[Bug 574250] Re: SAMSUNG N150 Laptop : Brightness issue

2011-02-28 Thread Paul Peacock
Hi all, just to add my two penn'orth: on my n150... installing the packages from voira does indeed make most of the function keys work the backlight brightness keys prompt the appearance of the notifier which indicates (to my mind) they are mapped to the correct functions _however_ backlight

[Bug 366087] Re: USB Startup Disk Creator no longer works in Ubuntu 9.04

2010-01-02 Thread Paul Peacock
Using up-to-date (x86_64) Karmic, I have the same problem. Firstly I cannot format using usb startup disk creator (not a big problem, using palimpsest to format to FAT). Using usb startup install fails with an uncaught exception error. All the files are on the USB stick apart from symlinks from

Re: [Bug 322561] Re: Ubuntu 8.10 has a very slow / sluggish graphics stack.

2009-01-31 Thread Paul Peacock
Just speculation or conjecture on my part, but does this have any relation to kernel priority scheduling? I seem to have noticed a general slowing down in Kubuntu in this release... and happened upon some threads regarding scheduling after googling processor throttling. Maybe the two are

[Bug 322561] Re: Ubuntu 8.10 has a very slow / sluggish graphics stack.

2009-01-29 Thread Paul Peacock
I was just considering posting regarding poor graphics response. Have just install kubuntu8.10 on my dell Inspiron 1520. Snowing/breakup only appears to happen on the first instance of a menu opening, thereafter whilst an app is open it doesn't seem to happen to that particular app. If I'm honest

Re: [Bug 160120] Re: Getting upgrade prerequsites failed afer Gutsy installation

2007-12-10 Thread Paul Peacock
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 153889 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/153889 Not only but also when I did a reinstall not so long ago I had to do all manner of random package cleaning and reinstalling before everything worked. On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 13:25 +, pgwulfing wrote: ***

[Bug 154113] Re: adept suggest me to upgrade to a new version just after installing gusty

2007-11-26 Thread Paul Peacock
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 153889 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/153889 Same here. A reinstall of thee packages solved it for me, along with solving the problem of being denied admin access to system settings. adept adept-batch adept-common adept-installer adept-manager adept-