Re: woody : X install
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:21:00PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:21:00PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > Speaking with my Debian Desktop hat on, I would prefer it if you took > > the approach of just trying what the autodetection tools said, and only > > if that fails, offer the user a choice of options. > > The Debconf spec won't let me do that. If DEBIAN_PRIORITY is "low", I > need to grind to a halt and wait for the user to confirm, e.g., the usage > of the "XFree86" server and "tdfx" driver for his Voodoo3 3000 card. If DEBIAN_PRIORITY is "low", then this is exactly what the user is asking for. They want to see everything, even questions that have an appropriate default. > > If the autodetection tools give incorrect information, then that's a bug > > in those tools we should fix. If the X server doesn't get enough > > information from the autodetection tools, then we should fix that. > > I agree, but there is simply no way to completely eliminate the > interactivity, *even if* the autodetection tools work perfectly, and still > play the Debconf game. Anyone who is bewildered by technical questions should have their priority set to high. Nearly everything should be non-interactive at that point, unless something goes wrong. -- - mdz
Bug#163622: xfree86-common: Error starting X, using Matrox G200
[ Ian Bicking ] > Package: xfree86-common > Version: 4.2.1-1 > Severity: normal > > After just upgrading XF86, X no longer starts. It complains about > "bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan" and accepts no resolution. > There were no changes to the config file at the time of the update. > This is with a Matrox G200. XFree86.log is appended. I experienced the same problem with my G400, and, as described in this thread, the problem went away when using XFree86-debug. I started comparing the logs from XFree86 and XFree86-debug respectively, and found that XFree86 loaded the mga_hal-module, but XFree86-debug did not. I moved this module out of the way so XFree86 wouldn't load it, and X started up nicely. Ian Bicking's log says: > (II) Loading sub module "mga_hal" > (II) LoadModule: "mga_hal" > (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_hal_drv.o > (II) Module mga_hal: vendor="The XFree86 Project" > compiled for 4.0.3, module version = 1.0.0 > ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.3 > (II) MGA(0): Matrox HAL module used Removing this module fixed the problem for me. Matrox has also made available at their website a version of this module for XFree86 4.2.0, and it worked without any problems. Regards, -- Hans Christian Kjølberg
Re: apt-build and xfree86
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 19:06, Branden Robinson wrote: > apt-get's output looks pretty suboptimal. > > Check the xfree86 source package's build dependencies by hand. > > I think you'll find that they can, in fact, all be satisfied on a Linux > box. You are correct, but apt-get build-dep doesn't know this. I have since been educated as to the source of this problem. It is in fact a bug in apt-get build-dep that doesn't handle OR's very well. Bugs 98640 126938 131265 and 145997 are manifestations of this bug. Not even going in and satisfying the build-deps by hand lets apt-build build the package. Sorry for the static. -Scott Henson
Re: apt-build and xfree86
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 02:10:12PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote: > Im currently trying to rebuild some stuff on my system using apt-build > and its not going very well. In particular: > > apt-build --reinstall --rebuild install xserver-xfree86 [...] > E: Package hurd has no installation candidate > E: Build-Depends dependency on xfree86 cannot be satisfied because the > package freebsd cannot be found > Error while installing build dependencies, stopped. [...] > Im thinking some dependency has been added on the Hurd and since Im > using the linux kernel it cant satisfy the hurd deps. apt-get's output looks pretty suboptimal. Check the xfree86 source package's build dependencies by hand. I think you'll find that they can, in fact, all be satisfied on a Linux box. > I was looking through some of the bug reports for xfree86 and noticed a > lot of old bugs taged as upstream. Has there been any effort to go look > over these and check if any are fixed in the current version so they can > be closed? I've got plans for the ones filed against xserver-xfree86. -- G. Branden Robinson|The first thing the communists do Debian GNU/Linux |when they take over a country is to [EMAIL PROTECTED] |outlaw cockfighting. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |-- Oklahoma State Senator John Monks pgpBUoywukVk1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: woody : X install
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:21:00PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:21:00PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > Speaking with my Debian Desktop hat on, I would prefer it if you took > > the approach of just trying what the autodetection tools said, and only > > if that fails, offer the user a choice of options. > > The Debconf spec won't let me do that. If DEBIAN_PRIORITY is "low", I > need to grind to a halt and wait for the user to confirm, e.g., the usage > of the "XFree86" server and "tdfx" driver for his Voodoo3 3000 card. If DEBIAN_PRIORITY is "low", then this is exactly what the user is asking for. They want to see everything, even questions that have an appropriate default. > > If the autodetection tools give incorrect information, then that's a bug > > in those tools we should fix. If the X server doesn't get enough > > information from the autodetection tools, then we should fix that. > > I agree, but there is simply no way to completely eliminate the > interactivity, *even if* the autodetection tools work perfectly, and still > play the Debconf game. Anyone who is bewildered by technical questions should have their priority set to high. Nearly everything should be non-interactive at that point, unless something goes wrong. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wacom driver update
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 02:15:11PM -0400, PETNUCH MICHAEL wrote: > The wacom driver included in the X distrobution is out of date. I have > compiled the newer version of the driver from: > http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~flepied/projects/wacom/xf86Wacom.c.gz > and it now works like a charm. > > So perhaps it can be merged into debians x pacakge so that people with > intuos tablets can use it right from the default package. File a wishlist bug with clean patch against 4.2.1-3 and I'll consider it. -- G. Branden Robinson| The software said it required Debian GNU/Linux | Windows 3.1 or better, so I [EMAIL PROTECTED] | installed Linux. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | pgpRPCQpxZZG1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: a small C program to test xdm's /dev/mem reading on your architecture
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 08:12:45PM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: > xdm as of 4.2.1-3 still let's the kernel on mips oops. I assume it's > still the issue of reading blindly from /dev/mem. Do you have any > further plans regarding this issue? Yes. Forgot. Adding it to TODO list. -- G. Branden Robinson|People are equally horrified at Debian GNU/Linux |hearing the Christian religion [EMAIL PROTECTED] |doubted, and at seeing it http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |practiced. -- Samuel Butler pgp9zW0r9bcF4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: woody : X install
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:21:00PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 13:54, Branden Robinson wrote: > > I'll be rewriting it from scratch over the coming months and trying to > > work out a strategy for letting the user select between up to three > > sources of information: > > > > 1) what the autodetection tools (if any) say > > 2) what the debconf database already says (if anything) > > 3) what the X server config file already says (if anything) > > Speaking with my Debian Desktop hat on, I would prefer it if you took > the approach of just trying what the autodetection tools said, and only > if that fails, offer the user a choice of options. The Debconf spec won't let me do that. If DEBIAN_PRIORITY is "low", I need to grind to a halt and wait for the user to confirm, e.g., the usage of the "XFree86" server and "tdfx" driver for his Voodoo3 3000 card. > If the autodetection tools give incorrect information, then that's a > bug in those tools we should fix. If the X server doesn't get enough > information from the autodetection tools, then we should fix that. I agree, but there is simply no way to completely eliminate the interactivity, *even if* the autodetection tools work perfectly, and still play the Debconf game. If we want to discuss this more we should move over to debian-x. -- G. Branden Robinson| It's not a matter of alienating Debian GNU/Linux | authors. They have every right to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | license their software however we http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | like. -- Craig Sanders pgpFcKdlRZnEt.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#163622: xfree86-common: Error starting X, using Matrox G200
[ Ian Bicking ] > Package: xfree86-common > Version: 4.2.1-1 > Severity: normal > > After just upgrading XF86, X no longer starts. It complains about > "bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan" and accepts no resolution. > There were no changes to the config file at the time of the update. > This is with a Matrox G200. XFree86.log is appended. I experienced the same problem with my G400, and, as described in this thread, the problem went away when using XFree86-debug. I started comparing the logs from XFree86 and XFree86-debug respectively, and found that XFree86 loaded the mga_hal-module, but XFree86-debug did not. I moved this module out of the way so XFree86 wouldn't load it, and X started up nicely. Ian Bicking's log says: > (II) Loading sub module "mga_hal" > (II) LoadModule: "mga_hal" > (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_hal_drv.o > (II) Module mga_hal: vendor="The XFree86 Project" > compiled for 4.0.3, module version = 1.0.0 > ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.3 > (II) MGA(0): Matrox HAL module used Removing this module fixed the problem for me. Matrox has also made available at their website a version of this module for XFree86 4.2.0, and it worked without any problems. Regards, -- Hans Christian Kjølberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-build and xfree86
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 19:06, Branden Robinson wrote: > apt-get's output looks pretty suboptimal. > > Check the xfree86 source package's build dependencies by hand. > > I think you'll find that they can, in fact, all be satisfied on a Linux > box. You are correct, but apt-get build-dep doesn't know this. I have since been educated as to the source of this problem. It is in fact a bug in apt-get build-dep that doesn't handle OR's very well. Bugs 98640 126938 131265 and 145997 are manifestations of this bug. Not even going in and satisfying the build-deps by hand lets apt-build build the package. Sorry for the static. -Scott Henson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#165619: xserver-xfree86: Xserver crashes and blocks all VTs while ssh works
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 08:53:32PM +0200, Jan Korger wrote: > > X hangs (does not respond the mouse clicks or keyboard input, you can > > still move the mouse pointer for some time). If you try to change to a > > VT, you see the X screen with some errors (like black bar on top) and > > no mouse pointer. Entering CR sometimes moves the whole screen to the > > left by about (very roughly guessing) 1" or 100px. > > Are you doing anything in particular when the X server locks up? > > Do problems only happen after your first attempt to VT switch away from > the X VT? It happend once on trying to switch to VT, once while I was away from the machine (no screensaver seemed to be running). Normally I can switch to VTs and use any application without crashing X. > [...] > Please send this bug a copy of the > logfile immediately after you experience this problem. > > [...] > > Do the XFree86 packages in Debian unstable work any better? They > feature a newer upstream version of XFree86 (4.2.1 versus your 4.1.0.1). I didn't check. I can't reproduce the crash and it doesn't occur very frequently. So that's kind of hard to tell. Jan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: pgpenvelope 2.10.2 - http://pgpenvelope.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQE9s/MnY6Nk2Nv6ZRcRAkpEAJ9Q0HzjAk3dDnJeED5Zz7bVYBMzvQCffnmM RPu0qlGnnPpL1Kp4ZMoD1uk= =1dHK -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: apt-build and xfree86
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 02:10:12PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote: > Im currently trying to rebuild some stuff on my system using apt-build > and its not going very well. In particular: > > apt-build --reinstall --rebuild install xserver-xfree86 [...] > E: Package hurd has no installation candidate > E: Build-Depends dependency on xfree86 cannot be satisfied because the > package freebsd cannot be found > Error while installing build dependencies, stopped. [...] > Im thinking some dependency has been added on the Hurd and since Im > using the linux kernel it cant satisfy the hurd deps. apt-get's output looks pretty suboptimal. Check the xfree86 source package's build dependencies by hand. I think you'll find that they can, in fact, all be satisfied on a Linux box. > I was looking through some of the bug reports for xfree86 and noticed a > lot of old bugs taged as upstream. Has there been any effort to go look > over these and check if any are fixed in the current version so they can > be closed? I've got plans for the ones filed against xserver-xfree86. -- G. Branden Robinson|The first thing the communists do Debian GNU/Linux |when they take over a country is to [EMAIL PROTECTED] |outlaw cockfighting. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |-- Oklahoma State Senator John Monks msg04251/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Wacom driver update
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 02:15:11PM -0400, PETNUCH MICHAEL wrote: > The wacom driver included in the X distrobution is out of date. I have > compiled the newer version of the driver from: > http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~flepied/projects/wacom/xf86Wacom.c.gz > and it now works like a charm. > > So perhaps it can be merged into debians x pacakge so that people with > intuos tablets can use it right from the default package. File a wishlist bug with clean patch against 4.2.1-3 and I'll consider it. -- G. Branden Robinson| The software said it required Debian GNU/Linux | Windows 3.1 or better, so I [EMAIL PROTECTED] | installed Linux. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | msg04250/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: a small C program to test xdm's /dev/mem reading on your architecture
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 08:12:45PM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: > xdm as of 4.2.1-3 still let's the kernel on mips oops. I assume it's > still the issue of reading blindly from /dev/mem. Do you have any > further plans regarding this issue? Yes. Forgot. Adding it to TODO list. -- G. Branden Robinson|People are equally horrified at Debian GNU/Linux |hearing the Christian religion [EMAIL PROTECTED] |doubted, and at seeing it http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |practiced. -- Samuel Butler msg04249/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#165793: xbase-clients: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xlsfonts.1x.gz doesn't explain "pattern" good enough
Package: xbase-clients Version: 4.1.0-16 Severity: minor The xlsfonts man page doesn't explain "pattern" good enough. # xlsfonts -fn a xlsfonts: pattern "a" unmatched So it must not be a "grep" string, like I assumed. It must be another string. Also the --help info should mention -fn in the latter part. Also it should say -l will tie up your machine, like it does on the man page. -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.18-k7 #1 Sun Apr 14 13:19:11 EST 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5 Versions of packages xbase-clients depends on: ii cpp 2:2.95.4-14 The GNU C preprocessor. ii debconf 1.0.32 Debian configuration management sy ii libc62.2.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libdps1 4.1.0-16Display PostScript (DPS) client li ii libfreetype6 2.1.2-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libncurses5 5.2.20020112a-7 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libxaw7 4.1.0-16X Athena widget set library ii xlibmesa34.1.0-16XFree86 version of Mesa 3D graphic ii xlibmesa3 [libgl1] 4.1.0-16XFree86 version of Mesa 3D graphic ii xlibs4.1.0-16X Window System client libraries
Re: woody : X install
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:21:00PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 13:54, Branden Robinson wrote: > > I'll be rewriting it from scratch over the coming months and trying to > > work out a strategy for letting the user select between up to three > > sources of information: > > > > 1) what the autodetection tools (if any) say > > 2) what the debconf database already says (if anything) > > 3) what the X server config file already says (if anything) > > Speaking with my Debian Desktop hat on, I would prefer it if you took > the approach of just trying what the autodetection tools said, and only > if that fails, offer the user a choice of options. The Debconf spec won't let me do that. If DEBIAN_PRIORITY is "low", I need to grind to a halt and wait for the user to confirm, e.g., the usage of the "XFree86" server and "tdfx" driver for his Voodoo3 3000 card. > If the autodetection tools give incorrect information, then that's a > bug in those tools we should fix. If the X server doesn't get enough > information from the autodetection tools, then we should fix that. I agree, but there is simply no way to completely eliminate the interactivity, *even if* the autodetection tools work perfectly, and still play the Debconf game. If we want to discuss this more we should move over to debian-x. -- G. Branden Robinson| It's not a matter of alienating Debian GNU/Linux | authors. They have every right to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | license their software however we http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | like. -- Craig Sanders msg04248/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: xlibs_4.1.0-16_i386.deb
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 08:25:46PM -0500, Nathan Peet Maier wrote: > dpkg-deb (subprocess): short read in buffer_copy (failed to write to > pipe in copy) > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste returned error exit status 2 > dpkg: error processing xlibs_4.1.0-16_i386.deb (--install): > short read in buffer_copy (backend dpkg-deb during > `./usr/share/doc/xlibs/changelog.Debian.gz') This indicates a dpkg problem. You might have run out of disk space. If that's not the case, file a bug against dpkg. -- G. Branden Robinson|I must despise the world which does Debian GNU/Linux |not know that music is a higher [EMAIL PROTECTED] |revelation than all wisdom and http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |philosophy. -- Ludwig van Beethoven pgpQitWeiF8cg.pgp Description: PGP signature
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Bug#165619: xserver-xfree86: Xserver crashes and blocks all VTs while ssh works
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 08:53:32PM +0200, Jan Korger wrote: > > X hangs (does not respond the mouse clicks or keyboard input, you can > > still move the mouse pointer for some time). If you try to change to a > > VT, you see the X screen with some errors (like black bar on top) and > > no mouse pointer. Entering CR sometimes moves the whole screen to the > > left by about (very roughly guessing) 1" or 100px. > > Are you doing anything in particular when the X server locks up? > > Do problems only happen after your first attempt to VT switch away from > the X VT? It happend once on trying to switch to VT, once while I was away from the machine (no screensaver seemed to be running). Normally I can switch to VTs and use any application without crashing X. > [...] > Please send this bug a copy of the > logfile immediately after you experience this problem. > > [...] > > Do the XFree86 packages in Debian unstable work any better? They > feature a newer upstream version of XFree86 (4.2.1 versus your 4.1.0.1). I didn't check. I can't reproduce the crash and it doesn't occur very frequently. So that's kind of hard to tell. Jan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: pgpenvelope 2.10.2 - http://pgpenvelope.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQE9s/MnY6Nk2Nv6ZRcRAkpEAJ9Q0HzjAk3dDnJeED5Zz7bVYBMzvQCffnmM RPu0qlGnnPpL1Kp4ZMoD1uk= =1dHK -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wacom driver update
The wacom driver included in the X distrobution is out of date. I have compiled the newer version of the driver from: http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~flepied/projects/wacom/xf86Wacom.c.gz and it now works like a charm. So perhaps it can be merged into debians x pacakge so that people with intuos tablets can use it right from the default package. Thanks. Michael Petnuch
Re: a small C program to test xdm's /dev/mem reading on your architecture
Hi Branden, On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 01:20:33AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > The X Strike Force is trying to determine for which architectures it's a > bad idea to read several megabytes of data sequentially from /dev/mem, > because this is exactly what XDM currently does when generating an > XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 cookie. xdm as of 4.2.1-3 still let's the kernel on mips oops. I assume it's still the issue of reading blindly from /dev/mem. Do you have any further plans regarding this issue? Regards, -- Guido pgpfocmA5GbSm.pgp Description: PGP signature
apt-build and xfree86
Im currently trying to rebuild some stuff on my system using apt-build and its not going very well. In particular: apt-build --reinstall --rebuild install xserver-xfree86 -> Installing build dependencies (for xserver-xfree86) <- Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package hurd has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list E: Package hurd has no installation candidate E: Build-Depends dependency on xfree86 cannot be satisfied because the package freebsd cannot be found Error while installing build dependencies, stopped. and: apt-get build-dep xserver-xfree86 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package hurd has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list E: Package hurd has no installation candidate E: Build-Depends dependency on xfree86 cannot be satisfied because the package freebsd cannot be found Im thinking some dependency has been added on the Hurd and since Im using the linux kernel it cant satisfy the hurd deps. xserver-xfree86: Installed: 4.2.1-3 Candidate: 4.2.1-3 Using Debian Unstable on i386. P.S. I was looking through some of the bug reports for xfree86 and noticed a lot of old bugs taged as upstream. Has there been any effort to go look over these and check if any are fixed in the current version so they can be closed?
Re: xlibs_4.1.0-16_i386.deb
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 08:25:46PM -0500, Nathan Peet Maier wrote: > dpkg-deb (subprocess): short read in buffer_copy (failed to write to > pipe in copy) > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste returned error exit status 2 > dpkg: error processing xlibs_4.1.0-16_i386.deb (--install): > short read in buffer_copy (backend dpkg-deb during > `./usr/share/doc/xlibs/changelog.Debian.gz') This indicates a dpkg problem. You might have run out of disk space. If that's not the case, file a bug against dpkg. -- G. Branden Robinson|I must despise the world which does Debian GNU/Linux |not know that music is a higher [EMAIL PROTECTED] |revelation than all wisdom and http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |philosophy. -- Ludwig van Beethoven msg04245/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#165793: xbase-clients: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xlsfonts.1x.gz doesn't explain "pattern" good enough
Package: xbase-clients Version: 4.1.0-16 Severity: minor The xlsfonts man page doesn't explain "pattern" good enough. # xlsfonts -fn a xlsfonts: pattern "a" unmatched So it must not be a "grep" string, like I assumed. It must be another string. Also the --help info should mention -fn in the latter part. Also it should say -l will tie up your machine, like it does on the man page. -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.18-k7 #1 Sun Apr 14 13:19:11 EST 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5 Versions of packages xbase-clients depends on: ii cpp 2:2.95.4-14 The GNU C preprocessor. ii debconf 1.0.32 Debian configuration management sy ii libc62.2.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libdps1 4.1.0-16Display PostScript (DPS) client li ii libfreetype6 2.1.2-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libncurses5 5.2.20020112a-7 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libxaw7 4.1.0-16X Athena widget set library ii xlibmesa34.1.0-16XFree86 version of Mesa 3D graphic ii xlibmesa3 [libgl1] 4.1.0-16XFree86 version of Mesa 3D graphic ii xlibs4.1.0-16X Window System client libraries -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a small C program to test xdm's /dev/mem reading on your architecture
Hi Branden, On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 01:20:33AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > The X Strike Force is trying to determine for which architectures it's a > bad idea to read several megabytes of data sequentially from /dev/mem, > because this is exactly what XDM currently does when generating an > XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 cookie. xdm as of 4.2.1-3 still let's the kernel on mips oops. I assume it's still the issue of reading blindly from /dev/mem. Do you have any further plans regarding this issue? Regards, -- Guido msg04244/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Wacom driver update
The wacom driver included in the X distrobution is out of date. I have compiled the newer version of the driver from: http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~flepied/projects/wacom/xf86Wacom.c.gz and it now works like a charm. So perhaps it can be merged into debians x pacakge so that people with intuos tablets can use it right from the default package. Thanks. Michael Petnuch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Un site plus rentable
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apt-build and xfree86
Im currently trying to rebuild some stuff on my system using apt-build and its not going very well. In particular: apt-build --reinstall --rebuild install xserver-xfree86 -> Installing build dependencies (for xserver-xfree86) <- Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package hurd has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list E: Package hurd has no installation candidate E: Build-Depends dependency on xfree86 cannot be satisfied because the package freebsd cannot be found Error while installing build dependencies, stopped. and: apt-get build-dep xserver-xfree86 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package hurd has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list E: Package hurd has no installation candidate E: Build-Depends dependency on xfree86 cannot be satisfied because the package freebsd cannot be found Im thinking some dependency has been added on the Hurd and since Im using the linux kernel it cant satisfy the hurd deps. xserver-xfree86: Installed: 4.2.1-3 Candidate: 4.2.1-3 Using Debian Unstable on i386. P.S. I was looking through some of the bug reports for xfree86 and noticed a lot of old bugs taged as upstream. Has there been any effort to go look over these and check if any are fixed in the current version so they can be closed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 4.2.x for Woody?
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 07:32, Philipp Huegelmeyer wrote: > Max Moritz Sievers wrote: > > >are there any XFree86 4.2.x debs for Woody/i386? > >On my search i only found dead links. > > please have a look at http://zoidberg.dnsalias.org/xfree . Thanks for providing these, but please spell 'XFree86' correctly... -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
Re: XFree86 4.2.x for Woody?
Moin Philipp! Philipp Huegelmeyer schrieb am Montag, den 21. Oktober 2002: > please have a look at http://zoidberg.dnsalias.org/xfree . Or http://people.debian.org/~blade/woody
Re: XFree86 4.2.x for Woody?
Max Moritz Sievers wrote: Hello, are there any XFree86 4.2.x debs for Woody/i386? On my search i only found dead links. regards, Max Moritz Sievers Hi Max, please have a look at http://zoidberg.dnsalias.org/xfree . Cheers, Philipp Huegelmeyer
