[Bug 243731] Re: uvcvideo: USB cam hangs after a few seconds (Patch available upstream)

2008-11-17 Thread romassi
My Dell Mini suffers the same problem...Sometimes all the system crashes after trying using the webcam (with any software, like cheese skype or dell video chat). I hope the solution should be soon backported to hardy (and so to the Dell Ubuntu lpia-version dedicated to Mini) due to the number

[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2007-12-14 Thread romassi
I finally fixed on my laptop (Acer Aspire 1662, Kubuntu Gutsy 7.10 - HD Hitachi Travelstar 60 GB) by editing the file: /etc/hdparm.conf with: /dev/hda { apm = 255 spindown_time = 255 } No more parking at all and non problems of over-heating. My girlfriend's laptop (Toshiba A100, Kubuntu Gutsy

[Bug 59695] Re: default value in power.sh potentially kills laptop disks

2007-10-25 Thread romassi
I think I have the same problem with my 3 years old Acer Aspire 1662wlm... My notebook has a shining new HD Hitachi 5k100 60 GB, the previous 2 Hitachi HD were broken (the first on January 2007 after more than 2 years using XP and just 6 months of using Kubuntu, the second broken on September

[Bug 153943] Re: Gdebi-kde uses massive amounts of memory!

2007-10-19 Thread romassi
I experience the same problem from tribe version of Kubuntu gutsy to the actual stable release. Nothing changed during all upgrades. No crash log for me too...the installation process with gdebi is VERY slow and resource-expensive but ends correctly. I suggest using kpackage instead of gdebi-kde

[Bug 154306] gdebi very slow - high memory usage

2007-10-19 Thread romassi
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gdebi-kde My system is Kubuntu Gutsy. When I install a package *.deb using gdebi-kde I experience an impressive growth in memory allocation (about 400 MB of physical RAM and 350 MB of Swap over the previous allocation) associated with a CPU usage near

[Bug 153926] Re: Distribution Upgrade says There are no upgrades available for your system. The upgrade will now be canceled when updating Gutsy RC to Gutsy Official

2007-10-18 Thread romassi
Same problem for me. I've installed gutsy on 3 PCs (2 notebook and 1 desktop) since the release of tribe versions and regularly-daily updated all of them. Last update found this morning (19 October). This evening I noticed the bug: the version updater option in Adept manager is active even if

[Bug 64156] adept crash - Kubuntu Edgy Beta

2006-10-05 Thread romassi
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: adept I installed Kubuntu Edgy Beta yesterday. After a pair of automatic updating of the system (with adept) now it's impossible to use Adept because it crashes whenever I launch it. Ever after booting up the system it crashes automatically and