Diego, el gnomo

I totally forgot how to fix this, so to not forget it again, here is it:

Add “$include /etc/inputrc” to your ~/.inputrc.

From lp #89235

Everything slow when using X with the sis driver? Well, here it’s awfully slow, made me want to trash my old pc… but then I discovered this bug in Launchpad : lp #26637.

Turns out that vesafb and vga16fb modules are responsible for this chaos. They seem to be stealing the memory managemen and hence making sis driver impossible to use due to it’s lack of descent performance.

What’s the fix? Blacklist vesafb and vga16fb and add sisfb to /etc/modules. You can try to add video=sisfb in the boot line of the kernel (grub’s menu.lst) too.

Note that Fedora doesn’t have sisfb built and is forcing vesafb into the kernel for it’s graphical boot. Ubuntu is doing the same, but they also build sisfb as a module.

So if you are using Fedora, you are screwed unless you rebuild your kernel, if you are using Ubuntu or Debian, make sure vesafb is not loaded (nor vga16fb) and have sisfb loaded sometime before X starts.

How can you be sure it worked? Grep /var/log/Xorg.0.log for ‘memcpy’ and see if the MB/s rate is descent, you can try with and then without the sisfb module to check if it’s making a difference. Here it does.

Dear Fedora dudes,

please fix your graphical boot screen in your livecds, normally working videocards get this message without any clear clue on what to do. I see that google doesn’t have good responses, so to help the world be a better place while you fix this bug, here’s the answer:

just type linux or linux0 and hit enter.

You are welcome dear googler.

Election is over!. It was quite an interesting ride to be a candidate, I got 52 votes which tells me that there are 52 foundation members crazy enough to trust me… you should go check your heads my friends.

Seriously, thanks to everyone who voted for me and encouraged me during the process. I feel happy to have received trust from 1/3 of the voters
And of course, good luck to the new Board members! you can count with my help.

Some hacking

Later today, after the electoral booze ran out, I scratched my own itch and filled gnome bug #503173. I run gnome-system-monitor by mistake everyday because I click on it by accident when trying to switch to other workspaces. Patch attached if you want to be able to turn that off!.
Also, days ago I attached some patches for adding some bling to Epiphany’s download manager : gnome bug #327734 and gnome bug #311209. One for adding notifications to new downloads when the window is hidden and one for being able to cancel more than one download at a time.
Technology that you can only dream of.

Earlier this cycle, I did a quick patch for adding previews for the file chooser, no more nautilus+epiphany when uploading images. Another self-scratching.

I hope to be able to get some more stuff done for 2.22, I suddenly feel hacky again :).

Events and kung-fu-rences

We are on the final days before DíaDebian2007, Rudy created a Facebook event but nobody has cared to join it… doesn’t surprise me, it’s not like people here care about Facebook. By the way, I can’t say how much the lack of default privacy of Facebook scares the midochlorians out of me.

The event will be at the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería this Saturday, from 3pm to 7pm (that’s 8pm to 2am UTC), you can check the schedule. It’s gonna kick ass.

Tomorrow or after-tomorrow we’ll go to our local underground provider to make some pins for giving away this Saturday. We have some designs in mind, the finalists are these (click to see the non-stretched version -damn wp):

I hope to take a good ammount of pictures, wish us luck.

So I installed Debian Sid and found out that -among other numerous bugs I found- caps lock led gets turned on and off no matter I’m using that key as compose key.

I’m used to see it always off. Now it annoys me with the constant blinking :). Any ideas lazyweb?

Finding those old crashers on a product is pretty easy if you have this smart bookmark:

this is a huge URL, bookmark it with right click since it has a %s in it

Just type the name of a product “epiphany”, and select the bookmark from the grey area of your completion popup, this smart bookmark will fill the name in that query hence revealing you a lot of bugs needing your love.

Hope it’s useful.

Thanks forThanks forThanks forWhat have I been doing lately? Good question. Let’s see…

• Had Involucrate+ which was a really nice event :). I think people had a good time and a good chance to get to know the community. Sadly we didn’t stick too much to the program nor we acomplished the goal of involving new people in software projects. However, we got a lot of new people interested and giving feedback on DebianPerú’s website, that’s really cool.
  I hope to publish the relevant artwork we used in the event, we got really slick t-shirts :).
• Finally fixed my living room, I’m now sporting halloween^W cool orange furniture. You gotta see it, it’s awesome. Drop by anytime ;).
• Apparently lost some songs and cds I DONT KNOW HOW THE HELL IT HAPPENED, but thing is they just dissapeared from existence :/.
• I was interviewed for the local edition of PC World, they even took me a cool picture where I look like a rockstar (because of the long hair, not because of the rocking). No pictures or online article for now. Pretty cool, a rocket burst to my ego.
• I spent 3 hours of my life marking an insane ammount of duplicates against bug #403870 (I really hope Andre doesn’t smack me for this like last time I screwed up badly).
• Also spent a whole lot more hours of my life creating accounts for people on GNOME’s SVN. I was happy to create accounts for some friends I met recently at GUADEC and on IRC. Really nice to have them working directly on GNOME! :).
• Made a great friend.
• Cut my hair a bit, don’t worry you can still recognize me.
• My birthday is approaching (that’s October 2nd), chances are that I’m gonna forget it like last time (yes I did). You, dear reader, are invited to remember it and buy me something.

That’s it. Oh and it’s supposed to be pirate’s day or something today, so yaaarrrrrr.

Thanks Jaime for his comments.