[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 946116] Re: lightdm fails to bring up X display automatically after boot

2012-03-10 Thread Peter Belew
Apparently this problem is already known: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1613132 Since I'm able to boot to a shell, what I just did was to add nomodeset to /etc/default/grub and run update-grub, as described on the ubuntuforums page above. So now the altered line in /etc/default/grub

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 946116] Re: lightdm fails to bring up X display automatically after boot

2012-03-10 Thread Peter Belew
#11 is a good workaround, but not really a fix to the nouveau driver bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-nouveau in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/946116 Title: lightdm fails to bring up X display

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 946116] Re: lightdm fails to bring up X display automatically after boot

2012-03-05 Thread Peter Belew
Thanks, Robert, for reviewing the lightdm.log output. I´m sure you are right - this is mainly an xorg issue. I´ve filed earlier bug reports on this hardware - see in particular Bug #707755 against development versions of Natty 11.04. :´ Ubuntu version and kernel version DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 946116] Re: lightdm fails to bring up X display automatically after boot

2012-03-05 Thread Peter Belew
After filing comment #7, I rebooted the compaq system. As I was awaiting the system to complete booting, after the Grub2 screen closed - I was alternately hitting Alt F1 and Alt F2 and possibly Enter - somethow this time the lightdm login greeter appeared and I was able to log in. I'll attach the

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 946116] Re: lightdm fails to bring up X display automatically after boot

2012-03-05 Thread Peter Belew
I assume there is some sort of race condition in system startup. I am also attaching Xorg.0.log ** Attachment added: Xorg.0.log after above good startup. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/946116/+attachment/2820143/+files/Xorg.0.log.good -- You received this bug

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 455954] Re: [K8M800] AntSpotlight screensaver causes system to lock up immediately

2012-02-03 Thread Peter Belew
Here are the modules which are loaded: # lsmod Module Size Used by via45249 2 drm 192194 3 via bnep 17923 2 rfcomm 38408 0 bluetooth 148839 10 bnep,rfcomm parport_pc 32114 0

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 455954] Re: [K8M800] AntSpotlight screensaver causes system to lock up immediately

2012-02-03 Thread Peter Belew
I now have Linux Mint 12 installed, and the same problem occurs. Ubuntu version and kernel version DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMint DISTRIB_RELEASE=12 DISTRIB_CODENAME=lisa DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=Linux Mint 12 Lisa Linux cupid 3.0.0-15-generic #26-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 20 15:59:53 UTC 2012 i686 athlon i386

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 455954] Re: [K8M800] AntSpotlight screensaver causes system to lock up immediately

2012-02-03 Thread Peter Belew
Actully, I meant to attach Xorg.0.log --- here it is ** Attachment added: Xorg.0.log https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa/+bug/455954/+attachment/2712424/+files/xorg.0.log.tgz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to mesa

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 871471] Re: AntSpotlight screensaver causes xbuntu 11.10 beta to lock up on Averatec 3280

2012-01-17 Thread Peter Belew
This situation has not changed in the past 60 days - the bug still occurs in the released version. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-openchrome in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/871471 Title:

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 871471] Re: AntSpotlight screensaver causes xbuntu 11.10 beta to lock up on Averatec 3280

2011-11-17 Thread Peter Belew
I will recheck this in the next 24 hours. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-openchrome in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/871471 Title: AntSpotlight screensaver causes xbuntu 11.10 beta to lock up on

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 871471] Re: AntSpotlight screensaver causes xbuntu 11.10 beta to lock up on Averatec 3280

2011-11-17 Thread Peter Belew
This problem is definitely still happening on this Averatec laptop. I reinstalled xscreensaver-gl, version 5.14-1ubuntu1, carefully set the delay for the screensaver to 10 minutes, and selected AntSpotlite. Within a few minutes the system completely locked up. I had to shut the system down with

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 747069] Re: [natty beta-1] Screen flashes on and of every few seconds with nouveau driver

2011-11-08 Thread Peter Belew
This computer is now running 64-bit xubuntu 11.10: Ubuntu version and kernel version DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=11.10 DISTRIB_CODENAME=oneiric DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=Ubuntu 11.10 Linux compaq 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:56:25 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux model

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 871471] Re: AntSpotlight screensaver causes xbuntu 11.10 beta to lock up on Averatec 3280

2011-10-10 Thread Peter Belew
For comparison, I just booted an 11.04 'natty' live CD and tried the AntSpotlight screensaver on that. The same thing happens - the system locks up a few seconds after the ant rotates around 60 degrees. I then installed apt-show-versions to see what versions of xscreensaver-gl and the openchrome

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 455954] Re: [K8M800] AntSpotlight screensaver causes system to lock up immediately

2011-10-09 Thread Peter Belew
This bug just reappeared in xubuntu 11.10 on the same Averatec laptop, when I select the AntSpotlight screensaver. As suggested in #31, I'll file this as a new bug, with reference to this one. Here's the latest system information. Ubuntu version and kernel version DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 455954] Re: [K8M800] AntSpotlight screensaver causes system to lock up immediately

2011-10-09 Thread Peter Belew
** Description changed: - Note: this bug just reappeared in Xubuntu 11.10. I'll file this as a new - bug. + Note: this bug just reappeared in Xubuntu 11.10. I'll filed this as a + new bug #871471. Binary package hint: xscreensaver Selecting AntSpotlight in either xscreensaver or Gnome

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 455954] Re: [K8M800] AntSpotlight screensaver causes system to lock up immediately

2011-10-09 Thread Peter Belew
** Description changed: - Note: this bug just reappeared in Xubuntu 11.10. I'll filed this as a - new bug #871471. + Note: this bug just reappeared in Xubuntu 11.10. I filed this as a new + bug #871471. Binary package hint: xscreensaver Selecting AntSpotlight in either xscreensaver or

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2011-09-28 Thread Peter Belew
Aeb1barfo - so far the fixes that appear in 11.04 natty haven't been backported to 10.04 LTS - I think there is one more point release of the LTS, but don't know if this has enough priority for anyone to actually fix it. For now, post-installation repairs like installing an xorg.conf file may be

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 707755] Re: Xorg usually won't start on Compaq system with nVidia Corporation C51 [GeForce 6150 LE] and nVidia chipset

2011-08-12 Thread Peter Belew
The machine won't boot from a USB stick. It does have a network boot option, but I don't know how to utilize that. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/707755 Title:

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 707755] Re: Xorg usually won't start on Compaq system with nVidia Corporation C51 [GeForce 6150 LE] and nVidia chipset

2011-08-11 Thread Peter Belew
I have just installed 64-bit 11.04 Natty on this system, and will not make any further changes until the next LTS release comes out, assuming that release is acceptable. This is a system I am relying on, so I really can't afford to experiment any more on it. Note that I was unable to run the

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 707755] Re: Xorg usually won't start on Compaq system with nVidia Corporation C51 [GeForce 6150 LE] and nVidia chipset

2011-08-11 Thread Peter Belew
Also, I don't think I was able to get the system going as far as described in #13 - the system simply could not identify the monitor. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers in Ubuntu.

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2011-07-22 Thread Peter Belew
I was able to get the 2011-07-20 build of 10.04.3 to boot, using roughly the same tricks that I used for another system described in bug#707755, on a Compaq system. For the live-CD boot line, I hit F6 and selected 'nomode' set. For the rest of the command line, I removed 'quiet' and 'splash' and

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2011-07-22 Thread Peter Belew
I'm not sure that the 'nomode' boot line setting was necessary for this Openchrome display - I had used that (see previous comment) for a system with an nVidia display. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2011-07-22 Thread Peter Belew
At any rate, even if the repaired driver isn't added to the .3 or .4 release of 10.04 LTS, this provides a workaround to allow someone to install this LTS version in a system like this. It's a little beyond what a newbie can be expected to do, though! -- You received this bug notification

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2011-07-18 Thread Peter Belew
I downloaded the 16 July 2011 build of 10.04.3, and apparently the repaired driver has not been backported to this release. Two issues: 1. the screen comes up in 1600x1200 or something like that, so the bottom right of that screen image does not show on the 1024x768 panel, as before. 2. A login

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2011-06-08 Thread Peter Belew
Reopen for possible backporting of 11.04 version of this driver to 10.04.3 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-openchrome in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495553 Title: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2011-06-08 Thread Peter Belew
The version of the openchrome driver which is working properly on this system under Natty 11.04 is: peter@cupid:~$ apt-show-versions xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-openchrome/natty uptodate 1:0.2.904+svn916-1build1 Will there be daily builds of 10.04.3 available prior to that

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 747069] Re: [natty beta-1] Screen flashes on and of every few seconds with nouveau driver

2011-04-13 Thread Peter Belew
My problem was with the live CD (I have FreeBSD taking up the whole disk drive, and don't want to install Ubuntu in this system). There doesn't seem to be an easy way to choose the desktop, since the system auto-logins to Gnome when it starts up, without showing a login screen (unless there is a

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 747069] [NEW] [natty beta-1] Screen flashes on and of every few seconds with nouveau driver

2011-04-01 Thread Peter Belew
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau I tried booting the Natty 11.04 beta-1 live cd (32-bit) on a compaq presario with an nVidia chipset. The system took a long time to boot, possibly because of fairly low RAM and possibly because the hard disk is currently only

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 747069] Re: [natty beta-1] Screen flashes on and of every few seconds with nouveau driver

2011-04-01 Thread Peter Belew
** Attachment added: Xorg.0.log, lspci lsmod uname -a outputs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/747069/+attachment/1962688/+files/bug.tgz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-nouveau in Ubuntu.

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 747069] Re: [natty beta-1] Screen flashes on and of every few seconds with nouveau driver

2011-04-01 Thread Peter Belew
Bug #707755 is against the same computer with an earlier build of Natty 11.04, as of 2011-01-252011-01-25. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-nouveau in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/747069 Title:

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 747069] Re: [natty beta-1] Screen flashes on and of every few seconds with nouveau driver

2011-04-01 Thread Peter Belew
The date in #2 is 2011-01-25 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-nouveau in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/747069 Title: [natty beta-1] Screen flashes on and of every few seconds with nouveau driver

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 747069] Re: [natty beta-1] Screen flashes on and of every few seconds with nouveau driver

2011-04-01 Thread Peter Belew
Here is some information regarding the FreeBSD installation on the same machine, which works using the vesa driver: [peter@compaq /etc/X11]$ uname -a FreeBSD compaq.belew 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Thu Feb 17 02:41:51 UTC 2011

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 747069] Re: [natty beta-1] Screen flashes on and of every few seconds with nouveau driver

2011-04-01 Thread Peter Belew
My next experiment will be to boot in text mode, add an xorg.conf file based on the one originally generated by the PC-BSD live CD, and see if that works with the vesa driver. The problem is clearly with the driver for the nVidia chipset, which is apparently essentially the same as in Fedora 14.

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 747069] Re: [natty beta-1] Screen flashes on and of every few seconds with nouveau driver

2011-04-01 Thread Peter Belew
This is a Compaq Presario SR1000 system (System Number EX325-AA-ABA) (originally sold as Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-nouveau in Ubuntu.

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2011-02-24 Thread Peter Belew
Hi Bartosz - Oops! I didn't see your last update until just now. However, the fix seems to have been checked in; when I updated this morning, the resolution seemed to be correct, 1024x768. Thank you! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2011-02-01 Thread Peter Belew
As of today, there has been a regression: in the absence of an xorg.conf file, the initial resolution is again set to 1600x1200. It's possible to use the Monitors dialog to set the res. to 1024x768, but before that is done, the login screen's bottom panel is inaccessible, so that the GUI mode

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 414330] Re: When using vesa driver system with S3 Inc. VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266] crashes when leaving graphics mode

2011-01-16 Thread Peter Belew
Running 10.10 maverick with updates through today, there is a problem that I can't switch to text console - the screen is full of big blocks of color. I have to use alt-F8 or alt-F9 to switch back to the X display. Show Ubuntu version and kernel version DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.10

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 414330] Re: When using vesa driver system with S3 Inc. VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266] crashes when leaving graphics mode

2011-01-16 Thread Peter Belew
Clarification - #22 is with the lastest 'savage' driver. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-vesa in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/414330 Title: When using vesa driver system with S3 Inc. VT8375

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2011-01-09 Thread Peter Belew
As of the last couple of days, it appears that the screen resolution of 1024x768 is set automatically when X starts. Also, switching to/from text modes seems to work. There is an oddity about switching back from a text console to X: using Alt-F7 just switches to a blank screen with [ OK ] in the

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2011-01-09 Thread Peter Belew
As of the last couple of days, after updating packages, it appears that the screen resolution of 1024x768 is set automatically when X starts. So this fix has been checked in to the repositories. Also, switching to/from text modes seems to work. However: There is an oddity about switching back

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-12-30 Thread Peter Belew
Bartosz: What I would really like to happen is to have these fixes backported to 10.04.1 LTS, so that they might be released by 10.04.2 update. Is that reasonable? 11.04 seems very unstable, and is not useable at the moment. Perhaps I should repartition the HD and set up a dual boot between 10.04

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-12-23 Thread Peter Belew
** Description changed: Binary package hint: xorg-server + [ Comments added for Natty 11.04 alpha version } [ Comments added for Maveric beta versions ] It is now impossible to boot and log in on this system from the beta-2 live CD - see comment #111. THIS NOW SEEMS TO BE

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-12-23 Thread Peter Belew
A serious problem has just arisen after an update today. I did the update while the system was started, but before logging in (I switched to a text console while the login screen was appearing). Once I logged in, in safe mode, the 2 icons I'd created on the desktop were bouncing up and down, and

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-12-23 Thread Peter Belew
A side issue - the system was unable to support USB devices that were attached - a keyboard and mouse. Console 1 reported errors about that. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-openchrome in ubuntu.

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-12-23 Thread Peter Belew
The behavior described above was with the Openchrome driver build from source a couple of days ago. I then reinstalled the driver from the repository, and the only difference in behavior was that the initial resolution after booting turns out to be 1600x1200; and that can be changed by installing

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-12-20 Thread Peter Belew
See http://www.openchrome.org/trac/ticket/366 - The initial screen res seems to be set at 1024x768, and switching to/from text screens works too, with r891 of the OpenChrome driver. Thanks, Bartosz! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2010-12-20 Thread Peter Belew
See http://www.openchrome.org/trac/ticket/366 - The initial screen res seems to be set at 1024x768, and switching to/from text screens works too, with r891 of the OpenChrome driver. This is with Ubuntu 11.04 updated as of today. Note that ~/.config/monitors.xml has been removed - this contains

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-12-19 Thread Peter Belew
I'll try both 887 and 891 (and 888?) in about 24 hours - I'm out of town today. On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Bartosz 495...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: Check also if this bug exists in the latest openchrome revision (r891): http://openchrome.org/trac/changeset/891/trunk -- You received

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-12-18 Thread Peter Belew
I just reinstalled the current openchrome driver from the repository, rebooted, and now switching to text modes works properly, though I have to have xorg.conf installed to get the right resolution. I'll try rebuilding the driver according to Bug #186103 and see if that helps this issue. -- You

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2010-12-18 Thread Peter Belew
Checking out the driver sources (rev. 890 now) and rebuilding makes resolution detection work still, but switching to text screens does not work. Reinstalling the openchrome driver from the repository makes text screens work, but the resolution fix isn't in that driver, so xorg.conf is necessary.

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-12-17 Thread Peter Belew
There has been a severe regression TODAY in 11.04 - now the tty screens don't work. Ctrl-alt-F1 etc switch to a random screen which doesn't sync. ** Attachment added: Xorg.0.log after text console failure.

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2010-12-17 Thread Peter Belew
There has been a severe regression TODAY in 11.04 - now the tty screens don't work. Ctrl-alt-F1 etc switch to a random screen which doesn't sync. See bug #495553. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-openchrome in

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2010-12-16 Thread Peter Belew
Ok - I re-checked-out and rebuilt the driver, with no patches, and the native resolution is now 1024x768! Many thanks, Bartosz! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-openchrome in ubuntu.

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2010-12-16 Thread Peter Belew
And thanks to the developers upstream! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-openchrome in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/186103 Title: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2010-12-15 Thread Peter Belew
I tried doing that. Running svn update from the src dir did nothing. I then tried svn update http://svn.openchrome.org/svn/trunk openchrome from /root (openchrome is in /root/openchrome). Skipped 'http://svn.openchrome.org/svn/trunk' Uopenchrome/ChangeLog Uopenchrome/src/via_mode.c U

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2010-12-15 Thread Peter Belew
After restarting with xorg.conf in place, the screen comes up as 1024x768, with just the bottom panel (but that's another bug). I think I'll try checking out the sources again from scratch and rebuild, later today. Or perhaps there was some error in my use of svn. -- You received this bug

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2010-12-15 Thread Peter Belew
Now - svn checkout http://svn.openchrome.org/svn/trunk openchrome ... Checked out revision 888. I then tried to apply the patches. Again they seem to fail. I didn't try to build. Please send me fully patched .c files - I don't seem to be doing the patches right, or the patch file is bad. --

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
I built and installed the driver, and rebooted a couple of times. I've added an archive containing Xorg.0.log and Xorg.0.log.old. There was no xorg.conf file in /etc/X11. The main change was that the login screen was no longer at 1600x1200. The grub2 screen and the final Gnome screen appeared to

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
I built and installed the driver, and rebooted a couple of times. I've added an archive containing Xorg.0.log and Xorg.0.log.old. There was no xorg.conf file in /etc/X11. The main change was that the login screen was no longer at 1600x1200. The grub2 screen and the final Gnome screen appeared to

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
Actually, the remaining problem regarding the initial screen resolution is covered by Bug #186103 - other issues on THIS bug seem to have been resolved. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-openchrome in ubuntu.

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
Comment #53 is an accidental duplicate of #52. Oops! This bug report contains the remaining issue in Bug #495553. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-openchrome in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/186103

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
I haven't applied the patch (#56) yet, but switching to text console and back works fine, and hibernation seems to also. Now I'll try the patch ... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-openchrome in ubuntu.

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
I applied the patch. It went well with via_mode.c, but there were some errors with via_driver.c - here is via_driver.c.rej --- via_driver.c(wersja 886) +++ via_driver.c(kopia robocza) @@ -725,7 +725,6 @@ break; case VIA_K8M800: pVia-DRIIrqEnable

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-12-13 Thread Peter Belew
Note that further comments were added to Bug #689377 today, as further problems appeared. I don't think these problem were due to the display driver, but they do affect testing of display problems somewhat, and vice versa. For example, if the xorg.conf file is removed, it's not possible to go into

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-12-12 Thread Peter Belew
A new bug appeared yesterday: frequently the top and bottom panels don't appear after login. I just filed this bug separately as #689377. This happens most of the time in Classic Mode (Gnome), but not in Gnome Safe Mode. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X,

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2010-12-11 Thread Peter Belew
As of 11.04 Natty Ubuntu, the remaining problem is that the initial display is set at 1600x1200. For Ubuntu with Gnome, the System/Preference/Monitors dialog is accessible, and the screen res can be changed to 1024x768 (see last few comments in bug #495553). For the unichrome display, only Gnome

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-12-07 Thread Peter Belew
Note that the tests of Natty on my Averatec - last few comments - were using the Ubuntu Classic Session - Gnome. Unity will not work on the Unichrome display hardware. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-openchrome

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-12-06 Thread Peter Belew
Hi Bartosz - I removed the xorg.conf file and rebooted. The login background and login dialog appear in the 1600x1200 mode (note that the grub2 screen appears properly, using a custom background I installed). I've attached the Xorg.0.log file. ** Attachment added: Xorg.0.log after booting

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-12-06 Thread Peter Belew
After that, I proceeded to log in. The screen came up in 1024x76 mode, because I had previously set that resolution with the SystemPreferencesMonitors dialog. So I used SystemPreferencesMonitors to set the resolution to 1600x1200, and rebooted. After I logged in, the screen came up in 1600x1200,

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-12-06 Thread Peter Belew
On rebooting another time, and logging in, the screen came up 'properly' in 1600x1200 mode, with the top panel showing correctly. I've attached Xorg.0.log3 after that. ** Attachment added: Xorg.0.log after another boot in 1600x1200 mode.

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-12-06 Thread Peter Belew
I then set the res to 1024x768, using the SystemPreferences/Monitor dialog, and logged out and logged in (without rebooting the OS). This time the screen came up in 1024x768 without the top panel, but showing the bottom panel. I've attached yet another Xorg.0.log (-.log4) file. THEN I rebooted

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-12-04 Thread Peter Belew
Ubuntu 11.04 'natty narwhal' seems to work well on this system, which is pleasantly surprising! I downloaded the ISO 2 days ago, and burnt a DVD from the image. As before, the live CD was unable to determine the actual resolution of the screen (1024x768, Unichrome controller) and set a higher

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Maverick 10.10 live-CD login failure, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-10-09 Thread Peter Belew
This problem persists with the post-RC 07-oct-2010 build. Linux distro/version and kernel version Ubuntu 10.10 Linux ubuntu 2.6.35-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Sun Sep 19 20:34:50 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux model name : Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+ cpu MHz : 800.000 If I just

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Lucid 10.04 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-09-26 Thread Peter Belew
(See comment #142 for current version and boot problem information). I am able to boot from the live CD in text mode, and eventually get X to start, as follows: Boot live CD Hit ESC when the first welcome screen appears When a screen with boot choices appears, first select the language (English)

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Lucid 10.04 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-09-20 Thread Peter Belew
The 10.10 Maverick Meerkat alpha and beta live CDs will not boot fully on this Averatec 3280. I saw this most recently with the 10.10 Beta and the 10.10 daily build for 19 Sept 2010. What happens is that X login fails. When I get to the screen which asks whether to boot live or to install the new

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Lucid 10.04 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-09-20 Thread Peter Belew
** Description changed: Binary package hint: xorg-server + + [ Comments added for Maveric beta versions ] It is now impossible to boot and log in on this system from the beta-2 live CD - see comment #111. THIS NOW SEEMS TO BE 'CURED' by running kernels from Karmic - see comments

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Lucid 10.04 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-08-03 Thread Peter Belew
I have totally given up on running Ubuntu on this laptop. I have installed first Fedora 13, and now Debian Lenny. Once properly installed, the screen issues no longer occur, except that both of those systems try to run the screen in 1600x1200 mode, so that installing a custom xorg.conf is also

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2010-07-10 Thread Peter Belew
Note for upstream: The screen resolution is not properly recognized either on Fedora 13 and on CentOS 5.5 - in all cases the system tries to start up in 1600x1200 mode, but in a Gnome system it's possible to set the res. manually, then later install an xorg.conf file. On KDE systems it's much more

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2010-07-10 Thread Peter Belew
This still applies up through Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat 10.10 alpha-2: The initial screen resolution is set to 1600x1200, so that only the upper- left 1024x768 corner of the screen is visible. It's necessary to use the SystemPreferencesMonitors dialog to set the resolution. In addition, the text

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 186103] Re: [K8M800] Panel on K8M800 is not supported (Averatec 3280)

2010-07-10 Thread Peter Belew
Aeb1barfo - What I was able to do with KDE (a few months ago) was to right-click on the screen to get a menu which enabled me to create a new panel at the top of the screen. Once that was done, I could right-click on the panel to add a main menu to it. From that it was possible to set the screen

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Lucid 10.04 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-06-29 Thread Peter Belew
The situation with Lucid on this Averatec laptop is unchanged. However today I tried booting the Fedora 13 i686 live CD. As before, with Fedora and Ubuntu, Linux started up in a 1600x1200 mode, with only the upper- left 1024x768 corner of the screen showing, but I was able to use the

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Lucid 10.04 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-06-29 Thread Peter Belew
Kernel information while running Fedora 13: [liveu...@localhost bug555]$ uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686 #1 SMP Thu May 6 18:44:12 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux -- [K8M800] Lucid 10.04 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Lucid 10.04 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-06-15 Thread Peter Belew
As of today, this bug is still in effect. The most important issue is that text consoles can't be used. Booting and screen sizing issues can be worked around, especially for the Gnome version, since the SystemPreferencesMonitor dialog is accessible from top-panel menus; that's more difficult in

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Lucid 10.04 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-06-05 Thread Peter Belew
Aeb1barfo: This bug report has gone way too complicated - some of the problems were fixed a long time ago, others persist. Update: I've run the 10.10 Maverick Meerkat live CD on this Averatec 3280 system, and the remaining problems are: - I can't switch to a text console. Also that has gotten

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Lucid 10.04 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-05-30 Thread Peter Belew
There is no change with the lastest release kernel, as of today: 2.6.32-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 28 13:27:30 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux I still can't switch into text consoles - I just get garbage on the screen, as before. Also, the first time I tried to boot after today's updates, the

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 455954] Re: [K8M800] AntSpotlight screensaver causes system to lock up immediately

2010-05-16 Thread Peter Belew
I installed the latest kernel from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel- ppa/mainline/daily/current/ So I have Ubuntu version and kernel version DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Linux eros 2.6.34-999-generic #201005121008 SMP Wed May

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Lucid 10.04 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-05-16 Thread Peter Belew
After looking at a suggestion made for bug #455954, I installed the latest kernel from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/daily/current/ namely 2.6.34-999-generic. With that running, I can switch in and out of text consoles with ctrl-alt-F1 etc. (However the system complains about

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 455954] Re: [K8M800] AntSpotlight screensaver causes system to lock up immediately

2010-05-06 Thread Peter Belew
This is still happening - the system locks up - with the kernel in today's update: 2.6.32-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 28 13:27:30 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux -- [K8M800] AntSpotlight screensaver causes system to lock up immediately https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/455954 You received this bug

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 455954] Re: [K8M800] AntSpotlight screensaver causes system to lock up immediately

2010-05-05 Thread Peter Belew
It turns out this does NOT happen if I use a Karmic kernel with Lucid: Ubuntu version and kernel version DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Linux eros 2.6.31-21-generic #59-Ubuntu SMP Wed Mar 24 07:28:56 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 255561] Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg fails on Dell PowerEdge 400sc with Samsung SyncMaster 570s

2010-05-05 Thread Peter Belew
I just tried booting this system (which normally still runs Jaunty) from the 10.04 desktop CD. On selecting the 'Try Ubuntu' option, the system will start up in 800x600 mode. So the situation is as in comment #27 for the Jaunty live CD. -- dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg fails on Dell PowerEdge

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 455954] Re: [K8M800] AntSpotlight screensaver causes system to lock up immediately

2010-05-04 Thread Peter Belew
The AntSpotlight still freezes this Averatec 3280 laptop, running Lucid 10.04, updated to 4 May 2010. The display controller is: VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800/K8N800/K8N800A [S3 UniChrome Pro] (rev 01) The video driver is xserver-xorg-video-openchrome/lucid uptodate

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Beta-2 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-05-02 Thread Peter Belew
Apparmor is not the problem. The Lucid final-release live cd still will not boot on this system, that is, it's impossible to log in. It's still impossible to use the console text screens when Lucid is installed on this system. Contrary to the 'Fix released' status at the top, this is NOT fixed.

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Beta-2 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-04-27 Thread Peter Belew
If I boot with Karmic kernel: 2.6.31-20-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12 05:23:09 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux Then some Lucid 'features' are suppressed during startup, and I can switch into text consoles with ctrl-alt-F1 through ...F6 properly. The display driver is still

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Beta-2 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-04-27 Thread Peter Belew
Early after booting (as in #131) I see the message chroot: cannot execute /etc/apparmor/initramfs This might be relevant or not. -- [K8M800] Beta-2 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Beta-2 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-04-25 Thread Peter Belew
This still does not work. The make suggests some changes to configure.ac and to Makefile.am - I did the first and the second refers to something that's in Makefile.in (I think) but isn't clear. In any event, the make fails. On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Bartosz gan...@poczta.onet.pl wrote:

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Beta-2 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-04-24 Thread Peter Belew
I tried to install that; here are the errors that are reported: # dpkg -i xserver-xorg-video-openchrome_0.2.903+svn758-0ubuntu1_i386.deb dpkg: warning: downgrading xserver-xorg-video-openchrome from 1:0.2.904+svn827-1 to 1:0.2.903+svn758-0ubuntu1. dpkg: regarding

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Beta-2 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-04-23 Thread Peter Belew
The xserver-xorg-video-via driver installed ok, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. Should I change or remove xorg.conf? On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Bartosz gan...@poczta.onet.pl wrote: Try to install package from that (just double click on that):

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Beta-2 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-04-22 Thread Peter Belew
I checked out the driver source specifying -r 758. I get a fatal error on trying to make the driver - the header file xf86Resources.h is missing, also there are some warnings about formats not matching variables, in via_accel.c, function viaExaUploadToScratch() -- [K8M800] Beta-2 live-CD login

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 495553] Re: [K8M800] Beta-2 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

2010-04-22 Thread Peter Belew
The latest Karmic driver for this is xserver-xorg-video-openchrome/karmic 1:0.2.903+svn758-0ubuntu1 How, exactly, can I install that in Lucid? -- [K8M800] Beta-2 live-CD login failure, Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, ttyN screens don't work, on Averatec 3280 running Lucid

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 508456] Re: Lucid frequently crashes while starting gdm on Averatec 3280

2010-04-21 Thread Peter Belew
Hi Bartosz - I'm not seeing the 'clouded image' problem (#17) any more, but the problems noted in Bug #495553 still remain. This includes the startup problem with the recent daily-build live CDs - where the system tries to auto-login and keeps failing and showing the login dialog. -- Lucid

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