[Bug 519142] Re: ThinkPad T43 CPU scaling (ondemand/fixed/..) not working correctly - Ubuntu 9.10/10.4 (stock & mainline)

2010-06-25 Thread Eric Brasseur
This is what worked for me, on an Intel-based HP Pavillon dv6000: First of all, my puzzling started making sense only when I got rid of the Gnome CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor. It does and displays nonsense. For example, when the CPU is absolutely constantly at maximum speed, the Gnome applet will

[Bug 92882] Re: significant memory leak in xserver 1.2

2010-04-15 Thread Eric Brasseur
Hello, The solution proposed in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg- server/+bug/186354 worked for me: disable xinerama. On ubuntu 9.04 (using an Intel GMA chipset), I added this at the bottom of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and then had no more problem after restarting the X server: Se

[Bug 186354] Re: X server memory leaks related to dbus

2010-04-15 Thread Eric Brasseur
Hello, Disabling xinerama worked for me too. On ubuntu 9.04 (using an Intel GMA chipset), I added this at the bottom of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and then had no more problem after restarting the X server: Section "Serverflags" Option "Xinerama" "false" Endsection -- X server memory leaks

[Bug 254983] Re: cartoonbox.slate.com no display correctly in Firefox

2009-12-09 Thread Eric Brasseur
The problem was due to me accidentally instructing Firefox to no more load images from that given web server. So I kept having advertising images, because they are loaded from other servers. But no more cartoon images from the Slate.com server. I didn't even know that preventing to load images fro

[Bug 123500] Re: [upstream] Alt-key behavior doesn't match the rest of Ubuntu

2009-11-20 Thread Eric Brasseur
I almost never restart my laptop (HP Pavilion dv6000, using Ubuntu 9.04), only put it to sleep. After a few days I get this strange behavior with OpenOffice. Shortly after it is started, the Files menu just pops open. It will go on popping open and close, sometimes shifting to other menus, whatever

[Bug 290753] Re: Multiple applications have stopped the suspend from taking place. vlc : Playing some media

2009-11-03 Thread Eric Brasseur
Using 9.04, my first working workaround was to use this command each time I wanted to suspend: sudo pm-suspend It may require installing the pm-utils package. Restarting gnome-power-manager seems far superior of course. -- Multiple applications have stopped the suspend from taking place. vl

[Bug 363663] Re: [jaunty] cpu scheduling is not optimized for multitask

2009-08-05 Thread Eric Brasseur
Hello everybody, 'Made some tests. This makes the ext4 magic flow: * Boot an ext4 system. Mount an ext3 partition as ext4 and perform a heavy task in that partition. * Boot an ext4 system. Mount an ext4 partition... everything's fine, of course. And this does not work: * Boot an ext4 syste

[Bug 363663] Re: [jaunty] cpu scheduling is not optimized for multitask

2009-07-31 Thread Eric Brasseur
As a matter of fact, back in the time when I was using a single-core Intel P4 CPU, I also tried out different partition formats, like ReiserFS, XFS, JFS... and never got a significant enhancement regarding the here-debated problem (though they are real nice file systems) (just they lack the wonderf

[Bug 363663] Re: [jaunty] cpu scheduling is not optimized for multitask

2009-07-31 Thread Eric Brasseur
Hello everybody, A simple experiment: start my ext3 Jaunty install yet forcing the use of only one processor core, by having added maxcpus=1 in the kernel parameters list inside /boot/grub/menu.lst The result is just as bad as usual. Not as bad as when forcing the tar command and Firefox to use t

[Bug 363663] Re: [jaunty] cpu scheduling is not optimized for multitask

2009-07-30 Thread Eric Brasseur
Very interesting! I immediately tried that out on my Jaunty install based on an ext3 partition. The standard test procedure I use is to first launch this to load the system: tar cf 1.tar /usr Then I launch and quit Firefox several times, open its menus, wait some time before reattempts... while

[Bug 363663] Re: [jaunty] cpu scheduling is not optimized for multitask

2009-07-28 Thread Eric Brasseur
Same problem on a HP Pavilion dv6415eb (Intel based) using Ubuntu 9.04. After many research, kernel compiles and querying the advice of Vincent Minder I found what seems the base of the problem. Any Linux install (Ubuntu, Slackware, Fedora) that uses ext4 is perfectly fluent. Any install based on e

[Bug 337780] Re: cpu frequency scaling monitor does not change frequency in Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) alpha 5 on Core 2 system

2009-07-27 Thread Eric Brasseur
Hello Benito, It's up to me to close the bug report?! I'll do that immediately. Since a while the kernel updates for the 9.04 are compiled with the correct configuration regarding CPU frequency scaling so I stopped using my custom compiled kernel. Sincerely. Eric ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)

[Bug 337780] Re: cpu frequency scaling monitor does not change frequency in Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) alpha 5 on Core 2 system

2009-05-07 Thread Eric Brasseur
** Package changed: ubuntu => linux (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- cpu frequency scaling monitor does not change frequency in Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) alpha 5 on Core 2 system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/337780 You received this bug notification becaus

[Bug 337780] Re: cpu frequency scaling monitor does not change frequency in Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) alpha 5 on Core 2 system

2009-05-07 Thread Eric Brasseur
There was no obvious graphical way to have the Wi-Fi driver reinstalled for the custom compiled kernel but commenting away the b43 module and its friends in the blacklist in /etc/modprobe.d/ and maybe installing the proprietary driver using b43-fwcutter did the job. So now I have both a silent and

[Bug 337780] Re: cpu frequency scaling monitor does not change frequency in Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) alpha 5 on Core 2 system

2009-05-07 Thread Eric Brasseur
Well that was indeed the problem. Once the custom kernel was running, with the CPU frequency throttling simply and basically turned on, there was no more problem. The low frequency and power saving governors ran perfectly. On the other hand I had no more Wi-Fi. 'Going to try to solve that one now.

[Bug 337780] Re: cpu frequency scaling monitor does not change frequency in Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) alpha 5 on Core 2 system

2009-05-07 Thread Eric Brasseur
I may have done a mistake somewhere but following the standard procedure to compile a custom kernel and dutifully copying /boot/config-2.6.28-11-generic to /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.28/.config I get qconf telling me that the kernel frequency has been locked to the maximum frequency and cannot be tu

[Bug 337780] Re: cpu frequency scaling monitor does not change frequency in Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) alpha 5 on Core 2 system

2009-05-07 Thread Eric Brasseur
The problem is not with the Gnome frequency scaling applet. I used the cpufreq-selector command and it doesn't change the frequency either. I managed to get some reaction yet, by switching the ACPI daemon and related on and off quickly. Then, sometimes, for a few seconds, the frequency will decreas

[Bug 254983] Re: cartoonbox.slate.com no display correctly in Firefox

2009-01-23 Thread Eric Brasseur
The problem came from the possibility to block the images from a site. I had inadvertently blocked the images from cartoonbox.slate.com while not even knowing this feature exists. I had to surf cartoonbox.slate.com using another browser for almost a year... I believe current versions of Firefox are

[Bug 254983] Re: cartoonbox.slate.com no display correctly in Firefox

2008-08-05 Thread Eric Brasseur
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16563213/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ExtensionSummary.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16563214/ExtensionSummary.txt ** Attachment added: "profiles.ini.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16563215/profiles

[Bug 254983] [NEW] cartoonbox.slate.com no display correctly in Firefox

2008-08-05 Thread Eric Brasseur
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: firefox-3.0 When visiting the pages from http://cartoonbox.slate.com, the images of the advertisements will display correctly but not the cartoons. Any other browser will display the cartoons correctly (Konqueror, SeaMonkey...) ProblemType: Bug Architect