[Bug 1917278] [NEW] Unable to reinstall grub. Started with Windows 7. Installed Ubuntu 20.04 to dual boot. Upgraded to Windows 10. Got new monitor, did not recognize Ubuntu install. Reinstalled Ubunt

2021-02-28 Thread Andrew Stevens
Public bug reported: >From what I can see, the original boot loader was not UEFI, it was legacy(not sure what that means). There are 3 primary partitions for windows and all Ubuntu was installed on an extended partition. I think the boot loader is the first primary partition that is 100 mb, but

[Bug 585263] Re: MythTV playback issue - number of reference frames exceeds max

2010-06-21 Thread Andrew Stevens
Looks like difficulties in VDPAU playback were indeed due to some junk left over from upgrades and local installs. A solid purge and re-install and VDPAU playback is working just fine (actually: much better than with 0.22-fixes under 9.10) However: CPU playback profiles which worked perfectly

[Bug 585263] Re: MythTV playback issue - number of reference frames exceeds max

2010-06-20 Thread Andrew Stevens
Further investigations revealed that the same stream parsing error and hence frame-discards/ stutters also with non-VDPAU playback profiles. I'm beginning to wonder if the upgrade wasn't quite clean on my machine. The issue is so obvious visually I can't believe there aren't hordes of

[Bug 585263] Re: MythTV playback issue - number of reference frames exceeds max

2010-06-19 Thread Andrew Stevens
Just upgraded from karmic to lucid and hit exactly this problem. VERY noticeable on the heavily inter-cut World-cup coverage on ZDF and ARD here in Germany. Seems supiciously like a reincarnation of http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/7522 this was fixed 0.22-fixes. Could it be the ffmpeg

[Bug 446146] Re: Several Huawei USB dongle don't work with kernel 2.6.31-12.40 (2.6.31.1 update related)

2009-12-18 Thread Andrew Stevens
Confirm: stock kernel 2.6.31-16.53 does not fix the issue for (my) Huawei E270. A custom kernel that includes the patch diff --git a/drivers/usb/storage/initializers.c b/drivers/usb/storage/initializers.c index 105d900..ec17c96 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/storage/initializers.c +++

[Bug 363682] Re: cx24116 firmware doesn't load - firmware corrupt

2009-12-11 Thread Andrew Stevens
Just updated my myth server (ubuntu 9.10) kernel. Boom... package still has old broken firmware in it which of course merrily over-wrote the working version copied into place after the last kernel update. (see comment #8 for the standard recipe). This urgently needs to be fixed in the ubuntu

[Bug 446146] Re: Several Huawei USB dongle don't work with kernel 2.6.31-12.40 (2.6.31.1 update related)

2009-12-02 Thread Andrew Stevens
Resultsfor my Vodafone Germany branded Huawei E270. 2.6.31-15.50 - no joy GSM modem converter disconnects leaving E270 in a confused state.Strangely unplugging and replugging works. 'apw5' - as for 15.50 'apw10' - Hurray this one works perfectly. -- Several Huawei USB dongle don't work with

[Bug 415076] Re: Can not connect to vpn using plasma-widget-networkmanagement

2009-11-26 Thread Andrew Stevens
Also confirm. An openvpn connection (X.509 with password) sim fails without any error feedback when selected. /var/log/daemon.log reveals Nov 26 14:36:51 mouldy NetworkManager: info Starting VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn'... Nov 26 14:36:51 mouldy NetworkManager: info

[Bug 342166] [NEW] adjtimex broken on AMD64 / nForce chipset

2009-03-13 Thread Andrew Stevens
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: adjtimex The version of adjtimex in hardy universe appears to have a Bug making it produce wildly inaccurate drift estimates on some mainboards. For example: r...@mouldy:/home/as# adjtimex -c=10 -d --- current ---

[Bug 253203] Re: isdn interface setup fails after gutsy to hardy upgrade

2008-10-09 Thread Andrew Stevens
I managed to track down a small patch from the kernel mailing lists for isdn_net.c that fixed the issue for 2.6.24. I believe this propagated into the main kernel a while back. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9923 -- isdn interface setup fails after gutsy to hardy upgrade

[Bug 253203] [NEW] isdn interface setup fails after gutsy to hardy upgrade

2008-07-30 Thread Andrew Stevens
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: isdnutils When starting isdn after a hardy upgrade the ifconfig in /etc/isdn/device.ippp0 (generated using isdnconfig) setting the dummy IP addresses fails with SIOCSIFFLAGS: Invalid argument Driver module is 'hisax' with option 'type=35' to select