Re: antisocial X11 apps: xtet42, chimera

1995-11-24 Thread Andrew Howell
Bdale Garbee writes: > : xtet42 depends on X11R6 and recommends xserver. This is what Ian Murdoch > : said all X packages should do. > > I don't understand why this makes sense, for two reasons. Ian M, was there > some other good reason for this suggestion that I've missed? > > First, in general

Re: antisocial X11 apps: xtet42, chimera

1995-11-24 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : Kenny Wickstrom writes: : > My X server is : > on my Win 95 machine. So to get xtet42 to install I needed to add the : > --force-depends to the dpkg command line. : xtet42 depends on X11R6 and recommends xserver. This is what Ian Murdoch : said all X

Re: antisocial X11 apps: xtet42, chimera

1995-11-23 Thread James A. Robinson
> Dx -- dunno. Didn't take note when I had it open. I grepped > /var/log/messages for a bogomips figure, but that's apparently > no longer part of the startup. As I recall under earlier kernels, > it was low -- perhaps 6.something. Better than the 386 I used > to run, which was about 4.3. > >

Re: antisocial X11 apps: xtet42, chimera

1995-11-23 Thread Richard Kettlewell
Andrew Howell writes: >Bill Mitchell writes: >>Dx -- dunno. Didn't take note when I had it open. I grepped >>/var/log/messages for a bogomips figure, but that's apparently >>no longer part of the startup. As I recall under earlier kernels, >>it was low -- perhaps 6.something. Better than the 3

Re: antisocial X11 apps: xtet42, chimera

1995-11-23 Thread Andrew Howell
Bill Mitchell writes: > Dx -- dunno. Didn't take note when I had it open. I grepped > /var/log/messages for a bogomips figure, but that's apparently > no longer part of the startup. As I recall under earlier kernels, > it was low -- perhaps 6.something. Better than the 386 I used > to run, whic

Re: antisocial X11 apps: xtet42, chimera

1995-11-23 Thread Bill Mitchell
On Thu, 23 Nov 1995, Andrew Howell wrote: > Is your 486 a dx? Do you have any video memory left over for a font cache? > How much RAM do you have? What kind of video card? Dx -- dunno. Didn't take note when I had it open. I grepped /var/log/messages for a bogomips figure, but that's apparently

Re: antisocial X11 apps: xtet42, chimera

1995-11-23 Thread Peter Tobias
Bill Mitchell wrote: > When either xtet42 or chimera are started up on my 486-40 system, > the system appears to hang while these apps are initializing. During > this period, mouse movement is unrecognized, ctl-alt-F1 and friends > don't work, ctl-alt-backspace doesn't work, and ctl-alt-del doesn'

Re: antisocial X11 apps: xtet42, chimera

1995-11-23 Thread Andrew Howell
Kenny Wickstrom writes: > The only problem I noticed is at installation time xtet42 depends on > X11R6 and I don't run an X server on my Debian machine. My X server is > on my Win 95 machine. So to get xtet42 to install I needed to add the > --force-depends to the dpkg command line. xtet42 de

Re: antisocial X11 apps: xtet42, chimera

1995-11-23 Thread Kenny Wickstrom
On Wed, 22 Nov 1995, Bill Mitchell wrote: > I'm wondering if this is (1) normal? (2) antisocial apps needing > upstream attention? (3) something else? I just installed xtet42 on my system and is runs fine. I didn't notice any delay in starting (up and playing in less than 20 seconds). The o

Re: antisocial X11 apps: xtet42, chimera

1995-11-23 Thread Andrew Howell
Bill Mitchell writes: > > > I'm not sure that this behavior is buggy, so I'm not casting this > as a bug report. > > I previously reported as a bug that xtet42 hung my system. That > was dismissed as a probable problem with my system. I've characterised > this a bit more, and thought I'd repor

antisocial X11 apps: xtet42, chimera

1995-11-23 Thread Bill Mitchell
I'm not sure that this behavior is buggy, so I'm not casting this as a bug report. I previously reported as a bug that xtet42 hung my system. That was dismissed as a probable problem with my system. I've characterised this a bit more, and thought I'd report the additional info. When either xte