[Bug 1888088] Re: [amdgpu] [Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 14ARE05] Display won't rotate, nor do fractional scaling

2020-07-26 Thread John Gilmore
I found a way to enable the amdgpu support for this hardware in the standard LTS kernel! Based on this comment on a YouTube video reviewing this laptop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjegdWtHuOE=UgzbtkQw4vuk6ls- 6vF4AaABAg Add "amdgpu.exp_hw_support=1" to the kernel command line in

[Bug 1873407] [NEW] totem warns every time: "Drawing a gadget with negative dimensions. Did you forget to allocate a size? (node slider owner GtkScale)

2020-04-17 Thread John Gilmore
Public bug reported: I am running Ubuntu 20.04 beta amd64 Desktop from the liveCD ISO. Whenever I run totem from a shell window to play a video, I get on stderr: "(totem:13002): Gtk-WARNING **: 07:50:52.916: Drawing a gadget with negative dimensions. Did you forget to allocate a size? (node

[Bug 1873398] [NEW] gnome-disks won't do SMART on NVME drive

2020-04-17 Thread John Gilmore
Public bug reported: I'm running 20.04 beta amd64 Desktop from a USB stick of the live ISO. I opened Disks (gnome-disks) and it sees all my drives, but it won't show SMART stats on my NVME drive (Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB). The SMART menu item is greyed out. It works fine on other drives.

[Bug 876107] [NEW] relnotes in 11.10 say to install gnome-panel but it doesn't install

2011-10-16 Thread John Gilmore
Public bug reported: I hate Unity and am only interested in running new Ubuntu's if I can install gnome. The release notes here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricOcelot/ReleaseNotes?action=showredirect=OneiricOcelot%2FTechnicalOverview say: GNOME 3.2 is included and is a major upgrade from

[Bug 391177] Re: touchpad tap to click should be enabled by default

2009-10-22 Thread John Gilmore
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 378391 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/378391 This is *not* a duplicate. The original bug was about an unintentional regression. That has been fixed. This is a complaint about what appears to be an intentional regression (making tap-to-click work as