Re: mulimonitor on intel using displayconfig-gtk (was Question on multi-head Dapper-Hardy upgrades)

2008-02-15 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:45:16PM +, (``-_-) -- Fernando wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 07 February 2008 19:11:26 Bryce Harrington wrote: Alright, I think I can modify displayconfig-gtk when in BPX mode to not offer to set up multi-head (which

Re: Brainstorm ML and Ubuntu's own summer of code?

2008-04-24 Thread Bryce Harrington
Hi Nicolas, This sounds like a great idea, let us know if you get strong interest from students to participate, I'd be happy to mentor for Xorg oriented tasks. Bryce On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 09:17:28PM +0200, Nicolas Deschildre wrote: Hi! [You are receiving this mail because either you are

Re: Brainstorm ML and Ubuntu's own summer of code?

2008-04-24 Thread Bryce Harrington
Btw, I've itemized a few ideas for some Ubunt-X projects here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Projects On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:29:45PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: Hi Nicolas, This sounds like a great idea, let us know if you get strong interest from students to participate, I'd be happy

Re: Configuring X with multiple drivers available

2008-04-25 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 02:22:57PM +0200, Przemys??aw Kulczycki wrote: Hi! AFAIK, in Hardy the new display configuration tool doesn't allow to choose a driver for your graphics card. The new Screen Resolution tool does graphics changes dynamically via Xrandr, without modifying the xorg.conf.

Re: synaptics driver for xorg: new feature

2008-04-29 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 02:20:17PM -0700, Ted Gould wrote: On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 19:02 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote: unlikely since it requires SHMConfig enabled by default in xorg which we wont do by default since it rips open quite a security hole (everyone, even remotely logged in people

Re: Making apt-get powercut-proof

2008-05-05 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 08:57:36PM +0100, Andrew Sayers wrote: A friend of mine was upgrading to Hardy, and (so far as we can tell) there was a power cut while it was halfway through, which left his system in a not-especially-useful state. I think the best solution is to have a

Re: Ubuntu boot speed fall in Hardy

2008-05-10 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 10:58:12AM +0100, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: I've noticed that Ubuntu's boot speed seems to have taken a fall in Hardy. Anecdotally I believe that Gutsy was the fastest but from a viewable stats perspective the fall can be seen in Feisty versus Hardy on

Re: Reusing old specs

2008-05-12 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 11:59:30PM +0200, Przemys??aw Kulczycki wrote: Hi! I have a suggestion for development of Intrepid Ibex. The Ubuntu's blueprints page currently lists over 2000 specs. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu Some of them are implemented, but not marked as such. Some of

Re: hardy release freeze, coming soon to an archive near you

2008-06-01 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 06:26:38PM +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: Il giorno gio, 10/04/2008 alle 13.59 -0700, Steve Langasek ha scritto: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/137234 because it always worked before gutsy, and it is a pity that when I

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-06-04 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 11:11:05PM +0800, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Bryce Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It could perhaps make things even easier for developers, but thats another kettle of fish. I'd be interested in hearing your further thoughts

Re: Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-06-12 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 01:29:29PM +0200, Thomas Novin wrote: On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 14:00 +0200, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote: One of the often accusations against Ubuntu is that it only takes from other projects (Debian, Red Hat, Novell/Suse...) and doesn't give back anything. Ubuntu

Re: about a crash after the lastest upgrade to this date

2008-06-19 Thread Bryce Harrington
Known issue - please see bugs #185311 and #87947. On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:25:21AM +0200, Brahim LARCHET wrote: hello i get a bugg on ubuntu the lastest ubuntu with openoffice [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ oowriter [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Locking assertion failure.

Re: The non-evil graphics card

2008-06-25 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 05:07:05PM +1000, Christopher Halse Rogers wrote: On 6/25/08, Markus Hitter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: probably some of you already read that statement of kernel developers about the opening of graphics drivers: https://

Re: Did we really release 8.04?

2008-07-07 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 12:25:40AM +0900, Emmet Hikory wrote: Scott Kitterman wrote: Setting up an automatic install / upgrade / remove / purge tester would be good, perhaps using piuparts or similar infrastructure, although this requires considerable resources in terms of local storage

Re: Did we really release 8.04?

2008-07-07 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 10:52:44PM +0300, Timo Jyrinki wrote: 2008/7/7 Emmet Hikory [EMAIL PROTECTED]: While we all tend to be busy much of the time, perhaps there are ways that we can improve the view of bugs in need of attention, or otherwise help understand which bugs are likely to be

Re: LTS and release methodology

2008-07-07 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 06:04:14PM +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote: Stability in software Why is it that 8.04 “LTS” has such a wave of new features and new versions of software that have not been time-tested to be stable? LTS releases (meant to be exceptionally stable) should not have so many

Re: LTS and release methodology

2008-07-07 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 11:14:59PM +0100, Alexander Jones wrote: 2008/7/7 Bryce Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Frequently upstream decides $TECH is too horribly broken, so they create $TECH+1 which is often a from-scratch rewrite, which often means trading one set of bugs for another

Re: Feature Request: Better partitioning wizard

2008-07-08 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 02:28:58PM +0300, Steve Goodman wrote: I just got a new computer and wanted to try Ubuntu 8.04 on it. It was very easy to install and I got up and running pretty quickly. Welcome to Ubuntu. :-) So here's my request: The partitioning wizard that I was presented with

Milestones report

2008-07-11 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:07:59AM +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: Bryce Harrington wrote on 07/07/08 21:55: On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 10:52:44PM +0300, Timo Jyrinki wrote: I'm not sure if it is even possible to sort bugs by the amount of duplicates? Yes it is; in fact I have a script

Re: Did we really release 8.04?

2008-07-15 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 09:16:04AM +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 12:10:45PM +0300, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: Matt Zimmerman wrote: If you were unaware that this was going on, perhaps we could do a better job of communicating this type of effort with the

Re: xserver-xorg-core intrepid 2:1.4.99.905-0ubuntu4 missing librecord.so (Record module)

2008-07-31 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 01:24:00PM -0400, Chris wrote: Timo Aaltonen wrote: On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Chris wrote: Hello, during the package build of xserver-xorg-core it does not --enable-record=yes. I think it should, right? The default disables it. True, xorg-server 1.5 does not

Re: xserver-xorg-core intrepid 2:1.4.99.905-0ubuntu4 missing librecord.so (Record module)

2008-07-31 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 03:46:20PM -0400, Chris wrote: Bryce Harrington wrote: On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 01:24:00PM -0400, Chris wrote: Hi, I'm a developer and require it for my own software. I went into the package and enabled it rebuilt for the time being. Isn't there some software

Re: Minutes from the Technical Board, 2008-07-15

2008-08-11 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:52:25AM +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote: == Filesystem checking / AutoFsck == A suggestion was made to the technical board that Ubuntu could be smarter about how and when it performs filesystem integrity checks (fsck). Decision: This should be discussed more widely

Re: Automatic fsck

2008-08-12 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:15:05AM +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 02:09:19PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:52:25AM +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote: == Filesystem checking / AutoFsck == A suggestion was made to the technical board

Re: Backtracing, Invalidated Bugs and Quality

2008-08-20 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:20:38AM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: Also, it seems to me that if you tell someone their bug is invalid that doesn't inspire them to come back with more information or send more bugs in the future. On the other hand, if you mark the bug as need help or similar, then

Re: git 1.6

2008-08-21 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 02:40:11PM -0500, Nehemiah Dacres wrote: will git-core 1.6 be available in hardy Hedron repositories soon or will we have to wait till intrepid Ibex because this is a LTS release? Hardy is updated only to fix bugs, not bring in new packages. At your option you can add

Re: Problem with hotkey-setup

2008-08-21 Thread Bryce Harrington
Hi Travis, Sounds like you're looking for the keyboard troubleshooting section of the wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting#Problem involves missing support for some keyboard keys On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 05:17:41AM +1000, Travis Place wrote: Hi all, First of all, im not on the

Re: Bugs marked incomplete

2008-09-01 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 11:32:20PM +0200, Wouter Stomp wrote: Hello, Bugs that are marked incomplete and subsequently get a reply from the original reporter often stay in the incomplete status. This means they automatically get closed even though the needed info was provided. I think it

Re: Bugs marked incomplete

2008-09-01 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 01:54:21AM +0200, Wouter Stomp wrote: On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Bryce Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, afaik automatic-expiration is not enabled for Ubuntu. It tracks when bugs will expire but doesn't close them without human action. Ok, so what

Re: Bugs marked incomplete

2008-09-02 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 08:04:43AM +0100, Chris Coulson wrote: Unfortunately, some triagers do just close bugs when they are marked ready to expire, without actually checking whether the reporter provided the requested information. I have re-opened one such report recently, although I don't

Re: Boot-time improvements

2008-09-09 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 08:31:33PM +0200, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: Hi Some systems have been really successful at making it *appear* as if the system starts up faster. In my opinion, where the system can't be made to boot faster, it should be made to appear so. We're right on

Re: Boot-time improvements

2008-09-10 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:01:49AM +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote on 09/09/08 19:31: ... 1. Attempt to get an X server up much sooner ... See also http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OneSecondX.

Re: Wiki lost forms (was Foundations team meeting minutes, 2008-09-10)

2008-09-12 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:00:39AM +0100, (``-_-) -- Fernando wrote: Ol?? Colin e a todos. On Thursday 11 September 2008 14:23:36 Colin Watson wrote: * lose two hours of work to the wiki deciding not to accept my new page, my browser not saving my form contents, and me not thinking

Re: Intrepid amd64 Live CD beta testing

2008-10-03 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 08:23:34PM +0200, Lo?c Martin wrote: Lo?c Martin a ?crit : Bryce Harrington a ?crit : Btw, you can also report X bugs more easily now by running this command: ubuntu-bug xorg This will automatically gather all the necessary troubleshooting files, launch

Re: Intrepid amd64 Live CD beta testing

2008-10-03 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 09:05:54PM +0200, Lo?c Martin wrote: Thanks. With Xorg.0.log I managed to troubleshot the problem - seems like the LiveCD can't run with 2 monitors plugged on an Nvidia card, even when one of the two isn't on. Since my Cintiq was disconnected, and the control box

Re: bugs

2008-10-20 Thread Bryce Harrington
This is not the right place to report bugs. Please use launchpad. Also, when reporting bugs, please find and follow the bug guidelines for the thing you're reporting bugs against. For the linux kernel, guidelines are at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeamBugPolicies More info on debugging

Re: Subversion bug

2008-10-20 Thread Bryce Harrington
You should use launchpad to report bugs, not this mailing list. For more guidance on how to report bugs, please see: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs Bryce On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:09:59AM +0300, Viacheslav Chumushuk wrote: Hello. I think You have bug at ubuntu's

Re: State of xserver-xorg-video-nv

2008-10-23 Thread Bryce Harrington
If you have a patch from upstream that you can confirm fixes the issue, I can take a look, but otherwise you're a bit too late for intrepid which is already into RC freeze. You're right that there's lots of -nv bugs; I've upstreamed several in recent weeks but they seem not to get attention

Re: Input Device Commented Out Lacks documentation

2008-11-05 Thread Bryce Harrington
Hi Dan, Would you mind going ahead and sketching this documentation in? http://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input Bryce On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 12:21:45AM -0500, Dan Colish wrote: I think there should be a link placed in the xorg document when update-manager comments out an input device to the

Re: Input Device Commented Out Lacks documentation

2008-11-05 Thread Bryce Harrington
on the subject. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=948154 Dan On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Bryce Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi Dan, Would you mind going ahead and sketching this documentation in? http://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input Bryce On Thu, Nov 06, 2008

Re: Ubuntu 8.10 significantly slower than previous versions

2008-11-06 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 03:58:51PM +0100, mr wrote: Hi, According to the recent benchmarking article by Phoronix, the previous two releases of Ubuntu are significantly slower than Feisty Fawn. In some cases this can be seen as up to 50% performance drop with certain desktop tasks. I can

Re: Ubuntu 8.10 significantly slower than previous versions

2008-11-06 Thread Bryce Harrington
Whoops, I thought you were talking about the recent article about -intel performance on x45 chips. But I see you're actually talking about an earlier article about Ubuntu performance in general: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=13022 Note that in that article they looked only at the

Re: [ubuntu-x] Fwd: Wacom tablets, TabletPC and Xorg support for Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)

2008-11-10 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 05:47:38PM +0100, Lo?c Martin wrote: 2) update the linux wacom driver to the latest (even beta) release. I think it's already the case, Intrepid use the beta driver 0.8.1.4, and Jaunty uses the 0.8.1.6. 0.8.1.4 has a bug that severly affect some users (input freeze

Re: Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions

2008-11-10 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:13:25AM +, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: John McCabe-Dansted ha scritto: OTOH hand this means that the drivers together cover more than 85%. Would it perhaps be worth making both drivers easily available on the same kernel? I guess ideally we would scan the

Re: Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions

2008-11-10 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 09:50:22PM +, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: Regarding -i810, indeed there are a few remaining corner cases where there are issues (mostly with old 8xx-era chips that Intel provides only limited support for), and I've discussed a lot of these with Intel. But I can't

Re: Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions

2008-11-10 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 08:13:52PM -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 17:05 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: However, I am beginning to think that all the cases I know are i945 - execpt for the aforementioned old laptop about which - frankly - I don't care at all

Re: Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions

2008-11-10 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:14:34PM +, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: I have done all my best for that bug - sometimes really struggling to gather debug information in time before e.g. sending the laptop out. As soon as I have a monitor at hand I will keep on. But my laptop is not the only

X.org glossary (Was Re: Announcing the Next Ubuntu Hug Day! - April 02 2009)

2009-04-14 Thread Bryce Harrington
Ever wondered why your pipe-A underruns and your EQ overflows? These and other cryptic X.org error terms now have a handy glossary available from the Ubuntu-X wiki, put together with Jesse Barnes' help for all you bug triagers: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Glossary See you for Hug Day Thursday!