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Viper550so you're wanting to replace rhythmbox with banshee03:36
lapiondoes anyone know where I can get an update history ?04:16
lapionan upgrade history of any given ubuntu release >04:19
linuxuz3rcan i still use gnome if unity is the default desktop environment for ubuntu?05:41
bazhangyes, would you like a link?05:42
bazhanghttp://askubuntu.com/questions/9968/will-ubuntu-11-10-feature-gnome-shell-closed05:45
bazhangwhoops05:45
bazhangsame is true for 11.04 though05:45
bazhanghttp://askubuntu.com/questions/9861/will-unity-be-the-only-option-during-install linuxuz3r05:48
linuxuz3rthanks a lot man05:48
bazhangwelcome05:49
linuxuz3rhey what hardware does unity support05:49
andresmhlast year I reported a regression bug with audio, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/409819,  today I am testing 10.10 using a LiveUSB and I found the same problem. I am just wondering if there's anything I can do to help make it possible to get it fix in the next version of Ubuntu.05:49
ubottuLaunchpad bug 409819 in pulseaudio (Ubuntu) "[regression] Built-in mic not working after pulse updates on Karmic. Intel 82801H (ICH8 Family) sound card." [Undecided,Confirmed]05:49
bazhanglinuxuz3r, stuff that can do 3D compositing05:50
linuxuz3roh ok05:50
bazhangbut even if you have that, and still dont want unity, you can install the traditional Gnome interface05:51
linuxuz3rbazhang which is better unity or gnomeshell06:25
bazhanglinuxuz3r, hard to say now, as neither is completed. perhaps in six months time we can judge (if you mean unity for the desktop)06:25
linuxuz3ryes06:26
bazhangaskubuntu.com has lots and lots on this, by the way06:26
linuxuz3rbazhang unity comes with themes that are preinstalled right06:27
bazhanglinuxuz3r, for 11.04 ?06:27
linuxuz3rfor all06:27
bazhanglinuxuz3r, for 10.10 no idea as I dont use netbook edition, for 11.04 its not completed, so cannot speculate06:28
linuxuz3rok06:28
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Goog_Joshdoes anybody khow why cron can't exec some applications like totem, kaffeine etc.?12:57
UndiFineDthose apps need the gui, which crontab cannot provide12:58
UndiFineDcrontab is started before Xorg12:59
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Goog_Joshi see, but how to plan the launch of these programs?13:01
UndiFineDI don think there is a time starting gui app yet13:02
UndiFineDthough there are alarm apps, so it should not be difficult13:03
Goog_Josh)) i realized. tell me some sheduler apps please13:03
Goog_Joshwhat is alarm?13:04
UndiFineDhttp://www.ubuntugeek.com/schedule-tasks-using-gnome-schedule-a-cron-at-gui-in-ubuntu.html13:04
UndiFineDan AT gui :)13:04
Goog_Joshthank a lot13:05
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sebsebsebHi  Ok so what do people here think about Ubuntu 11.04 using  Unity by default for the desktop edition instead of Gnome Shell?14:29
penguin42sebsebseb: I want to try Unity first to make my mind up; I tried Gnome Shell a while ago and decided I really didn't want to use it - so IMHO it can't be worse14:31
sebsebsebpenguin42: Gnome Shell is good in my expereince,  just some how seems to lack certain features, but at the moment its only a window manager on top of Gnome 2, so thats probably why14:32
sebsebsebI tried Unity on my desktop PC14:33
penguin42sebsebseb: I really couldn't figure out how to do basic things in it14:33
sebsebseband big screen as well14:33
sebsebseband yeah it was ok like that14:33
htorquei think unity is more ready than gnome shell is (also, mutter performance seems to vary heavily depending on hardware/driver combination). still, it's a bold move - way bolder than moving window buttons around :P14:33
sebsebsebpenguin42: Which Unity or Gnome Shell?14:33
penguin42sebsebseb: I think it's a mistake requiring 3d14:33
penguin42sebsebseb: Gnome Shell14:33
sebsebsebwell Compiz needs 3D support,  11.04's Unity will use Compiz14:34
sebsebsebalso the current Unity needs 3D support it seems14:34
sebsebsebor at least the propritary Nivida driver for example, for those cards14:34
htorqueso does gnome shell14:34
penguin42yeh, and I think it's going to cause a world of pain14:34
sebsebsebhtorque: yes exactly, both seem to need 3D support14:34
penguin42it means VMs aren't going to work properly and push the low end machines too hard14:35
sebsebsebpenguin42: yep probabnly14:35
htorquethe only problem i see: you can't ship with BLOBs, so how will it work eg. with nouveau?14:35
sebsebsebhtorque: Gnome Shell works in Fedora with  Nouveau when it comes to someone I know online,  personally I still need the driver in Fedora it seems, but I got Nivida so yeah14:36
htorqueseeing the gnome desktop after install and then having to install the blob AND unity to get unity is not likely what people want :D14:36
sebsebsebhowever yeah I would like to vm  try  11.04 with Unity, but  maybe the driver will cause an issue, when comes to that, hmm14:36
htorqueyeah, current unity works fine for me with nouveau's experimental 3d support, but that won't land in 11.0414:36
sebsebsebI want to vm test :)14:36
charlie-tcasebsebseb: I will be testing unity later today or tommorrow myself. I think it is great!14:37
htorquenjpatel said in his blog, that "[...] we'll make a best attempt at running, trying to gracefully degrade through features, but at least getting to you a panel, launcher and places."14:39
sebsebsebcharlie-tca: I liked trying in 10.10 like I did14:39
htorqueso maybe they can turn off enough features so nouveau and co can run, dunno14:39
htorquesource: http://njpatel.blogspot.com/2010/10/marks-keynote-at-uds-spoke-about-one-of.html14:39
charlie-tcanouveau will not allow compiz to run. Once unity defaults to compiz, those of us with nvidia cards will probably fall back to unity without compiz until the hardware drviers are installed14:40
penguin42charlie-tca: So unity runs ok without compiz?14:41
charlie-tcayes14:41
penguin42hmm that is more encouraging14:41
charlie-tcaThe basic unity package does not need compiz14:41
sebsebsebUnity seems to be ok really, end userwise that is,  technically well their are differnet views.  For example some think its great and may give Gnome Shell some competition,  others think it is basically a fork of the Gnome  Interface.14:41
sebsebsebThing is with Unity, other distros won't just do it, so hmm.14:42
charlie-tcaEven a week at UDS with out a computer is a great experience!14:42
sebsebsebcharlie-tca: Did you?14:42
penguin42charlie-tca: You went to UDS without a computer?14:42
charlie-tcasebsebseb: yes14:43
charlie-tcapenguin42: yes14:43
htorquea week without computer - crazy! :D14:43
penguin42charlie-tca: Now while I can appreciate getting away from it a bit, UDS seems an odd place to go without a computer14:43
charlie-tcaA computer is not a absolute necessity! A desire to help is, though14:43
sebsebsebhtorque: I nearly did that, but then turns out I could use the net a bit, at the place I was staying,  no didn't go to UDS, but yes I did go some where hot :)14:43
charlie-tcaGotta have something smaller then a desktop there!14:43
sebsebseband enough Internet time to find out what was going on with UDS and such :)14:44
sebsebsebwell some of what was going on14:44
charlie-tcasebsebseb: when the Unity package is ready, it will be offered upstream and to other distros. At this time, it is not considered ready for that14:44
sebsebsebcharlie-tca: to upstream?  you mean Debian or?  I mean Canonical will be the upstream?14:45
penguin42charlie-tca: I had tried unity a few months ago on Maverick and must admit I didn't like what I saw of the way that the menu bar stuff was done - it seemed a bit flaky14:45
charlie-tcapenguin42: not really getting away from it without the computer. UDS is a chance to take place in the future of computing!14:45
charlie-tcasebsebseb: to upstream means to debian and gnome14:46
sebsebsebpenguin42: also the bar down the left, yes its not a dock, but it is similar hmm14:46
charlie-tcaCanonical will be upstream for unity, but the entire package will be available for them if they want if include it14:46
penguin42charlie-tca: I listed to many of the sessions on icecast - I hadn't realised UDS has just so many parallel tracks14:46
charlie-tcaheh14:47
charlie-tcaIt is very hard to hit them all, too14:47
sebsebsebcharlie-tca: well as long as Unity isn't Ubuntu only for ages,  then I guess things will be ok :)14:47
penguin42something like 10 at a time14:47
htorquepenguin42, yeah, next time i have to get an additional pair of ears14:47
charlie-tcaTry it in person! You can not hit everything at once14:47
penguin42what I really worry about with gnome-shell and unity is that they'll do a KDE4 - i.e. something that will take years to stabilise and still be missing features the previous one had14:48
charlie-tcaUnity is going to be smoothed out for Natty. Also, accessibility will be included.14:48
sebsebsebcharlie-tca:  anyway Desktop Linux is meant to be very much so about choice, from the distros, to the programs people have installed, from browsers, to user interfaces, to IRC clients, to well nearly whatever, you get what I mean :)14:48
charlie-tcaUnity is just a shell for gnome, the user can opt for gnome-shell instead when logging in14:49
sebsebsebcharlie-tca: yep I know14:49
sebsebsebcharlie-tca: and its good to have a choice between Gnome Shell and Unity I guess, but not only for Ubuntu, other distros as well :)14:49
charlie-tcaThat is a long range goal, too14:50
sebsebsebcharlie-tca: however makes sense to have it working quite well in Ubuntu before offering it properly to upstream I guess,  but then again, there  would be people using other distros, who would test in their distro and such14:50
charlie-tcasebsebseb: don't want them to have to try to offer a broken version of unity, though.14:51
IdleOneif Debian wants to offer Unity they will downstream14:51
IdleOneUbuntu is the upstream for Unity14:51
* penguin42 probably should put Unity on <--- this natty laptop and see if I can get on with it, or start filing bugs14:51
sebsebsebIdleOne: yep14:51
sebsebsebIdleOne: as I said earlier Canonical are the upstream for Unity14:52
IdleOneso Ubuntu does not need to offer Unity to upstream14:52
IdleOneUnity is open and any distro who wants to use it are welcome to14:52
charlie-tcaAnd I will say, UDS without a computer is way BETTER than no UDS with a computer!14:52
sebsebsebcharlie-tca: surely computers at UDS you can borrow anyway?14:53
charlie-tcaother people have spares with them14:53
sebsebsebspares?14:53
IdleOnespares = extra14:53
charlie-tcaIt was enough for me to try and follow what I could and actively participate. I hate worrying about equipment I don't own.14:55
sebsebsebcharlie-tca: of course there is a little issue,  the CA may stop other distros from wanting to use it14:57
charlie-tcaWe won't discuss that yet14:57
penguin42CA?14:59
sebsebsebpenguin42: Copyright Assignments14:59
penguin42ah14:59
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* sebsebseb hopes Desktop Unity will work ok in Virtualbox :)15:01
charlie-tcaIf you have 3d in VBox, it should15:02
charlie-tcaunfortunately, nvidia = hardware driver = no 3d in VBox?15:02
sebsebsebcharlie-tca: don't think I have done Compiz or anything like that before in vm, but yeah I guess its just have the driver installed on the host OS,  and then also tell it to do 3D support in the vm15:02
sebsebsebcharlie-tca: and maybe even install the propritary Nivida criver into the Ubuntu vm?15:02
penguin42depends on the VM system as to whether it can pass 3d stuff through; for example there is discussion of one for kvm,b ut only early15:03
charlie-tcaum, Don't know  if you can install the hardware driver in VBox. Perhaps installing guest additions will make things work, though15:04
sebsebsebcharlie-tca: and testing from the standard Live CD probably won't really work out, since  it will want to install the Nivida driver, and then restart x or whatever you know.  hmm,  but maybe you can make a remaster CD  with the driver already part of it, and try like that, I don't kow.15:04
sebsebsebwell I guess if its set up right, can vm test it :)15:04
charlie-tcaI have to try the live cd. It seems like a persistent install will work, though15:05
sebsebsebpersistent install? you mean from a Live USB for example, with the settings saved?15:05
charlie-tcayes, but you can also do that from the live cd15:05
sebsebsebhow?  if  installing the nvidia driver, will want to log out15:06
charlie-tcaIf the settings are saved, why won't it save them regardless of media used to run it?15:07
charlie-tcaIf I tell the live cd to save my settings on a hard drive, it will.15:07
sebsebsebyeah can maybe save the settings onto a USB15:07
kklimonda_hello15:07
sebsebsebor something15:07
sebsebsebkklimonda_: Hello15:08
kklimonda_bah, 16 hours long journey back was bad but still uds was worth it.15:08
charlie-tcaThe image does not care if you tell it to use a USB partition or hard drive partition to save to. It only wants to know where to save.15:09
charlie-tca16 hours? ouch!15:09
BUGabundohey hey kklimonda_15:10
BUGabundofun ?15:11
sebsebsebcharlie-tca: ok well hopefuly I don't have to put Ubuntu back on this computer to test Unity Desktop 11.04.15:11
* sebsebseb waits for the distro he wants to use to be made, whilst using Fedora in the mean time on here :)15:11
kklimonda_BUGabundo: yeah - it was great meeting all the people one knows only from irc.15:11
sebsebsebkklimonda_: yeah can be fun to meet Intenret people, 16 hours back though?  where you live?15:12
BUGabundokklimonda_: have fun : http://paste.ubuntu.com/523306/ http://paste.ubuntu.com/523297/15:12
kklimonda_charlie-tca: heh, I had to fly through Chicago and wait 2 or 3 hours for my plane there so that's why it took so long15:12
kklimonda_sebsebseb: Poland15:12
kklimonda_BUGabundo: nice, how one gets such a nifty tool?15:13
htorqueis the uds group photo online somewhere?15:13
BUGabundokklimonda_: hummm??? you don't know about PM? (package manager)15:14
yofel. . . does someone have an idea what apt want's from me? I already tried to remove the lists, didn't help http://paste.ubuntu.com/523309/15:14
sebsebsebkklimonda_: uh plane back was about 7 hours for you?  however sure with other travelling and such could be like 16 hours I guess.15:14
kklimonda_BUGabundo: nope15:14
BUGabundono you do :P15:14
kklimonda_sebsebseb: it was 8:30 because we had a good wind ;)15:14
kklimonda_the flight from Warsaw to NY took 9:2015:14
BUGabundoyofel: removing lists didn't help?15:15
sebsebsebkklimonda_: you flew to New York?15:15
BUGabundonor apt clean?15:15
yofelBUGabundo: nope15:15
kklimonda_sebsebseb: yes, I didn't get a direct connection between Warsaw and Orlando for some reason15:15
BUGabundoyofel: change mirror then15:15
yofelBUGabundo: that's the dbgsym server... does that have mirrors?15:16
sebsebsebkklimonda_: ah ok that explains it, well neither did we, when we went to Orlando just over two years ago15:16
kklimonda_and I've learnt something new - don't buy a 1000 page long book for a flight. There is no way to reas such a brick ;)15:17
charlie-tcayofel: looks like a temporary unavailable server. I did not think dbgsym has mirrors.15:17
BUGabundoyofel:  no15:18
BUGabundotake it out for now ?15:18
yofelcharlie-tca: well, the odd thing is that only that one pc errors out (amd64 natty) my other pcs (i386 natty and amd64 mav) work fine :S15:19
penguin42yofel: Disk full?15:20
yofelpenguin42: 13GiB free15:20
yofelis there a way to make apt very verbose? 'undetermined error' doesn't help much..15:21
penguin42yofel: ltrace :-)15:22
yofel-.- well, worth a try15:22
yofelhm, strace says: 'stat("/var/lib/apt/lists/ddebs.ubuntu.com_dists_lucid-proposed_multiverse_binary-amd64_Packages", 0x7fff4eaa42a0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)' o.O15:27
yofelmanually touching the file first gets rid of the error, wth...15:28
penguin42odd15:28
yofelremove the file and the error is back...15:29
BUGabundowow that was ugly... lockup :\15:40
yofelwas a bug in apt 0.8.7 it seems, the update to 0.8.8 seems to have fixed it16:05
penguin42damn, I wonder which .config option I need for lvm to actually work16:42
penguin42TToTD: Remember initrd in your config17:02
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alex_mayorgaIs bug 476866 getting fixed in Natty?19:26
ubottuLaunchpad bug 476866 in xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu) "two-finger scrolling does not work on Dell Studio 15 (1555) via gui config" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/47686619:26
alex_mayorgaLooks like I have that on my laptop too, but mine is a Sony VAIO19:27
Ian_Cornealex_mayorga: I have a vaio, did you have to enable a kernel option to get it working (the touchpad)19:29
alex_mayorgaIan_Corne, I've just stumbled into the bug today19:30
alex_mayorgaIan_Corne: do you know the workaround?19:31
Ian_Cornealex_mayorga: I don't sorry19:34
Ian_CorneI don't even have the touchpad tab in the gui config19:34
Ian_Corneand going via gconf-editor doesn't work either19:34
alex_mayorgaIan_Corne: bad stuff19:42
alex_mayorgaIan_Corne: so you don't have "Touchpad" tab on "Mouse Preferences"19:44
Ian_Cornenope19:46
Ian_Cornebut I _can_ click with the touchpad, so it's not a normal mouse either19:47
alex_mayorgaIan_Corne: I do have the tab here, but no two finger scrolling, I've found something, let me reboot and see how that goes19:52
alex_mayorgaIan_Corne: no luck, I tried installing gpointing-device-settings but it didn't do either20:02
Ian_Cornehmm20:02
Ian_Cornewhat about gsynatpics?20:04
Ian_Corneoh it's the gpointing thing :p20:05
Ian_Corneit only show as a "ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse"20:06
Ian_Cornewhich is obviously wrong :p20:06
alex_mayorgaI guess I'll propose the bug for natty20:16
alex_mayorgahow do you nominate bugs now?20:18
Ian_CorneWell my problem is different from yours20:19
Ian_Corneby default my touchpad is not recognised20:20
yofelalex_mayorga: nomination shouldn't have changed20:21
alex_mayorgayofel: maybe I lost powers on launchpad then20:31
yofelfor a simple nomination a common account should be sufficient20:32
alex_mayorgayofel: can you help with BUG 47686620:34
ubottuLaunchpad bug 476866 in xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu) "two-finger scrolling does not work on Dell Studio 15 (1555) via gui config" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/47686620:34
alex_mayorganow my caps lock seems to be nuts :(20:35
rwwyofel: http://blog.launchpad.net/general/new-features-for-bug-supervisors20:38
rwwtl;dr: only bug supervisors can nominate bugs now :\20:38
yofeloh, I missed that o.O20:38
yofeland I don't get why...20:39
rwwI only vaguely know what that sentence means, I just remember it from when it was on Planet Ubuntu ;)20:40
yofelthe fix released locking is good though20:40
alex_mayorgahow do one turns into bug supervisor20:49
yofelthinking a bit more it makes sense I guess considering it was misused a lot in the past and you can't re-nominate stuff20:49
alex_mayorgais that the beginning of Ubuntu's closure?20:50
yofelalex_mayorga: you become a developer or motu or at least apply for bug control membership (bugsquad)20:50
alex_mayorgayofel: I'll look into it20:50
yofelalex_mayorga: no, it's not, the bug tracker is for communication between developers, not a place where users complain20:51
yofeland the release nomination is usually just for SRUs20:51
yofelalex_mayorga: you need to have worked for the bugsquad for a while for the last option20:51
yofelalex_mayorga: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugControl20:52
yofeland I don't see why that bug should be nominated for natty, the main task is always against the development release, so the bug automatically affects natty20:52
alex_mayorgayofel: thanks on the pointers and clarification21:11
alex_mayorgaso were do we users complain then?21:11
yofelwell, if you need help first you can ask for support here on IRC or by asking a question on launchpad (and other ways I can't think of currently) - the bug tracker is for reporting software behavior that should not happen to develpers, so 476866 is a valid bug, but please don't *expect* to get any immediate help there as that's not the developers job21:17
Volkodavthere are forums too21:18
yofelin my case I never actually tried to get two finger scrolling to work here except on my EeePC which has it hardware-side21:18
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MatBoyis swap on LVM possible ? I thought it was no problem but it cannot mount during boot it says22:27

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