Re: [Bug 1782739] Re: Boot to Black

2018-07-27 Thread Gene Pinkston
. ASUS, I guess i would be too much to expect to have a standard X-Y axis output.I can live with this. Thank you so much for your assistance. Gene On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 10:10 PM, Daniel van Vugt < daniel.van.v...@canonical.com> wrote: > Perhaps this might be a workaround too?...

Re: [Bug 1782739] Re: Boot to Black

2018-07-25 Thread Gene Pinkston
screen anywhere else. I am sure the problem is being caused by some odd ASUS bios boot-up condition. I have worked with Linux enough to know the capability and quality of the product. I would blame ASUS before Ubuntu. Let me know how you want to proceed. Thank you. Gene On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at

Re: [Bug 1782739] Re: Boot to Black

2018-07-24 Thread Gene Pinkston
nor how to select and install one from that massive list you provided. I do so appreciate your help and I hope it continues to be extended to a willing novice. Thank you Gene On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 9:15 PM, Daniel van Vugt < daniel.van.v...@canonical.com> wrote: > OK. Next please

Re: [Bug 1782739] Re: Boot to Black

2018-07-23 Thread Gene Pinkston
Thank you for responding. No Sir. The screen brightness keys (fn f5 and fn f6) have no effect at all. Regards Gene On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 10:34 PM, Daniel van Vugt < daniel.van.v...@canonical.com> wrote: > While on the black screen, are you able to increase the screen > brightne

[Bug 1549155] Re: Nautilus does not set Allow Execution of File for Multiple Files

2016-02-24 Thread Gene Soo
Bug 762655 was created to report the issue. On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 2:48 AM, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make > Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it >

[Bug 1549155] [NEW] Nautilus does not set Allow Execution of File for Multiple Files

2016-02-23 Thread Gene Soo
Public bug reported: using Nautilus and selecting Multiple files. Under "Properties" attempting to set "allow executing file as a program" Nautilus fails to assign proper execute attribute. However Nautilus will remove this same attribute from the group of selected files if you toggle the settin

[Bug 1506404] [NEW] package systemd 225-1ubuntu7 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2015-10-15 Thread Gene Soo
Public bug reported: unknown ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10 Package: systemd 225-1ubuntu7 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-16.19-lowlatency 4.2.3 Uname: Linux 4.2.0-16-lowlatency x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Oct 15 05:09:04 2015 Duplicate

[Bug 1502097] [NEW] package udev 225-1ubuntu5 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2015-10-02 Thread Gene Soo
Public bug reported: APT-GET UPDATE hung and finally crashed. ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10 Package: udev 225-1ubuntu5 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-11.13-generic 4.2.1 Uname: Linux 4.2.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.18.1-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Oct 2

[Bug 1086826] [NEW] All PDF files print as 2 copies sie by side on each page and do not show the right side of the doc

2012-12-05 Thread Gene
Public bug reported: PDF files print on each page as side by side 1/2 pages the left side of the page shows twice on each page and the right side of the page does not print at all no matter what I try. when viewed in " print preview" everything looks fine. ** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu) Impo

[Bug 929869] [NEW] disk utility no option to create a partition(s) on zeroed out disk.

2012-02-09 Thread gene
Public bug reported: to reproduce on a system booted from /dev/sdb: Step 1: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4096 conv=notrunc Step 2: reboot. fdisk -l will show: - Disk /dev/sda: 64.0 GB, 64023257088 byt

[Bug 578061] a workaround

2011-08-15 Thread gene
zorblek and others, One way to get rid of the annoying error messages would be using the command "eog 2>/dev/null" instead of "eog" . What you can also do is to define as your alias. I just put the following line in the alias section of the ~/.bashrc file: alias eog="eog 2>/dev/null" Hope it h

[Bug 350850] Re: Glchess (gnome-games) crashes on 3D mode

2011-06-20 Thread gene
proprietary nvidia driver is the culprit here too. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/350850 Title: Glchess (gnome-games) crashes on 3D mode To manage notifications about this bug go t

[Bug 350850] Re: Glchess (gnome-games) crashes on 3D mode

2011-06-20 Thread gene
So the 10.04 is OK, the maverick has it though. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/350850 Title: Glchess (gnome-games) crashes on 3D mode To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 350850] Re: Glchess (gnome-games) crashes on 3D mode

2011-06-20 Thread gene
The bug resurfaces in the maveric, moreover the fix "sudo apt-get install mgltools-opengltk" won't work. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/350850 Title: Glchess (gnome-games) crashes o

[Bug 708247] Re: cannot automount removable drives, dbus or udisk problem

2011-01-26 Thread gene
I think I found and fixed the issue (for now?). It turned out to be the /etc/passwd and /etc/group incosistency. According to the original /etc/passwd file I had : grep messa /etc/{passwd~,group} /etc/passwd:messagebus:x:103:109::/var/run/dbus:/bin/false /etc/group:messagebus:x:106: The gid 109 a

[Bug 708247] Re: cannot automount removable drives, dbus or udisk problem

2011-01-26 Thread gene
Also it might look like a dbus connection problem. I remember that my cron job could not run to notify-send as used to complaining that it does not know dbus info : libnotify-Message: Unable to get session bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-7Gi7OsQAua: Connection refused

[Bug 708247] Re: cannot automount removable drives, dbus or udisk problem

2011-01-26 Thread gene
This what I also see in the .xsession-errors No such file or directory) x-session-manager[14457]: WARNING: Could not launch application 'gnome-volume-manager.desktop': Unable to start application: Failed to execute child process "/usr/lib/gnome-volume-manager/gnome-volume-manager" (No such file

[Bug 708247] Re: cannot automount removable drives, dbus or udisk problem

2011-01-26 Thread gene
I really do not want to reinstall a huge amount of packages I have with gnome and kde. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/708247 Title: cannot automount removable drives,

[Bug 708247] Re: cannot automount removable drives, dbus or udisk problem

2011-01-26 Thread gene
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/708247 Title: cannot automount removable drives, dbus or udisk problem -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com htt

[Bug 708247] [NEW] cannot automount removable drives, dbus or udisk problem

2011-01-26 Thread gene
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gvfs I recently got an automount problem, when rebooting. When trying to reinstall/purge ubuntu-desktop a bunch of stuff was removed, so I got some extra pain. What I can see now that something is wrong with dbus. When I run ~$ /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-gdu-v

[Bug 580755] Re: Login screen locks up; mouse & keyboard are disabled

2011-01-12 Thread gene
I observe a similar behavior on 2.6.36.1 and 2.6.37-rc3. The gdm login window locks up for 20 seconds and then gets released. With kdm the lockup seems to be either longer or permanent. It does look like kms+gdm problem. Mine is intel's i915. ** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confi

[Bug 219062] Re: "Could not read from resource" error when playing encrypted DVD

2010-08-01 Thread Gene Roman
Sweet, entering sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh in the terminal fixed my problem. (Recently turned my entire HD into a Windows- free Linux-only system and not looking back :-) -- "Could not read from resource" error when playing encrypted DVD https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219062

[Bug 578061] the message should then be turned off

2010-05-26 Thread gene
Thanks, Such messages are for debugging purposes. So instead of redirecting 2>/dev/null&, which does not produce them, I suggest that the gtk code be fixed. Thanks -- -gene Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/ca

[Bug 578056] Re: ekiga won't start: it cant locate libx264.so.67 in Lucid

2010-05-19 Thread gene
OK, I managed to solve this problem by creating the link lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2010-05-20 02:05 /usr/lib/libx264.so.67 -> libx264.so.85 by cd'ing to and : /usr/lib$ sudo ln -s libx264.so.85 ./libx264.so.67 Anyways, it seems to be a dependency bug in the libopal code that requires an olde

[Bug 578056] Re: lucid ekiga failure/libx264.so.67

2010-05-19 Thread gene
There is no libx246.so.67 on my system: $locate libx264. /usr/lib/libx264.a /usr/lib/libx264.so /usr/lib/libx264.so.85 /usr/lib/i686/sse2/libx264.so.85 If I search for *67 on the net I find it to be older version. Is it the case? Also apt-get gives this. So somehow the libopal plugin tries to ch

[Bug 466123] Re: When trying to play a DVD, an error message is displayed: No URI handler implemented for "dvd"

2010-05-19 Thread Gene Plessala
** Changed in: totem (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => New ** Changed in: totem (Ubuntu) Assignee: wu (raven123crow) => Gene Plessala (geneplessala) -- When trying to play a DVD, an error message is displayed: No URI handler implemented for "dvd" https://bugs.la

[Bug 401823] Re: Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

2010-05-13 Thread gene
firefox crashes when trying to play a flash video producing this error -- Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/401823 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gtk+2.0 in ubuntu. -- desktop-

[Bug 578056] ekiga does not work at ALL!

2010-05-12 Thread gene
Hi Yannick, The problem is that ekiga refuses to work at ALL! Its applet does not show up. If run from the terminal it exits with the error I attached. So it is a bug. I cannot close it, simply because it does not start. >>The H264 codec is an OPAL library plugin, it requires ffmpeg and x264 >>l

[Bug 578056] zombie processes created by ekiga

2010-05-11 Thread gene
Forgot to mention that ekiga creates a zombie process: ps -el | grep Z F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD 0 Z 1000 2070 2069 0 80 0 - 0 exit ?00:00:00 h264_video_pwpl 0 Z 1000 2074 2073 0 80 0 - 0 exit ?00:00:00 h264_v

[Bug 578061] Re: eog gives error messages when run in terminal

2010-05-09 Thread gene
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/48183210/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/48183211/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcStatus.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/48183212/ProcStatus.txt ** Attachm

[Bug 578061] [NEW] eog gives error messages when run in terminal

2010-05-09 Thread gene
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: eog I see eog's multiple error messages in the terminal: (eog:27580): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_app_info_equal: assertion `G_IS_APP_INFO (appinfo1)' failed ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: eog 2.30.0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubu

[Bug 578054] Re: youtube plugin does not work in lucid

2010-05-09 Thread gene
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/48182348/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "GstreamerVersions.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/48182349/GstreamerVersions.txt ** Attachment added: "LogAlsaMixer.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/48182350/LogAls

[Bug 578054] [NEW] youtube plugin does not work in lucid. libgdata

2010-05-09 Thread gene
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: totem After upgrade totem youtube does not work when searching giving this error window: The response from the server could not be understood. Please check you are running the latest version of libgdata. When run in the terminal it gives: libgdata-Mess

[Bug 578056] Re: ekiga won't start:libx264.so.67

2010-05-09 Thread gene
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/48182588/Dependencies.txt ** Summary changed: - ekiga won't start:libx264.so.67 + lucid ekiga failure/libx264.so.67 -- lucid ekiga failure/libx264.so.67 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578056 You received this bug notific

[Bug 578056] [NEW] lucid ekiga failure/libx264.so.67

2010-05-09 Thread gene
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ekiga the error message when run in the terminal : h264_video_pwplugin_helper: error while loading shared libraries: libx264.so.67: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: ekiga 3.

[Bug 575167] Re: evolution e-mail program will not send messages

2010-05-09 Thread Gene Cloud
anything that helped me get my e-mail program to once again start sending messages.Oh well, I will probably just give up and send messages using the windows xp operating system e-mail program that I also have installed on the same machine. Too bad since I would really like to make Ubuntu my mai

[Bug 575167] Re: evolution e-mail program will not send messages

2010-05-04 Thread Gene Cloud
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/47793578/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/47793580/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcStatus.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/47793581/ProcStatus.txt -- evolut

[Bug 575167] [NEW] evolution e-mail program will not send messages

2010-05-04 Thread Gene Cloud
volution e-mail program so I am connecting to the server OK. System info: Ubuntu 9.10 Kernel linux 2.6.31-21-genaric GNOME 2.28.1 Evolution version: 2.28.1-0ubuntu2 Thanks, Gene genecl...@comcast.net ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Tue May 4 07:26:27 2010 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Execu

[Bug 159042] Re: Nautilus is very slow in list mode with Assistive Technologies enabled (at-spi)

2010-02-17 Thread Gene Vayngrib
** Description changed: -- Nautilus is very slow in list mode with Assistive Technologies enabled (at-spi) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/159042 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bug

[Bug 391976] Re: Ekiga freeze after I press hang up button

2010-01-18 Thread gene
You will be kidding, however linphone's sound did not work. So I reloaded snd_hda_intel sound module and voila, it started asking for my sip password about a hundred times https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linphone/+bug/507125. I tried ekiga and it magically can now hang up without freezes.

[Bug 391976] Re: Ekiga freeze after I press hang up button

2010-01-18 Thread gene
Vivle le linphone! I uninstalled ekiga. I did like it, I still have it on FreeBSD. I will be using linphone for now. -- Ekiga freeze after I press hang up button https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/391976 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a

[Bug 391976] Re: Ekiga freeze after I press hang up button

2010-01-18 Thread gene
I fixed the problem ekiga: error while loading shared libraries: libpt.so.2.6.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory by sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libpt.so.2.6.5 /usr/lib/libpt.so.2.6.4 However, 2.6.5 does exact same thing on my computer: it freezes when pressing on the han

[Bug 391976] Re: Ekiga freeze after I press hang up button

2010-01-18 Thread gene
Ok I have just written an assay about my problems with ekiga and it is been lost. Thanks to the launchpad.net server ekiga-snapshot is a headache, since aptitude does not take care of dependencies, thtey should be installed manually Yannick's ppa does not work ekiga: error while loading shared

[Bug 391976] Re: Ekiga freeze after I press hang up button

2010-01-18 Thread gene
As a matter of fact, ekiga-snapshot does not install because it needs higher dependencies than those to be installed (it would be my only resort though, so once again I have to manually get all the packages) Yannick's ekiga2.6.5 installs, however i get an error ekiga: error while loading shared l

[Bug 391976] Re: Ekiga freeze after I press hang up button

2010-01-16 Thread gene
Hello everyone, I experience the same bug on karmic with both ekiga-3.2.5 and 3.2.6 (the last one I built myself from source). Some time ago I reported a bug 507118 (since did not see this one). So I might have to mark mine duplicate. It does seem to be a sound problem. I do not use pulseaudio -

[Bug 507118] Re: ekiga hangs on call termination attempt

2010-01-16 Thread gene
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 391976 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/391976 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 391976 Ekiga freeze after I press hang up button -- ekiga hangs on call termination attempt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/507118 You received this bug noti

[Bug 507118] Re: ekiga hangs on call termination attempt

2010-01-16 Thread gene
** Attachment added: "ekiga -d4" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37980316/ekiga_d4 -- ekiga hangs on call termination attempt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/507118 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to ekiga in ubuntu. -- d

[Bug 507118] Re: ekiga hangs on call termination attempt

2010-01-16 Thread gene
Trimming the output of the "ekiga -d 4" command is uploaded. I could not understand the problem. It looks like ekiga tries to use some event sounds to hang up, it does not work maybe? The event sound files are where the are looked for. Do not get what the problem is. Messages don;t appear to be ei

[Bug 507118] Re: ekiga hangs on call termination attempt

2010-01-13 Thread gene
I deleted the previous attachment since it reveals too many sensible info (phone numbers, ip addresses etc) I will try to look at it myself -- ekiga hangs on call termination attempt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/507118 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Deskt

[Bug 507118] Re: ekiga hangs on call termination attempt

2010-01-13 Thread gene
I ran ekiga with $ekiga -d 4 This is more verbose. I attach the output of two sessions. Both resulted by ekiga freeze when trying to hang up a phone call. ** Attachment added: "ekiga_debug" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37858672/ekiga_debug ** Attachment removed: "ekiga_debug" http://launc

[Bug 507118] Re: ekiga hangs on call termination attempt

2010-01-13 Thread gene
Here's the top output at the time of ekiga hang in the attachment. ** Attachment added: "ekiga_top" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37858600/ekiga_top -- ekiga hangs on call termination attempt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/507118 You received this bug notification because you are a member o

[Bug 507118] Re: ekiga hangs on call termination attempt

2010-01-13 Thread gene
starting the program by "ekiga -d" does not give any debug info ** Description changed: Binary package hint: ekiga - I have a sip account with voipcheap.com I used to use ekiga and linphone in the past. I had some problems with the both right after upgrade to karmic (coould not register)

[Bug 507118] Re: ekiga hangs on call termination attempt

2010-01-13 Thread gene
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37857496/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "XsessionErrors.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37857498/XsessionErrors.txt -- ekiga hangs on call termination attempt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/507118 You receive

[Bug 507118] [NEW] ekiga hangs on call termination attempt

2010-01-13 Thread gene
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ekiga I have a sip account with voipcheap.com I used to use ekiga and linphone in the past. I had some problems with the both right after upgrade to karmic (could not register). I managed to solve this problem. Now I get another one. I started noticing

[Bug 489330] Re: ekiga networking failure

2010-01-05 Thread gene
Finally, I was I able to successfully set up a voipcheap account again with ekiga. I had to deinstall my linphone* package though about which I am not sure if that was the culprit. I chose ekiga this time, since linphone also started acting up since after the upgrade to 9.10. It would ask my pas

[Bug 120251] Re: "security check failed"

2009-12-31 Thread gene
The last thing worked on my computer. Actually, I deleted all portforwarding concerning sip and stun on my router and commented out sip_port definition in the .linphonerc file. Copied this file to .gnome2/linphone for the gui linphone client. THis seems to fix the problem for both. Well, it sounds

[Bug 120251] Re: "security check failed"

2009-12-31 Thread gene
My wife's laptop is also upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10. Both ekiga and linphone-3 work with my account and a similar set up. .linphonerc config file was copied from my machine. At the same time, I got linphonec (command line linphone client) to work with this (excerpts from the .linphonerc) [net]

[Bug 120251] Re: "security check failed"

2009-12-31 Thread gene
This is what I reported earlier https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ekiga/+bug/489330 -- "security check failed" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/120251 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing li

[Bug 120251] Re: "security check failed"

2009-12-31 Thread gene
When I just start linphone-3, I can make a few calls. Then it would ask my sip password for about 10 times and won't connect anyways. I do not run anyl firewall at the time and the packets are routed correctly, I think (on ubuntu jaunty moblock/blockcontrol coexisted with both ekiga and linphone).

[Bug 120251] Re: "security check failed"

2009-12-31 Thread gene
tried to add myself to the group "voice" - with no avail. I just don't get why all of a sudden upgrades break a lot of things that seemed to be all right... That's not only ekiga's or linphone's issue. -- "security check failed" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/120251 You received this bug notifi

[Bug 120251] Re: "security check failed"

2009-12-31 Thread gene
both ekiga 3.2.5 and ekiga-snapshot give me this error on Karmic. I used to use ekiga with voipcheap.com It is a pretty mystical nuisance, since it used to work flawlessly on jaunty. The same is true for linphone-3, which constantly asks for a password and finally gives "cannot reach" error I u

[Bug 489330] Re: ekiga networking failure

2009-12-18 Thread gene
Thanks Zahari, Unfortunately I do not understand sip very well so it is kinda not clear for me why ekiga does not work all of a sudden. Please, note, that I can no more connect to my ekiga account (right after the upgrade). Yes, ekiga is pretty straightforward and nice. Although, the way gnome

[Bug 489330] Re: ekiga networking failure

2009-11-27 Thread gene
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36157865/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36157866/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcStatus.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36157867/ProcStatus.txt ** Attachm

[Bug 489330] [NEW] ekiga networking failure

2009-11-27 Thread gene
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ekiga I used to be able to use ekiga with both ekiga.net and voipcheap.com on Ubuntu 9.04 Now it tells me that ekiga.net cannot register (forbidden). As far voipcheap.com is concerned, it registers, though with any call-out a user is always not reach

[Bug 440465] Re: removing pulseaudio breaks sound control

2009-11-22 Thread gene
I agree with the last two paragraphs of post #33. The increased instability of Ubuntu scares me, since it is a real threat to new users. Although I get frustrated myself, I have some experience of fixing things even when the problem does not follow a "common -nix logic". I have brought a number of

[Bug 481147] Re: gstreamer cannot handle flac after upgrade to 9.10

2009-11-21 Thread gene
Thanks, madbiologist! As a crazymathematician, I have about 200G of music in FLAC. I think it is the best lossless codec so far. You want to use lossless codecs if you are a fan of, say, classical music. As a matter of fact, I have more gstreamer stuff installed: dpkg-query -l gstreamer* | grep

[Bug 439815] Re: Impossible to launch gnome-volume-control application in Ubuntu Karmic

2009-11-18 Thread gene
I rebuild a package gnome-media-2.28.1 from source. The configuration was done by: ./configure --disable-pulseaudio --enable-gstmix --enable-gstprops --enable-grecord --disable-scrollkeeper Then I used "fakeroot make" with checkinstall to compile it. I can now run gnome-volume-control with oss

[Bug 440465] Re: removing pulseaudio breaks sound control

2009-11-14 Thread gene
I am experiencing the same problem. Pulseaudio has been bad to my architecture since it was released. What I am amazed at iis the fact that before pulseaudio, once the card was configured with alsa the setup was very stable. I could run any application with no problem. THen comes pulseaudio that

[Bug 439815] Re: Impossible to launch gnome-volume-control application in Ubuntu Karmic

2009-11-11 Thread gene
I had to remove pulseaudio because it's been very unstable and started giving me kernel dumps on Karmic. Therefore I had to remove it and got a similar problem. Not only I do not see the volume applet. Quite a few applets like pidgin,tomboy, stardict, ekiga, linphone, nm are all gone on GNOME f

[Bug 481147] Re: gstreamer cannot handle flac after upgrade to 9.10

2009-11-11 Thread gene
It is ridiculous! I know it is the bug related to gstreamer. The launchpad keeps telling me there is no such thing as gstreamer -- gstreamer cannot handle flac after upgrade to 9.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/481147 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Deskt

[Bug 481147] Re: gstreamer cannot handle flac after upgrade to 9.10

2009-11-11 Thread gene
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35565360/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "XsessionErrors.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35565361/XsessionErrors.txt -- gstreamer cannot handle flac after upgrade to 9.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/481147

[Bug 481147] [NEW] gstreamer cannot handle flac after upgrade to 9.10

2009-11-11 Thread gene
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: rhythmbox Rhythmbox, audacious and totem do not play flac files. Mplayer and xmms can. Rhythmbox before the upgrade did it. How to reproduce: open rhythmbox and try playing a flac file. It wont and will ask you to search for suitable plugins (? it had

[Bug 478746] Re: shift does not work after upgrade

2009-11-08 Thread gene
Forgot to mention, that due to testing a patch for the radeon driver I had to build a patched kernel, so I am on a custom 2.6.32-rc5 instead of the 2.6.31. So the slowed down boot time might be explained by that fact -- shift does not work after upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/478746 You

[Bug 478746] Re: shift does not work after upgrade

2009-11-08 Thread gene
** Package changed: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) => gconf (Ubuntu) -- shift does not work after upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/478746 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gconf in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing l

[Bug 416359] Re: Totem playing Youtube videos error

2009-08-24 Thread gene
The youtube's fault it might be, however mplayer plays fine (if quoted) the same youtube's urls found by the totem search engine. -- Totem playing Youtube videos error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/416359 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, whic

[Bug 416359] Re: Totem playing Youtube videos error

2009-08-20 Thread gene
forgot to add: I can listen to BBC podcasts in totem without problems. -- Totem playing Youtube videos error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/416359 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to totem in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailin

[Bug 416359] Re: Totem playing Youtube videos error

2009-08-20 Thread gene
I can confirm this bug on all of my Ubuntus.: 2 9.04s and one 8.04. There is a slight difference in the error message "Could not open location; you might not have permission to open the file" on 9.04 and "Could not open location" on 8.04 If totem is launched from the terminal I get a similar to

[Bug 404014] Re: I cannot send messages. the error message i get is "SMTP server smtp1.ns.sympatico.ca does not support requested authentication type NTLM"

2009-07-24 Thread Gene
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/29479869/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/29479870/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcStatus.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/29479871/ProcStatus.txt -- I cann

[Bug 404014] [NEW] I cannot send messages. the error message i get is "SMTP server smtp1.ns.sympatico.ca does not support requested authentication type NTLM"

2009-07-24 Thread Gene
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: evolution I cannot send messages. the error message i get is " SMTP server smpt1.ns.sympatico.ca does not support requested authentication type NTLM" This just happened . I didnt't change anything that I am aware of. Can you hel

[Bug 275786] Re: evince .dvi n-th root display problem

2009-04-13 Thread gene
I rarely use evince o view dvi files. I noticed this problem is still present on jaunty. -- evince .dvi n-th root display problem https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/275786 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs m

[Bug 231034] Re: desktop freeze when moving emacs in workspace switcher

2009-03-11 Thread gene
Hello! I got ubuntu jaunty (uname -a : Linux 2.6.28-8-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar 5 21:49:36 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux) emacs-22-gtk hangs metacity and X except for the cursor when trying to switch the windows by ALT+TAB or when resizing the emacs window. Just by switching to one of the virtu

[Bug 231034] Re: desktop freeze when moving emacs in workspace switcher

2009-03-11 Thread gene
Yes, I can confirm that turning off "assistive technologies" fixed it. One has to log off and in though Thanks, guys How many more "nice" features like that one are there in Ubuntu turned on by default? -- desktop freeze when moving emacs in workspace switcher https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/23

[Bug 190000] Re: g-p-m does not indicate battery state correctly + changing brightness to random values.

2008-04-26 Thread Gene Hoffler
Really? My battery readings were fine for about an hour, and then it went berserk. I'm using 64-bit 8.04 final. Please confirm. -- g-p-m does not indicate battery state correctly + changing brightness to random values. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/19 You received this bug notification

[Bug 215033] Re: Hardy turns power off when resuming from suspend

2008-04-10 Thread Gene Hoffler
Confirmed on same laptop (MSI-1221 or PR200) with all beta updates as of 10 Apr. -- Hardy turns power off when resuming from suspend https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/215033 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manage

[Bug 190000] Re: g-p-m does not indicate battery state correctly + changing brightness to random values.

2008-03-21 Thread Gene Hoffler
On my MSI PR200/MSI-1221/Darter Ultra 2, the brightens changing (on its own) bug appears to be fixed on Ubuntu Hardy Beta. However, the battery applet G-P-M still gives some sporadic, whacky readings (i.e. plugged in when actually running on battery, etc.) One step closer to a complete fix, bu

[Bug 174191] Re: screensavers cause high CPU usage

2008-01-12 Thread Gene Caldwell
I would be the very last person on earth to contradict anyone who has Linux expertise as I have so little that I'm just not going to go there.however, I have been using Ubuntu since 5.04 and I use only Nvidia cards, and not one single release since 5.04 had good drivers then according to the co

[Bug 174191] Re: screensavers cause high CPU usage

2007-12-05 Thread Gene Caldwell
Actually you may very well be correct on my second part of the problem. However I am not sure why that makes it less a bug because it only lasts for 30 minutes before it goes to sleep ? why on earth would an application designed to be "green" friendly race the CPU until it goes to sleep ? Second,

[Bug 174191] screensavers cause high CPU usage

2007-12-05 Thread Gene Caldwell
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-screensaver I have been running Ubuntu for 3 years now and have waited patiently for the screen savers to get much needed attention. I have been experiencing 100% CPU usage for the majority of the installed screen savers and can't believe no one has

[Bug 12693] Re: [Bug 12693] Re: Mute Button Shortcut sometimes doesn't restore sound when "unmuted"

2006-07-14 Thread Gene Hoffler
Hello. From what I remember about using Dapper on this laptop, this bug report can be closed. (I sold this low quality Gateway 7405GX laptop.) Thanks. --- Daniel Holbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any luck with this? > > -- > Mute Button Shortcut sometimes doesn't restore sound > when "unm

[Bug 32093] Re: Sound Hangs, Slow Desktop with Dapper Flt 4

2006-06-03 Thread Gene Hoffler
"Rolling drum" sound bug appears to be fixed with Dapper 6.06 final. Please close this bug, unless others are still having the problem. Thanks. -- Sound Hangs, Slow Desktop with Dapper Flt 4 https://launchpad.net/bugs/32093 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists

[Bug 34811] Re: -1 minutes of battery power remaining

2006-05-31 Thread Gene Hoffler
** Attachment added: "Battery low at 97%?" http://librarian.launchpad.net/3005855/badlowbattery.png -- -1 minutes of battery power remaining https://launchpad.net/bugs/34811 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs

[Bug 36115] Re: [Bug 36115] Re: text cropped/clipped in notification bubble

2006-05-19 Thread Gene Hoffler
Fix confirmed. Text displayed properly! --- Michael Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did another upload of the notification-daemon that > hopefully fixes the > problem? > > -- > text cropped/clipped in notification bubble > https://launchpad.net/bugs/36115 > -- text cropped/clipped in not

[Bug 39997] Dasher missing "hover" pop-up dialogue in menu

2006-04-18 Thread Gene Hoffler
Public bug reported: Affects: gnome-panel gnome-panel-data (Ubuntu) Severity: Normal Priority: (none set) Status: Unconfirmed Description: What is dasher? When I hover my mouse over it in the Applications menu, no pop-up dialogue comes up to provide any basic description.

[Bug 39996] Battery Warning Message / Dialogue Incomplete

2006-04-18 Thread Gene Hoffler
Public bug reported: Affects: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Severity: Normal Priority: (none set) Status: Unconfirmed Description: When I start my Fujitsu laptop on a low battery on Dapper (beta 18 Apr), the warning dialogue is "chopped off". Please see the screenshot. ** Attachm

[Bug 32188] Re: Dapper: Keyboard selector doesn't work

2006-04-13 Thread Gene Hoffler
I'm having this problem with trying to select and use a 106-key Japanese keyboard. Under System/Preference/Keyboard, I choose a 106-key Japanese style keyboard with English as my language. However, this change is never applied properly (a 101-key model still appears to be the default setup).

[Bug 30464] Re: Log out/hibernate dialog should display tooltips and they should have correct grammar.

2006-04-08 Thread Gene Hoffler
Actually, I need to correct my own grammar: Log Out-"Close your current session, so other users can log in." I think a comma is needed after the word session. Thanks. -- Log out/hibernate dialog should display tooltips and they should have correct grammar. https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/3046

[Bug 30464] Re: Log out/hibernate dialog should display tooltips and they should have correct grammar.

2006-04-08 Thread Gene Hoffler
Now that tool tips and dialogues seem to be working, I recommend the following changes: Log Out-"Close your current session so other users can log in." Switch User-No Changes Lock Screen-"Password protect your current session." Sleep-"The computer conserves power by saving your current session to

[Bug 12693] Re: [Bug 12693] Re: Mute Button Shortcut sometimes doesn't restore sound when "unmuted"

2006-04-07 Thread Gene Hoffler
Since I had a couple of problems with Dapper Flt 6 on this laptop, please wait until the next Flt or Beta for my update to this problem (hopefully it's been fixed). I'll be sure to test this volume problem on the next Dapper update. Thanks. --- Lionel Dricot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seem

[Bug 18629] Installation Error gstreamer liboiltest.c in Breezy Colony 2

2006-03-29 Thread Gene Hoffler
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/18629 Comment: No problem here. Thanks to whoever solved it. Anyone else? -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs

[Bug 32299] using checkboxes to select the applets to use

2006-03-24 Thread Gene Hoffler
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/32299 Comment: After using GNOME more frequently, I agree with you. I just played around with themes last night--dragging and dropping from download links into the theme manager. Awesome! As long as newbies understand the ease of drag

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