Problems still with Precise after 2-10-12 updates
I have not been able to get Digikam 2.4.1 to recognize my Kodak DX7630 digital camera. System Settings Camera tool recognizes it and tests it as OK. It also shows it specs. But, even though Digikam shows the DX7630, and the import button is activated, nothing happens when the import button identifying the camera is clicked. Also, once a camera is added manual the options to remove it do not last a reboot of the program. digikamrc does not contain the entry I made, but I found it in cameras.xml under .kde/share/apps/digikam, and deleted it. When I plug the DC7630 into the USB port, I get no indication that KDE has detected it by showing a USB device but unmounted, even though it is shown in System Settins InputDevices Camera tab.
After today's update KMail is randomly having problems transferring sent mail from the outbox box to the sent-mail box if the mail contains attachments. Those that contain image attachments get lost. Those that contain text attachments give the same kind of error dialog, but often get transferred to the sent-mail box anyway. Two steps forward, one step backward. As I can appreciate, graphical interfaces and class objects can be complicated beasts. Patience is required.
Another thing that slowly dawned on my conscientiousness is that my thumbs and heels were sending the cursor to random parts of the screen. I checked the touchpad settings in System Settings and discovered that unlike Lucid, there is no option to disable it! :eek: I pulled out my trusty togglepad.sh script:
and tried to run it. I immediately found out that the touchpad on this Acer 7739 has different parameters and capabilities that syclient cannot recognize:
So, until the touchpad can be disabled in System Settings, or xserver-xorg-input-synaptics, which contains synclient, is upgraded, I'll have to put up with it.
Other than that, Precise seems to be coming along nicely!
Oh, I downloaded the Mincraft 1.2 pre-release and tried it out. It features a new Jungle Biome which is great. You can now tame the wolfs and they will reproduce to give you puppies! The Creepers are a little more aggressive, and there is a bunch of other new stuff. Runs great under Precise!
After today's update KMail is randomly having problems transferring sent mail from the outbox box to the sent-mail box if the mail contains attachments. Those that contain image attachments get lost. Those that contain text attachments give the same kind of error dialog, but often get transferred to the sent-mail box anyway. Two steps forward, one step backward. As I can appreciate, graphical interfaces and class objects can be complicated beasts. Patience is required.
Another thing that slowly dawned on my conscientiousness is that my thumbs and heels were sending the cursor to random parts of the screen. I checked the touchpad settings in System Settings and discovered that unlike Lucid, there is no option to disable it! :eek: I pulled out my trusty togglepad.sh script:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
# toggle synaptic touchpad on/off
# get current state
SYNSTATE=$(synclient -l | grep TouchpadOff | awk '{ print $3 }')
# change to other state
if [ $SYNSTATE = 0 ]; then
[B]synclient[/B] touchpadoff=1
elif [ $SYNSTATE = 1 ]; then
[B]synclient[/B] touchpadoff=0
else
echo "Couldn't get touchpad status from synclient"
exit 1
fi
exit 0
Code:
./togglepad.sh PressureMotionMinZ = format mismatch (32) PressureMotionMaxZ = format mismatch (32) jerry@jerry-Aspire-7739:~$
Other than that, Precise seems to be coming along nicely!
Oh, I downloaded the Mincraft 1.2 pre-release and tried it out. It features a new Jungle Biome which is great. You can now tame the wolfs and they will reproduce to give you puppies! The Creepers are a little more aggressive, and there is a bunch of other new stuff. Runs great under Precise!
I experimented and found that touchpadoff did work.
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