xinerama gone?

2000-10-30 Thread Seth Arnold
Ok. Mozilla caused my X phase2v27 to crash miserably a few minutes ago. Restarting X gave me a bit of a surprise -- no more xinerama. I have Option "Xinerama" in my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file, the same place it has been for weeks. I tried giving +xinerama on the command line. (That broug

Re: x-terminal-emulator

2000-10-30 Thread sam th
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Chris Gray wrote: > On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 07:58:17PM -0600, sam th wrote: > > gnome-terminal supports -e and --title or -t, but not -T. > > This changed in the most recent woody gnome-terminal to -T but not -t. > Well, I'm

Re: I am a stupid idiot for posting a FAQ, but...

2000-10-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 06:43:56PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: > * Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001030 18:39]: > > The bright ones here will be saying "Oh gods, he's going to ask about > > libGLU, isn't he?" > > What I *REALLY* want to know is why KDE (including konqueror) worked > fine for sev

Re: I am a stupid idiot for posting a FAQ, but...

2000-10-30 Thread David Engel
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 09:38:45PM -0500, Buddha Buck wrote: > What I want to know is if anyone knows of a work-around until the > situation is fixed properly. I suspect that this has been answered > before, but I can't seem to find it. I extracted libGLU.so.1.1.030201 from the mesag3 package,

Re: x-terminal-emulator

2000-10-30 Thread David Starner
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 08:26:28PM -0600, sam th wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > I think requiring a *small* compatibility subset is the way to go. There's > > not all that many things a terminal emulator needs to be

Re: x-terminal-emulator

2000-10-30 Thread sam th
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Chris Gray wrote: > On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 07:58:17PM -0600, sam th wrote: > > gnome-terminal supports -e and --title or -t, but not -T. > > This changed in the most recent woody gnome-terminal to -T but not -t. > Well, I'm

Re: x-terminal-emulator

2000-10-30 Thread Chris Gray
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 07:58:17PM -0600, sam th wrote: > gnome-terminal supports -e and --title or -t, but not -T. This changed in the most recent woody gnome-terminal to -T but not -t. Cheers, Chris

Re: I am a stupid idiot for posting a FAQ, but...

2000-10-30 Thread Seth Arnold
* Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001030 18:39]: > The bright ones here will be saying "Oh gods, he's going to ask about > libGLU, isn't he?" What I *REALLY* want to know is why KDE (including konqueror) worked fine for several days! For a short time it didn't require libGLU? For a short time Br

I am a stupid idiot for posting a FAQ, but...

2000-10-30 Thread Buddha Buck
...I'm going to do it anyway. OK, I've been using the phase2 4.0.1 .debs since they came out, with relatively few problems. I like how easy Dexter made it to make a config file, but I did notice that I seem to have lost a lot of my fonts when I did so (I seem to lack scalable fonts, and I'd li

Re: x-terminal-emulator

2000-10-30 Thread sam th
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Branden Robinson wrote: > I think requiring a *small* compatibility subset is the way to go. There's > not all that many things a terminal emulator needs to be able to > configurably from the command line to satisfy the requireme

Re: [lqw@gmx.de: xfree86 4.0.1 on potato]

2000-10-30 Thread Seth Arnold
You are in luck! Charl P. Botha has gone before you, and already solved this problem. He was kind enough to write an entire HOWTO about the situation, and posted its URL to the debian-x archives. I decided that something was obviously wrong if you couldn't find it, so I added the thread and the HOW

Re: x-terminal-emulator

2000-10-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 07:58:17PM -0600, sam th wrote: > eterm supports both -e and -T. > > xterm ditto > > kterm ditto > > cxterm.common ditto > > the members of rxvt-ml > krxvt > grxvt > crxvt > crxvt-big5 > crxvt-gb > all support both -e and -T > > xvt support

Re: [motyl@stan.chemie.unibas.ch: Re: Bug#75875: NOT all is fixed xserver-common: xfree86-1 does not compile]

2000-10-30 Thread Seth Arnold
Tomasz, in every package's life, there are some contemporary packages. It works best to use the versions of those packages when trying to compile software, especially for anything as complex as X. Would you expect Windows 16 executables to build against Win32 libraries? Or a.out binaries to run on

Re: x-terminal-emulator

2000-10-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 05:08:32PM -0800, Bradley Bell wrote: > isn't xterm the 'de facto' standard? it would seem to me that any options > xterm understands ought to be supported by x-terminal-emulator. If > a certain terminal emulater is not xterm compatible, it would be trivial to > provide an

Re: x-terminal-emulator

2000-10-30 Thread sam th
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Marc Martinez wrote: > On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 07:17:21PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Can someone help me establish whether the existing X terminal emulators in > > Debian do in fact support all those options? If so, then

Re: x-terminal-emulator

2000-10-30 Thread David Starner
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 05:08:32PM -0800, Bradley Bell wrote: > isn't xterm the 'de facto' standard? it would seem to me that any options > xterm understands ought to be supported by x-terminal-emulator. If > a certain terminal emulater is not xterm compatible, it would be trivial to > provide an

Re: I am a stupid idiot for posting a FAQ, but...

2000-10-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 06:43:56PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: > * Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001030 18:39]: > > The bright ones here will be saying "Oh gods, he's going to ask about > > libGLU, isn't he?" > > What I *REALLY* want to know is why KDE (including konqueror) worked > fine for se

Re: [nutcase@gmx.de: xfree 4.0.1 via apt]

2000-10-30 Thread Seth Arnold
Nutcase, please don't bother Branden. He gets far too much email as it is. Before installing the 4.0.1 .debs, please check the debian-x archives for Branden's mini-faq. Reading it will likely save you some trouble. (Though Branden, it has been several weeks since I last saw one posted to the list

Re: I am a stupid idiot for posting a FAQ, but...

2000-10-30 Thread David Engel
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 09:38:45PM -0500, Buddha Buck wrote: > What I want to know is if anyone knows of a work-around until the > situation is fixed properly. I suspect that this has been answered > before, but I can't seem to find it. I extracted libGLU.so.1.1.030201 from the mesag3 package,

Re: x-terminal-emulator

2000-10-30 Thread Bradley Bell
isn't xterm the 'de facto' standard? it would seem to me that any options xterm understands ought to be supported by x-terminal-emulator. If a certain terminal emulater is not xterm compatible, it would be trivial to provide an 'xterm compatibility wrapper', and have x-terminal-emulator point to

Re: x-terminal-emulator

2000-10-30 Thread David Starner
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 08:26:28PM -0600, sam th wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > I think requiring a *small* compatibility subset is the way to go. There's > > not all that many things a terminal emulator needs to b

Re: x-terminal-emulator

2000-10-30 Thread Marc Martinez
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 07:17:21PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Can someone help me establish whether the existing X terminal emulators in > Debian do in fact support all those options? If so, then it should be > straightforward to make this requirement part of policy. > > To try to answer yo

Re: x-terminal-emulator

2000-10-30 Thread Chris Gray
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 07:58:17PM -0600, sam th wrote: > gnome-terminal supports -e and --title or -t, but not -T. This changed in the most recent woody gnome-terminal to -T but not -t. Cheers, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: x-terminal-emulator

2000-10-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 10:16:01PM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: > I'd like to add a menu entry for a command that needs a terminal > emulator. Can I rely on x-terminal-emulator understanding -e? How > about -T? Is this codified somewhere? Your question is wonderfully on-charter for the debian-x lis

[lqw@gmx.de: xfree86 4.0.1 on potato]

2000-10-30 Thread Branden Robinson
- Forwarded message from lqw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: lqw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: xfree86 4.0.1 on potato Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 00:47:41 + Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.

Re: I am a stupid idiot for posting a FAQ, but...

2000-10-30 Thread Seth Arnold
* Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001030 18:39]: > The bright ones here will be saying "Oh gods, he's going to ask about > libGLU, isn't he?" What I *REALLY* want to know is why KDE (including konqueror) worked fine for several days! For a short time it didn't require libGLU? For a short time B

I am a stupid idiot for posting a FAQ, but...

2000-10-30 Thread Buddha Buck
...I'm going to do it anyway. OK, I've been using the phase2 4.0.1 .debs since they came out, with relatively few problems. I like how easy Dexter made it to make a config file, but I did notice that I seem to have lost a lot of my fonts when I did so (I seem to lack scalable fonts, and I'd l

Re: x-terminal-emulator

2000-10-30 Thread sam th
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Branden Robinson wrote: > I think requiring a *small* compatibility subset is the way to go. There's > not all that many things a terminal emulator needs to be able to > configurably from the command line to satisfy the requirem

Re: [lqw@gmx.de: xfree86 4.0.1 on potato]

2000-10-30 Thread Seth Arnold
You are in luck! Charl P. Botha has gone before you, and already solved this problem. He was kind enough to write an entire HOWTO about the situation, and posted its URL to the debian-x archives. I decided that something was obviously wrong if you couldn't find it, so I added the thread and the HO

Re: x-terminal-emulator

2000-10-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 07:58:17PM -0600, sam th wrote: > eterm supports both -e and -T. > > xterm ditto > > kterm ditto > > cxterm.common ditto > > the members of rxvt-ml > krxvt > grxvt > crxvt > crxvt-big5 > crxvt-gb > all support both -e and -T > > xvt suppor

Re: [motyl@stan.chemie.unibas.ch: Re: Bug#75875: NOT all is fixed xserver-common: xfree86-1 does not compile]

2000-10-30 Thread Seth Arnold
Tomasz, in every package's life, there are some contemporary packages. It works best to use the versions of those packages when trying to compile software, especially for anything as complex as X. Would you expect Windows 16 executables to build against Win32 libraries? Or a.out binaries to run on

Re: x-terminal-emulator

2000-10-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 05:08:32PM -0800, Bradley Bell wrote: > isn't xterm the 'de facto' standard? it would seem to me that any options > xterm understands ought to be supported by x-terminal-emulator. If > a certain terminal emulater is not xterm compatible, it would be trivial to > provide a

Re: x-terminal-emulator

2000-10-30 Thread sam th
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Marc Martinez wrote: > On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 07:17:21PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Can someone help me establish whether the existing X terminal emulators in > > Debian do in fact support all those options? If so, then

Re: x-terminal-emulator

2000-10-30 Thread David Starner
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 05:08:32PM -0800, Bradley Bell wrote: > isn't xterm the 'de facto' standard? it would seem to me that any options > xterm understands ought to be supported by x-terminal-emulator. If > a certain terminal emulater is not xterm compatible, it would be trivial to > provide a

Re: [nutcase@gmx.de: xfree 4.0.1 via apt]

2000-10-30 Thread Seth Arnold
Nutcase, please don't bother Branden. He gets far too much email as it is. Before installing the 4.0.1 .debs, please check the debian-x archives for Branden's mini-faq. Reading it will likely save you some trouble. (Though Branden, it has been several weeks since I last saw one posted to the list

Re: x-terminal-emulator

2000-10-30 Thread Bradley Bell
isn't xterm the 'de facto' standard? it would seem to me that any options xterm understands ought to be supported by x-terminal-emulator. If a certain terminal emulater is not xterm compatible, it would be trivial to provide an 'xterm compatibility wrapper', and have x-terminal-emulator point to

Re: x-terminal-emulator

2000-10-30 Thread Marc Martinez
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 07:17:21PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Can someone help me establish whether the existing X terminal emulators in > Debian do in fact support all those options? If so, then it should be > straightforward to make this requirement part of policy. > > To try to answer y

Re: another app killed

2000-10-30 Thread Charl P. Botha
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 10:17:27PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > jpilot doesn't work with X4: My jpilot is also fine, I just did a sync: dpkg -s jpilot xfree86-common|egrep '^Pa|^V' Package: jpilot Version: 0.98.1-1 Package: xfree86-common Version: 4.0.1-0phase2v29 -- charl p. botha

Re: another app killed

2000-10-30 Thread David Engel
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 10:17:27PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > jpilot doesn't work with X4: FWIW, I haven't had any prolems with jpilot and X4. I just did my weekly backup with 4.0.1-0phase2v27. David -- David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: x-terminal-emulator

2000-10-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 10:16:01PM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: > I'd like to add a menu entry for a command that needs a terminal > emulator. Can I rely on x-terminal-emulator understanding -e? How > about -T? Is this codified somewhere? Your question is wonderfully on-charter for the debian-x li

[lqw@gmx.de: xfree86 4.0.1 on potato]

2000-10-30 Thread Branden Robinson
- Forwarded message from lqw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: lqw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: xfree86 4.0.1 on potato Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 00:47:41 + Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4

Re: another app killed

2000-10-30 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 09:19:17PM +, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > jpilot doesn't work with X4: > > [tornado;~]-1> jpilot > pi_bind: Permission denied > Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x890)! > Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x891)! > Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x8

another app killed

2000-10-30 Thread Wichert Akkerman
jpilot doesn't work with X4: [tornado;~]-1> jpilot pi_bind: Permission denied Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x890)! Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x891)! Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x892)! Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x893)! Xlib: unexpected async reply (

Re: another app killed

2000-10-30 Thread Charl P. Botha
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 10:17:27PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > jpilot doesn't work with X4: My jpilot is also fine, I just did a sync: dpkg -s jpilot xfree86-common|egrep '^Pa|^V' Package: jpilot Version: 0.98.1-1 Package: xfree86-common Version: 4.0.1-0phase2v29 -- charl p. botha

Re: another app killed

2000-10-30 Thread David Engel
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 10:17:27PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > jpilot doesn't work with X4: FWIW, I haven't had any prolems with jpilot and X4. I just did my weekly backup with 4.0.1-0phase2v27. David -- David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: another app killed

2000-10-30 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 09:19:17PM +, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > jpilot doesn't work with X4: > > [tornado;~]-1> jpilot > pi_bind: Permission denied > Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x890)! > Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x891)! > Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x

another app killed

2000-10-30 Thread Wichert Akkerman
jpilot doesn't work with X4: [tornado;~]-1> jpilot pi_bind: Permission denied Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x890)! Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x891)! Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x892)! Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x893)! Xlib: unexpected async reply

Re: problem building 4.0.1d xf86cfg on SPARC

2000-10-30 Thread Paulo César Pereira de Andrade
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Branden Robinson wrote: Hi, You can add these to xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/xf86cfg/loader.c. I think one possible solution is to patch xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/loader/xf86sym.c to use it in xf86cfg, so that when that file is changed, there will be no need to

[motyl@stan.chemie.unibas.ch: Re: Bug#75875: NOT all is fixed xserver-common: xfree86-1 does not compile]

2000-10-30 Thread Branden Robinson
Someone knock him around with a cluebat for me? I see no reason why I must support woody's libc in potato's packages. A fix for the problem he reports has been in the woody XF3 .debs for weeks. - Forwarded message from Tomasz Motylewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Tomasz Motylewski <[EM

[nutcase@gmx.de: xfree 4.0.1 via apt]

2000-10-30 Thread Branden Robinson
- Forwarded message from nutcase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: nutcase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: xfree 4.0.1 via apt Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 12:24:32 +0100 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Mozill

Re: problem building 4.0.1d xf86cfg on SPARC

2000-10-30 Thread Paulo César Pereira de Andrade
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Branden Robinson wrote: Hi, You can add these to xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/xf86cfg/loader.c. I think one possible solution is to patch xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/loader/xf86sym.c to use it in xf86cfg, so that when that file is changed, there will be no need t

Exclusion of Glide packages in non-x86 ports

2000-10-30 Thread Robert Martinovic
Hello all, I have tried repeatedly to compile by source deb packages for phase 2 xfree86-4.0.1. Always using the source and diffs and brandens site ie: apt-get -b source xfree86. Problem is that every time it fails in the glide directory, saying there is no glide2.h or something. I have a Ma

Re: nvidia kernel module and GLX

2000-10-30 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 10:31:29PM +, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > I've installed XFree 4v26 and it seemed ok - no error messages etc; > I use an Nvidia TNT2 M64 card, and got the kernel module and the > GLX files from NVidia. > > However, both refused to compile. I figured that I needed > /u

[motyl@stan.chemie.unibas.ch: Re: Bug#75875: NOT all is fixed xserver-common: xfree86-1 does not compile]

2000-10-30 Thread Branden Robinson
Someone knock him around with a cluebat for me? I see no reason why I must support woody's libc in potato's packages. A fix for the problem he reports has been in the woody XF3 .debs for weeks. - Forwarded message from Tomasz Motylewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Tomasz Motylewski <[E

[nutcase@gmx.de: xfree 4.0.1 via apt]

2000-10-30 Thread Branden Robinson
- Forwarded message from nutcase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: nutcase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: xfree 4.0.1 via apt Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 12:24:32 +0100 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Mozil

Exclusion of Glide packages in non-x86 ports

2000-10-30 Thread Robert Martinovic
Hello all, I have tried repeatedly to compile by source deb packages for phase 2 xfree86-4.0.1. Always using the source and diffs and brandens site ie: apt-get -b source xfree86. Problem is that every time it fails in the glide directory, saying there is no glide2.h or something. I have a Ma

Re: nvidia kernel module and GLX

2000-10-30 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 10:31:29PM +, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > I've installed XFree 4v26 and it seemed ok - no error messages etc; > I use an Nvidia TNT2 M64 card, and got the kernel module and the > GLX files from NVidia. > > However, both refused to compile. I figured that I needed > /