Re: New nvidia experimental driver packages coming soon for 12.04
Hi, On 12 October 2012 01:12, Bryce Harrington br...@canonical.com wrote: We are introducing new 'experimental' driver packages for NVIDIA, which will be available via the Additional Hardware Drivers setup tool for 12.04 user (and 12.10 too). These packages will provide NVIDIA's beta drivers, which are required for certain commercial games. I don't know if/what you really introduced in 12.10, but I must tell you that today, after upgrading from 12.04 to 12.10 (I was using Nvidia drivers from X-Swat PPA) my GeForce GT 640 stopped working properly :( Now I've installed 304.51 from the Ubuntu repository, but the problem persists: even if I'm using the Nvidia driver, the maximum screen resolution is 1024x768 and it should be 1680x1050. If I can't fix this ASAP I will have to reinstall 12.04 and use X-Swat PPA! Regards, -- Andrea Grandi - Software Engineer / Qt Ambassador Ubuntu Member: https://launchpad.net/~andreagrandi website: http://www.andreagrandi.it -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Re: New nvidia experimental driver packages coming soon for 12.04
Hi, On 12 October 2012 01:12, Bryce Harrington br...@canonical.com wrote: We are introducing new 'experimental' driver packages for NVIDIA, which will be available via the Additional Hardware Drivers setup tool for 12.04 user (and 12.10 too). These packages will provide NVIDIA's beta drivers, which are required for certain commercial games. There is an nvidia-experimental-304 package which isn't really a beta Nvidia 304.x driver is required not only for gamers, but also for people having new video cards (it's my case). I've a Nvidia GT 640 and it's not supported by default on 12.04. I had to use a PPA repository to install the 304.x driver so I was able to use this video card. I think it should be upgraded in the LTS too, not only in a PPA. Regards, -- Andrea Grandi - Software Engineer / Qt Ambassador Ubuntu Member: https://launchpad.net/~andreagrandi website: http://www.andreagrandi.it -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Ubuntu Lice CD is dead: what's the problem now including also the alternate installer?
Hi, I coming back to the same question, I know, but things have changed since last time I asked. Reading this http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/09/its-official-the-ubuntu-livecd-is-dead You're going over the 700Mb size of the CD. When I asked why don't you include also the alternate text installer in the same ISO so if someone has problems with the graphic one he can choose to boot with text one?. You replied: because everything won't fit the 700Mb iso. Ok. But now things changed... so, why don't we include also the alternate installer? Best regards. -- Andrea Grandi - Software Engineer / Qt Ambassador Ubuntu Member: https://launchpad.net/~andreagrandi website: http://www.andreagrandi.it -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Re: Simple but worthwhile to fix bugs?
Hi Daniel, On 4 September 2012 11:47, Daniel Holbach daniel.holb...@ubuntu.com wrote: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/BugFixingInitiative I'm trying to follow these instructions to submit upstream to Debian, but when I execute this: bzr bd --builder=pdebuild I get the following errors: http://pastebin.com/ytYZxThh Please note that I built both quantal and precise pbuilder targets with: pbuilder-dist quantal create pbuilder-dist precise create Am I missing something else? Thanks! -- Andrea Grandi - Software Engineer / Qt Ambassador Ubuntu Member: https://launchpad.net/~andreagrandi website: http://www.andreagrandi.it -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Re: Simple but worthwhile to fix bugs?
Hi On 9 September 2012 14:53, Stefano Rivera stefa...@ubuntu.com wrote: Yes. pdebuild doesn't know how to find pbuilder-dist's tarballs. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/377179 You need to build a source package: bzr bd -S And then build it: pbuilder-dist quantal ../libdbg_1.2-2ubuntu4.dsc we should update this wiki page then https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/BugFixingInitiative I'll test the changes then I will update it if it works. Regards, -- Andrea Grandi - Software Engineer / Qt Ambassador Ubuntu Member: https://launchpad.net/~andreagrandi website: http://www.andreagrandi.it -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Proposal for net installer
Hi! I don't know if it works already like this because I haven't used the net installer recently, but this is my idea. Since who use the net installer has to download packages from Internet anyway, it would make sense to have just one net installer for Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu etc... After all it should be just a matter of (please correct me if I'm wrong) installing the right met package: ubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop etc... The user would be simply prompted to choose the desktop he wants. Pretty easy. What do you think about it? If you really want to restric the number of ISO you generate and maintain this could be a good idea. Looking forward to read your comments. Best regards, -- Andrea Grandi - Nokia-DX/Tampere / Qt Ambassador Ubuntu Member: https://launchpad.net/~andreagrandi website: http://www.andreagrandi.it -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Re: Proposal to drop Ubuntu alternate CDs for 12.10
Hi Steve, On 29 August 2012 22:29, Steve Langasek steve.langa...@ubuntu.com wrote: The purpose of the alternate CD is to install an Ubuntu desktop. If the desktop is not usable for you, then what purpose does it serve to use the alternate CD instead of the desktop CD? You're then only testing the alternate installer itself, which we want to discontinue anyway. So it would be better to get rid of it to save testers from spending time doing such testing! I have a very simple solution: create a single .iso and set ubiquity as default installer, BUT also give the user the possibility to press $A_KEY_YOU_DEFINE to boot Ubuntu in TEXT MODE (aka = boot using alternate installer). Is it so difficoult to have both installer on the same CD and let the user choose what he/she wants? In this way you won't have the problem to create a separated.iso to test. I hope you will take this solution in serious consideration and you will make everyone happy! Best regards, -- Andrea Grandi - Nokia-DX/Tampere / Qt Ambassador Ubuntu Member: https://launchpad.net/~andreagrandi website: http://www.andreagrandi.it -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Re: Proposal to drop Ubuntu alternate CDs for 12.10
Hi, On 30 August 2012 12:04, Cody A.W. Somerville cody-somervi...@ubuntu.com wrote: Unfortunately I don't think there is enough room on the desktop CD to include d-i with live-installer instead of base-installer - otherwise I'd advocated for such an approach since it would effectively allow us to retain installation via d-i. yeah the available space would be a problem, but...you weren't planning to discontinue the usual ~700Mb CD in place of 1Gb ISOs to use them on USB keys? I think that using a CD to install Ubuntu is even more uncommon than using USB. It's also slower. What do you think about? Best regards, -- Andrea Grandi - Nokia-DX/Tampere / Qt Ambassador Ubuntu Member: https://launchpad.net/~andreagrandi website: http://www.andreagrandi.it -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Re: [U+1] Fwd: Proposal to drop Ubuntu alternate CDs for 12.10
Hi, On 28 August 2012 18:50, Brendan Donegan brendan.done...@canonical.com wrote: Andrea, this is a good point. Please read through the discussion that has taken place already to see if any of your concerns are addressed, I'm trying to read any message about this topic, but the discussion splitted into many topics (netboot, etc...) so it's getting a bt difficoult to follow everything :) anyway... and put forward your own as well - since otherwise it will be unheard by the right people - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-August/035675.html I'm replying to this list, the problem is that even if I'm subscribed there, my messages are moderated because I'm not part of the ubuntu-devel team. I don't know if some message is still waiting for approval. (BTW, I read your thread about contributing to a Qt-based Ubuntu application. Checkbox, the testing client I help develop is Qt based so if you would like, my team would be happy to get your assistance!) Checkbox would be interesting! Florian also suggested me the QML port of the Software Center but I still need to get more informations about it (if/where it's available etc...). I will give a look at Checkbox as soon as I get home. Now I'm in train and my connection is a bit limited :P Best regards, -- Andrea Grandi - Nokia-DX/Tampere / Qt Ambassador Ubuntu Member: https://launchpad.net/~andreagrandi website: http://www.andreagrandi.it -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Re: Proposal to drop Ubuntu alternate CDs for 12.10
Hi, On 28 August 2012 00:50, Steve Langasek steve.langa...@ubuntu.com wrote: As part of ongoing efforts to reduce the number of images we ship for Ubuntu, and to make the desktop image more useful in a variety of scenarios, Dmitrijs Ledkovs has been hard at work in quantal adding support for LVM, cryptsetup, and RAID to ubiquity. for the sake of any god, please do NOT do it! For two valid reasons: 1) you can't imagine how many time the alternate installer saved my, when ubiquity wasn't able to boot on some computer. 2) You need it to setup RAID and I don't want to risk to mess my data assembling a degraded RAID or something like that. If you want to give me a valid reason not to use Ubuntu anymore on my desktop, please feel free to remove the alternate install iso. Regards, -- Andrea Grandi - Nokia-DX/Tampere / Qt Ambassador Ubuntu Member: https://launchpad.net/~andreagrandi website: http://www.andreagrandi.it -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Re: Proposal to drop Ubuntu alternate CDs for 12.10
Hi, On 29 August 2012 12:04, Dmitrijs Ledkovs dmitrij.led...@ubuntu.com wrote: For the above to reasons you can use: * mini or netinst or server images Which are Alternative Installer without packages, the latest versions will be retrieved over the network. Are you doing installs where there is (i) no network available and (ii) no local mirror available? yes, sometimes network is not available or we have a slow DSL connection (2 Mbit). We also have to make many installs. It's already a big work to download all updates, but if we had to download all packages due to a netinstall it would be even more hard. -- Andrea Grandi - Nokia-DX/Tampere / Qt Ambassador Ubuntu Member: https://launchpad.net/~andreagrandi website: http://www.andreagrandi.it -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Re: [U+1] Fwd: Proposal to drop Ubuntu alternate CDs for 12.10
Hi, On 28 August 2012 07:04, Nicholas Skaggs nicholas.ska...@canonical.com wrote: FYI -- as spoken of earlier, here's the details on dropping the alternate installer in 12.10. Again, this is just for ubuntu, and not a decision for any flavors. As far as I know, no flavors have committed to dropping the alternate cd's. This transition will occur with the next milestone, which is Beta 1. As part of this, we'll need to migrate the alternate testcases and add new testcases in support of the new features in ubiquity. Thanks! so you have already decided? I did think there was a discussion before proceding, but it looks like this change will already take its effect starting from the next beta. Don't you think we should ask first the community what they think about? It's non sense that in less than 24 hours you start the discussion on ubuntu-devel and you have already decided for everyone. I can't get it, sorry. Let me say that this is the worst idea ever proposed! I won't be able to use Ubuntu on my desktop anymore because I'm using a RAID 1 setup and I want to do a safe installation not using some workaround later after installation and risking to loose my data. Even more, alternate install CD is the only way for some PC to complete the installation. You can't imagine how many time I had to use alternate installer because ubiquity was freezing. I really cannot understand how you can propose something that will make Ubuntu worse than it is, We're supposed to make Ubuntu BETTER not worse. Best regards, -- Andrea Grandi - Nokia-DX/Tampere / Qt Ambassador Ubuntu Member: https://launchpad.net/~andreagrandi website: http://www.andreagrandi.it -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Re: [U+1] Fwd: Proposal to drop Ubuntu alternate CDs for 12.10
Hi, On 28 August 2012 18:14, Nicholas Skaggs nicholas.ska...@canonical.com wrote: On 08/28/2012 09:34 AM, Anthony Byrne wrote: As Brendan said, I would encourage those of you who have concerns to post them back to the ubuntu-devel list @ Steve et la for discussion. If you remember back to UDS, the original idea as discussed was that no functionality would be lost (aka, the live cd would get support for everything the alternate cd could do). They've come close, but RAID support didn't quite happen. Note that If the alternates are dropped for ubuntu, going forward, if you wish to install with RAID (or simply want to use an alternative installer) you still have the option of using the netboot or mini iso. excuse me if I ask this, but I really cannot understand. If you already know that RAID support won't be ready for 12.10, why don't you wait for the NEXT release to remove the alternate install Cds? I cannot understand why it suddenly become so urgent to remove them. Can't you just wait 6 more months? Best regards, -- Andrea Grandi - Nokia-DX/Tampere / Qt Ambassador Ubuntu Member: https://launchpad.net/~andreagrandi website: http://www.andreagrandi.it -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Re: Which Ubuntu projects/applications use Qt? (I'd like to offer my help)
Hi Florian, On 24 August 2012 18:38, Florian Boucault florian.bouca...@canonical.com wrote: How about the port of the software center to QML? It's pretty fun! I didn't know there was a porting of Software Center in QML. Where can I find more informations about it? Are you planning to substitute the actual Software Center (that is slow like hell :P ) with this new one or is it just an experiment? Looking forward to read from you! -- Andrea Grandi - Nokia-DX/Tampere / Qt Ambassador Ubuntu Member: https://launchpad.net/~andreagrandi website: http://www.andreagrandi.it -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Which Ubuntu projects/applications use Qt? (I'd like to offer my help)
Hi, before the decision of dropping Unity-2D I contributed to that project with a couple of patches and I was also working on the Qt5 porting. Now that the code won't be maintained anymore by Canonical I'd like to move to a different project. My main skills/knowledges are Qt/QML and C++. Do you know if there are any Qt projects in Ubuntu where I could start contributing? Best regards, -- Andrea Grandi - Nokia-DX/Tampere / Qt Ambassador Ubuntu Member: https://launchpad.net/~andreagrandi website: http://www.andreagrandi.it -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Re: Which Ubuntu projects/applications use Qt? (I'd like to offer my help)
Hi, On 21 August 2012 20:26, Oliver Grawert o...@ubuntu.com wrote: hi, Am Dienstag, den 21.08.2012, 14:22 +0300 schrieb a.gra...@gmail.com: Now that the code won't be maintained anymore by Canonical I'd like to move to a different project. why do you move away ? unity-2d might not see support from canonical, but i know there are many users out there that really like it, it is in universe, the code is public and free ... why not go on contributing to such a great project ? because I completly lost any motivation for Unity-2D right now. I was already a bit frustrated before the UDS-Q, because I was getting much help from developers. I can understand they were busy doing other things and even stuff they could not talk about, but this doesn't lower my frustration. I also don't like many things of Unity (I'm not here to start trolling, so I don't want to talk about this here) and I of course wouldn't like to create a different user experience in Unity-2D. I would like to work in a smaller project, with less people, where maybe I can get more attention than in a big project. I just want to clarify that this is nothing personal with anyone, I just don't want to work on Unity-2D anymore. I've seen too many dead projects recently... cofff... coo. ;) So, if someone has a good idea just ping me :) -- Andrea Grandi - Nokia-DX/Tampere / Qt Ambassador Ubuntu Member: https://launchpad.net/~andreagrandi website: http://www.andreagrandi.it -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Re: Which Ubuntu projects/applications use Qt? (I'd like to offer my help)
Hi, On 22 August 2012 07:01, Chow Loong Jin hyper...@ubuntu.com wrote: Open your terminal and run this: $ apt-cache rdepends libqtcore4 There are plenty of Qt-using projects out there. well, I know that command, but if I just wanted a generic Qt project I would simply contribute to KDE or to Qt itself. If there aren't any specific Ubuntu projects written in Qt (like for example the Ubuntu One client... it wasn't hard to use it as example...) I will dedicate to something else. Best regards, -- Andrea Grandi - Nokia-DX/Tampere / Qt Ambassador Ubuntu Member: https://launchpad.net/~andreagrandi website: http://www.andreagrandi.it -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Re: Ubuntu Release Sprint
Hi! On 20 August 2012 10:38, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com wrote: Excellent idea. thank you for the reply and the feedback :) On that page, you suggest having one of these sprints in July and one in January. Why not do it every week? because even if we did an Hangout for the half of the blueprints discussed in the previous UDS, it would take at least 4 hours for 5 days of the week. Imagine it like being at UDS: we usually have many parallel tracks, we start at 9:00 in the morning and we usually finish at 17 or 18. You would be able to spend all this time every week? Maybe smaller sprints once a month would be doable, but every week I'm not convinced :) Anyway, it would be a good start to organize at least one, let's see how it goes, get feedback from developers and community contributor about how to improve it and then use this feedback to organize a new one. Maybe we should schedule a session at next UDS to talk about this? Why wait until then? Why not start now? you are right! I was just thinking that maybe organizing this face-to-face would be easier, but why don't we simply schedule an Hangout session soon and discuss about it? It would be the best way to test if it works :) Best regards, p.s: I'm available almost any day for the Hangout, starting from 18:00, Helsinki time. -- Andrea Grandi - Nokia-DX/Tampere / Qt Ambassador Ubuntu Member: https://launchpad.net/~andreagrandi website: http://www.andreagrandi.it -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Ubuntu Release Sprint
Hi, during the last UDS party, I had an idea to improve Ubuntu development, but I didn't know if it could be a good idea or a stupid one, so I talked to Daniel Holbach and David Planella about it and they were happy to hear about it and Daniel told me to talk about this directly to Mark (and I did it). Let's explain the basic idea. From an UDS and the next one, it would be useful to have a development sprint where people can talk about assigned UDS blueprints, at which point they are on their tasks, if they have any problems and if they will finish them within the next UDS. Of course Canonical cannot organize another meeting, it would be very expensive, so the idea is: why don't we use Google Hangout to organize the sprint? I has a limit of 10 people, I know, but we could select (for example) 5 from the community and 5 from Canonical. There would be parallel meeting and tracks, we would use the same blueprints used during the last UDS and we would add further notes. The attendees would be able to listen and watch the stream and make questions through the available chat. I've also created a wiki page with more informations and you can find it here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuReleaseSprint What do you think about? I know that Canonical is already organizing sprints and this could be a way to involve more the Ubuntu Community. Maybe we should schedule a session at next UDS to talk about this? I hope to get some feedback from you. Best regards, -- Andrea Grandi - Nokia-DX/Tampere / Qt Ambassador Ubuntu Member: https://launchpad.net/~andreagrandi website: http://www.andreagrandi.it -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
An idea for Ubuntu Server guide: notification for guide's errors
Hi all, most of us at the moment is reviewing the Ubuntu Server documentation, and following these instructions: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-server/2011-August/005805.html Even if my idea of review is: 1) read to see if there are any typos, 2) verify if all commands, package names ecc... are still the same ecc I already know I could miss something. The idea: when a user found a bug in the documentation, is there a way to notify the person who is taking care of that particula chapter? Here we have a list of people and chapters they're reviewing: http://pad.ubuntu.com/serverguide but I cannot find a way to be notified if someone files a bug to the sections I'm taking care of. Any idea? -- Andrea Grandi - Nokia Qt Ambassador website: http://www.andreagrandi.it -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
Re: What can I do for Ubuntu Server Team?
Hi, On 22 August 2011 14:40, Ahmed Kamal k...@ubuntu.com wrote: - We're currently reviewing the ubuntu server guide in preparation for Oneiric. It would be awesome to take ownership of a subchapter and start reviewing it in the next 2 weeks. For more info, please check this thread: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-server/2011-August/005805.html I've already picked up a chapter to make pratice and understand how the whole process works. I'll give this task the priority since the doc freeze deadline is very close. - A lot of work is also going into Ensemble, the Ubuntu server orchestration tool. A lot of work is needed there to start covering open-source applications with ensemble formulas. You could pick your favorite app, and start hacking a formula around it. This is something I can directly help you with. You can learn more about Ensemble at: https://ensemble.ubuntu.com/ (we're all in #ubuntu-ensemble) I didn't know what Ensemble was before reading this ;) If I correctly understand it's a tool to remote admin a server, right? I could test it directly on my VPS that is running Ubuntu Server. What do you think about? - Another contribution path, since you mentioned you had development experience, is to simply pick up an ubuntu server bug, and to start working on fixing it! Here is a good start: https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-server You can ask questions in #ubuntu-server I'll give a look to that too, later... regards. -- Andrea Grandi - Nokia Qt Ambassador website: http://www.andreagrandi.it -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
What can I do for Ubuntu Server Team?
Hi, my name is Andrea Grandi, I use Linux since 1996 and Ubuntu since its first version. I've worked as software developer (and I'm collaborating with Unity-2D team) and as system administrator. At the moment I'm a student (I started university very late) and I have some spare time to dedicate to opensource projects. I'm currently managing am Ubuntu server that runs a wifi service authenticator, so I use it every day. I'd like to know if there is anything I can do to collaborate with this team. p.s: if you need more information about me, you can find them on my wiki page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AndreaGrandi -- Andrea Grandi - Nokia Qt Ambassador website: http://www.andreagrandi.it -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
