[Bug 659872] Re: Aliases in /etc/hosts overwritten

2013-08-16 Thread mjpelmear
Just ran into this today after upgrading from 10.04 to 13.04. What is the deal here? This is a major issue affecting web developers (and others). I don't see why network-manager should be overwriting changes I make in /etc/hosts. (I could understand a block that it maintains within the file.) Wha

[Bug 901547] Re: xmlcopyeditor does not start - needs a no-change rebuild in both Precise and Quantal

2013-07-30 Thread mjpelmear
I am experiencing this problem on 13.04/Raring 64-bit. Building the package as suggested in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xmlcopyeditor/+bug/901547/comments/12 makes no difference for me. matt@host:~/$ gdb xmlcopyeditor GNU gdb (GDB) 7.5.91.20130417-cvs-ubuntu ... This GDB was config

[Bug 146859] Re: No dri (and therefore no compiz) for virtual screen greater than 2048x2048

2009-06-08 Thread mjpelmear
Henri Cook: I had the same "jumpy" issue when upgrading to Jaunty. Fixed it using a solution from further up in comments-- adding Option "AccelMethod" "xaa" to my xorg.conf I'm not sure what "xaa" does (I'll do some reading later today, 'cause I'm curious now) but it significantly improved my us