Bug#492059: one solution = disabling KDE/Qt styles for GTK applications

2011-02-06 Thread Eric Doviak
Package: iceweasel Severity: normal Mike's prediction was correct. Disabling KDE/Qt styles for GTK applications solves the problem (for me, anyway). After running: apt-get purge gtk-qt-engine, I no longer had any trouble with firefox-bin or xulrunner-stub continuing to run after I had closed the

Bug#523824: gtk-qt-engine prevents iceweasel from closing properly

2011-02-06 Thread Eric Doviak
Package: gtk-qt-engine Version: 1:1.1+svn5-4+b1 Severity: normal Just writing to support Mike's finding (see above and bug #492059). After running: apt-get purge gtk-qt-engine, I no longer had any trouble with firefox-bin or xulrunner-stub continuing to run after I had closed the browser.

Bug#501339: automounting vfat as utf8

2009-09-11 Thread Eric Doviak
Hi Sune, I'm writing in regard to the very old -- but very important -- bug about case-sensitive automounting of FAT-formatted devices. My main purpose in writing is to attract a little attention to this bug. A second purpose is to describe a workaround that spares the life of users' USB

Bug#517580: pdfedit: Edit page metrics should transform both CropBox and MediaBox

2009-02-28 Thread Eric Doviak
the bugs. He also encouraged me to send the patches to you. This bug report corresponds to PDFedit bug #290.[1] Thank you for your attention to this issue, - Eric Doviak ps: I attempted to report this bug yesterday, but it doesn't appear to have gone through. Apologies if you receive

Bug#517582: pdfedit: Why are my pages disappearing?

2009-02-28 Thread Eric Doviak
of PDFedit about this bug (and a couple of other bugs). Developer Michal Hocko produced the attached set of patches, which squash the bugs. He also encouraged me to send the patches to you. This bug report corresponds to PDFedit bug #295.[1] Thank you for your attention to this issue, - Eric Doviak

Bug#517581: pdfedit: Set page transformation matrix across a range of pages does not work properly

2009-02-28 Thread Eric Doviak
the bugs. He also encouraged me to send the patches to you. This bug report corresponds to PDFedit bug #291.[1] Thank you for your attention to this issue, - Eric Doviak ps: I attempted to report this bug yesterday, but it doesn't appear to have gone through. Apologies if you receive

Bug#486400: splashy does or doesn't work with hibernation ??

2008-10-26 Thread Eric Doviak
Hi Yves-Alexis, I am the person who originally submitted the bug report on Splashy's troubles with hibernation. I encountered the problem a few months ago on a Dell Latitude. Shortly thereafter, several other people wrote in to say that they were experiencing similar difficulties. At the moment,

Bug#486400: splashy does or doesn't work with hibernation ??

2008-10-26 Thread Eric Doviak
Hi Luis, Tim and Yves-Alexis, I received the notice that the Splashy hibernate bug has been closed, but I promised to follow up, so I'm writing to follow up. I just reinstalled and tested Splashy on my Dell Latitude C510. It works fine now. Because I'm curious ... What change was made that

Bug#501951: klaptopdaemon: Bring back KLaptop !!! ... Yes! It is possible !!!

2008-10-11 Thread Eric Doviak
Package: klaptopdaemon Version: 4:3.5.9-1 Severity: wishlist JOY !!! Oh, joy! I just noticed that I don't have to recompile my kernel to use KLaptop on Debian Lenny! Check out the following lines in /boot/config-2.6.26-1-686 CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS=y CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER=y

Bug#491300: desktop selection doesn't install desktop

2008-09-14 Thread Eric Doviak
Just a note to confirm this bug. I ran into it in the Debian Lenny installer KDE CD 1 weekly build 21 July 2008. Looking forward to the fix in the official builds, - Eric

Bug#452689: KPowersave and KNetworkManager

2008-07-24 Thread Eric Doviak
Hello, Let me begin by thanking Ana Guerrero and the rest of Debian's KDE team for their prompt response to the problems caused when a very stubborn Debian kernel maintainer disabled support for /proc/acpi.[1] Thank you for taking the time to provide people like me with a great desktop!

Bug#490686: KLaptop, kernel 2.6.25 and Bug #490686

2008-07-15 Thread Eric Doviak
Hi, I'm writing to ask: 1.) why support for /proc/acpi has been disabled in the 2.6.25 kernel, 2.) if the KLaptop daemon (3.5.9) will be ported to the new sysfs interface and 3.) if there's anything an end-user (like me) can do to make sure KDE has functional power management when it ships

Bug#490686: KLaptop, kernel 2.6.25 and Bug #490686

2008-07-15 Thread Eric Doviak
, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:59:08PM -0400, Eric Doviak wrote: 1.) why support for /proc/acpi has been disabled in the 2.6.25 kernel, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=463253 2.) if the KLaptop daemon (3.5.9) will be ported to the new sysfs interface and I do not think so. 3

Bug#490686: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 does not work with KLaptop

2008-07-13 Thread Eric Doviak
Package: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 Version: 2.6.25-6 Severity: important linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 does not work with KLaptop. I'm not sure why. It's always worked with the other stock Debian kernels and ACPI does work with this kernel, but when I run the klaptop_check command, KLaptop fails

Bug#490686: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 does not work with KLaptop

2008-07-13 Thread Eric Doviak
Thank you for taking the time to answer my report. Just to follow up ... It appears that CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER was set in the 2.6.24 kernel: [ Sun 13-Jul-2008 20.45 eric ] ~ $ cat /boot/config-2.6.24-1-686 | grep CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER=y [ Sun 13-Jul-2008

Bug#486400: a hack that WORKS !!!

2008-07-03 Thread Eric Doviak
Eric Doviak wrote: Luis Mondesi wrote: When $resume is not set, does Splashy start from initramfs init-top? Why does Splashy starts late? When $resume is not set, Splashy does not start from init-top. It appears to start from init-bottom. My guess is that Splashy starts late because

Bug#486400: a hack that WORKS !!!

2008-07-03 Thread Eric Doviak
Luis Mondesi wrote: When $resume is not set, does Splashy start from initramfs init-top? Why does Splashy starts late? Hi Luis, I ran some diagnostics using the hack that I sent yesterday. Specifically, I ran splashy_config -s kubuntusplashy but I did NOT run update-initramfs -u. That

Bug#486400: a hack that WORKS !!!

2008-07-03 Thread Eric Doviak
Yet another typo! I forgot to send this to Debian Bugs! Sorry for the double email! - Eric Luis Mondesi wrote: if you pass splashy then Splashy won't work. You need to pass splash as a kernel parameter. Is this a typo on this email or are you actually using this keyword? Back to the drawing

Bug#486400: a hack that WORKS !!!

2008-07-02 Thread Eric Doviak
Hi Luis, After days of struggling with the resume bug, I have finally found a hack that fixes the problem. It's not ideal, but it squashes the bug and it provides laptop users with a boot splash without compromising the quality that desktop users currently enjoy. Specifically, I started by

Bug#486400: [Splashy-devel] Bug#486400: Splashy works with hibernation, but ...

2008-07-01 Thread Eric Doviak
Just to clarify (in case my previous message was unclear) ... In the /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-top file, the lines: for x in $(cat /proc/cmdline); do case $x in single) SINGLE=true ;; splash) SPLASH=true ;; nosplash)

Bug#486400: [Splashy-devel] Bug#486400: Splashy works with hibernation, but ...

2008-06-30 Thread Eric Doviak
I think I know how to fix this bug. ... Of course, knowing how to fix the bug and being able to fix the bug are two totally different things. If I understand correctly ... When the vga=791 splash arguments are passed to the kernel, some of the first scripts that the initial RAM disk runs is a

Bug#486400: Splashy works with hibernation, but ...

2008-06-29 Thread Eric Doviak
This is interesting: Splashy really does work with hibernation! I have Splashy (almost) completely configured. I left the splash = y line in my /etc/uswsusp.conf file and I set the vga=791 argument -- but NOT the splash argument -- on the kernel line of my /boot/grub/menu.lst file. When

Bug#486400: splashy doesn't work with hibernation

2008-06-28 Thread Eric Doviak
Marcel Dischinger wrote: I have the same issue here. I found that the problem only occurs if splashy is activated in grub (add splash as a kernel parameter) _and_ in uswsusp. Then, splashy hangs while resuming from hibernation. If I either remove splashy from grub or uswsusp, it works just

Bug#468735: usplash: workaround

2008-06-15 Thread Eric Doviak
Forgive me for sending a third message, but I've just spent the better part of the night trying to figure out how to get usplash to work when the computer resumes from hibernation. The workaround proposed above allows the computer to boot, but it disables usplash at the very beginning of the

Bug#486400: splashy doesn't work with hibernation

2008-06-15 Thread Eric Doviak
Package: splashy Version: 0.3.10-1 Severity: normal I love watching Splashy's Debian-moreblue theme appear when I start my computer, but I'd also like to start my computer. Splashy works well on a clean boot, but it doesn't allow the computer to resume from hibernation. I've tried

Bug#468735: usplash: workaround

2008-06-14 Thread Eric Doviak
Sorry to spoil the fun, but adding usplash_write QUIT at the beginning of /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-premount/{resume,uswsusp} does not fix the problem for me. Is there a particular place in those files where I should add the command? or is this workaround limited? Thanks, -

Bug#468735: usplash workaround works after regenerating initial ramdisk

2008-06-14 Thread Eric Doviak
Package: usplash Version: 0.5.19-1 Followup-For: Bug #468735 Here's an update and some more information on my system. Apologies for sending two bug reports. I added the line: /sbin/usplash_write QUIT to the beginning of the resume and uswsusp files in the

Bug#478154: deborphan: orphaner removes non-orphaned packages (like my kernels!)

2008-05-17 Thread Eric Doviak
Jörg Sommer wrote: I think the problem was that your system was in an broken state. I think your last install/update went wrong and initramfs-tools ended up with not being marked as installed (maybe marked as unpacked). So deborphan worked correct. I was wondering what went wrong, so I