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Amaranthteamcobra: xen DomU support doesn't mean xen is completely up and running00:06
teamcobraAmaranth: ohh, it's just domu support that was merged00:06
darthanubisBug #23780100:07
teamcobrathat makes things a _lot_ clearer00:07
ubottuLaunchpad bug 237801 in totem "Totem errors when attempting to play myth content." [Low,Incomplete] https://launchpad.net/bugs/23780100:07
Amaranthit may also be Dom0 but it will still not mean Xen is completely up and running00:07
Amaranthyou still need to install the userspace stuff and set it up00:07
Amaranthdarthanubis: what about it?00:07
darthanubiswonder why its still incomplete00:08
Amaranth1) that's for hardy, this channel is for intrepid00:08
Amaranth2) most likely someone has not had time to look at it again00:08
teamcobraamaranth: ahh, will work on it a bit more then, I have libvirtd/virt-manager/xen-tools/libs installed, probably just missing 1 key piece.... also, thanks a lot for your nvidia patch, it works like a charm on this machine00:09
Amaranthdarthanubis: you can change the status back to New yourself, you know00:09
Amaranthteamcobra: good to hear, that's the patch I gave to the l-r-m team :P00:09
darthanubisnow I do00:09
teamcobrayeh, my next big challenge (a first for me anyway) is to make working nm/nm-applet 0.7.0 packages to stress-test with a few of my friends :)00:10
Amaranthteamcobra: eh, that's quite a bit of work00:11
Amaranthteamcobra: the upstream sources are not proper for ubuntu, they need to be patched quite heavily00:12
Amaranthor at least this was the case for 0.6.x00:12
teamcobraoh, nice ;)00:12
teamcobrathat's the only thing fedora has over ubuntu, and I can tell you right now, from the perspective of a linux user for 12 years, that fedora made me want to throw my laptop as far as any other functionality besides nm-0.7.0 was concerned   (and I started w/ Slack)00:14
teamcobra(ran it for a month to test out a verizon card, big big mistake) ;p00:15
AmaranthI can't believe they use OOo from upstream instead of the go-oo version00:15
teamcobrahmm, that was the first I've even heard of go-oo, looks pretty decent... how does it stack up against oo 3.0-dev?00:17
Amaranthit probably doesn't, unless they have a 3.0-dev version00:17
Amaranthbasically it adds a sane build system and some integration patches to OOo00:17
Amaranthit's more or less a fork but wishes it wasn't :P00:18
teamcobrayeh, was kind of the impression I got.... hrm, I think I might have to replace ooo in my dvd remaster ;)00:19
teamcobrathe vba macros are kind of a biggie (not for me, but for a lot of business users)00:20
Amaranthafaik everyone using the go-oo one except redhat and sun00:20
Amaranths/using/uses/00:20
teamcobrahrm, wow.... so how hard would it be for me to set up an automated build system? I've got 5 dualcore machines around me w/ nothing to do00:21
teamcobrait seems an ubuntu repo for go-oo is in order00:21
Amaranthubuntu uses the go-oo version00:22
teamcobraohh, redhat doesn't ;p00:22
teamcobraheh, here's what I can't believe.... default behavior for nautilus in f9 is to open every folder in a new window00:22
Amaranththat is useful00:22
Amaranthif you know that shortcut exists you are the kind of person that may have a use for it00:23
teamcobrayou have to enable browser view in preferences.... useful to a degree, I suppose, but in most cases, when I want a new window, I end up using the context menu00:23
Amaranthand f9 gets rid of the sidebar here00:23
Amaranthor do you mean f9 does that in spatial mode?00:23
teamcobraright, both behaviors come back when web view is enabled00:23
Amaranthweb view?00:24
Amaranthit's called browser, that doesn't mean web browser :P00:24
teamcobrameh, my bad, I was just about to double check the exact name00:24
teamcobraI knew it wasn't 100% accurate ;)00:24
Amaranthheh, you said browser first though :P00:24
Amaranththat's another thing, fedora still defaults to spatial00:25
teamcobrayeah, I'd hate to see the screaming that would ensue from pushing a f9 desktop onto any one of my random (l)users ;p ;p00:26
teamcobrafire would probably be involved too00:26
DanaGWhat exactly is xen, anyway?00:27
DanaGYet another VM solution?00:27
teamcobraDanaG: yes00:27
teamcobrabut a very good one, esp for production00:27
pheerorand the first to support that "cool" hw technologies for VM00:28
DanaGHmm, what's this about nvidia with it?00:28
DanaGOr was I misinterpreting some earlier statement?00:28
teamcobradanag: that was barely related.... basically, xen used to require a seperate kernel, xen + normal kernels have been merged in intrepid, and amaranth made a patch for the nvidia driver installer to compile under a xen kernel properly00:29
teamcobrabut related enough to need a patch ;)00:29
DanaGOh, I see... so you can use a kernel either place, but having the capability of running it as a guest requires some patch to nvidia to get it to compile, or sometihng like that?00:30
teamcobraor as a host, but yes00:30
DanaGAah.00:30
DanaGBecause I was going to say.... why does a VM need nvidia?  =þ00:30
teamcobraor.... what did nvidia do now to break things? ;p ;p00:31
pheerornvidia is a bit out of the day anyway00:31
DanaGhttp://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_evolution&num=100:31
pheerorwith their "support" for open-source00:31
teamcobraonce radeonhd matures + the new 780m (puma) comes out, nvidia/intel are in for a bit of trouble00:32
DanaGI've had enough of nvidia.... next time I am going ATI for sure.00:32
DanaGAnd this next time will be this fall.00:32
pheerorintel produces nice gpu too (:00:32
teamcobraand I can vouch personally that the 780g chipset is a monster00:32
DanaGMonster?00:32
DanaGI just wish manufacturers wouldn't always pair AMD cpus with weak GPUs.00:32
teamcobraDanaG: plays crysis w/o any problems, same for stranglehold, 31337 fps in glxgears (not kidding) ;p00:33
teamcobraall on the onboard igp (3200hd I believe)00:33
teamcobraand not that glxgears is any performance metric00:33
* DanaG thinks the "£€€T" is far cooler than "1337"00:33
teamcobrayeh, but it really got 31,336.7 fps, that's the funny part ;p00:34
teamcobrastill, best igp I've ever seen. ever00:35
DanaGI'd love to get a laptop with the 3200 IGP plus a 3600 series discrete.00:36
DanaGI'd use the discrete when in Windows for games, and use the IGP when in Linux.00:36
teamcobraDanaG: msi is making some, not sure about the addon 360000:36
teamcobraI'd like to see just how big the motherboards for the mobile chipset are..... a tablet/subnotebook would be _wicked_00:37
DanaGOh yeah:00:37
DanaGhttp://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=26308500:38
teamcobraoh wow, they're already out00:38
teamcobranot bad at all, wonder how well the touchscreen is supported00:39
DanaGhttp://www.tabletpcreview.com/default.asp?newsID=119900:40
DanaGScreenshot of my current theme: http://picpaste.com/pics/screenshot-orange-nodoka.1213694702.png00:43
teamcobrapretty smooth00:43
teamcobraany of you guys into java dev?00:43
teamcobrahttp://ui.jquery.com/themeroller   <-- pretty smooth, unsure how well it works in other dev environments though00:44
DanaGI like how my theme is rather non-glossy.00:45
teamcobrawb00:49
DanaGPidgin crashed.00:51
DanaGI was mucking around with the rimmer plugin.00:51
DanaGer, "gRIM"00:51
DanaGIt rather mangles things on doing the last-line fadeout.00:51
DanaGIt turned this: ♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡00:51
DanaGInto this: ♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡00:51
DanaG... fading out.00:52
DanaGOdd: I can't run the ut2k4 demo in Hardy / Intrepid.00:54
DanaGut2004-bin: ../../src/xcb_lock.c:77: _XGetXCBBuffer: Assertion `((int) ((xcb_req) - (dpy->request)) >= 0)' failed.00:55
teamcobrahrmm00:58
* teamcobra has ut2k4 at home, always uses wine though (stupid dvd doesn't have linux installers and most of the time I'm on dialup ;p ;p)00:58
Raptor45i have a large number of packages which require libgail to be removed to update... is this just something which should be waited out?01:12
DanaGTake a look at changelogs; perhaps that'll give a hint.01:14
Raptor45ill do that01:15
Raptor45that helped thanks, libgtk says "use conflicts and replaces on the different libgail binaries since the library is in gtk now"01:18
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tomaskoif everything worked in 8.04, at what point between the release of 8.04 and the release of 8.10 is it safe to begin updating?09:34
tomaskoi upgraded to 8.04 from 7.10 roughly around the week before 8.04's official release09:34
RAOFtomasko: The simple answer is "once 8.10 is released".09:35
tomaskoand the not-so-simple answer?09:35
RAOFDepends.09:35
RAOFOn precisely what you mean by "safe" :)09:36
RAOFIntrepid is not guaranteed not to break until it's released.  Anywhere up to the release date is fair game.09:36
tomaskowell what's so revolutionary about 8.10 that would cause, say file system damage or something major like that?09:37
RAOFIt gets progressively less likely to break as the release date approaches, though.09:37
tomaskoi don't care about stupid little gui settings being lost, but anything on cli not working would be devastating for me09:37
RAOFRight.  Well, it's not unheard of for Intrepid to stop booting; booting from a crypt-on-lvm setup has only just been fixed.09:38
tomaskoyeah, true, but i'd like to see the outcome of the kde4 migration as soon as possible without resorting to downloading the kde4 packages and keeping them along side with my kde3 packages09:38
tomaskoi don't have a very esoteric setup. i made sure all my hardware worked on linux _before_ i bought it. i don't have any lvm, raid, or any sort of crypt setup09:38
RAOFThen have a testing install?  It's unlikely (but not impossible!) that intrepid will break anything not on it's partition.09:39
tomaskojust wtf goes on that makes it so completely unaccountable until october 2008?09:40
tomaskoyou're not rewriting the entire linux kernel from scratch for every release09:40
tomaskoat least not the same with gnu tools to my knowledge either. most of it seems incremental with the exception of this kde4 business09:40
RAOFIt's not so much unaccountable, just that things will unavoidably (or accidentally) break at certain points.  For example, there's been a new libc upload recently.  If that had some problem with it, _everything_ would break, since everything links to libc.09:42
tomaskoare these security fixes or feature adds?09:42
tomaskobecause feature adds just seem like bloat at this point in something like libc09:43
tomaskoi could be wrong though09:43
RAOFNeither, both.  libc development continues - faster, fewer bugs, fewer security holes.09:43
RAOFPlenty of bugs in libc :)09:43
RAOFPlently of bugs in Miro, too, and I can't reach their bugtracker :(09:44
tomaskoneither, both?09:45
RAOFWell, it's bug fixes, feature improvements, security fixes.09:45
RAOFlibc is in no way frozen; there's a new upstream release approximately every Ubuntu release.09:46
tomaskodid you read andrew morton's interview on lwn btw?09:46
RAOFNo.09:47
tomaskohe suggested a bugfix kernel. it'd be nice to have something like that for some of these things -- perhaps for years at a time09:48
tomaskoit's embarrassing to think that libc even has that many bugs09:48
RAOFSome of it is because the kernel changes, and so libc wants to follow.09:49
tomaskohey, by the way, if i have a partially downloaded PDF, and i try to view it in konqueror, could that corrupt the PDF?09:52
tomaskogmail's taking a while to download the whole PDF, so i'm not sure i'll be able to read the paper properly09:53
RAOFIt shouldn't corrupt the pdf, no.  It doesn't have to :)09:53
tomaskogood. that was my line of thinking, but konqueror, for whatever reason, decided to spawn a kate process instead of an internal kpdf instance and warned me not to open the binary format file09:54
tomaskoi terminated kate, so hopefully nothing happened right? i mean... even if it went through, i just tried to open the file, not write contents to it09:54
RAOFRight.  Although it may have tried to open it for writing, which may have wigged things.  But, again, shouldn't have.09:55
tomaskois there a way to send out larger packets on an already established tcp connection?10:05
tomaskomy feeling is that if i increase the size of the packets, the total number of packets transmitted will decrease, and the associated overhead costs will drop10:05
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timingthis bug affects intrepid as well: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/20904716:35
ubottuLaunchpad bug 209047 in linux "Sound did work in 2.6.24-5 but not in 2.6.24-7 till 2.6.24-16" [Undecided,Incomplete]16:35
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ethana2Are we still going to have the same number of alphas this go?19:34
ethana2or did they drop one?19:35
SevenSethanyone can tell me why the version alpha 1 of ubuntu 8.10 was not released yet?20:48
ethana2well20:49
ethana2it's important that it work fairly well20:49
ethana2something must have come up20:49
SevenSethcanonical never missed up20:49
ethana2so you're as anxious as I am to try it?20:50
SevenSethof course20:50
SevenSeth=)20:50
ethana2yeah20:50
ethana2I'm like20:50
ethana2a pre release ubuntu addict now20:50
SevenSethlolol20:50
SevenSeth=)20:51
ethana2last time I only used it from alpha 320:51
ethana2mainly for drivers20:51
LaneyPeople were working on 8.04.120:51
ethana2ohhh20:51
ethana2that's right20:51
ethana2do any OS'es play awesome music as you install them?20:52
icanhasI'm going to run alpha 1 on a production machine. It'll be awesome.20:52
ethana2heh, same20:52
ethana2not advised perhaps20:52
ethana2but you come here before running updates20:53
ethana2report every bug you find20:53
icanhas.... kidding obviously :)20:53
ethana2well though20:53
ethana2if you don't /use/ it20:53
ethana2you won't find the bugs20:53
ethana2and eventually everyone will use it20:53
icanhasYeah, I'm comfortable running it dual boot on a production machine ;)20:53
ethana2so the people that know how to /handle/ bugs best get on it first20:53
ethana2you know?20:53
icanhasI'm great at finding bugs.20:53
ethana2yep20:53
ethana2me too, with all my crazy corner cases20:54
icanhasI was so plesently surprised with 8.04, almost works too well.20:54
ethana2then came libc620:54
icanhasxD20:54
ethana2now I know how to chroot from a livecd20:54
icanhaslol20:55
ethana2it'd be a shame not to put that experience to good use20:55
ethana2so here I am20:55
icanhasIs there a way to install from a live cd, and move to your installed location without rebooting?20:55
ethana2uhh... that I don't know20:55
icanhasI'd imagine it'd involve a few interesting tactics.20:56
ethana2yeah20:56
ethana2unmounting /20:56
ethana2interesting may be an understatement20:56
icanhastrue :D So, since I'm in complete oblivion.. new gnome/xorg in ibex right?20:56
ethana2as always20:56
ethana2but probably not /yet/20:56
icanhas2.2 caused some funny compiz issues during hardy beta20:57
ethana2oh wait20:58
ethana2I'm going to be on an nvidia geforce 8400m gs20:58
ethana2is that going to be a royal pain while alpha testing?20:58
icanhasNo not at all, unless there's a similar compositing issue20:58
ethana2I mean with drivers20:58
ethana2if we get a new X and/or kernel...20:58
ethana2which we will eventually20:58
icanhasI couldn't see a reason why. Maybe I'm just familiar enough with Xorg... I can imagine a work around for anything.20:59
ethana2gahh, dang nvidia and their closed drivers.20:59
icanhasATI really isn't much better.20:59
ethana2WHAT?!20:59
ethana2you're kidding, right?20:59
ethana2they were worse20:59
ethana2now they open specs20:59
ethana2and their proprietary drivers don't suck as much20:59
ethana2crossfire support and everything20:59
icanhasI agree with you, but only because I'm more familiar with ATI21:00
ethana2same day cross-OS driver releases21:00
icanhasmost nvidia fans will say ther opposite, and there are a lot of them21:00
ethana2whoa21:00
icanhasIf I had a beer for every time I installed/reinstalled/compiled a version of fglrx for some poor schmo...21:01
ethana2http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjU0Mg21:01
icanhasis that really surprising to you?21:01
ethana2oh wait, that's just nouveau21:02
icanhasIf you make a graphical map of FOSS projects, showing both size/importance of the project and actual productivity over the last 2 years, Xorg would be huge and short.21:02
* icanhas can't wait for DRI2 tho21:02
ethana2I almost wish Linus got into X21:03
ethana2maybe that would spread him too thin21:04
icanhasX has so much potential... I think it must just be boring / difficult to work with, because there really aren't enough devs / useful devs21:04
ethana2it is horribly difficult21:04
ethana2the code is ugly as sin21:04
icanhasthat's what i thought21:04
ethana2maybe it just needs a complete rewrite21:04
icanhasprojects like compiz have jumped LEAPYEARS in a short period of time21:04
ethana2with kernel mode setting, DRI2, and gallium21:04
ethana2now would be a good time ;)21:05
icanhasyes now would be wonderful21:05
ethana2then there's MPX21:05
ethana2*sigh*21:05
jtechidnaThings like Compiz, KWin and Plasma have been pushing X in directions it hadn't really been pushed before21:05
icanhasMPX would make my head explode... compiz / custom plugins + 2 wii remotes21:06
icanhasjtechidna: in all fairness, that's a very true statement21:06
ethana2yeah it is21:06
* jtechidna hopes for the best X-wise21:06
icanhaswhat's the state of MPX right now?21:06
ethana2merged21:07
ethana2I think...21:07
icanhaswith/to ?21:07
ethana2to master21:07
icanhasoh21:07
ethana2it's part of X now21:07
icanhasanyone working on it? :P21:07
ethana2of course21:07
ethana2frantically like as not21:08
jtechidnaThe real question is "are people working on allowing their apps to utilize it"21:08
ethana2yeah that'll be the bottleneck soon21:08
ethana2of course21:08
icanhasI disagree there21:08
ethana2can the X11 protocol handle everything it needs to?21:08
icanhasI could see OOo jumping on that... there's a project that moves fast when it has to21:08
ethana2it seems kinda old21:08
ethana2I've wondered the same of posix at times...21:09
icanhasYeah.. what about the linux kernel? That's kinda old too..21:09
* icanhas ducks21:09
ethana2but it changes21:09
icanhastrue21:09
ethana2adapts constantly21:09
ethana2X11 and posix are frozen, no?21:09
icanhasI'm not very good at FOSS/Gnu debating. I probably just don't know enough xD21:10
icanhasi believe that's correct21:10
icanhasWhere do I go to make an obvious suggestion for ibex? ccsm (or some form of it) really needs to be included with default install.21:12
ethana2www.brainstorm.ubuntu.com21:13
ethana2that idea is by no means new.21:13
icanhasthat's too obvious21:13
icanhasI know, and the argument is, ubuntu is getting very bloated very fast21:13
icanhaswhich i agree with. I think going forward ubuntu really should have a "basic" install option, that by default leaves out a certain group of packages21:14
ethana2bloat is windows21:16
ethana2we have feature creep21:16
ethana2it's very different21:16
ethana2vista brings down hardware prices21:16
ethana2and we use the hardware properly21:17
ethana2it's like a symbiotic relationship21:17
ethana2or predator prey in the long run, whatever21:17
icanhasHeh, yeah, just helped a buddy clean up his vista machine.. had 15Gb of lost harddrive space taken up by useless million year old restore points and an entirely overkill 8Gb Hibernation section21:19
icanhashe's using the new free space to install ubuntu ;)21:19
pottywhens intrepid 1 cumming out?21:39
icanhaspotty: you have a potty mouth21:45
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kernelmodeso whens alpha 1 getting releaseD?21:46
icanhaskernelmode: dunno, but it won't have kernel mode21:47
kernelmodeumm the linux kernel supports kernel and user mode21:47
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pottytheshitterat least windows has a journalling filesystem that dosent suck like all linux filesystems21:51
* icanhas glances at the sign on that wall that reads, "don't feed the trolls"21:51
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jtechidnaI lol'd21:54
ethana2well, that dude may be interested in a certain court case21:54
ethana2ntfs is in court accusing XFS of rape21:54
pottytheshitter I ask that the the ubuntu devs add ext4 for intrepid21:54
pottytheshitterwhere does it say NTFS is in court?21:55
ethana2nevermind21:55
ethana2bad joke21:55
ethana2there may be no way to make that kind of thing tasteful21:55
* ethana2 gives up21:55
ethana2I was just told that apple hardware is losing quality21:57
icanhasAny reason why it's ok to have profainity in your nick?21:57
ethana2yarr, need to go to #ubuntu-offtopic for my chit chat21:57
ethana2no, it's not okay actually21:57
ethana2!ohmy21:57
ubottuPlease watch your language and topic to help keep this channel family friendly.21:57
icanhasyeah, that's what i thought21:57
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kernelmodeI am starting to lose patient with *buntus21:58
timingwouldn't it be nice that if you accidently switch to tty1 it shows a message on top: 'to go back to the graphical environment, hit alt+f7'22:39
timingi just happend to press ctrl+alt+f122:39
timingi know how to switch back22:39
timingbut others don't22:39
Lunar_LampHeh, I've never hit that by accident timing!22:45
joaopintotiming, CTRL - ALT - fn, is not something very easy to produce by accident22:48
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timingit is, if you have alt+f1 for workspace 1 :-)23:08
timingi pressed it like 10 times in my life so far23:09
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