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tjaaltonhttp://lwn.net/Articles/305047/08:24
wgranttjaalton: Saw that a few days ago. Haha.08:28
wgrantTHey must have better things to flame about.08:28
wgrantseb128: I have an SRU for g-s-d.08:28
tjaaltonwgrant: yeah, it's the small changes that annoy some people the most :)08:29
wgrantseb128: Bug #280148, and I've had the patch committed upstream. Am I OK to start the SRU process?08:29
ubottuLaunchpad bug 280148 in gnome-settings-daemon "g-s-d needs to set mouse properties when a new device appears" [Medium,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/28014808:29
seb128wgrant: hi, it's monday morning and I got over 700 bugs mails during the weekend so add yours to the list08:29
seb128let me look08:30
wgrantseb128: Sure, no rush.08:30
seb128wgrant: the change seems to be a sru candidate indeed, start on it and subscribe the sponsor team if you need sponsoring08:31
wgrantseb128: Great, thanks.08:31
* wgrant wonders about u-m-s latency.08:47
mvosuperm1: did you had a chance to check if your card works with fglrx from intrepid? 10:20
Q-FUNKwgrant: to answer the question, aptitude handled the dist-upgrade from hardy.11:47
wgrantQ-FUNK: That is not allowed.11:47
Q-FUNKwhere is that said?11:47
wgrantQ-FUNK: The dist-upgrader is the only supported upgrade mechanism.11:47
wgrantie. update-manager or do-release-upgrade11:48
wgranthttps://help.ubuntu.com/community/IntrepidUpgrades11:48
wgrantYou will find a single reference to dist-upgrade there, and it isn't used as an action to apt-get or aptitude.11:49
Q-FUNKthat doesn't say that apt-get or aptitude are not allowed.11:50
wgrantThey haven't been supported in Ubuntu for a *very* long time.11:50
wgrantAnyway, have you tried to suspend?11:52
Q-FUNKI just rebooted without the xorg.conf now.  11:53
Q-FUNKlet's try it11:53
Q-FUNKbrb11:53
tseliotmvo: new NVIDIA legacy drivers (compatible with X.org) are available in intrepid-proposed now. Maybe update manager can stop migrating users to "nv" after these drivers are moved to the stable repositories11:53
mvotseliot: sure. both versions are updated in -prpopsed?11:54
tseliotmvo: yep11:54
tseliotmvo: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-96/+bug/25110711:55
ubottuLaunchpad bug 251107 in nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 "[Intrepid] nvidia_drv.so: undefined symbol: AllocateScreenPrivateIndex" [Medium,Confirmed] 11:55
mvothanks tseliot11:58
tseliotmvo: you're welcome11:59
Q-FUNKwgrant: nope.  bug still present. :(12:02
wgrantQ-FUNK: So your hardware manages to partly vanish? Great.12:03
wgrantQ-FUNK: Which setting is dropping?12:03
Q-FUNKwgrant: maybe.  the strange thing is that going to the gnome mouse preference capplet and manually clikcing right, then left again restores it.12:03
Q-FUNKleft-handed buttons12:04
wgrantQ-FUNK: On all devices?12:04
Q-FUNKwhich devices?12:04
wgrantDoes the left-handed setting drop from all devices, or just the touchpad?12:05
Q-FUNKthis laptop only has a touchpad.  4 buttons.  2 above and 2 below.  mirrored by X default.12:05
Q-FUNKit also has a trackpoint, but it shares the buttons used by the touchpad12:06
wgrantAh, lots of people use an external mouse as well.12:06
wgrantOK, let's see...12:06
wgrantTry flipping horizontal edge scrolling on, and check the Synaptics Edge Scrolling property on the device before and after suspend.12:06
Q-FUNKthis Dell D430 was a common sight at the last IDS in Prague.  other people had the previous D420 also.  there should be plenty of people who can test this, but I'm not sure if any of them are left-handed12:07
wgrantAs well as checking if it still works after suspend, of course.12:07
Q-FUNKall touchpad options are enabled, here.12:07
wgrantAnd horizontal scrolling persists over a suspend/resume?12:08
Q-FUNKgood question.  the only place where I sometimes need it is in forefox.12:08
Q-FUNKfirefox12:08
Q-FUNKlet's try.12:08
Q-FUNKbrb12:08
wgrantI test it by checking if the bottom edge moves the cursor orr not.12:08
Q-FUNKok12:09
Q-FUNKdoesn't move the cursor here12:09
Q-FUNKvertical scrolling works, so I'd presume that horizontal does too.  I just dont have a web site with fixed page size to test with12:09
wgrantRight.12:10
wgrantNow, does it still work after a suspend and before you reset settings?12:10
Q-FUNKah, wait. I purposely downsized the firefox window.  horizontal works too.  let's suspend and try this again.12:10
Q-FUNKbrb12:10
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Q-FUNKhorizontal scrolling NOT restored after suspend.12:13
Q-FUNKoh... wait.  it takes a while to restore, but it eventually comes back12:13
wgrantHmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.12:13
wgrantBut the button mapping is still not back?12:13
Q-FUNKindeed not12:14
wgrantCurses.12:14
Q-FUNKhm. wait. that came back too.12:14
wgrantCheck Xorg.0.log to see if the device disappears and reappears now.12:14
wgrantHmm.12:14
Q-FUNKcould it be dependant upon touchpad requring non-default settings, if the buttons are attached to it, to restore buttons too?12:15
wgrantNo.12:15
Q-FUNKhm12:16
Q-FUNKodd12:16
* wgrant -> bed12:19
Q-FUNKok12:21
Q-FUNKgood night!12:21
superm1mvo, so it turns out the workstation quality r3xx (FireGL) aren't broke; it's only the consumer grade14:39
superm1mvo, so that's why mine still works14:39
superm1and yes it does work on Intrepid14:39
mvosuperm1: ok, thanks for testing this14:56
tjaaltonhehe, bug 29299315:09
tjaaltonlazy ubottu.. https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/29299315:09
ubottuLaunchpad bug 292993 in xorg "EE-I810(0):No video BIOS modes for chosen depth Mobile Intel 945GM" [Undecided,Invalid] https://launchpad.net/bugs/29299315:10
ubottuLaunchpad bug 292993 in xorg "EE-I810(0):No video BIOS modes for chosen depth Mobile Intel 945GM" [Undecided,Invalid] 15:10
mvotjaalton: what should be done about bug #292774 ? it seems like (some people) are not happy with the automatic xorg.conf rewrite15:23
ubottuLaunchpad bug 292774 in xorg "xorg.conf setup broken after upgrade to 8.10" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/29277415:23
tjaaltonmvo: well, not commenting them out shouldn't hurt, since when HAL is used they are just ignored (for mice/keyboards anyway)15:25
mvohm, but his setup would be broken anyway in this case, right?15:26
tjaaltonyes15:26
mvook15:26
mvoIIRC one in the X team asked me to add the code to comment out the input devices because it would break something with "synaptics" (from memory) ? 15:27
mvois that no longer true ?15:27
tjaaltonok, could be..15:27
tjaaltonevdev has since been modified to not grab the devices explicitly, but AIUI there were some problems and still might be15:28
tjaaltonwgrant is the synaptics hero, I don't have one :)15:28
tseliottjaalton: basically the InputDevice sections caused problems to touchpads tapping, etc.15:35
tseliotremoving such section solves the problem15:36
tseliottjaalton, mvo: I wasn't aware of how it could affect multi-seat setups though15:37
tseliotof course having more information in the bug report will help me understand what went wrong15:37
mvotseliot: me neither, I think its not a big deal, given that the setup would have been broken even without the modifications15:38
mvotseliot: at the very least he had to add this "NoAuto" option (forgot the exact name)15:38
mvoso no (more) harm done by the script, still would be nice to know more aobut it15:38
tseliotright15:39
seb128any idea if bug #290674 could be an xorg issue?15:50
ubottuLaunchpad bug 290674 in gnome-control-center "Setting the keyboard repeat speed has no effect" [Low,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/29067415:50
tjaaltonseb128: yes, probably evdev15:50
seb128tjaalton: ok thanks15:51
seb128I'll reassign the bug15:51
tjaaltonthanks15:51
seb128tseliot: could you look to bug #287062 ?15:53
ubottuLaunchpad bug 287062 in gnome-control-center "Screen resolution capplet unnecesarily tries to set virtual resolution" [Undecided,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/28706215:53
seb128ups15:53
seb128bug #28708215:53
ubottuLaunchpad bug 287082 in gnome-control-center "Cannot go back to higher resolution after setting virtual resolution" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/28708215:53
* tseliot has a look at the bug report15:54
tseliotseb128: I think 287082 is a duplicate of 28706215:56
tseliotmy quick fix was uploaded to jaunty15:56
seb128tseliot: feel free to close it as duplicate15:57
tseliotand to intrepid-proposed15:57
tseliotok15:57
seb128tjaalton: ok, bug #264196 seems to be the keyboard issue15:57
ubottuLaunchpad bug 264196 in xserver-xorg-input-evdev "[intrepid] keyboard Repeat Keys is failing to adjust, when AutoAddDevices is on" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/26419615:57
seb128could somebody in the xorg team triage it?15:57
tjaaltonseb128: sure, I think it's known upstream too15:58
tjaaltonlater ->15:58
seb128bugs.freedesktop.org seems to not reply15:58
seb128tseliot: bug #284630 is yours too15:59
ubottuLaunchpad bug 284630 in gnome-control-center "Typo in gnome-control-center" [Low,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/28463015:59
seb128though don't change it in a sru because that would break translations15:59
tseliotseb128: shall I fix it only in jaunty?16:02
seb128tseliot: yes, not worth breaking the translations for intrepid16:02
tseliotright16:02
tseliotand that error shouldn't show up unless the virtual resolution can't be applied16:03
jcristautseliot: padding bytes in the wire protocol are necessary for alignment (re your question on xcb@)16:35
tseliotjcristau: alignment of what?16:36
jcristauof the data sent between server and client16:36
tseliotjcristau: is there documentation on this?16:39
jcristausee the spec, of the protocol headers, i guess16:39
jcristauin this case, xRRSetCrtcConfigReq in randrproto.h has a 2-byte 'pad' field after 'rotation'16:40
jcristauand the output list follows the xRRSetCrtcConfigReq16:40
jcristauin general, every 2-byte field is aligned on a 2-byte boundary, and every 4-byte field on a 4-byte boundary16:41
tseliotok16:43
tseliotthanks for the explanation16:43
jcristaunp16:43
jcristauoh, also every request's length is a multiple of 32 bits, so the next one is aligned properly16:44
tseliotaah16:45
* Ng curious, is there some kind of api for getting events from a touchpad? I expressly don't want to use mine for mouse events, but I'm curious if I could get some funky pinchyzoomyswipey gestures going16:50
Nglike, flicking it to navigate workspaces16:50
pwnguintheres xinput17:16
pwnguinand i saw a gestures thing17:17
pwnguinbut honestly, i dont really like them17:17
Ngpwnguin: I generally don't with mice, but I think they work with a touchpad, specifically because I have an iphone and being able to do the pinchyzoomy stuff is excellent17:20
pwnguinoh17:22
pwnguinthats a different thing17:22
pwnguina) your device has to support that17:22
pwnguinand as usual, apple snapped up an exclusive on the patented hardware that does multitouch17:23
Ngbah17:24
pwnguindo you have a touchpad right now?17:25
Ngyeah, but I disable it in the BIOS because I hate using them for mouse input ;)17:35
pwnguinmacbook?17:38
Ngpwnguin: nah, thinkpad17:47
pwnguinthen i dont think you get pinchzoom17:47
pwnguinyou've probably got a synaptic device that does resistance calculation17:48
Ngwell that sucks17:48
Ngmaybe I could stick my iphone to the laptop and use that as a network touchpad ;)17:48
pwnguinsomeone had this hilarious laptop17:49
pwnguin17 inch display, and a wacom tablet below the keyboard17:49
Ng:o17:50
pwnguinmine's built into the display, like sane people's laptops17:51
Ngpwnguin: tablet thing? :)18:13
pwnguinyea20:16
pwnguinhey uh, about three hours before the release my intrepid install started kernel panicing20:17
pwnguini think its the video driver20:17
pwnguinis nvidia known bad?20:17
Nghow would you guys feel about an SRU for https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-evdev/+bug/282387 ?21:59
ubottuLaunchpad bug 282387 in xserver-xorg-input-evdev "scrollwheel emulation breaks after suspend with 2.6.27-7" [Undecided,Confirmed] 21:59
NgI'm testing the patch atm21:59
james_wcan someone help me reassign bug 293209 to the correct place?22:03
ubottuLaunchpad bug 293209 in gnome-control-center "External display - 1440x900 resolution not detected" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/29320922:03
james_wI suspect driver, but I'm not positive22:03
superm1bryce, I think i might have a new piece of useful data in the debugging of that fn+brightness makes things go wacky.  If you run in failsafe terminal, you are somehow receiving a key release event *before* a keypress event...22:07
brycesuperm1: weird22:07
superm1bryce, yeah i'm not even sure how to debug that.  i'm gonna have to compare with 8.04 and see if it's new.  showkey isn't even showing that event22:08
bryceNg: is 282387 a regression?  If not, I'd say leave it for Jaunty22:09
brycesuperm1: ok22:09
Ngbryce: well previously one would set the input properties as driver options in xorg.conf and they'd stick. right now they are set with xinput and lost on suspend/resume. functionally it's a regression, but it's new code, so maybe that doesn't count22:10
jcristauif you set them in something.fdi, they don't persist?22:12
brycejames_w: Looks like the user has Virtual set to 2384x768 22:12
Ngjcristau: I've not tried that route at all22:13
bryce(EE) intel(0): Mode 1280x1024 does not fit virtual size 2384x768 - internal error22:13
brycejames_w: that's listed several times in the Xorg.0.log.22:13
jcristauNg: that's pretty much today's equivalent of setting them in xorg.conf22:13
brycejames_w: presumably gnome-control-center needs to take care not to set the y value too low when it hardcodes Virtual, or something22:13
james_wbryce: I'll ask if they used the Virtual setting thing22:14
james_wthanks22:14
brycejames_w: if you get their xorg.conf that'd be proof of it22:15
james_whttp://launchpadlibrarian.net/19299532/xorg.conf22:15
james_wso it is set22:15
bryceyep22:15
Ngjcristau: would that be rewritten on resume? re-setting them with xinput after suspend/resume is what's broken, so presumably they wouldn't be able to persist via fdi either?22:16
brycejames_w: my guess is they did it via screen-resolution-extra22:16
Ngs/rewritten/reread/22:16
james_wbryce: thanks, I'll enquire22:16
brycejames_w: also talk with tseliot; perhaps some logic needs added to g-c-c to not set X or Y Virtual below some threshold or something22:17
tseliotbryce: maybe the virtual resolution was set also in clone mode, just like in the bug which I have recently fixed (still in proposed)22:18
jcristauNg: maybe i'm not thinking of the right bug..22:18
brycetseliot: ah could be22:18
tseliotbryce, james_w: this bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/28706222:19
ubottuLaunchpad bug 287062 in gnome-control-center "Screen resolution capplet unnecesarily tries to set virtual resolution" [Undecided,Fix committed] 22:19
superm1bryce, yeah that keypress/keyrelease order is definitely a regression from hardy, i'm wondering if this is the root of that problem now...22:23

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