Re: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults and /etc/X11/app-defaults: who's the symbolic link?

2000-11-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 03:00:46PM +0100, Daniele Cruciani wrote: > What I should do ? while woody is not released I've to fill a bug > against the package that have problem, or I should do what i do > (return to old directories)? Let xlibs issue its warning. Don't make the symlink yourself. Fil

Re: building X4 on SMP boxes, fix.

2000-11-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 07:29:10AM -0500, Dan Merillat wrote: > The toplevel Makefile in xc/ wipes out make's jobserver mode. > (Compacting $(MAKE) and $(MAKE_OPTS) in one variable confuses it.) > > The following patch splits the two out, significantly reducing compile time. > Even on UP systems,

Re: Bug#77131: xserver-xfree86 hangs itself

2000-11-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 04:11:04AM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > I tried the ati server again and without the faulty font entry that > actually works. The font entry is not "faulty". How about actually reading the bug reports I tell you to consult? -- G. Branden Robinson|Expe

Re: Bug#77130: dexter is not devfs ready

2000-11-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 03:36:53AM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > PS/2 is in /dev/misc/psaux. > Serials are in /dev/tts/[0-9]*. Ah, you mean the exact paths I've been using since 4.0.1-2. Please do more research before filing bugs in the future. -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/

Re: Bug#77130: dexter is not devfs ready

2000-11-19 Thread Zephaniah E. Hull
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 03:36:53AM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > Goswin > > PS: Using the old V3 config file for defaults and the console keymap > would be a good wishlist thing as well. Ow ow ow ow ow. No, you /really/ don't want those 'features'. Zephaniah E. Hull. -- PGP EA519

Re: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults and /etc/X11/app-defaults: who's the symbolic link?

2000-11-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 03:00:46PM +0100, Daniele Cruciani wrote: > What I should do ? while woody is not released I've to fill a bug > against the package that have problem, or I should do what i do > (return to old directories)? Let xlibs issue its warning. Don't make the symlink yourself. Fi

Re: building X4 on SMP boxes, fix.

2000-11-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 07:29:10AM -0500, Dan Merillat wrote: > The toplevel Makefile in xc/ wipes out make's jobserver mode. > (Compacting $(MAKE) and $(MAKE_OPTS) in one variable confuses it.) > > The following patch splits the two out, significantly reducing compile time. > Even on UP systems,

Re: IMPORTANT: the dotted box outline font problem

2000-11-19 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
Hi, (I am not subscribing debian-x. Please Cc: debian-devel or me.) At Sun, 19 Nov 2000 20:06:35 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Branden Robinson) wrote: > It looks like some font names are underspecified. If you request a > font such as > > -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-c-*-* > > then t

Re: Bug#77130: dexter is not devfs ready

2000-11-19 Thread Goswin Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Branden Robinson) writes: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 09:55:30PM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > > All suggestions for the mouse device use the old device names, devfs > > has them in subdirectories. Please use the new names when devfs is used. > > You're going to have to tell m

Re: Bug#77131: xserver-xfree86 hangs itself

2000-11-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 04:11:04AM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > I tried the ati server again and without the faulty font entry that > actually works. The font entry is not "faulty". How about actually reading the bug reports I tell you to consult? -- G. Branden Robinson|Exp

Re: Bug#77130: dexter is not devfs ready

2000-11-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 03:36:53AM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > PS/2 is in /dev/misc/psaux. > Serials are in /dev/tts/[0-9]*. Ah, you mean the exact paths I've been using since 4.0.1-2. Please do more research before filing bugs in the future. -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU

Re: Bug#77130: dexter is not devfs ready

2000-11-19 Thread Zephaniah E. Hull
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 03:36:53AM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > Goswin > > PS: Using the old V3 config file for defaults and the console keymap > would be a good wishlist thing as well. Ow ow ow ow ow. No, you /really/ don't want those 'features'. Zephaniah E. Hull. -- PGP EA51

IMPORTANT: the dotted box outline font problem

2000-11-19 Thread Branden Robinson
It looks like the solution for this problem is going to involve application-level fixes. - Forwarded message from Juliusz Chroboczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Juliusz Chroboczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Debian and bug reports Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 23:22:24

Re: IMPORTANT: the dotted box outline font problem

2000-11-19 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
Hi, (I am not subscribing debian-x. Please Cc: debian-devel or me.) At Sun, 19 Nov 2000 20:06:35 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Branden Robinson) wrote: > It looks like some font names are underspecified. If you request a > font such as > > -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-c-*-* > > then

Re: Bug#77130: dexter is not devfs ready

2000-11-19 Thread Goswin Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Branden Robinson) writes: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 09:55:30PM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > > All suggestions for the mouse device use the old device names, devfs > > has them in subdirectories. Please use the new names when devfs is used. > > You're going to have to tell

IMPORTANT: the dotted box outline font problem

2000-11-19 Thread Branden Robinson
It looks like the solution for this problem is going to involve application-level fixes. - Forwarded message from Juliusz Chroboczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Juliusz Chroboczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Debian and bug reports Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 23:22:2

Re: [yori_h@nifty.com: (bug) xserver-xfree86_4.0.1-5]

2000-11-19 Thread Seth Arnold
* Taketoshi Sano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001119 05:00]: > Or you mean just the man page symlinking ? If so, excuse me for my confusion. Yes, man page symlinks. :) -- ``Oh Lord; Ooh you are so big; So absolutely huge; Gosh we're all really impressed down here, I can tell you.''

Re: [yori_h@nifty.com: (bug) xserver-xfree86_4.0.1-5]

2000-11-19 Thread Seth Arnold
* Taketoshi Sano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001119 05:00]: > Or you mean just the man page symlinking ? If so, excuse me for my confusion. Yes, man page symlinks. :) -- ``Oh Lord; Ooh you are so big; So absolutely huge; Gosh we're all really impressed down here, I can tell you.'' -- To UNSUBSCRI

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults and /etc/X11/app-defaults: who's the symbolic link?

2000-11-19 Thread Daniele Cruciani
In new xfree packages configuration i read: Warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults is a directory that should be a symbolic link. Packages containing files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults need to move them to /etc/X11/app-defaults instead; they will not be used by the X Window System until t

Re: [yori_h@nifty.com: (bug) xserver-xfree86_4.0.1-5]

2000-11-19 Thread Taketoshi Sano
Hi. In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:03:29 -0800, on Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: (bug) xserver-xfree86_4.0.1-5], Seth Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Branden, could you make XF86Config-4 a symlink to XF86Config? That way, > I can refer to XF86Config-4(5) directly. :] I don't

building X4 on SMP boxes, fix.

2000-11-19 Thread Dan Merillat
The toplevel Makefile in xc/ wipes out make's jobserver mode. (Compacting $(MAKE) and $(MAKE_OPTS) in one variable confuses it.) The following patch splits the two out, significantly reducing compile time. Even on UP systems, make -j2 is a win. This ought to cut some time off those builds. --Da

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults and /etc/X11/app-defaults: who's the symbolic link?

2000-11-19 Thread Daniele Cruciani
In new xfree packages configuration i read: Warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults is a directory that should be a symbolic link. Packages containing files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults need to move them to /etc/X11/app-defaults instead; they will not be used by the X Window System until

Re: [yori_h@nifty.com: (bug) xserver-xfree86_4.0.1-5]

2000-11-19 Thread Taketoshi Sano
Hi. In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:03:29 -0800, on Re: [[EMAIL PROTECTED]: (bug) xserver-xfree86_4.0.1-5], Seth Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Branden, could you make XF86Config-4 a symlink to XF86Config? That way, > I can refer to XF86Config-4(5) directly. :] I don

building X4 on SMP boxes, fix.

2000-11-19 Thread Dan Merillat
The toplevel Makefile in xc/ wipes out make's jobserver mode. (Compacting $(MAKE) and $(MAKE_OPTS) in one variable confuses it.) The following patch splits the two out, significantly reducing compile time. Even on UP systems, make -j2 is a win. This ought to cut some time off those builds. --D