[ubuntu-us-ma] Star Trek
Drascus
enchantedvisionsband at yahoo.com
Thu May 7 13:52:58 BST 2009
+1 for me on Star Trek I will also RSVP on Facebook if that's easier...
if anyone on the southshore (south of Boston, Brockton area) needs a
ride I can provide one.
drascus321
Mike C
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 17:36 -0700, felicia wichrowski wrote:
> I am advising people to buy their tickets on line soon very soon for
> the 7pm show on May 13! Don't get left out alone in the parking
> lot...or worse in a huge furniture store
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> Felicia
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> CapesTreasures.com
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> CatLadyDiary.com
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> 1. Re: Star Treck (IMAX)!!! (James Gray)
> 2. Re: Star Treck (IMAX)!!! (Danny Piccirillo)
> 3. Re: "Video Killed the Radio Star..." (Martin Owens)
> 4. Re: Star Treck (IMAX)!!! (Michael Terry)
> 5. Re: "Video Killed the Radio Star..." (Doc Kinne)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 13:40:58 -0400
> From: James Gray <jamespgray at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] Star Treck (IMAX)!!!
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> Another +1 for Wednesday
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> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Michael Terry <mike at mterry.name>
> wrote:
> > 2009/5/1 Martin Owens <doctormo at gmail.com>:
> >> I vote Wednesday, that gives a week for all the Captin Kirks to get
> >> their fill before we go.
> >
> > I assume it's not to late to jump on this bandwagon? ?Myself and a
> +1
> > are interested in going. ?We're fine with Wednesday.
> >
> > -mt
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> Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 14:14:11 -0400
> From: Danny Piccirillo <danny.piccirillo at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] Star Treck (IMAX)!!!
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> May 13?
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 13:40, James Gray <jamespgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Another +1 for Wednesday
> >
> > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Michael Terry <mike at mterry.name>
> wrote:
> > > 2009/5/1 Martin Owens <doctormo at gmail.com>:
> > >> I vote Wednesday, that gives a week for all the Captin Kirks to
> get
> > >> their fill before we go.
> > >
> > > I assume it's not to late to jump on this bandwagon? Myself and a
> +1
> > > are interested in going. We're fine with Wednesday.
> > >
> > > -mt
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> Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 14:26:53 -0400
> From: Martin Owens <doctormo at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] "Video Killed the Radio Star..."
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> Hey Doc,
>
> the xorg conf is meant to be empty, it's mostly generated on the fly
> these days.
>
> It sounds like the xrandr can't get your monitor specs, so I hope you
> have them to hand. You can either repair the link between your video
> card and monitor (in order to enable i2c/ddc) or manually put the
> details into xorg conf and wire everything up yourself.
>
> I'd go for getting the drivers for your video card right, what are
> they?
>
> Regards, Martin Owens
>
> On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 10:33 -0400, Doc Kinne wrote:
> > Hi Guys:
> >
> >
> > Boy, that subject line really dates me, doesn't it? :-)
> >
> >
> > I have to say that 9.04 is batting 0 for me at this point. I tried
> to
> > upgrade my Xubuntu installation on my Dell Inspiron 7000 laptop and
> it
> > would not boot up. Mike rolled his eyes at an "upgrade," and there
> is
> > part of me that understands that. I re-installed 8.10 on it and its
> > working as well as it ever did with Xubuntu. My next step there will
> > be to install 9.04 and see if that makes a difference.
> >
> >
> > But that's a back-burner project to be honest. This particular email
> > is about Ubuntu 9.04 on a desktop.
> >
> >
> > The desktop is an HP Vectra 550MHz PIII, 0.5GB RAM, an onboard VGA
> > video port. It was, until last night, blissfully running Fedora 10.
> I
> > decided to try to but Ubuntu 9.04 on it.
> >
> >
> > The install seemed to go as I expected it to with no problems.
> > However, when the machine rebooted the video no longer worked.
> >
> >
> > The machine would boot up and give the "Ubuntu" logo with the
> "moving
> > underline" indicating boot up progress. 90% the way through that
> line
> > the monitor would ker-chunk as it tried to move to a different
> > resolution (at least I think thats what its doing. It sounds like
> > there are some heavy relays moving, and moving those relays is usual
> > behavior for this particular Envision monitor). What gdm was doing
> was
> > trying to find a resolution and scan rate that made sense to it. It
> > would never find it and it would finally give up and throw up a
> dialog
> > box saying that Ubuntu was in "Low Graphics Mode" and offer ways to
> > debug the situation.
> >
> >
> > Going into console mode I checked /etc/X11/xorg.conf and found it
> > either empty or having nothing of substance in it. Looking at the
> logs
> > is how I found out that gdm was unsuccessfully trying to find a
> proper
> > resolution and scan rate.
> >
> >
> > ? I tried running "xrandr" but it consistently said it could not
> open
> > the display.
> >
> >
> > ? I tried reinstalling gdm. It would reinstall with no problem. The
> > only question regarding the display it would ask me would be if I
> > wanted to use the frame rate buffer or not. I tried both "yes" and
> > "no" with no effect.
> >
> >
> > ? I tried dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg, but that just seemed
> > to give me a xorg.conf with basically empty entries in it.
> >
> >
> > ? At one point, when I had killed the gdm process I just invoked
> > "startx" from the console. And it came up! I thought I was getting
> > somewhere. I went to the Display control panel and it said the
> monitor
> > resolution was 800x600 with a 60Hz signal. OK, it wasn't the
> 1024x768
> > that I was used to, but it worked. I applied the changes, and it
> > seemed to take it. However upon rebooting the display no longer
> > worked.
> >
> >
> > ? I tried hand editing xorg.conf putting in a display resolution of
> > 800x600 and a driver of vesa (since in the logs it looked like it
> was
> > trying to use that driver), but that didn't work either.
> >
> >
> > Any thoughts from you guys? I'm stumped at this point. I've not had
> a
> > problem like this since the late 90s. It really confuses me that gdm
> > cannot find a good resolution, but startx tries twice and does it.
> But
> > I can't get those parameters to stick via the Display Control Panel.
> >
> >
> > The only thing *I* can think of right now is to try to install 8.04
> or
> > 8.10 and see if I have better luck there.
> > ---
> >
> > Richard "Doc" Kinne ? Rikardo ?Dok?jo? KINNE, BA, MSc., AMAAS
> >
> > <kinnerc @ gmail.com>
> >
> > "I'm the Doctor, and you're in the biggest library in the universe.
> > Look me up!"
> >
> > - The Doctor
> >
> >
> > "Forests of the Dead," Doctor Who
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 14:34:32 -0400
> From: Michael Terry <mike at mterry.name>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] Star Treck (IMAX)!!!
> To: Ubuntu Massachusetts Local Community Team
> <ubuntu-us-ma at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> 2009/5/6 Danny Piccirillo <danny.piccirillo at gmail.com>:
> > May 13?
>
> Yeah.
>
> -mt
>
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 14:53:59 -0400
> From: Doc Kinne <kinnerc at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] "Video Killed the Radio Star..."
> To: Ubuntu Massachusetts Local Community Team
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>
> Martin:
>
> On 06 May , 2009, at 14:26, Martin Owens wrote:
> > the xorg conf is meant to be empty, it's mostly generated on the fly
> > these days.
>
> Yea, I saw that, but I expected SOMETHING there. I'm not sure where
> else that data would be kept.
>
> > It sounds like the xrandr can't get your monitor specs,
>
> Never used the program before, but I agree with you, yes.
>
> > so I hope you have them to hand.
>
> Ummmmm. :-( It's an on-board video circuit going to an Envision
> multisync monitor. :-\
>
> > You can either repair the link between your video
> > card and monitor (in order to enable i2c/ddc) or manually put the
> > details into xorg conf and wire everything up yourself.
> >
> > I'd go for getting the drivers for your video card right, what are
> > they?
>
> At this point I'm assuming I can use the vesa driver.
>
> Unless anyone else comes up with some particular ideas I'm first
> going
> to see if I can install 8.04 on it. If that doesn't work, I'll
> reinstall Fedora 10 on it and see what kind of data I can get from
> that installation before trying Ubuntu again.
> ---
> Richard "Doc" Kinne ? Rikardo ?Dok?jo? KINNE, BA, MSc., AMAAS
> <kinnerc @ gmail.com>
> "I'm the Doctor, and you're in the biggest library in the universe.
> Look me up!"
> - The Doctor
> "Forests of the Dead," Doctor Who
>
> > On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 10:33 -0400, Doc Kinne wrote:
> >> Hi Guys:
> >>
> >>
> >> Boy, that subject line really dates me, doesn't it? :-)
> >>
> >>
> >> I have to say that 9.04 is batting 0 for me at this point. I tried
> to
> >> upgrade my Xubuntu installation on my Dell Inspiron 7000 laptop
> and
> >> it
> >> would not boot up. Mike rolled his eyes at an "upgrade," and there
> is
> >> part of me that understands that. I re-installed 8.10 on it and its
> >> working as well as it ever did with Xubuntu. My next step there
> will
> >> be to install 9.04 and see if that makes a difference.
> >>
> >>
> >> But that's a back-burner project to be honest. This particular
> email
> >> is about Ubuntu 9.04 on a desktop.
> >>
> >>
> >> The desktop is an HP Vectra 550MHz PIII, 0.5GB RAM, an onboard VGA
> >> video port. It was, until last night, blissfully running Fedora 10.
> I
> >> decided to try to but Ubuntu 9.04 on it.
> >>
> >>
> >> The install seemed to go as I expected it to with no problems.
> >> However, when the machine rebooted the video no longer worked.
> >>
> >>
> >> The machine would boot up and give the "Ubuntu" logo with the
> "moving
> >> underline" indicating boot up progress. 90% the way through that
> line
> >> the monitor would ker-chunk as it tried to move to a different
> >> resolution (at least I think thats what its doing. It sounds like
> >> there are some heavy relays moving, and moving those relays is
> usual
> >> behavior for this particular Envision monitor). What gdm was
> doing
> >> was
> >> trying to find a resolution and scan rate that made sense to it. It
> >> would never find it and it would finally give up and throw up a
> >> dialog
> >> box saying that Ubuntu was in "Low Graphics Mode" and offer ways to
> >> debug the situation.
> >>
> >>
> >> Going into console mode I checked /etc/X11/xorg.conf and found it
> >> either empty or having nothing of substance in it. Looking at the
> >> logs
> >> is how I found out that gdm was unsuccessfully trying to find a
> >> proper
> >> resolution and scan rate.
> >>
> >>
> >> ? I tried running "xrandr" but it consistently said it could not
> >> open
> >> the display.
> >>
> >>
> >> ? I tried reinstalling gdm. It would reinstall with no problem. The
> >> only question regarding the display it would ask me would be if I
> >> wanted to use the frame rate buffer or not. I tried both "yes" and
> >> "no" with no effect.
> >>
> >>
> >> ? I tried dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg, but that just
> >> seemed
> >> to give me a xorg.conf with basically empty entries in it.
> >>
> >>
> >> ? At one point, when I had killed the gdm process I just invoked
> >> "startx" from the console. And it came up! I thought I was getting
> >> somewhere. I went to the Display control panel and it said the
> >> monitor
> >> resolution was 800x600 with a 60Hz signal. OK, it wasn't the
> 1024x768
> >> that I was used to, but it worked. I applied the changes, and it
> >> seemed to take it. However upon rebooting the display no longer
> >> worked.
> >>
> >>
> >> ? I tried hand editing xorg.conf putting in a display resolution of
> >> 800x600 and a driver of vesa (since in the logs it looked like it
> was
> >> trying to use that driver), but that didn't work either.
> >>
> >>
> >> Any thoughts from you guys? I'm stumped at this point. I've not had
> a
> >> problem like this since the late 90s. It really confuses me that
> gdm
> >> cannot find a good resolution, but startx tries twice and does
> it.
> >> But
> >> I can't get those parameters to stick via the Display Control
> Panel.
> >>
> >>
> >> The only thing *I* can think of right now is to try to install
> 8.04
> >> or
> >> 8.10 and see if I have better luck there.
> >>
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