Re: Removed Feature Impact Quality of Ubuntu
I've decided to give Ubuntu another chance. I love the distro, nothing else compares, and using something else just felt like i'd taken a trip back in time 10 years. My experience with both Mandriva 2010 and MEPIS Linux has shown me just how far Ubuntu has come, how more ahead of the curve Ubuntu is. The Monitor Detection issue is a serious problem and does need addressing. I'm going to join the Gnome list and see what I can do about getting something done towards fixing it. Its an issue which should have been corrected long ago. Perhaps I can get someone to make a better randr frontend that can be used to change your monitor hardware settings. I have no programming expertise at all. I'm going to be learning Java. The last time I programmed was in ANSI-C on an old Unix minicomputer 15 years ago, and I've dabbled a little in Perl. I don't know anything about Mono, Python or Qt. Thank you all. I'll give G. Bowman's X.org suggestion a try. -- Michael "TheZorch" Haney "The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion." ~ Arthur C. Clarke "The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there is no place for it in the endeavor of science. " ~ Carl Sagan Visit My Site: http://sites.google.com/site/thezorch/home-1 To Contact Me: http://sites.google.com/site/thezorch/home-1/zorch-central---contacts Free Your PC from the Bondage of Windows http://www.ubuntu.com -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Re: Removed Feature Impact Quality of Ubuntu
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Grant Bowman wrote: >> Regarding failed monitor auto-detection, one procedure I have used >> successfully is described by going to www.x.org, clicking FAQ then >> ConfigurationHelp. Here is a direct link. >> http://www.x.org/wiki/ConfigurationHelp This procedure uses the >> current auto-detection code to write a fresh xorg.conf file which you >> can carefully edit with your changes from previous versions. These >> files in my experience are well commented. With some additional >> research each change you require can be added in whatever new syntax >> might be required for the particular version of "X" you are running. >> Using an xorg.conf file from an older version of X may have >> unpredictable results. It sounds like this has stopped working for >> you. > > Do you know whether X has any way of hardcoding (into Xorg, I mean) > information about monitors that provide incorrect information? I'm > thinking of like how in ALSA there are quirk tables. Hi Mackenzie, I don't know how the code for auto-detection of monitors works but I have used the above linked procedure (also described in the X wiki pages) to work around it. As I perform some more searches I see quite a few items on brainstorm.ubuntu.com and ubuntuforums.org with problems auto-detecting monitors. Another complication I came across just this week when I installed 10.04 on a laptop was that it required the use of binary drivers for the video card and wifi adapater to allow suspend and resume to work. In fact https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/MonitorDetection says "Monitor detection is one of Ubuntu/Xorg's most major problems." My experience sponsoring several school computer labs in San Francisco using donated hardware seems to support this claim. X/MonitorDetection gives a great description of the problem from the x.org perspective with some insight into why the problem exists. Unfortunately that page was written in 2007 and has not been updated. Thank you for the link to http://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Resolution you provided earlier in this thread. The X wiki pages have some great information. To answer your question I suspect it would best be asked on IRC or the Ubuntu X mail list linked from the ~ubuntu-x-swat launchpad team page. https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Ubuntu-x Regards, Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Re: hello new eeepc901 tester
Hi I have been running ubuntus on my 901 for 18 months. I usually download and run the alphas and betas so I am happy to provide feedback if thats useful. My main current problem with lucid is high power consumption, so the cpus are unable to drop down from 1.6G to 800M in powersave. this wasnt the case with 9.10 but I'm not sure when this problem crept in I think it was quite late. powertop reports lots more wake ups than usual (500/s). Its bad with std ubuntu & better but not perfect with the remix. I am also running unity which looks to have lots of potential. but I'd like to try autohiding the panels I'm happy to help test but I'm not terribly technical. I'm also interested in boot times and have an editable spreadsheet at: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aib-MC2xtkLhcFRBaGJ1Q3o4WUJSSHNvUzdQNFM2T3c&hl=en_GB One challenge I see for ubuntu is a. It wants to be a respected stable household distro (for that it needs to be error free and robust) but b. It also seems to want to be an adventurous, leading edge, experimental and pioneering distro. These two aims are hard to bring together. (I prefer the latter, as i guess do most of the people on this list?) cimh 901 ubuntu lucid, lubuntu 10.04, puppeee -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Re: log-in to ubuntu iso test track
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 03:09:52PM +0200, alessandro wrote: > l 19/05/2010 23:15, Steve Beattie ha scritto: > If you're still having issues, perhaps you can send me your login id > offlist and I can reset your password; I looked briefly through the > admin interface for your account but could not find it. > > I have already created an accont to iso tracker but I have no e-mail > password Just so we don't have conflicting password resets going on, I've responded to alessandro off list. -- Steve Beattie http://NxNW.org/~steve/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Ubuntu QA Team Meeting Minutes - 19 May 2010
Ubuntu QA Team Meeting Minutes 19 May 2010 Agenda: * SRU testing -- sbeattie (Steve Beattie) * Bug Day status -- pvillavi * QA meetings reorg - ara * Next Chairperson is ara Chair: Marjo Mercado == SRU Testing (sbeattie) SRU Activity report for the past 2 weeks (since 2010-05-05): * lucid: 44 new packages in -proposed and 61 packages pushed to -updates * karmic: 5 new packages in -proposed (gdm, landscape-client, libatasmart, pastebinit, update-manager) and 5 packages pushed to -updates (bansheelyricsplugin, boost1.38, etoys, gdm, landscape-client) * jaunty: 2 new packages in -proposed (landscape-client, pastebinit) and 2 packages pushed to -updates (etoys, landscape-client) * hardy: 1 package pushed to -updates (nfs-utils) * dapper: no SRU activity Thanks to the following folks for doing the SRU testing this week: ionospheric, Paul Elliott (omahn), Mario Limonciello (superm1), fx5, Hideki Sakurada, Ville Ranki (cos^), Henning Moll, Marco De Paolini, Guenter Roeck, arand, Benjamin Kay (benkay86), Martin Božič, leighman, Plafuro, tankdriver, Ron S, Irihapeti, neutrinux, Roel van Os, Paul Elliott (omahn), Thorsten Reinbold, Dmitry Shachnev, Frank Groeneveld, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage), Ken Weill P. Lumacad, Daniel Richard G., Pekka Hämäläinen, daniele80, Moritz Kobel, Paolo4500, Scott Howard (showard), besson3c, Herco van Brug, Stephen Day, Simon Steinbeiß (ochosi), johnny b, WiNeOS, Fabio Marconi (njin), Imre Gergely (cemc), Chris Guirl, hhfischer, Jussi Kekkonen, Daniel Che, jamboarder and others * SRUs for lucid are still going strong == Bug Day plans - pvillavi == * We're having a bug day based on Update Manager https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20100520 == QA meetings reorg - ara == * We talked at UDS about improving meetings https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/ImprovingCommunication * A few people find it difficult to attend this meeting time, so we are planning to rotate the meeting times, to see if it helps. * Every other week, the meeting will be at 17:00 UTC, but the other meeting time is up to you. Paolo has set up a poll to see which time is best for the team. Please vote at http://doodle.com/qskx79utvgaa9ubv * There will be meeting reminders sent to the mailing list a couple of days ahead and asking for topics to cover == Select the chair for the next meeting (Chair) == * Ara Pulido (ara) == Actions == * No new action items assigned. == Modify the meeting page for the next meeting agenda (Ara) == -- Marjo F. Mercado Ubuntu QA Team Manager IRC: marjo -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Re: Removed Feature Impact Quality of Ubuntu
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Grant Bowman wrote: > Regarding failed monitor auto-detection, one procedure I have used > successfully is described by going to www.x.org, clicking FAQ then > ConfigurationHelp. Here is a direct link. > http://www.x.org/wiki/ConfigurationHelp This procedure uses the > current auto-detection code to write a fresh xorg.conf file which you > can carefully edit with your changes from previous versions. These > files in my experience are well commented. With some additional > research each change you require can be added in whatever new syntax > might be required for the particular version of "X" you are running. > Using an xorg.conf file from an older version of X may have > unpredictable results. It sounds like this has stopped working for > you. Do you know whether X has any way of hardcoding (into Xorg, I mean) information about monitors that provide incorrect information? I'm thinking of like how in ALSA there are quirk tables. -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
log-in to ubuntu iso test track
l 19/05/2010 23:15, Steve Beattie ha scritto: If you're still having issues, perhaps you can send me your login id offlist and I can reset your password; I looked briefly through the admin interface for your account but could not find it. I have already created an accont to iso tracker but I have no e-mail password my profile: user: alo 22 password : i don't know because i have not receive an e-mail -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
