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fulat2khi folks, any idea why i'm getting BUG: unable to handle kernel msg after a dist-upgrade?03:05
RAOFA bug?03:07
RAOFfulat2k: For a more useful answer, you'd need to provide some more useful information (where does this message appear.  When does this message appear.  Context of message, etc).03:09
fulat2kRAOF: message appears upon boot; after grub.  does this bug qualify if i run it under VirtualBox? :)03:21
RAOFYes.03:21
RAOFIt's either a VirtualBox bug, or an Intrepid bug.03:22
RAOFs/Intrepid/Intrepid kernel/03:22
fulat2kRAOF: i'm getting "kernel panic - not syncing: fatal exception in interrupt"03:26
RAOFRight, it's a _serious_ bug somewhere.03:26
RAOFI'm not sure what else you'd like me to say :)03:27
fulat2kRAOF: no doubt about that :D03:27
fulat2kRAOF: off to launchpad...03:31
alex_mayorgahi, I'd like to get the new pidgin release that for some reason is slow on getting to hardy. Is it at least a bit safe to jump into the Ibex?04:06
jbroomei had a pidgin update in hardy a couple of days ago04:06
RAOFalex_mayorga: Why do you think the new pidgin release is going to get to hardy _at all_?04:07
alex_mayorgaRAOF, because of the bug report I saw04:07
hyperairwhat bug report04:07
Hobbseeintrepid is not safe.  there's still no X for a whole chunk of people04:08
hyperairlike me T_T04:09
alex_mayorgahttps://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/pidgin/+bug/244591 maybe I got lost at some point anyway04:09
RAOFHobbsee: Those silly people reliant on proprietary drivers :)04:09
ubottuLaunchpad bug 244591 in pidgin "Cannot connect to ICQ ("The client version you are using is too old.")" [Critical,Fix released]04:09
RAOFOh, that one.04:09
hyperairRAOF: i heard that >=(04:09
alex_mayorgaRAOF, I don't use proprietary drivers, can I jump in? :)04:10
RAOFhyperair: !nouveau :P04:10
* hyperair wants 3d support!04:10
RAOFalex_mayorga: It's not guaranteed not to eat your children.04:10
hyperair!nouveau04:10
ubottuNouveau is an experimental open-source nVidia driver, aiming for full 3d support.  Homepage at http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/ - EXPERIMENTAL packages at https://launchpad.net/~raof/+archive04:10
* RAOF has 3d support. Ish.04:10
HobbseeRAOF: yeah, exactly.04:10
hyperairi'm using nvidia geforce4 mx 44004:10
alex_mayorgaRAOF, got no children, yet... so what the heck :)04:10
hyperairin case you forgot04:10
hyperairnv18 has no 3d04:10
alex_mayorgaRAOF, any "upgrade path" I should test?04:10
RAOFRight.  And probably won't have for some time.04:11
hyperairsee what i mean?04:11
RAOFalex_mayorga: "update-manager -d"?04:11
* hyperair glares04:11
alex_mayorgaRAOF, thanks I'll give that a shot04:11
RAOFhyperair: This isn't to say that you have a _choice_.04:11
hyperairi do actually04:11
alex_mayorgaso pidgin 2.4.3 is not comming to hardy then?04:11
RAOFalex_mayorga: Again, don't be terribly surprised when it turns your computer into a flaming husk of evil.04:11
hyperairi can sit aruond in archlinux and this channel until i hear news that nvidia is back in intrepid04:11
RAOFalex_mayorga: No.  A one or two line patch will be applied to pidgin in Hardy.04:12
alex_mayorgaRAOF, that's the whole point of release early/often right?04:12
alex_mayorgahyperair, how do you like arch? I keep hearing of it all over in the local GULs04:13
alex_mayorgaany chance an "in-flux" ubuntu would ever be created?04:13
RAOFYou mean the equivalent of Debian Testing?04:13
HobbseeRAOF: it's already applied to hardy.04:14
Hobbsee    pidgin | 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.1 | hardy-updates | source, amd64, i386 <-- fixed version.04:14
alex_mayorgaRAOF, I guess04:14
alex_mayorgaRAOF, I've got a Radeon Xpress 1100 here, anything particularly ugly I should be aware of?04:16
RAOFIt might not work?04:17
Hobbseeit's likely to eat your toes?04:17
alex_mayorgaRAOF, any buggers already discovered?04:17
RAOFalex_mayorga: In particular, the whole X stack is currently in a bit of flux; we've just got a new libdrm and (substantially new) mesa, and a new X is sitting in NEW.04:18
RAOFalex_mayorga: No idea.  I'm not launchpad.net :)04:18
RAOFMy knowledge of X bugs is limited to nouveau :P04:18
alex_mayorgafair enough04:19
hyperairwhat do you mean in-flux?04:21
RAOFhyperair: changing.04:21
hyperairumm like rolling release?04:21
alex_mayorgayeah, we need rubuntu :)04:22
hyperairlol04:22
HobbseeRAOF: oh, sweet.  i hadn't realised that was done nwo04:22
hyperairi'm all for a rolling release ubuntu04:22
hyperairbut i think it would affect ubuntu's stability adversely.04:22
RAOFhyperair: No, like "substantially different new packages are being uploaded".04:22
alex_mayorgahyperair, lets create it on  launchpad04:22
hyperairi see04:22
RAOFSuch as the xorg-server 1.5 RC.04:23
RAOFAnd a mesa RC.  And the new libdrm release.04:23
hyperairalex_mayorga: if you want a rolling release ubuntu, it'd be ubuntu+1 actually04:23
hyperairit's just unstable as hell04:23
RAOFThese things are at the bottom of your (well, not yours, because you're a filthy-nvidia-driver-using-heathen ;)) graphics stack.  As such, breakage here results in pain.04:24
* hyperair glares at RAOF04:24
hyperairrub it in will you04:24
RAOF:P04:25
alex_mayorgaRAOF, video is overrated :P04:25
hyperairRAOF: here, have a cup of hate.04:25
alex_mayorgaCLI FTW04:25
hyperairmmhmm. i remember watching code geass with mplayer and -vo fbdev04:25
* RAOF looks forward to nouveau getting magically faster by being built against 1.5, with it's shiny new faster EXA.04:25
* hyperair looks forward to nvidia working on ubuntu again04:26
alex_mayorgaRAOF, I guess the release notes bug is already reported, right? LOL04:26
RAOFhyperair: Have I pointed you at the patch that makes nvidia build against Intrepid yet?04:26
hyperairRAOF: yes, and i've also pointed out that i require 96.43.0504:27
hyperairor one of the 96.xx.xx drivers04:27
RAOFBah!  How do you expect me to remember such details?! :)04:27
RAOFIncidentally, it seems that nvidia have broken compatibility _again_, so we may have _4_ separate nvidia-glx packages in Intrepid.04:27
* hyperair points up at the part where i pointed out i was using nv1804:27
hyperairFOUR FRIGGING NVIDIA PACKAGE04:28
hyperairS04:28
alex_mayorgaditch nvidia already04:28
* hyperair wants to grill nvidia04:28
RAOF-legacy, -new-legacy, -glx, -glx-new :)04:28
alex_mayorgago intel accross the board04:28
RAOFI contend that we will eventially have a nvidia-glx-legacy-new-legacy-new-legacy package.04:29
hyperairalex_mayorga: dude. my card is frigging old, and so is my mobo. an upgrade to my GPU will require an upgrade to my mobo, because this one doesn't have pci2 or whatever is needed for new gpus. an upgrade to my mobo will require an upgrade to my CPU, which uses the old slot (p4). it will also require an upgrade to my RAM, which are DDR1.04:29
hyperairand then possibly my hard disks becaue they're ide04:29
hyperairand then possibly my dvd and cd drives, because they're also ide04:30
hyperairput together, i think i'll just get a new computer when this one dies.04:30
hyperairit's cheaper04:30
alex_mayorgahyperair, get an eeePC :)04:30
RAOFYup.04:30
RAOFIncidentally, you can get quite new AGP cards from ATI.04:30
hyperairi will _not_ settle for a such a low-spec'd computer04:31
hyperairRAOF: i've been wondering, catalyst is the proprietary driver right? does it support all cards? with 2d and 3d support?04:31
RAOFI think it does, yes.04:31
hyperairso catalyst is like nvidia's blob?04:31
hyperairexcept that it supports every ati card that existed?04:32
hyperairand catalyst would be what, fglrx?04:32
alex_mayorgahyperair, I've come to a point where "the net is the putter" for me; so I can go as low spec'd as it can be04:32
RAOFNot quite.  The difference being: when they drop old cards we don't have to care, because the open-source driver does everything fglrx does.04:32
alex_mayorgaas long as I've got a big "tube"04:32
hyperairalex_mayorga: i'd like to have a computer that is at least at the same level as my current.04:33
hyperairalex_mayorga: 17" screen here. i can't stand eeePC's tiny screen.04:33
hyperairi also abuse my hard disk04:33
hyperairwatch a lot of anime04:33
RAOFI think that fglrx dropped support for r100 and r200 cards recently, but noone cared because their open-source 3d is of comparable quality.04:33
hyperairso eeePC is out of the question for me04:33
hyperairRAOF: have you seen the dell display 15?04:34
hyperairit's got an ati mobility radeon hd 3450 or something like that04:34
hyperairi heard it's got support by radeonhd but no 3d.04:34
hyperairwhat about catalyst?04:34
RAOFYah, it'll have catalyst support.04:34
hyperairwoo hoo04:35
hyperairin that case maybe i'll get that =\04:35
RAOFIt'll be supported by radeon, too (and probably with better support, because radeon doesn't feel compelled to re-write the bios).04:35
RAOFBut again, not 3d quite yet.04:35
hyperairwtf rewrite the bios?04:35
hyperairso it flashes the mobo with a new bios or what?04:36
RAOFThat's the whole AtomBios saga - radeon (and fglrx) use the card's bios to say "initialise yourself", radeonhd (used to) try to do that work itself, by poking appropriate registers.04:37
RAOFIncidentally, nouveau does the same thing with the nvidia cards.04:38
RAOFIt's not flashing the bios, or changing anything on the card; it's using the functions of the bios, rather than trying to reimplement them.04:39
hyperairso radeonhd reimplements the functions of the bios?04:40
RAOFYes.04:40
hyperairmeh what thehell04:40
RAOFThis meant that it took them ages to support new cards, whereas it took radeon a day to support the new cards.04:40
hyperairi see.04:40
hyperairdamn.04:41
RAOFThey've revisited this decision and are now moving to use the AtomBios stuff.04:41
alex_mayorgawhen is the tiny new laptop from dell being released?04:41
jbroomealex_mayorga: dunno, but it is releveant to my interests04:42
alex_mayorgajbroome, it should be cheaper than an iPhone I believe, right?04:44
hyperairwait. a laptop cheaper than a phone? this gotta be interesting.04:44
jbroomedunno04:44
RAOFThat doesn't seem unlikely.  iPhones are going for AUD$730 for the 8Gb version.  I reckon you could grab a (pretty crappy) laptop for that.04:45
hyperair1k for a laptop? O_o04:46
hyperairsorry04:46
hyperairi'm thinking in MYR04:46
alex_mayorgaI guess ubuntu for the iPhone is not too far fetched is it?04:48
jbroomeyes04:48
alex_mayorgaif only steevo would let the keys of the kingdom loose somewhere :)04:48
alex_mayorgaRAOF, do the devs care about forums posts like this one http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=850183 at all?04:49
RAOFAlmost all devs will never even _see_ such posts.04:50
Hobbseeor the forum in general.04:51
RAOFIndeed.04:51
Hobbseebetter that it goes on the ideastorm site04:52
Hobbseeseeing as that tends to work better04:52
RAOFAnd I'd wager that even the devs who _do_ read the forums will generally only skim the Intrepid section.04:52
alex_mayorgaso bug reports it is?04:52
RAOFBug reports work well for bugs, yes.04:52
* Hobbsee skims the intrepid section04:53
Hobbseei should really subscribe to intrepid-changes sometime.04:53
Hobbseetrouble with teh forums is that usually they do things like pulling software from elsewhere, pulling firmware from elsewhere, or just massively changing configs, which makes it very hard to track anything down.04:58
Hobbseeso most of what they report is useless, in terms of bugs, as their issues can't be reproduced.04:58
Hobbseewhich is why so few people look at them, i suspect.04:58
RAOFAnd the signal-to-noise for feature requests is usually pretty poor, too.04:59
Hobbseeand they're just bad at staying on topic.04:59
Hobbseeas for why they keep posting stuff about the hardy point release in the intrepid forums, i've got nfi...04:59
RAOFHm.  We seem to have some DRI2 headers in intrepid.  I wonder how nouveau's DRI2 gallium is coming along...05:00
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SwedeMikeI have problem with the stock hardy kernel. I have compiled a 2.6.26-rc8 kernel that seems to be stable for me (I have kernel oops in 2.6.24), but sound doesn't work. Would an intrepid kernel work for me? I would like to alpha/beta test intrepid kernel for stability on my via motherboard, but would like to avoid doing a complete install.06:36
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BUGabundo_work1hi11:35
BUGabundo_work1is tseliot around?11:35
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theunixgeekhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/Desktop_Background_Submissions12:55
theunixgeekThe only good one here is the Sunny Ibex12:56
theunixgeekFrankly it's the only usable one :P12:56
theunixgeekThe other ones just look bad.12:57
theunixgeekExcept for the ones at the bottom12:57
Hobbseewow, i like the abstraction one12:58
theunixgeekI think that person's recommnedation is awesome having some alternate wallpapers12:58
* Hobbsee wonders where to get a higher resolution version fo that13:01
Hobbseeah ha.  i think i found the guy that put it up13:20
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null_vectorWho can I talk to about nvidia issues on intrepid?  I can file a bug now but all it will say is it doesn't work.  Nothing shows up in the X log.16:58
hyperairme.16:59
hyperairnvidia's default driver won't compile in intrepid's kernel16:59
hyperairalso there are changes being done to lrm16:59
hyperairso currently intrepid is effectively nvidia-less17:00
null_vectorah, that would be why I couldn't get any info from the X log. The driver isn't really present.17:01
hyperairyes17:01
hyperairtry sudo modprobe nvidia17:01
null_vectorAlright.  I thought I remembered it complaining in the X log if the module wasn't loaded/loadable but that may have been fglrx17:02
null_vectorAt work right now, I'll check it out when I get home.17:03
hyperairah i see17:08
s0u][ighthi guys17:31
pheerorhey17:31
pheerorsh*t, i'm still getting the same boot time kernel problem17:32
s0u][ightis there some kind of script to upgrade to this version of ubuntu allready?17:32
pheerorthere is rewritten on-screen log http://pastebin.com/m1dbb753917:32
daekdrooms0u][ight, run update-manager -d using sudo17:32
hyperairnoneed sudo17:33
s0u][ighthow stable is it?17:33
hyperairjust update-manager -d will do17:33
hyperairit'll automatically gksudo you17:33
pheerorinode 4489217 is linked by /lib and working fine if i boot from the .24 kernel17:33
s0u][ightfor the dev guys i have something to say17:34
s0u][ightplz fix the touchpad thing so i don't have to use 2 bootparameters17:34
daekdrooms0u][ight, It's very unstable.17:34
pheerorI've also tried recompile the ubuntu kernel with the gcc 4.1 but the bug is still there17:34
pheerorany thoughts? thx17:34
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sleepsterwhat's the most stable X window system?22:12
RAOFHeh.  I see the X breakage is in full swing now :)23:40
ikoniaRAOF: it certainly is23:46
RAOFI wonder if the nvidia driver even loads against the new ABI.23:48
RAOFI think it might; Fedora have been shipping a 1.5 pre-release for some time.23:48
RAOFMmm, shiny, shiny new EXA.23:49
gnomefreakits due to -core23:55
gnomefreakxserver-xorg-core is cause of X breakage23:56
gnomefreaki will speak to timo to find out when fixed23:56
ikoniaRAOF: it doesnt work properly23:57

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