Re: "Inconsistency detected by ld.so" error??

2002-08-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 01:46:17AM -0400, Bruce wrote: > Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dynamic-link.h: 62: > elf_get_dynamic_info: > Assertion '! "bad dynamic tag"' failed > > Generally, for KDE this message shows up immediately. Gnome apps may actually > get as far as putting a w

Re: trident noise

2002-08-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 05:27:53PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > Yep. Try adding ``Option "PciRetry" "true"'' to your Device section. > Upstream is trying to be benchmark- rather than user-friendly. > > (To expand on that: the XFree86 4 client scheduler specially optimises > the case of a si

Re: s3savage drivers and Xv

2002-08-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 08:39:11AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > Is it possible to get that updated driver into the debian release of > xfree86, or is that something that has to be done upstream? If someone preps a patch that isn't too grody, I'll look into it. -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: gcc2.95, libttf2, xfree86, and Alpha

2002-08-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 04:53:34PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > Branden, I suggest you take this approach. Unfortunately, this will > significantly slow down the speed of the rasteriser. > > I guess something like the following (untested!) in > xc/lib/font/Imakefile should do the trick: >

Re: Want to help fix xdm on MIPS

2002-08-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 09:55:21PM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 12:35:11PM -0400, Mike Martin wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 18:15:12 +0200 > > Fair enough. I've replaced strace.xdm.txt with a new one. > > MikeM > Thanks a lot! The problem is in xdm's genauth.c sumFile fun

Re: newport driver update

2002-08-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 11:35:54AM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: > Hi, > here's a small update for the Indy's newport driver. It fixes the most > annoying bugs: > - broken 24bpp mode setup > - black console after starting X > - screensaver blanking the console > - 1 off errors in the RefreshArea

Re: access control issues in 4.2.0?

2002-08-17 Thread Joanne Hunter
The following text was discovered Friday 16 August 2002 in a note attributed to one "Joanne Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>": > A few programs I've got seem to suddenly have issues with connecting to > the X server. > > Is this a new retightening of X security, or a bug? If the former, how can > I get

text of my letter to B&H regarding Luxi font licensing

2002-08-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 05:29:44PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > Branden's letter was fairly long, and Charles did reply, but only to > say that he'll read it in full when he has some free time. As usually > happens in such situations, the free time never materialised. So that other folks ca

Re: xft and xfree86-truetype-fonts

2002-08-17 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
>>> Does anyone know if there has ever been attempt to have Bigelow and >>> Holmes licensing changed so that it fits dfsg? >> Yes, both by me and Branden. > What was the result of your attempts? Did they reject the idea? I'm CC-ing this to Charles Bigelow in case I misrepresent something. As us

Re: mouse pointer shift

2002-08-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2002-08-17 at 08:46, Dave Eidson wrote: > On Saturday 17 August 2002 00:34, Russell Neches wrote: > > > I should probably add that the problem does go away if I disable the > > hardware cursor. I've been led to believe that this is a "bad thing." > > Is it? If software cursors suck in some

Re: Setting up an X terminal: have to install tons of unneeded packages

2002-08-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 01:10:02AM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > But I wanted to configure the X terminal keyboard using xkb (as I usually > do on workstation). To do so, /etc/X11/xkb/* files are needed. > But those are in xlibs package, and xkbcomp program (used by X server on > startup

Re: mouse pointer shift

2002-08-17 Thread Dave Eidson
On Saturday 17 August 2002 00:34, Russell Neches wrote: > I should probably add that the problem does go away if I disable the > hardware cursor. I've been led to believe that this is a "bad thing." > Is it? If software cursors suck in some subtle way, I won't be in > front of this computer often

Re: mouse pointer shift

2002-08-17 Thread Russell Neches
I should probably add that the problem does go away if I disable the hardware cursor. I've been led to believe that this is a "bad thing." Is it? If software cursors suck in some subtle way, I won't be in front of this computer often enough to know fist hand. Russell Russell Neches <[EMAIL PROTE

mouse pointer shift

2002-08-17 Thread Russell Neches
Hey there -- Another funky question for the group (sorry folks!). I've noticed that occasionally the mouse pointer gets shifted 10 or 20 pixels to the right of the mouse focus, and that the problem refuses to go away until the system is rebooted. Google turned up a few hits on the X mailing list