[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-02-03 Thread Peter Belew
Here is ~/.xsession-errors ** Attachment added: .xsession-errors http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38712873/xsession-errors-20100203 -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

[Bug 448911] Re: [CLE266] Console screens unusable, filled with random colors

2010-02-03 Thread Peter Belew
This bug has reappeared today, with the most recent updates to Lucid. Instead of seeing random small colored pixel blocks, I now see a magnified portion of the X screen background (or the background for the login screen), when switching to a tty with CTL-ALT-F1 ...CTL-ALT-F6. I can login and type

[Bug 448911] Re: [CLE266] Console screens unusable, filled with random colors

2010-02-03 Thread Peter Belew
I'm adding .xsession-errors, but don't know if it's relevant to this problem (since the problem appears from the login screen as well as from the Gnome screen). ** Attachment added: .session-errors http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38716172/xsession-errors-201002031115 -- [CLE266] Console

[Bug 448911] Re: [CLE266] Console screens unusable, filled with random colors

2010-02-03 Thread Peter Belew
** Description changed: - Binary package hint: xorg + Binary package hint: openchrome, viafb, vt8623fb + + [Update 2010-02-03: See comments starting with #6. The TTY screen + background is now a magnified image derived from the X screen + background, and text is unreadable. Also I'm not sure

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-02-03 Thread Peter Belew
Note that I just updated another bug relating to tty screens on another system with a VIA chipset - Bug #448911. -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495553 You

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-02-02 Thread Peter Belew
SEVERE REGRESSION This has regressed to coming up in the split- screen mode - i.e. at 1024x768 the x-origin of the screen is in the middle. I had just done an apt-get update/dist-upgrade in which the latest change was a new 'plymouth' with its associated library file. Ubuntu version and

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-02-02 Thread Peter Belew
I am attaching Xorg.0.log from before and after this update. ** Attachment added: Xorg.0.log, Xorg.0.log.old, ... http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38673905/xorg.logs-20100202.tgz -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

Re: [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-02-02 Thread Peter Belew
Hi - I had Virtual set that way already. I just tried booting with the latest updates, a few minutes ago, with the 2.6.32-12-generic kernel, and it failed in recovery mode as well as in normal mode. But it does boot properly with the 2.6.32.11 kernel, at least in recovery mode, with the proper

Re: [Bug 497299] Re: upstart not starting init-scripts (event net-device-up IFACE=lo missing)

2010-01-30 Thread Peter Belew
FYI: My Lucid bug is Bug #508456. On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Kees Cook k...@ubuntu.com wrote: This bug is for the karmic update to upstart.  If you're running Lucid, please open a new bug.  This bug is closed. ** This bug is no longer flagged as a security vulnerability ** Changed

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

2010-01-30 Thread Peter Belew
nicobrainless - what kind of computer do you have? -- 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. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

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

2010-01-29 Thread Peter Belew
This may be related to bug #497299, but there is some doubt in my mine. For one thing, I have $ cat /etc/network/interfaces auto lo iface lo inet loopback Also, there seem to be problems specific to the display driver. In several Xorg.n.log files I see (II) Loading extension DRI2 (II)

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

2010-01-29 Thread Peter Belew
Some current versions: upstart/lucid uptodate 0.6.3-11build1 xserver-xorg-video-openchrome/lucid uptodate 0.6.3-11build1 I'm not sure if earlier versions than the above upstart will work with lucid. (The 0.6.3.10 version is suggested in #497299, but that was apparently for Karmic). I

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-29 Thread Peter Belew
Also see bug #508456 regarding upstart problems on this laptop, which may be related to these display driver problems. Current issues remaining are: Unusable consoles - colored gibberish on the screen. Starting up in graphics mode results in wrong resolution, without an xorg.conf file.

[Bug 497299] Re: upstart not starting init-scripts (event net-device-up IFACE=lo missing)

2010-01-29 Thread Peter Belew
I have an upstart problem which might be the same as or related to this one, on an Averatech 3280 laptop, running Lucid. This is described as Bug #508456. However it does seem to be related to the openchrome and viafb drivers. The boot process often hangs up while the display driver is starting

[Bug 492609] Re: potamus doesn't start

2010-01-28 Thread Peter Belew
On finding that Rhythmbox was remove on today's update of Lucid, I looked for an alternate music player, and installed Potamus. However it crashes when I try to run it. This happened twice in a row. It is version: potamus/lucid uptodate 0.10-1build2 This is on an Averatech 3280 laptop: Ubuntu

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

2010-01-28 Thread Peter Belew
This is still happening on my Averatec 3280, somewhat at random. -- 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. -- ubuntu-bugs

Re: [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-25 Thread Peter Belew
Again, applying the patch gives the error messages: pe...@eros:~/openchrome/src$ patch -p0 vbeEDID.patch patching file src/via_driver.c Hunk #1 FAILED at 1566. Hunk #2 FAILED at 1620. 2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file src/via_driver.c.rej patching file src/via_dri.c Hunk #1

[Bug 448911] Re: [CLE266] Console screens unusable, filled with random colors

2010-01-25 Thread Peter Belew
This system' OS has been upgraded to Lucid ... and now uses different drivers (viafb and vt8623bf) instead of openchrome. 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] integrated CastleRock graphics (rev 03) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-25 Thread Peter Belew
Note that running 'lspci -vvk' tells me: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800/K8N800/K8N800A [S3 UniChrome Pro] (rev 01) Subsystem: TWINHEAD INTERNATIONAL Corp Device 0315 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping-

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-25 Thread Peter Belew
Note that booting in recovery mode and running Xorg -configure does produce an xorg.conf.new file that sets 'openchrome' to be the screen driver. -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-22 Thread Peter Belew
Trying the patch again resulted in some errors. I am attaching a .tgz file with the files produced in openchrome/src/src/ Next, I'll attach a .tgz file containing Xorg.0.log files. ** Attachment added: files from openchrome/src/src showing patch problem

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-22 Thread Peter Belew
This contains Xorg.0.log, etc. ** Attachment added: Xorg.0.log, Xorg.0.log.old, ... http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38284428/user.log.2.gz -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-22 Thread Peter Belew
When I try to boot with the driver I just created, the system hangs after the mouse cursor first appears, in a manner similar to that described in Bug #508456: At the point at which the system freezes, the initial rotating cursor has appeared, and then has just turned into a pointer. This is

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-22 Thread Peter Belew
I reinstalled the current binary driver, and now the system hangs before showing a cursor at all - I just get a blank screen. However, in recovery mode, I can always start up fine, executing this script after logging in as root: #!/bin/sh echo start some services like the ssh daemon and apache

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

2010-01-22 Thread Peter Belew
This still happens with Lucid alpha-2 updated through today, but not always. I think that this may not be a problem with the driver itself, but with timing related to the upstart scripts in /etc/init/ . If I start the system in recovery mode, log in as root, and run the script #!/bin/sh echo

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-22 Thread Peter Belew
Note my comment #2 in Bug #508456 - that I think there is a problem with 'upstart' when the screen freezes on startup. -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495553

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-21 Thread Peter Belew
I was unable to patch: pe...@eros:~/openchrome/src$ patch -p0 vbeEDID.patch patching file src/via_driver.c Hunk #1 FAILED at 1566. Hunk #2 FAILED at 1620. 2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file src/via_driver.c.rej patching file src/via_dri.c Hunk #1 FAILED at 267. 1 out of 1 hunk

Re: [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-20 Thread Peter Belew
Hi Bartosz - The result of doing this patch is ... Xorg.0.log:(II) CHROME(0): Module DDC loaded Xorg.0.log:(II) CHROME(0): Detected I2CBus1 Xorg.0.log:(II) CHROME(0): Not detected DDC2 I hope that information helps! Thanks, - Peter On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Bartosz

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-20 Thread Peter Belew
And here is the whole Xorg.0.log, after doing the patch above and rebooting: ** Attachment added: Xorg.0.log after above patch has been done http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38154435/Xorg.0.log -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280

Re: [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-20 Thread Peter Belew
Should I apply that to the original via_driver.c file or on top of the previous patch? On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Bartosz gan...@poczta.onet.pl wrote: Hi Apply this patch and attach your Xorg.0.log file after that. ** Attachment added: ddc2.patch  

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-20 Thread Peter Belew
(I applied the patch to the original file) Here's the Xorg.0.log file ... ** Attachment added: Xorg.0.log after latest patch and reboot http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38170511/Xorg.0.log -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-20 Thread Peter Belew
I'm not sure the last Xorg.0.log was valid ... I'm going to start with a new source tree later this evening and try again. I ended up with X not starting the last couple of times I tried booting - I had to start in text mode and start daemons manually. -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-19 Thread Peter Belew
The TTY problem is still happening - switching to tty1...tty6 with ctl- alt-Fn results in a screen covered with random colored blocks, and alt-F6 switches back normally. The same colored screen shows while shutting down or rebooting. -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps,

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

2010-01-16 Thread Peter Belew
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: upstart I installed Lucid alpha-1 and have been updating frequently through today. As of sometime yesterday (15 Jan 2010) it usually crashes during the boot process - usually as gdm is starting, showing a rotating mouse pointer. The pointer stops

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

2010-01-16 Thread Peter Belew
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37975105/Dependencies.txt -- 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

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-16 Thread Peter Belew
Also note that this is dependent on the kernel version. The X display origin problem not happen with the lastest kernel, 2.6.32-10-generic #14-Ubuntu SMP, but it does happen with the previous kernel, 2.6.32-9. (See Bug #508456, describing another problem that has turned up in the last day). The

[Bug 507609] Re: gdm-simple-slave crashed with SIGSEGV in _XFlush()

2010-01-14 Thread Peter Belew
** Attachment added: CoreDump.gz http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37895751/CoreDump.gz ** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37895752/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: Disassembly.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37895753/Disassembly.txt ** Attachment

[Bug 504381] Re: [K8M800] Xubuntu does not display properly on Lucid alpha-1 with updates, on Averatec 3280

2010-01-12 Thread Peter Belew
** Summary changed: - [K8M800] Xubuntu does not display propery on Lucid alpha-1 with updates, on Averatec 3280 + [K8M800] Xubuntu does not display properly on Lucid alpha-1 with updates, on Averatec 3280 -- [K8M800] Xubuntu does not display properly on Lucid alpha-1 with updates, on

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-12 Thread Peter Belew
As of Tue Jan 12 08:57:44 PST 2010, this seems to have been fixed. I updated the system with apt-get a few minutes ago, a large number of packages were updated. After rebooting, the screen now appears normally. I am not sure what package(s) were changed to fix the problem. -- [K8M800] Screen

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-12 Thread Peter Belew
This is not competely fixed. When I try to switch to tty screens, I get a multicolored background, and the ttys don't work. I can, however, switch back to the X display with alt-F7. -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running

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

2010-01-12 Thread Peter Belew
I am also seeing this kind of message, on Lucid beta-1 with updates through today: Jan 12 11:32:10 eros kernel: [ 9953.780029] phy0 - rt2500pci_set_device_state: Error - Device failed to enter state 1 (-16). Jan 12 11:32:23 eros kernel: [ 9966.280047] phy0 - rt2500pci_set_device_state: Error -

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

2010-01-12 Thread Peter Belew
confirming confirming Rafaels workaround in comment #2 stops the messages from appearing. -- Lots of errors from the rt2x00pci driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456977 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 504381] Re: [K8M800] Xubuntu does not display propery on Lucid alpha-1 with updates, on Averatec 3280

2010-01-10 Thread Peter Belew
Here are the Xorg.n.* log files from yesterday (I booted into Jaunty on the laptop and mounted the partition with /var/log/ on it to get these logs). And from xorg.conf, I have Section Device Driver openchrome VendorName VIA Tech BoardName openchrome Identifier

[Bug 504381] Re: [K8M800] Xubuntu does not display propery on Lucid alpha-1 with updates, on Averatec 3280

2010-01-10 Thread Peter Belew
Actually, the test above in #7 was done with ubuntu gnome, not xubuntu installed. Also, I just rebuilt the driver with the patch removed (I was able to ssh in and do the rebuild of the driver), and ubuntu boots with the slit screen described in bug #495553, but it does run well otherwise. After

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-09 Thread Peter Belew
No improvement after updates as of Sat Jan 9 11:30:49 PST 2010 -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495553 You received this bug notification because you are a

Re: [Bug 504381] Re: [K8M800] Xubuntu does not display propery on Lucid alpha-1 with updates, on Averatec 3280

2010-01-09 Thread Peter Belew
Hi Bartosz - The xorg.conf I'm using for both Ubuntu (Gnome) and Xubuntu has Section Device Driver openchrome VendorName VIA Tech BoardName openchrome Identifier Configured Video Device Option SWCursor true Option modeSwitch new

Re: [Bug 504381] Re: [K8M800] Xubuntu does not display propery on Lucid alpha-1 with updates, on Averatec 3280

2010-01-09 Thread Peter Belew
. On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Peter Belew abcru...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Bartosz - The xorg.conf I'm using for both Ubuntu (Gnome) and Xubuntu has Section Device        Driver openchrome        VendorName  VIA Tech        BoardName   openchrome        Identifier      Configured Video Device

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-08 Thread Peter Belew
A difference between this bug and the behavior reported on bug #504381 is that this bug behaves the same way whether kernel 2.6.32-9-generic or 2.6.32-7-generic (the one on the install CD) is running, while for bug #504381 it is different. -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-08 Thread Peter Belew
As of Fri Jan 8 11:00:45 PST 2010, there has been no apparent change in the behavior described in this bug report. The X screen is still split, and ttys still don't work. -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with

[Bug 504381] [NEW] Xubuntu does not display propery on Lucid alpha-1 with updates, on Averatec 3280

2010-01-07 Thread Peter Belew
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-openchrome I installed the Xubuntu Lucid alpha-1 on this Averatec 3280, then was able to update it with apt-get up through today. With the kernel shown below, the login screen appears shifted over 1/2 the screen width, so the X-axis

[Bug 504381] Re: Xubuntu does not display propery on Lucid alpha-1 with updates, on Averatec 3280

2010-01-07 Thread Peter Belew
** Attachment added: apport file when running latest kernel for xubuntu http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37560918/apport.xserver-xorg-video-openchrome.uTvd8B.apport -- Xubuntu does not display propery on Lucid alpha-1 with updates, on Averatec 3280 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/504381 You

[Bug 504381] Re: Xubuntu does not display propery on Lucid alpha-1 with updates, on Averatec 3280

2010-01-07 Thread Peter Belew
Running the 2.6.32-7-generic #10-Ubuntu SMP kernel instead, the symptoms are the same except that the screen is NOT offset . The tiny text window appears on the actual upper-left of the screen, with the rest of the screen filled with the normal Xfce blue screen background image. Again, trying to

[Bug 504381] Re: Xubuntu does not display propery on Lucid alpha-1 with updates, on Averatec 3280

2010-01-07 Thread Peter Belew
** Description changed: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-openchrome I installed the Xubuntu Lucid alpha-1 on this Averatec 3280, then was able to update it with apt-get up through today. With the kernel shown below, the login screen appears shifted over 1/2 the screen width, so

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-07 Thread Peter Belew
I have filed a separate bug #504381 regarding related but worse behavior when trying to run Xubuntu beta1, with updates, on the same computer. -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-05 Thread Peter Belew
No change as of Tue Jan 5 18:32:37 PST 2010. -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495553 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-04 Thread Peter Belew
No change as of Mon Jan 4 12:28:58 PST 2010 - bug still exists. Screen still off-center, trying to switch to tty1 through tty6 results in black screen. -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2010-01-03 Thread Peter Belew
I have again upgraded from Karmic to Lucid Alpha, starting the upgrade around 10 am PST today. The upgrade was done online (not a fresh install this time). I rebooted the system after the installation at 12:21 pm PST. The problem with the screen X-origin being offset has not changed. I'm using

[Bug 452208] Re: devkit-disks-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in dbus_g_method_return_error()

2009-12-28 Thread Peter Belew
This bug report popped up at the very end of an installation of Karmic from the live CD, on an Averatech 3280 laptop. -- devkit-disks-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in dbus_g_method_return_error() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/452208 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 436341] Re: PC slot unsupported, and many cardbus cards are not supported messages running Karmic on Averatec 3280

2009-12-28 Thread Peter Belew
I just reinstalled Karmic on this system, updating with apt-get. The cardbus slot still does not work, and the warning messages are still being appending to kern.log every second. I'm attaching the list of packages updated as of 2009-12-28 .. ** Attachment added: Karmic packages updated as of

[Bug 436341] Re: PC slot unsupported, and many cardbus cards are not supported messages running Karmic on Averatec 3280

2009-12-28 Thread Peter Belew
I'm attaching apt-show-versions output for x11, xorg, and gdm packages. ** Attachment added: some package version information as of 2000-12-28 http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37259487/xorg-versions-091227.txt -- PC slot unsupported, and many cardbus cards are not supported messages running

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid with openchrome driver

2009-12-28 Thread Peter Belew
I have temporarily interrupted looking at this bug in order to install Karmic, to check for any progress on bug # 436341 on the same laptop. I'll re-install Lucid again soon, or wait for Lucid beta-2. ** Summary changed: - [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens

[Bug 436341] Re: PC slot unsupported, and many cardbus cards are not supported messages running Karmic on Averatec 3280

2009-12-28 Thread Peter Belew
Comment #43 shows the wrong version information. Here is the correct version information for today's Karmic update. ** Attachment added: Today's package updates for Karmic http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37262136/karmic-updates-091228.txt -- PC slot unsupported, and many cardbus cards are not

[Bug 436341] Re: PC slot unsupported, and many cardbus cards are not supported messages running Karmic on Averatec 3280

2009-12-28 Thread Peter Belew
Correction to Comment #33 - Comment #32 has the wrong version information, #33 has the correct version information for today's updates to Karmic. -- PC slot unsupported, and many cardbus cards are not supported messages running Karmic on Averatec 3280 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/436341 You

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-27 Thread Peter Belew
I updated Lucid again with apt-get today, starting with Lucid alpha-1. This brings back the Screen origin shifted to center problem described in the original report above. So this problem is in one of the many packages updated today. Note that in any event the hardware cursor coordinates do not

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-27 Thread Peter Belew
(Continuing comment #33) As before, switching to a tty with Ctrl Alt Fn results in a blank screen, but I can switch back to X with Alt-F7. I am appending a list of xorg packages which are installed, obtained by executing apt-show-versions | grep xorg Also, for gdm I show $ apt-show-versions

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-22 Thread Peter Belew
I think I'll wait a couple of days, re-install Lucid, update, and see what happens. I keep my /home files in a separate partition for each OS, so it's easy to do that. -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-22 Thread Peter Belew
Today I re-installed Lucid alpha-1 from the alternate CD. Grub was properly updated so I can boot into either Jaunty or Lucid. Initially, the login screen appeared to be around 1600x1200. When I logged in, the screen size was set to 1024 x 768, but the hardware cursor only ranged from X=0 to

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-22 Thread Peter Belew
The attached archive contains a couple of copies of Xorg.0.log, Xorg.0.log and Xorg.0.log.old The later one was created after I disabled the hardware cursor. ** Attachment added: Xorg.0.log Xorg.0.log.old http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37104472/Xorg.log.tgz -- [K8M800] Screen origin

Re: [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-21 Thread Peter Belew
No, adding that option to xorg.conf does not help. The screen x-origin is still shifted over (always in the center for the login screen, in varying positions for different X screen modes). Also switching to a ttyN console still results in a blank screen. There's another really strange effect that

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-21 Thread Peter Belew
Unfortunately, later today I updated the system, and much of the system was wiped out, and it will no longer boot into Lucid. The system still has Jaunty on it, but with the Grub 2 for Karmic and Lucid. (Lucid was installed over Karmic). I might be able to rescue the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file from

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-21 Thread Peter Belew
Here is a tar file with all the Xorg.*.log* files in it that are still on the system after lucid was made unbootable. This was obtainable by running Jaunty on the same dual-boot system and mounting the volume with / on it. ** Attachment added: Archive of Xorg.n.log files

[Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-21 Thread Peter Belew
This archive contains dmesg, kern.log, and daemon.log ** Attachment added: daemon.log, kern.log, dmesg http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37077866/morelogs.tgz -- [K8M800] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-18 Thread Peter Belew
I'm attaching Xorg.0.log, after updating the system a few minutes ago, then trying to switch to a console with ctrl-alt-F3, then switching back with alt-f7. ** Attachment added: latest Xorg.0.log after above procedure http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36947510/Xorg.0.log -- Screen origin shifted

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-18 Thread Peter Belew
Here is an Xorg.0.log from about 3 minutes earlier. ** Attachment added: Earlier Xorg.0.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36947573/Xorg.0.log.old -- Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-17 Thread Peter Belew
This is still happening as of today. I haven't tried building an openchrome driver for lucid, but that might be a good idea, even though I'm a bit skeptical as to whether this is a driver issue, because it looks like the problem started happening after updates were made within a day after the

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-17 Thread Peter Belew
I just rebuilt the openchrome driver on this system, without any patches, and there is no change - the x-origin of the screen coordinates is in the middle of the screen (for 1024x769) and at different horizontal positions for other resolutions. So I think it's likely this is elsewhere in xorg. --

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-17 Thread Peter Belew
Also the tty consoles still don't work - if I ctrl-alt-F2 for example, I get a blank, black screen, though I can alt-F7 to return to X. -- Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495553 You

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-16 Thread Peter Belew
To Sebastien Bacher - I've attached a photo of the login screen. For the login screen, the X-origin is always the center of the screen, no matter what resolution was previously set in the Gnome preferences dialog. I just noticed the image is blurry - I was aiming at the center of the screen and

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-16 Thread Peter Belew
To Sebastien Bacher - I've attached a photo of the login screen. For the login screen, the X-origin is always the center of the screen, no matter what resolution was previously set in the Gnome preferences dialog. I just noticed the image is blurry - I was aiming at the center of the screen and

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-16 Thread Peter Belew
Here is what the Gnome screen looks like at 800x600. Here the screen x-axis origin is a couple of cm from the right side of the screen. Here I have placed the red mouse pointer at the edge of the screen, so that it wraps around to the other side of the screen. Likewise the terminal window wraps

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-16 Thread Peter Belew
Here is the 800x600 screen. ** Attachment added: Gnome screen at 800x600 http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36878660/IMG_3926.JPG -- Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495553 You received

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-15 Thread Peter Belew
A number of xorg modules were just updated. This has had no effect on this bug, unfortunately. -- Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495553 You received this bug notification because you

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

2009-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
I don't have Karmic 9.10 on this system anymore, only the Lucid 10.04 alpha-1. The initial release of the latter worked well, except that the login screen resolution was something like 1600x1200 - but once logging in, the correct 1024x768 resolution was set. Then overnight the bug #495553 showed

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
Yes, it's likely to be an xorg issue. The driver is xserver-xorg-video-openchrome, dpkg -s xserver-xorg-video-openchrome Package: xserver-xorg-video-openchrome Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: x11 Installed-Size: 556 Maintainer: Ubuntu X-SWAT ubunt...@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
The current openchrome driver is dated -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 333172 2009-12-07 08:15 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/openchrome_drv.so -- Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495553 You received this bug

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
I just booted from the original 10 December live CD. In this case, the login screen appears to be something like 1600x1200, clipped to the upper-left 1024x768 which this panel will display. The small login 'window' thus appears in the lower-right of the screen, but is accessible. Once logged in, I

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
At this point, it is clear to me that part of the problem is in low- level xorg code - code handling the mapping between the internal X coordinate system and the UniChrome display's coordinate system. It looks, though, like the mapping is correct for the UniChrome display's hardware cursor, when

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
** Description changed: - Binary package hint: gdm + Binary package hint: xorg-server I installed Lucid on the Averatec 3280 laptop from the Alternate CD on 10 December 2009. I then updated the system with apt-get several times. On booting this morning, the logical screen origin was

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
Note that after I installed from the alternate CD, while the login screen came up a 1600x1200, the Gnome display came up at 1024x768. Yet when I ran the live CD, the Gnome display initially came up at 1600x1200. Why the difference? After a bit of reflection, I realized that, since I had kept my

[Bug 495901] Re: No openchrome drivers included on live cd (for via processors)

2009-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
I have a Averatec 3280 laptop with a VIA chipset and a VIA K8M800/K8N800/K8N800A S3 Unichrome Pro display controller. I installed Jaunty, Karmic, and Lucid (beta-1) on it from alternate install disks. Also for a test I tried booting the Lucid beta-1 live/desktop CD. I did have some trouble booting

[Bug 449061] Re: [K8M800] Console screens unusable on Averatec 3280 laptop

2009-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
I have a new variant of this problem running Lucid beta-1 (with some updates) on the same system: screen coordinates are shifted, and the console tty's do not work. See Bug #495553 Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver I'm not sure whether this is

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
** Summary changed: - Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver + Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver -- Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-12 Thread Peter Belew
** Summary changed: - Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps + Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver -- Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495553 You

[Bug 495553] [NEW] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Belew
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gdm I installed Lucid on the Averatec 3280 laptop from the Alternate CD on 10 December 2009. I then updated the system with apt-get several times. On booting this morning, the logical screen origin was shifted to the center of the screen. With some

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Belew
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36698576/Dependencies.txt -- Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495553 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Belew
I am attaching a photo of the screen. The red pointer on the left is at the physical left side of the screen, but the logical left of the screen is in the center, so the background lynx image is split. The hide buttons for the top and bottom panels appear in the center of the screen. Note that

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Belew
I am attaching /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /etc/X11/xorg.conf. The Xorg.0.log was generated when booting WITHOUT an xorg.conf file. ** Attachment added: Xorg.0.log - no xorg.conf file http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36701274/Xorg.0.log -- Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Belew
Here is an xorg.conf file which I used earlier when the issue was that the boot login screen was too large - this problem was similar to an earlier bug I reported on the same laptop, running earlier Ubuntu releases: Bug #296142. With the initial installation of lucid, only the login screen was the

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Belew
I tried an experiment: I put the xorg.conf file back in /etc/X11, but changed 'openchrome' to 'vesa', and restarted. The screen ends up being split the same way, with the left-hand part of the logical screen showing in the middle, but the mouse pointer position is the same as the logical position:

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Belew
I changed the driver back to openchrome, and added Option SWCursor true to the Device section for the display. Now the cursor appears as with the vesa driver, making it easier to point at objects on the reversed screen. I suspected the problem with the cursor position was due to using a

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