Re: the continuing adventures of XFree86 4.0.1

2000-12-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
"Christian T. Steigies" wrote: On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 04:29:12PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: "Christian T. Steigies" wrote: On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 02:52:39PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: Looked at xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/bus yet? Only so much as to use

Re: Tracking XFree86 CVS on a Potato system

2000-12-11 Thread Seth Arnold
* Juliusz Chroboczek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001211 10:30]: First of all, I'd like to know whether building Branden's packages on a Potato system yields a usable version of XFree86. Thanks for the note about not needing CC:s. I never know when I see posts from new people. :) You can indeed build

Re: Tracking XFree86 CVS on a Potato system

2000-12-11 Thread Charl P. Botha
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 11:37:58AM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: * Juliusz Chroboczek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001211 10:30]: First of all, I'd like to know whether building Branden's packages on a Potato system yields a usable version of XFree86. You can indeed build Branden's packages for potato,

Re: status on the donated blue white G3

2000-12-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 11, Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan, are you *sure* we don't need an autobuilder? Not even for some subsection of the archive? How about contrib? :) If needed, I can set up an autobuilder on the B50 I'm installing and which will become the new {ftp,http}.it.debian.org.

Re: building xfree86 4 for debian/arm

2000-12-11 Thread Tor Slettnes
"Peter" == Peter Maydell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter I tried putting together some patches based on a Peter combination of the 3.x ARM patches and the 4.0 patches for Peter other non-x86 architectures; it's now falling over with a Peter compile error in elfloader.c. It looks

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

2000-12-11 Thread dude
thanks! sounds like agreat idea, but im fairly new to this so editing the complier flags would be a bit too much for me (now) mind showing me what this would look like? g On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Raphael Deimel wrote: Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 23:49:40 +0100 From: Raphael Deimel [EMAIL

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

2000-12-11 Thread Seth Arnold
If the Makefile was written well, it will be simple. Open the Makefile with your favorite editor (vim is mine! :) and look for lines similar to -DSOMETHING. Add the -DKERNEL_2_3 bit to this line. Or, if there isn't something that looks right, see if there is a CCFLAGS line -- and add the

[mongoose@users.sourceforge.net: X upgrade policy]

2000-12-11 Thread Branden Robinson
- Forwarded message from Terry 'Mongoose' Hendrix II [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: "Terry 'Mongoose' Hendrix II" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: X upgrade policy Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 16:05:35 -0500 (EST) Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To:

[kteague@sprocket.ddts.net: xserver-xsun drivers]

2000-12-11 Thread Branden Robinson
Does anyone know which driver the TurboGX uses? - Forwarded message from Ken Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Ken Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: xserver-xsun drivers Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 13:29:55 -0800 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL

[bossart@deesse.univ-lemans.fr: xfree86]

2000-12-11 Thread Branden Robinson
- Forwarded message from Romain Bossart [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Romain Bossart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: xfree86 Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:36:44 +0100 (CET) Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I got

Re: [mongoose@users.sourceforge.net: X upgrade policy]

2000-12-11 Thread Seth Arnold
Terry, a few quick comments -- first, Utah-glx is in the past. While their work may have been nifty at one point, and for people running 3.3.x perhaps necessary, XF 4.0.1 has a *much* easier GL system. Second, I'm not sure what you mean by ``I have a g400, not a v3'' -- last time I ran the

Re: [harri@synopsys.COM: gdm and kdm can't start X]

2000-12-11 Thread Seth Arnold
Would the /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config file affect gdm or kdm? * Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001211 19:46]: Not sure what the problem is here; I don't know what would make the X server become a zombie process. - Forwarded message from Harald Dunkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From:

Re: [mongoose@users.sourceforge.net: X upgrade policy]

2000-12-11 Thread Joshua Shagam
Not to mention that the G400 driver for XFree 4 has 3D acceleration as well. It's currently kinda broken (stencils don't work at all (not even in software fallback - they're borked), and there are some pretty icky persistent texturing bugs, but it's usable. Just not very. Personally, I'm

Re: [bossart@deesse.univ-lemans.fr: xfree86]

2000-12-11 Thread dude
you need to reconfigure xserver-common i believe you cant 'apt-get --reconfigure xserver-common' and select 'anybbody' to starts windows. if that is wrong go to irc.debian.org room: #debian and look at the topic which will give you the answer ~ On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Branden Robinson

Re: [mongoose@users.sourceforge.net: X upgrade policy]

2000-12-11 Thread Terry 'Mongoose' Hendrix II
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Joshua Shagam wrote: It would be nice if the XFree 4 packages had a 'Conflicts: utah-glx' in it, but as has been said already, you ARE running Debian *usntable*, and you reap what you sow in that regard... don't take it out on Branden, please. I told the X people months ago

Re: [mongoose@users.sourceforge.net: X upgrade policy]

2000-12-11 Thread Terry 'Mongoose' Hendrix II
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Seth Arnold wrote: Terry, a few quick comments -- first, Utah-glx is in the past. While their work may have been nifty at one point, and for people running 3.3.x perhaps necessary, XF 4.0.1 has a *much* easier GL system. This is about poor forethought. I complained months

Re: [mongoose@users.sourceforge.net: X upgrade policy]

2000-12-11 Thread Joshua Shagam
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 02:38:06AM -0500, Terry 'Mongoose' Hendrix II wrote: On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Seth Arnold wrote: Terry, a few quick comments -- first, Utah-glx is in the past. While their work may have been nifty at one point, and for people running 3.3.x perhaps necessary, XF 4.0.1 has

Re: [mongoose@users.sourceforge.net: X upgrade policy]

2000-12-11 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Terry 'Mongoose' Hendrix II wrote: I told the X people months ago not to force out utah - that's why I'm pissed off. An overnight upgrade of gtk shouldn't break my x server. I also think hiding behind the debian stand-by "it's not even supposed to work" is why

status on the donated blue white G3

2000-12-11 Thread Branden Robinson
The machine arrived on Friday. Turns out it has 192MB of RAM, not 256. Oh darn. :) It's sawing through a compile of XFree86 4.0.1Z right now. I'll let everyone know the margin by which it beats my 56MB 7200/90. I'd like to publicly thank the donor, M Carling. Dan, are you *sure* we don't

Re: the continuing adventures of XFree86 4.0.1

2000-12-11 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 04:11:57PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: Please wait until you see source for 10pre11v2. There's no point wasting your time building v1 since I'm committing some fairly important bug fixes. MANIFEST.m68k for this version is on http://people.debian.org/~cts/x4.0/ I

Re: building xfree86 4 for debian/arm

2000-12-11 Thread Peter Maydell
Branden Robinson wrote: On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 06:09:51PM +, Peter Maydell wrote: # remove the upstream symlink X - XFree86 This symlink does not exist because the XFree86 server binary was not built in the first place and therefore no symlink was created. That's bad. [Would I be better

Re: the continuing adventures of XFree86 4.0.1

2000-12-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
Christian T. Steigies wrote: On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 04:11:57PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: Please wait until you see source for 10pre11v2. There's no point wasting your time building v1 since I'm committing some fairly important bug fixes. MANIFEST.m68k for this version is on

Re: the continuing adventures of XFree86 4.0.1

2000-12-11 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 02:52:39PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: Looked at xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/bus yet? Only so much as to use generic pci code for m68k as well. I need to know where the pcidata module is defined. Shouldnt it be enough to just jet it return silently? There is

Re: the continuing adventures of XFree86 4.0.1

2000-12-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
Christian T. Steigies wrote: On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 02:52:39PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: Looked at xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/bus yet? Only so much as to use generic pci code for m68k as well. I need to know where the pcidata module is defined.

Re: the continuing adventures of XFree86 4.0.1

2000-12-11 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 04:29:12PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: Christian T. Steigies wrote: On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 02:52:39PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: Looked at xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/bus yet? Only so much as to use generic pci code for m68k as well. I need to

Tracking XFree86 CVS on a Potato system

2000-12-11 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
Dear all, I've recently switched to a Debian system and I am wondering how to track the XFree86 CVS version without wreaking havoc with the packaging system. I'm very happy with my Potato (2.2r2) system, and I definitely don't want to upgrade libc. (Just taking the opportunity to say how happy

Re: the continuing adventures of XFree86 4.0.1

2000-12-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
Christian T. Steigies wrote: On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 04:29:12PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: Christian T. Steigies wrote: On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 02:52:39PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: Looked at xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/bus yet? Only so much as to use generic pci

Re: Tracking XFree86 CVS on a Potato system

2000-12-11 Thread Seth Arnold
* Juliusz Chroboczek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001211 10:30]: First of all, I'd like to know whether building Branden's packages on a Potato system yields a usable version of XFree86. Thanks for the note about not needing CC:s. I never know when I see posts from new people. :) You can indeed build

Re: Tracking XFree86 CVS on a Potato system

2000-12-11 Thread Charl P. Botha
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 11:37:58AM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: * Juliusz Chroboczek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001211 10:30]: First of all, I'd like to know whether building Branden's packages on a Potato system yields a usable version of XFree86. You can indeed build Branden's packages for potato,

Re: status on the donated blue white G3

2000-12-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 11, Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan, are you *sure* we don't need an autobuilder? Not even for some subsection of the archive? How about contrib? :) If needed, I can set up an autobuilder on the B50 I'm installing and which will become the new {ftp,http}.it.debian.org.

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

2000-12-11 Thread Raphael Deimel
i saw on on tomshardware site that worked for 2.2 is it essentialy the same for 2.4? i'm currently running xf4, kernel 2.4.0-test10 with NVidia's own accellerated drivers (hell, this is what graphics speed supposed to be ;) You could fetch the latest driver (0.9.5) and insert Mads Buus

Re: building xfree86 4 for debian/arm

2000-12-11 Thread Tor Slettnes
Peter == Peter Maydell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter I tried putting together some patches based on a Peter combination of the 3.x ARM patches and the 4.0 patches for Peter other non-x86 architectures; it's now falling over with a Peter compile error in elfloader.c. It looks

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

2000-12-11 Thread dude
thanks! sounds like agreat idea, but im fairly new to this so editing the complier flags would be a bit too much for me (now) mind showing me what this would look like? g On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Raphael Deimel wrote: Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 23:49:40 +0100 From: Raphael Deimel [EMAIL

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

2000-12-11 Thread Seth Arnold
If the Makefile was written well, it will be simple. Open the Makefile with your favorite editor (vim is mine! :) and look for lines similar to -DSOMETHING. Add the -DKERNEL_2_3 bit to this line. Or, if there isn't something that looks right, see if there is a CCFLAGS line -- and add the

Re: debian-changelog-mode

2000-12-11 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm. I thought I had cut and pasted it from dpkg -s dpkg-dev. I guess I must be wrong, or else Branden is really really evil, evil enough to put special misspell the DPL's name hooks in the X selection code. That is a beautiful idea. Overfiend: CuLUs!! -- see shy jo

[mongoose@users.sourceforge.net: X upgrade policy]

2000-12-11 Thread Branden Robinson
- Forwarded message from Terry 'Mongoose' Hendrix II [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Terry 'Mongoose' Hendrix II [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: X upgrade policy Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 16:05:35 -0500 (EST) Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL

[kteague@sprocket.ddts.net: xserver-xsun drivers]

2000-12-11 Thread Branden Robinson
Does anyone know which driver the TurboGX uses? - Forwarded message from Ken Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Ken Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: xserver-xsun drivers Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 13:29:55 -0800 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL

[bossart@deesse.univ-lemans.fr: xfree86]

2000-12-11 Thread Branden Robinson
- Forwarded message from Romain Bossart [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Romain Bossart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: xfree86 Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:36:44 +0100 (CET) Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I got a

[harri@synopsys.COM: gdm and kdm can't start X]

2000-12-11 Thread Branden Robinson
Not sure what the problem is here; I don't know what would make the X server become a zombie process. - Forwarded message from Harald Dunkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Harald Dunkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: gdm and kdm can't start X Date: Mon, 11

Re: [mongoose@users.sourceforge.net: X upgrade policy]

2000-12-11 Thread Seth Arnold
Terry, a few quick comments -- first, Utah-glx is in the past. While their work may have been nifty at one point, and for people running 3.3.x perhaps necessary, XF 4.0.1 has a *much* easier GL system. Second, I'm not sure what you mean by ``I have a g400, not a v3'' -- last time I ran the dexter

Re: [harri@synopsys.COM: gdm and kdm can't start X]

2000-12-11 Thread Seth Arnold
Would the /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config file affect gdm or kdm? * Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001211 19:46]: Not sure what the problem is here; I don't know what would make the X server become a zombie process. - Forwarded message from Harald Dunkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From:

Re: [mongoose@users.sourceforge.net: X upgrade policy]

2000-12-11 Thread Joshua Shagam
Not to mention that the G400 driver for XFree 4 has 3D acceleration as well. It's currently kinda broken (stencils don't work at all (not even in software fallback - they're borked), and there are some pretty icky persistent texturing bugs, but it's usable. Just not very. Personally, I'm

Re: [bossart@deesse.univ-lemans.fr: xfree86]

2000-12-11 Thread dude
you need to reconfigure xserver-common i believe you cant 'apt-get --reconfigure xserver-common' and select 'anybbody' to starts windows. if that is wrong go to irc.debian.org room: #debian and look at the topic which will give you the answer ~ On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Branden Robinson