[Bug 636672] Re: Brightness too low on Dell Vostro

2010-10-13 Thread Tim Wentz
Oh really? I would try fully installing (I tried the LiveUSB, but ran into the brightness problem again) 10.10 final to see if the Nvidia driver works now -- but the brightness is a pivotal usability issue. I guess I could theoretically try installing the driver from the Nvidia website on 10.04 si

[Bug 475518] Re: screwy screen management; black screen soon after init

2010-10-10 Thread Tim Wentz
I think this might *possibly* be 2 different problems. I don't know about awn or the slowness -- but I am also experiencing display problems -- a completely dark display soon after logging in. However, I found out that it wasn't actually *black* but EXTREMELY low brightness: after pumping up my

[Bug 657710] Re: package initramfs-tools 0.98.1ubuntu6 [modified: usr/sbin/update-initramfs] failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2010-10-10 Thread Tim Wentz
** Attachment added: "AptOrdering.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/657710/+attachment/1681798/+files/AptOrdering.txt ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/657710/+attachment/1681799/+files/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "Df.txt" https://bug

[Bug 657710] [NEW] package initramfs-tools 0.98.1ubuntu6 [modified: usr/sbin/update-initramfs] failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2010-10-10 Thread Tim Wentz
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: initramfs-tools Not sure what this cause is related to -- I was using a Live USB session (10.10 x64) and attempted to install the NVIDIA proprietary driver, but the installation failed (a different bug) and then this bug also reported itself. ProblemType

[Bug 657708] Re: package nvidia-current 260.19.06-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2010-10-10 Thread Tim Wentz
** Attachment added: "AptOrdering.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/657708/+attachment/1681774/+files/AptOrdering.txt ** Attachment added: "BootDmesg.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/657708/+attachment/1681775/+files/BootDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: "CurrentDmesg.txt" https:

[Bug 657708] [NEW] package nvidia-current 260.19.06-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2010-10-10 Thread Tim Wentz
Public bug reported: While testing the live USB image to see if my hardware drivers would be supported (manually installing the current NVIDIA drivers fails in 10.04), the installation failed with something about "abortArchive()" -- so it might just be something about the default live user account

[Bug 636672] Re: Brightness too low on Dell Vostro

2010-09-21 Thread Tim Wentz
Also, I'll note that I tried to capture the debug & verbose outputs when manually starting gnome-power-manager, but for some reason, absolutely no output was generated. I guess now that gnome-power-manager is "working", I finally realized that the "dim display when idle for ___" option in the last

[Bug 636672] Re: Brightness too low on Dell Vostro

2010-09-21 Thread Tim Wentz
Hmm, not that any human will ever read this -- but I found that this is caused *somewhere* by gnome-power-manager. By removing it from my start-up applications, my screen starts at full brightness (although I have no control over the brightness with the hardware controls) -- but once I start gnome

[Bug 636672] Re: Brightness too low on Dell Vostro

2010-09-12 Thread Tim Wentz
I forgot a very important detail: The brightness is normal in the BIOS and the initial GDM Login -- but once GNOME session starts, the display dims for the rest of the time the computer is powered on (even after restarting X) Using a different session (such as OpenBox) uses the full brightness, s

[Bug 636672] Re: Brightness too low on Dell Vostro

2010-09-12 Thread Tim Wentz
For comparison, here's the xorg.conf file that is generated by running 'nvidia-xconfig' (while nvidia-current is installed). Of course, X never succeeded in loading because it appears the NVIDIA driver itself fails, but for previous NVIDIA driver versions, the generated file worked. ** Attachment

[Bug 636672] Re: Brightness too low on Dell Vostro

2010-09-12 Thread Tim Wentz
** Attachment added: "xorg.conf" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/636672/+attachment/1575760/+files/xorg.conf ** Attachment added: "AcpiTables.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/636672/+attachment/1575761/+files/AcpiTables.txt ** Attachment added: "AlsaDevices.txt" https://bugs.launc

[Bug 636672] [NEW] Brightness too low on Dell Vostro

2010-09-12 Thread Tim Wentz
Public bug reported: Laptop: Dell Vostro 3400 OS: Ubuntu 10.10 beta, x64 Maverick Meercat Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce 310M (GT218) Driver: nouveau `uname -a`: Linux twentz-vostro 2.6.35-20-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 3 14:55:28 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux When I upgraded to Maverick 10.10 (a