[Bug 208324] Re: aumix dependency missing

2008-06-24 Thread godlygeek
Just bumped into this problem on my girlfriend's laptop; took me half an hour to impulsively decide to install aumix after noticing it was mentioned in keyboard shortcuts. This is definitely a packaging problem that ought to be fixed before Intrepid. Does anyone have any clue why this only

[Bug 219546] Re: vim crashed using rails.vim on Hardy

2008-05-08 Thread godlygeek
Upstream patch 7.1.295 added gvimtutor. To use my build instructions now, in addition to getting the latest upstream patches we need to modify the deb build rules to know how to handle the extra binary that they weren't expecting. Try these commands instead: http://pastebin.com/m317ae06e --

[Bug 206921] Re: MacBook brightness adjustment does not work in Hardy

2008-04-22 Thread godlygeek
This patch should fix it. Problem is that we're doing bitwise arithmetic on a signed long that happens to be negative. Wackiness ensues, making the result an invalid offset for mmap(). Changing the long to unsigned fixes it. ** Attachment added: mmap() patch against hal-0.5.11~rc2

[Bug 206921] Re: MacBook brightness adjustment does not work in Hardy

2008-04-22 Thread godlygeek
This patch should fix it. Problem is that we're doing bitwise arithmetic on a signed long that happens to be negative. Wackiness ensues, making the result an invalid offset for mmap(). Changing the long to unsigned fixes it. ** Attachment added: mmap() patch against hal-0.5.11~rc2

[Bug 113244] g-p-m does not allow using battery percentage for policy in feisty

2007-05-07 Thread godlygeek
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager In my experience, it does not seem to be possible to get g-p-m to use battery percent remaining, rather than battery time remaining, as the metric determining the current power state. Steps to reproduce: 1. open gconf-editor 2.