| Laney | Greetings! | 11:31 |
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| Laney | Who is to blame if g-a-p says that I can't have compiz but I actually can? | 11:31 |
| hyperair | Laney: afaik g-a-p tries to run the compiz script, and if it doesn't work, it says you can't have it =\ | 11:35 |
| hyperair | try running the compiz script? maybe you got a blacklisted pci-id or something | 11:36 |
| Laney | I see jockey, and then compiz attempts to start and then dies | 11:36 |
| Laney | but compiz --replace works fine | 11:36 |
| hyperair | eh? | 11:36 |
| hyperair | did you manually install compiz or anything? | 11:36 |
| hyperair | in all the ubuntu packages, compiz is a script that calls compiz.real --replace | 11:37 |
| hyperair | plus a few other options | 11:37 |
| Laney | no | 11:37 |
| hyperair | try checking | 11:37 |
| hyperair | otherwise debug the script, if it's crashing halfway | 11:37 |
| Laney | metacity 4eva | 11:40 |
| hyperair | lol | 11:49 |
| Cyberkilla | Hello, is anybody there? | 12:54 |
| Cyberkilla | Hello, does anyone here know anything about the nvidia drivers in karmic a4? | 12:56 |
| Cyberkilla | For some reason, 185.18.31, 185.18.36 and 190.x.x give me artifacts, then system crashes (laptop resets itself). | 12:57 |
| Cyberkilla | I had to revert to 185.18.14. | 12:57 |
| Cyberkilla | It is an NVidia GeForce 8400M GT, inside of a Sony Vaio VGN-AR41E laptop | 12:57 |
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| Cyberkilla | Hello, is anybody there? | 13:15 |
| Cyberkilla | 12:56 < Cyberkilla> Hello, does anyone here know anything about the nvidia drivers in karmic a4? | 13:15 |
| Cyberkilla | For some reason, 185.18.31, 185.18.36 and 190.x.x give me artifacts, then system crashes (laptop resets itself). | 13:15 |
| jcristau | you said that already. | 13:16 |
| Cyberkilla | I had to revert to 185.18.14. | 13:16 |
| Cyberkilla | It is an NVidia GeForce 8400M GT, inside of a Sony Vaio VGN-AR41E laptop | 13:16 |
| Cyberkilla | I know | 13:16 |
| Cyberkilla | I didn't think anyone was listening | 13:16 |
| jcristau | repeating the same thing 15 minutes later won't make people listen | 13:16 |
| Cyberkilla | Aww | 13:17 |
| Cyberkilla | I can't find anybody who knows about it. I was referred to this room, on the off-chance. | 13:17 |
| Q-FUNK | https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417518 | 13:45 |
| ubottu | Launchpad bug 417518 in xserver-xorg-video-geode "Sync xserver-xorg-video-geode 2.11.3-2 (main) from Debian unstable (main)." [Wishlist,Confirmed] | 13:45 |
| Cyberkilla | hmm | 13:58 |
| mac_v | hi... could someone instruct me how to set the kernel setting mentioned in comment #7 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23386 ? do i just have to add> radeon.modeset=1 at the end of the line or do i have to also add the i915.modeset=1 mentioned in the X wiki? | 14:12 |
| ubottu | Freedesktop bug 23386 in Driver/Radeon "Artifacts with cairo dock 2.0 [openGL]" [Normal,New] | 14:12 |
| mac_v | i tried with just radeon.modeset=1 and noticed that my system became very , i mean horribly sluggish | 14:13 |
| Q-FUNK | could someone ACK this sync? | 14:14 |
| tjaalton | mac_v: no, i915 refers to the intel driver. modesetting makes radeon slow, it's being worked on upstream | 14:17 |
| mac_v | tjaalton: ah , ok... thanx :) | 14:17 |
| tjaalton | Q-FUNK: just subscribe ubuntu-archive to the bug | 14:18 |
| Q-FUNK | ok | 14:18 |
| tjaalton | Cyberkilla: use nvidia-bug-report.sh to file it upstream, not much we can do about it | 14:19 |
| Cyberkilla | hmm | 14:22 |
| Cyberkilla | When would I do this? Presumably whilst in the midst of the chaos. | 14:22 |
| Cyberkilla | I'd have to install the crazy drivers again. | 14:22 |
| Cyberkilla | I'll see what I can do. | 14:22 |
| tjaalton | or use the nvidia forums | 14:22 |
| Cyberkilla | So, nobody has complained of this yet? | 14:22 |
| tjaalton | not here anyway | 14:23 |
| Cyberkilla | Someone said it might be a missing dependency in the package. | 14:23 |
| tjaalton | check if you have nvidia-glx-185 installed | 14:23 |
| Cyberkilla | Not a missing on on my system, but something odd with the way they made the packages. But, I don't see why it would only affect me in that case. | 14:23 |
| Cyberkilla | I do. Or rather, I did have everything installed. | 14:24 |
| tjaalton | regressions in that driver are not unheard of... | 14:24 |
| Cyberkilla | I've had to go back to 185.18.14 | 14:24 |
| Cyberkilla | The sad thing is, it affects me in every new driver I've tested: 185.18.31, 185.18.36 ("stable") and one of the 190.x.x packages. | 14:24 |
| mac_v | tjaalton: do you happen to have the bug# for the upstream radeon issue? | 14:42 |
| tjaalton | no | 14:44 |
| mac_v | tjaalton: thanx :) | 14:46 |
| mac_v | after installing from xorg-edgers ppa , do i have to run "dpkg-reconfigure" ? | 18:21 |
| jcristau | no | 18:22 |
| mac_v | jcristau: thanx :) | 18:28 |
| tjaalton | that command is irrelevant in karmic | 18:36 |
| MTeck | How can I see what display driver I'm using? | 22:46 |
| mzz | MTeck: I'd normally look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log, but it might depend on why you want to know | 22:47 |
| MTeck | mzz: just what package is being used | 22:48 |
| mzz | MTeck: I'd look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log to find the file name of the driver used, then use dlocate or something to find the corresponding package name | 22:49 |
| mzz | I'm an ubuntu newbie, the dlocate half of this may be suboptimal | 22:49 |
| jcristau | should be pretty much xserver-xorg-video-${name_of_driver} | 22:49 |
| mzz | and yes, I'd expect that to be true, but I didn't want to say so in case there's some exception. | 22:51 |
| MTeck | jcristau: that's why I was trying to figure out what driver(s) I'm using | 22:51 |
| jcristau | easiest is probably 'grep _drv /var/log/Xorg.0.log' | 22:52 |
| MTeck | hrm - I'm not even using -fbdev - I thought that was pretty mcuh always needed | 22:53 |
| MTeck | thanks | 22:53 |
| MTeck | http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/258950/ | 22:54 |
| jcristau | right, so intel. | 22:55 |
| MTeck | little grep line was nice and easy :) | 22:57 |
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