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brycehon the valve invites...  the invites went out to survey respondents first; uds invites are coming in a second wave.  pass it on.02:07
AzelphurI managed to get in :)02:23
Prf_Jakobbryceh: k, thanks for the update.02:23
Azelphuris there a recommended way to grab that new nvidia driver?02:23
Azelphurprobably x updates?02:23
brycehAzelphur, no, it should be in your Additional Hardware Drivers right now02:24
* Azelphur has a look02:24
Sarvattif it's not thats a bug and would be good to know, i saw some updates saying never recommend -experimental that could go wrong02:24
Azelphurbryceh: experimental-304?02:24
Sarvattshould be a -31002:25
Azelphurthere's a 310 too02:25
Azelphurso I go with the 310? righto :)02:25
Sarvattyah thats the good one, bryceh got 2x the fps in l4d2 with that over 30402:25
Azelphursweet02:25
SarvattAzelphur: interested if serioussam 3 works for you with a real beta key :P02:27
brycehSarvatt, it does; I was just playing it :-)02:27
Sarvattdamn!02:27
* Azelphur is happy to test anything for anyone :p02:27
brycehrocket launcher all the thingees!02:28
Azelphurwhee \o/02:28
Sarvattit doesn't work without a key even though lots of other things do02:28
brycehthe graphics performance was pretty crappy, and I spotted some (I think) corruption here and there.  Don't know if those are worth reporting.02:29
brycehand that's with:02:29
brycehxorg:nvidia_experimental_310 - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (**experimental** beta) (Proprietary, Enabled, In use)02:29
Sarvatthttp://paste.ubuntu.com/1338840/ and fails to launch because no linux binaries :( I bought that game in advance to try it02:30
Sarvattall the humble bundle games work fine but no surprise there02:30
ScottKAnyone preparing a mesa SRU soon?  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa/+bug/1065125/comments/1002:33
ubottuLaunchpad bug 1065125 in Mesa "Video-artefacts in KWin GLES" [Medium,Confirmed]02:33
Sarvatti'm just glad to have steam not taking 2-3 minutes to load to chat on it or redeem cd keys :) its surprisingly buggy though, GUI crashes but its still running all the time02:34
SarvattScottK: saw the responses with the fix right at EOD.. safe to say not yet :P02:34
brycehSarvatt, yeah quite buggy, but a lot better than it has been02:34
Sarvattdoes kwin use gles by default now?02:34
Sarvattaka is it that urgent?02:34
ScottKSarvatt: OK.  As long as it's on the list.02:34
ScottKIt does on arm*02:34
Sarvattwhere blobs are used instead of mesa?02:35
ScottKOther than that, no, but people are using gles version as a workaround for some of the problems in Bug #1061073 02:35
ubottuLaunchpad bug 1061073 in kde-workspace (Ubuntu) "Desktop effects are slow and desktop corruption using mesa 9" [High,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/106107302:35
ScottKYes.02:35
ScottKThe bigger potential impact is with people working around 106073 (only part of which is solve in kwin (the slow part)).02:36
SarvattScottK: is it urgent enough that it can't wait for mesa 9.0.1 in ~a few weeks? Just curious because SRUing it is no big deal but 9.0.1 is planned for SRU02:36
ScottKProbably not that urgent.02:37
ScottKI know RAOF saw the corruption at UDS, but I don't know about progress on in beyond that.02:37
Sarvattah, yeah slowness was fixed in kwin, corruption still hasn't been figured out but the not updating isn't something i've seen a bug on02:37
ScottKWe just uploaded KDE SC 4.9.3 to raring today and it'll come soon as an SRU.02:40
SarvattStFS: ^^ awesome02:40
Sarvatti wasn't sure how kde updates happend, if it would be SRUed or in -backports and he asked02:41
ScottKWe have a micro-release exception for KDE.02:42
Sarvattkwin point releases are kinda nuts when I looked at 4.9.0 to 4.9.2 changes so wasn't sure02:42
ScottKThere's a pretty good record on not regressing.02:44
ScottKStFS: KDE 4.9.3 for quantal is available (except for translation updates that are still waiting to build) for testing in https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/.02:46
ScottKPlease file bugs against the https://launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa project if you find regressions.02:47
SarvattScottK: is there a default team to assign kde bugs to for that bug?02:53
ScottKThere are people that pay attention to the bugs filed against that project.02:53
Sarvatti added the kdebase-workspace task, part of it is fixed in 4.9.3 that'll eventually come02:53
ScottKOh, in bugs.kde.org it's very hit or miss.02:54
Sarvattjust wondering how to make sure that part is auto closed when it does update02:54
Azelphurseems like voice chat doesn't work02:56
ScottKReasonably likely not an #ubuntu-x related topic.02:58
SarvattAzelphur: i'm amazed the overlay works and it doesn't take 3 minutes to start like it does in wine at least :P02:59
ScottKSarvatt: For 1061073, I think you wanted quantal-updates, not precise-updates.02:59
AzelphurSarvatt: indeed02:59
Sarvattbut holy crap its buggy, gui crashes and it's still running in the background, kill off all the processes, still running02:59
Azelphuranother thing I notice, I have a different keyboard layout, but all my keybindings in game are qwerty03:00
SarvattScottK: oops, thanks03:00
ScottKNo problem.03:00
Azelphuris there a way to file bugs?03:05
Sarvattnope :(03:07
Azelphurah03:09
Azelphuralso what's the deal with real full screen in Linux and dual screen, in order for an app to go full screen do you actually have to turn one monitor off so to speak?03:09
Azelphuralso, 170FPS at 2560x1440 on all max graphics settings, niiiiiiiice03:11
AzelphurI have so many questions haha, does this work with nouveau yet?03:14
Sarvattwish I knew :) pretty safe to say theres problems though. best bet for bug reports is the forums03:17
Azelphuryea guess so03:18
AzelphurIt seems to ignore xinerama info that's for sure03:19
AzelphurAnyone with dual screen about to help me test something with the steam beta? You don't actually need to be in the beta to test it03:34
Azelphurbryceh: I'm having an odd issue occasionally while playing TF2 where my entire system just locks up for 1-5 seconds every now and again04:12
Azelphurdoes anyone know how you might solve this issue with dual screen + steam big picture? https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3832397/screenshots/2012/November/2012-11-07-063029_5120x1440_scrot.png06:36
brycehAzelphur, yeah dunno on any of that; worked for me.  I would check dmesg for errors, ditto Xorg.0.log.  Make sure you're running latest video drivers, etc.07:19
Azelphurrighto07:34
brycehAzelphur, btw whenever reporting issues always summarize your video card, video driver version, ubuntu version, and any other versions that might be pertinent.  Often we just play guessing game when we don't know that stuff.07:39
AzelphurI see07:39
Azelphurthat dual screen thing, I've seen that issue with other apps too, such as flash player07:39
Azelphurnvidia gtx 570 proprietary 310 xubuntu 12.04 64bit07:39
Azelphurquad screen (2 separate X screens running twinview)07:40
brycehhmm, I haven't tested twinview too much myself07:40
Azelphurhehe07:41
brycehnow that nvidia supports xrandr, I'd probably just disable twinview entirely and set up using randr.  If the issue still exists there, switch on display debugging (xdiagnose, first checkbox), then examine dmesg for how it's laying out the screens.07:41
bryceher, s/screens/displays/07:42
mlankhorstmorning08:17
* bryceh waves08:38
mlankhorstAzelphur: nouveau is unoptimized, I'm aware that are some things that could be done more efficiently there, so likely not getting as much fps08:46
mlankhorstplus on fermi and kepler you're stuck on boot speeds, which is not very high08:46
Azelphurinteresting, I wonder if it'd actually work / be fast enough to be playable08:46
mlankhorstwell boot speeds limits you to 1/10th of the normal power, or maybe even 1/20th, didn't check..08:49
mlankhorsthowever on geforce gtx < 400 it ought to work right08:52
mlankhorstminus rendering bugs and general inefficiencies :-)08:52
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tjaaltonfresh install, log in & out and there are four unity daemons left running plus pulseaudio and gvfsd-trash.. nice13:17
mlankhorstoh i just spent a few hours finding out why this thing failed without a sign of life, network-manager got reinstalled and probably took down the network interface..13:20
mlankhorstbryceh: do we want to be able to install mesa9 without the rest of the backports stack for steam?14:19
mlankhorstoh bug on this system after all, stupid nfs state corruption15:02
brycehmlankhorst, yeah I think so17:54
mlankhorstbryceh: ok in that case should I just make it require on libdrm-lts-quantal and rename mesa-lts-quantal to mesa9?17:55
brycehmlankhorst, how would users install it?17:57
mlankhorstwe could make an exception for it, and just install libgl1-mesa9-dri/glx{,:i386}17:58
mlankhorstthough the package itself would still be called mesa-lts-quantal because of how the rename script works17:58
mlankhorsts/package/source &/17:59
brycehmlankhorst, let's just leave things as they are and see how things go.  I'm not clear that this would really be that much simpler for users than just the mesa9 ppa, and am worried it might make the backport stack a touch more complex.18:02
brycehmlankhorst, it's a good idea though, but I suspect users that need it should really just opt-in whole hog to the full stack.18:03
mlankhorsthm might be better18:03
mlankhorstI really want to see if I can get libdrm in unrenamed, should I apply to the technical board?18:04
brycehmlankhorst, no not for a one off backport, that's just an "ordinary" SRU.  You would have to convince RAOF or another SRU admin.18:09
mlankhorstwell suppose I'll have to try harder at convincing raof then, didn't want to do that in the session since the kernel team also hijacked it :)18:15
darkxstI have a small patch that fixes pointer barriers under gnome-shell, would anyone here be able to review it?20:17
darkxsthttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1073724?20:17
ubottuLaunchpad bug 1073724 in xorg-server (Ubuntu) "Pointer barriers have gaps along the edge of the screen" [Undecided,Confirmed]20:17
bjsnidergnome-shell apparently has a number of issues with multiple monitors20:19
bjsnideri use it but with only one monitor so i guess i'm not seeing them20:19
darkxstbjsnider, this issue was introduced by the patch that does the sticky edges for unity20:20
darkxstmy patch to that patch fixes the issue in gnome-shell and does not affect the velocity barriers for unity stick edges20:21
bjsniderdo you have other issues with gnome-shell using two monitors?20:23
darkxstbjsnider, no not really, there are a couple of outstanding design issues (like workplace switchers), but overall it works well20:24
bjsniderdarkxst, is was talking to the designer of gnome-mplayer about this20:26
bjsnidera few weeks ago i think20:26
bjsniderdarkxst, https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups=#!topic/gnome-mplayer/1sjcFsQQyoM20:27
bjsniderthat might be a link to hsi exact post, i'm not sure20:28
bjsniderhe obviously expresses some distaste for certain design decisions20:28
bjsniderand i asked the gnome devs in their irc channel and they acknowledged problems in dual-head situations20:29
bjsnidera lot of people seem to be using 2 monitors i guess20:30
darkxstoh right, that is why I wrote this extension https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/323/multiple-monitor-panels/20:30
darkxstI believe there was a session re multiple monitors at the gnome boston summit, so they are working to improve things20:38
bjsniderwell, they know about the issues so i'm sure there are plans in the works20:42
RAOFmlankhorst: It's still not clear to me why renaming the libdrm *source* to libdrm-quantal-backport, bumping the SONAMEs to include some informative string, and then having the two libdrm stacks parallel installable wouldn't work.20:42
darkxstanyway, who would be the best person to talk to about my pointer barrier patch?21:16
mlankhorstRAOF: soname is going to be annoying, would mean patching everything to make it parallel installable, not really a good idea :/21:31
mlankhorstthough diversions might work for just generic libdrm stuff21:32
bjsniderhow about alternatives21:33
mlankhorstwould probably require changing original libdrm too, would rather have it wipe out original libdrm entirely 21:35
RAOFmlankhorst: It won't mean patching anything to make it parallel installable.21:52
RAOFmlankhorst: Oh, sorry - it does mean changing the -dev package name.21:53
RAOFmlankhorst: But the rest of libdrm is already parallel installable. And I don't think we need to make the dev package parallel installable?21:53
mlankhorsttrue21:53
mlankhorstRAOF: what part is parallel installable you mean?22:08
RAOFlibdrm2, libdrm-{intel,radeon,nouveau}122:11
mlankhorsterm renamed conflicts with those22:16
RAOFWhy?22:16
mlankhorstI suppose I could give it a shot again with the apt bug fixed, things went seriously wrong before there..22:17
RAOFgive me a moment to debaby22:18
RAOFOk.22:19
RAOFSo, here's what I would do - if you've already done it, and it didn't work, then say so :)22:20
mlankhorstthink it might work better now, but still leaves you at a point without libdrm at all22:21
RAOF1) Rename the quantal libdrm source package to libdrm-quantal-backports or whatever22:23
RAOF2) Add a patch to libdrm-quantal-backports to change the SONAME for libdrm2 and libdrm-{intel,nouveau,radeon} to libdrm2ubpq, libdrm-intel1ubpq, etc22:23
RAOF3) Rename the libdrm-dev in libdrm-quantal-backports to libdrm-quantal-backports-dev (or whatever)22:23
RAOF4) Profit! libdrm2ubpq is now parallel installable with libdrm2, so you don't have to worry about apt removing libdrm2.22:23
mlankhorsthmz would have to look into step 2, would prefer automation as much as possible22:24
mlankhorstare long filenames ok?22:24
RAOFThings which Build-Depend against libdrm-quantal-backports-dev will Depend: against libdrm2ubpq, things which Build-Depend against libdrm-dev will Depend: against libdrm222:24
RAOFmlankhorst: Yeah, long filenames are fine. AFAIK we don't run into any path length restrictions on the ISOs.22:25
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RAOFmlankhorst: The patch in step 2 would be once-off; you'd only need to write it once (and make a trivial change for the raring-backports), and then it'd keep applying to the packages.22:26
mlankhorstguess I'll create a base patch + suffix22:28
brycehso, the slow up with UDS attendees getting invites is that valve can't determine their steam id's from their launchpad record.  so they're working on an alternative way to get the keys out.23:06
mlankhorstah was wondering, was expecting them to just mail a key23:06
mlankhorstmy steam email isn't even the same as launchpad mail23:08
tjaaltonI don't even have an account there23:08
tjaaltonseems to be down too23:09
tjaaltonand up again23:15
darkxstI have a small patch that fixes pointer barriers under gnome-shell, would anyone here be able to review it?23:44
darkxsthttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/107372423:44
ubottuLaunchpad bug 1073724 in xorg-server (Ubuntu) "Pointer barriers have gaps along the edge of the screen" [Undecided,Confirmed]23:44

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