/srv/irclogs.ubuntu.com/2012/05/05/#ubuntu-x.txt

JanChm, are you guys talking about he thing marketed as "Unmatched ease of use"?  ;)00:00
brycehyeah, what'd be easier is if we didn't have to use it!00:01
brycehactually all things considered it isn't too bad00:02
brycehone more button to push00:02
JanCfrom what i read, it seems like you're mostly lacking SSO support in the OS00:05
JanCi mean, as a daemon (maybe part of the keyring daemon?)00:06
JanCor something like that at least00:06
Sarvattwoohoooooo plymouth was updated, now libdrm is a sync01:48
tjaaltonsomething to remember when doing backports ;)01:55
Prf_JakobSarvatt: thanks for all the help!02:00
SarvattPrf_Jakob: no worries man, sorry such an easy thing took so long02:05
Sarvatttjaalton: yeah thats the first thing that went through my mind, 2 weeks into quantal and backports are already complicated :)02:05
bjsniderSarvatt, i'll get that stable blob into x-updates tomorrow. my box won't upload anything at the moment and i might have to complain to the isp, but i imagine it will be fixed by tomorrow04:03
bjsnidernot that anybody will be using the stable blob04:03
Sarvattbjsnider: heck, might as well put 302 if you're doing it and think its better04:05
bjsniderthere have been a couple of bug reports04:05
Sarvatti wouldn't put an .07 nvidia driver in there04:05
Sarvattusually we get those privately for testing but it was pushed out publically04:06
Sarvatt295.07 had so many problems04:06
Sarvattbut randr is nice :)04:06
bjsnideri did some work to fix the nvidia-settings scripts and was going to ask ricotz about putting it into xorg-edgers04:07
bjsniderbut i keep missing him04:07
Sarvattbjsnider: no worries at all, its very much appreciated that you push anything at all04:07
bjsniderhe apparently has a life after work04:07
Sarvattwell he lives in germany04:07
Sarvattits 6 am there now or something04:08
Sarvatti only see ya around late my time so real early morning his time :)04:08
Sarvattbjsnider: by all means push whatever you think is appropriate to edgers though04:08
bjsnideri don't know if the way i've got it hacked is the way alberto would do it04:09
Sarvattor send it to tseliot to get it integrated, noone else can really touch any nvidia packages in ubuntu :(04:09
Sarvattthe one time i did update it i got chewed out for screwing up his git repo and decided not to touch it again :P04:10
Sarvattnvidia-settings is open source though, ya might want to talk to aplattner directly04:12
Sarvattunless its just packaging04:12
bjsniderjust packaging04:12
bjsniderthings have started building to /usr/local04:13
Sarvatthe's a good guy, helped me figure out some x-x-v-nv problems with the way we extracted pci ids in the packaging back in the day and convinced him to add fedoras newer gpu support patches04:13
Sarvattoh ok04:13
bjsnideri just did an ugly mv statement to get them in the right spot afterwards04:13
bjsniderthere's got to be a way to build them in the right spot in the first place, but they gutted the main makefile04:14
bjsniderit used to be deveral dozen lines and now it's 3 i think04:14
Sarvattbjsnider: btw vaapi is complete junk in gnome, gnome video playback apps use gconfsink so you can use gstreamer-properties to define the sinks, but gstreamer-vaapi is incompatible with it, no hardware accelerated playback in gnome app works unless you force vaapisink which breaks playback of videos that cant be accelerated04:42
bjsnideris this gwenole's gstreamer-vaapi?04:43
Sarvattfigured you might be interested in that nugget of info i spent too long digging into04:43
Sarvattyeah04:43
bjsnideri wasn't aware he'd done any more work on it04:43
bjsniderlast i saw it was ugly04:43
bjsniderdidn't do subtitles either04:43
bjsnidervaapi should be fine in vlc though04:44
Sarvattoh extra fun, i didnt try that04:44
Sarvattyeah i use vlc too04:44
Sarvattmainly for no hassle hi10p support though :)04:44
bjsnideri tested that in my new card, which has vdpau feature set d04:45
bjsniderit errored out04:45
bjsnideri think it's feature set d04:45
bjsnideranyway, it's supposed to accelerate 3d04:45
Sarvattyou mean something might possibly accelerate hi10p? i figured it was years away04:46
bjsnideri think it was an ffmpeg issue though, i should try it with precuse04:46
Sarvattfeature set d was 5xx, no way04:48
bjsniderfeature set c accelerates bluray 3d04:48
bjsnidernot sure if that's the same codec04:49
Sarvattthey wont accelerate hi10p until 30 bit displays are common probably and yeah right04:49
Sarvatti need a consumer device like boxee box that accelerates it so i'm screwed, completely done with htpcs in my bedroom04:51
bjsniderdoes vaapi work in gnome with the fluendo stuff?04:51
Sarvattfluendo vaapi?04:51
bjsnideryes04:51
Sarvatti have no clue but i'll look into it04:52
Sarvattonly screwed with gstreamer-vaapi thats completely broken with gnome, but it could actually just be a remnant of totem30 still being used...04:53
Sarvattits easy to make a gstreamer pipeline that plays back videos accelerated with gstreamer-vaapi but its a no go with totem04:54
bjsniderlatest totem is in the gnome 3 ppa04:54
Sarvattarm platforms just force pvrsink and dont care they cant play back divx videos or whatever because bigbuckbunny works full speed04:54
Sarvattoh is it?04:54
Sarvattsweet04:55
Sarvattbjsnider: do you have any clue if the new flash update fixed smurfism on vdpau?05:00
Sarvattsaw an update come through and was hopeful but couldnt find any info05:00
bjsnideryou're not using vdpau acceleration with flash are you?05:02
Sarvattbjsnider: i'm not using nvidia, but people were complaining about the stock crap with the previous flash release05:02
bjsniderif there are any issues it's probably that they're forcing acceleration even though adobe disabled it05:03
bjsnideryou have to put a file in /etc and whatnot05:03
bjsniderit causes crashes and problems05:03
Sarvattit was busted without fixing things through /etc/adobe crap before05:03
bjsnideri never had a problem myself05:03
Sarvattor maybe i misunderstood05:03
Sarvattoh ok05:03
* Sarvatt googles nvidia smurf :P05:04
bjsniderit was actually a reversal of all red and blue05:09
bjsniderwhich made skin blue because ordinarily it was pinkish05:09
bjsniderbut black and white are normal05:10
bjsniderit was an issue i had a long time ago, but not with flash05:10
Sarvattyeah i remember the xv version of it like 2 years ago due to nvidia-settings05:11
bjsnideri think people avoid those kinds of issues by staying current with hardware05:15
bjsniderthe performance regression in the last blob was only on older chips05:15
mdeslaurbjsnider, Sarvatt: the flash issue with libvpdau is not resolved with the new version, and is getting hit my all users since flash 11.2 turned on hardware acceleration by default13:09
mdeslaurbjsnider, Sarvatt: I'm actually thinking about adding this workaround to libvdpau for now: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/vdpau/2012-May/000022.html13:09
mlankhorstthat's so awful..13:10
mlankhorstI don't see how anyone can add signed-off-by on that13:13
mdeslaurmlankhorst: the fact that it's an ugly workaround, or the "function pointers as global variables" part?13:15
mlankhorstand wouldn't dlopen(RTLD_NOLOAD, "libflashplayer.so"); be a LOT better way to detect flash?13:17
mlankhorstmdeslaur: and the fact that it would break when flash is fixed, effectively forcing flash to stay broken13:18
mdeslauryeah, it sucks13:20
mdeslaurdamn closed-source software :P13:21
mlankhorstI really think you have to work with adobe to fix it as soon as possible..13:21
mdeslaurmlankhorst: they know about it, it's all we can do13:21
mlankhorstI mean, it's such an awful hack that would also make it impossible for adobe to fix it in a future release13:22
mlankhorstyou're probably better off temporarily disabling vdpau :\13:22
mdeslaurouch...I don't think I'd like that too much...it would pretty much break my mythtv box :P13:23
mlankhorstWhich would be pretty much just adding VDPAU_DRIVER=null to environment13:24
mlankhorstfor the flash plugin only13:24
mdeslaurhrm13:24
mlankhorst(nouveau, r600 and nvidia are already taken as drivers :p)13:25
mdeslaurhrm, interesting, maybe we can add that to the firefox wrapper13:25
mdeslaur(LP: #967091 is the bug #)13:25
mlankhorstThanks. :-)13:33
* mlankhorst did some work on mesa implementations of vdpau previously13:34
mlankhorstflash player won't work yet though, it uses an opengl extension that allows vdpau surfaces to be used in opengl13:35
bjsnidermdeslaur, i'm not sure i agree with you on this14:06
bjsnideri don't think they ever had any intention of turning on hardware accel by default14:07
bjsniderit certainly isn't on here14:07
mdeslaurbjsnider: I can reproduce it at will. I once again just reinstalled a brand-new precise image on my test t61 this morning, and with default settings, as soon as I install libvdpau1, flash colors get inverted14:15
mdeslaurbjsnider: 11.2 opens libvdpau, 11.1 does not14:15
mdeslaurbjsnider: welcome back :)15:19
mdeslaurbjsnider:  in case you didn't get my earlier reply15:19
mdeslaur<mdeslaur> bjsnider: I can reproduce it at will. I once again just reinstalled a brand-new precise image on my test t61 this morning, and with default settings, as soon as I install libvdpau1, flash colors get inverted15:19
mdeslaur bjsnider: 11.2 opens libvdpau, 11.1 does not15:19
bjsnidermdeslaur, ok16:33
bjsnidermdeslaur, please open this link: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=XITHbsUUlYI&fmt=3716:35
bjsniderswitch to 1080p if it isn't already16:35
bjsniderright click select show video info16:35
bjsnideraccelerated video or software rendering?16:35
mdeslaurbjsnider: that video is showing up as html5 for me, not flash16:50
bjsniderwell, find one that's 1080p16:50
bjsnideryou might have to opt out of the html5 project for this test16:52
mdeslaurit's not opt-in anymore, it's by default if the video doesn't contain ads16:52
mdeslaurI'm trying to find a way to force flash usage16:52
mdeslaurwould 720p be ok?16:53
bjsnideryes16:53
bjsniderstrange that it's flash for me but not you16:53
mdeslaurbjsnider: with 11.1, I'm getting "software video rendering, software video decoding". With 11.2, I'm getting "accelerated video rendering, software video decoding"16:54
bjsniderok, describe the process you used to install flash please16:55
mdeslaurapt-get install adobe-flashplugin16:55
bjsniderok16:55
bjsnidernow if you right-click on the video and select settings16:55
mdeslaurin this case, I've removed the flash packages entirely, and am copying libflashxyz.so into ~/.mozilla/plugins16:55
bjsnidercan you uncheck enable hardware acceleration?16:56
mdeslaur"Enable hardware acceleration" is checked both in 11.1 and 11.216:56
mdeslaurno, I can't uncheck it...that's another flash bug since 11.x16:57
bjsniderodd16:57
bjsnidernone of this is happening for me16:57
mdeslaurflash's settings window doesn't respond to mouse events with a compositing window manager16:57
bjsnideri can check it or uncheck it16:57
mdeslaurbjsnider: are you running compiz?16:57
bjsniderno, i am running mutter16:57
bjsnidermaybe that's the difference16:57
mdeslaurbjsnider: that's probably why16:58
bjsnidercan you try using gnome-shell?16:58
mdeslaurbjsnider: how do I install gnome-shell?16:58
bjsniderapt-get install gnome-shell16:58
mdeslaurok, one sec16:58
bjsniderlog out, change session to gnome16:58
bjsniderlog in16:58
bjsniderand mutter does compositing, i assure you16:59
mdeslauryes, I know16:59
mdeslaurit's a bug with compiz and with metacity when compositing is enabled16:59
bjsniderat least that's oen difference between our two environments16:59
mdeslaurok, 11.1 is ok, 11.2 has inverted colors, but disabling the hardware rendering checkbox disables it and fixes the inverted colors17:02
bjsniderand you can uncheck that box in gnome-shell?17:03
mdeslaurbjsnider: yes17:03
bjsniderok, try this17:03
bjsnidercreate the file /etc/adobe/mms.cfg17:03
bjsniderinside it put EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=017:04
bjsniderthen go back into compiz17:04
mdeslaurEnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=0 still gives me inverted colors in gnome-sheel17:06
mdeslaurtrying compiz now17:06
bjsniderwel, i'm interested in whether gpu acceleration is turned off by default17:06
mdeslaurstill have inverted colors in compiz17:06
mdeslaurnope, still says "Accelerated video rendering"17:06
bjsnideri must just be lucky or something, because it's always disabled for me17:08
mdeslaurbjsnider: see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/adobe-flashplugin/+bug/967091/comments/9 for the other option combinations I've tried17:08
ubottuLaunchpad bug 967091 in adobe-flashplugin (Ubuntu) "Wrong tint with Nvidia after upgrading to 11.2" [Undecided,Confirmed]17:08
mdeslaurbjsnider: you probably have a chip that is in the blacklist17:08
bjsniderthe wrong tint is caused by the use of gpu accel, so it's fixed by turning it off17:09
bjsniderwell, my chip is very new17:09
mdeslaurbjsnider: yes, and the only way to do that is with the option in the settings panel17:09
bjsnideradobe can fix this bug easily by turning off gpu accel17:09
bjsniderand never turning it back on17:10
mdeslaurbjsnider: yep, they can....or by inverting the colors :)17:10
bjsnideri doubt anyone would want vdpau with flash since it crashes xorg17:10
bjsniderthe inversion of red and blue is just the mildest consequence17:11
mdeslaurwell, tell that to adobe so they revert their 11.2 code :P17:11
bjsniderit isn't just blue faces it's red and blue inverted17:11
bjsniderwater is red17:11
mdeslauryep17:11
mdeslaurthe whole point of 11.2 was to finally get hardware assisted video working on linux :P17:11
mdeslaurok, gotta go...bbl17:12
bjsnideri guess you'll just have to use gnome-shell like all the rest of us cool people17:13
mdeslaurugh, no, the 4 seconds was enough to remind me why unity rocks :)17:15
mdeslaurbjsnider: nice try though :)17:15
bjsnideri'm a paid gnome-shell lobbyist17:40
mlankhorstbjsnider: >:D18:35
mdeslaurhehe ;)18:45
mlankhorstmdeslaur: except they haven't realized how fickly hardware decoding is with nvidia..18:47
mdeslaurmlankhorst: yeah...I'm still not sure what we should do at this point (if anything)18:47
mlankhorstI'm serious though, mplayer has the same issues if you toggle compositing on and off with vdpau18:48
mlankhorstI don't think vdpau decoding is enabled by default in mplayer18:48
mlankhorstalso detection of interlaced video is pretty much non-existant..18:49
mlankhorstmplayer could, but doesn't, handle it :/18:50
bjsnideri don't have that problem with mplayer19:33
bjsnideri haven't had blue/red reversal issues for years19:33
dzragonHave a problem that aint a bug. Alteast to my knowledge. I cant get more than 60hz on my screen (Syncmaster 2233rz 120hz). Have tried some stuff from ze Google, like using "compizconfig settings manager" to untick "sens refreshrate automatically" and then changing it to different values, 75, 85 and 120, to no avail. And I have tried to change xorg.conf but the guides i manage to get from Google-searches dont do anything for me, i cant t20:17
dzragonranslate it to what I need for my setup (Syncmaster 2233rz, Geforce 460 1gb), and if i "sudo nvidia-settings" and then click 120hz (which shows up in the list of refreshrates) the screen only shortly blinks but then still doesnt change, still at 60hz according to my screens OSD and to my headache :S. Anyone?20:17
dzragonI read the topic. Hoping i wont get flamed or anything. Figured the only bug in this is my brain.20:19
bjsniderdzragon, you shouldn't need to run nvidia-settings in sudo to change the refresh rate21:00
bjsnideri would check dmesg and .xsession-errors for output when you try to change the refresh rate21:00
bjsnideralso you could start nvidia-settings from the console to see if stdout tells you anything21:01
dzragonbjsnider: i will try to do what you said, thanks for the reply21:12

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