Re: xfree86 4.0.1 phase2 v29 debs for debian 2.2 potato
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 05:50:27PM -0800, Tal Danzig wrote: > Were there any major hangups? > or (fingers crossed) was it just a matter of apt-get source blah? On my system I had to restart the build about 4 or 5 times, all due to little missing things. But now it's just a matter of getting the stuff, editing the control file, and building, as my potato system is setup correctly for this now. If you read http://cpbotha.net/building_brandens_phase2_debs_on_potato.HOWTO, that will tell you exactly what you need to do to build these on your system. Charl -- charl p. botha | computer graphics and cad/cam http://cpbotha.net/ | http://www.cg.its.tudelft.nl/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: missing joystick_drv.o
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 02:25:13PM +0100, Jens Hoffmann wrote: > i tried to setup my joystick as an core input device for X (phase2v29 on > i386), > but unfortunately there is no joystick_drv.o in modules/input. > i, then tried to build the thing from source and found that > JoystickSupport > is commented out in the host.def file. > is this on purpose or just over seen ? This is probably an oversight. I'll look into it. -- G. Branden Robinson |I am sorry, but what you have mistaken Debian GNU/Linux|for malicious intent is nothing more [EMAIL PROTECTED] |than sheer incompetence! http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |-- J. L. Rizzo II pgpWGU55fF0mx.pgp Description: PGP signature
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This is regarding the x-terminal-emulator thread. - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: http://x54.deja.com/=dnc/[ST_rn=ps,ST_m=ps]/threadmsg_ct.xp?AN=687793 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 04:55:18 -0500 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-URL: http://x54.deja.com/=dnc/[ST_rn=ps,ST_m=ps]/threadmsg_ct.xp?AN=687793069.1&mhitnum=5&CONTEXT=972985611.1187774515 X-Mailer: Lynx, Version 2.8.4dev.13 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by home.dickey.net id EAA00373 you forgot the -fn option (all emulators should support -rv as well). > Re: x-terminal-emulator > Author: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2000/10/30 > Forum:linux.debian.devel > > author posting history > Post Reply · Prev · Next > _ > >--Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Disposition: inline >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 05:08:32PM -0800, Bradley Bell wrote: >> isn't xterm the 'de facto' standard? it would seem to me that any options >> xterm understands ought to be supported by x-terminal-emulator. If >> a certain terminal emulater is not xterm compatible, it would be trivial = >to >> provide an 'xterm compatibility wrapper', and have x-terminal-emulator po= >int >> to that.=20 > >Nononono. I love xterm to death, but requiring support for its many, many >options is the death of a thousand cuts. Most other terminal emulators >don't fool with the Tektronix 4014 emulation, for instance. Try "man >xterm" sometime and feel your head reel as the bajillions of options scroll >by. > >I think requiring a *small* compatibility subset is the way to go. There's >not all that many things a terminal emulator needs to be able to >configurably from the command line to satisfy the requirements of a program >(as opposed to a user) that calls it: > >1) accept a geometry specification >2) accept a title >3) exec a specified command > >Maybe, *maybe* we should require -ls (login shell) support, but even that >is pushing it, I think. > >As much as I love xterm, I don't think it's fair to require that every >other X terminal emulator be just like it. > >--=20 >G. Branden Robinson | One man's theology is another man's >Debian GNU/Linux| belly laugh. >[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Robert Heinlein >http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dickey.his.com ftp://dickey.his.com - End forwarded message - -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | Please do not look directly into laser [EMAIL PROTECTED] | with remaining eye. http://deadbeast.net/~branden/ | pgpJqg8QRkgWi.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Question about FontPath
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 08:56:59AM +0100, Torbjörn Andersson wrote: > This may be a stupid question, or maybe I just didn't RTFM closely > enough, but Dexter (at least in phase2v29) puts the following into > XF86Config-4: > > FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" > FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" > > I thought, based on the the manual page and the output from > xf86config, that it was supposed to be: > > FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" > FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" > > Did I misunderstand something, or does it make no difference? The > closest thing to an answer that I could find just said that the > "attributes are introduced by a ':' character", which I guess could > mean either way. This might be a bug in dexter; thanks for pointing this out. I'll look into it. > (By the way, my recent problems with X hanging at startup unless I > either install xfs or remove "unix/:7100" from the font path seem to > have gone away now. I don't know how or why. The CHANGELOG mentions a > recent "infinite loop problem that can show up on server resets" but > I don't know if that's even remotely related.) Hrm, as I understand it, if the X server doesn't find a font server there, it should drop that FPE (font path element) from the list and move on. Which, anecdotally, is what it seems to do for me. Can anyone else repro this problem? Does the X server get hung up if it's looking for a font server that isn't there? -- G. Branden Robinson | One man's theology is another man's Debian GNU/Linux| belly laugh. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Robert Heinlein http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | pgpUz7hOg381h.pgp Description: PGP signature
[edi@gmx.de: no dependency to xserver-xfree86]
This is what task packages are for. Working on those tonight.
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Subject: no dependency to xserver-xfree86
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 18:15:22 +0100
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Hi, while upgrading xfree 3.3.6 to 4.0.1 I noticed that there is no
dependency to xserver-xfree86 server, so it isn't installed automaticaly
(ugly, was not easy for to find the name of the package). Apt also
upgrades the old xbase-clients package with newer one, which doesn't
contain some important tools like mkfontdir and mkdirhier.
Gr{us,eeting}s,
Eduard.
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Re: Question about FontPath
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 10:11:25PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: > * Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001101 21:16]: > > Can anyone else repro this problem? Does the X server get hung up if it's > > looking for a font server that isn't there? > > I tried and failed to make my X server hang. > > I ran `apt-get remove xfs', added > FontPath "unix/:7100" > to the top of my Files section of my XF86Config-4 file, and restarted X. > The only problem I notice is that my sawmill menu fonts aren't nearly as > clean as they used to be. (It just looks like a different font, perhaps. > I don't know why. :) (I take that back. Fonts in mozilla aren't good > either.) > Fonts in mozilla suck, period Don't use it as a judge Your local unfriendly mozilla maintainer -- Frank aka Myth The unix learning curve may be steep, but at least you only have to climb it once -- unknown PGP signature
Re: Question about FontPath
* Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001101 21:16]: > Can anyone else repro this problem? Does the X server get hung up if it's > looking for a font server that isn't there? I tried and failed to make my X server hang. I ran `apt-get remove xfs', added FontPath "unix/:7100" to the top of my Files section of my XF86Config-4 file, and restarted X. The only problem I notice is that my sawmill menu fonts aren't nearly as clean as they used to be. (It just looks like a different font, perhaps. I don't know why. :) (I take that back. Fonts in mozilla aren't good either.) All the same, no crash. No hang. -- ``Oh Lord; Ooh you are so big; So absolutely huge; Gosh we're all really impressed down here, I can tell you.'' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: no dependency to xserver-xfree86
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 18:15:22 +0100
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Hi, while upgrading xfree 3.3.6 to 4.0.1 I noticed that there is no
dependency to xserver-xfree86 server, so it isn't installed automaticaly
(ugly, was not easy for to find the name of the package). Apt also
upgrades the old xbase-clients package with newer one, which doesn't
contain some important tools like mkfontdir and mkdirhier.
Gr{us,eeting}s,
Eduard.
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Re: missing joystick_drv.o
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 02:25:13PM +0100, Jens Hoffmann wrote: > i tried to setup my joystick as an core input device for X (phase2v29 on > i386), > but unfortunately there is no joystick_drv.o in modules/input. > i, then tried to build the thing from source and found that > JoystickSupport > is commented out in the host.def file. > is this on purpose or just over seen ? This is probably an oversight. I'll look into it. -- G. Branden Robinson |I am sorry, but what you have mistaken Debian GNU/Linux|for malicious intent is nothing more [EMAIL PROTECTED] |than sheer incompetence! http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |-- J. L. Rizzo II PGP signature
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This is regarding the x-terminal-emulator thread. - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: http://x54.deja.com/=dnc/[ST_rn=ps,ST_m=ps]/threadmsg_ct.xp?AN=687793 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 04:55:18 -0500 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-URL: http://x54.deja.com/=dnc/[ST_rn=ps,ST_m=ps]/threadmsg_ct.xp?AN=687793069.1&mhitnum=5&CONTEXT=972985611.1187774515 X-Mailer: Lynx, Version 2.8.4dev.13 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by home.dickey.net id EAA00373 you forgot the -fn option (all emulators should support -rv as well). > Re: x-terminal-emulator > Author: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2000/10/30 > Forum:linux.debian.devel > > author posting history > Post Reply · Prev · Next > _ > >--Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Disposition: inline >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 05:08:32PM -0800, Bradley Bell wrote: >> isn't xterm the 'de facto' standard? it would seem to me that any options >> xterm understands ought to be supported by x-terminal-emulator. If >> a certain terminal emulater is not xterm compatible, it would be trivial = >to >> provide an 'xterm compatibility wrapper', and have x-terminal-emulator po= >int >> to that.=20 > >Nononono. I love xterm to death, but requiring support for its many, many >options is the death of a thousand cuts. Most other terminal emulators >don't fool with the Tektronix 4014 emulation, for instance. Try "man >xterm" sometime and feel your head reel as the bajillions of options scroll >by. > >I think requiring a *small* compatibility subset is the way to go. There's >not all that many things a terminal emulator needs to be able to >configurably from the command line to satisfy the requirements of a program >(as opposed to a user) that calls it: > >1) accept a geometry specification >2) accept a title >3) exec a specified command > >Maybe, *maybe* we should require -ls (login shell) support, but even that >is pushing it, I think. > >As much as I love xterm, I don't think it's fair to require that every >other X terminal emulator be just like it. > >--=20 >G. Branden Robinson | One man's theology is another man's >Debian GNU/Linux| belly laugh. >[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Robert Heinlein >http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dickey.his.com ftp://dickey.his.com - End forwarded message - -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | Please do not look directly into laser [EMAIL PROTECTED] | with remaining eye. http://deadbeast.net/~branden/ | PGP signature
Re: Question about FontPath
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 08:56:59AM +0100, Torbjörn Andersson wrote: > This may be a stupid question, or maybe I just didn't RTFM closely > enough, but Dexter (at least in phase2v29) puts the following into > XF86Config-4: > > FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" > FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" > > I thought, based on the the manual page and the output from > xf86config, that it was supposed to be: > > FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" > FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" > > Did I misunderstand something, or does it make no difference? The > closest thing to an answer that I could find just said that the > "attributes are introduced by a ':' character", which I guess could > mean either way. This might be a bug in dexter; thanks for pointing this out. I'll look into it. > (By the way, my recent problems with X hanging at startup unless I > either install xfs or remove "unix/:7100" from the font path seem to > have gone away now. I don't know how or why. The CHANGELOG mentions a > recent "infinite loop problem that can show up on server resets" but > I don't know if that's even remotely related.) Hrm, as I understand it, if the X server doesn't find a font server there, it should drop that FPE (font path element) from the list and move on. Which, anecdotally, is what it seems to do for me. Can anyone else repro this problem? Does the X server get hung up if it's looking for a font server that isn't there? -- G. Branden Robinson | One man's theology is another man's Debian GNU/Linux| belly laugh. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Robert Heinlein http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | PGP signature
Re: xfree86 4.0.1 phase2 v29 debs for debian 2.2 potato
Hello, Were there any major hangups? or (fingers crossed) was it just a matter of apt-get source blah? Tal On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 19:48:28 +0100, Charl P. Botha said: > Excuse the long subject, but maybe this mail will come up more often in > searches. > > I have built Branden's v29 phase2 xfree86 4.0.1 debs on a debian 2.2 > (potato) system. These will be TEMPORARILY available at > http://www.cg.its.tudelft.nl/~cpbotha/local_debs/ > and they are APT-able with the following lines in your > /etc/apt/sources.list: > > deb http://www.cg.its.tudelft.nl/%7Ecpbotha/local_debs/ cpbotha/i386/ > deb http://www.cg.its.tudelft.nl/%7Ecpbotha/local_debs/ cpbotha/all/ > > They will only be available from this location until Kenny MacDonald > transfers them to the UK mirror. Then they should be available at: > http://www.edlug.ed.ac.uk/Mirrors/Debian/dists/potato/cpbotha > > You can build these debs on potato yourself as well, by following the HOWTO > at: > > http://www.cg.its.tudelft.nl/~cpbotha/building_brandens_phase2_debs_on_potato.HOWTO > > -- > charl p. botha | computer graphics and cad/cam > http://cpbotha.net/ | http://www.cg.its.tudelft.nl/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- -- | Tal Danzig [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux by Libranet| | Homepage: | The TOP Desktop Distribution | | http://awpti.org/~tal | http://www.libranet.com | -- A Friendly .sig!!! (TM)
Re: xfree86 4.0.1 phase2 v29 debs for debian 2.2 potato
Hello, Were there any major hangups? or (fingers crossed) was it just a matter of apt-get source blah? Tal On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 19:48:28 +0100, Charl P. Botha said: > Excuse the long subject, but maybe this mail will come up more often in > searches. > > I have built Branden's v29 phase2 xfree86 4.0.1 debs on a debian 2.2 > (potato) system. These will be TEMPORARILY available at > http://www.cg.its.tudelft.nl/~cpbotha/local_debs/ > and they are APT-able with the following lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list: > > deb http://www.cg.its.tudelft.nl/%7Ecpbotha/local_debs/ cpbotha/i386/ > deb http://www.cg.its.tudelft.nl/%7Ecpbotha/local_debs/ cpbotha/all/ > > They will only be available from this location until Kenny MacDonald > transfers them to the UK mirror. Then they should be available at: > http://www.edlug.ed.ac.uk/Mirrors/Debian/dists/potato/cpbotha > > You can build these debs on potato yourself as well, by following the HOWTO > at: > http://www.cg.its.tudelft.nl/~cpbotha/building_brandens_phase2_debs_on_potato.HOWTO > > -- > charl p. botha | computer graphics and cad/cam > http://cpbotha.net/ | http://www.cg.its.tudelft.nl/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- -- | Tal Danzig [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux by Libranet| | Homepage: | The TOP Desktop Distribution | | http://awpti.org/~tal | http://www.libranet.com | -- A Friendly .sig!!! (TM) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[xfree86 4.0.1] problems
Hello, I have some problems installing xfree86 4.0.1-0phase2v29. I am
not sure if I should report his as a bug, since 4.0.1 is still not in
the main distribution.
- Xlib doesn't support locales, so some programs crash or print warnings
- and it was not funny to search for the reason of this crashes.
- Xserver don't want to connect to the font server, reason:
| X Error of failed request: 86
| Major opcode of failed request: 51 (X_SetFontPath)
| Serial number of failed request: 9
| Current serial number in output stream: 11
The font server is ok, I tried this with xfs and xfstt.
- XFree86 -configure doesn't work, it crashes (sig11) soon after probing
cirrus_alpine.o.
Gr{us,eeting}s,
Eduard.
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Re: xfree86 4.0.1 phase2 v29 debs for debian 2.2 potato
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 06:54:52PM +, Kenneth MacDonald wrote: > These are now at my site. Add the following lines to your > sources.list to get them... > > deb http://www.edlug.ed.ac.uk/Mirrors/Debian/dists/potato/ cpbotha/all/ > deb http://www.edlug.ed.ac.uk/Mirrors/Debian/dists/potato/ cpbotha/i386/ Thanks very much Kenny! I will now REMOVE them from http://www.cg.its.tudelft.nl/~cpbotha/local_debs. -- charl p. botha | computer graphics and cad/cam http://cpbotha.net/ | http://www.cg.its.tudelft.nl/
Re: xfree86 4.0.1 phase2 v29 debs for debian 2.2 potato
These are now at my site. Add the following lines to your sources.list to get them... deb http://www.edlug.ed.ac.uk/Mirrors/Debian/dists/potato/ cpbotha/all/ deb http://www.edlug.ed.ac.uk/Mirrors/Debian/dists/potato/ cpbotha/i386/ Kenny. > "Charl" == Charl P Botha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Charl> Excuse the long subject, but maybe this mail will come up Charl> more often in searches. Charl> I have built Branden's v29 phase2 xfree86 4.0.1 debs on a Charl> debian 2.2 (potato) system. These will be TEMPORARILY Charl> available at Charl> http://www.cg.its.tudelft.nl/~cpbotha/local_debs/ and they Charl> are APT-able with the following lines in your Charl> /etc/apt/sources.list: Charl> deb http://www.cg.its.tudelft.nl/%7Ecpbotha/local_debs/ Charl> cpbotha/i386/ deb Charl> http://www.cg.its.tudelft.nl/%7Ecpbotha/local_debs/ Charl> cpbotha/all/ Charl> They will only be available from this location until Kenny Charl> MacDonald transfers them to the UK mirror. Then they Charl> should be available at: Charl> http://www.edlug.ed.ac.uk/Mirrors/Debian/dists/potato/cpbotha Charl> You can build these debs on potato yourself as well, by Charl> following the HOWTO at: Charl> http://www.cg.its.tudelft.nl/~cpbotha/building_brandens_phase2_debs_on_potato.HOWTO Charl> -- charl p. botha | computer graphics and cad/cam Charl> http://cpbotha.net/ | http://www.cg.its.tudelft.nl/ Charl> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to Charl> [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of Charl> "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kenny ADML Support, EUCS, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
[xfree86 4.0.1] problems
Hello, I have some problems installing xfree86 4.0.1-0phase2v29. I am
not sure if I should report his as a bug, since 4.0.1 is still not in
the main distribution.
- Xlib doesn't support locales, so some programs crash or print warnings
- and it was not funny to search for the reason of this crashes.
- Xserver don't want to connect to the font server, reason:
| X Error of failed request: 86
| Major opcode of failed request: 51 (X_SetFontPath)
| Serial number of failed request: 9
| Current serial number in output stream: 11
The font server is ok, I tried this with xfs and xfstt.
- XFree86 -configure doesn't work, it crashes (sig11) soon after probing
cirrus_alpine.o.
Gr{us,eeting}s,
Eduard.
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Re: xfree86 4.0.1 phase2 v29 debs for debian 2.2 potato
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 06:54:52PM +, Kenneth MacDonald wrote: > These are now at my site. Add the following lines to your > sources.list to get them... > > deb http://www.edlug.ed.ac.uk/Mirrors/Debian/dists/potato/ cpbotha/all/ > deb http://www.edlug.ed.ac.uk/Mirrors/Debian/dists/potato/ cpbotha/i386/ Thanks very much Kenny! I will now REMOVE them from http://www.cg.its.tudelft.nl/~cpbotha/local_debs. -- charl p. botha | computer graphics and cad/cam http://cpbotha.net/ | http://www.cg.its.tudelft.nl/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xfree86 4.0.1 phase2 v29 debs for debian 2.2 potato
These are now at my site. Add the following lines to your sources.list to get them... deb http://www.edlug.ed.ac.uk/Mirrors/Debian/dists/potato/ cpbotha/all/ deb http://www.edlug.ed.ac.uk/Mirrors/Debian/dists/potato/ cpbotha/i386/ Kenny. > "Charl" == Charl P Botha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Charl> Excuse the long subject, but maybe this mail will come up Charl> more often in searches. Charl> I have built Branden's v29 phase2 xfree86 4.0.1 debs on a Charl> debian 2.2 (potato) system. These will be TEMPORARILY Charl> available at Charl> http://www.cg.its.tudelft.nl/~cpbotha/local_debs/ and they Charl> are APT-able with the following lines in your Charl> /etc/apt/sources.list: Charl> deb http://www.cg.its.tudelft.nl/%7Ecpbotha/local_debs/ Charl> cpbotha/i386/ deb Charl> http://www.cg.its.tudelft.nl/%7Ecpbotha/local_debs/ Charl> cpbotha/all/ Charl> They will only be available from this location until Kenny Charl> MacDonald transfers them to the UK mirror. Then they Charl> should be available at: Charl> http://www.edlug.ed.ac.uk/Mirrors/Debian/dists/potato/cpbotha Charl> You can build these debs on potato yourself as well, by Charl> following the HOWTO at: Charl> http://www.cg.its.tudelft.nl/~cpbotha/building_brandens_phase2_debs_on_potato.HOWTO Charl> -- charl p. botha | computer graphics and cad/cam Charl> http://cpbotha.net/ | http://www.cg.its.tudelft.nl/ Charl> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to Charl> [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of Charl> "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kenny ADML Support, EUCS, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
missing joystick_drv.o
hi, i tried to setup my joystick as an core input device for X (phase2v29 on i386), but unfortunately there is no joystick_drv.o in modules/input. i, then tried to build the thing from source and found that JoystickSupport is commented out in the host.def file. is this on purpose or just over seen ? thanks, Jens H. -- No electrons were harmed during the creation of this message
missing joystick_drv.o
hi, i tried to setup my joystick as an core input device for X (phase2v29 on i386), but unfortunately there is no joystick_drv.o in modules/input. i, then tried to build the thing from source and found that JoystickSupport is commented out in the host.def file. is this on purpose or just over seen ? thanks, Jens H. -- No electrons were harmed during the creation of this message -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Optimized binaries for X
Hi, all. I'm going to try building binaries optimized for K6-x processors
to see if performance is changed.
Just put this in debian/patches/100_debian_host.def.diff:
+#define DefaultGcc2i386Opt -O5 -march=k6
Just make sure that that #define is not commented out.
Also for those who have s3virge/gx2 chipsets, Kevin Brosius (the s3virge
maintainer for XFree86) suggested this fix:
#define WAITFIFO(n) if(ps3v->NoPCIRetry) \
while(((INREG(SUBSYS_STAT_REG) >> 9) & 0x60) < n){}
(The bits are different... GX2 is supposed to be compatible, but it
also has a deeper FIFO and more 'FIFO available slot' bits in this
register. Seems that our other check was worse. ;( )
Kevin
(This is in drivers/s3virge/s3v_macros.h for anyone else watching.)
I'll let you know how both of these come along.
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Question about FontPath
This may be a stupid question, or maybe I just didn't RTFM closely enough, but Dexter (at least in phase2v29) puts the following into XF86Config-4: FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" I thought, based on the the manual page and the output from xf86config, that it was supposed to be: FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" Did I misunderstand something, or does it make no difference? The closest thing to an answer that I could find just said that the "attributes are introduced by a ':' character", which I guess could mean either way. Torbjörn Andersson (By the way, my recent problems with X hanging at startup unless I either install xfs or remove "unix/:7100" from the font path seem to have gone away now. I don't know how or why. The CHANGELOG mentions a recent "infinite loop problem that can show up on server resets" but I don't know if that's even remotely related.)
