Re: x.org debugging?

2006-05-29 Thread Peter B. Steiger
On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 13:24 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: (after I said) > > I wouldn't dare ignite a religious war by > > asking what everyone's favorite minimalist WM is :-) > > > In that case, I won't tell you I prefer icewm ;) Heh... fluxbox was just the ticket - I was able to retain the syntax

Re: x.org debugging?

2006-05-29 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 11:53:42PM -0600, Peter B. Steiger wrote: > > It turns out it was blackbox, which was looking for the old X11R6 > libraries. I recompiled, but it's still not happy. So I guess it's time > to look for a replacement... probably OpenBox so I won't have to learn > new configur

Re: x.org debugging?

2006-05-27 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 05/27/06 09:38 CST: > Maybe you can use gcc-2 to drop that pesky net-tools patch. :) > Seriously, any package that hasn't been fixed for gcc-4's stricter > syntax by now is borderline unmaintained. And what makes this difficult, is what constitutes "been fixed"

Re: x.org debugging?

2006-05-27 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 5/26/06, Peter B. Steiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nope, I'm still sticking with gcc 3.x until 4.x no longer requires patching the source (of target applications) to build stuff. Maybe you can use gcc-2 to drop that pesky net-tools patch. :) Seriously, any package that hasn't been fixed f

Re: x.org debugging?

2006-05-27 Thread Simon Geard
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 23:53 -0600, Peter B. Steiger wrote: > Nope, I'm still sticking with gcc 3.x until 4.x no longer requires > patching the source (of target applications) to build stuff. It's been long enough now that if a program is going to be updated, it has been by now - anything that stil

Re: x.org debugging?

2006-05-26 Thread Peter B. Steiger
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 21:58 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > So, if by > mischance you are using gcc-4.1.0 without the PR26763 patch, that is > likely the cause of the problem. Nope, I'm still sticking with gcc 3.x until 4.x no longer requires patching the source (of target applications) to build stuff

Re: x.org debugging?

2006-05-25 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 11:16:50AM -0600, Peter B. Steiger wrote: > So I finished xorg server last night and ran the configuration and > server test successfully, and all was well. Then I fired up startx; it > initialized the graphics for a fraction of a second and returned back to > the console.

x.org debugging?

2006-05-25 Thread Peter B. Steiger
So I finished xorg server last night and ran the configuration and server test successfully, and all was well. Then I fired up startx; it initialized the graphics for a fraction of a second and returned back to the console. startx invokes xinit, which dumps a bunch of progress messages from the r