Re: Dumb question

2002-02-28 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 06:29:45PM +, Pedro Corte-Real wrote: I can't answer your important question, but: And why does my meta key end up in the stupid windows key and not the Alt like it used to? Because that's much better! Because then you have Alt and Meta both, which gives you

Re: gdm blocking root login

2001-10-25 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:53:08AM -0400, Heitzso wrote: Clues re how I can reconfigure my system to let root logon to X via gdm? Just don't do it. su to root in a console, and run a GUI admin tool as: XAUTHORITY=/home/heitszo/.Xauthority gfoobaradminapp Jules -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: gdm blocking root login

2001-10-25 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:53:08AM -0400, Heitzso wrote: Clues re how I can reconfigure my system to let root logon to X via gdm? Just don't do it. su to root in a console, and run a GUI admin tool as: XAUTHORITY=/home/heitszo/.Xauthority gfoobaradminapp Jules

Re: PROPOSED: new package: xinit

2001-10-24 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 03:30:56AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Thus, doing # apt-get install apt dpkg # apt-get dist-upgrade before doing the upgrade would be successful, but just doing As I recall, that has been a recommendation in previous versions. (The dpkg update, at least). I

Re: cannot login 2 X since upgrade 2 woody

2001-09-21 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 04:08:11PM +0200, Mayer, Christian (Dregis) wrote: Hi, i cannot login to X anymore since upgrade from potato to woody. Does anybody have an idea. the login-screen (kdm) appears, i give in login and pw it seems as if it wanted to start my kde-session but then falls

Re: XFree86 4.1.0 and Gtk+

2001-08-28 Thread Jules Bean
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 10:32:09PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: Looking at various bug reports, I find myself mighty confused. I'm confused, too. Some applications I had which *were* exhibiting the problem, I thought, no longer do after an upgrade (an upgrade of everything, but it *didn't*

16 bit font issues

2001-08-22 Thread Jules Bean
Hi all, I have a deep misunderstanding of fonts and encodings, so this may be garbled, but here goes: I have a bug report (109488) about certain text widgets (gtk) being garbled. The questioner believes that this is due to certain fonts being requested without giving an encoding preference

16 bit font issues

2001-08-22 Thread Jules Bean
Hi all, I have a deep misunderstanding of fonts and encodings, so this may be garbled, but here goes: I have a bug report (109488) about certain text widgets (gtk) being garbled. The questioner believes that this is due to certain fonts being requested without giving an encoding preference

Re: APT-able Debian DRI CVS packages ready for testing.

2001-03-31 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 06:09:32AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: Ok, perhaps I'm really dense, but what's the advantage of using this over just using Branden's X debs? I have 3d acceleration and working DRI for both my V3 and my G450 as it stands, without adding any further software. On my

Re: APT-able Debian DRI CVS packages ready for testing.

2001-03-31 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 06:09:32AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: Ok, perhaps I'm really dense, but what's the advantage of using this over just using Branden's X debs? I have 3d acceleration and working DRI for both my V3 and my G450 as it stands, without adding any further software. On my

Re: Help needed, TDFX [Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 23, 2001]

2001-03-29 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 12:17:07AM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote: "Joseph" == Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joseph If you have a 3dfx card, you probably should be using CVS Joseph DRI, which can be made not too painful (but will uglify Joseph your XF86Config-4 file a

Re: Debian DRI CVS packages ready for testing.

2001-03-27 Thread Jules Bean
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:36:57PM -0500, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: They are still very much in testing, follow the depends on the packages, and, err, you may have to do an ldconfig after installing xlibmesa3-dri, I forgot that in the postinst and I'm going to sleep now, again, I'll deal with

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Debian DRI CVS packages ready for testing.

2001-03-27 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:51:14PM +0200, Michel Dnzer wrote: Alan Hourihane wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:33:19PM +0200, Michel Dnzer wrote: Jules Bean wrote: jules@pear [17] LIBGL_DEBUG=1 glxinfo libGL error: dlopen failed: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/tdfx_dri.so

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Debian DRI CVS packages ready for testing.

2001-03-27 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:51:14PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: Alan Hourihane wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:33:19PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: Jules Bean wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [17] LIBGL_DEBUG=1 glxinfo libGL error: dlopen failed: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/tdfx_dri.so

Re: CVS DRI packages.

2001-03-26 Thread Jules Bean
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 09:00:51PM -0500, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: I am currently about ready to start testing of .debs out of the DRI cvs tree. *round of applause* Thank you very, very, much. I take it you'll post details here when you have debs for us to test. Jules

Re: XVideo failures with Voodoo3 Xfree86-4.0.2

2001-03-21 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:30:21PM -0600, Jason Pearce wrote: Hi all, I have been lurking on the list archive here for a while and have found a lot of usefull information. Kudos to you all. I have not however found an answer to my current problem. I am currently unable to get the xv

Re: XVideo failures with Voodoo3 Xfree86-4.0.2

2001-03-21 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:30:21PM -0600, Jason Pearce wrote: Hi all, I have been lurking on the list archive here for a while and have found a lot of usefull information. Kudos to you all. I have not however found an answer to my current problem. I am currently unable to get the

Re: Where do I get discover?

2001-02-27 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 01:09:30AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 09:56:38AM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote: The configuration for xserver-xfree86 wants to use a hardware- detection program called discover. I can't find this program in any package. Where do I get it?

Roll-your-own X packages

2001-02-12 Thread Jules Bean
Hi there, I've recently built, and am now using, an XFree86 build from DRI CVS. This greatly improves 3D performance on my card (a voodoo3). Of course, it's a bit annoying running X out of /usr/local, so... how hard would it be to build debian packages from it? I understand that the X packages

Roll-your-own X packages

2001-02-12 Thread Jules Bean
Hi there, I've recently built, and am now using, an XFree86 build from DRI CVS. This greatly improves 3D performance on my card (a voodoo3). Of course, it's a bit annoying running X out of /usr/local, so... how hard would it be to build debian packages from it? I understand that the X packages

Re: [oliver.poths@linsoft.de: XFree86 4.01]

2000-12-21 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 11:07:10AM -0700, Joshua Shagam wrote: On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 12:48:32PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 10:28:44AM -0700, Joshua Shagam wrote: On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 12:07:31PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: No, it doesn't. X depedns on glibc

Re: [oliver.poths@linsoft.de: XFree86 4.01]

2000-12-21 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 11:07:10AM -0700, Joshua Shagam wrote: On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 12:48:32PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 10:28:44AM -0700, Joshua Shagam wrote: On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 12:07:31PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: No, it doesn't. X depedns on glibc

Re: X hangs console since upgrade

2000-11-15 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 10:57:10PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: * Robert Braddock [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001114 22:17]: Tenth idea -- the log file mentions the machine hasn't mtrr support. Perhaps this needs to be enabled in your kernel? What's MTRR anyway? I haven't changed the kernel in a

Re: SV: READ THIS; Debian XFree86 4.0.1 mini-FAQ

2000-09-26 Thread Jules Bean
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 10:36:02AM -0600, Joshua Shagam wrote: How recent are we talking about here? I never noticed any problem with phase2v8, but in the past few days I haven't been running much X applications apart from WindowMaker, xpdf, emacs, xterm and xscreensaver, and it has

Re: SV: READ THIS; Debian XFree86 4.0.1 mini-FAQ

2000-09-26 Thread Jules Bean
him over implementation issues (differing priorities). But I don't think it was particularly glitzy, no. And imlib2 offers transparency, which you probably think is glitzy, but I think it is a useful user interface element given that modern graphics hardware is up to the task. Jules -- Jules

Re: Niggly little bug

2000-09-22 Thread Jules Bean
[Followups set to -devel, please respect] Ashley brought this up on debian-x: On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 07:58:11AM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote: I'm not sure whether it's worth mentioning but I found a *small* bug in building the packages. I'm not sure whether something should be done in the

Re: Niggly little bug

2000-09-22 Thread Jules Bean
[Followups set to -devel, please respect] Ashley brought this up on debian-x: On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 07:58:11AM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote: I'm not sure whether it's worth mentioning but I found a *small* bug in building the packages. I'm not sure whether something should be done in the

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: there will be no XFree86 4.0.0 .debs (please read)

2000-05-30 Thread Jules Bean
along these lines and my packaging plans per se have not changed drastically. For reference http://www.debian.org/~branden/plans.txt -- Jules Bean |Any sufficiently advanced [EMAIL PROTECTED],jellybean.co.uk} | technology is indistinguishable [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Xserver and linux-2.3.99-pre3

2000-04-04 Thread Jules Bean
this into /etc/fstab: none /var/shm shm defaults 0 0 (Is /var/shm the right spot for this? What happens if one mounts /var/shm and then /var?) It won't work, I fear. Make sure you put /var higher up in the file, or in an earlier 'pass' would be my guess. Jules -- Jules Bean