On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 09:26:12AM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 10:49:27PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > You are one of the most hysterically panicky people I have ever met.
>
> Come on, just asking questions about it ...
>
> btw, just found out that xf4 mesa is incompatible with potato and current
> woody wine (fix on the way for woody it seems though ...)
4.0 and 4.0.1 are substantially different; it would help if you would
mention which version you are talking about when referring to bugs and
incompatibilities.
> just mutt too commode 'g' key ...
I can't parse this. But nevermind, I'll chalk it up to a hasty error.
> Well, but the name suggest that ggi will only run with the mesa+ggi version,
> and not the mesa alone version. so will ggi run with the xfree version
> installed Or will you not be able to run ggi with XF4 installed.
>
> But then this surely is a ggi issue more than a XF issue.
Probably, but I understand Red Hat is cooking up a wrapper library that
will somehow figure out which of several Mesa (GL) versions is demanded and
LD_PRELOAD the right one for the application.
We can probably adapt such a thing to our own purposes. Right now I'm just
trying to cross the bridge of preliminary .debs. I am being held up by an
incredibly aggravating Xsun bug in 3.3.6.
> > Well, I'm sure I'll figure something out, Sven. Instead of freaking out,
> > either calm down and contribute, or be quiet.
>
> Huh sorry, ...
>
> just wanted to tell you about what my experience in the past few month with
> XF4 + debian has shown me, and i thought also that discution about a topic is
> in a way contributing also, or are not that what the debian mailign list are
> all about ?
Often your tone implies to me that you expect me to solve all of these
problems for you. Debian is a group effort, and a volunteer effort. I can
only accomplish so much and I have to prioritize the time I do have.
Working for Progeny is greatly increasting the amount of time I can
contribute, but there are still only so many hours in the day.
Furthermore, I'm simply not experienced with the internals of the X source
code. Especially not driver-level stuff.
> And please, don't take it bad, i just told you that, because i thought of it,
> and i thought that you, the all mighty Xfree maintainer could maybe benefit
> from it ?
See my above remarks about "tone".
> (BTW, XF4 will not run with matroxfb on my work box, so i reverted to 3.3.6)
Again, is this 4.0 or 4.0.1?
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