorted Captured Analog Stereo Audi

[Bug 529230] Re: X server crashes when enter key is pressed

2010-03-07 Thread John S. Gruber
Thanks, Robert. That makes a lot of sense for the case that I described above. I removed plymouth and plymouth-x11 and booted 30 times without it happening again. Booting with radeon.modeset=0 and my custom kernel, both very problematic in the past, worked fine as well. Can plymouth cause this pr

[Bug 528128] Re: no progress indication for fsck in recovery mode

2010-03-08 Thread John S. Gruber
This happens to me also. >From what I can tell, mountall is starting the fsck and is racing udev, which is started when mountall mounts the virtual files systems and emits the corresponding event. On my system udev finds one of several framebuffer devices and initializes it. The starting module s

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