[00:00] And I'm tired and sick. [00:00] RAOF, i was going to ask you about that. i thought it was only in your ppa [00:00] RAOF: problem is libnss3-1d is borked here E: I wasn't able to locate file for the libnss3-1d package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package. [00:00] E: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download [00:01] i get the following error when i try and run envyng -t with sudo in intrepid. any idea if i could fix it ? SystemError: E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. [00:02] how do I remove a package no-deps like? [00:03] Anyone on the wifi problem? [00:03] Alex_Gaynor, manually modprobe the wireless driver [00:03] bsnider: How would I do that? [00:04] what's the driver? [00:04] alex_mayorga: That's after running "sudo aptitude reinstall libnss3-1d"? [00:04] I have an Intel 4965 card, not sure what the driver would be for that [00:04] alex_mayorga: If so, I'd suggest a bit of an "aptitude update && aptitude full-upgrade" [00:04] iwlagn I think [00:05] RAOF: yes, on #firefox we pinpoint my flash problems to a borked libnss3-1d package [00:05] Alex_Gaynor, you'll have to find out. when you do, go to a console and type sudo modprobe drivername [00:06] bsnider: Yeah that worked, after unenabling and reenabling wireless under Network manager it picked up the networks, will I need to do this every time I boot without wifi? [00:06] Alex_Gaynor, i suppose you will. it could be a bug [00:07] I'll go look on launchpad for it [00:07] good to know that I don't need to restart in any event [00:07] alex_mayorga: Pastebin 'apt-cache policy libnss3-1d' [00:08] RAOF: http://paste.ubuntu.com/56834/ [00:09] alex_mayorga: Why do you have a hardy PPA in your sources.list? [00:09] I don't [00:09] not that I knew at least [00:09] alex_mayorga: Well, you've installed libnss3-1d from a hardy PPA: Installed: 3.12.1~cvs20080501t1828-0ubuntu1~fta1~hardy [00:10] RAOF, probalby when I was testing nightlies of FF3 [00:10] RAOF, how do I get back on "track" [00:10] Right. And the (higher versioned) packages have remained. [00:11] You can try "sudo aptitude install libnss3-1d=3.12.0.3-0ubuntu5" [00:11] That might leave you with inconsistent packages, though, depending on whether or not you've got other packages lying around from that PPA. [00:12] RAOF: sudo aptitude install libnss3-1d=3.12.0.3-0ubuntu5 helped [00:12] RAOF: how can I check for PPA left overs? [00:13] check in synaptic for local or obsolete packages [00:16] bsnider: "Status" button? [00:17] myeah [00:17] bsnider: got quite some, how to handle them? [00:17] 67 to be exact :( [00:18] vilence and childish name-calling [00:18] ? [00:18] you have top decide if you want them or not [00:19] alex_mayorga: For those that you want the real packages of, you should "Force version" to intrepid. [00:20] I am having sound issues. I was playing Guild Wars via WINE under ibex, and I changed the sound setting from ALSA to OSS because the sound was scratchy, the WINE config program crashed, and no I have no sound at all even after 3 reboots [00:20] mostly obsolete kernels there, let me get rid of these first [00:23] wgrant: I really don't care about them, would be glad if there was a way to get me back to intrepid "plain" [00:24] alex_mayorga: I'm not sure that there's an easy way to do them all at once. [00:25] wondering how did I ended up with hal-device-manager in that list [00:26] alex_mayorga: It was renamed a while ago. [00:26] So it doesn't exist any more. [00:27] what to do with it? [00:27] alex_mayorga: Remove it. [00:27] I'm down to 48 [00:28] you have to remove all of them to get back to plain intrepid [00:28] does anyone know if it's possible to see Canon CR2 files as icons in Nautilus? [00:28] Hey, I'm on Ibex on a Toshiba laptop with an Intel integrated graphics chipset. I'm getting some nasty screen-tearing whenever I open the screen resolution tool, among other things. [00:28] Actually, you also need to remove the other repositories from your sources.list and apt-get update before it shows there. [00:29] LogicalDash: That's unfortunately unavoidable - it's how display connectors work. [00:29] wgrant: It wasn't there in Hardy [00:29] Hrmm, something must be making RandR calls more frequently. [00:30] It's a lot better than it used to be (opening a new GTK window used to cause that flicker). [00:30] I'd like to help out if possible but I don't have enough detail to make a useful bug report... [00:30] bsnider: thanks [00:31] LogicalDash: It's probably not fixable, with the new stuff that the Screen Resolution tool does. [00:31] ok [00:31] I believe that EDID is in-band, so it can either have reliable information or not flicker. [00:33] What is EDID? [00:33] * LogicalDash jfgoogles it [00:33] LogicalDash: It's the data that monitors provide to inform the operating system of which resolutions and refresh rates it supports. [00:33] thanks [00:34] Broken manufacturer EDIDs are the cause of most of our resolution detection problems. [00:34] An old Toshiba laptop I have around here identifies its LCD as 966x768. Who the heck thought of that crazy number? [00:34] wgrant: best course of action for Installed(auto removable)? [00:34] It even screws up the Windows drivers. [00:35] alex_mayorga: Remove them if you don't use them. It means that they were installed as a dependency of something else, but they're no longer needed. [00:35] DanaG: Ewww. We can add quirks for that, of course. [00:35] wgrant: that would be like sudo aptitude autoclean? [00:36] yes it would [00:36] alex_mayorga: No. autoremove. [00:36] autoclean removes obsolete .debs from the local package cache. [00:36] autoremove will remove the unused installed packages. [00:37] there's no autoremove for aptitude [00:37] I think the nv driver already does on that one. [00:37] The nvidia binary needs EDID override, though. [00:37] alex_mayorga: apt-get autoremove, then. [00:38] DanaG: Ah yes, but the nvidia driver is crap. [00:38] wgrant, blasphemy [00:38] And on that laptop, it's broken. nvidia 96 drivers. [00:38] Terrible, I know. [00:38] Yay for proprietary software! Isn't it great? [00:38] I moved that hard drive back to a different system that has S3 Savage... and the Savage driver actually works better than nv. [00:39] And nouveau... makes Xorg eat like 40% CPU. [00:39] Really!? The S3 driver was pretty awful, I thought. [00:39] the nvidia driver is the top graphics driver for linux [00:39] But I guess not much compares to the awfulness of fglrx and the blob. [00:39] and there isn't a close second [00:39] On my next laptop, I'm getting ATI. Even if the drivers are crap..... at least it's open-source crap. [00:39] Read: nvidia 96. Broken. [00:39] bsnider: Which metric do you use? [00:40] hardware accelerated opengl [00:40] Ah. [00:40] xv [00:40] That is an odd metric. [00:40] nv can't do it either. [00:40] stability [00:40] It fails to support things like XRandR 1.2. [00:40] That is a killer. [00:40] Oh yeah, and nv inverts two of the color channels... but not the third. [00:40] It also fails to support things like recent X servers. [00:41] On xv, that is. [00:41] but of course through its control panel it has its own randr features [00:41] I find the Intel driver to be very good. [00:41] bsnider: But that's not integrated nor usefully dynamic. [00:41] dynamically useful? [00:41] i find it terribly useful [00:42] The changes that one can make with nvidia-settings require an X restart, in general. [00:42] And it's very hard to use. [00:42] And we have a proper solution now. [00:42] Also, for laptops with switchable integrated and discrete GPUs.... you have to choose accelerated NVIDIA or accelerated Intel. You can't have both, thanks to NVIDIA replacing system libraries. [00:42] does anyone know how to change touchpad settings with the new intrepid hal? [00:42] you're right ont he 3rd point [00:42] berbsd: I coded lots of the frontend for that. Which setting do you want to change? [00:42] berbsd: And are your running i386 or amd64? [00:42] two fingers vertical scrolling? [00:43] i386 [00:43] OK, excellent. [00:43] Lots of config options aren't exposed by the GUI. [00:43] Take a look at my fdi file: [00:43] DanaG: I'm fixing that for Jaunty. [00:43] Will it have _all_ the possible settings? [00:43] I preference use of xinput - it allows one to set options dynamically at runtime. [00:43] DanaG: I hope so. [00:44] off topic: takes on inspiron mini 9 and netbook remix? [00:44] Best thing for setting Edge values: do it the way the Windows Synaptics control panel does it. [00:44] DanaG: where can I find the file? Should I add my own copy under /etc/hal/fdi or is there a per user location? [00:44] berbsd: Find your touchpad's name in 'xinput list'. 'xinput set-int-prop "Your Touchpad Name" "Synaptics Two-Finger Scrolling" 8 1 0' [00:44] You'll make a new copy, under /etc/hal/fdi/policy. [00:45] Or use an FDI file. There are docs on that somewhere. [00:45] http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~dgoyette/19-synaptics.fdi [00:45] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config#hal [00:45] wgrant: when you make changes using xinput, where are the settings saved? [00:45] Oddly enough, the EmulateTwoFingerMinZ thing affects only scrolling, not tapping. :( [00:46] berbsd: They aren't at the moment, but you can easily add it to your session. [00:46] So maybe an fdi file is better for now. [00:46] And then remove the synaptics section in xorg.conf. [00:46] DanaG: That's quite intentional. Somebody probably failed to realise the naming ambiguity. [00:46] That's another reason I switched the hard drive back to the Savage laptop: Synaptics, not Alps. [00:46] DanaG: We'll be removing those on upgrade soon. [00:47] DanaG: How does the Windows Synaptics control panel do edge setting? (note that a new version of -synaptics detects it very nicely from the hardware) [00:48] It uses a thingy that shows where on the axes your finger is, and then has boxes you drag to indicate edge regions. [00:48] Ahh. [00:48] wgrant: Oooh. You're right. The new X _doesn't_ give BadDevice errors on xinput list-props :) [00:48] wgrant: okay, using xinput worked, I'll try the fdi file. I assume it requires to restart the hal. One thing though, if I do xinput list-props "appletouch", the property I changed still shows the default [00:48] RAOF: It gives other failures? [00:48] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/images/synaptics-driver-scrolling-settings.png [00:48] wgrant: Correct. It simply doesn't return any values. [00:48] berbsd: I fixed that upstream, but I'm yet to have that pulled into Ubuntu. It actually set it. [00:49] It'll show arrows corresponding to where your finger is. [00:49] RAOF: OK, so that is universal. Good. [00:49] wgrant: Or, rather, it shows "Fetch failure" for Device enabled :) [00:49] RAOF: Right. [00:49] RAOF: Can I just remove amd64 from the archive to fix it? Pllleeease? [00:49] Oh yeah, do you know anything about Synaptics hardware itself? For example, the difference between a V6.3 touchpad and a V7 touchpad? [00:50] wgrant: should xinput be used as well to replace xmodmap to specify the third level choosers for instance? [00:50] berbsd: I'm not entirely sure about that. [00:50] I love the altgr-deadkeys keyboard layout. [00:51] DanaG: I don't know much about the kernel layer, which is where that'd be handled. [00:51] what's the status of b43? [00:51] usable? [00:52] It'd also be useful to make synclient use whatever will make it not have to enable SHMConfig, while still letting you do synclient -m