Re: Speakers and sound configuration tool

2008-02-04 Thread Dylan McCall
I have one suggestion for this suggestion: The user should have some means of testing his setup. It can be quite difficult to be certain when a surround sound setup is actually plugged in correctly, and playing random sounds is not always helpful. I think one powerful possibility would be a test sy

Re: Speakers and sound configuration tool

2008-02-04 Thread Piotr Zaryk
I'm sure it's too late for Hardy. It's an LTS and new, unstable features are not welcome. Yes, I think we should make it for the next release. Please edit the feature description on the ubuntu wiki if you have got some ideas. 2008/2/4, Evan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I like the look of this, but it'

Re: Alpha 4 freeze ahead

2008-02-04 Thread Bryan Quigley
> > > why not include it by default early > > > on to get more testing? > > > > Indeed +1 > > Or not > Many addons are still not compatible So? This would help bring the ones included in Ubuntu that aren't compatable up to the light. Plus, these are development builds. Things are allowe

Re: Spelling library consolidation

2008-02-04 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 11:11 +0100, Szilveszter Farkas wrote: > I've just discovered an old blueprint on Launchpad[0] and the > corresponding wiki page[1], that Ubuntu was planning to consolidate I also filed a bug alluding to this a few years ago: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffi

Re: Speakers and sound configuration tool

2008-02-04 Thread Evan
I like the look of this, but it's probably too late to make it to Hardy. Maybe Hardy+1? On 2/4/08, Thomas Novin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 16:37 +0100, Piotr Zaryk wrote: > > What do you think about it? > > > > > Really nice idea and initiative! I went crazy trying to g

Re: Speakers and sound configuration tool

2008-02-04 Thread Thomas Novin
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 16:37 +0100, Piotr Zaryk wrote: > What do you think about it? > Really nice idea and initiative! I went crazy trying to get SP/DIF working with my AC'97 sound card through asoundrc-configuration. I actually never got it working perfectly since I could only play from one sou

Speakers and sound configuration tool

2008-02-04 Thread Piotr Zaryk
What do you think about it? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SpeakersAndSound There have been complaints that Ubuntu lacks a speakers and sound configuration utility, which forces newbies to manually edit .asoundrc and /etc/modules.d/alsa files if they want to use surround sound or another soundcard. Manua

Re: Hardy Alpha-4 jockey-gtk

2008-02-04 Thread Martin Pitt
Colin Watson [2008-02-04 11:13 +]: > I agree that there should certainly be a Release file in > /var/lib/apt/lists. We run 'apt-get update' from livecd-rootfs (after > clearing out previous contents of /var/lib/apt/lists to ensure there's > no cruft); shouldn't this be enough? I'm sure it used

Re: Minimal Hardy Alpha Images

2008-02-04 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Stahlir wrote: > Hi! > > Is it possible to create minimal cd images of hardy alpha releases? > I think about an image that is less than 100MB and contains only the > absolute necessary packages to run the live cd. > Add a torrent for this image

Re: Hardy Alpha-4 jockey-gtk

2008-02-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 12:01:15PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > Richard Mancusi [2008-02-03 8:25 -0600]: > > The problem cannot be reported: > > This is not a genuine Ubuntu package > > The problem here is that the live file system does not have a valid > Release file, which python-apt could use t

Re: Hardy Alpha-4 jockey-gtk

2008-02-04 Thread Martin Pitt
Richard Mancusi [2008-02-03 8:25 -0600]: > Problem in jockey-gtk I just fixed the actual problem in jockey. > The problem cannot be reported: > This is not a genuine Ubuntu package The problem here is that the live file system does not have a valid Release file, which python-apt could use to de

Re: KVM, virt-manager, etc.

2008-02-04 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On su, 2008-02-03 at 23:48 +, (=?utf-8?q?=60=60-=5F-=C2=B4=C2=B4?=) -- Fernando wrote: > egrep ‘(vmx|svm)’ /proc/cpuinfo Someone, somewhere, has replaced the correct ASCII single quotes (code point 39, hexadecimla 0x27) with something else. Replace the quotes with ASCII single or double quote

Re: KVM, virt-manager, etc.

2008-02-04 Thread (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 28 January 2008 13:23:50 Rick Clark wrote: > A simple grep should be sufficient.  We only care what the kernel sees, since > there are other variables that could affect the usefulness of the lists from > Intel and AMD. > > egrep ‘(vmx|svm)

Re: Alpha 4 freeze ahead

2008-02-04 Thread (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 28 January 2008 08:15:05 Patrice Vetsel wrote: > Le Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:21:25 -0500, > "Bryan Quigley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > > why not include it by default early > > on to get more testing? > > Indeed +1 Or not Many addons

Re: Hardy Alpha-4 synaptic error

2008-02-04 Thread Milan
Richard Mancusi wrote: > Okay, I did another clean install and can repeat the problem. On a test > system I always set a root password and allow root logon. Yes, I know > that isn't a great idea, but it comes in handy on a test system. > > As soon as I set a root password in System/Administration