[Bug 1794876] Re: Touchpad doesn't work out-of-the-box in Ubuntu 18.04.1 with ThinkPad X1 carbon

2020-02-12 Thread J. McDonald
I'm using a new ThinkPad E495 laptop with a "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" and Xubuntu 18.04.4 with the current HWE kernel "5.3.0-28-generic" and I had a similar issue. In my particular case, installing xserver-xorg- input-synaptics-hwe-18.04 returned normal function to the TouchPad. -- You receiv

[Bug 1623666] Re: iOS device contents not displayed in Ubuntu

2017-11-17 Thread J. McDonald
I am also using the martin-salbaba/ppa+libimobiledevice ppa -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1623666 Title: iOS device contents not displayed in Ubuntu To manage notifications about th

[Bug 1623666] Re: iOS device contents not displayed in Ubuntu

2017-11-17 Thread J. McDonald
More specifically, I was able to successfully pair the phone. It took a couple of iterations (entering password on phone, etc.). The problem seemed to be lockdownd when trying to mount: $ ifuse /media/iPhone/ Failed to connect to lockdownd service on the device. Try again. If it still fails try

[Bug 1623666] Re: iOS device contents not displayed in Ubuntu

2017-11-17 Thread J. McDonald
Update to #39 - iPhone 5C with iOS 10.3 replaced with iPhone SE/iOS 11.03. I'm back where I started from - no connectivity. I can mount the phone but nothing is visible. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.la

[Bug 1623666] Re: iOS device contents not displayed in Ubuntu

2017-11-17 Thread J. McDonald
I'm using Linux Mint 18.2 Cinnamon. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1623666 Title: iOS device contents not displayed in Ubuntu To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bu

[Bug 1623666] Re: iOS device contents not displayed in Ubuntu

2017-04-05 Thread J. McDonald
#29 worked for me using 1.2.0+git20161018-3salbabix27xenial as long as I did the following: fusermount -u /media/iPhone and then ifuse /media/iPhone/ After that, I was able to access the entire filesystem on my iPhone 5c/iOS 10.2 and finally import my photos. It's a bit clunky but it works. I

[Bug 1623666] Re: iOS device contents not displayed in Ubuntu

2017-04-05 Thread J. McDonald
#29 worked for me using 1.2.0+git20161018-3salbabix27xenial as long as I did the following: fusermount -u /media/iPhone and then ifuse /media/iPhone/ After that, I was able to access the entire filesystem on my iPhone 5c/iOS 10.2 and finally import my photos. It's a bit clunky but it works. I

[Bug 1623666] Re: iOS device contents not displayed in Ubuntu

2017-03-07 Thread J. McDonald
Jeff Kowalski - Thanks for the help. I don't have a ~/.linuxbrew/ hidden directory, so I suppose it is hiding somewhere else. I suppose that I could try searching for pkg-config to see where it might be located. This is so far down in the weeds that I'm not counting on getting my photos off my p

[Bug 1623666] Re: iOS device contents not displayed in Ubuntu

2017-01-29 Thread J. McDonald
I attempted following the instructions in #28 and I only got this far: $ cd ~/path/to/my/build/dir $ git clone https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice.git $ cd libimobiledevice $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local/libimobiledevice $ make and then I got the following message:

[Bug 1623666] Re: iOS10 will not connect to Ubuntu

2016-12-23 Thread J. McDonald
Unfortunately, the subsequent iOS updates to 10.1 and 10.2 broke this again. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1623666 Title: iOS10 will not connect to Ubuntu To manage notifications ab

[Bug 1623666] Re: iOS10 will not connect to Ubuntu

2016-11-14 Thread J. McDonald
Sam Gleske, with all due respect, that is not an really an answer. I am an end user, not a code developer, but I understood the basics of the problem with the package being built with GnuTLS instead of the correct version of OpenSSL. You are also incorrect with respect to libimobiledevice being fi

[Bug 1623666] Re: iOS10 will not connect to Ubuntu

2016-11-13 Thread J. McDonald
So if this is resolved, could someone provide an answer that doesn't require a PhD in computer science to figure out? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1623666 Title: iOS10 will not conn

[Bug 785693] Re: lshw-gtk menu entry is inoperative

2016-05-07 Thread J. McDonald
Wow, 5 years on and this is still a bug. I also installed lshw-gtk while using XFCE, in my case, Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa XFCE and the Linux 3.19.0-32-generic version. I found that I could successfully start using "gksudo lshw-gtk". If there really is a dependency on the "menu" package, then why isn

[Bug 570836] Re: invalid MIME type in /usr/share/applications/gnumeric.desktop

2014-12-11 Thread J. McDonald
I'm also getting the error message in Mint 17.1 (Rebecca/Trusty). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/570836 Title: invalid MIME type in /usr/share/applications/gnumeric.desktop To manage

[Bug 1279860] Re: Apt report MIME-type needs to be updated

2014-12-11 Thread J. McDonald
I had the same message during an apt update. I am running Mint 17.1 LTS. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1279860 Title: Apt report MIME-type needs to be updated To manage notificatio

Re: [Bug 527890] Re: ALPS touchpad in HP Mini 311 not configurable/recognized as a touchpad

2011-07-17 Thread J. McDonald
Not to mention 10.04 which is supposed to be a long term service release... On Jul 17, 2011, at 2:49 PM, Marja Erwin <527...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > So how do we add Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04 to the "also affects" list? > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed t

Re: [Bug 527890] Unsupported series, setting status to "Won't Fix".

2011-07-15 Thread J. McDonald
Either that or we just need to keep adding redundant bug reports for the same bug every time a new ubuntu version is released without fixing this. The ALPS multitouch trackpad is a very common device and this issue has been more or less ignored. If someone could just figure out a way to turn off ta

[Bug 527890] Re: ALPS touchpad in HP Mini 311 not configurable/recognized as a touchpad

2011-07-14 Thread J. McDonald
This bug still exists in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Since 10.04 is long term service, I don't understand the classification of "won't fix". So LTS isn't LTS anymore? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bu

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work

2011-06-28 Thread J. McDonald
I am still having this issue in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. It has been a problem since 9.04 ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu Lucid) Status: Invalid => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https:/

Re: [Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work

2011-04-15 Thread J. McDonald
I'm still using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (2.6.32-31-generic) on my HP Mini 311 and the Alps Touchpad is still being identified as an ImPS/2 generic mouse. I have vertical scroll and tap to click, but no way to adjust these. Tap to click is particularly annoying. I would like to keep that functionality but

[Bug 590448] Re: CD/DVD change not recognized

2010-08-05 Thread J. McDonald
I recently upgraded to the the following kernel: Linux G4 2.6.32-24-powerpc-smp #39-Ubuntu SMP The CD/DVD bug is still there. -- CD/DVD change not recognized https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/590448 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to U

[Bug 554050] Re: Touchpad vertical scrolling doesn't work after upgrade to 2.6.32-19 (Sony VAIO EB1E1E, AlpsPS2/2 ALPS)

2010-07-10 Thread J. McDonald
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 550625 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550625 This was with an ALPS Glidepoint trackpad on an HP Mini 311 -- Touchpad vertical scrolling doesn't work after upgrade to 2.6.32-19 (Sony VAIO EB1E1E, AlpsPS2/2 ALPS) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/554050 Y

[Bug 554050] Re: Touchpad vertical scrolling doesn't work after upgrade to 2.6.32-19 (Sony VAIO EB1E1E, AlpsPS2/2 ALPS)

2010-07-10 Thread J. McDonald
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 550625 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550625 from "uname -a" I get: 2.6.32-24-generic #38-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jul 5 09:22:14 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux and the current behavior is that edge scrolling works by the trackpad being emulated as a PS/2 mouse and

[Bug 562092] Re: [Lucid] cdrom drive not recognized automatically

2010-07-09 Thread J. McDonald
The latest kernel update did not help me, but since the PowerPC port is community supported, it lags behind the "official" kernel releases. -- [Lucid] cdrom drive not recognized automatically https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/562092 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubu

[Bug 562092] Re: [Lucid] cdrom drive not recognized automatically

2010-07-09 Thread J. McDonald
There is a similar bug report for the PowerPC Ubuntu port located here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks/+bug/590448 In my case, forcing udev to poll for media immediately after it is loaded or ejected properly mounts the media and has the DVD or CD show up on the desktop. I curre

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work

2010-07-06 Thread J. McDonald
I can confirm that the short term "fix" of the Alps Glidepoint on the HP Mini 311 still gives edge scrolling and is still recognized as a PS/2 Mouse without any Synaptics functionality in the current 2.6.32-23 kernel. Is anyone working on a longer term fix for Synaptics to work properly? Has this

[Bug 590448] Re: CD/DVD change not recognized

2010-06-29 Thread J. McDonald
also check here: http://www.ppcnux.com/?q=linux-kernel-2.6.34-with-ubuntu-10.04 -- CD/DVD change not recognized https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/590448 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bu

[Bug 590448] Re: CD/DVD change not recognized

2010-06-29 Thread J. McDonald
This may be some sort of problem in the powerpc 2.6.32-xx kernel. See here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9505509&postcount=21 Has anyone tried compiling a 2.6.34 kernel for the Ubuntu 10.04 powerpc port? If so, did that fix this problem? -- CD/DVD change not recognized https://bugs

[Bug 590448] Re: CD/DVD change not recognized

2010-06-29 Thread J. McDonald
I ended up writing a very simple shell script to load or eject CDs and poll udisks, and then I call the script from a Gnome panel custom application launcher. It's not ideal, but it works for me until udisks is fixed. -- CD/DVD change not recognized https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/590448 You rec

[Bug 590448] Re: CD/DVD change not recognized

2010-06-21 Thread J. McDonald
For me, doing: eject -T && udisks --poll-for-media /dev/hde from the terminal gives the desired behavior. The problem is that I am too new to Linux to figure out a way to bind that command to the Apple keyboard "eject" key (which I think is key #161). -- CD/DVD change not recognized https:

[Bug 584052] Re: Internal ATAPI CD/DVD drives will not automount in Lucid PowerPC

2010-06-20 Thread J. McDonald
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 590448 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/590448 kallewirsch - you did it! Using: udisks --poll-for-media /dev/ successfully identifies the media in the internal drive. I will change the bug report to a duplicate of 590448. ** Package changed: udev

[Bug 590448] Re: CD/DVD change not recognized

2010-06-20 Thread J. McDonald
Confirmed on a "windtunnel" G4 (dual 1.42 Ghz). As in the example above, I can manually poll with: udisks --poll-for-media /dev/ and the media is immediately recognized. Oddly, I only have problems with the internal ATAPI Pioneer DVR-105 DVD/CD/RW. If I plug in an external USB DVD/CD/RW

[Bug 584052] Re: Internal ATAPI CD/DVD drives will not automount in Lucid PowerPC

2010-06-19 Thread J. McDonald
It appears that dvdisaster reads the drive and writes the contents to an ISO image in my home directory that can then be separately mounted. This is pretty unwieldy and while it might work on an emergency basis, I doubt I would take the 1/2 hour or so to read in the drive and write out the ISO ever

[Bug 584052] Re: Internal ATAPI CD/DVD drives will not automount in Lucid PowerPC

2010-06-19 Thread J. McDonald
I guess I'm a bit unclear as to how dvdisaster would work for me. It seems like it just makes an ISO image of the disk in the drive which I can then mount. It seems to work for some media types (data disks) but not others (audio cds). It is at least capable of detecting the drive and the media s

[Bug 584052] Re: Internal ATAPI CD/DVD drives will not automount in Lucid PowerPC

2010-06-19 Thread J. McDonald
The upgrade to udisks 1.01-1ubuntu1 did not fix the issue. I did: 1.) "sudo killall udisks-daemon" 2.) "udisks --dump" and the dump is attached. It does see a CD that I put into the drive (HDE). I am getting ready to download dvdisaster and give that a try... ** Attachment added: "result of "u

[Bug 584052] Re: Internal ATAPI CD/DVD drives will not automount in Lucid PowerPC

2010-06-19 Thread J. McDonald
It looks like I have udisks 1.01-1build1 but 1.01-1ubuntu1 just became available for the PowerPC port of Ubuntu 10.04. I will do an upgrade and see if this fixes the problem. -- Internal ATAPI CD/DVD drives will not automount in Lucid PowerPC https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/584052 You received t

[Bug 584052] Re: Internal ATAPI CD/DVD drives will not automount in Lucid PowerPC

2010-06-15 Thread J. McDonald
Thanks for the tips. I will look into udisks and give this a try tomorrow. -- Internal ATAPI CD/DVD drives will not automount in Lucid PowerPC https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/584052 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ub

[Bug 584052] Re: Internal ATAPI CD/DVD drives will not automount in Lucid PowerPC

2010-06-11 Thread J. McDonald
I've added my .config from /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-22-powerpc-smp ** Attachment added: "kernel_configuration.config" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/50144327/kernel_configuration.config -- Internal ATAPI CD/DVD drives will not automount in Lucid PowerPC https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/584

[Bug 584052] Re: Internal ATAPI CD/DVD drives will not automount in Lucid PowerPC

2010-06-11 Thread J. McDonald
I think this is now worse. Now I can't even mount the drive from the command line: $ mount /dev/hde -t iso9660 /mnt/cdrom mount: block device /dev/hde is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hde, missing codepage or helper program, or

[Bug 584052] Re: Internal ATAPI CD/DVD drives will not automount in Lucid PowerPC

2010-06-11 Thread J. McDonald
I upgraded to the 2.6.32-22-powerpc-smp kernel, but it's still not working -- Internal ATAPI CD/DVD drives will not automount in Lucid PowerPC https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/584052 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubu

[Bug 584052] Re: Internal ATAPI CD/DVD drives will not automount in Lucid PowerPC

2010-06-11 Thread J. McDonald
I tried PySDM, but the drive in question does not show up (/dev/hde). I also tried adding "Disk Mounter" to the panel, but the drive also does not show there, even though it shows up in lshw as: *-ide:1 description: IDE Channel 0 physical id: 2 b

[Bug 562092] Re: [Lucid] cdrom drive not recognized automatically

2010-06-11 Thread J. McDonald
I am running Linux G4 2.6.32-22-powerpc-smp #36-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 4 00:04:49 UTC 2010 ppc GNU/Linux and i still cannot mount a cd or dvd. I think this may be specific to PPC ports. -- [Lucid] cdrom drive not recognized automatically https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/562092 You received this bug

[Bug 584052] Re: Removable media (CD/DVD drives) will not automount in Lucid PowerPC

2010-06-11 Thread J. McDonald
I changed the topic back. I felt like my original report was hijacked into a different issue. I have no trouble mounting USB drives or USB CD/DVD/RW and there is some problem specific to the PowerPC distribution and ATAPI removeable media based on the forum discussion and subsequent debugging tha

[Bug 584052] Re: Removable media (CD/DVD/USB drives) will not automount

2010-06-05 Thread J. McDonald
I am wiling to try a logging patch. Is there a PowerPC version compiled or does that matter? I can make automount work or not work on the same machine (powerpc) depending on which drive I use. The internal ATAPI drive will not automount media. An external USB drive will automount media just fin

[Bug 584052] Re: Removable media (CD/DVD/USB drives) will not automount

2010-05-30 Thread J. McDonald
I am also runninng Lucid on an Atom/Ion based netbook and within a VM on a MacBook Pro 3.1 without cd/dvd automount issues. -- Removable media (CD/DVD/USB drives) will not automount https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/584052 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 584052] Re: Removable media (CD/DVD/USB drives) will not automount

2010-05-30 Thread J. McDonald
I did not have this issue with other Lucid installations, only PowerPC and only with the ATAPI drive - usb CD/DVD/RW drives worked on the PowerPC Lucid install. This seems top be straying a bit from the original bug report that I filed. Also, I tried editing the fstab and still could not resolve

[Bug 584052] Re: Internal ATAPI CD/DVD will not automount

2010-05-21 Thread J. McDonald
** Attachment added: "BootDmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/48899230/BootDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: "CurrentDmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/48899231/CurrentDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/48899232/Dependencies.txt ** A

[Bug 584052] [NEW] Internal ATAPI CD/DVD will not automount

2010-05-21 Thread J. McDonald
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: udev A DVD or CD will not automount when installed in the internal ATAPI drvie within Lucid on my Dual-G4 PowerPC Mac. This functioned fine in Jaunty and quite working after a clean install of Lucid. It continues to function fine when I boot into OS X.

[Bug 562092] Re: [Lucid] cdrom drive not recognized automatically

2010-05-12 Thread J. McDonald
I just found that I can plug in an external USB cd/dvd/rw and successfully automount both CDs and DVDs. So this is something that is only affecting my internal ATAPI Pioneer cd/dvd/rw. -- [Lucid] cdrom drive not recognized automatically https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/562092 You received this bu

[Bug 546373] Re: [LUCID] CD tray close automatically after eject

2010-05-09 Thread J. McDonald
Adding the line dev.cdrom.autoclose = 0 to /etc/sysctl.conf allowed me to successfully load CDs/DVDs into the drive, but the media does not automount. I have to use the "mount" command in terminal to successfully mount the media. -- [LUCID] CD tray close automatically after eject https://bugs

[Bug 562092] Re: [Lucid] cdrom drive not recognized automatically

2010-05-09 Thread J. McDonald
I can successfully mount a CD from the terminal: $ sudo mount /dev/hde /cdrom mount: block device /dev/hde is write-protected, mounting read-only I can also mount a video DVD in a similar manner. I'm not sure why they don't automount. I am fairly new to debugging - what additional information s

[Bug 562092] Re: [Lucid] cdrom drive not recognized automatically

2010-05-09 Thread J. McDonald
I am having the same issue in Lucid and UDEV 151-12 on a PowerPC. The drive is visible in disk utility and properly identified via lshw but the media will not mount. Oddly enough, I can manage to get VLC to play music CDs (but not DVD video) even though disk utility has "no media detected". --

[Bug 546373] Re: [LUCID] CD tray close automatically after eject

2010-05-09 Thread J. McDonald
This appears to be the same udev bug reported for Fedora: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453095 A fix was found via editing sysctl.conf to set ev.cdrom.autoclose = 0 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453095#c127 I am going to give this a try later this afternoon. ** Bug

[Bug 546373] Re: [LUCID] CD tray close automatically after eject

2010-05-08 Thread J. McDonald
I tried the following: [CODE]eject[/CODE] which causes the drive to open and immediately close and [CODE] eject -t[/CODE] which does nothing and also [CODE] eject -T[/CODE] which again causes the drive to open and immediately close -- [LUCID] CD tray close automatically after eject https://bugs

[Bug 546373] Re: [LUCID] CD tray close automatically after eject

2010-05-08 Thread J. McDonald
I have a similar issue in the Lucid port for PowerPC , except in my case I can't load a CD/DVD. When I open the tray, it closes before I can load the CD. lshw identifies the drive as a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-105. -- [LUCID] CD tray close automatically after eject https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/546

[Bug 532114] Re: [lucid] keyboard doesn't work on 12" G4 PowerBook

2010-05-05 Thread J. McDonald
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 513932 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/513932 I ended up backing up /home and doing a clean install. Everything is working now. -- [lucid] keyboard doesn't work on 12" G4 PowerBook https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532114 You received this bug notificati

[Bug 532114] Re: [lucid] keyboard doesn't work on 12" G4 PowerBook

2010-05-04 Thread J. McDonald
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 513932 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/513932 I was able to find a copy of xserver-xorg-input-kbd_1.4.0-1_powerpc.deb on a Debian mirror server. I installed the .deb with dpkg, booted into recovery mode to generate an xorg.conf, edited the xorg.conf as s

[Bug 513932] Re: [i945gme] Keyboard not working after upgrade to Lucid

2010-05-04 Thread J. McDonald
I upgraded to Lucid on a dual-G4 PowerPC Mac. I have no functioning keyboard. Without the USB keyboard, I had to enable the on-screen keyboard to log into X. Running dpkg-reconfigure console-setup does not fix the keyboard. I have the following lines in /etc/default/console- setup: VERBOSE_OUTP

[Bug 532114] Re: [lucid] keyboard doesn't work on 12" G4 PowerBook

2010-05-04 Thread J. McDonald
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 513932 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/513932 I don't think this is a duplicate of bug #513932. That bug appears to be fixable via running dpkg-reconfigure console-setup, which didn't work in my case. I think this is specific to the PowerPC. -- [luci

[Bug 532114] Re: [lucid] keyboard doesn't work on 12" G4 PowerBook

2010-05-04 Thread J. McDonald
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 513932 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/513932 I am having the same problem with Lucid on a Dual-G4 FW800 MDD Mac - no keyboard. I'm not familiar with the Debian Sid repositories. What is the URL of the repository containing xserver-xorg-input- kbd_1.4.0

Re: [Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work

2010-05-03 Thread J. McDonald
- sorry about adding confusion to this issue. -Original Message- >From: Chase Douglas >Sent: May 3, 2010 10:16 AM >To: mcdonald.jos...@mindspring.com >Subject: [Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients >and scrolling do not work > >@J.

[Bug 554050] Re: Touchpad vertical scrolling doesn't work after upgrade to 2.6.32-19 (Sony VAIO EB1E1E, AlpsPS2/2 ALPS)

2010-04-30 Thread J. McDonald
In response to bug #550625, Chase Douglas was able to get scrolling to more or less work in Lucid with the pre-release versions of the 2.6.32-22.33 kernels - see discussion thread here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/550625 When I upgraded to the Lucid final release last night, I

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work

2010-04-30 Thread J. McDonald
I downgraded linux-image-2.6.32.22-generic from the final release version to version 2.6.32-22.33~pre201004281000 and edge scrolling returned to the ALPS GlidePoint trackpad. Anyone know what's going on with this? -- Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work htt

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work

2010-04-30 Thread J. McDonald
The final release broke the scrolling again...I'm going to try posting in "main support" forum -- Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550625 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whic

[Bug 539889] Re: cairo-dock crashed with SIGSEGV in cairo_dock_initialize_opengl_backend()

2010-04-29 Thread J. McDonald
I have the nearly same issues as Gary B. I have a similar graphics card - ATI Technologies Inc M56GL [Mobility FireGL V5250] in a Thinkpad T60p. I am using Lucid with the latest upgrades as of this afternoon. Cairo dock runs fine with no OpenGL. Starting up the OpenGL Cairo Dock immediately cras

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work

2010-04-23 Thread J. McDonald
I went ahead and added the ppa to try out the daily builds. Scrolling has returned to normal. I also added the package "mouseemu" and set a small delay in to disable the trackpad while I type. Everything is working now. -- Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work

2010-04-22 Thread J. McDonald
Chase, thanks, that would be great. I'm not overly concerned about support for this computer - hence the testing, but getting the scroll bar back for the few weeks until -22 comes would make things a bit easier. I also realise that at some point, I should learn to do this for myself. -- Alps to

[Bug 568258] Re: [lucid] cannot start cairo-dock since last updates

2010-04-22 Thread J. McDonald
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 568083 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/568083 Also - this was a 32-bit system so it is not specific to 64-bit -- [lucid] cannot start cairo-dock since last updates https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/568258 You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 568258] Re: [lucid] cannot start cairo-dock since last updates

2010-04-22 Thread J. McDonald
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 568083 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/568083 I had the exact same thing happen this morning - the update broke Cairo- Dock on my HP Mini 311 with an error saying "No plug-in were found" . I originally had the OpenGL version running. I get the same erro

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work

2010-04-21 Thread J. McDonald
Chase, Thanks for the info and thank you for all of your work troubleshooting this issue. How do I go about applying the patch? -- Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550625 You received this bug notification because you ar

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work

2010-04-21 Thread J. McDonald
So in the interim, should I go ahead and run the patch in comment #56? After that, to rid myself of accidental palm-clicks to the touchpad during typing I can run the patch referred to at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1316361&page=3 and add a delay to touchpad clicks following keyboard

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but neither gsynaptics nor mouse preferences work

2010-04-20 Thread J. McDonald
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[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but neither gsynaptics nor mouse preferences work

2010-04-20 Thread J. McDonald
Wow - I go to work for 10 hours and out for a couple of beers afterwards and in the meantime things have progressed at quite a clip. I tried v2 and ran comment 48 first, then 44. I am uploading the two files. Let me know if there is anything else I can do. ** Attachment added: "dmesg-debugv2.lo

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but neither gsynaptics nor mouse preferences work

2010-04-20 Thread J. McDonald
There seems to have been an earlier problem where psmouse loading prior to synaptics would prevent synaptics from loading: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1035407 A temporary workaround was to blacklist psmouse and load the module after boot from rc.local I checked the loaded modules an

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but neither gsynaptics nor mouse preferences work

2010-04-19 Thread J. McDonald
I while in VT I confirmed what Tuxinvader found. This time around "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" was at /dev/input/event9 and "PS/2 Mouse" was at /dev/input/event8. Like Tuxinvager, I was able to get the trackpad to output but only with $ sudo evtest /dev/input/event8 | tee evtest2.dump evtest2.dum

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but neither gsynaptics nor mouse preferences work

2010-04-19 Thread J. McDonald
I only aspire to be a kernel hacker - but I'll get there someday! I can load up a test kernel and give it a try if that would help with the debugging. Thanks again. -- Alps touchpad is recognized but neither gsynaptics nor mouse preferences work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550625 You recei

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but neither gsynaptics nor mouse preferences work

2010-04-19 Thread J. McDonald
In VT, I did: $ sudo lsinput | less and found "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" at /dev/input/event7 so then I did: $ sudo evtest /dev/input/event7 | tee evtest.dump and wound up with a blinking cursor and no output at all corresponding to input from the trackpad. I had to do a forced shutdown to g

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but neither gsynaptics nor mouse preferences work

2010-04-19 Thread J. McDonald
I just figured it out: sudo lsinput | less enter for each and then q when it reaches the end I'm slowly learning... -- Alps touchpad is recognized but neither gsynaptics nor mouse preferences work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550625 You received this bug notification because you are a membe

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but neither gsynaptics nor mouse preferences work

2010-04-19 Thread J. McDonald
I changed to VT and ran lsinput but the event number lines scrolled by so fast that I couldn't see which one corresponded to the ALPS Glidepoint. Is it OK to do lsinput from a terminal window in Gnome to get the event number and then switch to VT to run the test? -- Alps touchpad is recognized b

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but neither gsynaptics nor mouse preferences work

2010-04-18 Thread J. McDonald
That sounds good. I probably should not have marked the duplication without fully understanding the implications. Thanks for working on this bug. -- Alps touchpad is recognized but neither gsynaptics nor mouse preferences work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550625 You received this bug notifi

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but neither gsynaptics nor mouse preferences work

2010-04-17 Thread J. McDonald
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 527890 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/527890 Could this be a bug in evdev? ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 527890 ALPS touchpad in HP Mini 311 not configurable/recognized as a touchpad -- Alps touchpad is recognized but neither gsyna

[Bug 527890] Re: ALPS touchpad in HP Mini 311 not configurable/recognized as a touchpad

2010-04-17 Thread J. McDonald
On my Mini 311, "PS/2 Mouse" is used instead of "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint". For some reason, the module for "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" is not loading. -- ALPS touchpad in HP Mini 311 not configurable/recognized as a touchpad https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/527890 You received this bug notificati

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but neither gsynaptics nor mouse preferences work

2010-04-17 Thread J. McDonald
Mary - your xinput list props looks similar to mine, but in my case xinput test confirms that it's actually "PS/2 Mouse" that is being used instead of "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint". Are you able to get any output from xinput test "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" when you use the trackpad? -- Alps touchpa

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but neither gsynaptics nor mouse preferences work

2010-04-16 Thread J. McDonald
I checked output from lsmod. It does not show synaptics as loaded. -- Alps touchpad is recognized but neither gsynaptics nor mouse preferences work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550625 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but neither gsynaptics nor mouse preferences work

2010-04-16 Thread J. McDonald
I can confirm that xinput test "PS/2 Mouse" outputs relative movements in kernel 2.6.32-21 and -20 while xinput test "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" shows no response. In kernel 2.6.31-21, xinput test "ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse" outputs relative movements for the ALPS GlidePoint in the HP Mini 311. -

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but neither gsynaptics nor mouse preferences work

2010-04-15 Thread J. McDonald
Just to reiterate, with current kernel versions in Lucid beta 2 over the last couple of days, edge scrolling is disabled, it is selectable from "Mouse Preferences" but selecting or deselecting any option in "Mouse Preferences" has no impact on the trackpads function. I don't use 2-finger scrolling

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but neither gsynaptics nor mouse preferences work

2010-04-15 Thread J. McDonald
Here is the dmesg ** Attachment added: "dmesg log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/44283746/dmesg.0 -- Alps touchpad is recognized but neither gsynaptics nor mouse preferences work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550625 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but neither gsynaptics nor mouse preferences work

2010-04-15 Thread J. McDonald
I did try booting into the older kernel (2.6.32-20). Edge scrolling suddenly reappeared but the trackpad tab disappeared from mouse preferences. My Xorg.0 log is attached. I will also attach dmesg in a few minutes ** Attachment added: "Xorg.0 log file" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/44283541/

[Bug 550625] Re: Alps touchpad is recognized but neither gsynaptics nor mouse preferences work

2010-04-14 Thread J. McDonald
I also have this problem with the ALPS GlidePoint trackpad on my HP Mini 311 on Lucid Beta 2. The buttons and tap to click work but edge scrolling quite working, changes to "Mouse Preferences" have no impact and 2-finger scroll is grayed-out of mouse preferences. This was working until a daily b

[Bug 355344] Re: crtsavres.o is required for kernel module builds

2010-02-02 Thread J. McDonald
It is not fixed in 2.6.28-6-powerpc-smp. I am still new to this. What is crtsavres.o, how can I find it and what directory does Nouveau/dkms need to go into? -- crtsavres.o is required for kernel module builds https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/355344 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 417842] Re: WARNING: at /build/buildd/linux-2.6.31/kernel/power/suspend_test.c:52 suspend_test_finish+0x7c/0x80()

2009-10-27 Thread J. McDonald
Same issue using latest nvidia proprietary driver on HP Mini 311 with Atom 280/nVidia 9400M Ion LE. Seems to work fine afterwards. -- WARNING: at /build/buildd/linux-2.6.31/kernel/power/suspend_test.c:52 suspend_test_finish+0x7c/0x80() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417842 You received this bu

[Bug 460195] Re: WARNING: at /build/buildd/linux-2.6.31/kernel/power/suspend_test.c:52 suspend_test_finish+0x80/0x90()

2009-10-24 Thread J. McDonald
** Attachment added: "AlsaDevices.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34345468/AlsaDevices.txt ** Attachment added: "AplayDevices.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34345469/AplayDevices.txt ** Attachment added: "BootDmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34345470/BootDmesg.txt ** Att

[Bug 460195] [NEW] WARNING: at /build/buildd/linux-2.6.31/kernel/power/suspend_test.c:52 suspend_test_finish+0x80/0x90()

2009-10-24 Thread J. McDonald
Public bug reported: Bluetooth not properly powered off on hibernate on HP Mini 311 netbook ProblemType: KernelOops Annotation: Your system might become unstable now and might need to be restarted. Architecture: i386 ArecordDevices: List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices card 0: NVidia [HD

[Bug 128315] Re: Resume immediately after Suspend due to some WAKE event

2009-10-11 Thread J. McDonald
I can confirm this also occurs in Jaunty with the 2.6.28-15-generic kernel on an HP Mini 311 netbook. This also appears similar to Bug #289252: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/289252 -- Resume immediately after Suspend due to some WAKE event https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/