[Bug 50171] Sound is a total mess.

2006-06-17 Thread Michael T. Richter
Public bug reported: Ubuntu's (Breezy) sound "system" is broken out of the box. After months of messing with it, I got some semblance of it working by giving up on a huge bleeding chunk of it. First problem: Two sound cards, both purportedly supported by the sound system. One is a built-in one

[Bug 51279] Two themes screw up GNOME buttons from fresh install.

2006-06-29 Thread Michael T. Richter
Public bug reported: In my case I installed a new Breezy, upgraded to Dapper and rebooted. The default Human theme has broken buttons (consult attached files for an example). One other theme exhibits the same behaviour. The legacy Human theme (also attached for comparison) doesn't exhibit this p

[Bug 51279] Re: Two themes screw up GNOME buttons from fresh install.

2006-06-29 Thread Michael T. Richter
Oops. I can't seem to upload a file to Malone. I could swear that used to be possible -- Two themes screw up GNOME buttons from fresh install. https://launchpad.net/bugs/51279 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 51279] Re: Two themes screw up GNOME buttons from fresh install.

2006-06-30 Thread Michael T. Richter
** Attachment added: "First screenshot" http://librarian.launchpad.net/3201839/Screenshot1.png ** Attachment added: "Second screenshot." http://librarian.launchpad.net/3201842/Screenshot2.png ** Attachment added: "Countering example." http://librarian.launchpad.net/3201848/Screenshot3.pn

[Bug 9870] Re: Better spam filtering for evolution

2006-07-01 Thread Michael T. Richter
This bug has been opened since 2004. Isn't there some kind of interim fix that can be presented like putting some kind of spam filtering proxy in as an option that circumvents Evolution's nasty way of doing this? Or perhaps a preconfigured fetchmail/spambayes pairing that is installed together wit

[Bug 51500] Evolution requires seahorse-agent, but not set up by default

2006-07-01 Thread Michael T. Richter
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: evolution If I want to automatically sign messages in Evolution, it needs to have seahorse-agent running. Seahorse-agent is not running when the system is first installed. Further, the name "seahorse" isn't visible in any menu -- it's called "Encryption

[Bug 51500] Re: [Bug 51500] Re: [Bug 51500] Evolution requires seahorse-agent, but not set up by default

2006-07-01 Thread Michael T. Richter
up to be running. And that what it says you have to do doesn't point to a program name that's visible on any menu. And that it should really be set up to work out of the box instead of requiring the user to manually run anything at all anyway. -- Michael T. Richter Email: [EMAI

[Bug 52165] Default bookmarks include link to Bugzilla, but not to Malone.

2006-07-06 Thread Michael T. Richter
Public bug reported: Having temporarily forgotten the address for Malone, I clicked on my "Bookmarks->Ubuntu and Free Software links" in Firefox to find it. The only link there is to the outdated Bugzilla, not to the new Malone. Following it nets me a "Server Certificate Expired" message (expired

[Bug 52167] DSL configuration is suboptimal.

2006-07-06 Thread Michael T. Richter
Public bug reported: I recently installed Dapper onto my wife's computer. She, unlike me, connected to the Internet via DSL (with no router in between). When I installed Dapper for her, I also decided to get it net connected. (I didn't bother with this for Breezy since she only used Ubuntu at t

[Bug 52316] Video card in Haier H51 laptop not correctly recognised as SiS.

2006-07-08 Thread Michael T. Richter
Public bug reported: I bought a new laptop today, a Haier H51. Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu all work fine on it with two exceptions. (The second exception is the subject of the next bug report.) The main problem, easily solved, is that the system fails to recognise that the built-in video is an

[Bug 52319] Sound Card on Haier H51 laptop is recognised, but not functional.

2006-07-08 Thread Michael T. Richter
Public bug reported: I bought a new laptop today, a Haier H51. Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu all work fine on it with two exceptions. (The first exception, semi- solved, is the subject of an earlier bug report.) This exception is the usual sound problem. The system recognises the sound card. /p

[Bug 52316] Re: Video card in Haier H51 laptop not correctly recognised as SiS.

2006-08-18 Thread Michael T. Richter
lspci -vv | tee /tmp/lspci-vv.log -- Video card in Haier H51 laptop not correctly recognised as SiS. https://launchpad.net/bugs/52316 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 52316] Re: Video card in Haier H51 laptop not correctly recognised as SiS.

2006-08-18 Thread Michael T. Richter
lspci -vvn | tee /tmp/lspci-vvn.log -- Video card in Haier H51 laptop not correctly recognised as SiS. https://launchpad.net/bugs/52316 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 52316] Re: Video card in Haier H51 laptop not correctly recognised as SiS.

2006-08-18 Thread Michael T. Richter
dmesg | tee /tmp/dmesg.log -- Video card in Haier H51 laptop not correctly recognised as SiS. https://launchpad.net/bugs/52316 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 52319] Re: Sound Card on Haier H51 laptop is recognised, but not functional.

2006-08-21 Thread Michael T. Richter
I can't even figure out what the workaround was supposed to be there, frankly. I chmod-ed /dev/dsp to 666 (it was 660 for some unfathomable reason). But the rest? I just can't decode. What's an IEC-related option? How do I tell what's IEC-related and what's not? If it's identified by the stri

[Bug 19648] Re: On-board SIS sound card needs muted "IEC958"

2006-08-21 Thread Michael T. Richter
Thanks for the tip, Fabian, but I have no idea what an "IEC"-related option is nor how to turn it off. I'm not finding a lot of stuff on Google explaining the term either. -- On-board SIS sound card needs muted "IEC958" https://launchpad.net/bugs/19648 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@l

[Bug 52319] Re: Sound Card on Haier H51 laptop is recognised, but not functional.

2006-07-10 Thread Michael T. Richter
Added package as requested by Daniel T. Chen. ** Attachment added: "uname -r && amixer" http://librarian.launchpad.net/3321466/Bug%20%2352319%20-%20001.txt ** Changed in: Ubuntu Sourcepackagename: None => linux-source-2.6.15 -- Sound Card on Haier H51 laptop is recognised, but not functional

[Bug 52316] Re: Video card in Haier H51 laptop not correctly recognised as SiS.

2006-07-10 Thread Michael T. Richter
Figured out the package this belongs to. ** Changed in: Ubuntu Sourcepackagename: None => xserver-xorg-driver-sis -- Video card in Haier H51 laptop not correctly recognised as SiS. https://launchpad.net/bugs/52316 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 52319] Re: [Bug 52319] Re: Sound Card on Haier H51 laptop is recognised, but not functional.

2006-07-10 Thread Michael T. Richter
nd' on Simple mixer control 'Exchange Front/Surround',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [on] $ amixer set 'Exchange Front/Surround' off Simple mixer control 'Exchange Front/Surround',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-jo

[Bug 52319] Re: Sound Card on Haier H51 laptop is recognised, but not functional.

2006-07-19 Thread Michael T. Richter
Is there any other things I can try on this? -- Sound Card on Haier H51 laptop is recognised, but not functional. https://launchpad.net/bugs/52319 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 53519] After kernel update, system cannot boot because menu.lst hacked badly.

2006-07-20 Thread Michael T. Richter
Public bug reported: For bizarre reasons my notebook has the hard drive as the secondary master and the CD-ROM drive as the primary master. This means that my CD-ROM drive is hda and my hard drive is hdc. Upon updating the kernel from a security patch, menu.lst got overwritten with an assumption

[Bug 53705] Touchpad input support needs bolstering.

2006-07-21 Thread Michael T. Richter
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics This for Dapper 6.06 LTS. Synaptics support is installed by default in Dapper now (a step up from Breezy), but has the following shortcomings: 1) SHMConfig is not turned on by default in xorg.conf, making it hard to adjust i

[Bug 52167] Re: DSL configuration is suboptimal.

2007-05-11 Thread Michael T. Richter
There has been two major releases since this bug was first reported. Is there any chance of this being repaired sometime soon? Like, say, by cribbing the source code already available at the URL posted above? -- DSL configuration is suboptimal. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/52167 You received

[Bug 52167] Re: DSL configuration is suboptimal.

2006-12-16 Thread Michael T. Richter
That spec seems to be missing the point entirely. The issue isn't just that it's CLI vs. GUI. It's that the CLI thing itself requires the user to try out about a thousand different ways to connect and provides no useful feedback (of any kind!) when it fails. Any sane user would rather have a CLI