The Python GeoIP library only gives country-level granularity
unless you pay for the full database, which is not particularly
useful here. http://blogama.org/node/58 claims to provide
more accurate data, but is an 11MB zip file ...
I apologise if I missed the point in your comment, but I
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: ubiquity
The timezone selection on the installer always defaults to New York.
If a network has been detected, a geo-ip lookup would make for a much
nicer default.
** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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I encountered this problem with a Apple Mac Mini running 7.04 Feisty.
I had never inserted a DVD under OSX, then wiped the entire disk and
installed Ubuntu. The region code was never set on the drive, and any
attempt to play a dvd caused the application to silently bail out with
no errors.
I
ahem ... any gnome media player would bail out with no errors
running vlc from the command line showed the Error cracking CSS key
... error I mention above.
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Something needs to set the region code on new DVD drives
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/16722
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feisty beta - simply hibernating (to memory) and waking up again appears
to fix this, at list the two times it has happened.
it doesn't appear to happen every time either.
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After hibernate, sound doesn't work
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25896
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Confirmed, Feisty Beta, Kubuntu, 2.6.20-12.
As requested earlier in this bug report:
lspci -vv lspci_vv.txt
lspci -vvn lspci_vvn.txt
dmidecode dmidecode.txt
And from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebuggingSoundProblems
uname -a uname.txt
tail -2 /proc/asound/oss/sndstat
