[Bug 1475089] Re: Power settings shows state of the wrong batteries.

2015-07-15 Thread PeterKnaggs
** Attachment added: Curious choice of panel icon and inconsistent display of charge state in power dropdown menu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-control-center/+bug/1475089/+attachment/4429671/+files/panel_icon_and_menu_showing_charge_state.jpg -- You received this bug

[Bug 1475089] [NEW] Power settings shows state of the wrong batteries.

2015-07-15 Thread PeterKnaggs
Public bug reported: On this machine, I have three separate batteries whose power status gets displayed in various misleading ways. - A CyberPower 1350AVR UPS (this is the battery whose status I'd prefer to see in the menubar) - A Bluetooth-connect Apple MagicTrackpad (synaptic driver) -

[Bug 1475089] Re: Power settings shows state of the wrong batteries.

2015-07-15 Thread PeterKnaggs
Sorry, I meant to explain about the power status getting displayed in various misleading ways: What happens is, if the Bluetooth-connected Apple trackpad happens to become disconnected for whatever reason (happens occasionally, I still haven't figured out how to prevent it), the power meter

[Bug 1475089] Re: Power settings shows state of the wrong batteries.

2015-07-15 Thread PeterKnaggs
** Attachment added: What unity-control-center power window looks like on my machine, note the mysterious red crossed circle near the UPS, what does that tell the customer?

[Bug 1436491] [NEW] Ubuntu 14.10 desktop amd64 live CD gives no graphical desktop on MacBookPro 8, 3

2015-03-25 Thread PeterKnaggs
Public bug reported: The Ubuntu 14.10 desktop amd64 live CD gives no graphical desktop on a Apple MacBookPro 8,3 (A1397) 2011 (hardware described here: http://www.penlug.org/foswiki/bin/view/Main/HardwareInfoAppleMacBookProA1297 ). I also tested an upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04.02LTS to Ubuntu

[Bug 1259048] Re: Intuos4 detected but non-functional

2014-06-17 Thread PeterKnaggs
This bug also occurs for me on Ubuntu 14.04, on a MacBook Pro ( http://www.penlug.org/foswiki/bin/view/Main/HardwareInfoAppleMacBookProA1297 ) and since the touchpad is managed using Synaptics (synclient) there appears to be no need for the mouseemu program to be running or even installed on

[Bug 790130] Re: no pressure sensitivity with wacom tablet in inkscape

2011-11-06 Thread PeterKnaggs
I haven't installed Oneiric anywhere yet, but booting it from the live CD and installing Inkscape, it doesn't look like the palette trick I mentioned earlier is any help in Oneiric: the pen pressure is still missing (even though the test area shows it is being sensed just fine). So perhaps the

[Bug 790130] Re: no pressure sensitivity with wacom tablet in inkscape

2011-11-06 Thread PeterKnaggs
Investigating the missing pressure when palette changes. ~~ Looking into the source code, the relevant files seem to be as follows: ./ui/dialog/swatches.cpp - swatch changes ./widgets/toolbox.cpp - usepressure (see Use the pressure of the

[Bug 790130] Re: no pressure sensitivity with wacom tablet in inkscape

2011-11-06 Thread PeterKnaggs
Debugged a bit further: seems that what's happening is that the call to gdk_event_get_axis around line 308 of dyna-draw-context.cpp static void sp_dyna_draw_extinput(SPDynaDrawContext *dc, GdkEvent *event) { if (gdk_event_get_axis (event, GDK_AXIS_PRESSURE, dc-pressure)) dc-pressure =

[Bug 790130] Re: no pressure sensitivity with wacom tablet in inkscape

2011-11-05 Thread PeterKnaggs
I found that compiling Inkscape from source (rather time-consuming, even on an i3 processor) gets the pen pressure working again for a Wacom Intuos4 small tablet. The steps to build from source are described on the Inkscape wiki

[Bug 790130] Re: no pressure sensitivity with wacom tablet in inkscape

2011-11-05 Thread PeterKnaggs
Hmmm... it seems that sudo make install causes the pen pressure to stop working again, errp! So don't do that step! It seems there's something that sudo make install puts into the /usr/local/share/inkscape/palettes directory that makes the pen pressure stop working, because if I just

[Bug 790130] Re: no pressure sensitivity with wacom tablet in inkscape

2011-11-05 Thread PeterKnaggs
Ahh, perhaps we're on to something here: I noticed that if I choose e.g. the Echo Icon Theme Palette instead of using the Inkscape default palette (by clicking on the tiny palette selection arrow just to the right of the palette rectangle, which is the thing just below the drawing area), then

[Bug 235768] Re: Enhanced zoom not working with twinview enabled

2009-05-08 Thread PeterKnaggs
The hardware I'm running Jaunty on is described a bit on the folowing wiki pages. http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/LinuxHardwareInfoVelocityMicroEdgeGx335 http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/LinuxHardwareInfoNvidia9800GTX+ The second link also describes the TwinView setup and

[Bug 235768] Re: Enhanced zoom not working with twinview enabled

2009-05-08 Thread PeterKnaggs
Hi Scott, I'm running the Jaunty release at the moment: $ cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=jaunty DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=Ubuntu 9.04 I'm not sure if it's feasible to run this testcase for this bug from a live CD, as installing the nVidia restricted

[Bug 235768] Re: Enhanced zoom not working with twinview enabled

2009-05-08 Thread PeterKnaggs
Contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log are attached. There doesn't seem to be anything of interest in $HOME/.xsession-errors ** Attachment added: Contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26470592/Xorg.0.log -- Enhanced zoom not working with twinview enabled

[Bug 235768] Re: Enhanced zoom not working with twinview enabled

2009-04-26 Thread PeterKnaggs
I can confirm that with TwinView enabled, Enhanced Zoom no longer works. Attached a sample /etc/X11/xorg.conf showing TwinView configuration. ** Attachment added: /etc/X11/xorg.conf showing simple TwinView configuration. http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25989249/xorg.conf_sample -- Enhanced

[Bug 153210] Re: Pidgin does'nt connect to jabber servers (jabber plugin error)

2008-04-30 Thread PeterKnaggs
Tested that this issue is fixed in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) (libpurple0 revision 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2), so there's no longer any need to save the password, for the pidgin logins over XMPP (Jabber) to work. -- Pidgin does'nt connect to jabber servers (jabber plugin error)

[Bug 185634] Re: uvcvideo: iSight firmware loading does not work

2008-02-25 Thread PeterKnaggs
Sorry to spam everyone subscribed to this bug: I wrote up a quick summary over here: http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/LinuxHardwareInfoAppleiMac24#Update_for_Ubuntu_8_04_Hardy_Her Hope it helps anyone trying to the the iSight working on the iMac24 with alpha3 of Hardy Heron. --

[Bug 189621] [NEW] v86d missing, needed for uvesafb

2008-02-06 Thread PeterKnaggs
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: linux-image-686 The v86d userspace utility executable is missing. The v86d executable is needed by the uvesafb framebuffer VESA driver module. The uvesafb module is included in the Hardy Heron kernel. It would be great if it were possible to include

[Bug 164184] Re: dmsetup: boneheaded errors when invoked with insufficient privileges

2008-01-16 Thread PeterKnaggs
When running from the Hardy Live CD, an error still occurs as follows when doing dmsetup ls, even if sudo is used: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo dmsetup ls /proc/misc: No entry for device-mapper found Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel? Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper

[Bug 176393] Re: xterm on x86_64 intermittently segfaults when ~/XTerm contains *scrollBar: true and *saveLines: 100000

2008-01-13 Thread PeterKnaggs
Tested that this bug also reproduces in Gutsy x86 when running compiz-fusion with the open-source ati driver Section Device Identifier ATI Technologies Inc R423 UK [Radeon X800SE (PCIE)] Driver ati BusID PCI:1:0:0 EndSection This is on a Dell XPS

[Bug 176393] Re: xterm on x86_64 intermittently segfaults when ~/XTerm contains *scrollBar: true and *saveLines: 100000

2008-01-13 Thread PeterKnaggs
Tested on the XPS machine with the free ati driver http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/LinuxHardwareInfoDellDimensionXPS http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/LinuxHardwareInfoATIRadeonX800 running the Live CD of hardy-desktop-i386.iso (the January 2008 one with

[Bug 58741] Re: symbolic link libXvMCNVIDIA.so missing in package nvidia-glx

2008-01-13 Thread PeterKnaggs
Tested that the symbolic link issue is indeed fixed in Hardy Heron. The needed symbolic link is now there: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/lib$ ls -al libXvMCNVIDIA.* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 194438 2008-01-11 11:08 libXvMCNVIDIA.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2008-01-13 22:39 libXvMCNVIDIA.so.1 -

[Bug 176393] Re: xterm on x86_64 intermittently segfaults when ~/XTerm contains *scrollBar: true and *saveLines: 100000

2007-12-28 Thread PeterKnaggs
Tested that this bug also reproduces in Gutsy on x86 (not only on x86_64) when running compiz-fusion with the nVidia drivers (running Gutsy on a Dell box http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/LinuxHardwareInfoDellDimensionXPS with an nVidia 5200 card:

[Bug 176393] Re: xterm on x86_64 intermittently segfaults when ~/XTerm contains *scrollBar: true and *saveLines: 100000

2007-12-28 Thread PeterKnaggs
Tested that this bug also reproduces in Gutsy x86 when running compiz-fusion with the open-source i810 driver, on a HP/Compaq dc7600 desktop. As on x86_64, rebuilding xterm on x86 from source with debug symbols is a workaround (problem doesn't occur): sudo apt-get install libxaw-headers

[Bug 102323] Re: Compiz crashes when I rotate screen.

2007-12-28 Thread PeterKnaggs
Confirmed on Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 with Intel i810 driver on a HP/Compaq dc7600 desktop (using xrandr -o left). On the other hand, rotating works OK with compiz in Gutsy 7.10 using the nVidia restricted drivers with an nVidia 5200 card

[Bug 176393] Re: xterm on x86_64 intermittently segfaults when ~/XTerm contains *scrollBar: true and *saveLines: 100000

2007-12-18 Thread PeterKnaggs
The bug doesn't appear to be in xterm, because disabling compiz-fusion by adding the following line: export WINDOW_MANAGER=metacity to $HOME/.gnomerc causes the bug to no longer occur. The stack trace from gdb /usr/bin/xterm (i.e. without debug symbols) and doing run over and over again until

[Bug 176393] Re: xterm on x86_64 intermittently segfaults when ~/XTerm contains *scrollBar: true and *saveLines: 100000

2007-12-18 Thread PeterKnaggs
Strangely, when running valgrind /usr/bin/xterm it gives: valgrind: /usr/bin/xterm: Permission denied Whereas when running valdrind ~/xterm-229/xterm (i.e. on the one I built from the sources) gives: ==8270== Memcheck, a memory error detector. ==8270== Copyright (C) 2002-2007, and GNU GPL'd,

[Bug 176393] Re: xterm on x86_64 intermittently segfaults when ~/XTerm contains *scrollBar: true and *saveLines: 100000

2007-12-18 Thread PeterKnaggs
After installing libxt6-dbg (apt-get install libxt6-dbg) and running under gdb, it gives: $ gdb /usr/bin/xterm GNU gdb 6.6-debian Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute

[Bug 176393] Re: xterm on x86_64 intermittently segfaults when ~/XTerm contains *scrollBar: true and *saveLines: 100000

2007-12-14 Thread PeterKnaggs
The problem doesn't occur (using the same configuration file) using Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 on x86 machines, it seems to occur only on x86_64. -- xterm on x86_64 intermittently segfaults when ~/XTerm contains *scrollBar: true and *saveLines: 10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/176393 You received

[Bug 176393] xterm on x86_64 intermittently segfaults when ~/XTerm contains *scrollBar: true and *saveLines: 100000

2007-12-14 Thread PeterKnaggs
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xterm On an Apple iMac running gutsy x86_64 (see the following page for how I installed Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10) http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/LinuxHardwareInfoAppleiMac24 I get intermittent segfaults (seen in dmesg as follows) when I have these

[Bug 176393] Re: xterm on x86_64 intermittently segfaults when ~/XTerm contains *scrollBar: true and *saveLines: 100000

2007-12-14 Thread PeterKnaggs
Adding an attachment. Place this file in your $HOME to reproduce the problem: $ xterm [2] 7210 $ xterm [3] 7227 $ xterm [4] 7244 $ xterm [5] 7245 [4] Segmentation fault xterm $ xterm [6] 7262 $ xterm [7] 7279 [1] Donexterm [2] Donexterm

[Bug 176393] Re: xterm on x86_64 intermittently segfaults when ~/XTerm contains *scrollBar: true and *saveLines: 100000

2007-12-14 Thread PeterKnaggs
The problem didn't occur on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn on x86_64 (I had been previously using the same configuration file on the iMac machine when it was running Feisty Fawn, although I no longer have that environment available any more as the machine is running Gutsy now). -- xterm on x86_64

[Bug 176393] Re: xterm on x86_64 intermittently segfaults when ~/XTerm contains *scrollBar: true and *saveLines: 100000

2007-12-14 Thread PeterKnaggs
sudo apt-get install libxaw-headers libxaw7-dev libncurses5-dev $ apt-get source xterm Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Need to get 904kB of source archives. Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main xterm 229-1 (dsc) [805B] Get:2

[Bug 176393] Re: xterm on x86_64 intermittently segfaults when ~/XTerm contains *scrollBar: true and *saveLines: 100000

2007-12-14 Thread PeterKnaggs
Ah, sorry. I added -lncurses to the end of the link line, and now xterm links OK using: gcc -g -O2 -o xterm button.o cachedGCs.o charproc.o charsets.o \ cursor.o data.o doublechr.o fontutils.o input.o main.o menu.o misc.o \ print.o ptydata.o screen.o scrollbar.o tabs.o util.o xstrings.o

[Bug 153210] Re: Pidgin does'nt connect to jabber servers (jabber plugin error)

2007-12-12 Thread PeterKnaggs
The bug is still there: If you _don't_ enter your password in the Password: field of the Basic tab on the Modify Account dialog, or _don't_ check the Remember password box, then this bug still happens exactly as described above. Saving the password is only a workaround: I guess some users would

[Bug 153210] Re: Pidgin does'nt connect to jabber servers (jabber plugin error)

2007-12-11 Thread PeterKnaggs
If you enter your password in the Password: field of the Basic tab on the Modify Account dialog, and check the Remember password box, and save, then pidgin works OK with XMPP (Jabber). -- Pidgin does'nt connect to jabber servers (jabber plugin error) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/153210 You

[Bug 111511] Re: Sound doesn't work in Feisty on iMac 24

2007-07-17 Thread PeterKnaggs
I can confirm that the patch posted by nicfagn works for digital optical output (AC3 passthrough) too, see the Audio section of this page for details: http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/LinuxHardwareInfoAppleiMac24 -- Sound doesn't work in Feisty on iMac 24

[Bug 58741] Re: symbolic link libXvMCNVIDIA.so missing in package nvidia-glx

2007-04-01 Thread PeterKnaggs
** Description changed: Binary package hint: nvidia-glx I came across this when trying to ./configure mplayer with the --enable-xvmc flag to enable XvMC for nVidia, as described here: http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/LinuxHardwareInfoNvidia5200 The mplayer

[Bug 58741] Re: symbolic link libXvMCNVIDIA.so missing in package nvidia-glx

2007-04-01 Thread PeterKnaggs
** Description changed: Binary package hint: nvidia-glx I came across this when trying to ./configure mplayer with the --enable-xvmc flag to enable XvMC for nVidia, as described here: http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/LinuxHardwareInfoNvidia5200 The mplayer

[Bug 58741] symbolic link libXvMCNVIDIA.so missing in package nvidia-glx

2006-09-03 Thread PeterKnaggs
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: nvidia-glx I came across this when trying to ./configure mplayer with the --enable-xvmc flag to enable XvMC for nVidia, as described here: http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/LinuxHardwareInfoNvidia5200 The mplayer configure script

[Bug 58741] Re: symbolic link libXvMCNVIDIA.so missing in package nvidia-glx

2006-09-03 Thread PeterKnaggs
I'm not sure why the launchpad system associated this bug report with the 2.6.17 version of inux-restricted-modules. I'm using 6.06 (Dapper Drake) with updates from the web, so the actual package I'm using is: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-26-686 Also included an attachment containing output