[Bug 433055] Re: 9.10 Internal Microphone Does not Work on Aspire One

2009-11-27 Thread Marcus Granado
Steve, that's it! Unlocking the two mic channels in pulseaudio's volume control input devices and setting one of the two mic channels to 0% works around this bug in pulseaudio! I can now see the mic level bar in the volume control follow closely the volume meter (recording) level bar, and

[Bug 433055] Re: 9.10 Internal Microphone Does not Work on Aspire One

2009-10-03 Thread Marcus Granado
same thing here, I guess: 1) pulseaudio's volume meter (recording) works fine, displaying a healthy microphone input level variation up to almost 100% when I speak. 2) the corresponding microphone input level in pulseaudio's volume control does not display any input level, total silence, even

[Bug 275998] Re: internal mic capture very low volume when routed through pulseaudio

2009-04-21 Thread Marcus Granado
@mabawsa: An easy way to get ubuntu pulse free would also be nice Maybe this? 1) sudo apt-get install bum 2) sudo bum 3) uncheck pulseaudio in the bum dialog and apply. -- internal mic capture very low volume when routed through pulseaudio https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/275998 You received

[Bug 338074] Re: FFe: please sync with upstream version of Gnash .8.5

2009-03-21 Thread Marcus Granado
@Drascus: this is what I did in jaunty, I think it should work in intrepid, hardy etc. 1) grab gnash-0.8.5 source code and untar it: wget http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gnash/0.8.5/gnash-0.8.5.tar.bz2 tar xjvf gnash-0.8.5.tar.bz2 cd gnash-0.8.5 2) run ./configure 21 |grep apt-get to obtain the

[Bug 338074] Re: FFe: please sync with upstream version of Gnash .8.5

2009-03-18 Thread Marcus Granado
I've just compiled it from source, and gnash 0.8.5 is the only version with which youtube works on my netbook. Before that I had to rely on the non-free flash plugin package, which now thanks Gnu I'm free from. Being able to run youtube videos has to be a very strong point in favor of packaging

[Bug 331279] [NEW] please backport ekiga 3.0.1+ from Jaunty to Hardy

2009-02-18 Thread Marcus Granado
Public bug reported: please backport ekiga 3.0.1+ from Jaunty to Hardy ** Affects: hardy-backports Importance: Undecided Status: New -- please backport ekiga 3.0.1+ from Jaunty to Hardy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331279 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 323424] Re: [needs packaging] 3D FPS Game Blood Frontier

2009-02-07 Thread Marcus Granado
added license in the description ** Changed in: ubuntu Status: Incomplete = New -- [needs packaging] 3D FPS Game Blood Frontier https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/323424 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 323424] Re: [needs packaging] 3D FPS Game Blood Frontier

2009-02-03 Thread Marcus Granado
** Description changed: http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/bloodfrontier/index.php?title=Home Blood Frontier is a Free and Open Source game, using SDL and OpenGL which allows it to be ported to many platforms; you can download it for both PC (Windows, Linux, BSD) and Mac. You can

[Bug 323424] [NEW] [needs packaging] 3D FPS Game Blood Frontier

2009-01-30 Thread Marcus Granado
Public bug reported: http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/bloodfrontier/index.php?title=Home Blood Frontier is a Free and Open Source game, using SDL and OpenGL which allows it to be ported to many platforms; you can download it for both PC (Windows, Linux, BSD) and Mac. You can also obtain it

[Bug 275998] Re: internal mic capture very low volume when routed through pulseaudio

2008-12-30 Thread Marcus Granado
It's necessary to do another thing, otherwise the device alsaboost_sink will conflict with the original sound card device provided to pulseaudio by hal, and therefore some apps will not be able to share the sound card: 3) comment out the line 'load-module module-hal-detect' in your

[Bug 275998] Re: internal mic capture very low volume when routed through pulseaudio

2008-12-29 Thread Marcus Granado
I had an interesting chat with pulseaudio's Lennart some time ago, it might interest some of you here. IMHO that Lennart seems to acknowledge this problem in pulseaudio, but also says that this could be fixed by a modification in the alsa modules (by removing all hardware volume control in alsa so

[Bug 275998] Re: internal mic capture very low volume when routed through pulseaudio

2008-12-29 Thread Marcus Granado
@Chris,Rocko,mabawsa: In order to make the micboost available to all pulseaudio clients in Ubuntu, like gnome soundrecorder, you can also use the alsa softvol trick that I suggested above in reverse, creating a new alsaboost device on top of which you will run pulseaudio, by modifying the

[Bug 275998] Re: internal mic capture very low volume when routed through pulseaudio

2008-12-28 Thread Marcus Granado
I've just moved to Intrepid (alsa 1.0.17) on a Dell Inspiron 1720 with Intel audio (00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)), and I was having exactly this same problem: my internal digital microphone on the top of the screen would only capture my

[Bug 275998] Re: internal mic capture very low volume when routed through pulseaudio

2008-12-28 Thread Marcus Granado
Hi, Bengt, I didn't have the file /etc/asound.conf as well, I just created a new one with the contents above. (If you had this file with something in it, you should just append the contents above to the bottom of it.) This file is not specific to the Intel sound device, it is generic for ALSA,

[Bug 275998] Re: internal mic capture very low volume when routed through pulseaudio

2008-12-28 Thread Marcus Granado
@Bengt: BTW, you should verify if your SB Audigy mic device is located at hw:0,0. This is in the format hw:card,device. If not, you should modify the corresponding line in the /etc/asound.conf file above. In order to find this out, I think you can use the output of arecord -l or aplay -l. Other

[Bug 274085] Re: Please update Ekiga to 3.00

2008-09-24 Thread Marcus Granado
ekiga 3.0 should definitely make it to Intrepid main, as the default good-looking alternative to skype. -- Please update Ekiga to 3.00 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/274085 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 256054] Re: [intrepid] new 0.7 branch ignores /etc/network/interfaces

2008-09-24 Thread Marcus Granado
Hi, Alexander, appending ,ifupdown to the plugins= line in /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf works for me, making NM honor again my /etc/network/interfaces file. NM, however, still erases my resolv.conf after every boot, as per bug #259539. -- [intrepid] new 0.7 branch ignores

[Bug 271858] [NEW] [needs-packaging] graph-easy

2008-09-18 Thread Marcus Granado
Public bug reported: I couldn't find graph-easy in the repository. it's a quite useful graph render and converter. graph-easy - render/convert graphs in/from various formats http://search.cpan.org/~tels/Graph-Easy/bin/graph-easy ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status:

[Bug 253833] [NEW] evince takes too long to render pdf page from Nature

2008-07-31 Thread Marcus Granado
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: evince during this time (about 5min in a core2duo 1.5GHz), evince locks up with 100% cpu usage. after that, it shows the page. the pdf page, for tests, can be found at http://marcus.granado.googlepages.com/benny2008-Lodamin-NEWS.pdf please, let me

[Bug 253833] Re: evince takes too long to render pdf page from Nature

2008-07-31 Thread Marcus Granado
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16463892/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: ProcMaps.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16463893/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: ProcStatus.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16463894/ProcStatus.txt -- evince

[Bug 177759] Re: libtimidity needs packaging for gstreamer sw midi playback to work

2008-07-12 Thread Marcus Granado
** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 111555 package gstreamer sw midi playback plugin -- libtimidity needs packaging for gstreamer sw midi playback to work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/177759 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 229786] Re: gst-plugins-bad does not include libgsttimidity.so

2008-07-12 Thread Marcus Granado
** Description changed: Binary package hint: gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad The package gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad 0.10.6-5 in ubuntu hardy 8.04 does not include the plugin libgsttimidity.so (http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/ext/timidity/gsttimidity.c?view=log)

[Bug 177759] Re: libtimidity needs packaging for gstreamer

2008-07-12 Thread Marcus Granado
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 229786 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/229786 only wildmidi backend to gstreamer was added by bug #111555. the timidity backend is still missing, therefore gstreamer/nautilus/etc cannot play many interesting midi soundfonts like fluid-soundfont-gm, see

[Bug 198453] Re: Default ALSA device must use PulseAudio, otherwise ALSA applications may fail

2008-05-20 Thread Marcus Granado
I have an Intel HDA stac9205 soundcard in my Dell Inspiron 1720, and it does not contain a hardware-based micboost for the digital microphone (that +20dB hard mic gain you see in gnome volume control in some soundcards). Ekiga and skype are almost impossible to use, because the microphone volume

[Bug 205990] Re: [hardy] splash screen disappears after a few seconds

2008-05-17 Thread Marcus Granado
This bug was nagging me after I installed an encrypted cswap partition with cryptsetup (similarly to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedFilesystemHowto3#head-1b6a9c96dc5706575dae9a86a09e15df06dbb97a) . For some reason, I had the resume file unknowingly. In this case, the cswap UUID is

[Bug 229786] [NEW] gst-plugins-bad does not include libgsttimidity.so

2008-05-12 Thread Marcus Granado
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad The package gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad 0.10.6-5 in ubuntu hardy 8.04 does not include the plugin libgsttimidity.so (http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/ext/timidity/gsttimidity.c?view=log) required to use

[Bug 217242] [NEW] wishlist: please add AstroMenace 1.2 to the repository

2008-04-14 Thread Marcus Granado
Public bug reported: AstroMenace 1.2 is a great GPL 3D scroller game for Linux, available at http://www.viewizard.com/astromenace/index_linux.php the source code is at http://www.viewizard.com/download.php?forceos=source Please, add it to the Ubuntu repositories. ** Affects: ubuntu

[Bug 163020] Re: Network Manager runs Ralink RT2500 poorly

2008-01-21 Thread Marcus Granado
hi, ricardisimo, i don't know if you are experiencing problems with the kernel/drivers or with network-manager, but i think it is worth trying out wifi-radar if it is the latter. i've heard lots of cases of people whose network-manager refused to talk to their iwconfigs properly in the latest

[Bug 148247] Re: Compiz not supported for G965

2008-01-10 Thread Marcus Granado
hi, Timo, is this the upstream bug? https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13389 From that discussion, I'm curious why it is not possible to update hardy's current libdrm version with one that supports ttm and then try Dave Airlie's ttm-based intel-batchbuffer branch

[Bug 37138] Re: Location ignored

2008-01-07 Thread Marcus Granado
I'm curious if the country location could be used to facilitate automatic selection of certain packages which are considered non- appropriate for certain countries. For instance, if either US or JP is selected, then libdvdcss2 is not installed, otherwise it is automatically installed, saving most

[Bug 156580] Re: No sound on HDA Intel; SigmaTel STAC9200; Gateway E100M

2007-12-17 Thread Marcus Granado
Angel, have you tried this on Gutsy: sudo apt-get install module-assistant sudo m-a update sudo m-a prepare sudo m-a a-i alsa and reboot. (from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=d122159285c513773c7bcf5eb169106ct=575653 and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3489580) -- No sound

[Bug 174904] please backport SAGE 2.8.15 to Gutsy and add it to Hardy

2007-12-08 Thread Marcus Granado
Public bug reported: The mathematics package SAGE 2.8.15 has been released on 03/Dec/2007. It's a powerful open-source alternative for pure and applied mathematics. Very useful to Ubuntu/Edubuntu. Please backport it to Gutsy, and add it to Hardy. http://sagemath.org/ ** Affects: ubuntu

[Bug 126733] Re: Fuji Finepix F47 camera usb disk not properly mounted

2007-12-07 Thread Marcus Granado
As of Gutsy, Nautilus cannot yet directly access the contents of any USB PTP Class Camera. (this fact is not restricted to a Fujifilm Finepix F47 camera.) I need to use F-Spot photo manager to first import the pictures from the camera to the local filesystem instead, but I see this as an

[Bug 148247] Re: Compiz not supported for G965

2007-12-06 Thread Marcus Granado
Yes, Gutsy is using XAA and Hardy-alpha1 EXA. I tried to force Gutsy to use EXA by adding an 'option AccelMethod exa' line in my xorg.conf intel device section, but the X server crashes just after login. The three xorg.0.log follow. ** Attachment added: Xorg.0.log in Gutsy (using the default

[Bug 148247] Re: Compiz not supported for G965

2007-12-06 Thread Marcus Granado
** Attachment added: Xorg.0.log in Gutsy (trying to force EXA) http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10770511/Xorg.0.log.gutsy.trying-exa -- Compiz not supported for G965 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148247 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the

[Bug 148247] Re: Compiz not supported for G965

2007-12-06 Thread Marcus Granado
** Attachment added: Xorg.0.log in Hardy-alpha1 (using the default EXA) http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10770514/Xorg.0.log.hardy-alpha1 -- Compiz not supported for G965 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148247 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 148247] Re: Compiz not supported for G965

2007-12-01 Thread Marcus Granado
A dell inspiron 1720 laptop with an GMA965/X3100 intel chip and compiz/'desktop effects' enabled plays videos using totem in Hardy alpha 1 even after setting xv / xvimagesink in gstreamer-properties, while the same laptop does not play videos in totem if xv+compiz is used in Gutsy. As a side

[Bug 161818] firefox flash-plugin automatic installation fails on youtube

2007-11-10 Thread Marcus Granado
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree It seems that some users are having problems with the automatic installation of firefox extensions such as flash, in specific sites such as youtube. These sites query firefox about the availability of the flash plugin, and if not

[Bug 130998] Re: ZyDAS 802.11b WiFi freezes kernel 2.6.22-9 in Gutsy Tribe 3

2007-11-10 Thread Marcus Granado
Why is this bug taking so long to fix? Network team, this problem is very simple to patch! (see heinz's link above): http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=13190action=view From 0b329a4fcff552bbd329c9c90896446170f9f7cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:

[Bug 130998] Re: ZyDAS 802.11b WiFi freezes kernel 2.6.22-9 in Gutsy Tribe 3

2007-10-18 Thread Marcus Granado
Thanks, Christian, this patch solved my original problem! Ubuntu kernel network team, any chances to pull this patch to the current 2.6.22-14 kernel? -- ZyDAS 802.11b WiFi freezes kernel 2.6.22-9 in Gutsy Tribe 3 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/130998 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 130998] Re: ZyDAS 802.11b WiFi freezes kernel 2.6.22-9 in Gutsy Tribe 3

2007-10-04 Thread Marcus Granado
@marco: Yes, exactly the same problem I described in the first post is present on Gutsy Beta, even with all updates as of today. If you think a specific log/trace might be helpful, just drop me a msg. -- ZyDAS 802.11b WiFi freezes kernel 2.6.22-9 in Gutsy Tribe 3

[Bug 111257] Re: totem crashes with 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)' when using compiz and xserver-xorg-video-intel driver

2007-10-04 Thread Marcus Granado
@radicaledward: If you are willing to turn compiz off, you can use EXA with x3100 to play accelerated videos so that xine,mplayer,totem etc all work (at least it works for me in an Inspiron 1720): Just add 'Option accelmethod exa' in your xorg.conf's gm965 Device section. Make sure all other

[Bug 131133] Re: [gutsy] no sound on Dell Latitude D630/D830/Precision M4300/Vostro 1500/1700 pci id 8086:284b

2007-10-03 Thread Marcus Granado
hi, ricolai, your solution worked great for a dell inspiron 1720. -- [gutsy] no sound on Dell Latitude D630/D830/Precision M4300/Vostro 1500/1700 pci id 8086:284b https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131133 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug

[Bug 130994] Re: esd process blocking sound in vmware in Gutsy Tribe 4

2007-08-16 Thread Marcus Granado
Thanks. I just would like to point out that I'm having this problem even when using the kernel 2.6.20-16 in gutsy tribe-4, which vmware should support. Shouldn't it? vmware worked fine with kernel 2.6.20-16 in feisty. -- esd process blocking sound in vmware in Gutsy Tribe 4

[Bug 130994] Re: esd process blocking sound in vmware in Gutsy Tribe 3

2007-08-14 Thread Marcus Granado
I did an apt-get upgrade today, so my system should be = Tribe-4 as of now, but I'm still having this conflict between esd and vmware player. I'm using vmware-for-linux, on a gutsy tribe-4 host os, to run windows as the guest os inside vmware. I'm using feisty's 2.6.20-16 kernel in gutsy

[Bug 66909] Re: zd1201 wireless card firmware should be included / installed by default

2007-08-14 Thread Marcus Granado
just for record, you can download the firmware from sourceforge, together with some documentation of compatible hardware: http://linux-lc100020.sourceforge.net/ Note as well that I noticed some instabilities in zd1201 driver/ap- firmware with Gutsy Tribe 3 (Feisty was ok) that need to be checked

[Bug 130994] esd process blocking sound in vmware in Gutsy Tribe 3

2007-08-07 Thread Marcus Granado
Public bug reported: In Gutsy Tribe 3 with all updates until today, VMware Player 2.0.0 build-45731 starts with its Sound Adapter disabled and if I try to enable it shows an error 'Failed to open sound device /dev/dsp: device or resource busy. Failed to connect virtual device sound'. I'm only

[Bug 130998] ZyDAS 802.11b WiFi freezes kernel 2.6.22-9 in Gutsy Tribe 3

2007-08-07 Thread Marcus Granado
Public bug reported: I have a usb wireless device Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0ace:1201 ZyDAS 802.11b WiFi in my laptop A which always worked flawlessly in Feisty 7.04 (and earlier versions as well) as an access point using its AP firmware 'zd1201-ap.fw'. However, in Gutsy Tribe 3, with all updates

[Bug 127019] Totem shows scary 'legalese' codec warnings even in countries where they are legal

2007-07-19 Thread Marcus Granado
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: totem I just read this slashdot article Do Illegal Codecs Actually Scare Linux Users? (http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/07/19/1527247.shtml) and it seems that Ubuntu is showing a scary dialog when Totem tries to automatically install restricted codecs

[Bug 126733] Fuji Finepix F47 camera usb disk not properly mounted

2007-07-18 Thread Marcus Granado
Public bug reported: After plugging my Fujifilm Finepix F47 usb camera, Ubuntu 7.04 shows up the Camera Import dialog, says it is a USB PTP Class Camera, and even lists the thumbnails of its content, but it does not mount a disk which can be accessed in Nautilus. Reproduction: Always. [EMAIL

[Bug 119924] Re: Kernel 2.6.20-16.29 fails to login where 2.6.20-16.28 was fine

2007-06-11 Thread Marcus Granado
I don't think bug 119531 is related to this bug. In that case, grub wasn't being able to find the correct partition to boot up. In your case, ubuntu is booting up but failing at logon. I believe it's something else. I had once a problem similar to yours at the gui login dialog. I would try to

[Bug 119531] UUID problems after 2.6.20-16.29 kernel upgrade

2007-06-09 Thread Marcus Granado
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: linux-source-2.6.20 Today I installed the 2.6.20-16.29-generic ubuntu kernel upgrade that was offered by ubuntu's update manager. This somehow changed the UUID of my boot partition, so that grub wouldn't boot up my system anymore. I had to use a rescue

[Bug 66637] Re: After running mkswap, swap space is discarded, system fails to hibernate (invalid swap signature)

2007-06-03 Thread Marcus Granado
I have been having the same problems: I recently installed Feisty in my laptop and it would grind to a halt, thrashing until I couldn't do anything. Suspend to disk failed. It took days until I did track the problem to the fact it was not using my swap partition because the uuid created in my

[Bug 102498] Re: High load and extremely unresponsive system

2007-05-13 Thread Marcus Granado
I can confirm this unresponsiveness in feisty under high load. My system (laptop portege 2010 with 256MB RAM) also starts thrashing without stopping after a few firefox (sometimes only 3 or 4) windows are opened at the same time (e.g.a few slashdot pages), and ps reports firefox using something

[Bug 103009] Re: Totem does not play asx playlist trees correctly

2007-04-11 Thread Marcus Granado
hi sebastian, thanks for having a look. totem shows the items in the list, goes through all of them each by each in order, but it doesn't play all of them. I just executed again totem http://mrc.gran.googlepages.com/example-nested-playlist.asx; and only the first two items were played. totem

[Bug 103009] Totem does not play asx playlist trees correctly

2007-04-04 Thread Marcus Granado
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: totem Summary: Totem 2.18.0 in Ubuntu Feisty Beta (using today's repository, xine-lib 1.1.4 and today's GStreamer 0.10.12) only plays the *first* video in a master-playlist containing nested asx sub-playlists (in a playlist tree with arbitrary depth).

[Bug 103009] Re: Totem does not play asx playlist trees correctly

2007-04-04 Thread Marcus Granado
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://librarian.launchpad.net/7146238/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: ProcMaps.txt http://librarian.launchpad.net/7146239/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: ProcStatus.txt http://librarian.launchpad.net/7146240/ProcStatus.txt -- Totem does

[Bug 94951] [apport] epiphany crashed with SIGSEGV in __kernel_vsyscall()

2007-03-22 Thread Marcus Granado
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: epiphany-browser . ProblemType: Crash Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Mar 23 00:41:47 2007 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/epiphany Package: epiphany-browser 2.18.0-0ubuntu1 PackageArchitecture: i386 ProcCmdline: epiphany ProcCwd:

[Bug 94951] Re: [apport] epiphany crashed with SIGSEGV in __kernel_vsyscall()

2007-03-22 Thread Marcus Granado
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://librarian.launchpad.net/6900379/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: Disassembly.txt http://librarian.launchpad.net/6900380/Disassembly.txt ** Attachment added: ProcMaps.txt http://librarian.launchpad.net/6900381/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment

[Bug 93415] Re: Totem cannot play ASF Video

2007-03-21 Thread Marcus Granado
I have exactly the same problem here, after installing Herd 5 anew via netboot. The url below plays in mplayer 1.0rc1 but not in totem: totem http://playervideo.globo.com/webmedia/GMCMidiaASX?midiaId=654705|banda=N|ext.asx ** Message: Couldn't initialize lirc. ** Message: Error: Could not