apt-get source vs. binary

2002-03-11 Thread James Leigh
When I install via apt-get source and compile the package, then install. apt-get -u upgrade wants to replace my compiled version with the binary package from debian servers, of the same version. Ever time I install a package from apt-get source, apt-get wants to replace it with the binary version

Re: Xmame

2001-06-03 Thread James Leigh
xmame is only an emulator. It can do nothing itself. look here http://mame.dk/ and notice this directory /usr/lib/games/xmame/roms/ james On Sat, 02 Jun 2001 11:32:10 Chris Spencer wrote: > I'm running Debian unstable and just downloaded all of the Xmame .debs. > Unfortunately I can't get Xmam

Re: Xmame

2001-06-03 Thread James Leigh
Xmame is an emulator. It can do nothing by it self. take a look here http://www.mame.dk/ and notice this directory: /usr/lib/games/xmame/roms/ no problem, james On Sat, 02 Jun 2001 11:32:10 Chris Spencer wrote: > I'm running Debian unstable and just downloaded all of the Xmame .debs. > Unfortu

Re: Multi-platform software development

2001-05-24 Thread James Leigh
http://www.borland.com/kylix/ that my first thought, although you would be developing in Pascal, a c++ version is "on the way". gtk is ported to win32, so is gnome: http://www.gtk.org/ http://www.gtlinc.com/gnome.html http://www.gtlinc.com/uwin.html from what I have seems is is easy to port from

Re: Ximian Gnome gdm broken?

2001-05-01 Thread James Leigh
That happend to me also, I do not use Ximian, but just debian's gdm. I do not reboot that often, so having it fixed was very low priority. I disabled gdm from starting up at boot time, by remove the sym link in /etc/rc2.d/. I login as root from tty1 and start up gdm myself. I have been doing t

Re: Bootable Linux-on-a-CD

2001-04-25 Thread James Leigh
I think what he is looking for a complete KDE/GNOME environment to work from, not to rescue from. Check out demolinux. They make CDs of KDE/GNOME to people to try out without installing it on their disk. Everything is on the CD. Of cource it is much slower that way too. http://www.demolinux.or

voodoo3 Xvideo [was: Re: AVI player?]

2001-04-23 Thread James Leigh
The tdfx driver is busted in 4.0.2 and 4.0.3 for yuv overlay. Alex [from xpert@XFree86.Org list] has put a binary version of the latest cvs version on the link below. Just replace the tdfx_drv.o with the one from 4.0.2. I use debian sid and it work on my system for aviplay. james http://www.no

Re: AVI player?

2001-04-23 Thread James Leigh
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/avifile-player.html This player can play some avi files. What makes this player different is that it using win32 dlls to decode the streams, making it "in theory" able to play any format that windows can including DivX;). However the only down side is that

Re: GNUCASH

2001-04-22 Thread James Leigh
here is what versions of gnucash are included: http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=gnucash&searchon=names&version=all&release=all here is how to search for what is included: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages james On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 05:34:09 Beverly Rhyne wrote:

XF4 Xvideo extension

2001-04-20 Thread James Leigh
This has been bothering me for a while, How do I use the xv modules in a XF4 on a voodoo3 card? I have been using XF4 for some time now. I use Debain unstable and I use applications like xawtv, aviplay, and maybe others that say they can use the xv in XF4 and all say "No hardware acceleration de

Matrox + XF4 + 2.4

2001-01-17 Thread James Leigh
Morning, I have been trying to help my brother set up his new Matrox G450 under debian GNU/Linux. It is their unstable (woody) distro. I have search the web and everyone says it is easy just put this as your configure file..., but it is always the same XF86Config-4 file and it never works. I co