[Bug 1571540] Re: Moving files nautilus extremely slow

2017-09-20 Thread sillyxone
Not sure what happened or whoever did the magic, but the problem is gone on Ubuntu 16.04, somewhere between the end of August and the first two weeks of September. Moving images are as fast as it used to be (and should be). I tested moving 1,000+ JPG files several times and it happened instantly. I

[Bug 1384969] Re: Writing large amounts of data to exFAT formatted micro sdcards with Ubuntu causes kernel errors and permanent sdcard failure.

2015-06-16 Thread sillyxone
I'm getting similar symptoms on Ubuntu 14.04 64bit. A Samsung 64GB microSD card, was able to browse and delete files normally, but when copy about 48GB to it, it would hang around 10GB (my system has 16GB of RAM). The processing mount.exfat then would cause high iowait. I ejected the card, put it b

[Bug 1258837] Re: [Dell Latitude E7440] ALPS touchpad keeps having state reset

2015-03-10 Thread sillyxone
Just upgraded my E7440 to A14. The keyboard still has problem with bouncing (hit a key and it could result in 2-3 entries of the same key registered), I still need to have a delay for "Bounce Keys" in Universal Access. I haven't had any random mouse jumping with the touchpad since adding the "psmo

[Bug 1258837] Re: [Dell Latitude E7440] ALPS touchpad keeps having state reset

2014-07-31 Thread sillyxone
Might be related to Lorenzo's thought: the random jumping and clicking only happen when the touchpad is treated as touchpad. I haven't had any problem when loading the touchpad driver as a simple mouse (no scrolling, tapping, multitouch, ... for the touchpad): sudo modprobe -r psmouse sudo modpro

[Bug 803348] Re: In Firefox, scrolling and then pressing Ctrl causes zoom

2014-07-25 Thread sillyxone
I got so annoyed by this behavior, too. The easiest solution for me is to disable zooming with Ctrl-Scroll in Firefox: - go to about:config - change the value of mousewheel.withcontrolkey.action (changed mine to 1 for normal scrolling) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/821743 -- You

[Bug 803348] Re: In Firefox, scrolling and then pressing Ctrl causes zoom

2014-07-25 Thread sillyxone
correction: for my current version of Firefox (v31), the config key is "mousewheel.with_control.action" -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/803348 Title: In Firefox, scrolling and then pre

[Bug 847001] Re: Adjusting display brightness is very slow on several Dell laptops

2014-07-09 Thread sillyxone
Dell E7440, same problem on 14.04: very quick to change brightness using intel_backlight command, but hardward keys (Fn-Up/Down) pause the computer briefly. Thanks to instruction from user Toz (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2208278), the fix requires both "acpi_backlight=vendor" kerne

[Bug 1258837] Re: [Dell Latitude E7440] ALPS touchpad keeps having state reset

2014-06-11 Thread sillyxone
Dell E7440, Ubuntu 14.04 with latest updates (as of 6/11). The touchpad works fine normally, but when holding down a key (e.g. Ctrl, Shift, Alt, A, C, ...) and keeping the finger still on the touchpad, the mouse cursor jumping randomly up and down around its original location (within about 100 pixe

[Bug 1199933] Re: apparmor parser in precise does not support block_suspend capability (needed for backported kernels)

2013-09-23 Thread sillyxone
Confirmed on a fresh 12.04.3 AMD64. Cannot print due to this error in dmesg: apparmor="DENIED" operation="capable" parent=1 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd" pid=1046 comm="cupsd" pid=1046 comm="cupsd" capability=36 capname="block_suspend" Adding "capability block_suspend," to /usr/sbin/cupsd resulted in

[Bug 980159] Re: gimp window focus changes between invocations

2012-04-29 Thread sillyxone
I found a "fix" mentioned here: http://voices.yahoo.com/ubuntu-hiding-gimp-toolbox-3449370.html basically we just need to tell GIMP to always focus on the canvas (normal window) after each action. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 760142] Re: Several Ubuntu-certified Dell laptops: ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint configure as PS/2 mouse instead of proper touchpad

2011-09-09 Thread sillyxone
have to thank Mihai again for applying the new behavior (disable/enable) selectively to the internal touchpad only. I use keyboard shortcuts a lot in Blender. Instead of having to reload syndaemon with diferent settings (-s param) everytime I use Blender, I just use the external mouse instead (whic

[Bug 760142] Re: Several Ubuntu-certified Dell laptops: ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint configure as PS/2 mouse instead of proper touchpad

2011-09-06 Thread sillyxone
actually only the last step (make install) that requires sudo, as it makes changes to the system. Compiling (configure and make) only make changes to the working directory. BTW, after experimenting with the delay timeout (-i option), I found that 0.5 sometimes makes the cursor frozen. In the end,

[Bug 760142] Re: Several Ubuntu-certified Dell laptops: ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint configure as PS/2 mouse instead of proper touchpad

2011-09-06 Thread sillyxone
thanks Mihai and cement_head, I applied the patch for Maverick and it works very well, although the delay after after typing (1 second) is still a litte too long for me :-) This is an ingenious work-around, kudos to Mihai. Just in case somebody couldn't apply the patch in Maverick, the current ver

[Bug 760142] Re: Several Ubuntu-certified Dell laptops: ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint configure as PS/2 mouse instead of proper touchpad

2011-07-18 Thread sillyxone
thanks, Jim, for the script. Somehow on my E6420, the touchpad is recognized as DualPoint instead of GlidePoint (I think I messed with alps.c along the way), a small modification to the script fixes it. That should prevent accidents while typing long messages for now. -- You received this bug not

[Bug 775034] Re: Natty freezes due to Acer Aspire One 522 wireless

2011-07-17 Thread sillyxone
Confirm for AO722, with BCM4313, freeze immediately whenever connecting to a wireless network, whether using brcm80211, b43, or the STA. Blacklisting atl1c as describe #3 fixed it (for STA, haven't tried the OSS drivers). Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of U

[Bug 760142] Re: Several Ubuntu-certified Dell laptops: ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint configure as PS/2 mouse instead of proper touchpad

2011-07-14 Thread sillyxone
from the Fedora bug tracking (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=590880#c75), it looks like Alps refused to release the specs, and will instead release their proprietary drivers soon. Hopefully it'll be easier to reverse-engineer with their proprietary drivers. -- You received this bug

[Bug 760142] Re: Several Ubuntu-certified Dell laptops: ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint configure as PS/2 mouse instead of proper touchpad

2011-07-14 Thread sillyxone
Re: #27 the patch, even with alps_ec_write() mod is not working for me (E6420 on 11.04, 2.6.38-10-generic-pae). Nothing changes (tap-to-click still works) with the patched psmouse.ko -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. htt

[Bug 548992] Re: Wireless connection frequently drops [deauthenticating by local choice (reason=3)]

2010-05-12 Thread sillyxone
Right after I commented above, I started Googling in a different direction and found this bug report in Red Hat (see comment #10): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503983 Basically they said that the N-mode that was causing connection drops, so I added this line to /etc/modprobe.d/opt

[Bug 545708] Re: Intel Pro/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN stopped working in kernel 2.6.32-17

2010-05-12 Thread sillyxone
sorry, my problem is best described by bug #548992 -- Intel Pro/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN stopped working in kernel 2.6.32-17 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/545708 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing li

[Bug 548992] Re: Wireless connection frequently drops [deauthenticating by local choice (reason=3)]

2010-05-12 Thread sillyxone
Confirm. Dell D630, Intel 4965AG. Everything was fine on Hardy until I installed Lucid. Don't have problem with unsecured or WPA1-Personal, only have problem with WPA2-Enterprise (PEAP, MSCHAP). I couldn't tell when it get disconnected, but I can use the Internet for about 30 seconds, then it takes

[Bug 545708] Re: Intel Pro/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN stopped working in kernel 2.6.32-17

2010-05-04 Thread sillyxone
tried Wicd, thinking it could be NetworkManager problem, but didn't help. switched to ndiswrapper. The latest XP driver from Intel (13.1.1.1) doesn't work with ndiswrapper 1.55 (util 1.9). Found an old driver (12.1.0.14) from Asus (http://www.download3k.com/Drivers/Network/Asus /Download-Asus-Inte

[Bug 545708] Re: Intel Pro/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN stopped working in kernel 2.6.32-17

2010-05-04 Thread sillyxone
I'm still having this problem on 10.04 release (2.6.32-21 32bit), 4965 AG. Connect fine to unsecured network. Can authenticate and connect to WPA2 (PEAP, MSCHAPv2) but connection is slow (stays at 1Mbps). I tried swcrypto=1 for iwlagn but doesn't solve the problem. Been using Hardy for the last th

[Bug 73698] Re: Panel applets on top panel blink in as they redrawn while running full screen app

2009-02-06 Thread sillyxone
still have this problem in Hardy 8.04, with all updates as of today. Video: Intel GM965. Turning on/off "Unredirect fullscreen windows" doesn't solve the problem. -- Panel applets on top panel blink in as they redrawn while running full screen app https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/73698 You receiv

[Bug 118567] Re: emachines M5312 - suspend will not resume at all.

2009-02-01 Thread sillyxone
I search low and high on Google last night, the problem seems to be the integrated ATI IGP 320M. All other laptops with 320M are unable to resume after suspend. I've tried changing the settings in /etc/default/acpi-support (VBE, laptop-mode, ...), kernel option (irqpoll), and different drivers (at

[Bug 118567] Re: emachines M5312 - suspend will not resume at all.

2009-01-31 Thread sillyxone
Please reopen this bug. emachines M5312, Ubuntu 8.10. Still the same behavior: black screen (no backlight) on resume, no keyboard light. Screen remains dark after reboot, have to remove battery to be able to turn on normally again. Looked into the log files (kernel, debug, messages), there're onl

[Bug 36189] Re: Applets do not scale well with changing resolution

2008-11-17 Thread sillyxone
Workaround found on Ubuntuforum: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=342775 To manually save my panel layout once: gconftool-2 --dump /apps/panel > panel_layout_1280_800.entries and restore the layout after switching back from a different resolution: gconftool-2 --load panel_layout_1280_800

[Bug 229806] Re: black screen on resume from suspend

2008-05-31 Thread sillyxone
I got an R3000z with the same video card, this instruction works for me (just installed and updated Hardy yesterday): https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NvidiaLaptopBinaryDriverSuspend It can always go into suspend but the chance of coming back are 5 out of 7 so far. -- black screen on resume fr

[Bug 36189] Re: Applets do not scale well with changing resolution

2008-05-31 Thread sillyxone
This is really annoying, especially my little one plays Chilsplay and Gcompris regularly (switching back and forth between 1024x768 and 1440x900). Some issues to address: - if the resolution goes from high to low, what if all the items won't fit on the lower resolution. - if the resolution goes f

[Bug 152944] Re: [Gutsy] Terminal tabs opening slowly, freezing terminal for a while with Compiz and terminal window maximized.

2007-11-28 Thread sillyxone
confirmed on Dell D620 (Core 2 Duo, i810), Gutsy. Only happen to maximized gnome-terminal happen on Live CD too, disabling Compiz eliminates problem opening first tab doesn't show the new tab (waited for 5 minutes). Switching away and back, or clicking on terminal window, or clicking on titlebar

[Bug 163265] Re: lid event not recognized by acpi event rules

2007-11-17 Thread sillyxone
Confirmed, my Dell D620 suspends on lid close in Feisty but not in Gutsy. Edit the file as suggested, works right away after restarting -- lid event not recognized by acpi event rules https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/163265 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bug