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akher0nmlankhorst: https://gist.github.com/327072304:54
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akheronmlankhorst: now with no invalid writes in synaptics_drv.so04:57
mlankhorstgreat o.O07:53
mlankhorststill see some though, argh07:54
mlankhorstBut I've asked cnd to look at it, if you don't want to wait you could always temporarily run the new stack from quantal :P08:06
mlankhorstI've created a backport for it but it's not for the weak of mind.08:07
akheronmlankhorst: why not for the weak of mind?09:07
akheron:)09:08
mlankhorststill experimental and if things go wrong you have to know your way around the console09:08
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mlankhorstomg awesome..09:29
mlankhorstI didn't update vmware so it was still stuck on the old version09:29
mlankhorstbut it bumped all other video drivers regardless :D09:30
mlankhorstI just need to add a patch for xserver-xorg-dev to depend on xserver-common of same version, else it doesn't update it properly.09:31
akheronmlankhorst: well, I could try it if it fixes this annoying crashing...09:51
akheronwhere is it?09:51
mlankhorstwould be easier to just enable xorg-edgers for now though09:51
akheronI'll try that10:03
akheronnow running without valgrind11:23
akherongod this is fast11:23
akheron:)11:23
mdeslaurtseliot: FYI, I'm going to publish lucid-precise nvidia updates in a few minutes11:57
tseliotmdeslaur: err... wait12:00
mdeslaurtseliot: hrm?12:00
tseliotmdeslaur: I'm uploading security updates in quantal and I was planning to do the same in precise12:00
mdeslaurtseliot: you can't upload to the -security pocket in precise12:00
mdeslaurtseliot: how were you going to do -precise?12:01
tseliotmdeslaur: ok, what version are you uploading to precise?12:01
mdeslaurtseliot: for precise, I have nvidia-graphics-drivers, nvidia-graphics-drivers-updates, nvidia-graphics-173, nvidia-graphics-173-updates with the security patch12:02
tseliotmdeslaur: I wanted to upload 304.23 for nvidia-graphics-drivers-update and to keep the current version of nvidia-graphics-drivers while patching the sources12:02
mdeslaurthe same versions as currently in the repo, but with nvidia's new blacklist ranges12:02
tseliotmdeslaur: that would be ok12:02
tseliotmdeslaur: I'll just take care of quantal then. Thanks12:03
mdeslaurtseliot: how about if you let me release my updates in a few minutes, and then you can decide whether you want to upload 304.23 after?12:03
tseliotmdeslaur: exactly my point ^12:03
tseliot;)12:03
mdeslaurtseliot: ok, cool....sorry for colliding with you on this12:03
tseliotmdeslaur: no, thanks for your work ;)12:04
* tseliot -> lunch12:04
tseliottjaalton_: I'm going to upload to quantal-proposed too (for the abi bump)12:05
tjaalton_tseliot: ah, good12:07
tjaalton_finally got freenode working again12:07
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tseliottjaalton_: are going to move the new X from quantal-proposed to quantal this week?12:42
tseliot*are we12:42
tjaalton_tseliot: guess so, if it's not too buggy :)12:43
tseliottjaalton_: ok, 304.32 is in quantal-proposed too now12:44
tjaalton_nice12:45
ricotztseliot, hi :)12:46
tseliotricotz: hey12:46
ricotztseliot, so is 304.32 running for you?12:46
tseliotricotz: with the new X?12:46
ricotzyes12:47
tseliotricotz: I haven't tested that yet12:47
ricotztseliot, it isnt working for here12:47
ricotztseliot, you probably want to test it first12:47
tseliotricotz: I know it should segfault under certain circumstances12:48
ricotzok12:48
tseliotricotz: it's in quantal-proposed therefore, if it doesn't work, we can reject it12:48
ricotztseliot, there is a minor flaw already, the installation order here should be changed http://paste.debian.net/plain/18237412:50
ricotzthe upstream dkms.conf overwrite the custom one12:50
tseliotricotz: upstream dkms.conf?12:51
ricotzyes12:51
ricotzhttps://launchpadlibrarian.net/111988986/nvidia-graphics-drivers_304.30-0ubuntu1~xedgers~quantal2_304.30-0ubuntu1~xedgers~quantal3.diff.gz12:52
tseliotricotz: oh, right, they have an upstream dkms.conf now12:52
ricotztseliot, and maybe you like to add the 3.6rc1 build patch too12:52
tseliotricotz: sure12:54
ricotzthanks12:55
ricotztseliot, it is probably a good idea too to hardcode the abi package provides12:55
mlankhorstricotz: video abi you mean?12:58
mlankhorst:D12:58
mlankhorstthat should be hardcoded too at some point12:58
ricotzmlankhorst, exactly12:58
mlankhorstwould make my job easier at least12:58
ricotzmeaning let nvidia-current depend on abi 11, 12, 13 etc12:59
mlankhorstyeah12:59
ricotztjaalton_, ^12:59
mlankhorstI could copy it over to my qbp tree then12:59
* ricotz think this would make jcristau a bit happy ;)12:59
tjaalton_ricotz: why do you think that?12:59
tjaalton_:)12:59
ricotztjaalton_,  oop sorry13:00
ricotztseliot, ^13:00
* mlankhorst would be happy from hardcoded abi's..13:00
mlankhorstI could copy it over to https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/q-lts-backport/+packages then13:00
tjaalton_don't think jcristau cares one bit about the blobs in ubuntu, rightfully so :)13:00
jcristau;)13:00
ricotztjaalton_, he knows why ;)13:01
tseliotricotz, mlankhorst: I can do that for you13:01
mlankhorstawesome :)13:01
ricotztseliot, thanks, this would reflect the nature of the blob better13:01
mlankhorstnow I just need the remaining packages updated13:01
mlankhorstmissing video-vmware it seems13:02
ricotztseliot, same goes for fglrx ;)13:02
mlankhorstand xserver-xorg-dev needs to depend on xserver-common or xserver-xorg-core, so virtual provide won't work.13:03
mlankhorsterm versioned*13:03
jcristauxserver-xorg-dev doesn't need any such thing13:05
mlankhorstI know, but it doesn't get taken in as part of the big rename, not sure if I should care or not though.13:06
* jcristau thinks not13:06
ricotztseliot, btw it is 304.32 not 302.32 13:08
tseliotricotz: the buil failed anyway so I'll have to reupload13:08
tseliot*build13:08
* tseliot should've slept more...13:09
mlankhorsthehehehee :P13:09
ricotzok13:09
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Lazureis there a reason why my asus g60 laptop , with a core i5 CPU and 1GB GTS 360M, cannot use nouveau driver? For instance, ubuntu livecds cannot boot without nomodeset, or else i get a garbled frozen picture showing bits and pieces of whatever my screen saw in a previous boot on other OS. 15:47
mlankhorstLazure: not from head, would help to know what card though15:48
Lazure1GB Nvidia GTS 360m15:48
Lazurethe i5 is known to have a built in IGP of its own, but there are no bios options to disable it, which is what i suspect why I cannot use nouveau.15:49
Lazuremy desktop has a 1GB GTX 460 and i7 (no IGP; triple channel memory socket) and i can boot ubuntu livecds just fine without using nomodeset15:49
mlankhorstwell could try blacklisting i91515:49
Lazurethat doesn't really help the booting of a livecd, but i guess it could help post-install 15:50
Lazuretho, i'm lucky if my laptop will even boot a live cd. and that's weird because my laptop can read the disc just fine in an OS, but it fails to read the disc at boot time. my current ubuntu install required me to make a usb stick for it. >.>15:51
Lazurethe asus g60 runs flawlessly with windows, but damn if it isn't a nightmare for linux.15:52
mlankhorsthybrid's a nightmare in general :/15:52
Lazurei really hope they find a solution to make ubuntu work better with that kind of configuration soon15:52
* ricotz got reminded by the nice nvidia speach linus gave ;)15:53
tjaaltonyes, let's hope 'they' do a better job15:54
Lazureif gabe newell really shifts gears to linux due to windows 8's... ugliness and poor usability15:55
Lazurenvidia will need to up the ante on their linux drivers15:55
Lazurewhich is kinda interesting, considering years ago it used to be ATI was the bane of linux existence when it came to drivers, now it's the other way around15:55
mlankhorstthe thing is15:55
jcristaufglrx is still a piece of crap15:55
mlankhorstnvidia hasn't shown any interest outside of their own driver..15:55
mlankhorstto work on hybrid stuff15:55
Lazureyeah15:55
Lazurenvidia's too closed up15:56
Lazuredoesn't ATI provide info for opensource drivers to work better with their cards too?15:56
Lazurewhereas nvidia wants everyone to use their binary drivers15:56
jcristauwell the people paying the big bucks for good nvidia linux drivers are probably not very interested in the hybrid stuff15:57
Lazureso in other words, a big middle finger to laptops or even desktops with the IGP-based core iX intel cpus15:58
jcristaunah those use windows15:58
Lazuremy desktop has the last of the iX series that doesn't have an IGP (and the only one that used triple ram slots)15:58
Lazureso if you want a linux machine, you pretty much have to go AMD now? 15:59
jcristauif you want a linux machine to a pretty good approximation you don't exist :)15:59
mlankhorstI think intel atm16:00
Lazuretried to disable the properitary driver, and of course it won't boot past the logo now (tho, i had the logo at the native res!..)16:05
Lazureso yeah, the stupid IGP breaks the ability to boot with nouveau16:05
bjsniderLazure, nouveau requires kms, so booting with nomodeset will automatically cut it off17:25
Lazurebjsnider: yeah i know nomodeset murders nouveau, which means no 3D accel or unity/gnome-shell on a live cd17:26
bjsniderif there are no bios options to disable the nvidia chip, that's not nvidia's actual fault17:26
Lazurebut nouveau doesn't work because of the i5's graphics chip (which is the one i'd want to turn off in BIOS)17:27
bjsniderit sounds like it might be the fault of the asus corporation17:27
bjsnideri don't see what's wrong with the intel gpu17:27
Lazurewell i WANT to use the nvidia gpu, it's obviously a lot more powerful. but the intel gpu i think interferes with nouveau working on a livecd17:28
Lazurebasically, my predicament is on this laptop: i must use proprietary drivers, or use nomodeset. there is no in-between17:29
mlankhorsterm nomodeset is no longer supported17:29
Lazureproprietary drivers, however, aren't enabled by default on live and also don't give you a very pretty plymouth/grub experience either. also, with wayland coming up...17:29
Lazureif i just plop in a livecd of ubuntu and just let it boot, i get a nice plymouth boot logo, but then i get a garbled, frozen screen when it goes into X, and i can't even use ctrl+alt+f1 to go into a console, it hard freezes in this garbled state.17:30
Lazuremeaning i *HAVE* to use nomodeset to use a livecd at all.17:31
Lazureand to use it with any acceleration whatsoever, i must install it to the system so that i can enable nvidia's propreitary drivers , which then allow me to have full 3D accel in x, but it ruins my plymouth/grub resolutions/logos17:31
Lazureand this configuration will not support wayland when it comes around, either.17:32
Lazurebut if i wanted to play around with say.. ubuntu 12.10 alpha 3, without actually installing it, that's not gonna be an option for me because i wouldh ave to use nomodeset17:32
bjsniderthat bumblebee project software might be able to do something about this17:34
mlankhorstmeh17:35
mlankhorstbumblebee solves the problem on the wrong level17:35
bjsniderthe problem is asus didn't provide an option to stop sending one gpu power so the other one would take over17:36
Lazureasus designed this laptop to be a powerhouse in windows gaming.17:36
Lazureand it works excellently for that17:36
Lazurebut they totally left out linux.17:37
mlankhorstsoon..17:37
Lazurei'm trying to back up stuff in my 12.04 install, it's acting wonky and i wanna reinstall it17:37
Lazurea long time ago i made my own 'live wallpaper' that changes/fades through colors depending on the time of day17:37
Lazurei know there's two places i had to have .xml files, but i only can remember the one17:37
bjsnideryou should have done better research before buying the product i guess17:38
Lazurei got the laptop back in 200917:39
Lazureit was fine with the versions of ubuntu back then, back when it didn't use plymouth boot and all i neede was compiz in gnome2 , which the propreitary drivers worked great for, but the advancements made since are totally gonna be an issue17:39
mlankhorstdoes the integrated intel work as default?17:39
Lazurei'm not sure what ubuntu is trying to use when booting livecd (which i guess uses an auto-detect system?) , since i can't get into X to even check it.17:40
mlankhorst nouveau.blacklist=1 or something iirc17:40
Lazurei wonder if there's a way to make the livecd boot to terminal but still know which driver it's using17:40
Lazurei know that there were errors shown something like 'intel i915 turbo disabled, no acceleration' or something like that17:41
Lazurewhen i was stuck with text-only boots17:41
mlankhorstthe safe boot should probably use vesa17:43
* mlankhorst slaps Sarvatt around a bit with a large trout!17:58
tjaaltonLazure: there's probably just some bug making the intel driver behave like that (assuming it's being used there)18:06
Lazurewell, gonna burn off a DVD of ubuntu 12.10 alpha 3, and we'll see if we can't figure out what it tries to use when booting live, if ever possible18:08
Lazuretrying DVD since my laptop won't boot linux CDs lately (but it'll read them just fine if I put them in during a running OS... weird)18:09
tjaaltonyou can also boot off a usb stick18:11
Lazureit boots off the DVD 18:37
Lazureguess it just doens't like CD-Rs18:37
Lazurenow to see if it gets into X (probably won't)18:38
Lazurei failed to get a plymouth boot logo that's for sure. getting the old fashioned text boot with all the [ OK ] things18:39
Lazurethink it locked up with a black screen18:41
Lazureoh, well it didn't go into X but i can use ctrl+alt+f1 and get a terminal18:41
Lazurehow would i check which video driver is being used from that?18:41
tjaaltondmesg and xorg log18:42
Lazureinteresting18:43
Lazureduring the console screen, i was being spammed with a message something about [drm] nouveau something. i'll need to boot it up again18:43
Lazurecuz when i tried to switch bacl to f7 it locked and i ended up shutting down18:43
Lazureis it possible to blacklist from the livecd's boot menu?18:44
mlankhorstnouveau.blacklist=1 maybe?18:53
Lazure[drm] nouveau : failed to idle cjhannel 2, channel 3, channel 4.. and i get a lot of PGRAPH TLB flush idle timeout messages, so yeah. nouveau is broken18:55
Lazureit boots with nouveau blacklisted, but i get fallback, low resolution only19:01
tjaaltondmesg again19:12
Lazurehow do i even read all that19:20
tjaaltonjust dump it somewhere19:26
tjaaltonapt-get install pastebinit; dmesg | pastebinit19:27
Lazurehttp://pastebin.com/uSfE123u19:33
Lazurei couldn't find package pastebinit, but i did it manually19:33
Lazurenote this is booting from a livecd19:36
tjaaltonit's probably in universe19:50
Lazureapparently nouveau just plain doesn't like the GTS 360m. 19:55
Lazurein this case, why isn't linux falling back to the i915 that's built-in to my i5?19:55
Lazureit seems to fallback to vesa instead. 19:55
tjaaltonno mention of intel in dmesg20:02
Lazureyeah, i think it pretends i don't have a gpu on my i520:03
Lazurebut on the real install, back in the day, when i would get my proprietary nvidia drivers installed and working20:04
Lazurei lost the plymouth boot logo and was getting a 80x25 text one instead. and during that, it would say something about i915 turbo disabled can't find symbols or wahtever20:04
Lazurei forget what i did to make plymouth work, but.. it was very tricky20:04
Lazurei think i had to install vbe or something20:04
Lazureand make grub/plymouth use vesa20:04
Lazureif i could make them use the i915 , my grub/plymouth would look tons better20:05
Lazuretjaalton: is there any way to make a livecd load a certain driver from just the boot options line?20:11
mlankhorstLazure: if it uses optimus and enables nvidia card first, not likely20:14
Lazureahhh20:14
Lazureand with a very very minimal BIOS, i cannot disable either graphics adapter.20:15
Lazureso yeah, all my livecds are gonna be 800x600 and without full gnome-shell/unity features for all of eternity unless nouveau gets improved and realizes the 360m exists.20:15
mlankhorsttjaalton: hmm... if system boots to fast lightdm starts before both graphics cards are initialized :/20:17
tjaaltonmlankhorst: yeah, would be easy to test that by restarting lightdm from a vt20:22
mlankhorstthat's what I do, but it's not a proper solution20:23
Lazurethat would only happen on an SSD wouldn't it?20:23
mlankhorstLazure: or netboot with gbit network ;)20:24
Lazurelol20:24
mlankhorst.. from a ssd *ducks*20:24
Lazuremy desktop that i'm chatting to you from , running win7 , has an SSD. boots up so faaaaast20:35
mlankhorstmine takes a bit longer but it's mostly typing in password :p20:44
mlankhorstseems to be limited to 400mb/s due to aes20:44
bjsniderit's hard to believe that chip isn't supported by nouveau after a couple of years21:04
bjsnideri don't know what would stop the blob from working, if the system isn't trying to use the intel gpu at all21:05
tjaalton blob works aiui, livecd not21:11
bjsnideri thought it could be installed off the livecd21:18
mlankhorstbjsnider: sometimes things break, we try to fix it in time :)21:44

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