[Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2010-12-15 Thread Peter Belew
After restarting with xorg.conf in place, the screen comes up as 1024x768, with just the bottom panel (but that's another bug). I think I'll try checking out the sources again from scratch and rebuild, later today. Or perhaps there was some error in my use of svn. -- You received this bug

[Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2010-12-15 Thread Peter Belew
Now - svn checkout http://svn.openchrome.org/svn/trunk openchrome ... Checked out revision 888. I then tried to apply the patches. Again they seem to fail. I didn't try to build. Please send me fully patched .c files - I don't seem to be doing the patches right, or the patch file is bad. --

[Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
I built and installed the driver, and rebooted a couple of times. I've added an archive containing Xorg.0.log and Xorg.0.log.old. There was no xorg.conf file in /etc/X11. The main change was that the login screen was no longer at 1600x1200. The grub2 screen and the final Gnome screen appeared to

[Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
I built and installed the driver, and rebooted a couple of times. I've added an archive containing Xorg.0.log and Xorg.0.log.old. There was no xorg.conf file in /etc/X11. The main change was that the login screen was no longer at 1600x1200. The grub2 screen and the final Gnome screen appeared to

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
Actually, the remaining problem regarding the initial screen resolution is covered by Bug #186103 - other issues on THIS bug seem to have been resolved. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
Comment #53 is an accidental duplicate of #52. Oops! This bug report contains the remaining issue in Bug #495553. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/186103 Title: [K8M800] Panel on

[Bug 689377] Re: Panels fail to appear on Gnome startup on Averatec notebook running 11.04 alpha1

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
The problem with the initial screen res of 1600x1200 is now covered by Bug #186103. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/689377 Title: Panels fail to appear on Gnome startup on Averatec

[Bug 689377] Re: Panels fail to appear on Gnome startup on Averatec notebook running 11.04 alpha1

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
How can one disable compiz on this system? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/689377 Title: Panels fail to appear on Gnome startup on Averatec notebook running 11.04 alpha1 --

[Bug 689377] Re: Panels fail to appear on Gnome startup on Averatec notebook running 11.04 alpha1

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
If the bottom panel does appear (this is kind of random), one can create another panel after right-clicking on it. Such a panel will appear first on the side of the screen, rather than the top. If one right-clicks on the new panel, and tries to move it to the top, using the Properties selection,

[Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
I haven't applied the patch (#56) yet, but switching to text console and back works fine, and hibernation seems to also. Now I'll try the patch ... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
I applied the patch. It went well with via_mode.c, but there were some errors with via_driver.c - here is via_driver.c.rej --- via_driver.c(wersja 886) +++ via_driver.c(kopia robocza) @@ -725,7 +725,6 @@ break; case VIA_K8M800: pVia-DRIIrqEnable

[Bug 689377] Re: Panels fail to appear on Gnome startup on Averatec notebook running 11.04 alpha1

2010-12-13 Thread Peter Belew
The behavior is the same as in comment #2 after rebooting. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/689377 Title: Panels fail to appear on Gnome startup on Averatec notebook running 11.04

[Bug 689377] Re: Panels fail to appear on Gnome startup on Averatec notebook running 11.04 alpha1

2010-12-13 Thread Peter Belew
Some new issues: When I boot in safe mode. I can't use the wifi interface (configured with network-manager), but the eth0 interface works (configured in /etc/network/interfaces). Apparently network-manager is disabled in safe mode. When booting into the normal Gnome mode, the

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-12-13 Thread Peter Belew
Note that further comments were added to Bug #689377 today, as further problems appeared. I don't think these problem were due to the display driver, but they do affect testing of display problems somewhat, and vice versa. For example, if the xorg.conf file is removed, it's not possible to go into

[Bug 689377] [NEW] Panels fail to appear on Gnome startup on Averatec notebook running 11.04 alpha1

2010-12-12 Thread Peter Belew
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-panel I have installed 11.04 'natty narwhal' beta-1 on my Averatec 3280 notebook, and have updated it daily through this morning. This has a Unichrome display which only supports Gnome in 11.04. This display has had a number of problems with

[Bug 689377] Re: Panels fail to appear on Gnome startup on Averatec notebook running 11.04 alpha1

2010-12-12 Thread Peter Belew
** Attachment added: current apt-show-versions output https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/689377/+attachment/1763969/+files/versions2010-12-12.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/689377

[Bug 689377] Re: Panels fail to appear on Gnome startup on Averatec notebook running 11.04 alpha1

2010-12-12 Thread Peter Belew
I tried a brief test of Safe Mode instead of Classic mode. The panels appear properly in Safe Mode, but not (necessarily) in Classic (Gnome) mode. I just tried 3 times: Safe Mode: Panels ok Classic Mode: only bottom panel Safe Mode: Panels ok. Just logging out between tests, not rebooting. --

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-12-12 Thread Peter Belew
A new bug appeared yesterday: frequently the top and bottom panels don't appear after login. I just filed this bug separately as #689377. This happens most of the time in Classic Mode (Gnome), but not in Gnome Safe Mode. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 689377] Re: Panels fail to appear on Gnome startup on Averatec notebook running 11.04 alpha1

2010-12-12 Thread Peter Belew
The behavior is the same as in comment #2 after rebooting. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/689377 Title: Panels fail to appear on Gnome startup on Averatec notebook running 11.04

[Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2010-12-11 Thread Peter Belew
As of 11.04 Natty Ubuntu, the remaining problem is that the initial display is set at 1600x1200. For Ubuntu with Gnome, the System/Preference/Monitors dialog is accessible, and the screen res can be changed to 1024x768 (see last few comments in bug #495553). For the unichrome display, only Gnome

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-12-07 Thread Peter Belew
Note that the tests of Natty on my Averatec - last few comments - were using the Ubuntu Classic Session - Gnome. Unity will not work on the Unichrome display hardware. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-12-06 Thread Peter Belew
Hi Bartosz - I removed the xorg.conf file and rebooted. The login background and login dialog appear in the 1600x1200 mode (note that the grub2 screen appears properly, using a custom background I installed). I've attached the Xorg.0.log file. ** Attachment added: Xorg.0.log after booting

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-12-06 Thread Peter Belew
After that, I proceeded to log in. The screen came up in 1024x76 mode, because I had previously set that resolution with the SystemPreferencesMonitors dialog. So I used SystemPreferencesMonitors to set the resolution to 1600x1200, and rebooted. After I logged in, the screen came up in 1600x1200,

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-12-06 Thread Peter Belew
On rebooting another time, and logging in, the screen came up 'properly' in 1600x1200 mode, with the top panel showing correctly. I've attached Xorg.0.log3 after that. ** Attachment added: Xorg.0.log after another boot in 1600x1200 mode.

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-12-06 Thread Peter Belew
I then set the res to 1024x768, using the SystemPreferences/Monitor dialog, and logged out and logged in (without rebooting the OS). This time the screen came up in 1024x768 without the top panel, but showing the bottom panel. I've attached yet another Xorg.0.log (-.log4) file. THEN I rebooted

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-12-04 Thread Peter Belew
Ubuntu 11.04 'natty narwhal' seems to work well on this system, which is pleasantly surprising! I downloaded the ISO 2 days ago, and burnt a DVD from the image. As before, the live CD was unable to determine the actual resolution of the screen (1024x768, Unichrome controller) and set a higher

[Bug 526862] Re: Gnome often logs off when doing `su -` from gnome-terminal

2010-11-29 Thread Peter Belew
The reason there has been no activity (on my part) is that I experienced endless problems with Ubuntu, and gave up and installed Debian Lenny instead, which works fine. -- Gnome often logs off when doing `su -` from gnome-terminal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/526862 You received this bug

[Bug 371516] Re: Rhythmbox music status not shown by Pidgin

2010-10-20 Thread Peter Belew
This works properly in Ubuntu 10.10 -- Rhythmbox music status not shown by Pidgin https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/371516 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 345742] Re: Music tracker plugin not working with VLC media player

2010-10-20 Thread Peter Belew
This appears to still be the case with vlc in Maverick 10.10. Previously I had reported this not working with Rhythmbox and Pidgin (bug #371516 - see comment no. 2 above) but it does now work with Rhythmbox. Versions: vlc/maverick uptodate 1.1.4-1ubuntu1 rhythmbox/maverick uptodate

[Bug 345742] Re: Music tracker plugin not working with VLC media player

2010-10-20 Thread Peter Belew
System used for test in comment #6 - Dell Inspiron Mini 10 netbook: Ubuntu version and kernel version DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.10 DISTRIB_CODENAME=maverick DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=Ubuntu 10.10 Linux mini 2.6.35-22-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 20:36:48 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux model

[Bug 662960] [NEW] Add Wallpaper dialog in the Change Desktop Background shows files in reverse order (LUCID and MAVERICK)

2010-10-18 Thread Peter Belew
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-control-center When I try to add a background image, the Add Wallpaper dialog shows files and directories in reverse alphabetical order - Z before A for example. I have noticed this since installing Lucid on my Dell netbook, and the problem

[Bug 662960] Re: Add Wallpaper dialog in the Change Desktop Background shows files in reverse order (LUCID and MAVERICK)

2010-10-18 Thread Peter Belew
-- Add Wallpaper dialog in the Change Desktop Background shows files in reverse order (LUCID and MAVERICK) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/662960 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 662960] Re: Add Wallpaper dialog in the Change Desktop Background shows files in reverse order (LUCID and MAVERICK)

2010-10-18 Thread Peter Belew
I've attached a screenshot. While attaching the screenshot, I just noticed that the dialog for attaching a file to this bug report (viewed in Firefox) has the same problem! So the problem is not confined to this package ... ** Attachment added: Screenshot

[Bug 662960] Re: Add Wallpaper dialog in the Change Desktop Background shows files in reverse order (LUCID and MAVERICK)

2010-10-18 Thread Peter Belew
Thanks - I never noticed that you can reverse the sort order by clicking on 'name'. That solved the problem! Not a bug! It's odd that that came up that way through my installation of Lucid through the upgrade to Maverick! :) Not a bug, just embarrassing user dumbness! -- Add Wallpaper dialog in

[Bug 649631] Re: 10.10 BETA grub2 can't boot FreeBSD 8.1

2010-10-16 Thread Peter Belew
Ahavatar: Thank you! That works for me, too - in my case it's menuentry FreeBSD 8.1 { set root=(hd0,3) chainloader +1 } Apparently the new grub2 doesn't know about the FreeBSD partition letters, but can now find BSD boot partitions within the (hd0,3) slice. Maybe this is documented somewhere,

[Bug 649631] Re: 10.10 BETA grub2 can't boot FreeBSD 8.1

2010-10-15 Thread Peter Belew
I have the same problem after upgrading Ubuntu 10.04 to the released version of 10.10. My 40_custom file looks like: #!/bin/sh exec tail -n +3 $0 # This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the # menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to

[Bug 649631] Re: 10.10 BETA grub2 can't boot FreeBSD 8.1

2010-10-15 Thread Peter Belew
Adding to comment #4 - I have been able to boot from grub2 on this system since Ubuntu 9.04. See my Bug #432254. -- 10.10 BETA grub2 can't boot FreeBSD 8.1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/649631 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-10-09 Thread Peter Belew
This problem persists with the post-RC 07-oct-2010 build. Linux distro/version and kernel version Ubuntu 10.10 Linux ubuntu 2.6.35-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Sun Sep 19 20:34:50 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux model name : Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+ cpu MHz : 800.000 If I just

[Bug 656609] [NEW] package initramfs-tools 0.98.1ubuntu6 [modified: usr/sbin/update-initramfs] failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2010-10-07 Thread Peter Belew
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: initramfs-tools I just started up Ubuntu 10.10 RC build 2010-10-07 (Live USB) on a Dell netbook from a USB stick. ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: initramfs-tools 0.98.1ubuntu6 [modified: usr/sbin/update-initramfs]

[Bug 656609] Re: package initramfs-tools 0.98.1ubuntu6 [modified: usr/sbin/update-initramfs] failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2010-10-07 Thread Peter Belew
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/656609/+attachment/1678098/+files/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: Df.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/656609/+attachment/1678099/+files/Df.txt ** Attachment added: Dmesg.txt

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Lucid 10.04 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-09-26 Thread Peter Belew
(See comment #142 for current version and boot problem information). I am able to boot from the live CD in text mode, and eventually get X to start, as follows: Boot live CD Hit ESC when the first welcome screen appears When a screen with boot choices appears, first select the language (English)

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Lucid 10.04 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-09-20 Thread Peter Belew
The 10.10 Maverick Meerkat alpha and beta live CDs will not boot fully on this Averatec 3280. I saw this most recently with the 10.10 Beta and the 10.10 daily build for 19 Sept 2010. What happens is that X login fails. When I get to the screen which asks whether to boot live or to install the new

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Lucid 10.04 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-09-20 Thread Peter Belew
** Description changed: Binary package hint: xorg-server + + [ Comments added for Maveric beta versions ] It is now impossible to boot and log in on this system from the beta-2 live CD - see comment #111. THIS NOW SEEMS TO BE 'CURED' by running kernels from Karmic - see comments

[Bug 567226] Re: Black Border around Splash Image

2010-09-10 Thread Peter Belew
I believe this is a Firefox problem, and a problem with some other browsers using the same graphics libraries (see below). I'm running on a Dell netbok with - Ubuntu version and kernel version DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS

[Bug 567226] Re: Black Border around Splash Image

2010-09-10 Thread Peter Belew
Sorry, I failed to see the bug report was against Grub2, not browser! I'll check for a more appropriate bug report! -- Black Border around Splash Image https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/567226 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 274575] Re: Image rendered with border in Firefox When Scaling

2010-09-10 Thread Peter Belew
I observed this problem in Firefox, SeaMonkey, and Konkeror but not in Chromium or Epiphany on my Dell Netbook (and also on a Dell desktop system). The netbook is running: Ubuntu version and kernel version DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=Ubuntu

[Bug 631123] Re: upowerd crashed with SIGSEGV in dbus_connection_send()

2010-09-05 Thread Peter Belew
** Attachment added: CoreDump.gz https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/631123/+attachment/1547655/+files/CoreDump.gz ** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/631123/+attachment/1547656/+files/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: Disassembly.txt

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Lucid 10.04 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-08-03 Thread Peter Belew
I have totally given up on running Ubuntu on this laptop. I have installed first Fedora 13, and now Debian Lenny. Once properly installed, the screen issues no longer occur, except that both of those systems try to run the screen in 1600x1200 mode, so that installing a custom xorg.conf is also

[Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2010-07-10 Thread Peter Belew
Note for upstream: The screen resolution is not properly recognized either on Fedora 13 and on CentOS 5.5 - in all cases the system tries to start up in 1600x1200 mode, but in a Gnome system it's possible to set the res. manually, then later install an xorg.conf file. On KDE systems it's much more

[Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2010-07-10 Thread Peter Belew
This still applies up through Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat 10.10 alpha-2: The initial screen resolution is set to 1600x1200, so that only the upper- left 1024x768 corner of the screen is visible. It's necessary to use the SystemPreferencesMonitors dialog to set the resolution. In addition, the text

[Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2010-07-10 Thread Peter Belew
Aeb1barfo - What I was able to do with KDE (a few months ago) was to right-click on the screen to get a menu which enabled me to create a new panel at the top of the screen. Once that was done, I could right-click on the panel to add a main menu to it. From that it was possible to set the screen

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Lucid 10.04 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-06-29 Thread Peter Belew
The situation with Lucid on this Averatec laptop is unchanged. However today I tried booting the Fedora 13 i686 live CD. As before, with Fedora and Ubuntu, Linux started up in a 1600x1200 mode, with only the upper- left 1024x768 corner of the screen showing, but I was able to use the

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Lucid 10.04 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-06-29 Thread Peter Belew
Kernel information while running Fedora 13: [liveu...@localhost bug555]$ uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686 #1 SMP Thu May 6 18:44:12 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux -- [K8M800] Lucid 10.04 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN

[Bug 439448] Re: visual corruption affecting several panel applets

2010-06-18 Thread Peter Belew
There seems to be some confusion in the comments between the Indicator Applet 0.3.7 and the Notification Area 2.30.0, both of which appear in my panels, showing different applets. Is this problem occurring in both container applets, or just one? -- visual corruption affecting several panel

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Lucid 10.04 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-06-15 Thread Peter Belew
As of today, this bug is still in effect. The most important issue is that text consoles can't be used. Booting and screen sizing issues can be worked around, especially for the Gnome version, since the SystemPreferencesMonitor dialog is accessible from top-panel menus; that's more difficult in

[Bug 459647] Re: Cannot change mouse cursor theme when compiz is enabled

2010-06-05 Thread Peter Belew
This appears to have been fixed in 10.10 maverick meerkat alpha-1. Hopefully this will appear in Lucid soon. -- Cannot change mouse cursor theme when compiz is enabled https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/459647 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 459647] Re: Cannot change mouse cursor theme when compiz is enabled

2010-06-05 Thread Peter Belew
Regarding comment #80 from Reynaldo Matos Hortensi: I just booted 10.10 Maverick from Thursday's live CD on my Averatec laptop. I then changed the cursor from the default to Redglass, and was able to resize it - with the size of the arrow pointer cursor changing as I moved the size slider. After

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Lucid 10.04 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-06-05 Thread Peter Belew
Aeb1barfo: This bug report has gone way too complicated - some of the problems were fixed a long time ago, others persist. Update: I've run the 10.10 Maverick Meerkat live CD on this Averatec 3280 system, and the remaining problems are: - I can't switch to a text console. Also that has gotten

[Bug 588042] Re: Unable to change cursors with Appearance Preferences dialog

2010-06-03 Thread Peter Belew
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 459647 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/459647 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 459647 Cannot change mouse cursor theme when compiz is enabled -- Unable to change cursors with Appearance Preferences dialog

[Bug 459647] Re: Cannot change mouse cursor theme when compiz is enabled

2010-06-03 Thread Peter Belew
My bug report #588042 appears to be a duplicate of this. I noticed, after submitting that report, that I can change the cursors other than the arrow cursor (such as the text vertical-bar cursor and cursors for dragging window boundaries, etc.), but usually the arrow cursor stays the same. This

[Bug 439448] Re: visual corruption affecting several panel applets

2010-06-02 Thread Peter Belew
Christopher - I assume that you have updated the versions in both those partitions to date, so that in theory they should be the same (except for any customizations you may have made). If so, it would be interesting to run apt-show-versions in each partition (you may have to install that

[Bug 588042] [NEW] Unable to change cursors with Appearance Preferences dialog

2010-05-31 Thread Peter Belew
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-control-center I am currently unable to change cursors or change cursor sizes (for variable-size cursors) on my Dell netbook. This running 10.04 Lucid. I had installed some additional cursor packages, then noticed I couldn't change the cursors from

[Bug 588042] Re: Unable to change cursors with Appearance Preferences dialog

2010-05-31 Thread Peter Belew
** Attachment added: Installed package versions http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49461367/apt-show-versions.txt ** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49459377/Dependencies.txt -- Unable to change cursors with Appearance Preferences dialog

[Bug 588042] Re: Unable to change cursors with Appearance Preferences dialog

2010-05-31 Thread Peter Belew
This is a duplicate of which bug? This is an issue which affects vision-impaired people. -- Unable to change cursors with Appearance Preferences dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/588042 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Lucid 10.04 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-05-30 Thread Peter Belew
There is no change with the lastest release kernel, as of today: 2.6.32-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 28 13:27:30 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux I still can't switch into text consoles - I just get garbage on the screen, as before. Also, the first time I tried to boot after today's updates, the

[Bug 455954] Re: [K8M800] AntSpotlight screensaver causes system to lock up immediately

2010-05-16 Thread Peter Belew
I installed the latest kernel from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel- ppa/mainline/daily/current/ So I have Ubuntu version and kernel version DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Linux eros 2.6.34-999-generic #201005121008 SMP Wed May

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Lucid 10.04 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-05-16 Thread Peter Belew
After looking at a suggestion made for bug #455954, I installed the latest kernel from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/daily/current/ namely 2.6.34-999-generic. With that running, I can switch in and out of text consoles with ctrl-alt-F1 etc. (However the system complains about

[Bug 456977] Re: Lots of errors from the rt2x00pci driver

2010-05-16 Thread Peter Belew
I wonder if running a newer upstream kernel would show the same problem. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/MainlineBuilds Caveat: some other things may not work with such a non-customized-to- ubuntu kernel, but this can help diagnose some kernel-related problems. You will still be able to boot

[Bug 455954] Re: [K8M800] AntSpotlight screensaver causes system to lock up immediately

2010-05-06 Thread Peter Belew
This is still happening - the system locks up - with the kernel in today's update: 2.6.32-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 28 13:27:30 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux -- [K8M800] AntSpotlight screensaver causes system to lock up immediately https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/455954 You received this bug

[Bug 455954] Re: [K8M800] AntSpotlight screensaver causes system to lock up immediately

2010-05-05 Thread Peter Belew
It turns out this does NOT happen if I use a Karmic kernel with Lucid: Ubuntu version and kernel version DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Linux eros 2.6.31-21-generic #59-Ubuntu SMP Wed Mar 24 07:28:56 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

[Bug 531173] Re: New Lucid keyboard layout indicator does not indicate current layout

2010-05-05 Thread Peter Belew
Thank you, Sebastien, I just subscribed to bug #546240 -- New Lucid keyboard layout indicator does not indicate current layout https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/531173 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 255561] Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg fails on Dell PowerEdge 400sc with Samsung SyncMaster 570s

2010-05-05 Thread Peter Belew
I just tried booting this system (which normally still runs Jaunty) from the 10.04 desktop CD. On selecting the 'Try Ubuntu' option, the system will start up in 800x600 mode. So the situation is as in comment #27 for the Jaunty live CD. -- dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg fails on Dell PowerEdge

[Bug 531173] Re: New Lucid keyboard layout indicator does not indicate current layout

2010-05-05 Thread Peter Belew
Karmic, up through any current updates, uses icons with numeric subscripts indicating variants of the basic keyboards for a language. Eliminating that feature (actually in a redesigned program) is a definite regression. By the way, I designed the original US-International layout for Windows 2.11

[Bug 508456] Re: Lucid frequently crashes while starting gdm on Averatec 3280

2010-05-04 Thread Peter Belew
This is not fixed still - I just tried it again - see my comment on #545367. -- Lucid frequently crashes while starting gdm on Averatec 3280 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/508456 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 508456] Re: Lucid frequently crashes while starting gdm on Averatec 3280

2010-05-04 Thread Peter Belew
Actually the behavior is not quite as originally described above. The system gets past the Welcome screen, where the user can select a language and either do a live test or install the system. If I click on the 'try ubuntu' choice, it tries to log in - the screen goes blank, then the colored login

Re: [Bug 545367] Re: LiveCD boot hangs before desktop is shown

2010-05-04 Thread Peter Belew
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 508456 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/508456 In my case, the live CD boots the the point where the Welcome screen appears. I then click on the 'Try Ubuntu' button, and the system tries to log in (as 'ubuntu') and fails - then a log in dialog appears. If

[Bug 531173] Re: New Lucid keyboard layout indicator does not indicate current layout

2010-05-04 Thread Peter Belew
I just subscribed to this bug because I just noticed the behavior in the keyboard indicator - it no longer displays different icons for variants of the same country layout, as for USA, USA1, USA2. This change must have occurred in the past few weeks, as I have been using alternate US layouts for

[Bug 531173] Re: New Lucid keyboard layout indicator does not indicate current layout

2010-05-04 Thread Peter Belew
Note that I just observed this today, in the released Lucid, updated up to today, both on systems which had been installed during the alpha and beta stages and on one which was installed afresh on 3 May 2010. -- New Lucid keyboard layout indicator does not indicate current layout

[Bug 455954] Re: [K8M800] AntSpotlight screensaver causes system to lock up immediately

2010-05-04 Thread Peter Belew
The AntSpotlight still freezes this Averatec 3280 laptop, running Lucid 10.04, updated to 4 May 2010. The display controller is: VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800/K8N800/K8N800A [S3 UniChrome Pro] (rev 01) The video driver is xserver-xorg-video-openchrome/lucid uptodate

[Bug 439448] Re: visual corruption affecting several panel applets

2010-05-03 Thread Peter Belew
I must say I sympathize with the previous comment. Having said that, this is still happening. on various systems of mine, with different display drivers: I don't think it's a display driver issue. Some have noted that this happens or persists after a system upgrade where the home directory is

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Beta-2 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-05-02 Thread Peter Belew
Apparmor is not the problem. The Lucid final-release live cd still will not boot on this system, that is, it's impossible to log in. It's still impossible to use the console text screens when Lucid is installed on this system. Contrary to the 'Fix released' status at the top, this is NOT fixed.

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Beta-2 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-04-27 Thread Peter Belew
If I boot with Karmic kernel: 2.6.31-20-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12 05:23:09 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux Then some Lucid 'features' are suppressed during startup, and I can switch into text consoles with ctrl-alt-F1 through ...F6 properly. The display driver is still

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Beta-2 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-04-27 Thread Peter Belew
Early after booting (as in #131) I see the message chroot: cannot execute /etc/apparmor/initramfs This might be relevant or not. -- [K8M800] Beta-2 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

Re: [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Beta-2 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-04-25 Thread Peter Belew
This still does not work. The make suggests some changes to configure.ac and to Makefile.am - I did the first and the second refers to something that's in Makefile.in (I think) but isn't clear. In any event, the make fails. On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Bartosz gan...@poczta.onet.pl wrote:

Re: [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Beta-2 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-04-24 Thread Peter Belew
I tried to install that; here are the errors that are reported: # dpkg -i xserver-xorg-video-openchrome_0.2.903+svn758-0ubuntu1_i386.deb dpkg: warning: downgrading xserver-xorg-video-openchrome from 1:0.2.904+svn827-1 to 1:0.2.903+svn758-0ubuntu1. dpkg: regarding

Re: [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Beta-2 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-04-23 Thread Peter Belew
The xserver-xorg-video-via driver installed ok, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. Should I change or remove xorg.conf? On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Bartosz gan...@poczta.onet.pl wrote: Try to install package from that (just double click on that):

[Bug 517920] Re: gnome-appearance-properties no longer provides tooltips about background image names

2010-04-22 Thread Peter Belew
I will have to wait for the 10.10 release on one of my systems, then, since it is certain that serious bugs affecting that, such as Bug #495553, won't be fixed in Lucid. Also, I don't consider this a 'cosmetic' bug - it's a functional bug. A function has been left out in Karmic. --

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Beta-2 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-04-22 Thread Peter Belew
I checked out the driver source specifying -r 758. I get a fatal error on trying to make the driver - the header file xf86Resources.h is missing, also there are some warnings about formats not matching variables, in via_accel.c, function viaExaUploadToScratch() -- [K8M800] Beta-2 live-CD login

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Beta-2 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-04-22 Thread Peter Belew
The latest Karmic driver for this is xserver-xorg-video-openchrome/karmic 1:0.2.903+svn758-0ubuntu1 How, exactly, can I install that in Lucid? -- [K8M800] Beta-2 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

[Bug 517920] Re: gnome-appearance-properties no longer provides tooltips about background image names

2010-04-21 Thread Peter Belew
This works correctly on Lucid. However there are serious display and live-cd bugs in Lucid which keeps me from installing it in several systems, so it would be really nice to port the changes back to Karmic. -- gnome-appearance-properties no longer provides tooltips about background image names

[Bug 508456] Re: Lucid frequently crashes while starting gdm on Averatec 3280

2010-04-21 Thread Peter Belew
Hi Bartosz - I'm not seeing the 'clouded image' problem (#17) any more, but the problems noted in Bug #495553 still remain. This includes the startup problem with the recent daily-build live CDs - where the system tries to auto-login and keeps failing and showing the login dialog. -- Lucid

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Beta-2 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-04-21 Thread Peter Belew
I downloaded the 19 April daily build live CD, and it still won't allow logging in. -- [K8M800] Beta-2 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495553 You received this bug

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Beta-2 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-04-20 Thread Peter Belew
Hi Bartosz - I'm using the 2.6.32-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP kernel, dated Fri Apr 16 08:10:02 UTC - I update with apt-get more or less daily. On the live CD, it's whatever came on the Apr 17 live CD - probably the same, but I didn't check. I looked at Bug #471646, where some similar boot or

[Bug 538893] Re: [CLE266] Console screens unusable on Jetway system with VT8623, boot problems

2010-04-20 Thread Peter Belew
I'm updating this system right now - it hadn't been updated for a few days. I believe blacklisting the viafb solved the problem, and I believe that's the default now - to blacklist viafb. I'll check again when the update is complete. I have another system with the same kind of motherboard. that

[Bug 538893] Re: [CLE266] Console screens unusable on Jetway system with VT8623, boot problems

2010-04-20 Thread Peter Belew
After today's update, this system is running Linux lightning 2.6.32-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 08:10:02 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux viafb is in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer.conf - this is now the default situation. -- [CLE266] Console screens unusable on Jetway system with

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Beta-2 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-04-18 Thread Peter Belew
** Summary changed: - [K8M800] Beta-2 boot failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid + [K8M800] Beta-2 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Beta-2 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-04-18 Thread Peter Belew
A clarification to #111 and #117 and the problem description - the live CDs for beta-2 and the april 17 build do boot up, but it's impossible to log in once the live CD has booted. However if Lucid has been installed previously, and is updated to date, the principal remaining problem is that it

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Beta-2 boot failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-04-17 Thread Peter Belew
The booting problem described in #111 is still happening with the 17 April '10 daily build. It's impossible to log in to the X/Gnome display, since as soon as the system logs in, X fails and the GDM login screen reappears after several seconds. After some experimentation, I was able to log on in

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Beta-2 boot failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-04-16 Thread Peter Belew
I am adding Xorg.0.log before switching to a text console, after switching to a text console, and after switching back to the GUI Gnome screen. Xorg.0.log - before Xorg.0.log.console - after switching to (unusable) console Xorg.0.log.x - after switching back ** Attachment added: Tar archive

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Beta-2 boot failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-04-16 Thread Peter Belew
The above Xorg.0.log files were obtained after updating the system around 14:30 UTC on Apr 16. The files were saved while logged in from another machine using ssh. Again, I advocate installation of an ssh server an option on live CDs and during installation (I believe the Sabayon Linux DVD allows

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