[ubuntu-uk] Locking in the wireless drivers

2013-04-23 Thread Rowan Berkeley

Hi,

You recall we talked about the hassle of having to re-install wireless 
drivers after every kernel update. I've noticed that neither of the 
Lenovo machines which I got from Linux Emporium suffers from this 
problem: they've both received multiple kernel updates. So I rang Linux 
Emporium to see if I could find out how they lock the wireless drivers 
in so effectively. What they said was that they use the Debian packages 
when converting the Lenovo machines to Ubuntu, and that these Debian 
packages contain the wherewithal to lock the wireless drivers in 
permanently. Does this make sense, and if so, could the relevant 
material be incorporated directly into Ubuntu?


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Locking in the wireless drivers

2013-04-23 Thread Kris Douglas
Hello,

I do believe this depends on the card in use, some drivers have
slightly different conditions compared to others. I know for example
some modules recompile themselves when the kernel is updated. I'm
confident Linux Emporium choose devices that work exceptionally well
with Linux (or specifically Debian-derived distributions).

Kris

On 23 April 2013 09:59, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 You recall we talked about the hassle of having to re-install wireless
 drivers after every kernel update. I've noticed that neither of the Lenovo
 machines which I got from Linux Emporium suffers from this problem: they've
 both received multiple kernel updates. So I rang Linux Emporium to see if I
 could find out how they lock the wireless drivers in so effectively. What
 they said was that they use the Debian packages when converting the Lenovo
 machines to Ubuntu, and that these Debian packages contain the wherewithal
 to lock the wireless drivers in permanently. Does this make sense, and if
 so, could the relevant material be incorporated directly into Ubuntu?

 Rowan

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[ubuntu-uk] LibreOffice menu problem remains

2013-04-23 Thread Liam Proven
So I am now running beta 2 of Raring, I guess, and LibreOffice's menus
still are completely inaccessible via the keyboard.

This is a really serious problem. It renders the entire suite unusable for me.

Is there any official way to draw more attention to this really quite
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] LibreOffice menu problem remains

2013-04-23 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi,

well that provoked a 'wtf' from the head of quality / testing. He is filing
a bug. As you correctly state, this is an issue. I will post up the bug
number once Nicholas has raised it. Please log onto to the system and click
on the affects me portion to receive updates on its progress.

Regards,

Phill.


On 23 April 2013 18:05, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:

 So I am now running beta 2 of Raring, I guess, and LibreOffice's menus
 still are completely inaccessible via the keyboard.

 This is a really serious problem. It renders the entire suite unusable for
 me.

 Is there any official way to draw more attention to this really quite
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] LibreOffice menu problem remains

2013-04-23 Thread Nicholas Skaggs

I thought this was fixed, but see these couple bugs:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/739184
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1085169

If you can confirm the new version linked (in a ppa, from bug reports) 
is working for you, you can help the developer push an SRU update. I 
hope this helps!


Nicholas

On 04/23/2013 01:26 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:

Hi,

well that provoked a 'wtf' from the head of quality / testing. He is 
filing a bug. As you correctly state, this is an issue. I will post up 
the bug number once Nicholas has raised it. Please log onto to the 
system and click on the affects me portion to receive updates on its 
progress.


Regards,

Phill.


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mailto:lpro...@gmail.com wrote:


So I am now running beta 2 of Raring, I guess, and LibreOffice's menus
still are completely inaccessible via the keyboard.

This is a really serious problem. It renders the entire suite
unusable for me.

Is there any official way to draw more attention to this really quite
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] LibreOffice menu problem remains

2013-04-23 Thread Colin Law
On 23 April 2013 18:26, Phill Whiteside phi...@ubuntu.com wrote:
 Hi,

 well that provoked a 'wtf' from the head of quality / testing. He is filing
 a bug. As you correctly state, this is an issue. I will post up the bug
 number once Nicholas has raised it. Please log onto to the system and click
 on the affects me portion to receive updates on its progress.

Is it not this bug, [1] which it appears is currently being worked on?

Colin

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/739184


 Regards,

 Phill.


 On 23 April 2013 18:05, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:

 So I am now running beta 2 of Raring, I guess, and LibreOffice's menus
 still are completely inaccessible via the keyboard.

 This is a really serious problem. It renders the entire suite unusable for
 me.

 Is there any official way to draw more attention to this really quite
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Locking in the wireless drivers

2013-04-23 Thread Daniel Llewellyn
Debian (and thus Ubuntu) has the feature of DKMS which allows a package to
flag to apt that it needs reconfiguring after a kernel update. AFAIK, dpkg
will run the configure step of installation again for those so-flagged
packages to give them a chance to recompile any kernel interfaces.

The nvidia and fglrx (amd/ati) drivers, for example, utilise DKMS to
recompile their shim between the binary proprietary driver and the gpl
kernel to allow them to get away with not licensing their driver under the
GPL (rant away over this pseudo-gpl-violation, please! :-p).

DKMS requires the package maintainer to jump through some hoops, but once
that's done the end-user experience is vastly improved.


On 23 April 2013 10:24, Kris Douglas krisdoug...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello,

 I do believe this depends on the card in use, some drivers have
 slightly different conditions compared to others. I know for example
 some modules recompile themselves when the kernel is updated. I'm
 confident Linux Emporium choose devices that work exceptionally well
 with Linux (or specifically Debian-derived distributions).

 Kris

 On 23 April 2013 09:59, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:
  Hi,
 
  You recall we talked about the hassle of having to re-install wireless
  drivers after every kernel update. I've noticed that neither of the
 Lenovo
  machines which I got from Linux Emporium suffers from this problem:
 they've
  both received multiple kernel updates. So I rang Linux Emporium to see
 if I
  could find out how they lock the wireless drivers in so effectively. What
  they said was that they use the Debian packages when converting the
 Lenovo
  machines to Ubuntu, and that these Debian packages contain the
 wherewithal
  to lock the wireless drivers in permanently. Does this make sense, and if
  so, could the relevant material be incorporated directly into Ubuntu?
 
  Rowan
 
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Locking in the wireless drivers

2013-04-23 Thread Rowan Berkeley

On 23/04/13 20:36, Daniel Llewellyn wrote:

Debian (and thus Ubuntu) has the feature of DKMS which allows a package
to flag to apt that it needs reconfiguring after a kernel update. AFAIK,
dpkg will run the configure step of installation again for those
so-flagged packages to give them a chance to recompile any kernel
interfaces.

The nvidia and fglrx (amd/ati) drivers, for example, utilise DKMS to
recompile their shim between the binary proprietary driver and the gpl
kernel to allow them to get away with not licensing their driver under
the GPL (rant away over this pseudo-gpl-violation, please! :-p).

DKMS requires the package maintainer to jump through some hoops, but
once that's done the end-user experience is vastly improved.


On 23 April 2013 10:24, Kris Douglas krisdoug...@gmail.com
mailto:krisdoug...@gmail.com wrote:

Hello,

I do believe this depends on the card in use, some drivers have
slightly different conditions compared to others. I know for example
some modules recompile themselves when the kernel is updated. I'm
confident Linux Emporium choose devices that work exceptionally well
with Linux (or specifically Debian-derived distributions).

Kris

On 23 April 2013 09:59, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com
mailto:rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:
  Hi,
 
  You recall we talked about the hassle of having to re-install
wireless
  drivers after every kernel update. I've noticed that neither of
the Lenovo
  machines which I got from Linux Emporium suffers from this
problem: they've
  both received multiple kernel updates. So I rang Linux Emporium
to see if I
  could find out how they lock the wireless drivers in so
effectively. What
  they said was that they use the Debian packages when converting
the Lenovo
  machines to Ubuntu, and that these Debian packages contain the
wherewithal
  to lock the wireless drivers in permanently. Does this make
sense, and if
  so, could the relevant material be incorporated directly into Ubuntu?
 
  Rowan
 


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Ah, yes, DKMS again, that explains it. Now if only we could just have 
DKMS packaged up for automatic installation in the Synaptic package 
manager. As it is, you need quite a bit of savvy to install DKMS, more 
than I've got, for sure.


:')

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] LibreOffice menu problem remains

2013-04-23 Thread Phill Whiteside
I do not use libreoffice

but for your advice...

(18:10:22) balloons: tea time.. irish tea, but not milk.. don't hurt me!
 (18:11:22) phillw: slip a shot of whisky into it :)
 (18:11:25) phillw: So I am now running beta 2 of Raring, I guess, and
 LibreOffice's menus
 (18:11:25) phillw: still are completely inaccessible via the keyboard.
 (18:11:25) phillw: This is a really serious problem. It renders the
 entire suite unusable for me.
 (18:11:25) phillw: Is there any official way to draw more attention to
 this really quite
 (18:11:25) phillw: critical bug?
 (18:11:52) ***balloons goes to check
 (18:11:54) phillw: do we have a test case for libre? it's not shipped by
 default in lubuntu
 (18:11:57) balloons: they were working for me
 (18:12:14) balloons: well wtf
 (18:12:36) balloons: this is like the precise libreoffice menu bug I
 found at the last minute
 (18:12:39) phillw: borked?
 (18:12:46) balloons: yea, borked
 (18:12:50) balloons: let me ping someone
 (18:13:10) balloons: do you have a bug for this/
 (18:13:19) balloons: if not, please file and link me
 (18:13:24) phillw: one of the guys on ubuntu-uk mailing list just flagged
 it up
 (18:13:35) phillw: I don't have it installed
 (18:13:47) balloons: is there a bug listed?
 (18:14:08) phillw: He does not mention one.
 (18:14:43) phillw: So, maybe better you file it and I reply to him with
 the bug and tell him 'affects me'
 (18:15:14) phillw: I've no idea how 'bug savvy' he is,
 (18:15:28) balloons: kk
 (18:15:52) phillw: but a reply to all onto the ubuntu-uk mailing list
 should be able to get someone to confirm it :)
 (18:16:26) phillw: ***JUST** what we want 2 days before release day :(
 (18:53:40) balloons: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57104
 (18:54:01) balloons: looks like this might be something bigger.. but it
 is apparently? known.. going to track bugs
 (18:54:28) balloons:
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/739184
 (18:55:10) balloons:
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1085169
 (18:59:35) balloons: I had seen this earlier, but apparently it came back
 (19:06:55) phillw: okies
 (19:24:36) phillw: is there a 'master' bug number I can send the OP
 (19:29:01) balloons: those are the master bugs
 (19:29:09) balloons: the 2 lp bugs
 (19:29:37) phillw: thanks, I'll let the guy know.
 (19:30:09) phillw: btw, what ails you? (what are you ill with)?
 (19:31:05) balloons: flu
 (19:31:07) balloons: :-(
 (19:31:43) phillw: yukkie :/ .. and thanks for replying to the OP :)


I can only report an email bug to the quality team, in this case I asked
the head. From here on, it is driven by teams not a part of QA/Testing.

Regards,

Phill,
P.S. balloons is Nicholas

On 23 April 2013 20:34, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote:

 On 23 April 2013 18:26, Phill Whiteside phi...@ubuntu.com wrote:
  Hi,
 
  well that provoked a 'wtf' from the head of quality / testing. He is
 filing
  a bug. As you correctly state, this is an issue. I will post up the bug
  number once Nicholas has raised it. Please log onto to the system and
 click
  on the affects me portion to receive updates on its progress.

 Is it not this bug, [1] which it appears is currently being worked on?

 Colin

 [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/739184

 
  Regards,
 
  Phill.
 
 
  On 23 April 2013 18:05, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  So I am now running beta 2 of Raring, I guess, and LibreOffice's menus
  still are completely inaccessible via the keyboard.
 
  This is a really serious problem. It renders the entire suite unusable
 for
  me.
 
  Is there any official way to draw more attention to this really quite
  critical bug?
 
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Locking in the wireless drivers

2013-04-23 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-04-23 20:47, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
 Ah, yes, DKMS again, that explains it. Now if only we could just have DKMS
 packaged up for automatic installation in the Synaptic package manager. As
 it is, you need quite a bit of savvy to install DKMS, more than I've got,
 for sure.

You mean, like this?

sudo apt-get install dkms

;)

Regards,
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] LibreOffice menu problem remains

2013-04-23 Thread Colin Law
On 23 April 2013 18:56, Nicholas Skaggs nicholas.ska...@canonical.com wrote:
 I thought this was fixed, but see these couple bugs:

 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/739184
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1085169

There is also
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1045353
basically the HUD does not work at all in LO

Colin


 If you can confirm the new version linked (in a ppa, from bug reports) is
 working for you, you can help the developer push an SRU update. I hope this
 helps!




 Nicholas


 On 04/23/2013 01:26 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:

 Hi,

 well that provoked a 'wtf' from the head of quality / testing. He is filing
 a bug. As you correctly state, this is an issue. I will post up the bug
 number once Nicholas has raised it. Please log onto to the system and click
 on the affects me portion to receive updates on its progress.

 Regards,

 Phill.


 On 23 April 2013 18:05, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:

 So I am now running beta 2 of Raring, I guess, and LibreOffice's menus
 still are completely inaccessible via the keyboard.

 This is a really serious problem. It renders the entire suite unusable for
 me.

 Is there any official way to draw more attention to this really quite
 critical bug?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Locking in the wireless drivers

2013-04-23 Thread Neil Greenwood
On Apr 23, 2013 9:22 PM, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote:

 On 2013-04-23 20:47, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
  Ah, yes, DKMS again, that explains it. Now if only we could just have
DKMS
  packaged up for automatic installation in the Synaptic package manager.
As
  it is, you need quite a bit of savvy to install DKMS, more than I've
got,
  for sure.

 You mean, like this?

 sudo apt-get install dkms

 ;)


No, that's not the solution. The package that contains the wireless driver
needs to be changed by its maintainer to use DKMS to core with kernel
changes.

Sorry if I missed some sarcasm, but I don't think your answer helped the OP.

Regards,
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[ubuntu-uk] London Release Event - Thursday

2013-04-23 Thread Alan Bell

Hi all,

the release of the Raring Ringtail is in a couple of days and we will be 
having the traditional London pub meetup with the Canonical team. This 
time it will be at the Old Thameside Inn, next to the Golden Hind from 
about 6:30 on Thursday evening.


http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-uk/2329-1304-release-party/

There might be a Tshirt or two handed out as well if we are lucky 
http://shop.canonical.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=13.04+and+t-shirt


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] London Release Event - Thursday

2013-04-23 Thread Barry Drake

On 23/04/13 22:17, Alan Bell wrote:
the release of the Raring Ringtail is in a couple of days and we will 
be having the traditional London pub meetup with the Canonical team. 
This time it will be at the Old Thameside Inn, next to the Golden Hind 
from about 6:30 on Thursday evening.


Hey guys    I'd love to be there  Just wondered if anyone has a 
floor to sleep on for the night? (not too far away).  I don't want to 
have to get back on the train to Nottingham at some silly hour.  Any offers?


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] LibreOffice menu problem remains

2013-04-23 Thread Liam Proven
On 23 April 2013 18:26, Phill Whiteside phi...@ubuntu.com wrote:
 Hi,

 well that provoked a 'wtf' from the head of quality / testing. He is filing
 a bug. As you correctly state, this is an issue. I will post up the bug
 number once Nicholas has raised it. Please log onto to the system and click
 on the affects me portion to receive updates on its progress.

I'm sorry, I should have named the outstanding Launchpad bugs.

I was already subscribed to Bug #739184 and Bug #1085169.

I have now subscribed to Bug #1064962 as well, but the description
does not seem correct for me. It does not matter if I open a fresh
copy of LO or double-click on a file  let the program open. *Any* way
I launch the program, the menus are inaccessible with the keyboard.

Currently I am running Microsoft Word 97 under WINE so that I can use
my machine! (Most of my work is writing.)

I have not noticed any problem with keyboard menu access in any other
apps, only LibreOffice.

As per several comments with those bugs, this has been a problem in
the past with the lo-menubar package and later with
libreoffice-gtk - but if these were removed, one could use the
menus, at the price of apps that didn't match the system theme. (On my
netbook running Precise, remove libreoffice-gtk also makes dialog
boxes much smaller so that they fit onto the 1024×768 screen, a
beneficial side-effect.)

But in Raring there is no GTK package to remove. I do not know of any
other workaround.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] LibreOffice menu problem remains

2013-04-23 Thread Liam Proven
On 23 April 2013 21:40, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote:
 On 23 April 2013 18:56, Nicholas Skaggs nicholas.ska...@canonical.com wrote:
 I thought this was fixed, but see these couple bugs:

 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/739184
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1085169

 There is also
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1045353
 basically the HUD does not work at all in LO

As someone who doesn't use the HUD, I'd forgotten this, but yes, this
is also true. When in LibreOffice, the HUD command-entry bar appears,
but the commands appear to be interpreted in the context of Nautilus,
not LO.

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