Re: feature request: 32 vs 64 bit info in System Monitor

2011-06-26 Thread Daniel Chen
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Vernon Cole vernondc...@gmail.com wrote: I manage many Ubuntu systems, and I often forget which ones are running 64 bit version of Ubuntu, and which are 32 bit. It would be really nice if there were a quick way to tell.  The System tab on System Monitor would

Re: Pulseaudio dependency, if Debian can do it ...

2011-06-25 Thread Daniel Chen
Hi, On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 4:21 AM, rosea.grammostola rosea.grammost...@gmail.com wrote: 1) Fedora, OpenSuse and Debian etc. aren't building their distro especially for this group. Not being involved with Fedora or openSUSE closely, I can't comment on them, but Debian doesn't ship a desktop

Re: Pulseaudio dependency, if Debian can do it ...

2011-06-24 Thread Daniel Chen
Hi, On Jun 24, 2011 7:10 AM, rosea.grammostola rosea.grammost...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, A group of (professional) Linuxaudio users prefer to have a system without Pulseaudio. How nice Pulseaudio can be for 'consumer audio', it can be a pain on a professional audio system. That's why some people

Re: jags too old on lucid

2011-05-09 Thread Daniel Chen
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Peng Yu pengyu...@gmail.com wrote: I'm wondering if anybody can get JAGS updated on lucid. Thanks. Please see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports#How%20to%20request%20new%20packages -Dan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Re: GNOME Panel dropped in 11.10

2011-05-04 Thread Daniel Chen
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Francis Bolduc fbol...@gmail.com wrote: ... I'm a software developer and I like to have updated development tools every 6 months ... I'm left with this dilemma. Neither Unity nor GNOME Shell fits my needs. What am I going to do in 6 months? A false dichotomy.

Re: Natty with Stock Linux 2.6.38 Awful - Custom 2.6.39-rc5 Great

2011-04-27 Thread Daniel Chen
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Tony Atkinson tatkinson...@googlemail.com wrote: Tomorrow, I'm going to be compiling a vanilla .38 kernel, to try and narrow down exactly where the issue with the natty kernel is, but thought I'd post here first, prior to filing a bug, just to make sure this

Re: udev ignore_device removed why?

2010-11-18 Thread Daniel Chen
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 2:55 PM, pere lengo perele...@hotmail.com wrote: I've tried to make a rule for udev, but it doesn't work because in version 10.0.4 the OPTION ignore_device has been removed. Rationale given in the release notes for udev 148, see http://lwn.net/Articles/364728/ Would

Re: is python-pymtp maintained?

2010-09-25 Thread Daniel Chen
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Fergal Daly fer...@esatclear.ie wrote: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pymtp/+bug/575091 is 4 months old, has 2 patches to fix this library (which is completely broken in lucid) but no one on the Ubuntu side has responded, Alas, I'm sure this is due

Re: is python-pymtp maintained?

2010-09-25 Thread Daniel Chen
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Fergal Daly fer...@esatclear.ie wrote: The first attachment is a patch (not a new version of the file) and has no extraneous whitespace. I see only one attachment for that bug report,

Re: Defaults and behaviour of PC Speaker in future Ubuntu *Server* releases

2010-09-12 Thread Daniel Chen
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Yaniv Aknin ya...@aknin.name wrote: (2) Due to unknown reasons, removing the blacklist is insufficient to return PC speaker functionality, as can be seen at #398161 and especially #486154. pcspkr doesn't drive all hardware, and the emergence of HDA (and

Re: Defaults and behaviour of PC Speaker in future Ubuntu *Server* releases

2010-09-12 Thread Daniel Chen
Daniel Chen writes: Fortunately, one can reenable the beep driver at runtime via a sysfs echo. On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Akkana Peck akk...@shallowsky.com wrote: Could you elaborate on that? I'm not having much luck googling, just a few people saying they couldn't find a command

Re: is sawfish maintained on ubuntu?

2010-07-01 Thread Daniel Chen
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Fergal Daly fer...@esatclear.ie wrote: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sawfish/+bug/433358 Thanks for bringing this bug to our attention. I have taken ownership of this report, have isolated a git changeset, and will be working through a

Re: Is Ubuntu commited to free software?

2010-06-09 Thread Daniel Chen
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Danny Piccirillo danny.picciri...@ubuntu.com wrote: * This would require supporting the linux libre kernel (it doesn't have to be by default, but the option should be available. On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com wrote: No. It

Re: Linux Kernel

2010-06-04 Thread Daniel Chen
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 5:05 AM, Volovikov Taras wizard160...@mail.ru wrote: Which version of the kernel you plan to include in Ubuntu 10.10? I believe that if you want to use btrfs, the better it will be 2.6.35 or later. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-May/030764.html --

Re: Removal of PulseAudio from Ubuntu

2010-05-16 Thread Daniel Chen
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:53 PM, I.E.G. kopci...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for the rambling , non technical dissertation but I felt we the users(if I dare speak for more than myself)  needed to be heard . For a long time I have felt that there is an artificial disconnect between users and

Re: Including a system-wide pulseaudio equalizer

2010-05-12 Thread Daniel Chen
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:03 AM, sam tygier samtyg...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: The solution to bugs like this is to make apport upload the equalizer settings (i think it already does with the volume settings). It uploads the *alsa* mixer perspective, which may be desynced from pulse's idea of those

Re: Including a system-wide pulseaudio equalizer

2010-05-12 Thread Daniel Chen
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:36 AM, sam tygier samtyg...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: is it technically possible/easy to upload pulse's state as well? Sure, pacmd list-sinks. Best, -Dan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: Including a system-wide pulseaudio equalizer

2010-05-11 Thread Daniel Chen
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Chandru chandru...@gmail.com wrote: I've been using https://code.launchpad.net/~psyke83/+junk/pulseaudio-equalizer with Lucid and found it sufficiently capable.  It will be really nice if this can be included in universe for Maverick and gradually made

Re: Including a system-wide pulseaudio equalizer

2010-05-11 Thread Daniel Chen
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Chandru chandru...@gmail.com wrote: My suggestion was to just get the app into the official repos initially.  Based on Daniel's reply I've sent a mail to the developer suggesting him to submit the application. It would be even more useful to work alongside him

Re: Including a system-wide pulseaudio equalizer

2010-05-11 Thread Daniel Chen
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Conn O'Griofa connogri...@gmail.com wrote: [1] This branch may be obsolete now that the equalizer is included upstream by default - I haven't followed developments recently. Here it is: http://gitorious.org/pulseaudio-equalizer Right, which is now in the master

Re: Removal of PulseAudio from Ubuntu

2010-05-06 Thread Daniel Chen
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Ryan Oram r...@infinityos.net wrote: Until the implementation of OSS4 is ready and tested, infinityOS will continue to use pure ALSA. How will you determine that the implementation of OSS4 is ready and tested? Best, -Dan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Re: RE: Removal of PulseAudio from Ubuntu

2010-05-06 Thread Daniel Chen
On May 6, 2010 8:11 PM, Chris Jones chrisjo...@comcen.com.au wrote: Since upgrading to Lucid, I can no longer use Pulse audio with VLC as it skips beyond use. I have to configure VLC to putput to ALSA as an alternative which works perfectly. Up until Lucid's release, I've had no real big issues

Re: RE: Removal of PulseAudio from Ubuntu

2010-05-06 Thread Daniel Chen
(Grr, Android mail clients) Have you filed a bug report against the alsa-driver source (or alsa-base binary) package? On May 6, 2010 8:11 PM, Chris Jones chrisjo...@comcen.com.au wrote: Since upgrading to Lucid, I can no longer use Pulse audio with VLC as it skips beyond use. I have to

Re: Removal of PulseAudio from Ubuntu

2010-05-05 Thread Daniel Chen
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Ryan Oram r...@infinityos.net wrote: It is 2 years old, but the facts in the article above are still completely true. PulseAudio has made essentially zero progress in the last 2 years, which is why it should be abandoned. I feel I am at least somewhat qualified

Re: Removal of PulseAudio from Ubuntu

2010-05-05 Thread Daniel Chen
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Ryan Oram r...@infinityos.net wrote: I apologize if I was frank, but problem with PulseAudio is that it does not always work with existing code. Such is the pain of new code. We face this continually in ALSA and PulseAudio alike, and I don't see how any new

Re: lucid testreport upgraded 24 march 2010 from karmic

2010-03-24 Thread Daniel Chen
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Rene Veerman rene7...@gmail.com wrote: - soundblaster doesn't work. volume levels are good, card reports no error (in gui at least), yet no sound leaves the speakers... The above description is much too vague. Would you please file a bug report against

Re: lucid testreport upgraded 24 march 2010 from karmic

2010-03-24 Thread Daniel Chen
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Rene Veerman rene7...@gmail.com wrote: can i assume 'ubuntu-bug alsa-driver' will include the specs of both my sound cards? It will include the necessary information provided that there is not something more nefarious occurring. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing

Re: If Luicd ia a LTS......

2010-03-23 Thread Daniel Chen
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:07 PM, schoappied schoapp...@gmail.com wrote: We all remembered the failure of Hardy as LTS. Firstly, I am going to warn you up front that this response will seem largely defensive, because I have not seen any contributions from you in Lucid's sound stack integration.

Re: idjc doesn`t work with voip since karmic

2010-02-11 Thread Daniel Chen
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Ralf Eleven ral...@gmx.net wrote: The voip-function in idjc doesn't work. It should work like this: http://www.onlymeok.nildram.co.uk/voip.html This approach will fail because j-a-c-k has not been repromoted to main yet, and thus alsa-plugins cannot be compiled

Re: upstream for acl?

2010-02-11 Thread Daniel Chen
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Larry D'Anna la...@elder-gods.org wrote: Where can i find the upstream for acl?  The package says it's at the xfs project, but I can't find any source for getfacl/setfacl there.  Thanks. See /usr/share/doc/acl/copyright: It can be downloaded from

Re: upstream for acl?

2010-02-11 Thread Daniel Chen
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Larry D'Anna la...@elder-gods.org wrote: thanks, but I guess what i should have said is, I want to find the maintainer. I found a bug in it and i want to give him a patch. Either Nathan Scott nathans at debian dot org or Anibal Monsalve Salazar anibal at debian

Re: upstream for acl?

2010-02-11 Thread Daniel Chen
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Larry D'Anna la...@elder-gods.org wrote: so there's no upstream beyond the debian maintainers? Please note that one of the maintainers, Nathan, appears to (have) work(ed) for SGI. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

Re: General graphic equaliser in Pulse Audio for Lucid

2010-02-02 Thread Daniel Chen
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Richard Didd richard.d...@ttplabtech.com wrote: Regarding the next release of Ubuntu (Lucid), I was wondering if the most recent version of Pulse Audio will be included. Lucid already ships the most current stable-queue branch of PA (which does not contain the

Re: Can we get ntfs-3g 2010.1.16 in Lucid?

2010-01-20 Thread Daniel Chen
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Jonathon Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: I'd second this. I've done some (admittedly unscientific) testing running two VirtualBox VMs concurrently off the same NTFS disk* (Karmic and Windows 7 on a Lucid host). With 2009.4.4 there was significant lag;

Re: Versioning for VLC in Lucid Universe

2010-01-13 Thread Daniel Chen
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Forest Mars for...@mnn.org wrote: Taking a look at http://packages.ubunut.com/lucid/graphics/vlc it indicates the version there is 1.0.4. Generally, don't rely on packages.uc to be the canonical listing. Use LP instead: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc

Re: proper procedure regarding bug reports

2010-01-06 Thread Daniel Chen
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Shentino shent...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately, it recently got the wave-off as now it no longer builds under Lucid and I'm being asked to test a new upstream version, when I know that I uploaded 3:4.7.0-1ubuntu1 last night, so if you're willing to respin your

Re: proper procedure regarding bug reports

2010-01-06 Thread Daniel Chen
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Patrick Freundt patrick.freu...@googlemail.com wrote: You should not only rant at people like Richard Stallman you also need to provide patches like him. I'll ask because the phrasing is ambiguous, and I can't tell whether my cynicism radar is errant. Are you

Re: Midnight Commander: bug report and patch

2010-01-05 Thread Daniel Chen
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Ben Okopnik b...@linuxgazette.net wrote: I tried reporting this bug in Launchpad more about a week back, and never got any response. Since it's a pretty big one (zip file contents not showing up), I figured I'd send it here; hopefully, someone finds it

Re: Qt Creator

2010-01-04 Thread Daniel Chen
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Dmitry Unruh dmitryun...@googlemail.com wrote: Why in the repositories of Ubuntu Qt Creator is still version 1.2 and not 1.3? $ rmadison qtcreator qtcreator | 1.2.1-3ubuntu1 | karmic/universe | source, amd64, i386 qtcreator | 1.3.0-0ubuntu2 | lucid/universe |

Heads up: powerdown changes to alsa-base in Lucid/10.04

2009-12-30 Thread Daniel Chen
Hi, folks, [a more complete version of my announcement in #ubuntu-devel on Freenode] Based on the abysmal feedback that we received for Karmic/9.10 regarding powering down HDA controllers after ten idle seconds[0], I've reverted the change in the most recent upload of alsa-driver 1.0.22.1 to

Re: karmic: libghc6-src-exts-dev install failed: missing dependency

2009-12-18 Thread Daniel Chen
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Benedikt Ahrens benedikt.ahr...@gmx.net wrote: installation of libghc6-src-exts-dev fails because of unmet dependencies. Correponding bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/haskell-src-exts/+bug/496274 As I commented, for Karmic you need a

Re: Add miredo to the default install.

2009-12-16 Thread Daniel Chen
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Alain Kalker m...@dds.nl wrote: The trouble is: IPv6 is coming, whether anyone cares or not. IPv4 is rapidly running out of addresses, so sooner or later we're going to have to switch. Gently coaxing users to get acquainted with IPv6 is IMO a much better idea

Re: Add miredo to the default install.

2009-12-14 Thread Daniel Chen
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Harry Strongburg lolwut...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone else in favour of adding miredo to the default Ubuntu install? Why or why not? Despite using miredo for some time, I propose postponing inclusion of this package in the default desktop seeds until after

Re: karmic trashed in Tomshardware.com

2009-12-07 Thread Daniel Chen
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Tim Hawkins tim.hawk...@me.com wrote: Given the amount of discussion relating to problems with the nVidia drivers in Karmic, could this be a factor in this review.? Given the number of bugs filed incorrectly against the Ubuntu PulseAudio source package involving

Re: icewm_1.2.37+1.3.4pre2-3_amd64.deb broken since Karmic release

2009-11-22 Thread Daniel Chen
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Christian Schugitsch i...@schugy.de wrote: Maybe someone has noticed this one: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/icewm/+bug/458100 Yes, and I've requested additional information. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Re: PulseAudio Applets

2009-10-27 Thread Daniel Chen
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Kyle Amadio kyle.ama...@itvss.com.au wrote: Has anyone else got this problem? - none of my PulseAudio applets work - none of them A bit more detail -- e.g., bug reports -- would be useful. -Dan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Re: cancel the 9.10 release... it is not ready

2009-10-26 Thread Daniel Chen
(Sorry for top-posting; bad MTA) Have you filed any bugs WRT PA and mpd? AFAICT, those issues are integration ones, not anything at fault in PA, and there are several workarounds allowing a user to output to PA through mpd. As for Adobe Flash, there is anecdotal evidence that nspluginwrapper is

Re: PulseAudio Managers

2009-10-19 Thread Daniel Chen
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Paul Smith p...@mad-scientist.us wrote: time, but this change looks like a dud to me. Clearly the right way to debug this is to comment out the patch in debian/series and see why pa_streq() is being passed crap. Anyone with bt hardware and valgrind up for it?

Re: Pulse audio being disabled

2009-10-15 Thread Daniel Chen
(MTA constraints) What do you mean by disabled? On Oct 15, 2009 8:27 AM, John Vivirito gnomefr...@gmail.com wrote: I have seen in last few releases that PA gets disabled when i reboot. This is not due to updates or reboot i dont think since it happens all the time after updates than reboot.

Re: Karmic Usplash update from 0.5.4.0 to 0.5.4.1 on 10/9/09

2009-10-13 Thread Daniel Chen
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Thomas Doyle t...@rochester.rr.com wrote: Today  an update of Karmic Usplash causes my Ctrl+Alt+F1-F6 to show garbled symbols that look like blue Chinese letters and no Login Prompt. I narrowed it down to usplash by installing updates one at a time and then

Re: Pulse audio

2009-10-10 Thread Daniel Chen
2009/10/10 Lukas Hejtmanek xhejt...@ics.muni.cz: not so fast. gnome-settings-daemon tries to connect to pulse. multimedia keys work no more without pulse. gnome-volume-control does nothing without pulse. I can't reproduce any of these symptoms with PA completely disabled (no autospawn, PA

Re: Pulse audio

2009-10-10 Thread Daniel Chen
2009/10/10 Lukas Hejtmanek xhejt...@ics.muni.cz: hmm, let me see. ALSA is broken. OK. How do we fix it? Insert new layer between ALSA and Apps. (PA). Oh no, PA is also broken. (as you stated that PA sooner or later solves its problems). So I should ask, why should we fix PA rather than fix

Re: Pulse audio

2009-10-08 Thread Daniel Chen
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Vincenzo Ciancia cian...@di.unipi.it wrote: The real problem that nobody seemed ever to be getting is that when you introduce huge regressions, then you probably should 1) either not distribute the software yet 2) or put more energy into bug fixing for the

Re: Pulse audio

2009-10-08 Thread Daniel Chen
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Martin Olsson mn...@minimum.se wrote: Sound was broken for me in all releases before hardy and then in hardy it worked _perfectly_ with Skype, Flash etc. Sound Again, just because it worked for you does not mean that it wasn't broken. If you care to look outside

Re: Pulse audio

2009-10-08 Thread Daniel Chen
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Remco remc...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 14:40, Daniel Chen seven.st...@gmail.com wrote: The sad thing is that we could have shipped a two-line change to /etc/pulse/default.pa that would have alleviated nearly all of the (users') showstoppers

Re: Pulse audio

2009-10-08 Thread Daniel Chen
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Remco remc...@gmail.com wrote: Why has it not been changed in Hardy? Did it break other stuff? Firstly, it was too late to make the change. Secondly, it breaks with upstream's (PA's) adamant policy that (ALSA) hw: be used by default, not dmix: or dsnoop:. --

Re: Pulse audio

2009-10-07 Thread Daniel Chen
2009/10/7 Lukas Hejtmanek xhejt...@ics.muni.cz: why there is now hard-coded pulse audio in Ubuntu/Karmic? Simply, this approach is upstream's, and it makes sense resource-wise to follow upstream. More bluntly, if you'd like to contribute a novel audio framework to Linux, particularly Ubuntu,

Re: Pulse audio

2009-10-07 Thread Daniel Chen
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Null Ack null...@gmail.com wrote: I dont think the ordinary user cares about PulseAudio or other internal components to their desktops. They just want audio to work. Definitely agreed. 1. Not delivering reliable audio experiences in production releases of

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-25 Thread Daniel Chen
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Patrick Goetz pgo...@mail.utexas.edu wrote:  7668 pgoetz    20   0  160m  17m  12m S    1  0.5  42:56.50 pulseaudio Note that you can disable PA's mempool implementation. We also cache /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/* . Of course, from your top (not really a

Re: Update on audio, call for testers, and ponies

2009-09-08 Thread Daniel Chen
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 7:04 PM, LoonyPhoenixloonyphoe...@gmail.com wrote: all I liked. Then PCM disappeared and only master volume and per-application volumes remained, and I had to be careful not to go above 85% when setting master volume and I was all right. However, now I have to make sure

Re: Jack inclusion in Main

2009-08-24 Thread Daniel Chen
[Adding ubuntu-devel@, apologies for resulting cross-posts] Hi Eric, On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Eric Hedekaraftertheb...@gmail.com wrote: In Bug #416778 ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/416778 ) Loïc Minier has requested further public discussion on the subject of Jack Audio Server

Re: Update on audio, call for testers, and ponies

2009-08-20 Thread Daniel Chen
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:20 AM, George Farrisfarr...@cc.mala.bc.ca wrote: I'm sure you are aware of this but one never knows.  Any comment about whether this is fixed in Karmic? Unfortunately, I have not tested this use case (I don't use that application). Hopefully you will report whether

Update on audio, call for testers, and ponies

2009-08-19 Thread Daniel Chen
Hi folks, Today I updated the PulseAudio snapshot for Karmic in the ubuntu-audio-dev PPA[0] to 0.9.16-test5[1]. This staged update should be considered a poll for deciding whether flat volumes[2] should be shipped enabled by default (in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf). Please respond to the

Re: Call for Testers: Karmic kernel with sound controller powerdown fixes

2009-07-27 Thread Daniel Chen
Hi Matthew, On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Matthew Garrettmj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: I know that this is a very pedantic point, but when distributing kernel builds (or, indeed, any other GPLed code) it's helpful to include the source (or a pointer to the source) alongside it Right, an

Call for Testers: Karmic kernel with sound controller powerdown fixes

2009-07-25 Thread Daniel Chen
Hi all, Some time ago, I asked[0] for bugs to be reported against Karmic's sound drivers as we move toward improved power savings. Those of you running Karmic on HDA hardware should notice improvements in a test kernel[1]. If you have already filed a bug using the instructions in [0], please

Re: New GDM upload to Karmic

2009-07-03 Thread Daniel Chen
My experiences in Karmic match Max's. On Jul 3, 2009 8:36 PM, Max Bowsher m...@f2s.com wrote: Alexander Sack wrote: On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 03:35:10PM -0700, Dean Loros wrote: Greetings. Alexander, I experienced what you describe above when upgrading from old gdm to new gdm, *but* when I

Re: Replace PulseAudio with OSS v4?

2009-06-23 Thread Daniel Chen
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Davyd McColldav...@gmail.com wrote: Oddly enough, pre-PA, I've never seen any kind of lockup on the SBLive. And You're lucky. Some revisions of the EMU10k did awful, racy things. must point out that the latency issue, whilst more pressing for audio

Re: Replace PulseAudio with OSS v4?

2009-06-20 Thread Daniel Chen
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Danny Piccirillodanny.picciri...@ubuntu.com wrote: PulseAudio is actually a very bad choice in the long term due to horrible latency and lower sound quality, and that we should work to use OSS v4. It's a long read but seems to be worth it. What do others think

Re: Replace PulseAudio with OSS v4?

2009-06-20 Thread Daniel Chen
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Davyd McColldav...@gmail.com wrote: I've had an SB Live for ages. One of the most redeeming features of this card is hardware mixing. Meaning that I didn't care about OSS lockups or ALSA's dmix. Too bad that hardware multiopen support comes at a price: all

Re: Stable 64-bit flash

2009-06-17 Thread Daniel Chen
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Martin Owensdocto...@gmail.com wrote: Although getting the script updated to download the correct version depending on your arch would probably be a better bet, I bet it's also set to be i386 only too. A more clever script would prevent confusion I think. The

Re: Stable 64-bit flash

2009-06-17 Thread Daniel Chen
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Danny Piccirillodanny.picciri...@ubuntu.com wrote: No exception can be made there? How have exceptions been made before? Is there some way to work around that? Exceptions to the redistribution terms must be granted by Adobe. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing

Re: Stable 64-bit flash

2009-06-17 Thread Daniel Chen
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Danny Piccirillodanny.picciri...@ubuntu.com wrote: Ah, how unfortunate. Would it be impossible to get Adobe to allow this in time? If we could take the file straight from their website, would that be allowed? Regarding whether Adobe will adjust its stance: I

Re: Stable 64-bit flash

2009-06-17 Thread Daniel Chen
What two libraries? Also, note that flashplugin-installer depends on ia32-libs, which is unnecessary for the native 64-bit plugin. On Jun 17, 2009 2:41 PM, Bruce Miller subscr...@brmiller.ca wrote: I am puzzled by this thread; but then again, I am a user who lurks on this list, not a developer.

Re: Recent changes to ALSA for power saving

2009-05-27 Thread Daniel Chen
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:18 PM, I wrote: We expect there will be regressions in the form of audible pops when the AMPs power down (and/or up). If you experience this symptom in On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Alexandre Strube su...@surak.eti.br wrote: Continually lowering the volume for,

Recent changes to ALSA for power saving

2009-05-26 Thread Daniel Chen
Hi all, Luke and I have just pushed a one-line change to 9.10's /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf that enables HDA controllers to power down their amps after ten idle seconds. This change anticipates the larger power-savings objectives for 9.10. We expect there will be regressions in the form of

Re: What's wrong with Ubuntu's policy?

2009-05-22 Thread Daniel Chen
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Markus Hitter m...@jump-ing.de wrote: In my opinion, this is disappointing. Very disappointing. What is wrong with Ubuntu's release/fix/backport strategy for such a thing to happen? Downstreams should feel free to adopt whatever policies suit them. (Think

Re: Current situation of amarok, and of latex tools

2009-05-13 Thread Daniel Chen
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Vincenzo Ciancia cian...@di.unipi.it wrote: I hope this will not sound like a complaint. It does. The problem is there, and it's grave. Grave for whom? For you? For what common use cases? These are things that are factors to consider when affecting an entire

Re: Call for Jaunty testers (PulseAudio stability-related)

2009-03-20 Thread Daniel Chen
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: I am an end-user with no development experience. Would my input in testing still be valuable? If so, then how can I start? Simply pointing me to the relevant documentation for enabling the kernel you mentioned would be a