Re: Hardy Alpha-4 synaptic error
Richard Mancusi wrote: Okay, I did another clean install and can repeat the problem. On a test system I always set a root password and allow root logon. Yes, I know that isn't a great idea, but it comes in handy on a test system. As soon as I set a root password in System/Administration/Users and Groups the root user Home directory moved from /root to /home/root. I guess it's a matter of opinion as to whether this is a bug. Ubuntu and common sense tells you to not set a root password. But if you are going to allow it, it should work correctly. I leave that to the developers. Agreed, setting a root password is a common Unix feature that should remain possible to do with a simple 'sudo passwd' or optionally using the Users admin tool. This should always work, regardless of what policy we'd like to promote about the root account: here it is simply a bug. Please open a bug report on users-admin. Anyway, forbidding to set a root password should be done in a smarter way if we wanted to do so. Cheers -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: KVM, virt-manager, etc.
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A simple grep should be sufficient. We only care what the kernel sees, since
there are other variables that could affect the usefulness of the lists from
Intel and AMD.
egrep ‘(vmx|svm)’ /proc/cpuinfo
~$ egrep ‘(vmx|svm)’ /proc/cpuinfo
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
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Speakers and sound configuration tool
What do you think about it? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SpeakersAndSound There have been complaints that Ubuntu lacks a speakers and sound configuration utility, which forces newbies to manually edit .asoundrc and /etc/modules.d/alsa files if they want to use surround sound or another soundcard. Manually editing the files is difficult and frustrating to them, and not an ideal way to handle the issue on the long run. The 'Speakers and sound' tool should be able to configure: * default soundcard used by Ubuntu * speakers configuration (from 2.0/2.1 to surround 5.1, 7.1, etc.) -- Regards, Peter Zaryk -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Minimal Hardy Alpha Images
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Stahlir wrote: Hi! Is it possible to create minimal cd images of hardy alpha releases? I think about an image that is less than 100MB and contains only the absolute necessary packages to run the live cd. Add a torrent for this image and testing alpha releases would be _much_ easier. Right now I have to download more than 600MB. I promise to test _every_ alpha release if you provide such an image. ;) ps You are using rsync for updating images, aren't you? Hobbsee -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHpv577/o1b30rzoURAtBCAKCuSQinJHm0L6Idxf5Cu2TPW7MRAwCfUqkd XMoz3dGtPkkGKX3T9PIMZ34= =Sysg -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Speakers and sound configuration tool
I like the look of this, but it's probably too late to make it to Hardy. Maybe Hardy+1? On 2/4/08, Thomas Novin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 16:37 +0100, Piotr Zaryk wrote: What do you think about it? Really nice idea and initiative! I went crazy trying to get SP/DIF working with my AC'97 sound card through asoundrc-configuration. I actually never got it working perfectly since I could only play from one source at a time. To be able to solve this via a simple gui would be heaven. Rgds, Thomas -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Speakers and sound configuration tool
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 16:37 +0100, Piotr Zaryk wrote: What do you think about it? Really nice idea and initiative! I went crazy trying to get SP/DIF working with my AC'97 sound card through asoundrc-configuration. I actually never got it working perfectly since I could only play from one source at a time. To be able to solve this via a simple gui would be heaven. Rgds, Thomas -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Alpha 4 freeze ahead
why not include it by default early on to get more testing? Indeed +1 Or not Many addons are still not compatible So? This would help bring the ones included in Ubuntu that aren't compatable up to the light. Plus, these are development builds. Things are allowed to break. Also:http://www.oxymoronical.com/web/firefox/nightly Why force users/testers to manually install and make FF 2.0 the default browser? FF 2.0 is currently the default browser in hardy. By the same idea, we could install the previous versions of gnome and force users to install the up-to-date packages once they have it installed. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Spelling library consolidation
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 11:11 +0100, Szilveszter Farkas wrote: I've just discovered an old blueprint on Launchpad[0] and the corresponding wiki page[1], that Ubuntu was planning to consolidate I also filed a bug alluding to this a few years ago: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/3219 . -- Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Speakers and sound configuration tool
I have one suggestion for this suggestion: The user should have some means of testing his setup. It can be quite difficult to be certain when a surround sound setup is actually plugged in correctly, and playing random sounds is not always helpful. I think one powerful possibility would be a test system with a spinning dot that emits a sound, possibly following the mouse pointer. This way, the user has control over where the sound is coming from as well as the ability to test how well in-between sounds (coming from multiple speakers at once) work. Another thing needing some audio feedback is the balance adjustment, which should really have a light humming noise as it is adjusted in order to find the perfect spot, but I suppose that would be the volume control's problem. Anyway, you can ignore my unimaginative suggestions. Basically, need speaker tester :) Bye, -Dylan McCall On Mon, Feb 4, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Piotr Zaryk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure it's too late for Hardy. It's an LTS and new, unstable features are not welcome. Yes, I think we should make it for the next release. Please edit the feature description on the ubuntu wiki if you have got some ideas. 2008/2/4, Evan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I like the look of this, but it's probably too late to make it to Hardy. Maybe Hardy+1? On 2/4/08, Thomas Novin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 16:37 +0100, Piotr Zaryk wrote: What do you think about it? Really nice idea and initiative! I went crazy trying to get SP/DIF working with my AC'97 sound card through asoundrc-configuration. I actually never got it working perfectly since I could only play from one source at a time. To be able to solve this via a simple gui would be heaven. Rgds, Thomas -- Regards, Piotr Zaryk -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
