[Bug 1791908] Re: uvcvideo: Failed to query (GET_INFO) UVC control 4 on unit 2: -32 (exp. 1).

2018-12-30 Thread KEYofR
Problem is intermittent for me. When I posted my previous comment, I had just done a fresh boot from power-off (I never use hibernate or suspend, and don't even have any swap partition or swap file configured), and had gotten the error on that boot, and guvcvideo didn't work. I just did 4 more

[Bug 1791908] Re: uvcvideo: Failed to query (GET_INFO) UVC control 4 on unit 2: -32 (exp. 1).

2018-12-30 Thread KEYofR
I get this too on a 5th gen Lenovo X1 Carbon and mainline kernel. 4.20.0-042000rc7-generic at he moment, but it's been happening for some time not just this exact kernel. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1675496] Re: Scrollbars are tiny in Firefox (since FF 52)

2018-04-18 Thread KEYofR
I am seeing the same scrollbars in other apps but not all other apps. I get the same small scrollbars in Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, and Evince, as a few examples. There are others. Meanwhile at the same time, other apps respect the desktop theme and get a different scrollbar. Gimp,

[Bug 767040] Re: Firefox doesn't use overlay scrollbars

2018-04-10 Thread KEYofR
The same too-small scrollbars are in Mozilla Thunderbird too. I don't know how/why this is not considered a bug or at least a regression. Thunderbird and Firefox used to be usable, and now they are both more difficult to use. Other apps on the same system/desktop don't have the problem. -- You

[Bug 1683997] Re: Firefox scrollbars are too narrow and difficult to use in Zesty

2018-02-28 Thread KEYofR
Yes! You are right it's Thunderbird too. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1683997 Title: Firefox scrollbars are too narrow and difficult to use in Zesty To manage notifications about

[Bug 1652822] Re: grub efi doesn't install fs module needed to access root

2018-02-28 Thread KEYofR
Same here. I had to write myself a google drive doc that I could consult every time a the grub-efi package was updated and broke my boot again. In addition to the steps explained previously, I also copy my working manually edited grub.cfg to emergency.cfg, so that every time I get a failed boot

[Bug 1729389] Re: [Intel 8260/8265] Bluetooth peripherals work for a few seconds, then don't react

2018-02-14 Thread KEYofR
I have this on numerous 4.13 and 4.14 kernels from synaptic (17.10 repos) and ubuntu-mainline ppa. IE today: 4.14.17-041417-generic #201802031230 SMP Sat Feb 3 17:31:50 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux This is on a 5th get lenovo x1 carbon using the built-in bluetooth and a few

[Bug 1683997] Re: Firefox scrollbars are too narrow and difficult to use in Zesty

2018-01-03 Thread KEYofR
Me too. It's extremely difficult to get into the scrollbar using my laptops touch pad. Even though I go slow and creep forward, it always either stops before or shoots beyond. A good mouse might not be so bad, but it's impossible with most touch pads, *especially* on high dpi display. Both of

[Bug 1717090] Re: powertop tries to execute hardcoded /usr/sbin/hciconfig

2017-12-19 Thread KEYofR
This goes back to at least 2014. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=772571 Except it sounds like maybe it shouldn't be using hciconfig at all for bt for other reasons: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-bluetooth/msg64021.html So, bluetoothctl? btmgmt? Maybe it's just as well

[Bug 567226] Re: Black Border around Splash Image

2014-01-03 Thread KEYofR
** Tags added: raring saucy -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/567226 Title: Black Border around Splash Image To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 913273] Re: PCManFM consumes 90% CPU

2013-05-24 Thread KEYofR
Well lubuntu raring uses lightdm not lxdm, so assuming saucy does too, at least that doesn't conflict with the idea that maybe lxdm was doing or failing to do something. That's really all I changed was installing slim, selecting it as default display manager, uninstall lxdm, reboot. -- You

[Bug 913273] Re: PCManFM consumes 90% CPU

2013-05-23 Thread KEYofR
Same here, 98/99% cpu. Only with --desktop. Running pcmanfm with no arguments to get the ui is ok. I tried removing ~/.config/pcmanfm to let it re-create from scratch but it didn't help. strace attached (3 seconds then ctrl-c) ** Attachment added: strace -o pcmanfm-desktop-strace.txt pcmanfm

[Bug 913273] Re: PCManFM consumes 90% CPU

2013-05-23 Thread KEYofR
Forgot to say this is pcmanfm 1.1.0-0ubuntu2 from Raring. Precise and Quantal were ok. bkw@noexcuse:~$ apt-cache policy pcmanfm pcmanfm: Installed: 1.1.0-0ubuntu2 Candidate: 1.1.0-0ubuntu2 Version table: *** 1.1.0-0ubuntu2 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/universe

[Bug 913273] Re: PCManFM consumes 90% CPU

2013-05-23 Thread KEYofR
Correction. I just downgraded pcmanfm to 1.0.1-0ubuntu1 from Quantal (rest of machine is still Raring) and it still behaves the same. Trying Precise next. Note this install is Raring but updated from Bodhi Linux 2.0 to Precise to Quantal to Raring. There are still Bodhi packages and configs

[Bug 913273] Re: PCManFM consumes 90% CPU

2013-05-23 Thread KEYofR
Confirmed, downgrading to 0.9.10-0ubuntu2 from Precise works ok. No other changes (to configs, etc) other than the fact that forcing that version of pcmanfm pulled in some other older versions of other packages. root@noexcuse:~# apt-cache policy pcmanfm pcmanfm: Installed: 1.0.1-0ubuntu1

[Bug 913273] Re: PCManFM consumes 90% CPU

2013-05-23 Thread KEYofR
Bear with me through what seems OT... Well I don't know how this can help, but, the same dist-upgrade from Quantal to Raring also broke lxdm or lxsession for me. lxdm would show the greeter and accept the login info, but then would not launch lxsession, or, maybe it started lxsession but

[Bug 1065303] [NEW] mount does not display all mounted filesystems, including /

2012-10-10 Thread KEYofR
Public bug reported: man mount says: [CODE] mount [-l] [-t type] lists all mounted filesystems (of type type). The option -l adds the labels in this listing. [/CODE] Yet mount and mount -l do not show my root filesystem / Which of course is mounted. df, df -h, df -ah don't show it either.

[Bug 338733] Re: Unable to adjust of brightness on Tabletkiosk Sahara TouchIT-213 Tablet PC

2012-10-02 Thread KEYofR
Same here, gma500, kernels 3.2.0, 3.5.0, and 3.6.0 though I think it's more a xorg problem than kernel. For me these two things work: echo 75 /sys/class/backlight/psb-bl/brightness and xrandr --output LVDS-0 --set backlight 75 But xbacklight does not, and enlightenment 17's backlight module

[Bug 1060431] [NEW] xbacklight doesn't do anything, not even error message.

2012-10-02 Thread KEYofR
Public bug reported: gma500, kernels 3.2.0, 3.5.0, and 3.6.0 Currently: bkw@noexcuse:~$ uname -a Linux noexcuse 3.6.0-030600-generic #201209302035 SMP Mon Oct 1 00:43:10 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux bkw@noexcuse:~$ lsmod |grep gma gma500_gfx198198 2 drm_kms_helper

[Bug 1054298] Re: xbacklight doesn't work, but xrandr does and so does /sys/class/backlight

2012-09-27 Thread KEYofR
/sys/class/backlight/psb-bl/brightness works fine. The xrandr program also works fine. This script, which uses either of those, works fine. http://code.google.com/p/bltool/ Only xbacklight doesn't, and at least some other things, such as the backlight module in enlightenment 17. -- You

[Bug 615769] Re: fonts should be installed to /boot/grub

2012-09-26 Thread KEYofR
Previously the best work-around I found was creating a file /boot/grub/custom.cfg with this in it: [CODE] # Manually re-load gfxterm # update-grub generates a grub.cfg that thinks grub can see the SD card reader # (where / lives) at boot time to get the font for gfxterm from /usr/share/... # So

[Bug 1054298] [NEW] xbacklight doesn't work, but xrandr does and so does /sys/class/backlight

2012-09-21 Thread KEYofR
Public bug reported: Sony Vaio P Ubuntu Precise and Quantal kernel 3.5.0 gma500_gfx kernel driver modesetting xorg driver Assume the current quantal quantal-proposed versions of everything. xbacklight doesn't work. No backlight change, and no output from the program. xbacklight and xbacklight

[Bug 567226] Re: Black Border around Splash Image

2012-09-03 Thread KEYofR
This admittedly minor annoyance still exists in quantal. The fix is trivial. Can we please get line 37 in grub2-1.99/grub-core/term/gfxterm.c changed from #define DEFAULT_BORDER_WIDTH 10 to #define DEFAULT_BORDER_WIDTH 0 That's it. Please? It's been a long time already. -- You received

[Bug 567226] Re: Black Border around Splash Image

2012-09-03 Thread KEYofR
** Tags added: maverick natty oneiric quantal ** Tags removed: amd64 apport-bug -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/567226 Title: Black Border around Splash Image To manage

[Bug 567226] Re: Black Border around Splash Image

2012-09-03 Thread KEYofR
** Tags added: precise -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/567226 Title: Black Border around Splash Image To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 615769] Re: fonts should be installed to /boot/grub

2012-08-31 Thread KEYofR
Ubuntu 12.04 with grub 1.99-21ubuntu3.1 Same problem here but not because of btrfs or any other filesystem support. In my case it's because / lives on a built-in sdcard reader in a Sony Vaio P netbook. The card reader is not bootable, has no bios support, and at boot time grub has no driver

[Bug 899244] Re: GMA500 psb_gfx

2012-04-17 Thread KEYofR
[quote]The backlight works WITHOUT the poulsbo driver. well works with a script to manage brightness as my function keys do not always work, even with the kernel options acpi_backlight=vendor and acpi_osi=Linux.[/quote] How does this work exactly? I have precise beta and kernel

[Bug 567226] Re: Black Border around Splash Image

2012-04-10 Thread KEYofR
It works. wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-1.99.tar.gz tar xvzf grub-1.99.tar.gz cd grub-1.99 vi grub-core/term/gfxterm.c change this line: #define DEFAULT_BORDER_WIDTH 10 to this: #define DEFAULT_BORDER_WIDTH 0 ./configure make sudo mv /boot/grub/gfxterm.mod

[Bug 567226] Re: Black Border around Splash Image

2012-04-10 Thread KEYofR
gfxterm.mod from grub 1.99 compiled on Precise i386 per above directions. I would rename the old gfxterm.mod to gfxterm_old.mod so that if it doesn't work on your machine for some reason, you can manually say rmmod gfxterm insmod gfxterm_old in the grub recovery shell. You can also always

[Bug 567226] Re: Black Border around Splash Image

2012-04-10 Thread KEYofR
Correction (not harmful) to the build/install directions. After compile the new gfxterm.mod is found in the grub-core directory not in the grub-1.99 top level directory. So the cp command to install is: sudo cp grub-core/gfxterm.mod /boot/grub/gfxterm.mod -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 567226] Re: Black Border around Splash Image

2012-03-30 Thread KEYofR
Looks like it might be caused by DEFAULT_BORDER_WIDTH in grub- core/term/gfxterm.c http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/grub/branches/release_1_99/annotate/head :/grub-core/term/gfxterm.c But I still don't see any way to change it other than editing that #define and recompiling. Trying that now...

[Bug 567226] Re: Black Border around Splash Image

2012-03-29 Thread KEYofR
Happens to me too. Oneiric, Sony Vaio P, 1600x768 image. I can tell from the details of the image that it is NOT being scaled, it is being cropped. It would be impossible to detect such a small amount of scaling by eye with that many pixels on that small of a screen, but there are detailed

[Bug 405294] Re: a2dp skips terribly

2012-03-22 Thread KEYofR
Same problem. OS: oneiric, 3.0.0-17 System: Sony VGN-P530H bluetooth: Internal, usb-connected, Bus 003 Device 002: ID 044e:3017 Alps Electric Co., Ltd BCM2046 Bluetooth Device Receiver: Sony HWS-BTA2W 90% idle cpu, idle disk, pandora streaming in over wifi, using pianobar commandline

[Bug 201711] Re: Apple fn key behavior isn't consistent with what's expected

2010-07-08 Thread KEYofR
Agreed. The logic behind making the new default is based on assumptions which are surely wrong. The logic behind making this default, whether it's terrible or sensible, take place in the kernel instead of in X or the desktop environment is inexplicable. The logic behind requiring the user to

[Bug 435618] Re: [karmic] n-m overwrites /etc/resolv.conf even when NICs are configured in /etc/network/interfaces

2009-11-02 Thread KEYofR
Sounds like the issue is known and acknowledged enough that further proof of it's existence isn't needed but just for the record the same thing happens to me. Desktop machine in my case which I don't believe was originally using nm. It definitely always had a static ip, (I occasionally use it to

[Bug 201887] Re: Slim USB Apple Keyboard not working correctly when pressing the numlock key

2009-03-16 Thread KEYofR
I updated the Fn / F-keys directions here for Jaunty: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AppleKeyboard It's essentially the same directions but the names of things changed in Jaunty. change: modprobe.d/* files should be *.conf now as later anything not *.conf will be ignored, though for now it

[Bug 61235] Re: USB mass storage stops working after a while

2007-08-21 Thread KEYofR
Windows does many things in brute force inelegant ways in order to attain that superiority. I would rather my software be efficient and I would rather know when my hardware (or network, or any number of configurations) has a problem and get it fixed. It's a somewhat religeous or philosophical

[Bug 61235] Re: USB mass storage stops working after a while

2007-08-14 Thread KEYofR
Well I've been poking at this a bit and have learned a few things. I don't think the code in the fix_usb_hd.sh above is quite right. using expr to get character 3 out of argv1 which was supplied via the udev rule code %k and then using that value as part of the path to a spot under /sys for

[Bug 61235] Re: USB mass storage stops working after a while

2007-08-13 Thread KEYofR
I think I found another possible fix, Totally simple and userspace too. I have a Seagate FreeAgent 500gb and I beleive I am having the drive turns off problem and not the can't handle much traffic problem. BTW it seems to be common to all linux not just ubuntu. I have this problem on suse 10.2.

[Bug 61235] Re: USB mass storage stops working after a while

2007-08-13 Thread KEYofR
Awsome thanks for the more specific udev rule. That's ideal since it would apply to any FreeAgentDesktop, which obviously they all have the same problem. Also, by now I think I can say the sdparm fix works. Without rebooting I did the disconnect/reconnect I mentioned, then manually did the