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> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:02:17 +0100
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> 1. Compiz on 7.10 with ATI X1600 (Mischa Simon)
> 2. Re: Kmail and Firefox (Pete Holsberg)
> 3. Re: Seamonkey -- has anybody successfully installed it? (NoOp)
> 4. Building a Debian package for Ubuntu (Bill Moseley)
> 5. Re: Screen rotation in Gutsy 7.10 (Lo?c Martin)
> 6. Re: VMware Server on Gutsy ? (David Vincent)
> 7. Re: Problem with keyboard on 7.04 Kubuntu (Paul S)
> 8. (no subject) (elmo)
> 9. Re: Compiz on 7.10 with ATI X1600 (Ari Torhamo)
> 10. Re: (no subject) (Mauro Faccenda)
> 11. Re: What is virtualization? (Default User)
>
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:45:04 +0200
> From: Mischa Simon <MSLK at gmx.de>
> Subject: Compiz on 7.10 with ATI X1600
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <1193093104.7671.5.camel at mischa-laptop>
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a prob with compiz on my laptop (ASUS A7J).
> When I try to activate the visual effects all open windows disappear
> shortly then they appear again and ubuntu is working for a short time
> and then I get the message visual effects could not be enabled.
>
> No entry in the logs happen...
>
> Plz help me.
>
> Mischa
>
> My xorg.conf:
> Section "Files"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
> # path to defoma fonts
> FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
> Load "i2c"
> Load "bitmap"
> Load "ddc"
> Load "dri"
> Load "extmod"
> Load "freetype"
> Load "glx"
> Load "int10"
> Load "vbe"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
> Driver "kbd"
> Option "CoreKeyboard"
> Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
> Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
> Option "XkbLayout" "us"
> Option "XkbOptions" "lv3:ralt_switch"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Configured Mouse"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "CorePointer"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
> Driver "synaptics"
> Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
> Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Driver "wacom"
> Identifier "stylus"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
> Option "Type" "stylus"
> Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Driver "wacom"
> Identifier "eraser"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
> Option "Type" "eraser"
> Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Driver "wacom"
> Identifier "cursor"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
> Option "Type" "cursor"
> Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Standardgrafikkarte"
> Driver "fglrx"
> BusID "PCI:6:0:0"
> Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Extensions"
> Option "Composite" "Enable"
>
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Standardbildschirm"
> Option "DPMS"
> HorizSync 28-84
> VertRefresh 43-60
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Default Screen"
> Device "Standardgrafikkarte"
> Monitor "Standardbildschirm"
> DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 1
> Modes "1680x1050" "1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 4
> Modes "1680x1050" "1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 8
> Modes "1680x1050" "1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 15
> Modes "1680x1050" "1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 16
> Modes "1680x1050" "1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1680x1050" "1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "Default Layout"
> Screen "Default Screen"
> InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
> InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
> InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
> InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
> InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
> InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
> EndSection
>
> Section "DRI"
> Mode 0666
> EndSection
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:57:50 -0400
> From: Pete Holsberg <pjh42 at pobox.com>
> Subject: Re: Kmail and Firefox
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <471D2AEE.2040806 at pobox.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> nad has written on 10/22/2007 6:21 PM:
> > Ubuntu is not only for English speakers, it is for humans.
> Like people who do not formulate precise questions? ;-)
>
> > Nobody is expected to master the English language to ask a question, and nobody is expected to answer questions they don't understand.
> >
> Nor should they offer wise-ass remarks posing as literal answers.
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:04:55 -0700
> From: NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: Seamonkey -- has anybody successfully installed it?
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <ffjaap$dnu$1 at ger.gmane.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> On 10/22/2007 03:42 PM, Brian Craft wrote:
>
> >
> > I installed it and then went into the Edit/Preferences and changed the
> > Appearence to the Modern theme and now I have the same theme as
> > SeaMonkey. The Help/About Iceape shows the version info:
> >
> > Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6)
> > Gecko/20070802 Iceape/1.1.4 (Ubuntu-1.1.4-1ubuntu2)
> >
>
> It is indeed pretty much the same w/some debian modifications...
> however: Iceape/1.1.4 (Ubuntu-1.1.4-1ubuntu2)
>
> SeaMonkey is on 1.1.5 for security updates. I suppose IceApe 1.1.5
> should come along eventually.
>
> Also see:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/iceape/+question/15135
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#seamonkey1.1.5
> SeaMonkey 1.1.5 was released on the 19th of this month.
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:07:51 -0700
> From: Bill Moseley <moseley at hank.org>
> Subject: Building a Debian package for Ubuntu
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <20071022230751.GA16934 at hank.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> Can anyone point me (or explain) the details required to build a
> Debian package for use on Gutsy?
>
> I want to fetch a Debian Sid source package, apply all the Debian patches,
> and build it on Gutsy. I don't have to create a .deb (I can just
> "make install") but I do want to apply the patches.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
>
> --
> Bill Moseley
> moseley at hank.org
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:14:58 +0200
> From: Lo?c Martin <loic.martin3 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Screen rotation in Gutsy 7.10
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <471D2EF2.8060604 at gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Lo?c Martin a ?crit :
> > Hi,
> > I'd like to know how I can set up an automatic (or non-automatic) screen
> > rotation when I rotate my LCD from landscape to portrait.
> >
> > The LCD's documentation says it can be automatic on Windows XP and
> > Vista, so the screen must be passing an information to the computer.
> >
> > Is there any way to achieve the same in linux, or is there any way to
> > rotate the resolution manually? I've checked the new Screen
> > configuration in Gutsy (I had high hopes for it :) ), but there's
> > nothing about rotation.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Lo?c
> >
>
> I can rotate the screen by modifying xorg.conf ( adding
> Option "Rotate" "CCW"
> to the Device section).
>
> What I'd like to know is if it's possible to rotate the screen without
> having to restart X, so I don't have to quit my apps and restart them
> again afterwards. I'm using nVidia proprietary drivers.
>
> Thanks in advance :)
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:18:48 -0700
> From: David Vincent <dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca>
> Subject: Re: VMware Server on Gutsy ?
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <471D2FD8.5040104 at sleepdeprived.ca>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Marius Gedminas wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 08:15:09PM +0100, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:
> >> If it's easy enough for you to create a VM from scratch, you could give
> >> VirtualBox a spin too. There are plenty of HowTo's available. Windows
> >> guests generally won't seem to migrate from VMWare to VirtualBox without
> >> some significant problems, but when I tried it out, it seemed a lot
> >> faster. There is an open source version available (which you have to
> >> compile I think)
> >
> > No -- the open-source version of virtualbox is in the Ubuntu
> > repositories (package virtualbox-ose).
> >
> > (The Qt-based GUI looks incredibly ugly on my GNOME desktop.)
>
> :)
>
> Another link to some discussion about VMWare Server on Gutsy:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=579347
>
> -d
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:30:22 -0400
> From: Paul S <paulatgm at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Problem with keyboard on 7.04 Kubuntu
> To: loic.martin3 at gmail.com, "Ubuntu user technical support, not for
> general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <471D328E.20803 at gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Lo?c Martin said the following on 10/22/2007 11:27 AM:
> \> For resume issues, I found that
> >
> > sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart
> >
> > does wonder (better than having to log out, that way you keep you
> > applications open); I don't know if it would work in your case, but it
> > does for 100% of the resume problems I had - as far as I'm able to
> > sleep/hibernate in the first place, that is :)
>
> thanks for the tip .. I'll try it next time it acts up.
>
> regards,
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:51:47 -0400
> From: elmo <elmo at ne.rr.com>
> Subject: (no subject)
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <471D3793.2020704 at ne.rr.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:15:55 +0300
> From: Ari Torhamo <ari.torhamo at saunalahti.fi>
> Subject: Re: Compiz on 7.10 with ATI X1600
> To: MSLK at gmx.de, "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general
> discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <1193098555.5691.14.camel at mung-papu>
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
>
> ti, 2007-10-23 kello 00:45 +0200, Mischa Simon kirjoitti:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a prob with compiz on my laptop (ASUS A7J).
> > When I try to activate the visual effects all open windows disappear
> > shortly then they appear again and ubuntu is working for a short time
> > and then I get the message visual effects could not be enabled.
> >
> > No entry in the logs happen...
>
>
> I can't help, sorry, but I had the same problem with an installation I
> made for someone else. The card was Radeon X1950. Because of the thight
> schedule I couldn't investigate further or file a bug report.
>
> Your laptop seems to have a Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics chip and
> AMD/Ati chips are known to have more problems in Linux.
>
> Ari
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 10
> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:19:33 -0300
> From: Mauro Faccenda <faccenda at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: (no subject)
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <471D3E15.6050201 at gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> elmo wrote:
> >
>
> i disagree.
>
> []'s
> .m
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 11
> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:01:34 -0500
> From: Default User <xyzzyx at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: What is virtualization?
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <1193101294.7148.14.camel at diogenes>
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 13:22 -0700, vxburg-pur at yahoo.com wrote:
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr>
> > To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 1:05:55 PM
> > Subject: Re: What is virtualization?
> >
> > On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:54:15 -0500
> > Default User <xyzzyx at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >
> > > I have been hearing virtualization being mentioned more and more
> > > recently. I don't really know much about it. Would someone please
> > give
> > > a simple "Cliff's Notes" (TM) version of what it is, how it works,
> > and
> > > why anyone would bother to use it at all.
> > >
> > > Please resist the urge to answer that "I if you don't know what it
> > is,
> > > you don't need it".
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> >
> >
> > A starting point:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtualization
> >
> > To give you an example, for me, virtualization is useful to run
> > Windows
> > XP from within Linux/Ubuntu, this allows me to run Windows
> > applications
> > when required, while still staying in my Linux environnement, my
> > platform of choice.
> > I also use virtualization to install and test the
> > developement version of upcoming Ubuntu releases, without risking my
> > "real"/host machine data. I can do any number of massively stupid
> > mistakes in the virtual machine, with the full confidence that
> > absolutely nothing can happen to my "real" machine/environement, total
> > peace of mind.... that's priceless.
> > I also use virtualization to evaluate other Linux
> > distributions evey now and then.
> > Virtualization is just sooo useful, it's magic :-)
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > --
> > Vince
> >
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> >
> > I agree that virtualization is very useful. I have been running Ubuntu
> > 6.06 under a virtualpc 2007 under WXP. The one problem I have run
> > into is that 6.06 works great but 7.04, and 7.10 will not install.
> > 7.04 installs but the screen resolution is unusable and I have not
> > been able to convert it to 1024x768. I had the same problem when I
> > installed 6.06 but was successful when I used the safe mode. For 7.10
> > it installs in safe mode but the mouse won't work. If I install 7.10
> > in standard mode I get the unusable resolution. I was able to get into
> > the command menus with Alt F1 but I can't change any settings.
> >
> > After all this any thoughts?
> > Vic
> >
>
> Wow, thanks to all who replied!
>
> I had (tried to) read the aforementioned
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtualization article. Let's just say it
> was "information rich". That's why I asked if anyone had a simple
> synopsis.
>
> I can tell that a number of people seem to really like virtualization.
> For them, I'm glad that it exists and that they find it (mostly) useful.
> For me though, I guess I'm just old fashioned. I think I'll skip the extra
> overhead and complexity. If I want to run multiple OSes, I'll just enter
> them in GRUB and reboot as needed.
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
>
>
>
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