Re: pre-release 4.0.1-10 packages available for building

2000-12-04 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
People have been grumbling (rightfully) about the xfree86 package's MANIFEST file causing problems. So in an effort make to sure that people can get debian/*.$(ARCH) files for their architecture that will work out of the box for the next release, I've made 4.0.1-9pre10v1 available at the

Problems with several application when using special locale

2000-12-04 Thread Morten B. Pedersen
When I use locale 'da_DK', xchat, Eterm and licq becomes unstable, (xchat segfaults, Eterm hangs, licq segfaults from time to time) Setting locale to 'C' solve these problems, I believe that this has something do with the latest X. -- Med venlig hilsen - Sincerely Morten B. Pedersen - [EMAIL

Re: sorry, I can't build 4.0.1-9pre10v1 for powerpc

2000-12-04 Thread Michael Schmitz
Appears to be a memory/swap related problem. Open up another tty and run 'top' while the make is going on, and watch your total free memory and your total free swap..they might get too small for cc to run successfully. (VM is the virtual memory driver) Tried that; I did some

Re: sorry, I can't build 4.0.1-9pre10v1 for powerpc

2000-12-04 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 12:17:39AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: This is reproducible. It hits this wall on gamma_gl.c every time. If my memory is correct, the gamma_gl is particularly big, isn't it ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Problems with several application when using special locale

2000-12-04 Thread Seth Arnold
* Morten B. Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001204 02:28]: When I use locale 'da_DK', xchat, Eterm and licq becomes unstable, (xchat segfaults, Eterm hangs, licq segfaults from time to time) Setting locale to 'C' solve these problems, I believe that this has something do with the latest X.

Re: Problems with several application when using special locale

2000-12-04 Thread Morten B. Pedersen
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 08:44:05AM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: * Morten B. Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001204 02:28]: Setting locale to 'C' solve these problems, I believe that this has something do with the latest X. Ok, have you edited /etc/locales.gen and then ran the locale-gen

Running multiple X servers

2000-12-04 Thread Traber, Stefan, TRA
Hello, could somebody tell me what the best way is to start a second X server upon startup. I would like this second X server to run on vt8 and send an XDMCP-query to a different server. I know how to do this manually, but i would like to know in what configuration file i should add this so that

Re: sorry, I can't build 4.0.1-9pre10v1 for powerpc

2000-12-04 Thread Tom Rini
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 12:38:47AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: Tried that; I did some testing in real-time with the folks in #debian-devel. It appears to be a problem with the kernel VM handler (perhaps ppc specific) in 2.2.18pre21. ... memory : 56MB ... 56MB ain't a lot but it

Re: pre-release 4.0.1-10 packages available for building

2000-12-04 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
Ok, the corresponding packages for Alpha are at: http://people.debian.org/~chris/xfree86_4.0.1-9pre10v1/ if anyone is interested or if Branden wants to copy them into his public_html tree... C On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Christopher C.

Re: scaled fonts

2000-12-04 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
DU Some time before i post a mail about ugly fonts im my debian DU X. Some nice guy, answer about unscaled or noscaled after the font path in DU xfs config. Why are you using xfs and not accessing the fonts directly? DU The point is than some tests later i found than the problem is DU

[aaron@eazel.com: xfonts-*]

2000-12-04 Thread Branden Robinson
Sounds like he is using a really old phase1 or phase2 package. - Forwarded message from Aaron Brick [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: "Aaron Brick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: xfonts-* Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:41:26 -0800 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL

Re: pre-release 4.0.1-10 packages available for building

2000-12-04 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 02:04:15PM -0500, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: Ok, the corresponding packages for Alpha are at: http://people.debian.org/~chris/xfree86_4.0.1-9pre10v1/ if anyone is interested or if Branden wants to copy them into his public_html tree... I've got your patch,

Re: sorry, I can't build 4.0.1-9pre10v1 for powerpc

2000-12-04 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 12:17:39AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: My build box has a slight problem: [...] Dec 3 16:17:14 eris kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd... Dec 3 16:17:16 eris kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for cc1... Dec 3 16:17:16 eris kernel: VM:

RE: Running multiple X servers

2000-12-04 Thread Jean-Sebastien . VALETTE
Title: RE: Running multiple X servers Try to edit xdm.conf or gdm.conf (if using gnome) to add a second display. -Message d'origine- De: Traber, Stefan, TRA [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: lundi 4 décembre 2000 19:15 À: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Objet: Running multiple X servers Hello,

Re: sorry, I can't build 4.0.1-9pre10v1 for powerpc

2000-12-04 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 12:21:09AM -0600, Phil Fraering wrote: Yikes. It turns out that my swap partition was never set up. There was a swap partition on the drive, but it hadn't been mkswap'ed or added to /etc/fstab. It took over 8 minutes of real CPU time to build that file, but

Problems with several application when using special locale

2000-12-04 Thread Morten B. Pedersen
When I use locale 'da_DK', xchat, Eterm and licq becomes unstable, (xchat segfaults, Eterm hangs, licq segfaults from time to time) Setting locale to 'C' solve these problems, I believe that this has something do with the latest X. -- Med venlig hilsen - Sincerely Morten B. Pedersen - [EMAIL

Re: pre-release 4.0.1-10 packages available for building

2000-12-04 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: I'm working on Alpha now. I have another patch to give to you for Alpha that fixes a few 32-bit-isms and a few other problems. Ok, work done...I'm attaching the diff for Alpha against 9pre10v1. C pre10-final-alpha.diff.gz Description:

Re: sorry, I can't build 4.0.1-9pre10v1 for powerpc

2000-12-04 Thread Michael Schmitz
Appears to be a memory/swap related problem. Open up another tty and run 'top' while the make is going on, and watch your total free memory and your total free swap..they might get too small for cc to run successfully. (VM is the virtual memory driver) Tried that; I did some

Re: sorry, I can't build 4.0.1-9pre10v1 for powerpc

2000-12-04 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 12:17:39AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: This is reproducible. It hits this wall on gamma_gl.c every time. If my memory is correct, the gamma_gl is particularly big, isn't it ? Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: Problems with several application when using special locale

2000-12-04 Thread Seth Arnold
* Morten B. Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001204 02:28]: When I use locale 'da_DK', xchat, Eterm and licq becomes unstable, (xchat segfaults, Eterm hangs, licq segfaults from time to time) Setting locale to 'C' solve these problems, I believe that this has something do with the latest X.

Re: Problems with several application when using special locale

2000-12-04 Thread Morten B. Pedersen
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 08:44:05AM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: * Morten B. Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001204 02:28]: Setting locale to 'C' solve these problems, I believe that this has something do with the latest X. Ok, have you edited /etc/locales.gen and then ran the locale-gen program?

scaled fonts

2000-12-04 Thread Debian User
hi, Some time before i post a mail about ugly fonts im my debian X. Some nice guy, answer about unscaled or noscaled after the font path in xfs config. The point is than some tests later i found than the problem is specific to Times fons. Utopia and Courier works fine. So i think the

Running multiple X servers

2000-12-04 Thread Traber, Stefan, TRA
Hello, could somebody tell me what the best way is to start a second X server upon startup. I would like this second X server to run on vt8 and send an XDMCP-query to a different server. I know how to do this manually, but i would like to know in what configuration file i should add this so that

Re: sorry, I can't build 4.0.1-9pre10v1 for powerpc

2000-12-04 Thread Tom Rini
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 12:38:47AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: Tried that; I did some testing in real-time with the folks in #debian-devel. It appears to be a problem with the kernel VM handler (perhaps ppc specific) in 2.2.18pre21. ... memory : 56MB ... 56MB ain't a lot but it

Re: Running multiple X servers

2000-12-04 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 07:15:17PM +0100, Traber, Stefan, TRA wrote: Hello, could somebody tell me what the best way is to start a second X server upon startup. I would like this second X server to run on vt8 and send an XDMCP-query to a different server. I know how to do this manually, but

Re: pre-release 4.0.1-10 packages available for building

2000-12-04 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
Ok, the corresponding packages for Alpha are at: http://people.debian.org/~chris/xfree86_4.0.1-9pre10v1/ if anyone is interested or if Branden wants to copy them into his public_html tree... C On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Christopher C.

Re: scaled fonts

2000-12-04 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
DU Some time before i post a mail about ugly fonts im my debian DU X. Some nice guy, answer about unscaled or noscaled after the font path in DU xfs config. Why are you using xfs and not accessing the fonts directly? DU The point is than some tests later i found than the problem is DU

[aaron@eazel.com: xfonts-*]

2000-12-04 Thread Branden Robinson
Sounds like he is using a really old phase1 or phase2 package. - Forwarded message from Aaron Brick [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Aaron Brick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: xfonts-* Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:41:26 -0800 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL

Re: [aaron@eazel.com: xfonts-*]

2000-12-04 Thread Seth Arnold
Aaron, please ensure you have the xutils package installed, per the suggestion in the xfonts-* package descriptions. * Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001204 15:18]: Sounds like he is using a really old phase1 or phase2 package. - Forwarded message from Aaron Brick [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pre-release 4.0.1-10 packages available for building

2000-12-04 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 02:04:15PM -0500, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: Ok, the corresponding packages for Alpha are at: http://people.debian.org/~chris/xfree86_4.0.1-9pre10v1/ if anyone is interested or if Branden wants to copy them into his public_html tree... I've got your patch,

Re: sorry, I can't build 4.0.1-9pre10v1 for powerpc

2000-12-04 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 12:17:39AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: My build box has a slight problem: [...] Dec 3 16:17:14 eris kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd... Dec 3 16:17:16 eris kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for cc1... Dec 3 16:17:16 eris kernel: VM: killing