[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1899145] Re: Getting a repeating, white-noise like "tik tok" from speakers

2020-11-21 Thread Ian Bruntlett
TL;DR - This bug has been fixed. Detail... As of last Saturday (14th November 2020), this bug no longer happens with both Ubuntu 20.04.1 and 20.10. I also noticed that the sound was very much louder than expected from my system - reducing the volume fixed that OK. Tested sound by playing a musi

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1899145] Re: Getting a repeating, white-noise like "tik tok" from speakers

2020-10-18 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Have been regularly applying Software Updates with varying degrees of success. One thing I did see, once, which was interesting. The "Tick Tock" noise happened at the same time that the volume indicator started changing "quiet then loud". Theory - there are two things changing the sound volume -

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1899145] Re: Getting a repeating, white-noise like "tik tok" from speakers

2020-10-10 Thread Ian Bruntlett
I've been downloading and testing Ubuntu STRs (Short Term Releases) for this bug. Has the bug:- 20.10 (initial testing) 20.04 (initial testing) 19.10 (kernel 5.3.0-18) 19.04 (kernel 5.0.0-13) Does not have the bug:- 18.10 (kernel 4.18.0-10) 18.04 (kernel 4.15.0-20) -- You received this bug noti

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1899145] [NEW] Getting a repeating, white-noise like "tik tok" from speakers

2020-10-09 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Public bug reported: This bug appears on 20.04 and 20.10 I believe it is a kernel bug. Currently reporting from Ubuntu 20.10 (beta), having updated packages. Kernel is x86_64, 5.8.0-21 It can be mitigated by the echo command,namely: echo -e "\a\a\a" So I wrote a small shell script to do this:-

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1724639] Re: Bug in Kernel 4.13 : Intel Mobile Graphics 945 shows 80 % black screen

2018-01-23 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Tom, On 23 January 2018 at 19:02, tom wrote: > With my Ubuntu version 16.04 LTS i didn't have the problem, until recently! > I suspect with an update from kernel 4.10.x to 4.13.x > So I manually removed the kernel image and headers from version 4.13.x, > thereby in fact downgrading again to t

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1724639] Re: Bug in Kernel 4.13 : Intel Mobile Graphics 945 shows 80 % black screen

2017-11-21 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi, Tested two kernels this evening. Here are the summarised details... Testing 21st November 2017 *Installs as kernel 4.12.0* total 58M -rw-rw-r-- 1 ian ian 936K Nov 21 20:08 linux-firmware-image-4.12.0_4.12.0-6_i386.deb -rw-rw-r-- 1 ian ian 11M Nov 21 20:09 linux-headers-4.12.0_4.12.0-6_i386.

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1724639] Re: Bug in Kernel 4.13 : Intel Mobile Graphics 945 shows 80 % black screen

2017-11-15 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi, On 14 November 2017 at 07:22, Kai-Heng Feng wrote: > Sorry for the late reply, please try this kernel, > > http://people.canonical.com/~khfeng/lp1724639-2/ No problem. These are the files I downloaded:- total 58M -rw-rw-r-- 1 ian ian 936K Nov 15 18:37 linux-firmware-image-4.12.0_4.12.0-4_i

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1724639] Re: Bug in Kernel 4.13 : Intel Mobile Graphics 945 shows 80 % black screen

2017-11-09 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi, Do you prefer being called Kal-Heng? On 9 November 2017 at 06:28, Kai-Heng Feng wrote: > Please try this kernel, > http://people.canonical.com/~khfeng/lp1724639-1/ > > 13 more kernels to test. > SUMMARY = I have tried the above kernel and the graphics bug does _not_ happen. Looking

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1724639] Re: Bug in Kernel 4.13 : Intel Mobile Graphics 945 shows 80 % black screen

2017-11-01 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Eugene, On 1 November 2017 at 19:05, Eugene Romanenko <1724...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > Ian, sorry, I mixed up apport with apparmor! > "apparmor=0" kernel parameter > OK. Tried that. It fixed things. Here comment about kernel 4.14 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/172

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1724639] Re: Bug in Kernel 4.13 : Intel Mobile Graphics 945 shows 80 % black screen

2017-11-01 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Eugene, On 1 November 2017 at 17:41, Eugene Romanenko <1724...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > >From other bugs comments where users also tried 4.14 kernel, I noticed > network problem is really apport issue. Boot kernel with apport=0 > cmdline option, and network should work. > Edited /etc/defa

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1724639] Re: Bug in Kernel 4.13 : Intel Mobile Graphics 945 shows 80 % black screen

2017-11-01 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi John, On 1 November 2017 at 17:08, John Roe <1724...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > Can someone help me out how to do this edit. As I have never edited a GRUB > before.I'm not even sure what the GRUB is > If I press e is this giving me the GRUB? > I had that problem as well :) I'll do my best t

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1724639] Re: Bug in Kernel 4.13 : Intel Mobile Graphics 945 shows 80 % black screen

2017-11-01 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi, Sorry for the slow reply. I have been somewhat distracted by a physical illness As others have done, I set a GRUB variable with the line:- GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text I also commented out the line that set the GRUB variable GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0 With those changes in place, 1. Graphics probl

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1724639] Re: Graphics problem - 80% of the Left hand side of screen solid black

2017-10-19 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Kal, On 19 October 2017 at 18:17, Kai-Heng Feng wrote: > Does this also happen to 64bit version? > The equipment being tested, a Samsung NC10 Netbook, is a 32-bit device, so I am unable to test it on that. For convenience, here are some hardware details:- Intel Atom N270, 1.66GHz, 32-bit, 2

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1724639] Re: Graphics problem - 80% of the Left hand side of screen solid black

2017-10-19 Thread Ian Bruntlett
As I mentioned earlier, when a screenshot is taken of the corrupted screen, a perfect snapshot is produced, suggesting the frame buffer is OK and the problem lies elsewhere. ** Attachment added: "screenshot-taken-does-not-match-view-on-screen.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linu

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1724639] Re: Graphics problem - 80% of the Left hand side of screen solid black

2017-10-19 Thread Ian Bruntlett
SUMMARY:- Installed upscreen kernel, still got problems. See below for details:- Did this on personal computer... Downloaded these files:- total 58M -rw-rw-r-- 1 ian ian 11M Oct 19 12:18 linux-headers-4.14.0-041400rc5_4.14.0-041400rc5.201710152230_all.deb -rw-rw

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1724639] Re: Graphics problem - 80% of the Left hand side of screen solid black

2017-10-18 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Joseph, On 18 October 2017 at 19:47, Joseph Salisbury wrote: > Did this issue start happening after an update/upgrade? Was there a > prior kernel version where you were not having this particular problem? > I received an e-mail from qatrac...@stgraber.org with a subject of "A new build of L

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1724639] Re: Graphics problem - 80% of the Left hand side of screen solid black

2017-10-18 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Here is a photo of the problem. ** Attachment added: "Here is a photo of the problem." https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1724639/+attachment/4975110/+files/Display-problem.JPG -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subsc

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1724639] [NEW] Graphics problem - 80% of the Left hand side of screen solid black

2017-10-18 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Public bug reported: Installed O.S. on Samsung NC10. Display worked O.K. in text mode so the install went smoothly. When the system is rebooted, however, switching to graphics mode results in the below described screen corruption:- Left Hand Side 80% of screen black with a blue of white pixels a

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514102] Re: 8086:2772 Intermittent graphics corruption without nomodeset

2015-11-29 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Christopher, On 29 November 2015 at 20:56, Christopher M. Penalver < christopher.m.penal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ian Bruntlett: > >"Don't have e-mail addresses for Daniel Vetter or Jani Nikula. Let me > have them if you want me to pass the report to them as well.

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514102] Re: Intermittent graphics corruption

2015-11-29 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Christopher, On 27 November 2015 at 18:10, Christopher M. Penalver < christopher.m.penal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ian Bruntlett, the issue you are reporting is an upstream one. Could you > please report this problem following the instructions verbatim at > https://wiki.ubuntu.co

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514102] Re: Intermittent graphics corruption

2015-11-26 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Christopher, On 26 November 2015 at 02:04, Christopher M. Penalver < christopher.m.penal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ian Bruntlett, to clarify > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1514102/comments/37 > , was this tested to work without nomodeset? > Yes. In V

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514102] Re: Intermittent graphics corruption

2015-11-25 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Christopher, On 25 November 2015 at 18:10, Ian Bruntlett wrote: > IDEA: Will try running system with Firefox set _not_ to use graphical > hardware acceleration. > Tried that. No luck - bug still present. BA, Ian -- -- ACCU - Professionalism in programming - http://www.accu.

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514102] Re: Intermittent graphics corruption

2015-11-25 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Christopher, On 24 November 2015 at 11:11, Ian Bruntlett wrote: > There is one now available for 4.4-rc2. >> > Will get onto that when I have time. > OK. Short story: bug still present. Long story: These kernel files were downloaded and installed... http://kernel.ubuntu.

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514102] Re: Intermittent graphics corruption

2015-11-24 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Christopher, On 24 November 2015 at 02:22, Christopher M. Penalver < christopher.m.penal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ian Bruntlett: > >"1. Even with that kernel, graphics problems are still present." > > Which kernel version specifically? > This one:- lin

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514102] Re: Intermittent graphics corruption

2015-11-23 Thread Ian Bruntlett
On 23 November 2015 at 13:40, Ian Bruntlett wrote: > Hi Christopher, > > Good news! An Intel graphics specific kernel arrived and I installed it. > So far, the graphics are working fine. However, I must point out that more > testing is required. > 1. Even with that kernel, gra

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514102] Re: Intermittent graphics corruption

2015-11-23 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Christopher, Good news! An Intel graphics specific kernel arrived and I installed it. So far, the graphics are working fine. However, I must point out that more testing is required. Here are the details of the files involved etc:- linux-headers-4.3.0-997-generic_4.3.0-997.201511202100_amd64.d

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514102] Re: Intermittent graphics corruption

2015-11-19 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Christopher, Spent a lot of today learning how to edit files using vim. On 17 November 2015 at 03:08, Christopher M. Penalver < christopher.m.penal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ian Bruntlett, could you please test the latest mainline kernel > (4.4-rc1) and advise to the results of bo

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514102] Re: Intermittent graphics corruption

2015-11-16 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Squeezed in a bit more work today... 1. Tried kernel 4.3.0 today (the one you recommended me a few e-mails ago) with the "nomodeset" parameter and the graphics system went into 640x480 mode, couldn't change it from the desktop. However, the graphics _worked_ :) 2. Viewing menus in GRUB. Did this

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514102] Re: Intermittent graphics corruption

2015-11-16 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Christopher, On 15 November 2015 at 22:52, Christopher M. Penalver < christopher.m.penal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ian Bruntlett, could you please undo your WORKAROUND, test drm-intel- > nightly and advise to the results? > Apologies - the results I gave you were for without

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1514102] Re: Intermittent graphics corruption

2015-11-15 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Christopher, On 13 November 2015 at 00:56, Christopher M. Penalver < christopher.m.penal...@gmail.com> wrote: > While you are welcome to do that as a test (as the release and > architecture are supported downstream via the L/Ubuntu Community), it > wouldn't be recommended to use a i386 archite

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1371651] Re: Daily does not boot into graphical interface after installation

2014-09-29 Thread Ian Bruntlett
I've experienced the "no GUI after installing lubuntu" problem. Here are the details relevant to my case:- Here are the technical details:- -rw-rw-r-- 1 ian ian 630M Sep 28 17:10 lubuntu-14.10-beta2-alternate-i386.iso -rw-rw-r-- 1 ian ian 444 Sep 28 17:07 MD5SUMS_lubuntu ian@rutherford:~/isos$ m