[Bug 311328] Re: Add pulseaudio output support

2010-02-18 Thread Brian Rogers
It's because mythtv wants at least pulseaudio 0.9.7. From the configure script: pkg-config --atleast-version=0.9.7 libpulse However, the version of libpulse isn't defined in /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libpulse.pc, so the check fails. -- Add pulseaudio output support

[Bug 523716] [NEW] pulseaudio version defined as UNKNOWN

2010-02-18 Thread Brian Rogers
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: pulseaudio $ grep Version /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libpulse* /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libpulse-browse.pc:Version: UNKNOWN /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libpulse-mainloop-glib.pc:Version: UNKNOWN /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libpulse.pc:Version: UNKNOWN

[Bug 311328] Re: Add pulseaudio output support

2010-02-18 Thread Brian Rogers
Or, more accurately, the version is defined as UNKNOWN. I filed bug 523716 for the issue. -- Add pulseaudio output support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311328 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-02-18 Thread Brian Rogers
Version 2.8.99.901-5-g57fc09c is now available. To speed things up I'm going to wait less for feedback now. It could take us down a wrong path if a bad version happens to run stably for a while, but we'll backtrack if that happens. -- [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

[Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-02-18 Thread Brian Rogers
The package has to be built for Lucid so it can tie into the Lucid versions of its dependencies. Older versions of xserver-xorg-video-intel were failing to build on Lucid, and it looked like it may have taken some work, so I just left that for later when we found a good version that's new enough

[Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-02-18 Thread Brian Rogers
Just search for xserver-xorg-video-intel in synaptic. If you have the Lucid version from my PPA, it will say 7:2.8.99.901-5-g57fc09c+lucid in the Installed version column. If you select it and go to the package menu and choose force version you will be able to select between available versions.

[Bug 523716] Re: pulseaudio version defined as UNKNOWN, which breaks everything with build-dep on libpulse-dev

2010-02-18 Thread Brian Rogers
alsa-lib is broken. It's literally looking for ${prefix}/lib/alsa- lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so. The ${prefix} isn't being expanded at build time. Just running aplay (no parameters) gives this error: ALSA lib pcm.c:2171:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library

[Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-02-15 Thread Brian Rogers
OK, sounds like this version is good, so I've upgraded graphics-testing to 2.8.0-47-ge903b3e. -- [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-01-20 Thread Brian Rogers
OK, I've uploaded a plain 2.8.1 build, no additional patches on top of it this time. -- [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 456902] Re: [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-03-17 Thread Brian Rogers
Can you try Jaunty's kernel on Karmic and Karmic's kernel on Jaunty, to see if the difference in stability is due to the kernel versions? -- [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 324894] Re: Corrupted low memory at kernel warning on resume

2010-03-18 Thread Brian Rogers
Does anybody know if the recent kernel update fixed this? I couldn't wait for a fix and had to backup the /home directory, reformat, reinstall 9.04, and restore /home. -- Corrupted low memory at kernel warning on resume https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/324894 You received this bug notification

[Bug 534854] [NEW] indicator-applet logs 'GTK not updated' to disk every 30 seconds

2010-03-08 Thread Brian Rogers
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: indicator-applet indicator-applet is writing to the disk on my laptop every 30 seconds, keeping the drive spinning. Here's the output with timestamps added: $ tail -f -n 0 .cache/indicator-applet.log | xargs -d\\n -n 1 bash -c 'echo `date` $0' Mon Mar

[Bug 534854] Re: indicator-applet logs 'GTK not updated' to disk every 30 seconds

2010-03-08 Thread Brian Rogers
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/40556071/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: ProcMaps.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/40556072/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: ProcStatus.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/40556073/ProcStatus.txt ** Attachment

[Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-02-22 Thread Brian Rogers
2.8.99.901-16-g7e7db7a just got done building. If you could verify if that version also freezes, it'd be a good sanity check. I'm going to upload a version between 2.8.99.901-5-g57fc09c and 2.8.99.901-12-g2cc1f3c now, and it might take an hour or so to build. -- [i845G] Karmic stops responding

[Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-02-23 Thread Brian Rogers
Based on the reports from Flabdablet, I have backed up a bit to a build between 2.8.0-8-g12c5aec and 2.8.0-47-ge903b3e. 2.8.0-27-g926c7e7 is now uploaded. -- [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You received this bug notification

[Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-02-23 Thread Brian Rogers
The system deletes old packages after a while, so that one isn't available any more. But now I sent in a build of 2.8.0, which will get built when it works its way through the queue. You've been having a lot of luck reproducing the hang, which is good, but I want to double-check that you're

[Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-02-24 Thread Brian Rogers
Yeah, that's definitely a GPU hang. 2.7.0 has been uploaded and should build eventually. If you have problems getting this version to run at all, you may have to boot with i915.modeset=0 in your kernel parameters. -- [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

[Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-01-25 Thread Brian Rogers
When this bug is resolved, we'll be able to go back to the new driver with the bugfix added, and things will be fast again as well as stable. One reason I just realized for why graphics-testing is slower is that by reverting libdrm but not mesa, I broke opengl acceleration. It was just silently

[Bug 404064] Re: KMS error message while intializing modesetting (during boot and resume) - render error detected, EIR: 0x00000010 [i915]

2010-01-26 Thread Brian Rogers
MarcH, it sounds like your backlight is not being switched back on when you resume. This is most likely unrelated to the EIR render error, but the EDID error probably has something to do with it. I'd file a separate bug about the backlight not coming back on. -- KMS error message while

[Bug 324894] Re: Corrupted low memory at kernel warning on resume

2010-01-26 Thread Brian Rogers
This started on my mother-in-law's laptop when she upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10. Laptop is a Compaq Evo N800v. Seems to be triggered by suspend/resume or heavy video usage. A reboot tends to find the filesystem corrupted. A coupe of days ago, I had to rescue the contents of the /home directory

[Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-01-28 Thread Brian Rogers
OK, xserver-xorg-video-intel 2.8.1-1 has now been posted. -- [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-02-04 Thread Brian Rogers
Apparently there's a generic X memory corruption bug triggered by the x11perf command I gave (I can crash Xephyr with it). When X crashes out rather than freezing, it's because of that. So it turns out this isn't a good test of the driver. I did witness freezing in some scenarios with this

[Bug 621911] [NEW] Bluetooth device not detected

2010-08-21 Thread Brian Rogers
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: udev I have the following Bluetooth dongle: Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0a5c:2101 Broadcom Corp. Bluetooth Controller With version 161+git20100820-1 of udev, the device is not detected and bluetoothd is not started. Downgrading to 151-12 makes it work again.

[Bug 621911] Re: Bluetooth device not detected

2010-08-21 Thread Brian Rogers
** Attachment added: BootDmesg.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/621911/+attachment/1508933/+files/BootDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: CurrentDmesg.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/621911/+attachment/1508934/+files/CurrentDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt

[Bug 609447] Re: gpartedbin crashed with signal 5 in Glib::exception_handlers_invoke()

2010-09-21 Thread Brian Rogers
Compiling from the original source produces a working gparted. Applying the patch 02-btrfs.patch breaks it again. -- gpartedbin crashed with signal 5 in Glib::exception_handlers_invoke() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/609447 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 626974] Re: ABI change in xorg 1.9 breaks legacy nvidia-96 and nvidia-173 drivers in Maverick

2010-10-10 Thread Brian Rogers
Hardeep, you should file a new bug report for that. It's not related to this bug. -- ABI change in xorg 1.9 breaks legacy nvidia-96 and nvidia-173 drivers in Maverick https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/626974 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 630536] Re: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in g_variant_builder_add_value()

2010-09-18 Thread Brian Rogers
** Visibility changed to: Public -- nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in g_variant_builder_add_value() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/630536 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 541492] Re: MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)

2010-09-18 Thread Brian Rogers
Maverick now defaults to using the fbdev xorg driver by default instead of intel for i8xx chips, and this should work around the freezing bug. -- MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541492 You received this bug notification

[Bug 609447] Re: gpartedbin crashed with signal 5 in Glib::exception_handlers_invoke()

2010-09-20 Thread Brian Rogers
Doesn't seem to help... -- gpartedbin crashed with signal 5 in Glib::exception_handlers_invoke() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/609447 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 609447] Re: gpartedbin crashed with signal 5 in Glib::exception_handlers_invoke()

2010-09-20 Thread Brian Rogers
I used Ubuntu Maverick's gparted and added that patch. -- gpartedbin crashed with signal 5 in Glib::exception_handlers_invoke() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/609447 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 640058] Re: [xorg-edgers] X server crash with intel driver when using shadow option

2010-10-02 Thread Brian Rogers
Yeah, it's expected that you'll get software rendering with that option turned on. It's a safe mode that can't use OpenGL. Now that it correctly uses software rendering instead of crashing, I'll mark this as fixed. ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) Status: New = Fix

[Bug 476817] Re: [i855] [karmic] X freezes with intel 855GM videocard

2010-09-13 Thread Brian Rogers
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 541511 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541511 I'm going to dupe this against the master bug report for i855 freezing issues, and follow up on the periodic freezing issue there. ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 541511 MASTER: [i855] GPU

[Bug 541511] Re: MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)

2010-09-13 Thread Brian Rogers
A real fix was posted for the invisible cursor issue, so I incorporated it into linux-image-2.6.35-ppa21+v9patch-generic (building now). As for the periodic freezing issue, that is covered by this bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29536 The patches there don't apply cleanly to

[Bug 541492] Re: MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)

2010-09-13 Thread Brian Rogers
My shadow branch PPA is now obsolete because the code was committed upstream. So now you only need xorg-edgers and the xorg.conf changes to enable a shadow buffer. Jean-Marie, do you observe the glxinfo-triggered segfault if you remove my shadow branch PPA and switch the xserver-xorg-video-intel

[Bug 433654] Re: Only one user gets sound with privilege Use audio devices

2010-09-13 Thread Brian Rogers
Access audio hardware directly might be a more accurate description, but I don't have a strong preference. -- Only one user gets sound with privilege Use audio devices https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/433654 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 541511] Re: MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)

2010-09-13 Thread Brian Rogers
://launchpad.net /~brian-rogers/+archive/graphics-fixes To use this fixed kernel, run the following commands: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:brian-rogers/graphics-fixes sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade - sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.35-ppa20+v9patch-generic + sudo apt-get

[Bug 541511] Re: MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)

2010-09-13 Thread Brian Rogers
The invisible cursor fix will be sent to stable and make it into Maverick that way. I don't know if it will make it in before release, though. As for the stability fix, Daniel Vetter has said the following: I haven't upstreamed the patch for a few reasons: - It's an extremely ugly approach,

[Bug 541511] Re: MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)

2010-09-13 Thread Brian Rogers
In Fedora's kernel package: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=kernel.git;a=tree;h=refs/heads/f13/master;hb=f13/master I see drm-intel-big-hammer.patch. That's a patch that improved stability somewhat, but didn't quite solve the problem. My testcase could still kill the system. It also

[Bug 58307] Re: --append-to-version breaks make-kpkg kernel build

2010-09-13 Thread Brian Rogers
12.036 fixes this. I have it in my PPA: https://launchpad.net/~brian- rogers/+archive/ppa ** Changed in: kernel-package (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed -- --append-to-version breaks make-kpkg kernel build https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/58307 You received this bug notification

[Bug 623923] Re: gtk-window-decorator crashed with SIGFPE in g_hash_table_lookup_node()

2010-09-14 Thread Brian Rogers
** Changed in: appmenu-gtk (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid = Fix Committed -- gtk-window-decorator crashed with SIGFPE in g_hash_table_lookup_node() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/623923 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 456902] Re: [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-05-23 Thread Brian Rogers
That's the information page for the PPA. You'll find instructions for adding it there. But my 'experimental' PPA with a patched kernel is a better option: https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/experimental To add it, add this to your sources: ppa:brian-rogers/experimental Then after

[Bug 524281] Re: Tens of wakes per second in [kernel scheduler] Load balancing tick on Core 2 Duo even with only 1 core enabled

2010-05-25 Thread Brian Rogers
This is a kernel bug that needs to be (and is being) fixed by upstream kernel developers. -- Tens of wakes per second in [kernel scheduler] Load balancing tick on Core 2 Duo even with only 1 core enabled https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/524281 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 624701] Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)

2010-09-16 Thread Brian Rogers
OK, I neglected to go back and look at the Maverick kernel code until now. Here's a version based on Maverick's code. I also tested this on top of Ubuntu-2.6.35-22.32 and verified that: * LIRC no longer crashes * no oops message * I can look and poke at /sys/class/rc/rc0/protocols without

[Bug 456902] Re: [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-09-17 Thread Brian Rogers
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 541492 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541492 This appears to be the same problem as bug 541492. It's just that most people weren't hitting the bug with any degree of frequency until Lucid. Duping. ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 541492

[Bug 640058] Re: [xorg-edgers] X server crash with intel driver when using shadow option

2010-09-17 Thread Brian Rogers
Yeah, ubuntu-bug won't upload a bug report on an unofficial package version. It also gathers and attaches the output of glxinfo in its graphics-related bug reports, so it's pretty useless when the bug report is glxinfo crashes X. :) Do you have a machine to SSH into the affected system from? I

[Bug 527458] Re: please include status messages/tooltips

2010-03-24 Thread Brian Rogers
Agreed. I'm not too invested in the outcome of this bug report myself, but it is odd that the indicator applets are the only things without tooltips. Everything else has a tooltip saying what it is and/or what it does, even the Applications/Places/System menu. -- please include status

[Bug 456902] Re: [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-03-25 Thread Brian Rogers
There are potential fixes for this in the upstream development version. I uploaded it for Lucid to the following PPA: https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/experimental I can't simply upload this version for Karmic because it requires new versions of support libraries, but I can backport

[Bug 476817] Re: [i855] [i855] [karmic] X freezes with intel 855GM videocard

2010-03-25 Thread Brian Rogers
There are potential fixes for this in the upstream development version. I uploaded it for Lucid to the following PPA: https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/experimental I can't simply upload this version for Karmic because it requires new versions of support libraries, but I can backport

[Bug 456902] Re: [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-03-26 Thread Brian Rogers
OK, at this point, I recommend the xorg-edgers PPA for testing. It now has the newest xserver-xorg-video-intel driver, as well as libdrm and Xorg. Updating just the first part may have caused some stability issues. Does xorg-edgers experience the freezing issue? -- [i845g] Karmic stops

[Bug 456902] Re: [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-03-26 Thread Brian Rogers
Oh, here is the link: https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa -- [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 456902] Re: [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-03-29 Thread Brian Rogers
Flabdablet, can you try Lucid + xorg-edgers? The upstream driver has additional bugfixes that may be relevant. -- [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-01-11 Thread Brian Rogers
Since most people are getting the freeze randomly, it's possible for it to seem stable purely by chance and not because you're running a good version. I believe that happened with 2.8.0.901, which has now been reported as both good and bad. So it helps to have as many testers as possible. We want

[Bug 506173] Re: MSN plugin and WLM plugin both not work

2010-01-12 Thread Brian Rogers
** Changed in: pidgin (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- MSN plugin and WLM plugin both not work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/506173 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 506647] Re: I Can't login at the ICQ servers unexpectet answer from http://api.oscar.aol.com/aim/startOSCARSession

2010-01-12 Thread Brian Rogers
Also affects ICQ, so I updated the title and changed the message to the English message. ** Changed in: pidgin (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed ** Summary changed: - I Can't login at the ICQ servers unexpectet answer from http://api.oscar.aol.com/aim/startOSCARSession; + Can't login to

[Bug 506173] Re: MSN plugin and WLM plugin both not work

2010-01-12 Thread Brian Rogers
Sorry, confirmed by accident. Meant to confirm a different bug. ** Changed in: pidgin (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = New -- MSN plugin and WLM plugin both not work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/506173 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 420594] Re: [i845] xorg hang video driver 2.8.1-1ubuntu1

2010-01-13 Thread Brian Rogers
Due to an ABI change in Xorg 1.7, the older binary packages built against 1.6 won't work, so new packages have to be recompiled for 1.7. And unfortunately I wasn't able to easily compile the older driver versions on Lucid. I didn't investigate yet how much work it'd take to work around this

[Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-01-13 Thread Brian Rogers
OK, with two reports of stability, that version does appear to be good. I've now uploaded 2.8.0-2-gb0aa94f. -- [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-03-01 Thread Brian Rogers
If you never added my PPA, does that mean you never downgraded libdrm or mesa? That might be a factor in being able to reproduce the freeze in such old xserver-xorg-video-intel versions. -- [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You

[Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-03-01 Thread Brian Rogers
OK, I see where you specify libdrm 2.4.14-1ubuntu1. You could be getting freezes because of a libdrm bug in the newer version. -- [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-03-02 Thread Brian Rogers
I could lower the delay, but if it froze we wouldn't know if that was because a delay doesn't fix the problem or because the delay was too short. -- [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 456902] Re: [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-03-02 Thread Brian Rogers
I'm preparing post-Jaunty versions of libdrm and the intel driver, so we can step forward and find the first broken version, hopefully with fewer problems than running these old versions in Karmic. -- [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

[Bug 456902] Re: [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-03-03 Thread Brian Rogers
OK, I have libdrm 2.4.11 for Jaunty and a rebuild of the Intel driver queued up. -- [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-01-31 Thread Brian Rogers
I found another way to freeze the system. For me, the following command will usually trigger a freeze before it completes: x11perf -range copywinpix10,comppixwin500 -time 1 -repeat 1 I'd like to find out if that freeze is connected to this one. If it is, then we have a good, reproducible test

[Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-01-31 Thread Brian Rogers
shadetree, what version of libdrm, mesa, and xserver-xorg-video-intel is that result for? Did you get 2.8.1-1 to start without crashing? Or did you revert to an earlier version, or to standard Karmic? -- [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

[Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-02-02 Thread Brian Rogers
OK, version 2.8.0-8-g12c5aec is up. -- [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 456902] Re: [i845G] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-02-03 Thread Brian Rogers
manually, type sudo dpkg -i filename The file you want might still be in /var/cache/apt/archives. If not, here is the archive of past versions: https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/graphics-testing/+packages?field.name_filter=field.status_filter=field.series_filter=karmic It's good to save

[Bug 456902] Re: [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-03-10 Thread Brian Rogers
Flabdablet, any console switching issues are most likely separate bugs that have already been fixed in newer versions. Only random freezing during general use is important. Do you see that with my current Jaunty PPA packages? crazybyte, the best workaround is probably using nomodeset and setting

[Bug 456902] Re: [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in

2010-03-13 Thread Brian Rogers
That's interesting because those are essentially the same versions that were unstable for you in Karmic. Can you attach /var/log/Xorg.0.log for both Karmic and Jaunty running graphics-testing? -- [i845g] Karmic stops responding a few minutes after log in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456902

[Bug 625644] [NEW] package llvm-2.8 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/lli-2.8', which is also in package llvm-2.8-runtime 2.8~20100826-0ubuntu1

2010-08-27 Thread Brian Rogers
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: llvm-2.8 The latest version can't fully install. ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: llvm-2.8 (not installed) ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.26-generic 2.6.35.3 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64

[Bug 625644] Re: package llvm-2.8 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/lli-2.8', which is also in package llvm-2.8-runtime 2.8~20100826-0ubuntu1

2010-08-27 Thread Brian Rogers
** Attachment added: AptOrdering.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/625644/+attachment/1524151/+files/AptOrdering.txt ** Attachment added: Df.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/625644/+attachment/1524152/+files/Df.txt ** Attachment added: Dmesg.txt

[Bug 623923] Re: gtk-window-decorator crashed with SIGFPE in g_hash_table_lookup_node()

2010-08-27 Thread Brian Rogers
** Package changed: indicator-appmenu (Ubuntu) = appmenu-gtk (Ubuntu) -- gtk-window-decorator crashed with SIGFPE in g_hash_table_lookup_node() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/623923 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 541511] Re: MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)

2010-08-28 Thread Brian Rogers
://launchpad.net /~brian-rogers/+archive/graphics-fixes To use this fixed kernel, run the following commands: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:brian-rogers/graphics-fixes sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade - sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.34-v9patch-generic + sudo apt-get install

[Bug 541511] Re: MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)

2010-08-28 Thread Brian Rogers
Sorry, the instructions at the top of this bug were outdated and referenced an older version of the patched kernel. I fixed that now. Here's the command to install the newest kernel in my PPA: sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.35-v9patch1-generic If you're still on 9.04 these instructions

[Bug 541511] Re: MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)

2010-08-30 Thread Brian Rogers
Developer Chris Wilson has published a branch of xserver-xorg-video- intel which accesses the graphics card differently and avoids the kinds of operations that cause problems with the old chipsets. I created a PPA for it: https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive /intel-shadow This branch

[Bug 541492] Re: MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)

2010-08-30 Thread Brian Rogers
Developer Chris Wilson has published a branch of xserver-xorg-video- intel which accesses the graphics card differently and avoids the kinds of operations that cause problems with the old chipsets. I created a PPA for it: https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive /intel-shadow This branch

[Bug 541492] Re: MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)

2010-08-30 Thread Brian Rogers
Skip, if you haven't wiped your 10.04 system yet, what happens if you remove the 'Option Shadow True' part? I'm curious if the shadow buffer mode is introducing a new problem or just not fixing an existing problem. If normal 10.04 fails to even show the login screen, then how did you get that

[Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

2010-08-30 Thread Brian Rogers
I've updated my PPA to include the new scheduler patches with version 2.6.35-iofix+19.28. For Lucid, I've provided both a patched and unpatched backport of Maverick's 2.6.35 kernel so they can be compared with each other to see the effect of just the patches. -- Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop

[Bug 541511] Re: MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)

2010-08-31 Thread Brian Rogers
Yeah, the shadow buffer mode does disable OpenGL. I forgot to mention it. It's a sort of safe mode that's a more functional alternative to the vesa driver. I'm refreshing the kernels in my graphics-fixes PPA, since 2.6.35-v9patch1 is getting kind of stale. There have been relevant fixes in the

[Bug 541511] Re: MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)

2010-08-31 Thread Brian Rogers
://launchpad.net /~brian-rogers/+archive/graphics-fixes To use this fixed kernel, run the following commands: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:brian-rogers/graphics-fixes sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade - sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.35-v9patch1-generic + sudo apt-get install

[Bug 541492] Re: MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)

2010-08-31 Thread Brian Rogers
John, comments like yours aren't useful. If you don't want to test something that might solve your problem, you're completely free to keep quiet. -- MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541492 You received this bug notification

[Bug 541492] Re: MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)

2010-09-08 Thread Brian Rogers
2.6.35-20 blacklists KMS on the problematic cards. X is then supposed to fall back to vesa. If it doesn't, a bug should be filed for that. If falling back to vesa has enough problems of its own, that decision might be reversed. i915.modeset=1 will override the blacklist, so you can always turn

[Bug 541492] Re: MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)

2010-09-08 Thread Brian Rogers
Also, to catch up with an older comment... John, Intrepid's driver can't be built for a newer system. I'm also not sure it would solve the problem if someone forward-ported it. As far as I can tell, the driver has always been broken for these chipsets, but was being used in just the right

[Bug 624701] Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)

2010-09-08 Thread Brian Rogers
** Description changed: - Something like half the time when my system starts, I get an oops in - dmesg, which appears to be related to the IR receiver in my TV tuner. - This problem didn't happen in Lucid's 2.6.32 kernel. So far I haven't - witnessed any harmful effects. + When my system starts,

[Bug 541492] Re: MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?)

2010-09-08 Thread Brian Rogers
Yeah, a separate bug should be filed because it means either the system failed to fallback to vesa when KMS wasn't available or the vesa driver didn't work right. -- MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541492 You received this bug

[Bug 633452] [NEW] MythTV Backend fails to record audio, due to PulseAudio

2010-09-08 Thread Brian Rogers
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: mythtv I have my MythTV backend set up to record audio directly from an ALSA device provided by my capture card. Most attempts to record produce the following errors in mythbackend.log: 2010-09-08 11:42:36.208 AudioInALSA(tuner) Error: pcm open failed:

[Bug 625239] Re: X starts on wrong tty: pressing enter after 5 minutes crashes X

2010-09-10 Thread Brian Rogers
I'd like to point out that this isn't just an nvidia bug. It was originally filed for an ati card, and I'm seeing the problem with intel graphics. It's most likely a kernel/VT bug. -- X starts on wrong tty: pressing enter after 5 minutes crashes X https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/625239 You

[Bug 476817] Re: [i855] [karmic] X freezes with intel 855GM videocard

2010-09-11 Thread Brian Rogers
The kernels in the experimental PPA are all outdated. The new kernels are in graphics-fixes: https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive /graphics-fixes Try linux-image-2.6.35-ppa20+v9patch-generic. If X starts but the cursor is invisible, then try linux-image-2.6.35-ppa20+v9+cursorfix-generic

[Bug 524281] Re: Tens of wakes per second in [kernel scheduler] Load balancing tick on Core 2 Duo even with only 1 core enabled

2010-08-24 Thread Brian Rogers
Based on devsk's comment, I've uploaded two kernels for lucid to my power-saving PPA: https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/power The first, 2.6.35-0unpatched+18.24~lucid, is essentially just maverick's 2.6.35-18.24 built for lucid. Note that despite the name 'unpatched', it still has

[Bug 597094] Re: [q35] compiz causes SDL surfaces to stop animating

2010-08-24 Thread Brian Rogers
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel Remote watch: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #29054 = freedesktop.org Bugzilla #28573 -- [q35] compiz causes SDL surfaces to stop animating https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/597094 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 524281] Re: Tens of wakes per second in [kernel scheduler] Load balancing tick on Core 2 Duo even with only 1 core enabled

2010-08-24 Thread Brian Rogers
I want to do a controlled test. On lucid, I'm interested in how 2.6.35-0unpatched+18.24~lucid and 2.6.35-power+18.24~lucid compare. On maverick, I'm interested in how 2.6.35-18.24 and 2.6.35-power+18.24 compare. Basically, I'm investigating devsk's comment about the effect of certain config

[Bug 607379] Re: thunderbird-bin crashed with SIGSEGV while using quick-search field

2010-08-26 Thread Brian Rogers
I haven't seen this problem since Thunderbird 3.1. ** Changed in: thunderbird (Ubuntu) Status: New = Fix Released -- thunderbird-bin crashed with SIGSEGV while using quick-search field https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/607379 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 624701] [NEW] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)

2010-08-26 Thread Brian Rogers
Public bug reported: Something like half the time when my system starts, I get an oops in dmesg, which appears to be related to the IR receiver in my TV tuner. This problem didn't happen in Lucid's 2.6.32 kernel. So far I haven't witnessed any harmful effects. I just got a second oops after

[Bug 624701] Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)

2010-08-26 Thread Brian Rogers
** Attachment added: .etc.asound.conf.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/624701/+attachment/1520473/+files/.etc.asound.conf.txt ** Attachment added: AcpiTables.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/624701/+attachment/1520474/+files/AcpiTables.txt ** Attachment added: AlsaDevices.txt

[Bug 623923] Re: gtk-window-decorator crashed with SIGFPE in g_hash_table_lookup_node()

2010-08-26 Thread Brian Rogers
This happens every time on the second alt-space. I don't think the crash dump contains personal data, and since the apport retracing service appears to be non-functional right now, I'll go ahead and make this public. libappmenu seems to be implicated. ** Visibility changed to: Public **

[Bug 617959] [NEW] kernel BUG at /build/buildd/linux-2.6.35/fs/btrfs/volumes.c:1980!

2010-08-14 Thread Brian Rogers
Public bug reported: This oops happens during a btrfs filesystem balance / immediately after the following messages in dmesg: [18909.687127] btrfs: relocating block group 511130468352 flags 1 [18910.145061] btrfs_readpage_end_io_hook: 18 callbacks suppressed [18910.145066] btrfs csum failed ino

[Bug 617959] Re: kernel BUG at /build/buildd/linux-2.6.35/fs/btrfs/volumes.c:1980!

2010-08-14 Thread Brian Rogers
** Attachment added: AcpiTables.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/617959/+attachment/1490448/+files/AcpiTables.txt ** Attachment added: AlsaDevices.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/617959/+attachment/1490449/+files/AlsaDevices.txt ** Attachment added: AplayDevices.txt

[Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

2010-08-18 Thread Brian Rogers
I've set up a PPA here: https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/io- kernel A Maverick kernel is building right now. The patch didn't cleanly apply to Lucid's kernel. Is there a version of the patch that's already been backported to 2.6.32? -- Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

[Bug 541511] Re: MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)

2010-09-01 Thread Brian Rogers
I found a bug report for the invisible cursor issue. It's bug 614176 here and upstream here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29413 When there's a fix, I'll put up a new kernel including it. I'll be providing maverick kernels soon as well, so once the cursor bug is fixed, maverick

[Bug 616023] Re: nVidia card : X won't start since 1.9 update, no screens found

2010-09-03 Thread Brian Rogers
Does adding Option UseEvents True into your xorg.conf's Device section help? That option has always improved things for me. -- nVidia card : X won't start since 1.9 update, no screens found https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/616023 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 541511] Re: MASTER: [i855] GPU lockup (apport-crash)

2010-09-04 Thread Brian Rogers
://launchpad.net /~brian-rogers/+archive/graphics-fixes To use this fixed kernel, run the following commands: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:brian-rogers/graphics-fixes sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade - sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.35-v9patch+19-generic + sudo apt-get install

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