[Bug 1018015] Re: Regression: the update including linux-image-3.2.0-26-generic breaks suspend on Dell m4300

2014-03-08 Thread selkovjr
The issue came and went multiple times. I was able to avoid it for several months by running with everything current under funtoo with a 3.10 kernel. When an update broke it again (around Dec 2013), I switched back to 12.04 in the form of Elementary OS Luna. Everything has been working fine since t

[Bug 1197601] Re: [nVidia NVS 5200M] [10de:0dfc] Cannot resume from suspend with nouveau driver

2013-07-21 Thread selkovjr
Same problem with Quadro FX360M. None of nvidia drivers distributed with 13.04 works (black screen on start-up; no errors). Everything worked fine in 12.10. Nouveau behaves exactly as Po-Hsu Lin described. Sometimes it crashes with this message: nouveau E[ PGRAPH][:01:00.0] ILLEGAL_MTHD ILL

[Bug 851964] Re: Can't access minimized window after Unity restarts

2012-11-28 Thread selkovjr
In fact, this happens whenever compiz crashes and needs to be rplaced. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/851964 Title: Can't access minimized window after Unity restarts To manage notif

[Bug 794835] Re: Wishlist: Alt-F2 integration with Bash/readline/.bash_history

2012-08-15 Thread selkovjr
And it should place a highlight on the first of possibly many altertatives and let me launch it by pressing enter. For example, I should be able to launch google-chrome by simply typing goo, even though there is google-earth further down the list. Also, I should be able to move selection using arr

[Bug 857627] Re: Unity Switcher highlight does not stand out enough

2012-08-11 Thread selkovjr
Can't agree more. The difference in colour and lightness added by the highlight is well within the range of variation among a typical set of icons displayed. A mental effort, or otherwise unnecessary switching, is required to detect the higlight. That reduces switching speed and is uncomfortable.

[Bug 1020027] Re: Alt-backtick should leave current window at the top of the stack *while* switching

2012-08-07 Thread selkovjr
Related, if not the same: a quick press-and-release of alt-backtick (it's alt-$ on a Programmer Dvorak keyboard) works as intended, although without a visual feedback. It switches to the next window in the stack. But if the Alt key is not released long enough to activate the switcher window, the fo

[Bug 1018015] Re: Regression: the update including linux-image-3.2.0-26-generic breaks suspend on Dell m4300

2012-08-07 Thread selkovjr
Last night's update fixed it. Still no idea what it was, but here's the list of packages that have been updated. The usual suspects are: compiz:amd64 (0.9.7.8-0ubuntu1.2, 0.9.7.8-0ubuntu1.3) compiz-core:amd64 (0.9.7.8-0ubuntu1.2, 0.9.7.8-0ubuntu1.3) compiz-gnome:amd64 (0.9.7.8-0ubuntu1.2, 0.9.7.8-

[Bug 1018015] Re: Regression: the update including linux-image-3.2.0-26-generic breaks suspend on Dell m4300

2012-07-30 Thread selkovjr
A couple kernel updates later, the kernel still panics on resume, but I have made a couple new observations. It is not nvidia. I have removed the proprietary driver and still could not resume, although the symptom was slightly different: with the nvidia module installed, the panic is indicated by

[Bug 1018015] Re: Regression: the update including linux-image-3.2.0-26-generic breaks suspend on Dell m4300

2012-07-17 Thread selkovjr
Still not sure which package is affected; possibly more than one. Another update just came in; the kernel is now linux- image-3.2.0-27-generic In the meantime, the following things happened before the last update: 1. Faled to shut down once. Everything seemed to be normal, the usual shutdown mess

[Bug 1018015] Re: Regression: the update including linux-image-3.2.0-26-generic breaks suspend on Dell m4300

2012-06-26 Thread selkovjr
** Attachment added: "logs.tgz" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1018015/+attachment/3204838/+files/logs.tgz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1018015 Title: Regression: the update inc

[Bug 1018015] [NEW] Regression: the update including linux-image-3.2.0-26-generic breaks suspend on Dell m4300

2012-06-26 Thread selkovjr
Public bug reported: I am not sure which package is at fault; I chose pm-utils just to prime the reporting process. Background: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Dell Precision M4300 NVIDIA Corporation G86M [Quadro FX 360M] (rev a1) Everything worked fine until an auto-update a few days ago wiped out the propri

[Bug 872652] Re: screensaver backlight stuck off, system looks hung

2012-05-07 Thread selkovjr
Me too. I have not seen this problem since 9.10, I believe; 12.04 brought it back (or something like it). Linux janus 3.2.0-24-generic #38-Ubuntu SMP Tue May 1 16:18:50 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux P: /devices/virtual/dmi/id E: DEVPATH=/devices/virtual/dmi/id E: MODALIAS=dmi:bv

[Bug 774059] Re: Scale by Window group not working

2011-12-09 Thread selkovjr
I have a variation of this problem; not sure if it is related to this discussion or not. It has worked for me without any tricks, for a long time (since 11.10 was released), but it only allows me to group the windows that belong to a single process. I typically have a couple dozen xterm windows run

[Bug 659493] Re: disproportionate toolbars in ubuntu 10.10

2011-08-24 Thread selkovjr
Changing named_nodelay from 0 to 1 in iconrender fixes it -- many thanks to Kaitzu for figuring that out. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/659493 Title: disproportionate toolbars in ubu

[Bug 659493] Re: disproportionate toolbars in ubuntu 10.10

2011-08-24 Thread selkovjr
This is still a problem in Natty. The effect is exactly the same as in the screenshot by jezdonline, and I am running Gnome/Mac4Lin. I guess one could suspect Mac4Lin as a source of the problem, but it makes Inkscape stand out from innumerable other apps that show no ill effects of any kind in thi

Re: [Bug 307888] Re: keyboard layout is ignored while composing Ctrl-modified keys

2010-10-01 Thread selkovjr
Hi Suraj, Thank you for fixing this, and for the workaround, too. Regards, --Gene -- keyboard layout is ignored while composing Ctrl-modified keys https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/307888 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 504467] Re: hot corners are blocked by overlapping windows

2010-01-24 Thread selkovjr
And now it does it again. Something odd happened to gnome panel: it reshuffled all applets in random order, all on its own accord. I fixed that and locked it, but now it blocks the hot corners. If I disable the panel's "expand" option and let it shrink to the center, everything works as it should.

[Bug 504467] Re: hot corners are blocked by overlapping windows

2010-01-07 Thread selkovjr
Not sure whether the pile of data attached to the original report has anything useful in it, but moments after I sent it, my Xorg crashed on an attempt to use gnome-volume-control: gnome-volume-control: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0. The problem I have just repo

[Bug 504467] Re: hot corners are blocked by overlapping windows

2010-01-07 Thread selkovjr
** Attachment added: "BootDmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37586612/BootDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: "CurrentDmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37586613/CurrentDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37586614/Dependencies.txt ** A

[Bug 504467] [NEW] hot corners are blocked by overlapping windows

2010-01-07 Thread selkovjr
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: compiz A couple weeks following the upgrade to Karmic (although I am not sure it was the cause, as I had not tried this immediately prior to that), I noticed that the plugins configured to be activated in the hot corners stopped responding. Now I see tha

[Bug 503098] Re: external entities are not rendered after upgarde to karmic

2010-01-04 Thread selkovjr
** Attachment added: "a sample SVG file that is not rendered (MCFN0010+class.svg). The second file is the external entity" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37420269/external-entity-sample.tgz ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37420270/Dependencies.txt ** A

[Bug 503098] [NEW] external entities are not rendered after upgarde to karmic

2010-01-04 Thread selkovjr
Public bug reported: This worked fine in the earlier version (can't name which one, since I haven't touched it for 2 months; can just say that in the end of October, when I last used it, all my binaries were current with Jaunty). Now, after the upgrade to karmic, various tools using the library b

[Bug 364319] Re: pstoedit cannot convert to SVG any more

2009-10-06 Thread selkovjr
I get this error while trying to build pstoedit with dpkg-buildpackage: c++ -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-O1 -shared -nostdlib /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.3.3/../../../../lib/crti.o /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.3.3/crtbeginS.o .libs/dynload.o .libs/callgs.o .libs/lexyy.o .libs/miscutil.o .libs/cbstr

Re: [Bug 310736] Re: keyboard layout is ignored by some compiz-related modules in intrepid

2009-10-06 Thread selkovjr
Yes, I am running Jaunty with all current updates, and the problem is gone. I cannot tell when it was fixed, or where, because I avoided the terminal screenlet for a while, but now it works again. Thanks, --Gene On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:47:55 - Travis Watkins wrote: > > We're closing thi

[Bug 379517] Re: touchpad mouse stutters/stops on slow movement

2009-08-27 Thread selkovjr
I am sorry -- I did read the previous posts but overlooked the answer to my question. Reverting to 0.99.3-2ubuntu4 fixed it, but, as merc mentioned on 2009-05-23, it is probably still broken to a lesser extent. Now I do recall that had I frequent problems landing a pasted selection on a pixel, but

[Bug 379517] Re: touchpad mouse stutters/stops on slow movement

2009-08-27 Thread selkovjr
I would like to confirm the bug, and provide additional data. My definition of "slow": when I move my finger at 1 mm/s the cursor does not move *at all*. Same when I roll the tip of my finger to drive the cursor where I need it to be (that's what I usually do when I need single-pixel precision).

[Bug 417414] Re: incorrect text positioning in some screenlets

2009-08-22 Thread selkovjr
** Attachment added: "Screenshot containing images of the Diskusage and MyIP screenlets" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30670357/Screenshot-DiskusageScreenlet.py.png -- incorrect text positioning in some screenlets https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417414 You received this bug notification beca

[Bug 417414] [NEW] incorrect text positioning in some screenlets

2009-08-22 Thread selkovjr
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: screenlets The change has occurred several months ago (can't remember when; the same ubuntu version, but many automatic updates ago). I noticed it first in MyIP address screenlet (and it didn't bother me, so I didn't bother reporting it), but now I see it

Re: [Bug 269904] Re: Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid

2009-04-18 Thread selkovjr
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Rocko wrote: > @selkovjr: maybe some of the problems are not compiz-related? I found > the Jaunty beta kernel to be very unstable and I got a lot of kernel > panics that locked the system (see bug #348731), I would like to think so, but I'm not getting too many

Re: [Bug 269904] Re: Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid

2009-04-18 Thread selkovjr
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Bryce Harrington wrote: > In Jaunty (9.04), we have just updated to the latest > nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 package from nVidia, version 180.44. > > This package provides fixes for a large number of bugs, and we need your > assistance in testing if it fixes the issue you repor

Re: [Bug 269904] Re: Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid

2009-04-08 Thread selkovjr
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Anders Kaseorg wrote: > Here is a debdiff for compiz-fusion-plugins-main to add that workaround. > The new package is available in my PPA: > https://launchpad.net/~anders-kaseorg/+archive/ppa Thanks Anders, I didn't realize another assault on this bug was taking place on t

[Bug 269904] Re: Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid

2009-04-03 Thread selkovjr
I was about to go back to 177 and report failure with 180.11 when I noticed the announcements that 180.44 is offered for testing. Which is what's happening presently. It is certainly too early for making conclusions, but I noticed one thing immediately: it is still buggy, perhaps in the same way 18

Re: [Bug 269904] Re: Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid

2009-02-20 Thread selkovjr
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Jan Krieg wrote: > Actually, there _is_ a workaround which works all the time at the cost > of a bit cpu time (at least for me). Just go to the compiz settings > manager (ccsm). Activate the 'draw fire' plugin It was of no help to me with any settings. The only thing that r

[Bug 269904] Re: Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid

2008-12-31 Thread selkovjr
That suspend-wakeup problem is a segfault. I have a suspicion that the server is distributed with an incompatible kernel module. I just made the 177 version do the same, when I installed it without properly cleaning up the 180. I thought the ubuntu package would simply put the right things in all t

[Bug 269904] Re: Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid

2008-12-31 Thread selkovjr
I have done both things -- installed 180.18 and disabled loose binding. Looks like the same bug has been kicked around from one spot to another. I can now scroll in firefox without mangling the readable text. The problem I have now is with table cell backgrounds in firefox (see attached screensho

[Bug 310736] [NEW] keyboard layout is ignored by some compiz-related modules in intrepid

2008-12-22 Thread selkovjr
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: compiz I have already filed bug 307888 for vte, convinced (without good evidence) that it can't be anywhere else. Today I've seen something that suggests I could be wrong about vte, and now I have no clue whose bug this is. Immediately after upgrade to

[Bug 269904] Re: Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid

2008-12-22 Thread selkovjr
And I forgot to say: it did not change with transition from Hardy to Intrepid. -- Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269904 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mail

[Bug 269904] Re: Screen refresh problems with nvidia on intrepid

2008-12-22 Thread selkovjr
01:00.0 0300: 10de:042d (rev a1) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Quadro FX 360M (rev a1) nvidia-180-kernel-source: Installed: 180.11-0ubuntu1 None of the suggested workarounds helped avoid the damage bug. Loose binding does not help. I see no difference at all between the 1

[Bug 307888] [NEW] keyboard layout is ignored while composing Ctrl-modified keys

2008-12-14 Thread selkovjr
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: python-vte This bug emerged after upgrading to Intrepid. I did not see it in Hardy. It manifests itself as incorrect Ctrl-key combinations sent to the shell in TerminalScreenlet.py For example, when I press Ctrl-K on my Dvorak keyboard, the shell receiv

[Bug 231527] Re: Pressing CTRL is unrecognized in Wine when "Show position of pointer when the Control key is pressed" is turned on

2008-09-18 Thread selkovjr
This seems to be a gnome bug, affecting applications other than wine. I experience the same effect in all versions of VNC I was able to test (Real, Tight, and NX). The only solution I was able to find was to disable the feature: http://automatthias.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/ctrl-key-not-working-

[Bug 269519] [NEW] battery applet can't import MessageHandler

2008-09-12 Thread selkovjr
Public bug reported: immediately after update the applet fails to load with the following message: File "/usr/share/avant-window-navigator/applets/battery-applet/battery-applet.py", line 27, in from messagehandler import MessageHandler ImportError: No module named messagehandler awn-ext

[Bug 239301] Re: unresolvable dependencies in libgtk2.0-dev

2008-06-24 Thread selkovjr
Sorry, I didn't realize I had to attach the file here; replied to email instead. ** Attachment added: "sources.list" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15566940/sources.list -- unresolvable dependencies in libgtk2.0-dev https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/239301 You received this bug notification beca

[Bug 239301] [NEW] unresolvable dependencies in libgtk2.0-dev

2008-06-11 Thread selkovjr
Public bug reported: The version of Ubuntu is 8.04 The package has never been installed in this system. $ apt-cache policy libgtk2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev: Installed: (none) Candidate: 2.12.9-3ubuntu4 Version table: 2.12.9-3ubuntu4 0 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/

[Bug 82988] Re: mencoder crashes whle joining individual jpeg frames with mjpeg

2007-02-02 Thread selkovjr
I have added Baltix by mistake. Although I am almost certain that the bug I am reporting is present in all distributions, I cannot positively state this for Baltix, which I do not have. I just couldn't figure out how to remove Baltix from the affected distros, once I had accidentally marked it. I

[Bug 82988] mencoder crashes whle joining individual jpeg frames with mjpeg

2007-02-02 Thread selkovjr
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: mplayer I am joining movies from individual frames, encoded as jpeg images, using the mjpeg codec. The goal is to create 1280x480 stereo streams. Everything works fine when separate halves of the movie (R and L) are encoded as 640x480 streams. However, me