Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
I've not tried upgrading from Etch to Lenny, but have certainly seen
Lenny overwriting its own xorg.conf on an x86 laptop where I'd had to
add a line (AGPMode if I remember correctly) to get it working.
Is there anything I can usefully do here to test this?
I think
Julien Cristau wrote:
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 23:24 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Also, if installing on a machine with cg6 is it possible to lock
xorg.conf down to 8 bits (the hardware won't do the default 24) such
that it doesn't revert on upgrades?
Nothing should mess with xorg.conf on
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 08:53 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
xorg.conf does get rewritten by an apt-get upgrade on x86 Lenny, and
If so that's a pretty serious bug. But I can't see how that could
happen in an etch-lenny upgrade, so any details (preferrably in a bug
report against xserver-xorg)
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
[...] but what I don't know is why the
installer is setting it to the default 24 for hardware that doesn't have
that capability.
Just for the record: debian-installer is not responsible for that. The
X.Org configuration is created by the X.Org packages themselves.
Julien Cristau wrote:
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 08:53 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
xorg.conf does get rewritten by an apt-get upgrade on x86 Lenny, and
If so that's a pretty serious bug. But I can't see how that could
happen in an etch-lenny upgrade, so any details (preferrably in a bug
Am I doing something spectacularly dumb or is there a reason why
debian-testing-sparc-kde-cd-1.iso installs Gnome on SPARC with no trace
of KDE?
Also, if installing on a machine with cg6 is it possible to lock
xorg.conf down to 8 bits (the hardware won't do the default 24
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Am I doing something spectacularly dumb or is there a reason why
debian-testing-sparc-kde-cd-1.iso installs Gnome on SPARC with no trace
of KDE?
The cause is that the boot parameter 'desktop=kde' was not added at CD
build time. Unfortunately debian-cd does not have
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 23:24 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Also, if installing on a machine with cg6 is it possible to lock
xorg.conf down to 8 bits (the hardware won't do the default 24) such
that it doesn't revert on upgrades?
Nothing should mess with xorg.conf on upgrades, so any
I just did an apt-get update and I still have this problem (no icons).
Has this been resolved yet?
Thanks,
Bob.
Didn't I read that someone had successfully gotten openoffice (ne:
staroffice) compiled and working on powerpc? Often the mods
necessary for that are the same for porting to sparc, and vice
versa. Check out {penguin,linux}ppc.org. Also, I have used lyx
with some regularity, it's really pretty
hi!
any idea why:
apt-get install task-kde
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet
the kde packages for sparc woody are a bit behind...I just finished uploading
the last piece so it should be installable after the next dinstall runs.
If you still have the problem in a couple days let me know.
Ivan
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 12:58:05PM +0100, Cristian Constantin wrote:
hi
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 05:04:22AM -0700, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
the kde packages for sparc woody are a bit behind...I just finished uploading
the last piece so it should be installable after the next dinstall runs.
Sorry about that. The buildd is starting back up now, so it should keep up
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