Re: Dell Latitude Nvidia problems Re: Re: Re: Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-11-14 08:44:58 +0100, Karol Szkudlarek wrote: I have the same card and I can tell you that the nouveau driver is broken with it. See the bug mentioned above: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=640464 According to point 6 of

Dell Latitude Nvidia problems Re: Re: Re: Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-14 Thread Karol Szkudlarek
I have the same card and I can tell you that the nouveau driver is broken with it. See the bug mentioned above: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=640464 According to point 6 of http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/TroubleShooting do you tried building nouveau from the latest

Re: Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-11-12 21:52:41 +0100, Karol Szkudlarek wrote: (BTW, I plan to purchase a Lemote YeeLoong 8101B, which has only GNU/Linux support, but haven't had news from the vendor yet.) I've heard some time ago about Lemote laptops (aka Stallman recommendations!) its worth attention but they have

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-13 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:29:04 -0500 The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: Or you could try one of the laptops from ZaReason; they specialize in designing, building, and supporting laptops specifically intended to run Linux. I haven't used one myself, but they look like a good outfit

Re: Re: Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-13 Thread Karol Szkudlarek
It would be interesting to know which Debian developers have which laptops. Bugs appearing on these laptops might be fixed more easily. At least it would allow bugs to be checked and possibly reproduced more easily. I'm wondering whether any Debian developer has a G98/G98M NVIDIA card to confirm

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-13 Thread Nikolaus Rath
The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm writes: On 11/12/2012 03:52 PM, Karol Szkudlarek wrote: (BTW, I plan to purchase a Lemote YeeLoong 8101B, which has only GNU/Linux support, but haven't had news from the vendor yet.) I've heard some time ago about Lemote laptops (aka Stallman

please change subject / trim accordingly (was Re: major linux problems summary 2012)

2012-11-13 Thread Jon Dowland
Every post to this thread makes my heart that little bit heavier. Can participants please a) consider whether this is on topic to -devel and move to -user if not; b) trim quotes appropriately; c) change Subject: when the subject under discussion changes Thanks in advance. -- To

Re: Re: Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-11-13 13:23:48 +0100, Karol Szkudlarek wrote: It would be interesting to know which Debian developers have which laptops. Bugs appearing on these laptops might be fixed more easily. At least it would allow bugs to be checked and possibly reproduced more easily. I'm wondering whether

Re: Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-12 Thread Karol Szkudlarek
(BTW, I plan to purchase a Lemote YeeLoong 8101B, which has only GNU/Linux support, but haven't had news from the vendor yet.) I've heard some time ago about Lemote laptops (aka Stallman recommendations!) its worth attention but they have very wierd low resolution (1024x600), small RAM (1GB)

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-12 Thread The Wanderer
On 11/12/2012 03:52 PM, Karol Szkudlarek wrote: (BTW, I plan to purchase a Lemote YeeLoong 8101B, which has only GNU/Linux support, but haven't had news from the vendor yet.) I've heard some time ago about Lemote laptops (aka Stallman recommendations!) its worth attention but they have very

Re: Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-11 Thread Karol Szkudlarek
So Vincent we probably choose wrong laptops.. :-) Designed to run Windows. :-) ps. Thanks for links I've just look on them. ps2. Do you tried nvidia close drivers or nouveau (in the aspect suspend/resume)?! Regards, KarolSzk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-11 Thread Karol Szkudlarek
Riku, My laptop (Dell Latitude E6510) was bought without Windows pre-installed and with ubuntu installed. Regards, Karol Szk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: off topic (Re: major linux problems summary 2012)

2012-11-11 Thread Karol Szkudlarek
Bart, My reason to posting to debian-devel the lists about major linux desktop problems in 2012 (which additional are very similar to my 'using linux/ubuntu/debian-whatever' problems) was focus 'Debian developers' to real problems which had trubles many usual fans/enthusiasts of free

Re: Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-11 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-11-11 21:27:19 +0100, Karol Szkudlarek wrote: Do you tried nvidia close drivers or nouveau (in the aspect suspend/resume)?! Only nouveau (to avoid tainted kernels in particular). But I had problems with the Nvidia proprietary drivers in the past. At least the following bug has been

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/04/2012 04:54 AM, Andrej N. Gritsenko wrote: That is no case for open software as you still have no money from it, whether would you fix the bugs or not, therefore will someone use it beside you or not, it still will be for your own fun. That's the difference and I have to admit that is

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-09 Thread Riku Voipio
On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 12:03:37PM +0100, Karol Szkudlarek wrote: and about graphics freeze: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/1033263 and about touchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/606238 and about cpu fan:

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-09 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 02:36:24PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: Android didn't grab 75% of the market by providing android installation instructions for iphones - it took the market with android preinstalled on phones[3]. [3] and lots of other reasons too but let us not spoil a great analogue.

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-11-09 14:36:24 +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 12:03:37PM +0100, Karol Szkudlarek wrote: [...] and about touchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/606238 [...] Perhaps we should stop pretending Linux runs on any random hardware, and tell

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-09 Thread Philipp Kern
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 02:36:24PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: Perhaps we should stop pretending Linux runs on any random hardware, and tell people to buy machines with Linux pre-installed? System76 [1], Google [2], Dell, HP, Acer, and others do already so. Dell's shipping a heavily patched[1]

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Andrej N. Gritsenko That is no case for open software as you still have no money from it, whether would you fix the bugs or not, therefore will someone use it beside you or not, it still will be for your own fun. You seem to be confusing «open software» (sic) with non-commercial software.

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-04 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 02:37:34PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: At least with open source software, a third path (besides working around the bug or switching to some other software) also exists: you can help. That's not always practical, but at least it's *possible*. Not all problems are things

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-04 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 10:29:50PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: If there are specific issues which cannot be expressed by bug reports (e.g. because they affect more than one package), by all means raise them here one by one. You can't publish a (dynamically linked) binary that can be used on

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-04 Thread Karol Szkudlarek
2012/11/3 Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com: Hi Karol, Karol Szkudlarek wrote: I'm Debian/Ubuntu/Linux enthusiasts which loves using free operating systems on my machines, but today in 2012 I'm struggling with many problems with setup/tunning my Dell Latitude E6510 and Ubuntu and I have

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-04 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 04:01:03PM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: You can't publish a (dynamically linked) binary that can be used on most user systems You cannot make all your GUI software look the same The information density and/or applicability of those statements is too low to usefully

off topic (Re: major linux problems summary 2012)

2012-11-04 Thread Bart Martens
On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 12:03:37PM +0100, Karol Szkudlarek wrote: Karol Szkudlarek wrote: today in 2012 I'm struggling with many problems with setup/tunning my Dell Latitude E6510 and Ubuntu Currently my laptop works under Ubuntu I don't know where are also Debian specific Secondly I'm

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-04 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 12:41:13PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 04:01:03PM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: You can't publish a (dynamically linked) binary that can be used on most user systems You cannot make all your GUI software look the same The information

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Andrey Rahmatullin w...@wrar.name writes: On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 02:37:34PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: At least with open source software, a third path (besides working around the bug or switching to some other software) also exists: you can help. That's not always practical, but at least

major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-03 Thread Karol Szkudlarek
Hello All, I'm Debian/Ubuntu/Linux enthusiasts which loves using free operating systems on my machines, but today in 2012 I'm struggling with many problems with setup/tunning my Dell Latitude E6510 and Ubuntu and I have some thoughts general thoughts about Linux lacking and problems. And in the

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
Don't feed the troll. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I'm always amazed by the number of people who take up solipsism because they heard someone else explain it. - E*Borg on alt.fan.pratchett signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-03 Thread Salvo Tomaselli
Hello, In my opinion is a objective view of desktop linux problems and I would like to show it in Debian environment which always was (and is) a mission to create solid rock software. That list is quite questionable. For example: Linux/open source developers are usually not interested in

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-03 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 08:36:51PM +0100, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: Distros' repositories do not contain all available open source software well given that on github there are several toy projects, or projects made for courses that are completely useless for the users and abandoned in a few

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-03 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 07:30:00PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: Don't feed the troll. It's not trolling. It's a honest list of problems which a lot of developers don't view as problems. -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-03 Thread Игорь Пашев
These are not *linux* problems. 2012/11/3 Andrey Rahmatullin w...@wrar.name On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 07:30:00PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: Don't feed the troll. It's not trolling. It's a honest list of problems which a lot of developers don't view as problems. -- WBR, wRAR

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-03 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 12:05:23AM +0400, Игорь Пашев wrote: These are not *linux* problems. If you mean just the kernel, a large part of the list is comprised of kernel problems. 2012/11/3 Andrey Rahmatullin w...@wrar.name On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 07:30:00PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote:

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2012-11-04 at 01:56 +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 07:30:00PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: Don't feed the troll. It's not trolling. It's a honest list of problems which a lot of developers don't view as problems. He should use the BTS like everyone else.

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 01:56:08AM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 07:30:00PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: Don't feed the troll. It's not trolling. It's a honest list of problems which a lot of developers don't view as problems. It's not. If he was serious, he

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-03 Thread Andrej N. Gritsenko
Hello! Salvo Tomaselli has written on Saturday, 3 November, at 20:36: Linux/open source developers are usually not interested in fixing bugs if they cannot easily reproduce them. This problem plagues virtually all Open Source projects. Well in proprietary software you are usually required

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-03 Thread Andrej N. Gritsenko
Hello! Ben Hutchings has written on Saturday, 3 November, at 19:30: Don't feed the troll. I believe that was not trolling but rather list of what every good developer should pay attention - especially moments that give biggest inconveniences for the users. At least from my experience I

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Karol, Karol Szkudlarek wrote: I'm Debian/Ubuntu/Linux enthusiasts which loves using free operating systems on my machines, but today in 2012 I'm struggling with many problems with setup/tunning my Dell Latitude E6510 and Ubuntu and I have some thoughts general thoughts about Linux

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-03 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 09:53:53PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Don't feed the troll. It's not trolling. It's a honest list of problems which a lot of developers don't view as problems. It's not. If he was serious, he wouldn't be citing articles from 2007. Do that articles

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-03 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 08:53:24PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: Don't feed the troll. It's not trolling. It's a honest list of problems which a lot of developers don't view as problems. He should use the BTS like everyone else. A lot of things can't be expressed in a form of a bug report,

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-03 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 03:23:06AM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 08:53:24PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: Don't feed the troll. It's not trolling. It's a honest list of problems which a lot of developers don't view as problems. He should use the BTS like

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Andrey Rahmatullin w...@wrar.name writes: On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 08:53:24PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: And if he doesn't like the answers, there are plenty of other operating systems to choose from. This is dangerously close to if you think these are problems, just use a different OS, we

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-03 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 4 Nov 2012, Salvo Tomaselli tipos...@tiscali.it wrote: Linux/open source developers are usually not interested in fixing bugs if they cannot easily reproduce them. This problem plagues virtually all Open Source projects. Well in proprietary software you are usually required to