Re: Proposal for apt install-recommends settings

2008-10-28 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 27.10.2008 um 23:26 schrieb Christopher James Halse Rogers: On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 20:03 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: ... snip ... Perhaps you've seen it already, Synaptic has such a switch in it's preferences. While this switch isn't ill-placed there, I think it would be an advantage to

Re: poor performance hard disk IDE

2008-10-28 Thread Stefano Doni
Hi Charlie, yes as I wrote in the bug report, it is against Intrepid: Hi, I've just upgraded to Intrepid and I've seen that a major performance slowdown is still existing. It is importat to note that I'm using a 7 years-old PC, so my disks are IDE (I expect that newer SATA disks

Re: Joysticks/joypads/etc information needed for Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and later

2008-10-28 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi Matthew, Matthew Garrett [2008-10-21 16:33 +0100]: Something like this: Thanks for the patch! I tested it with my Logitech Thrustmaster, and it works fine. I think we should continue this on [1] and [2]. Martin [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2008-October/012398.html [2]

Re: Boot times,services and packages

2008-10-28 Thread Martin Pitt
shirish [2008-10-27 16:55 +0530]: a. nvidia-kernel (no nvidia card so useless) This is gone for good in 8.10, thanks to the reorganization of linux-restricted-modules. The nvidia/fglrx drivers are entirely separate now and no bits are installed by default. Martin -- Martin Pitt

Re: poor performance hard disk IDE

2008-10-28 Thread Dane Mutters
I don't remember if I mentioned it on this list, but I submitted a bug (pertaining to Hardy) that at least SEEMS very similar to this a while ago. It has yet to be looked at. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-meta/+bug/220349 I managed to find a workaround by way of recompiling

Re: poor performance hard disk IDE

2008-10-28 Thread Stefano Doni
Thanks Dane, is this workaround valid with stock kernels? Can other developers comment on this? I would not consider compiling my own kernel to be a solution for me, I firmly believe it is better to use the stock Ubuntu one. Thanks! 2008/10/28 Dane Mutters [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't

Re: Proposal for apt install-recommends settings

2008-10-28 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 28.10.2008 um 07:19 schrieb Mario Vukelic: shouldn't such users be expected of being capable of reading man apt-get, man apt.conf, man aptitude and the like? I would think so. Those man pages a huge, you can easily fill a day reading and comparing them. And IMHO, reading through those

Re: poor performance hard disk IDE

2008-10-28 Thread Dane Mutters
Stefano, I'm currently using this workaround with kernel 2.6.26.5, downloaded from www.kernel.org, and compiled/installed using The Old-Fashioned Debian Way ( https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile ). Attached is my most recent config file (compressed). --Dane On Tue, 2008-10-28 at

Re: poor performance hard disk IDE

2008-10-28 Thread Stefano Doni
Thanks Dave for your willingness, but I think it is definitely better to fix this into Ubuntu stock kernel, so that other user will benefit from it! 2008/10/28 Dane Mutters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stefano, I'm currently using this workaround with kernel 2.6.26.5, downloaded from

Re: poor performance hard disk IDE

2008-10-28 Thread Dane Mutters
Stefano, Agreed. I only used the one from kernel.org because I wanted to try out a newer kernel. I did not, however, have to do any patching to use the workaround. I don't see why it wouldn't work with a stock Ubuntu kernel. --Dane On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 11:15 +0100, Stefano Doni wrote:

Re: Proposal for apt install-recommends settings

2008-10-28 Thread shirish
Hi all, I am also in the favor of having recommends removed or switched off. I saw the /etc/apt/apt.conf.d but that is a diretory. Kindly tell what as a user am I supposed to do that in the directory. As far as aptitude is concerned, yes it duplicates what apt-get does but it also does what

Re: Proposal for apt install-recommends settings

2008-10-28 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 21:11 +0530, shirish wrote: That's sudo aptitude safe-upgrade which is good. apt-get update and full-upgrade is the same as dist-upgrade -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: Intrepid's gnome-session will easilly cause serious user data loss

2008-10-28 Thread Chris Coulson
On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 14:25 +, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote: Olá Martin e a todos. On Thursday 23 October 2008 13:00:52 Martin Soto wrote: The problem is that gnome-session 2.24 fails to notify applications upon log out or shut down, even if code for this purpose seems to be there.

Re: Intrepid's gnome-session will easilly cause serious user data loss

2008-10-28 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 28.10.2008 um 18:36 schrieb Chris Coulson: So, it's been running all night waiting for me to respond to a dialog! Yet another reason to use standby or suspend instead of shutdown. ;-) MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ --