[12:13] http://osdir.com/Article2346.phtml
[12:13] ha ha ha
[12:14] "Well, my goodness! It seems as if we're in for an upset. Despite previous polls, it appears that the Ubuntu Nude Man has sneaked ahead of Voting Machines in the final count. It seems that, in the evilness stakes this month, moral values beat the invasion of a self-electing junta of semi-sentient tabulating machines. Ubuttnaked Guy wears the Evil crown, and not much else, and invites us all back to his pad for some Twister and a toast... to evil!"
[12:17] I'm close to wanting more extensive testing of PM stuff
[12:17] Looks like we should be able to manage support for a decent range of Thinkpads, Dells, Toshibas and Sonys
[12:18] is there a "file stored *in* the initrd" solution for loading DSDT foo?
[12:19] No
[12:19] It's too late by the time the filesystem code is running
[12:19] boh, seriously? yeesh
[12:19] You need a sane ACPI table before you do any PCI setup
[12:19] bong
[12:20] so tacking it onto the end of the initrd is the only "sane" solution
[12:20] what about another file pointed to by grub?
[12:20] kernel=blah, initrd=blah, dsdt=blah ;)
[12:21] Yeah, extending grub so it loaded the dsdt and passed the address to the kernel would work
[12:21] But you'd need to extend the linux boot protocol
[12:21] That's the way FreeBSD does it, BTW
[12:22] ahar
[12:23] that'd be handy
[12:23] i'm going to cry rebuilding my kernel all the time
[12:23] The dsdt-in-initrd thing is easy enough
[12:23] Just add a hook to mkinitrd
[12:24] The infrastructure is there already. When you install a deb, it builds a new initrd on the fly.
[12:24] yeah
[12:24] but didn't you just say you couldn't do that? :)
[12:24] Uh
[12:24] On the end of the initrd, rather
[12:25] oh right, yeah
[12:25] but we didn't accept that patch
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[12:27] moo
[12:28] hi lamont
[12:28] evening Kamion
[12:28] morning
[12:28] jdub: It's the least invasive way of doing it. Upstream won't take it because the acpi guys want people to fix their BIOSes instead.
[12:28] But, unsurprisingly, that's unlikely to happen much...
[12:29] mjg59: first step in getting them to fix their bios is to obtain > 10% market share
[12:29] we're working on that one ..
[12:29] lamont_r: Yeah
[12:29] has gnome decent dualview and tv-out support (I mean you can turn them on and put a window on them)
[12:29] lupus_: X does :)
[12:29] lupus_: Uh, ish
[12:29] It's X that's responsible for that, and Gnome can then display stuff on it
[12:30] But it's not easy to switch it on or off on the fly at the moment
[12:30] mjg59: do you think it's a relatively sane solution?
[12:30] Oh, argh
[12:30] Does Hoary have the fontconfig version that fucks up if you switch on sub-pixel anti-aliasing?
[12:31] jdub: Of the solutions, I think it's the sanest
[12:31] It doesn't break anything unrelated
[12:32] there have been quite a few comments about font bongery
[12:32] The fontconfig maintainer forced the autohinter on if you're using subpixel anti-aliasing
[12:32] Which is crack
[12:35] daniels: looking for me ?
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[12:43] can some Xish person look at http://people.ubuntulinux.org/~lamont/buildLogs/c/control-center/1:2.8.1-0ubuntu3/control-center_1:2.8.1-0ubuntu3_20041109-2312-i386-failed please?
[12:44] ah, I appear to be missing a build-dep on libxkbfile-dev
[12:45] why is network-manager not yet in hoary?
[12:45] ic that it is in a seperate repository
[12:46] lupus_: Because it doesn't work
[12:47] hehe I wonder how long it will take for me to break my system :)
[12:49] netapplet works better at the moment, but is less cool in the long run
[12:49] Right. I need to add a couple more patches to the kernel, make it depend on initrd-tools, update acpi-support and then we're set
[12:55] btw when I switched to gamin
[12:55] fam package is still installed and running famd
[12:55] shouldn't the gamin package say it can't be installed together with fam
[12:56] or does running both give no problems
[12:57] they dont exactly conflict
[12:57] what should happen is something needs to depend on gamin to pull it in on dist-upgrade
[12:57] because gnome gets all wacky when you switch from libfam to libgamin and gamin isnt around
[12:58] nautilus + g-panel try to connect
[12:58] fam will just be dropped from the meta packages and go away on new installs i presume
[12:59] k
[12:59] mmm, ubuntu-desktop will depend on gamin
[12:59] sounds like a plan
[12:59] though fam will still be there
[12:59] mm?
[12:59] unless i make the libgamin libs conflict with fam
[01:00] or something like that
[01:00] uhu
[01:00] which is roughly scary
[01:00] Kamion: ping
[01:00] libgamin conflicts with libfam
=== Keybuk takes jdub's crack away
[01:00] "Conflicts" is not to be used for "I think this package smells" :)
[01:00] Keybuk: thought so :)
[01:00] the packages do, at least. i assume its for good reason
[01:00] libfam is uninstalled
[01:00] but fam isn't
[01:00] lupus_: yes
[01:00] when you install gamin
[01:01] tseng: yes, those ones do because they conflict at the file level with each other
[01:01] Keybuk: *however*
[01:01] assuming people used aptitude or synaptic, fam will be automatically removed when ubuntu-desktop no longer depends on it
[01:01] but when people upgrade to hoary from debian or warty how do you make it uninstall fam then?
[01:01] Keybuk: if libgamin replaces libfam, and fam doesn't work with libgamin, then surely a conflicts would be relatively sane? :)
[01:01] lupus_: thus far, we don't
[01:02] lupus_: it'll happen automatically because it was installed as a dependency of ubuntu-desktop, and nothing depends on it anymore
[01:02] libgamin + fam doesnt seem to work here
[01:02] if you're using aptitude
[01:02] jdub: synaptic does it too, fwir
[01:02] nautilus hangs waiting to connect, then fails and proceeds to act flakey
[01:02] i imagine thats readily reproducable
[01:03] Keybuk: so it's not a file conflict, it's a compatibility conflict
[01:03] jdub: no, Conflicts actually require the complete and utter removal (including postrm) of the package before the conflicting is installed
[01:03] when combined with meta-packages, it creates a small dependency hell
[01:04] so can we make libgamin 'not like' fam in some way?
[01:04] that'd probably result in some intelligent behaviour such as the removal of ubuntu-desktop and anything else depending on fam before the new packages could even be unpacked
[01:05] Keybuk: the aptitude magic won't happen, because it was installed as a task
[01:05] not as a dependency
[01:05] mdz: I thought we installed the meta-package now, and not the task?
[01:05] Keybuk: nope
[01:05] oh, boo, hiss, etc.
[01:05] the metapackage happened way too late in the release cycle for that
[01:06] jdub: yes?
[01:06] Kamion: n/m
[01:07] ok
[01:07] bleh, that libxklavier change wasn't as simple as I thought
[01:07] Kamion: just attempting to tackle the libgamin vs. fam issue :)
[01:07] turns out (a) X.Org build-dep changes and (b) source-level changes for libxklavier are required
[01:07] FYI, the xorg packages works fine on a sid ( ppc )
[01:07] jdub: this is what "upgrade notes" are for :)
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[01:08] Keybuk: we so need Breaks
[01:08] it won't actually cause any problems
[01:08] we do ineed
[01:08] but fam and portmap are there needlessly
[01:08] doogie's reading -dpkg ... maybe he'll contribute some code :p
[01:08] you wish
[01:08] :o)
[01:09] just a shame that implementing Breaks would lightly touch nearly all of dpkg
[01:11] Breaks?
[01:11] jdub: a gentler version of conflicts
[01:12] ah, which is what i'd want
[01:12] The basic idea is that, roughly, Breaks is to Conflicts as Depends is to
[01:12] Pre-Depends. Conflicts requires that the conflicted-against package
[01:12] isn't even unpacked when the conflictor is unpacked, while Breaks allows
[01:12] the two packages to coexist on the system but (with --auto-deconfigure)
[01:12] deconfigures one of them. Breaks would be appropriate in cases where
[01:12] Conflicts: foo (<< some-version) is currently used to indicate that foo
[01:12] needs to be upgraded to some-version or newer in order to work with the
[01:12] conflictor.
[01:12] (me quotes an old Colin mail :p)
[01:13] so many thingies
[01:13] what do you call those?
[01:13] depends/pre-depends/conflicts/etc?
[01:13] "relationships" :)
[01:13] mmm
[01:13] "shiny"
[01:13] heh
[01:14] though I'm all for naming the field "Anally-Violates"
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=== lamont2 kicks acpi
[01:17] kick thom, more fun
[01:17] so, how do I unblank an X server?
[01:18] vt7 is boring - totally black,
[01:18] Night everybody!
[01:18] the other vt's are more interesting...
[01:18] and I'd rather not restart X to fix this obvious lidbutton.sh/X interaction bug...
[01:18] guh
[01:19] xset dpms force on do anything?
=== lamont2 checks
[01:20] tseng: that produces a usage message.. :-)
[01:20] works here..
[01:20] xset dpms force on does nothing
[01:21] per xset q: dpms is enabled, monitor is on.
[01:21] however, nothing shows on the Xserver vt...
[01:22] fabbione/daniels still awake?
[01:23] how very amusing... X died/restarted finally...
=== lamont2 looks at the log
=== Kamion finds the diff from GNOME CVS required to make control-center work with new libxklavier
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[01:29] how come the hoary-changes messages for my uploads come From: "Ubuntu Installer", while most others come from the uploader?
[01:30] the email you used wasn't whitelisted
[01:30] Changed-By: Matt Zimmerman
[01:31] katie@jackass:~/scratch $ grep mdz /srv/ftp.no-name-yet.com/katie/katie.conf
[01:31] "mdz@alcor.net";
[01:31] instead of Changed-By: Matt Zimmerman
[01:31] (and of course *@canonical.com is whitelisted too)
[01:31] hmm, I wonder how that happened
[01:32] I could have sworn I changed my $DEBEMAIL a long time ago
[01:32] the one thing dch *doesn't* have an option for is the maintainer name/address
[01:33] aren't you an emacs user?
[01:33] oh, I know what it is
[01:33] that was ubuntu-meta
[01:33] whose changelog is automagically generated by a script
[01:33] which invokes dch
[01:33] why would any card carrying emacs user use dch vs. debian-changelog-mode?
[01:33] my ubuntu-changelog-widget script sets DEBEMAIL for me
[01:34] elmo: seems a lot easier to use from python
[01:34] I use debian-changelog-mode for interactive editing
[01:36] elmo: emacs takes too long to start? :)
[01:37] card carrying emacs users always have a copy open :P
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[01:37] yeah, but it might be in the wrong window, or directory
[01:37] yeah, that's like complaining that firefox takes too long to start
=== Keybuk always has an emacs open somewhere
[01:37] but usually uses vi to edit things
[01:37] they're usually wearing white coats backwards, too
[01:38] otherwise I'd have to find the terminal with emacs open, then remember the path to the debian/changelog I wanted to open, edit it, save it, then find the terminal I was working in before again, then build the package
[01:38] far easier to just "dch" :p
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[01:39] elmo: if someone can make the X version of emacs not suck, I'll be happy
[01:39] but all the time it sucks, it's emacs-nox for me
[01:39] elmo: he wants pretty fonts, basically.
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[01:39] mdz: can't open a new window
[01:40] Keybuk: dude, it can execute arbitrary elisp forms
[01:40] because emacs is in a terminal
[01:40] wtf is emacs doing in a terminal? :-P
[01:40] elmo: if someone can make the X version of emacs not suck, I'll be happy
[01:40] I thought you were saying it sucked because you had to play the cwd game
[01:42] http://descent.netsplit.com/~scott/ugl-emacs.png
[01:43] the X version on the left is far too wide and ugly for me to use
[01:43] mdz about?
[01:44] lamont_r: yes
[01:44] Keybuk: can't just fix the fonts?
[01:44] jdub: edd once compiled the Xft version of emacs, but never got it to run -- it has had little love
[01:44] the patch won't even apply now, let alone compile or run
[01:45] mdz: about 820 packages from main are built for ia64 - does it make sense to drop them into w-b and the archive? worst case elmo winds up moving the Packages files to grumpy and dropping them from hoary
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[01:45] why didn't they use pango/gtk for the main window when they have done so for the menus?
[01:45] thom: allegedly it's so custom that it's impossible
[01:46] meh.
[01:46] so I have an emacs open to work in and use as an IDE, and when I want another editor for anything, I use vi :p
=== lamont_r considers getting a "not a child rapist" button. :-)
[01:47] thom: new ff industrial theme does look nice
[01:47] 1.0.5?
[01:47] 1.0.6
[01:47] 1.0.6
[01:47] jdub: yeah
[01:48] if i get bored of packing tomorrow i'll do a 1.0 ;-)
[01:48] is packaging the theme still a pita?
[01:48] oh, what did that fix?
[01:48] heh
[01:48] Keybuk: it's fixed that the search box was utterly broken on debian/ubuntu installs
[01:48] and there were file selector problems
[01:49] oh right, not noticed anything with 1.0.5 but then I haven't really stressed it :p
[01:49] yeah, those too appear fixed
[01:49] hrm, that was fixed in 1.0.5, as it happens
[01:49] he hasn't said anything about 1.0.6 on his blog
[01:50] (changes, that is)
[01:50] remind me what I have to do when GNOME hangs at the splash screen?
[01:50] no icons at the bottom
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[01:51] gnome-settings-daemon is spinning
[01:51] Kamion: got libgamin and no gamin?
[01:51] jdub: got both
[01:52] hrm
[01:52] http://www.google.com.au/firefox
[01:53] jdub: pretty
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[01:55] takes a long time to connect to ftp stuff in nautilus
[01:56] ok, how might I have broken gnome-settings-daemon?
[01:58] Kamion: you don't need InstallerSeed stuff in the wiki anymore, right?
[01:58] the only thing i can think of that's tweaked it recently would be libgamin/gamin
[01:58] I turned the other Seed pages into lists of proposals
[01:58] but since InstallerSeed won't get proposals, I think it's obsoleted by the arch archive
[01:59] mdz: nope
[01:59] jdub: trying now after installing libxxf86misc-dev
[02:00] the xorg stuff is conspicuously missing transitional dependencies for things that used xlibs-static-dev
[02:00] mdz: at any rate, I think ia64 is ready to be in the archive, and would certainly benefit from being there. your call.
[02:00] Kamion: hrm, was this from a futzy control-center build post-xorg?
[02:01] oh, pre-xorg...
[02:01] jdub: it's from the one I'm doing now to try to get it working with an xklavier that's actually in the archive
[02:01] yuck
[02:01] jdub: I made a no-brainer upload fiddling the build-dep, and now that it's broken I feel obliged to do a proper job rather than leaving it broken
[02:01] lamont_r: I don't have a problem with it in principle
[02:02] any other considerations? mirrors?
[02:02] as long as there's not going to be an ABI change, mirrors shouldn't be a factor
[02:02]