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lool'night00:48
ogranigh00:54
loolhi07:41
loologra: I think you have a far better idea than me of touchscreen and calibration; do you think there's still things to track/rescue in 163850?08:09
crevettehello10:17
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* lool is happy to report that the ubuntu-mid daily from today boots fine on jax10 now12:34
persiaExcellent!  Does it install with the storage split, or do we need to trim the seeds?12:35
loolpersia: I'm not sure I'm ready to install just yet; would like to finish backup/restore of the OS procs before moving on12:36
loolI wrote half of it12:36
loolpersia: It's likely that the installer wont be very usable though12:37
loolthe res is too low12:37
loolThe first step screen is already garbled12:37
lool(quit/back/forward overlaps "Please choose")12:37
persiaRight.  The resolution issues.12:38
* persia registers a spec12:38
loolsurprisingly, the map screen is more usable than on the CB12:38
loolOn CB, the display is extremely slow12:39
loolWhich makes using the map almost impossible12:39
loolpersia: I'm pleasantly surprized as the steps after step 1 are much more usable12:40
loolpartitionner should be in a scrolled window I'm afraid12:40
loolI can only read up to "Manual"12:40
loolStevenK: scrollwheel doesn't work in kourou   :-P12:41
StevenKI don't care :-P12:42
persialool, file a bug.  I can confirm it doesn't work with synaptics either.12:42
loolpersia: It might be that the fonts are too big; cgregan raised this issue more than once12:42
persialool, No, it's that the interface is designed in such a way as it's not expected to work at 640x480, and such a small resolution isn't a target for the release team.12:43
persiaThat's why I'm registering a spec for a new frontend.  We just need some glade and a bit of glue, but it's beyond me.12:43
loolpersia: well I think both are true, but the fonts are too big aand waste space12:43
persialool, They aren't too big for me on the D4.  Blame your hardware.12:44
persia(or get davidz's DPI-independence patches merged faster)12:44
loolpersia: Yeah, the issue is that they are too big at this res12:47
persialool, Or the UI needs stretching.12:47
* persia goes back to registering the spec12:47
loolWell text really looks stupidly big12:48
loolpff stupid mass rename is a dialog12:48
persialool, Looking too big on your hardware is different than being too big.  That said, perhaps the target DPI could be adjusted : there's not much as dense as the D4.12:49
persialool, https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/low-res-ubiquity-frontend12:50
loolthanks12:50
loolpersia: Well I guess the fonts size should be adapter to whatever dpi is being used12:51
loolor specified in an absolute metric12:51
loolmidbrowser is unusable as the address bar is shrinked to 0 pixels12:52
persialool, Yeah.  The problem needs fixing.  I'd personally rather have stuff get info from xrandr and use that to take decisions about appropriate font size and the like.  We can add quirks for broken things.12:52
loolbut fonts look ok in midbrowser :-)12:52
persiaHeh.  My network doesn't work, so I haven't done much testing of midbrowser.  I suspect the fonts will be "too small" on my device (although I'm unlikely to complain, as I like small fonts).12:53
loolnetwork doesn't work here either12:54
loolI'm using an ethernet usb dongle which works12:54
loolargh, need to grab coffee real quick12:54
ogramm, coffeee12:54
persiaTeam Meeting in #ubuntu-meeting in 5 minutes12:55
amitkogra: new lpia kernel in usual location -4.713:10
ograamitk, ok13:10
* ogra wonders how we get that past the release managers13:10
persiabribery?13:11
ograheh13:11
amitkif beer doesn't work, bodily harm surely will :)13:11
ian_brasilfonts seem ok on midbrowser...it is just not very usable without access to any settings or the ability to install any plugins13:19
persiaian_brasil, Well, for my last MID, I used NetFront, so it's not that much feature loss for me.  That said, yes, it could get *lots* better.13:20
* ogra might remap the menu key on the Q1 at least13:20
persiaian_brasil, The Mozilla team has packaged fennec, and I think it might get some testing as a replacement for the next release (although I'm not sure it will be default).13:20
* ogra still fails to find a package13:21
ian_brasilright..we do some dev stuff with fennec here and one of the guys was asking about getting it on ubuntu..i will poke him when i arrive at work13:22
persiaian_brasil, It came too late for intrepid, but it's probably one of the first uploads for Jaunty.13:23
ian_brasilsweet13:23
persiaI think it's in a PPA too, although I forget which.  You might check the mozillateam ppa.13:24
amitkogra: what will it take to make the circular directional key on Q1 to behave like standard arrow keys?14:13
ograamitk, the jystick already does that14:13
ogra*joystick14:14
ograjust switch to joystick mode14:14
ograit would take a patch to hal-info 14:14
ogranothing we can get in anymore for intreid though14:14
ogra*intrepid14:14
amitkogra: joystick is not as intuitive as the arrow keys14:18
ograamitk, well, its at least not different to hardy, it uses exatly the same keycodes14:19
ograi agree that it can be improved, but the changes went upstream already, we wont get a new upstream version before release14:19
ograi would have preferred keeping it as a patch, but pitti insisted 14:20
ograhmm, no answer from pitti about linux-lpia14:21
persiaI just got timidity accepted, so people are processing the queue.14:22
ograbut thats univers, no ?14:22
persiaStill needs release-team to push it, they just don't check very carefully.14:23
persiaFrom the 23rd, release-team will verify it has MOTU Release ACK before pushing.14:23
ograstill, linux-lpia is main14:24
persiaYes.  This just means it's waiting for a member of the release team to review it carefully.14:27
loolhttp://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7635920803.html15:54
ograheh15:56
ograe1715:56
persiaThere was someone talking about doing eubuntu in -installer last week.  Could be interesting to do eubuntu-mobile if that happens.15:57
* ogra will never do that ... 15:58
ograat least never under that name15:58
persiaYeah, the name leaves something to be desired :)15:59
ograbeyond that, isnt e17 based on hurd ? 15:59
ograat least if it comes to release schedule 16:00
ogra"ready next year" or some such ...16:00
persiaNo.  e17 has never claimed to have a release date, or even a release schedule.16:01
persiaAt one point, it was specifically declared that e17 was not working towards release, and was instead a base of work for use in other projects.16:01
persiaAnyway, there are are snapshots that are known to work together which are somewhat like other projects releases.16:03
ograwell, nothing i want to get involved in 16:03
ogra<-- no enlightenment fan as you might have guessed by now16:03
persiaThat's fine.  Someone else can do it.16:04
ograwe dont even have it packaged, do we ?16:04
persiaI *really* like enlightenment, but haven't used it in a few years.16:04
persiaWe do.16:04
ogra17 ?16:04
* ogra only sees 16 and some libs from 1716:05
persiaAt least parts of it.16:05
ogralibeet1 only actually16:05
ografunny that apt-cache search enlightenment brings up blackbox16:06
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amitkogra: lpia kernel almost done...18:50
amitkdone18:52
amitkogra: want to upload lrm?18:52
ograamitk, will do20:45
* lool 'night20:47
ian_brasilany idea how to enable the alt-F2 wireless combo on eeepc?21:06
* ogra hasnt touched an eee ...21:10
ograget me the HW and i'll make it work ;)21:11
* ian_brasil quickly knocks up a "donations" web site to buy eeepc device21:16
ian_brasilogra: have you seen this http://www.moblin.org/downloads/super-read-ahead-002 and ideas for using it on ubuntu mobile?21:18
ian_brasilwhat do you think of sreadahead?21:18
ograwell, i'm not sure we will even keep readahead, we might switch over to prefetch, afaik that doesnt go well with readahead21:20
rbelemhttp://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/10/41121:22
ograwe might also compile the most used module in the kernel in jaunty21:23
ograthere are a lot of sessions planned at UDS about boot seedup21:24
ogra*speedup21:24
ograthings like sreadahead, prefetch and other stuff will get close examination there21:24
ograi personaly would like to get rid of modprobe in initramfs in favour of pregenerated modue lists that get pulled in via insmod21:25
ogra*module21:25
rbelemogra, where can I get prefetch?21:30
ian_brasilthat sounds very interesting21:31
ograrbelem, i think its a kernel patch developed as GSoC project21:32
ograhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/Prefetch21:33
rbelemnice!!!21:33
ograthat spec will surely get a new review for jaunty21:34
rbelemogra, how about the hack to init? Upstart needs modification?21:40
rbelemthe intel hack21:48
rbelem:-)21:48
* ian_brasil ducks21:50

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