Re: Tablet PC under ubuntu

2008-09-29 Thread Loïc Martin
Vincenzo Ciancia a écrit : Hi, as an user of a tablet pc under ubuntu, I have to say that this distribution can work very well with tablet pcs. Cellwriter and xournal are already there and they are very good. The only problem is that currently in both hardy and intrepid tablet activation

Intrepid amd64 Live CD beta testing

2008-10-03 Thread Loïc Martin
Hi, While previous Intrepid amd64 Live CD works perfectly, the Beta one released yesterday doesn't manage to configure properly X on my computer (Nvidia 7900GS 256Mo PCIe, Iiyama Prolite B2403WS through VGA port). The screen has vertical colored bars (green/gray/yellow) and going to the

Re: Intrepid amd64 Live CD beta testing

2008-10-03 Thread Loïc Martin
Bryce Harrington a écrit : On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 08:47:40AM -0700, Brian Murray wrote: On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 02:41:34PM +0200, Lo?c Martin wrote: Hi, While previous Intrepid amd64 Live CD works perfectly, the Beta one released yesterday doesn't manage to configure properly X on my

Re: Intrepid amd64 Live CD beta testing

2008-10-03 Thread Loïc Martin
Loïc Martin a écrit : Bryce Harrington a écrit : Btw, you can also report X bugs more easily now by running this command: ubuntu-bug xorg This will automatically gather all the necessary troubleshooting files, launch your web browser, and open the bug in launchpad. Bryce Thanks

Re: tablet-support in Ubuntu

2008-10-05 Thread Loïc Martin
Timo Aaltonen wrote: 8.10 will not remove support for tablets now repeat that umpteen times. There has been too much misinformation floating around lately, and + admit that the consequences of input-hotplug could have been informed better, but I'll take this opportunity to clarify

Re: tablet-support in Ubuntu

2008-10-05 Thread Loïc Martin
Timo Aaltonen wrote: By default, the evdev-driver handles all input devices that HAL is aware of and which list input.keys/input.mouse as a capability of the device. Evdev might not be the best choice for example touchpads or tablets, and that's why there needs to be a driver specific HAL

Re: tablet-support in Ubuntu lshal output for game devices (joysticks/joypads/etc)

2008-10-14 Thread Loïc Martin
Timo Aaltonen wrote: On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Loïc Martin wrote: Timo Aaltonen wrote: By default, the evdev-driver handles all input devices that HAL is aware of and which list input.keys/input.mouse as a capability of the device. Evdev might not be the best choice for example touchpads

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

2008-10-20 Thread Loïc Martin
Hi, Stating with Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and due to changes in Xorg, each model of joystick needs a special file to be recognised properly. For the moment 8.10 doesn't ship with these files, and thus your joystick shouldn't be working anymore (instead, it should move the mouse cursor,

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

2008-10-21 Thread Loïc Martin
Martin Pitt wrote: Loïc Martin [2008-10-20 18:40 +0200]: Stating with Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and due to changes in Xorg, each model of joystick needs a special file to be recognised properly. That's not actually true. The kernel already knows very well about which device

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

2008-10-21 Thread Loïc Martin
Timo Aaltonen wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Loïc Martin wrote: Hi, Stating with Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and due to changes in Xorg, each model of joystick needs a special file to be recognised properly. For the moment 8.10 doesn't ship with these files, and thus your joystick shouldn't

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

2008-10-21 Thread Loïc Martin
Timo Aaltonen wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Loïc Martin wrote: Timo Aaltonen wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Loïc Martin wrote: Hi, Stating with Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and due to changes in Xorg, each model of joystick needs a special file to be recognised properly. For the moment 8.10

Wacom tablets, TabletPC and Xorg support for Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)

2008-11-09 Thread Loïc Martin
Hi, Since Hardy, Ubuntu doesn't provides any configuration for Wacom tablets any more (Gutsy had the lines commented out, but they were there to be used if necessary). Part of the reason not to provide commented out lines might have been the abscence of a ServerLayout section in xorg.conf with

Re: [ubuntu-x] Fwd: Wacom tablets, TabletPC and Xorg support for Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)

2008-11-10 Thread Loïc Martin
Bryce Harrington a écrit : On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 05:47:38PM +0100, Lo?c Martin wrote: 2) update the linux wacom driver to the latest (even beta) release. I think it's already the case, Intrepid use the beta driver 0.8.1.4, and Jaunty uses the 0.8.1.6. 0.8.1.4 has a bug that severly affect

Re: [ubuntu-x] Fwd: Wacom tablets, TabletPC and Xorg support for Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)

2008-11-10 Thread Loïc Martin
I forgot to point out that besides wacomcpl there's also Tablet Apps http://alexmac.cc/tablet-apps/ which has a really nice interface and is already programmed AFAIR in python. None of them support the initial configuration of wacom devices (even in xorg) and would need to be patched to support

Re: [ubuntu-x] Fwd: Wacom tablets, TabletPC and Xorg support for Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)

2008-11-11 Thread Loïc Martin
Bryce Harrington wrote: Cool, Loic can we ask you to draw a quick mockup of one or two ideas on how it could work and be laid out? A scanned in paper sketch would be fine, or if you want to get fancy then done up in Gimp or Glade would be great. I think this would be helpful to code to, if

Re: [ubuntu-x] Fwd: Wacom tablets, TabletPC and Xorg support for Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)

2008-11-12 Thread Loïc Martin
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote : Loïc Martin wrote on 11/11/08 20:50: ... I've done a mockup at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wacom/PropertiesMockup and I'm attaching a compressed Inkscape SVG. Only the first This looks like a good start. However, it should be on wiki.ubuntu.com

Re: Jaunty UDS schedule?

2008-12-08 Thread Loïc Martin
Timo Aaltonen a écrit : On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Loïc Martin wrote: Hi, I've been tracking https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDSJaunty to get the discussions schedule for Jaunty UDS, and there's still no information on either the schedule or ways to attend remotely (it said it would be updated close

Re: Doing something about signal:noise complaints

2009-01-22 Thread Loïc Martin
Hi, Andrew Sayers wrote: The current draft of the survey is at http://pileofstuff.org/ubuntu-survey/ and will go live this time tomorrow - there's still time to make changes if you have ideas. While I'm no Shakespeare, I'm confused with the formulation: I'm [somehow confident] that other

Re: Ubuntu and language packs

2009-02-05 Thread Loïc Martin
Surfaz Gemon Meme wrote: Firts, I don't understand why language-support-translations-XX install a package(s) thunderbird-locale-xx-XX when Ubuntu don't install thunderbird mail client by default... Ubuntu uses evolution as mail client, non? It's due to the way translations are handled in

Re: Removing single program from multi program packages

2009-03-23 Thread Loïc Martin
Mike Jones wrote: Is there just no way for a package maintaner to not have extra work piled on their already hefty load while at the same time we allow a user of Ubuntu to remove most traces of a program in a package with multiple programs without having to also remove the rest of them?

Re: What about SLiM and tint2?

2009-09-23 Thread Loïc Martin
rent0n wrote: Hello, I would like to know, if possible, the reasons why SLiM will not be present in the karmic release, since the SLiM team found a new mantainer and developpers and the project is still going on. Do you have some links pointing to a prepared Ubuntu package and some refusal

Re: What about SLiM and tint2?

2009-09-23 Thread Loïc Martin
Loïc Martin wrote: rent0n wrote: Hello, I would like to know, if possible, the reasons why SLiM will not be present in the karmic release, since the SLiM team found a new mantainer and developpers and the project is still going on. Do you have some links pointing to a prepared Ubuntu

Re: Including a system-wide pulseaudio equalizer

2010-05-11 Thread Loïc Martin
On 11 May 2010 10:20, Luke Yelavich them...@ubuntu.com wrote: I personally think that users will get confused with an EQ. If they find it, adjust something, and find sound is not as good, they will file bugs regarding sound problems that they have caused. I personally think we need to think

Re: Shouldn't update-manager's check for updates setting have an hourly option?

2010-06-24 Thread Loïc Martin
On 23 June 2010 20:18, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com wrote: AIUI, it wouldn't help much on Ubuntu since by default u-m doesn't pop up it's window for security updates if it's been opened in the last two days. Why that may happen on Kubuntu, it hasn't been true on any post-Jaunty Ubuntu

Re: About ibus 1.3.7 ibus languages

2010-09-22 Thread Loïc Martin
On 22 September 2010 19:27, Aron Xu happyaron...@gmail.com wrote: Thirdly, the better choices for users:  * Chinese: ibus-pinyin (ibus-chewing is better for some traditional            Chinese users, but ibus-pinyin is still good enough comparing            with ibus-m17n) Pinyin won't work