Udev rule help
I have a usb keyboard (Logitech Elite) that has a mouse component (scroll wheel + additional buttons), and i'm trying to create persistant evdev event nodes for the two devices. the problem is that they differ by their bInterfaceNumber SYSFS property, which is on a different SYSFS level than properties that identify the device by vendor model. I have the udevinfo output for the 2 devices on http://achenar.rifetech.com/~atrus/logielite.txt , or just the differences here, if it's helpful: http://achenar.rifetech.com/~atrus/logielite-diff.txt Any help would be appreciated. Please CC me in replies, thank you. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =- signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Udev rule help
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Have you check this out? http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html I have. The problem is that the set of information required to uniquely identify these devices spans two SYSFS levels, and according to that document, I can only match on one level per rule. I have tried it this way anyways, and failed. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEVD3ntjFmtbiy5uYRAgxgAJsHpOnytBSEieQiKM3QPyNAaSY0DwCcD5Is s9oC134oH7nCEbNFZQAD9Cc= =mFr+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /boot is readonly file system -why?
On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 18:49, Kenneth Macdoald Karlsen wrote: edit fstab eg: /dev/hdxx /boot ext3defaults 0 2 lsof |grep /boot kill process that locks boot (eg klogd) umount and remount or else you have to reboot. Not so. First of all, you are correct that /boot is mounted read-only in accordance with /etc/fstab's settings. This is done because it contains data that is very important to the function of the system, and being read-only makes it very hard to accidentally damage it. That said, you do need to open it to writing any time a package with files there is updated or installed. To do this without unmounting or rebooting: $ mount -o remount,rw /boot And proceed with the install. After installation is complete, return /boot to it's original state. (You don't really have to, but again, it's a good idea to protect that critical data). $ mount -o remount,ro /boot If anything about this options isn't obvious, the complete descriptions will be in `man mount`. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =- Remember, when you buy major label CD's, you're paying companies to sue families and independant music. Learn more now at downhillbattle.org. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
liborbit2-dev/liblinc-dev problem
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=215019 suggests a recent liborbit2-dev should include linc stuff, but it doesn't actually seem to include /usr/lib/liblinc.la ... am i missing something? Please CC me in replies. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =- You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help -- Calvin signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: fontconfig doesn't read local configuration
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 00:38, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: Hi everyone, I was trying to configure fontconfig so that it will read the local configuation file (/etc/local.conf) where I have a font path to My impression is that you want /etc/fonts/local.conf -- Jeremy Nickurak [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: ipmasq with ICQ, IRC
On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 05:17, Paul Johnson wrote: Someone should go tell the netfilter folks about the jabber icq server and the licq client sometime. Re: jabber icq server Link? As far as I'm aware, there is no such thing as a jabber icq server. Jabber's icq functionality comes from a component called an Agent, which is essnetially jabber-server-like on one end, so that jabber clients can converse with it, and icq-client like on the other end, so that the jabber users connecting to the component can speak with the icq users on the other side. I've never heard of a Free icq server implementation. -- Jeremy Nickurak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Swithing mode resolution on Xfree86
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 18:05, Egor Tur wrote: Hi filk. I have 3 mode in my XF86Config-4: 1024x768, 800x600, 640x480. Default is 1024x768. When I swith between mode (Ctrl+Alt+[+-]) I have the virtual desktop. Are there any way that I have not this virtual desktop but I have only desktop with swithing mode of resolution. Thanks. This has been a long-running limitation of the XFree86 implementation. Last I checked, the RandR (Rotate And Resize) extension had been checked into its CVS, which would address this issue. It may or may not end up in XFree86 4.3. -- Jeremy Nickurak [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Which ICQ Client is better?
http://www.jabber.org/user/publicservers.php There's several in that list, if you weren't aware of it by now. That said, it's relatively easy to operate your own server, although you'll need a fully qualified domain name if you want your server to be able to talk to other servers. On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 22:49, Rob Weir wrote: Have you found a decent, free jabber server out there that supports MSN and ICQ properly? The ones I've tried all seem to have either flakey (at best) ICQ support or no MSN support (yes, some of my friends are lame;). -- Jeremy Nickurak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lighter window managers
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 21:26, B. Yuksel wrote: One way to get around this problem is to use 'screen' with a desktop wm. Keep all terminals and such in only one desktop wm window with 'screen', and open another window for GIMP. Voila! you have a desktop wm, can use GIMP and also have all the good deeds of ratpoison (ratpoison was actually made to look like 'screen') I assume you're talking about Xnest, or possibly VNC? -- Jeremy Nickurak [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Most stable MSN and ICQ support?
I use jabber exclusively, which in my experience is currently producing 100% reliable MSN/ICQ messaging (AIM too, and yahoo shortly, once the transport is brought up to date with recent changes on yahoo's side.) On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 06:36:43PM -0400, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: Hi everyone, I want to find a stable MSN and ICQ client but don't know which one is. I know that icq changes its protocol a while ago. Don't know if any client support it. Are Gaim and Gabber ok? Thanx -- Edwin ERTW Lau __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =- Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gabber won't go into Gnome status dock
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=116659 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72594 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62652 Known problem. Last I heard, people were sort of bickering over who's fault it is, and who's going to fix it, and how to fix it, and if it can be fixed at all, and when (gnome 1.4 vs gnome 2) it'll get fixed... More then a little frustrating actually. If you have any details (even details that might seem inconsequential to you) to add to any of these bug reports, please do. The more eyeballs on this problem, the faster it'll get addressed. On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 04:08:05PM -0700, Joshua Penix wrote: However, when I turn the little docklet on, it shows up in the top left corner of my desktop, outside of the toolbar, and the status dock remains empty. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =- Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche pgpT4GeNod6jQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Conversion to ext3
On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 08:07, Mark Carroll wrote: Quick question - how do I convert my root partition to ext3 without introducing lots of .journal files? Can I make a bootdisk or something that can convert what's normally my root partition? It looks like, if the FS is mounted, you get .journal files. I've not found this in a FAQ yet but if I just missed it, a pointer will suffice. As others have mentioned, if you create the journal with the filesystem unmounted, you don't get a .journal. Furthermore, and I'm not entire sure about this, I believe fsck.ext3 in sid removed a .journal for me the last time I used it manually. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: VNCserver goes into session not gdm
On Sat, 2002-04-13 at 21:57, hanasaki wrote: How do i get gdm to run on the vnc server when a client connects? It is just going inot the session It sounds to me like what you want to do is not have VNC start gdm, but the other way around. Gdm spawns, and respawns, X servers. Xvnc is an X server. By all rights, there should be a way to get gdm to manage a vncserver, and put its login prompt there. I'm not sure exactly how this would go, but I imagine it would involve pointing the Servers section of gdm.conf to the Xvnc executable instead of the regular X server, with appropriate command line options. On the other hand, this sounds partially like a Bad Idea. At the very least, you should ensure that root logins are disabled, and a large fail delay set. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
gdkxft
Can anyone describe, or suggest where I could get instructions, on getting gdkxft's anti-aliased gtk fonts working under sid? I've tried a couple of times, but it's always resulted in silly things, like different applications using different fonts, usually the wrong ones, often fixed-width no no reason I can find. This usually requires me to revert to a backup of my .gnome directory, and I can't see what I'm doing wrong that would require that. Thanks. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= [EMAIL PROTECTED] =- Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche pgpyasYlImp51.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:09:45PM +0100, Robert van der Meulen wrote: Then don't install it on the box your daughter uses. Debian is about freedom, not censorship. Shielding from 'sensitive' material is a decision every parent can make by themselves, and it is _not_ the responsability of an organisation like Debian to make such a decision. The issue isn't whether we should keep racist material out of debian. It's a matter of providing software without racist material when people don't want racist material, joke or otherwise. Right now, there is no way to install bitchx without getting these messages. Contrast with fortunes, where a seperate offensive fortunes package has to be installed if you want it. Having racist jokes turned on by default reflects badly on debian, its developers, and its users. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= [EMAIL PROTECTED] =- Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche pgphRf0uJAlbv.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Where do the plugins for galeon live?
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:15:44AM -0500, stan wrote: I'm getting really fond of Galeon, and want to make it my default browser (testting machine). Where do teh plugins for thsi get put? I need to check and see how it's set up, and add any plugins that I'm missing. The same place plugins for mozilla go... /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins -- Jeremy Nickurak -= [EMAIL PROTECTED] =- Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche pgpCW3K18kRLB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: OT: TV Out DVD
On 05 Feb 2002 13:28:45 +0800 Crispin Wellington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What experiences have people had with Matrox G400's? I actually have one currently. :) No tv on the primary display though. No acceleration of any kind on the second, afaict. :/. Correct me if I'm wrong though. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= [EMAIL PROTECTED] =- Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche pgpg8pDZeEgCV.pgp Description: PGP signature
OT: TV Out DVD
I'm putting together a 500Mhz-cpu machine to sit in my living room, primarilly to play dvd's. Ideally, I'd be displaying to the television there, however I'm not sure what to look for in a video card. In order to get DVD's scaled to full screen, it'd be nice to have some degree of 2d acceleration on the tv-out, to get real Xv-type speeds. I understand the TNT2s that have tv-out are pretty good, but I've yet to hear any confirmation about whether or not they would support Xv on a output-to-tv display. Does anybody have any recommendations? -- Jeremy Nickurak -= [EMAIL PROTECTED] =- Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche pgpSRzfKktOA1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Procmail filtering on outgoing mail
I've been looking through mailing lists and FAQ, but can't find an answer to something I presume would be fairly simple, although I'm not really familiar with exim at all. What I want to do is get exim to pass _outgoing_ mail through certain procmail filters. Specifically, I want my From: address to be altered in certain cases, depending on who I'm corresponding with. Any suggestions here would be greatly appreciated. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= [EMAIL PROTECTED] =- For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. -- H L Mencken pgpsed4xG9fFq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Signatures
I've also heard from several people that my sigs are coming across as broken or invalid. Not sure why this is, they _do_ appear valid to me here virtually always. Gpg (as run from evolution) says: gpg: armor header: Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) gpg: armor header: Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org gpg: Signature made Thu Jan 3 23:11:26 2002 MST using DSA key ID 55F2B9B0 gpg: BAD signature from Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com While we're on the topic, how's mine look? pgpKbtTqlCIxW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: OT: PCI video recommendations
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 11:32:53AM -0500, dman wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:00:54AM -0600, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: [ wants PCI video card ] I've heard that Matrox cards are really good -- they're cheap and work well. I think the G200 is a PCI card, but I don't think PCI cards are manufacturd anymore. If I had cash to burn on another video card I would certainly get a Matrox. Actually, they also have a G450 PCI model, which should easilly get you resolutions of 1600x1200, with excellent 2D quality. It'll even get you just a little bit in the way of 3D performance. I believe they're available in dual-head models, which would easilly allow you the option of connecting two monitors for an even larger desktop. (The G200's meanwhile are configurable in a quad-monitor setup, if you really want be insane about it. :) ). I've generally been very satisfied with Matrox's driver support. They've contributed alot of the driver source into the GPL arena, with only a few optional features being held back to an additional closed module. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= [EMAIL PROTECTED] =- For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. -- H L Mencken
Re: GDM error
On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 10:52, Craig Dickson wrote: My Sid GDM can't start; I'm guessing something broke in some recent daily upgrade, but I thought I'd inquire and see if anyone knows what's causing it, and what workaround there might be other than downgrading gdm and/or who knows what else. If this is a result of a recent sid upgrade, try running the following command as root: update-fonts-alias /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc -- Jeremy Nickurak -= [EMAIL PROTECTED] =- For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. -- H L Mencken
Re: unstable: could not open default font 'fixed'
| This is the first time I've rebooted (or probably even exited X) in | three days, and I upgrade packages every day, so I'm not sure what | caused it. I searched bugs.debian.org and mailing list archives, but | no one else seems to have the same problem. This is recent breakage in sid. As root: update-fonts-alias /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ -- Jeremy Nickurak -= [EMAIL PROTECTED] =- For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. -- H L Mencken
Re: CD audio
When you play a CD, can you confirm that the activity light on the front of the drive is lit or flashing? Can you hear them if you plug headphones into the jack on the front of the drive? After adjusting the volume dial on it? Check your mixer settings (with a program such as gmix for gnome environments, aumix for the console) to make sure that the sound card's volume setting for the CD isn't zero, and that it's not muted. On Wed, 2001-11-07 at 18:10, Rory O'Connor wrote: I got the soundcard working, I can see the audio files on the audio CD (titles even loaded from cddb), and I can even play them. I just can't HEAR them. Is there some trick to being able to hear audio from the CD? I checked and the CD player is plugged in to the soundcard's CD IN jack. I can hear MP3s just fine. Any help appreciated! Thanks, Rory -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jeremy Nickurak -= [EMAIL PROTECTED] =- For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. -- H L Mencken
Re: Getting Grub to Recognize Kernel Update to 2.4.12
On Sun, 2001-10-28 at 07:44, Doc - KD4E wrote: If I run apt-get install kernel-package is it going to go out and find another copy of linux-2.4.12, download and install it as linux-2.4.12.tar.gz in /usr/src? In that case there is no point since I already have a slightly older copy of the same file there that isn't getting the job done. kernel-package does not contain a kernel, nor kernel source. It merely contains the tools used to turn a linux source tree (which is what you get if you 'tar -xzf linux-2.4.12.tar.gz') into a debian kernel package (kernel-image-2.4.12_something.i386.deb). Once you have that package, your can 'dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.12_something.i386.deb', and debian will put the kernel in /boot, and make a symlink to it as /vmlinuz. Then, all you have to do is configure grub or lilo to use /vmlinuz at the kernel image, and you'll be set. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= [EMAIL PROTECTED] =- For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. -- H L Mencken pgpMNDHRfS7Km.pgp Description: PGP signature
Unstable - Testing
A while ago I had to set myself up a little low-priority router. Now, being the irresponsible person I am, I just had to install unstable to get a few toys testing was missing at the time. :) Has anyone had experience with what kinds of issues I might run into moving from unstable-testing? From what I understand I should just start falling behind a bit until I'm back in line with testing, with the exception of anything that doesn't get moved into testing for a while. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= [EMAIL PROTECTED] =- You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help. -- Calvin pgp9fA4Ct63l9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Trouble with Gnome
On Sun, 2001-09-09 at 15:30, Casey Henderson wrote: Hi all, I'm running Debian unstable and everything's working good except a couple small problems. First, when I right-click on the Gnome desktop, nothing happens. No menu pops up. Thus I cannot create shortcuts to files or programs. Which leads me to my second problem. I have several shortcuts on my desktop, but they don't show up. My desktop comes up completely blank. There are shortcuts in my ~/.gnome-desktop/ directory, but the don't show up in the GUI. Any help would be appreciated. Please cc me as I am not subscribed to the list. Thanks. Casey You probabbly want to be running 'gmc'. (Gnome Midnight Commander) -- Jeremy Nickurak -= [EMAIL PROTECTED] =- You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help. -- Calvin pgpKZ6XWdNC18.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: SoundBlaster 16 Vibra
On 2001.08.31 04:42 Eduard Bloch wrote: Arthur Buijs wrote on Thu Aug 30, 2001 um 09:29:56PM: Does Debian Potato have a sound driver configuration utility? If not do I have to use pnpdump, isapnp.conf and isapnp? If so, how do I make isapnp run at startup? Is it really a Plug-an-Pray card? I don't think so, Vibra is pretty old. You should note the hardware settings used in Windows and give them as options to the sb modules, see the Howto. It is really a plug-and-play card. I have one myself, works beatifully, either with isapnptools, or a pnp-enabled kernel.
Re: Devfsd Audio Permissions
On 2001.08.17 09:01 Michael Heldebrant wrote: I have stuff like: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/devfs/conf.d$ cat alsa # device permissions for ALSA sound devices. REGISTER ^snd/.*PERMISSIONS root.audio 0660 I did have this installed, which was odd, because I don't use alsa, although I have it installed for dependancy purposes. (grr. but that's another issue, and less severe at that. :) ) I tried creating a ^sound/.* rule to catch OSS devices, but that didn't work. To be honest I'm not sure where devfsd is getting its permissions for /dev/sound/*, because it _is_ setting them correctly on '/etc/init.d/devfsd restart', just not on boot. (Yes, I've confirmed the link from /etc/rc2.d/S??devfsd to /etc/init.d/devfsd. :) ) What I have discovered through some further annoyances, that the same situation is cropping up with my cdrom device (/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/cd). Oddly, the opposite is happening to my /dev/input devices. They start out as crw-r--r-, root.root, but go to crw-rw---, root.root on a devfsd restart. To summarize: After boot: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/ -l drw---1 root root 33, 0 Dec 31 1969 cd [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /dev/input/ -l total 0 crw-r--r--1 root root 13, 0 Dec 31 1969 js0 crw-r--r--1 root root 13, 63 Dec 31 1969 mice crw-r--r--1 root root 13, 32 Dec 31 1969 mouse0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /dev/sound/ -l total 0 crw-rw--w-1 root root 14, 4 Dec 31 1969 audio crw---1 root root 14, 3 Dec 31 1969 dsp crw-rw--w-1 root root 14, 5 Dec 31 1969 dspW crw---1 root root 14, 2 Dec 31 1969 midi crw---1 root root 14, 0 Dec 31 1969 mixer crw---1 root root 14, 1 Dec 31 1969 sequencer crw---1 root root 14, 8 Dec 31 1969 sequencer2 After devfsd restart: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/ -l brw-rw1 root cdrom 33, 0 Dec 31 1969 cd [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /dev/sound/ -l total 0 crw-rw1 root audio 14, 4 Dec 31 1969 audio crw-rw1 root audio 14, 3 Dec 31 1969 dsp crw-rw1 root audio 14, 5 Dec 31 1969 dspW crw-rw1 root audio 14, 2 Dec 31 1969 midi crw-rw1 root audio 14, 0 Dec 31 1969 mixer crw-rw1 root audio 14, 1 Dec 31 1969 sequencer crw-rw1 root audio 14, 8 Dec 31 1969 sequencer2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /dev/input/ -l total 0 crw-rw1 root root 13, 0 Dec 31 1969 js0 crw-rw1 root root 13, 63 Dec 31 1969 mice crw-rw1 root root 13, 32 Dec 31 1969 mouse0
Devfsd Audio Permissions
After some recent apt-upgrades, devfsd is producing some odd behavior. In particular, on boot devfsd does not appear to set permissions on the /dev/sound/* devices. Restarting devfsd corrects the problem, properly chowning the devices to root.audio, and the permissions to ug+rw. Devfsd Version: 1.3.14-1, running on debian sid. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= [EMAIL PROTECTED] =- You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help. -- Calvin
Re: matrox video card upgrade (millenium to g450), what to do?
On 07 Aug 2001 19:50:43 -0500, Matthew Garman wrote: Now the new card is installed, and the old card is out of my system. X no longer works. I tried to use XF86Setup to setup the video card, but that didn't work either. I did a little bit of search on google groups, and it looks like XFree 3.x doesn't support the g450---is this correct? The G450 contains some hardware features that (AFAIK) Matrox has not released documentation/source for. This is why XFree 3.x, and (the last time I checked, even XFree 4) don't work directly with the G450. If you get to XFree 4, my advice is the following: First, try running `XFree86 --configure`. I've generally had good success with this. You may want to try this with and without the drivers supplied by Matrox ( http://www.matrox.com/ ). If you want 3D support, you will also need to the DRM modules from http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh/ (the ones in current kernels are not quite up to date). If I do, in fact, have to upgrade to XFree 4.x, what is the best way to do that? Here, best means that it involves the least amount of downloading---I'm on a slow, unreliable analog modem. I'm not sure what would be best here, but I didn't see mention of which version of Debian (stable/potato, unstable/sid, testing/woody). This information will probabbly help someone else help you out more here. So what's the best route to take here? Is there any chance I can use this card with XFree 3.x? If you're not too concerned about the speed of your display (in particular 3D) you could try running a framebuffer (as compilable from your kernel, linux/Documentation/fb/matroxfb.txt) and using the framebuffer drivers/servers for whichever X version you choose to run. Thanks, Matt Jeremy Nickurak -= [EMAIL PROTECTED] =- You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help. -- Calvin
Re: is this video-card supported?
On Wed, 30 May 2001 04:17:42 A. Demarteau (linux rules!) wrote: are the following 2 cards supported yet: Matrox MARVEL G450 (card has onboard tv-tuner) Matrox G450 I believe basic support for both these cards is there, although some of it may be a little bit unstable. (I'm currently using a G400). Last I heard there was some support for the tv-tuner as well. For more detailed answers, I'd recommend the Matrox Users Resource Center at: http://www.matroxusers.com/ In particular the Alternative Lifestyles (alternative OS) portion of their forums may be helpful. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= [EMAIL PROTECTED] =- You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help. -- Calvin
Re: kernel compile error
In linux/arch/i386/boot/Makefile, all the -oformat occurances need to be changed to --oformat. On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 19:11:18 Eric R Cheney wrote: OK, then when I go to copy the bzImage file to /boot/, it's not there. In fact, I the reran bzImage step and in fact it cuts out with an error messageI doesn't compile the source codeAnybody know what I'm doing wrong? I am migrating from RedHat and maybe I'm assuming things I shouldn't beAny clues? -- Jeremy Nickurak -= [EMAIL PROTECTED] =- You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help. -- Calvin
XMMS + Gnome + Sawfish
I've been having problems for ages with XMMS, and I just thought I'd put a little flag up to see if anyone else has has similar experiences. In particular, XMMS seems to have a really hard time playing nicely with respect to it's Always-On-Top-ness. As far as I can tell, there's litterally no way for me to get the playlist to _not_ be always-on-top. I've reported this problem on the XMMS tech support boards, but nobody there seems to know anything about it, so I thought it might have something to do with the debianization of something. Comments, suggestions, and random murmerings would be appreciated.
XFree 4 + Woody + DGA
Allright, I've been trying to take this up with matroxusers, matrox' technical support people, etc, and I still don't seem any closer to an answer. Matrox G400 32mb DH card on an up-to-date woody installation, 2.4.0-test11 kernel. The problem described below has appeared for as long as I can remember. (Relatively early in Branden's phase-2 debs) DGA display does not want to work. Whenever a program attempts to do display the video mode changes, but only a black screen is displayed. Everything else (sound, input etc) seems to go on, but there's no display whatsoever. Once the program stops using dga or terminates, display is restored. This has been observed in Wine, snes9x, and the dga test program. No errors are reported, by the server, nor on the standard output of the program in question. I've attached my XF86Config-4 file, but I get the impression this isn't going to help much, and I'll tell you why. I _can_ get DGA working if I switch to Matrox's now-over-2-month-old driver. The only problem with this solution is that it's designed for DRM1, so using it will kill off my currently working (and very well i should add) GL. I also haven't been able to extract from matrox any information on when they plan to release updated drivers. I'm not sure of any other information to add, but if there's something you need, ask and you shall recieve. I also cannot confirm whether or not these symptons exhibit themselves in the current XFree4 CVS. (I'm on a 28.8 modem, and my access to the local T1 is sporadic). Any comment with respect to that, or anything else, would be greatly appreciated. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= [EMAIL PROTECTED] =- Time is infinite. You are finite, Zathras is finite. This... this is wrong tool. Very bad. Never use this tool. - Zathras, Babylon 5 # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by Dexter, the # Debian X Configuration tool. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config manual page. # (Type man XF86Config at the shell prompt.) Section Files FontPathunix/:7100# local font server FontPathunix/:7101# local font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these # FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc # FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic # FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled # FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled # FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 # FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo # FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi # FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi EndSection Section ServerFlags EndSection Section Module Loadddc LoadGLcore Loaddbe Loaddri Loadextmod Loadglx Loadpex5 Loadrecord Loadxie Loadbitmap Loadfreetype Loadspeedo Loadtype1 Loadvbe Loadint10 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Keyboard Driver keyboard Option CoreKeyboard Option XkbRules xfree86 Option XkbModel pc104 Option XkbLayout us EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Mouse Driver mouse Option CorePointer Option Protocol ImPS/2 Option Device/dev/input/mice Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section Device Identifier Generic Graphics Device Driver mga EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Generic Monitor HorizSync 30-85 VertRefresh 50-130 Option DPMS EndSection Section Screen Identifier Default Screen Device Generic Graphics Device Monitor Generic Monitor DefaultDepth16 SubSection Display Depth 1 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 4 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 8 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 15 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 16 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection EndSection Section ServerLayout
