[bdarrow@optonline.net: Re: [bdarrow@optonline.net: interesting problems]]

2000-12-10 Thread Seth Arnold
Bill, I have resent thi message to the debian-x list, I hope you don't mind -- perhaps this information will help someone else in the future. I've also broken your message apart into paragraphs, somewhat arbitrarily. :) I'm glad to hear you managed to fix the problem! :) - Forwarded message f

Re: [bdarrow@optonline.net: interesting problems]

2000-12-10 Thread Seth Arnold
Ok, this situation is less than fun. My first thought -- pretty much guaranteed to work -- download/buy/use the latest release of potato, and reinstall. Not much fun, but I bet X will work. Second thought -- try dpkg -l | grep 4.0.1 and apt-get remove all these packages. Check your /var/cache/apt

[bdarrow@optonline.net: interesting problems]

2000-12-10 Thread Branden Robinson
- Forwarded message from Bill Darrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Bill Darrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: interesting problems Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 18:09:02 -0500 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Maile

[bdarrow@optonline.net: Re: [bdarrow@optonline.net: interesting problems]]

2000-12-10 Thread Seth Arnold
Bill, I have resent thi message to the debian-x list, I hope you don't mind -- perhaps this information will help someone else in the future. I've also broken your message apart into paragraphs, somewhat arbitrarily. :) I'm glad to hear you managed to fix the problem! :) - Forwarded message

[bdarrow@optonline.net: interesting problems]

2000-12-10 Thread Branden Robinson
- Forwarded message from Bill Darrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Bill Darrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: interesting problems Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 18:09:02 -0500 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mail

Re: [bdarrow@optonline.net: interesting problems]

2000-12-10 Thread Seth Arnold
Ok, this situation is less than fun. My first thought -- pretty much guaranteed to work -- download/buy/use the latest release of potato, and reinstall. Not much fun, but I bet X will work. Second thought -- try dpkg -l | grep 4.0.1 and apt-get remove all these packages. Check your /var/cache/ap

Re: quick fix for building nvidia xfree4 drivers on kernel 2.4.0-test11

2000-12-10 Thread dude
can you give specific instruction in building the kernel. i saw on on tomshardware site that worked for 2.2 is it essentialy the same for 2.4? when i tried it with 2.4 and nvdriver, i get a screen that just blinks off and on. anywaht thanks On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Mads Buus Jensen wrote: > D

Re: locale names in glibc and XFree86

2000-12-10 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 05:20:00PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > BC> It would be nice if Xlibs used the same format file (and even > BC> better if it could just symlink and use that exact file). > > Impossible for licencing reasons: we cannot use GPL'd code in XFree86 > (and we support a numb

Re: locale names in glibc and XFree86

2000-12-10 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
BC> It would be nice if Xlibs used the same format file (and even BC> better if it could just symlink and use that exact file). Impossible for licencing reasons: we cannot use GPL'd code in XFree86 (and we support a number of systems that don't use glibc).

Re: [Xpert] stripping X server modules on Alpha makes them unusable

2000-12-10 Thread Stuart Anderson
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > While I've got you here, I've run into a problem with X -configure > segfaulting in the s3virge driver. I haven't checked it lately (meaning > in the past three weeks), so it might be fixed already (I'll check again > tomorrow), but I wanted to

Re: quick fix for building nvidia xfree4 drivers on kernel 2.4.0-test11

2000-12-10 Thread dude
can you give specific instruction in building the kernel. i saw on on tomshardware site that worked for 2.2 is it essentialy the same for 2.4? when i tried it with 2.4 and nvdriver, i get a screen that just blinks off and on. anywaht thanks On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Mads Buus Jensen wrote: >

quick fix for building nvidia xfree4 drivers on kernel 2.4.0-test11

2000-12-10 Thread Mads Buus Jensen
insert these four lines into a top-level include-file (i.e nvtypes.h or nv.h): #define mem_map_inc_count(p)atomic_inc(&(p->count)) #define mem_map_dec_count(p)atomic_dec(&(p->count)) static inline unsigned long get_module_symbol(char *unused1, char *unused2) {return 0;} static inline

Re: locale names in glibc and XFree86

2000-12-10 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 05:20:00PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > BC> It would be nice if Xlibs used the same format file (and even > BC> better if it could just symlink and use that exact file). > > Impossible for licencing reasons: we cannot use GPL'd code in XFree86 > (and we support a num

Re: locale names in glibc and XFree86

2000-12-10 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
BC> It would be nice if Xlibs used the same format file (and even BC> better if it could just symlink and use that exact file). Impossible for licencing reasons: we cannot use GPL'd code in XFree86 (and we support a number of systems that don't use glibc).

Re: [Xpert] stripping X server modules on Alpha makes them unusable

2000-12-10 Thread Stuart Anderson
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > While I've got you here, I've run into a problem with X -configure > segfaulting in the s3virge driver. I haven't checked it lately (meaning > in the past three weeks), so it might be fixed already (I'll check again > tomorrow), but I wanted t

quick fix for building nvidia xfree4 drivers on kernel 2.4.0-test11

2000-12-10 Thread Mads Buus Jensen
insert these four lines into a top-level include-file (i.e nvtypes.h or nv.h): #define mem_map_inc_count(p)atomic_inc(&(p->count)) #define mem_map_dec_count(p)atomic_dec(&(p->count)) static inline unsigned long get_module_symbol(char *unused1, char *unused2) {return 0;} static inline v

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 on PowerPC status update #2

2000-12-10 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 08:09:54PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 12:38:05PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > > The input code is used only for the USB support. If we want to keep > > that, we're going to have to make it build. What I would do: > > - #undef the necessa

Re: locale names in glibc and XFree86

2000-12-10 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 08:04:29PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > > > Ben, can you point me to one so I can write up a patch and send it upstream > > before 4.0.2 is tagged? This is pretty important for people who are choosy > > about their locales. > > > > /etc/locale.alias > > It would be nic