[Bug 191776] Re: Shutdown guest using the VI Client with VMware ESX 3.0.2 doesn't work

2008-03-28 Thread Eric S. Johansson
according to the documentation on the open-VM-tools website, the four default files listed above should be placed into /etc/vmware-tools with the execute bit turned on (555 seems to work). Initial, admittedly very brief testing reset and suspend appear to work. What's still missing is the VM War

[Bug 191776] Re: Shutdown guest using the VI Client with VMware ESX 3.0.2 doesn't work

2008-03-28 Thread Eric S. Johansson
the problem with the VM ware tools package is that it's missing some very important components, specifically: poweroff-vm-default resume-vm-default poweron-vm-default suspend-vm-default there may be something else missing for invoking the scripts but, I haven't figured out what it is yet.

[Bug 92408] Re: X11 does not support laptop lcd native resolution

2007-12-06 Thread Eric S. Johansson
my deepest apologies for not responding sooner. Had significant household crises. Yes, new driver does work, it looks really good. Display is clean and clear now if I could only fix the power supply I would be a happy camper. :-) -- X11 does not support laptop lcd native resolution https://bug

Re: [Bug 103708] Re: When setting up a simple file share you are unable to access the share from a Windows machine, while the samba server has no password set.

2007-05-23 Thread Eric S. Johansson
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 24184 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/24184 Huygens wrote: > Once you have a draft, you could propose it for review. :-) Perhaps, > people could bring ideas too and enhance it. If you look at other > specification, some do not even propose software ones,

Re: [Bug 24184] Re: Samba and system passwords should be synchronized.

2007-05-23 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Huygens wrote: > Thank you Eric for your work :-) that is a nice initiative. Glad to be of help. I'm also making trouble in the anti-spam (reputation-based) arena and small-scale Web frameworks (learn hours, not days or weeks), and speech recognition-based accessibility. > > However, there is a

[Bug 24184] Re: Samba and system passwords should be synchronized.

2007-05-22 Thread Eric S. Johansson
in bug 103708 Jonathan Watmough posted a small image showing where one could put a user's button to activate what users are associated with what shares. what Jonathan is concerned with is an important problem, it's just not this problem. I propose adding two more fields to the basic dialog box

[Bug 24184] Re: Samba and system passwords should be synchronized.

2007-04-10 Thread Eric S. Johansson
I've been thinking about this problem a bit more since I filed the initial bugs and I think password synchronization is only part of the problem. The initial thought was for a naïve user. A naïve user wants to export a share so he/she can use it from another machine. They might even give their p

[Bug 92408] Re: X11 does not support laptop lcd native resolution

2007-03-18 Thread Eric S. Johansson
id: res: 1400x1050 freq: disptype: lcd/lvds is this what you are looking for? -- X11 does not support laptop lcd native resolution https://launchpad.net/bugs/92408 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 92408] Re: X11 does not support laptop lcd native resolution

2007-03-14 Thread Eric S. Johansson
** Attachment added: "X11 config file" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6808303/xorg.conf -- X11 does not support laptop lcd native resolution https://launchpad.net/bugs/92408 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 92408] Re: X11 does not support laptop lcd native resolution

2007-03-14 Thread Eric S. Johansson
** Attachment added: "broken screen image" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6808281/Screenshot.png -- X11 does not support laptop lcd native resolution https://launchpad.net/bugs/92408 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bu

[Bug 92408] X11 does not support laptop lcd native resolution

2007-03-14 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Public bug reported: this has been a long term problem with X11. I think it dates back to 6.06. laptop: compaq presario 1700t lspci reports video as: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY install sets up video as 1024x768 which works ok but is very fuzzy