[Bug 429251] Re: [RV200] ATI graphics corruption with compiz on XAA

2011-02-23 Thread Nick Steeves
I wonder if it's possible to ship both xf86-video-ati-6.12.4-3 and current 6.13.0-1, and then use probe to see if the graphics card is on a blacklist-with-xf86-video-ati-6.13.0 list? If it matches, the load 6.12.4-3 instead. Alternatively, maybe we could link Jockey into the update-alternatives

[Bug 481576] Re: Action on critical battery is not triggered - gnome-power-manager

2011-01-27 Thread Nick Steeves
confirmed on a Thinkpad X32 and a Samsung N150, both with Ubuntu 10.04. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/481576 Title: Action on critical battery is not triggered - gnome-power-manager

[Bug 574250] Re: SAMSUNG N150 Laptop : Brightness issue

2010-10-07 Thread Nick Steeves
Martin, which packages/repositories will the backports be found in? Also, out of curiosity: voria/ppa solution relies on xbindkeys, which introduces an extra 12 wakeups/second. Does the official backport have this issue? Either way, thank you, I look forward to the official fix. How soon can we

Re: many problems after upgrade to Hardy

2008-07-22 Thread Nick Steeves
Oops, I misread: On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 12:05 -0600, Gustin Johnson wrote: This is not normal in my experience. This includes all the people in my LUG who upgraded. What you mean, is that you and your LUG have all had no problems upgrading. Lucky! I run into issues every other release.

Re: many problems after upgrade to Hardy

2008-07-22 Thread Nick Steeves
Can you still boot into your upgraded installation with your old kernel? This bug also affected me, in the same way you describe. The fastest way I could think of resolving it was just making a backup of the list of my installed packages, backup up /var, /etc, etc. and then reinstalling. In my

backing up video to tape (DDS)

2008-05-23 Thread Nick Steeves
Hi, I'm wondering if anyone has any experience backing up video to tape. Supposing you waited many hours to render a project, and wanted a backup of the output video (for long-term archive purposes) in addition to the project, how would you backup the video? Would you just tar -cf /dev/nst0