[Bug 1309801] Re: [xubuntu] chromium redraw issue after switching workspaces

2015-07-06 Thread oliford
I see this in chromium-browser, but also in some of the controls in eclipse too. The AccelMethod=UXA seems to fix it. Thanks. Intel HD Graphics (probaly 3000, but not sure), kernel module is i915. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1119257] [NEW] python-pip dependency problem.

2013-02-08 Thread oliford
Public bug reported: I have Ubuntu 11.10 and can't install python pip. I've never used python before so I presume I have a pretty clean python install... oliford@TacticalGrace:/opt/scilab-4.1.2$ sudo apt-get install python-pip Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading

[Bug 1030767] [NEW] Mouse keys page instructs users to click on things.

2012-07-30 Thread oliford
Public bug reported: My mouse broke the other day so I was looking up how to enable the mouse keys. The page describing how to switch then on says: If you have difficulties using a mouse or other pointing device, ... 1) Click the icon at the very right of the top panel ... [

[Bug 1003873] [NEW] Inkscape hangs while trying to access slow mounts.

2012-05-24 Thread oliford
Public bug reported: Inkscape has been hanging at apparently random intervals recently. It shows in system monitor that it is waiting on afs_[something] which is the OpenAFS network file system that is installed on my PC. The AFS is hanging because it's not connected or not authenticated or

[Bug 1003873] Re: Inkscape hangs while trying to access slow mounts.

2012-05-24 Thread oliford
** Also affects: openafs Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1003873 Title: Inkscape hangs while trying to access slow mounts. To manage

[Bug 1003873] Re: Inkscape hangs while trying to access slow mounts.

2012-05-24 Thread oliford
If anyone can tell me how to make the OpenAFS client write an access log , or log anything useful, I might be able to work out what inkscape is trying to read. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1001871] Re: 'DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space' errors using SD cards on Thinkpad X220

2012-05-21 Thread oliford
I've seen it a few times but I can't currently reproduce it after a reboot. It must be caused by something else. Sorry, can you leave it as incomplete until I can reproduce it? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1001871] [NEW] 'DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space' errors using SD cards on Thinkpad X220

2012-05-20 Thread oliford
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 AudioDevicesInUse: USERPID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: oliford1868 F xfce4-volumed oliford1961 F pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC29: oliford1868 F xfce4-volumed CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Card0

[Bug 1001871] Re: 'DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space' errors using SD cards on Thinkpad X220

2012-05-20 Thread oliford
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[Bug 1001871] Re: 'DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space' errors using SD cards on Thinkpad X220

2012-05-20 Thread oliford
I tried the card in a USB card reader in the same laptop and it also failed and gave a SW-IOMMU warning in dmesg (with no kernel stracktrace though). I have now rebooted the machine and both the built-in and USB card readers work perfectly with no warnings. Beforehand, the laptop had been in and

[Bug 486906] Re: ubuntu 9.10 imagej PluginsCompile and Run... does not work

2012-04-03 Thread oliford
Same problem here on 11.10 with the source version of imaegJ. Linking to tools.jar in /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/ext/ fixes it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486906 Title:

[Bug 876195] Re: scilab graphics doesn't work in Oneiric

2012-03-10 Thread oliford
For a slightly better workaround, I copied /usr/lib/mesa/libGL.so.1.2 from a computer with Ubtuntu 11.04 installed (which has the package libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.2-0ubuntu2.1 installed). That gives you the accelerated graphics in scilab too. I put that in scilab's /bin directory because I'm using

[Bug 877491] Re: New version of libgl1-mesa-glx freeze Scilab graphics

2012-03-10 Thread oliford
This appears to be only in mesa somewhere in 7.10.2 ver 8.0.1. I put some notes on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/876195 by mistake. Should that one be marked a duplicate of this or vice versa? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 876195] Re: scilab graphics doesn't work in Oneiric

2012-03-10 Thread oliford
No, I don't think so. It is certainly still there in the current scilab-5.4.0-alpha-1. I think the bug is in mesa 7.11, not scilab. I can personally confirm that it fails for scilab-5.1, 5.2.0, 5.3.3 and 5.4.0-alpha1 with mesa-7.11 and that all of those work with mesa-7.10. Apparently they work

[Bug 876195] Re: scilab graphics doesn't work in Oneiric

2012-03-10 Thread oliford
Fair enough. Does that mean we can expect some serious graphics improvements between 5.4.0alpha and the beta? I've a very nice new shiny laptop, but with an intel card, scilab 5 is always a pain. I'm still using scilab-4.1.2 for most things. -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 876195] Re: scilab graphics doesn't work in Oneiric

2012-03-09 Thread oliford
Since it was originally posted here @#13, the other page now has a better workaround that uses libgl1-mesa-swx11 only for scilab: http://www.equalis.com/forums/permalink.asp?id=337146 The most recent post on there (http://www.equalis.com/forums/permalink.asp?id=371690) suggests that the problem

[Bug 594140] Re: some sound volumes too low to hear

2011-01-24 Thread oliford
I have what I believe is a related problem in Maverick xubuntu. My incoming call alert cannot be heard while everything else can. I think this is because skype uses some system-wide alert sound system to play the sound, which you can apparently change in the Ubuntu alert sound settings

[Bug 594248] Re: Installed a USB WiFi device dmesg reported: rtl819xU:request firmware fail!

2010-11-03 Thread oliford
More for the record... From linux 2.6.36-rc4, Realtek's own r8712u has been cleaned up and put in staging. Backported to my 2.6.32-25 this works fine for my rtl8192su, and the firmware is built in. From their TODO file, the kernel people plan to put that into the proper firmware system which

[Bug 594248] Re: Installed a USB WiFi device dmesg reported: rtl819xU:request firmware fail!

2010-11-02 Thread oliford
I have a RTL8191SU on Ubuntu 10.03 (lucid) 64-bit. The ~80kB RTL8192SE firmware loads and I can scan but association does not work. The ~67kB RTL8192SU firmware from svn.debian... /firmware-nonfree/... lets me connect and it mostly works. The latter does however seem to stop the connection

[Bug 445009] Re: Eclipse SIGSEGVs in libpango

2010-03-22 Thread oliford
. Thanks everyone, oliford -- Eclipse SIGSEGVs in libpango https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445009 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

[Bug 445009] Re: Eclipse SIGSEGVs in libpango

2010-03-09 Thread oliford
on the laptop so will try lucid and eclipse again whenever any new updates or ideas get mentioned on here. Thanks for your efforts, oliford -- Eclipse SIGSEGVs in libpango https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445009 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 241063] Re: X Forwarding Much Slower on Hardy than Gutsy (ssh and telnet)

2010-03-05 Thread oliford
This bug has finally gone away. It definately works in lucid (fortunately, because downgrading libx11 causes too many other problems). I think it works fine in karmic too. -- X Forwarding Much Slower on Hardy than Gutsy (ssh and telnet) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/241063 You received this

[Bug 445009] Re: Eclipse SIGSEGVs in libpango

2010-02-05 Thread oliford
Log for libpango crash on Subclipse update. This was using the eclipse packages from the main lucid repository. $ apt-cache policy eclipse-platform eclipse-platform: Installed: 3.5.1+repack~3-0ubuntu2 Candidate: 3.5.1+repack~3-0ubuntu2 Version table: *** 3.5.1+repack~3-0ubuntu2 0

[Bug 445009] Re: Eclipse SIGSEGVs in libpango

2010-02-05 Thread oliford
Ok, I decided it would be best to go for the full: rm -r ~/.eclipse sudo apt-get --purge remove eclipse eclipse-platform eclipse-platform-data eclipse-... sudo apt-get autoremove (That also got rid of libswt-gtk-3.5-java, which never came back) sudo apt-get install eclipse Starting eclipse at

[Bug 445009] Re: Eclipse SIGSEGVs in libpango

2010-02-05 Thread oliford
Just to rule one more thing out... You might notice my options also include a -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni. It is there so subclipse can find libjavahl. That directory also contained some libswt-... stuff so I tried copying the libjavahl to elsewhere and changing the option to that dir

[Bug 445009] Re: Eclipse SIGSEGVs in libpango

2010-01-31 Thread oliford
This version has not fixed the issue for me. I installed with dpkg all of eclipse-*_3.5.1+repack~3-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb from here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/eclipse/3.5.1+repack~3-0ubuntu2. I had to temporarily shift my source.list to the lucid repo (in karmic) to allow all the

[Bug 445009] Re: Eclipse SIGSEGVs in libpango

2010-01-31 Thread oliford
This is more irratic now. After a few times restarting eclipse and attempting subclipse update. - Twice I've had libpango crash as before. - Three times it just gives lots of NullPointerException under org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.fixedSizeAllocateProc(Display.java:1281). - Three times

[Bug 445009] Re: Eclipse SIGSEGVs in libpango

2010-01-19 Thread oliford
The fix suggested in #3 of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-6/+bug/500776, (marked as a duplicate of this) does not help for me. It says that the pango crash is due to a bug in libglib2.0-0 version 2.22.3-0ubuntu1 and suggests downgrading it to 2.22.2-0ubuntu1. The libpango

[Bug 445009] Re: Eclipse SIGSEGVs in libpango

2010-01-08 Thread oliford
I am also seeing this crash in Xubuntu 9.10 Karmic on my laptop (amd64 HP nc6320 with intel 945GM graphics) but not on my desktop (also amd64 but with nVidia 9500GT graphics). Other than the graphics drivers, the two systems are setup with the same software. I have installed eclipse from the apt

[Bug 294092] Re: tg3 transmit timeout in Intrepid

2010-01-04 Thread oliford
This bug is still present in the Karmic initial kernel at 2.6.31-17. For the year since I reported this bug I've been sticking with the 2.6.24-6 kernel that works. I've now upgraded to Karmic which doesn't work with 2.6.24. A quick google now shows

[Bug 294092] Re: tg3 transmit timeout in Intrepid

2010-01-04 Thread oliford
Ok, I got a few things wrong with that last message... It looks like Lucid will be 2.6.32, so won't include the latest mainline tg3 patches that the bugzilla.kernel.org report claims fixes it. The 2.6.33-rc1 package from the kernel-ppa link boots under karmic. It does still stop transmitting but

[Bug 241063] Re: X Forwarding Much Slower on Hardy than Gutsy (ssh and telnet)

2009-01-23 Thread oliford
I've found a workaround for this myself by simply dropping back to the gutsy X11 client library (/usr/lib/libX11.so.6). Just get a copy of that library from gutsy and put it on your (in my case intrepid) machine under a different directory. Then put that directory in the library path eg: mkdir

[Bug 294092] [NEW] tg3 transmit timeout in Intrepid

2008-11-05 Thread oliford
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic I have recently installed Xubuntu Intrepid Ibex 8.10 x64 (fresh install) and the ethernet driver stops working periodically and NETDEV emits a warning to dmesg. I've been using Xubuntu on the machine through Fiesty, Gutsy and

[Bug 241063] Re: X Forwarding Much Slower on Hardy than Gutsy (ssh and telnet)

2008-10-31 Thread oliford
This bug is still present in Intrepid. I had hoped the new version of X would have sorted it out, but no. This was both connecting into Interpid from Hardy and vice versa. -- X Forwarding Much Slower on Hardy than Gutsy (ssh and telnet) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/241063 You received this

[Bug 241063] Re: X Forwarding Much Slower on Hardy than Gutsy (ssh and telnet)

2008-06-25 Thread oliford
I've recently upgraded to hardy and am also seeing this. It also occurs if you enable TCP access to the xserver, set DISPLAY on another machine and use the hardy X-server directly. -- X Forwarding Much Slower on Hardy than Gutsy (ssh and telnet) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/241063 You

[Bug 241063] Re: X Forwarding Much Slower on Hardy than Gutsy (ssh and telnet)

2008-06-25 Thread oliford
To clarify that a bit: Running a program on a Gutsy machine displaying on an open Hardy X-Server is fast. Running a program on a Hardy machine displaying on an open Gutsy X-Server is slow. Running a program on a Hardy machine displaying on an open Hardy X-Server is slow. (We only have 1 gutsy