Re: Mach64 cards work with SX164 and Debian - Only kernel 2.4 makes trouble

2001-11-09 Thread Jay Estabrook
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 11:13:31PM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: > > I have a Permedia 2 based card (Diamond FireGL 2) in my SX164, and it > also doesn't work properly with XFree 4 (pixmaps get corrupted. > Usually, I try to fix bugs myself, but I have no idea how to debug > this...). OTOH, this can

Re: Mach64 cards work with SX164 and Debian - Only kernel 2.4 makes trouble

2001-11-09 Thread Falk Hueffner
Jay Estabrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Be careful about the card you choose - some of the most recent cards > don't always work with the BIOS emulator that is in the consoles of > the older machines. Rage128 and Radeon are fine in LX/SX, and have > the added benefit of running OpenGL apps via

Re: Personal request and/or info?

2001-11-09 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:00:24PM +0100, Jurriaan on Alpha wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:17:50AM -0800, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: > > Does anyone know of any of the d.o machines runnin Alpha with > > 'pbuilder' install'd and able to be run through sudo access? Or know of > > anyone with an

Re: Mach64 cards work with SX164 and Debian - Only kernel 2.4 makes trouble

2001-11-09 Thread Jay Estabrook
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:13:25PM +0100, Fabrice Haberer-Proust wrote: > > I guess that you spent a lot of time to find a solution to this problem, > and I would like to thank you very much for it. No problem; it gave me a chance to look at the Mach64 again... > I will follow your suggestion: f

Re: Mach64 cards work with SX164 and Debian - Only kernel 2.4 makes trouble

2001-11-09 Thread Fabrice Haberer-Proust
Hello, I guess that you spent a lot of time to find a solution to this problem, and I would like to thank you very much for it. I will follow your suggestion: first compile and install XFree86 4.x, and then buy a new graphic card. > if you really must go to a 2.4 kernel In fact, I miss only on

Re: Personal request and/or info?

2001-11-09 Thread Jurriaan on Alpha
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:17:50AM -0800, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: > Does anyone know of any of the d.o machines runnin Alpha with > 'pbuilder' install'd and able to be run through sudo access? Or know of > anyone with an alpha willing to allow such? I have a a Multia with very > lil harddrive

Re: Mach64 cards work with SX164 and Debian - Only kernel 2.4 makes trouble

2001-11-09 Thread Jay Estabrook
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:05:29AM +0100, Fabrice Haberer-Proust wrote: > > > If possible, see if the server has "verbose" mode, maybe it will output > > a few more messages that might give us a clue. > > The Xserver(1) man page says something about an -audit option, set by > default to 1 and that

Personal request and/or info?

2001-11-09 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
Does anyone know of any of the d.o machines runnin Alpha with 'pbuilder' install'd and able to be run through sudo access? Or know of anyone with an alpha willing to allow such? I have a a Multia with very lil harddrive space and resources to build the kernel and would not want to trouble

RE: aptitude on alpha (again, sigh)

2001-11-09 Thread Donsbach, Jeff
Goswin Brederlow wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% cat foo.cc > #include > #include > > int main() { > double d = 1.0 + sqrt(-1.0); > } > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% g++ -o foo foo.cc > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% ./foo > zsh: floating point exception ./foo > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~

Re: Mach64 cards work with SX164 and Debian - Only kernel 2.4 makes trouble

2001-11-09 Thread Fabrice Haberer-Proust
> If possible, see if the server has "verbose" mode, maybe it will output > a few more messages that might give us a clue. The Xserver(1) man page says something about an -audit option, set by default to 1 and that should "additionally reports all successful connections and disconnect". But I don'