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tjaaltonsuperm1: ping? is the latest fglrx known to be buggy with compiz & video?07:42
tjaaltonsuperm1: apparently bug 17904207:47
ubottuLaunchpad bug 179042 in fglrx-installer "Videos tear and "blink" when enabling compiz [AMD Feature #7647] [EPR#257833]" [Medium,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/17904207:47
wgranttjaalton: Doesn't the EPR # mean it has been forwarded to AMD already?07:47
tjaaltonwgrant: probably so07:48
tjaaltonthere should be a wikipage with the forwarded bugs07:49
tjaaltonon it07:49
tjaaltonsigh, looks like wacom upstream is just ignorant07:59
wgrantI noticed...08:14
tjaaltonhttp://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20081009171824.GV5387%40cathedrallabs.org&forum_name=linuxwacom-devel08:14
wgrantI thought either I was completely misunderstanding it, or they were ignorant.08:14
wgrantAnd I suspected the latter.08:14
wgrantOh.08:15
wgrantMore traffic.08:15
tjaaltonseems like Ping doesn't follow the -devel list08:16
wgrantHow related to linuxwacom is Ping?08:16
tjaaltonthe main author08:16
tjaaltonor developer08:17
wgrantOh.08:17
wgrantWho is this Vincenzo character?09:33
tjaaltonwgrant: where?10:05
wgrant-devel-discuss.10:05
wgrantSee #-devel10:05
tjaaltonah, reading10:06
wgrantHe's just insane.10:06
tjaaltonok, I won't bother then :)10:06
wgrantHeh.10:06
tjaaltonloads of stuff to do10:06
tjaaltonstarting from getting nvidia 173 in hardy-proposed10:07
tjaaltonwith cuda10:07
wgrantAha.10:07
wgrantShiny.10:07
tjaaltonwell, the library at least10:07
Ngwgrant: a frustrated user, by the looks of it10:25
Ngit's a tad harsh to call him insane, I would say10:25
Ngit's not that he's especially wrong either (assuming you mean the thread about hardware support regressions), he's just not addressing the issue in a way that will have any positive outcome10:25
tjaaltonmaybe his vga-problems are related to the latest upload to hardy-proposed, where every chip inluding 855 and earlier have to be quirked10:32
tjaaltonoh, it's only about vga-out11:08
wgrantBug #295990. Fsck. FOrgot about that.11:12
ubottuLaunchpad bug 295990 in xorg-server "Keyboard layout reset after attaching USB keyboard" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/29599011:12
wgrantI didn't bother with the keyboard stuff in g-s-d, because most of the settings are either really global or don't work with evdev...11:13
wgrantBut of course layout needs setting per-device.11:14
tseliottjaalton: nvidia-173 in hardy proposed???11:22
tseliottjaalton: that will break things for a few users, please don't do it11:23
tseliotthe reason why I didn't touch the lrm in hardy (instead of using the lrm-envy) is also that the current nvidia-glx-new works when 173, etc. doesn't with certain hardware configurations11:25
tseliots/when/while/11:25
tseliotI think that backporting driver 173 and 178 to hardy through lrm-envy would be less risky11:27
tjaaltontseliot: it's not my idea11:30
tjaaltontseliot: what would break?11:30
tjaalton173 didn't drop any hw support AIUI11:30
tseliottjaalton: there are some cards (I don't remember which ones) for which the driver won't work11:31
tseliotand I'm not talking about cards being dropped by a driver11:31
tseliotthe driver won't work at all11:31
tseliottjaalton: who asked you to do this? (not to blame it on him but only to talk to him about this)11:32
tjaaltonstefan bader11:32
tseliotusername?11:32
tjaaltonnot on irc atm11:32
tjaaltondunno11:32
tseliotanyway rtg asked me to backport 178 to hardy and I will do it in the lrm-envy packages11:33
tseliotbut we have to be careful not to break the packages in main11:34
tseliottjaalton: BTW did you tell him about the linux-restricted-modules-envy?11:35
tjaaltontseliot: no, I bet he knows already11:35
tseliotok, if you see him (metaphorically speaking), please ask him to talk to me11:36
tjaaltonI'll reply to his email11:36
tseliotok11:36
tseliottjaalton: oh and I know that you maintain the lrm in hardy but in the future please notify me when you decide to modify them (as regards fglrx and nvidia) so that we can discuss the changes, etc.11:42
tjaaltontseliot: I don't really maintain it anymore, not since it was frozen :)11:52
tseliothehe right ;)11:53
pwnguinVicenzo is insane?14:10
pwnguininteresting14:19
superm1tjaalton, the fact that is has an EPR means AMD has an internal bug filed about it14:40
superm1we'll be closing out bugs per their announce/release notes based on those EPR's14:40
tjaaltonsuperm1: yeah, a friend of mine suffers from it, that's why I was asking14:47
bryceheya17:24
brycetjaalton: no need for wiki page, I got this set up for us to keep track:  https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/fglrx/+bugs17:25
brycetjaalton: also, when you run across bugs that need upstreaming to AMD, we now have a way to mark them - click the "Affects project..." and then tick the third bullet "just mark as needs upstream for now"17:27
bryce(full process documented at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Upstreaming)17:27
tjaaltonbryce: ok, thanks17:39
brycehow's thing tjaalton?17:48
tjaaltongot my plane tickets today17:50
bryce:-)17:51
tjaaltontrying to decide what souvenirs to buy ;)17:52
brycehave you been to san francisco before?17:53
tjaaltonnope, there are too many places to see when I have only the sunday off17:56
bryceI used to live in san francisco, I can give tips if you need suggestions17:57
tjaaltonsure thanks17:57
bryceI would suggest catching the BART from San Jose and get off downtown, then do one of the walking tours down through china town to fisherman's warf.  That should give maximum SF-ishness in the least amount of time.18:02
superm1bryce, i'm  gonna be in SF for a few days before UDS starts too.  i'll have to get some ideas from you  then too :)18:03
brycesure18:03
bryceif you like musicals/plays/concerts, it is a great place to catch one of those18:03
brycehere's a link showing the neighborhoods:  http://www.sfcityguides.org/descriptions.html18:03
superm1would you recommend a car for those few days?18:04
tjaaltonok that should be a start :)18:04
brycethe top NE corner is where the biggest concentration of "things to see" is, and if you have limited time, is where I'd suggest focusing18:04
brycesuperm1: well, downtown SF is *impossible* to get around in by car18:04
superm1okay then for sure no car18:05
brycebut the good news is it's totally walkable/public-transitable.  In fact the whole time I lived there I kept my car in storage18:05
bryceso you just need to sort out getting around in San Jose18:05
bryceSan Jose is standard U.S. can't-get-around-without-a-car18:05
superm1right, about what i'm used to :)18:06
brycealthough if the hotel is within walking distance of the lightrail, it might be ok18:06
superm1havent picked one out yet (but that reminds me i need to! :)18:06
brycethe weather in downtown SF is likely to be pretty cold and rainy, so plan accordingly18:07
brycein San Jose it will be a bit better.18:07
superm1anything that's north of texas is cold to me now :)18:08
superm1but you'd recommend a hotel in San Jose over finding one in SF though provided i can find one close to a light rail?  assuming due to cost?18:09
bryceoh definitely18:10
bryceright, hotels in downtown SF are damn expensive18:10
superm1okay that's good to know18:11
brycesuperm1: is the one that UDS is held in booked up yet?  18:11
superm1bryce, not sure.  i'd imagine so?18:12
superm1but also given it's in mountain view - i'd expect pricey...18:12
bryceoh duh, UDS is at google18:12
superm1that'll be the other challenge to figure out; getting from SF to MTV cost effectively18:13
brycewell, when I went to the X conference at google earlier this year, I got a hotel in San Jose and a car, and drove in each day.  Traffic wasn't too bad (the conference started fairly late though).  Walking would have been impossible.18:14
bryceUDS is at a different google location than that, but might be the same situation.  not sure18:14
brycea lot of the X guys shared cars18:14
superm1well i heard there is a free shuttle if you talk to the right people 18:14
brycecool, that could work18:15
superm1i just dont know who those people are, and if i dont find them, it will probably just end up being a taxi or one day car rental18:15
bryceanyway, even if you do rent a car, my recommendation for exploring SF would be the same - park it at a BART terminal and take BART in18:16
superm1okay, will definitely keep that in mind.  would probably leave the car rental for sunday then to use in exploring San Jose and for driving down18:16
superm1(if anything)18:17
tjaaltonso are sunnyvale, mtv etc part of san jose?18:27
superm1tjaalton, http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=san+jose+ca&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=42.224734,93.164063&ie=UTF8&ll=37.51844,-121.92215&spn=0.663338,1.455688&z=1018:28
superm1you can see the breakdown there a bit18:28
brycesuperm1: yeah all three sort of run together in a big sprawl18:29
tjaaltonyeah i've used gmaps quite a bit :)18:29
tjaaltonmy brother-in-law has been there many times18:34
tjaaltonand asked me to bring some parts for his '65 grand prix ;)18:36
brycehehe18:40
brycetjaalton: hey, given that Intel is no longer supporting i815/i825 chips (maybe more pre-855?) on -intel, I'm wondering about if we could/should put -i810 back in the archive19:05
superm1bryce, hdmi audio on intel, any ideas what intel driver release it ends up falling into?  (i thought there was a video driver piece to it too)19:05
brycesuperm1: hmm no idea; I've never needed to touch video stuff before and would assume the kernel would split that out, but I've not done very much with hdmi so far19:06
superm1bryce, well the video driver needs to let the audio driver know how much bandwidth it can have i believe. i thought there was an interaction there19:07
superm1bryce, ah http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjgzNg  there's some patches to both.  i'm assuming there will be more chatter on it in the coming months then19:09
brycesuperm1: ah cool19:36
tjaaltonbryce: but they don't support it either :)19:54
tjaaltonhm, still no internet.. at least my phone works19:55
tjaaltons/internet/adsl/19:56
brycetjaalton: sure but at least (assuming it works at all), it'd give users the option.19:57
bryceerf, already back up to 2000 bugs in ubuntu-x.  20:20
tjaaltonbryce: well, I don't know.. vincenzo's problem seems more like a hotkey-issue than a bug in -intel20:43
tjaaltonbesides, -i810does not support xserver 1.520:44
tjaaltonaiui it's not pcitoolized20:44
bryceahh20:45
brycegood point.  So if community folks want -i810 back, they'll need to first get it up to date for 1.5.20:45
tjaaltonor better, help intel testing the new releases for regressions20:50
tjaaltonof -intel20:51
bryceno, I'm thinking of the cases where the testing has already done, I've upstreamed the issue to Intel, and they've said they won't be supporting it in -intel.21:19
bryce+been21:19
tjaaltonmeaning that they refuse to include fixes or that they wont be doing the work themselves?21:56
brycethe latter22:04
tjaaltonright, so the community might be able to fix them. i don't know which is more work, porting the driver (with other bugs) or fixing the bugs22:11
tjaaltonnight22:25
brycenight tjaalton22:35
tormodhi there, I get some bad, spurious Xorg hangs on Intrepid. In order to investigate, I built xserver 1.5.3 to get the automatic backtracing. now it locks up at startup... I suspect the "RAW mode" commit. Any experiences among you?22:50
tormodor do I miss some crucial ubuntu patches? (I built it from fdo+debian git)22:54
tormodor do I need to recompile the DDX?23:15
tormod_for once, my ssh session stayed alive/recovered. Actually Xorg is not hung, but died and I don't get my console back. just the gray X screen and the cursor (from running startx).23:21
tormod_gdb is my friend: evdev_drv.so: undefined symbol: XIRegisterPropertyHandler23:23
tormod_gotta love these xserver point releases....23:23
wgranttormod_: We carry property patches separately.23:26
tormod_wgrant, thanks! I will take a look23:27
tormod_I guess all those patches are in the ubuntu branch on git.debian.org and I just have to pull from there, d'oh.23:31
tormod_hmm why is patch 138 not in git, but listed in "series" ?23:45

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