Bug#848895: Chromium freezes randomly

2017-04-17 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 4:08 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On 18/04/17 11:55 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 3:27 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: >> >>>> far from b

Bug#848895: Chromium freezes randomly

2017-04-17 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 3:27 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: >> far from being 100% reproducible when resizing glxgears under fvwm2 >> with DRI2, glxgears freezing is now 100% *un*reproducible. > > Please attach the Xorg log f

Bug#848895: Chromium freezes randomly

2017-04-17 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
ok so i ended up with an unancipated reboot, which meant i had an opportunity to test DRI3 and since setting Option DRI "3" in xorg.conf i have *not* encountered a *single* lock-up, not with chromium, nor glxgears, nor openscad. far from being 100% reproducible when resizing glxgears under fvw

Bug#614296: xserver-xorg-video-intel: additional rendering corruption (screenshot included)

2017-02-24 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 3:54 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > is linux-kernel driver-related. 4.9.6 problem is gone. bug may be closed. darn it, sorry - no it can't: bug is still present, encountered on xpdf and gerbv. rendering still corrupted and requires multiple refr

Bug#614296: xserver-xorg-video-intel: additional rendering corruption (screenshot included)

2017-02-24 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
is linux-kernel driver-related. 4.9.6 problem is gone. bug may be closed. --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 7:37 AM, lkcl wrote: > Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel > Version: 2:2.99.917+git20161105-1+b1 > Followup-For: Bug #614

Re: X video drivers appropriate for ARM?

2011-03-25 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Bill Gatliff wrote: > Bryce: > > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:13:26PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >>> > >From talking with lool and jcristau, it sounds li

Re: X video drivers appropriate for ARM?

2011-03-24 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote: > I am reviewing the default X drivers included in xorg for arm, and > notice there are a number which are pretty obscure and perhaps > irrelevant.  I'm wondering if we can safely drop most of these from > xserver-xorg-video-all? > >  xserve

Bug#238918: #238918: xserver-xfree86: resize events mismanaged on a compaq armada - 16mb ram pentium (60?)

2007-01-19 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
brice, hi, 3 years, huh? h :) don't worry about it :) l. On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 07:46:41PM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote: > Hi, > > About 3 years ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding > mismanaged X resize events on a Compaq Armada box. > Did you reproduce this problem recently

Bug#268812: acknowledged by developer (Bug#268812: fixed in xfree86 4.3.0.dfsg.1-9)

2004-12-10 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
thank you! >* If the restorecon command is available, restore SELinux file security > contexts after setting up X server and ICE socket directories > (xfree86-common) and font server socket directories (xfs) after creating > them in the init scripts. (Closes: #268812, #271030)

Bug#275180: Acknowledgement (xserver-xfree86: compile error (missing file Xrender.h))

2004-10-18 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 06:32:04AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > tag 275180 + unreproducible > thanks > > On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 03:02:01PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > i tracked it down [eventually] - apparently i have no directory > > /usr/include/

Bug#275221: acknowledged by developer (closing garbage bugs from Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton)

2004-10-18 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 04:48:16AM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > --AFQGHouA0VN8Ovbt > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > I need you to please stop blaming Debian's XFree86 packages for your > inab

Bug#275219: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#275219: xserver-xfree86: no rule to make target .../right_ptr needed by install.link)

2004-10-18 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
(1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,HAS_BUG_NUMBER > autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2004_03_25 > X-Spam-Level: > > > --l7GkBbkEatsaRqBf > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Cont

Bug#275221: xserver-xfree86: "MANIFEST" error on glu manpages

2004-10-08 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 10:34:07AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > | -usr/X11R6/man/man3/gluUnProject.3x > > | MANIFEST check failed; please see debian/README > > | make: *** [stampdir/check-manifest] Error 1 > > | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/backup/src/xfree86

Bug#275221: xserver-xfree86: "MANIFEST" error on glu manpages

2004-10-08 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 06:00:58AM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > | Package: xserver-xfree86 > | Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 > | Severity: minor > | > | > | i'm really

Bug#275221: xserver-xfree86: "MANIFEST" error on glu manpages

2004-10-06 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 Severity: minor i'm really sorry about all these build errors, but hey, i actually want to try - and for once succeed - in building xfree86. ... what's this all about? *) echo "diff reported unexpected exit status $DIFFSTATUS when performin

Bug#275219: xserver-xfree86: no rule to make target .../right_ptr needed by install.link

2004-10-06 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 Severity: normal ARGH! :) install -c xcursorgen /backup/src/xfree86-4.3.0.dfsg.1/debian/tmp/usr/X11R6/bin/xcursorgen + mkdir -p /backup/src/xfree86-4.3.0.dfsg.1/debian/tmp/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons/default install -c index.theme /backup/src/xf

Bug#275180: Acknowledgement (xserver-xfree86: compile error (missing file Xrender.h))

2004-10-06 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
i tracked it down [eventually] - apparently i have no directory /usr/include/X11 in which the symlink ~/build-directory/imports/include/X11/extensions/Xrender.h can be found. errr On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 06:33:05AM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Thank you for the problem report yo

Bug#275180: xserver-xfree86: compile error (missing file Xrender.h)

2004-10-06 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 Severity: minor hi, a dpkg-buildpackage gets so far and then does this. presumably the -I parts are stuffed, somehow, such that the only way for a build to succeed is if you happen to have x-dev packages installed, and the compile picks up the

Bug#275034: xserver-xfree86: lynx is a build dependency (missing)

2004-10-05 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 09:18:33PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 21:16, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 07:01:40PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > > On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 16:25, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > &

Bug#275034: xserver-xfree86: lynx is a build dependency (missing)

2004-10-05 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 04:45:51PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > ... why did it not get installed when i did an apt-get build-dep then?? > > Why do you believe it's not installed? it's not a ma

Bug#275034: xserver-xfree86: lynx is a build dependency (missing)

2004-10-05 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 07:01:40PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 16:25, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > Package: xserver-xfree86 > > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 > > Severity: normal > > > lynx is used to generate plaintext docs: it&#x

Bug#275034: xserver-xfree86: lynx is a build dependency (missing)

2004-10-05 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 Severity: normal lynx is used to generate plaintext docs: it's a missing build dependency. l.

Bug#271030: xfree86-common: selinux permissions need to be restored on $ICE_DIR and $SOCKET_DIR in startup

2004-09-10 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
Package: xfree86-common Version: 4.3.0-5 Severity: normal hi, the following needs to be added to set_up_ice_dir and set_up_socket_dir: if [ -x /sbin/restorecon ] then /sbin/restorecon $XX_DIR fi just after the chown and chmod. just like with /etc/init.d/xfs (i raised a separa

Bug#268812: xfs: can /tmp/.font-unix be moved to /var/run/.font-unix?

2004-09-07 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 07:31:56AM -0700, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 01:38:41PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > pleeease? > > > > it'd be a lot cleaner. > > > > and probably FHS compliant. > > > > and cause a lo

Bug#268812: xfs: can /tmp/.font-unix be moved to /var/run/.font-unix?

2004-09-07 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
Package: xfs Version: 4.2.1-15 Severity: normal Followup-For: Bug #268812 pleeease? it'd be a lot cleaner. and probably FHS compliant. and cause a lot less hassle for selinux. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux highfield 2.6.7-selinux1 #4

Bug#268812: creation of /tmp/.font-unix needs SELinux context restored in /etc/init.d/xfs

2004-08-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
Package: xfs Version: 4.2.1-15 Severity: normal when using xfs under selinux, it is necessary to restore the file context of /tmp/.font-unix otherwise things mess up. the "magic line", which must be placed around the same location as the chmods and chowns, is: if [ -x /sbin/restorecon ] then

Bug#250333: PATCH: Linux Wacom Driver - please incorporate this guy's work upstream

2004-05-28 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 04:15:24AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > retitle 250333 xserver-xfree86: [wacom] please apply patch by upstream author > tag 250333 + moreinfo upstream > thanks > > On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 10:07:04AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >

Bug#250333: PATCH: Linux Wacom Driver - please incorporate this guy's work upstream

2004-05-22 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 Severity: wishlist branden, hi, the guy at linuxwacom.sourceforge.net has been attempting for ages to get his work incorporated into xfree86. every time there is an updated xserver-xfree86 or every time i update my kernel, my tablet pen doesn't w

Bug#249980: xserver-xfree86: [mouse] with a ps/2 socket but a serial mouse plugged in, autodetect fails

2004-05-20 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.2.1-16 Severity: normal branden, hi, i am not sure if this is to do with xserver itself but i just downloaded morphix onto a CD in the hope that the same issues i am having would be fixed, there, and they are not. the issue is that auto-detection of the mouse

Bug#248480: xserver-fbdev: assumption made that discover will detect video (old thinkpad 380d)

2004-05-11 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
Package: xserver-fbdev Severity: normal branden, hi, on both this and the xserver-svga packages, there is an assumption that if the discover package exists, to search for the video bus, but if that video bus doesn't exist, the dpkg config exits with an error. surely if the video bus does not ex

Bug#238918: xserver-xfree86: resize events mismanaged on a compaq armada - 16mb ram pentium (60?)

2004-03-22 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
problem. l. On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 04:03:45PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > tag 238918 + moreinfo > thanks > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 04:59:54PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > Package: xserver-xfree86 > > Version: 4.2.1-16 > > Severity: normal > [.

Bug#238918: xserver-xfree86: resize events mismanaged on a compaq armada - 16mb ram pentium (60?)

2004-03-19 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.2.1-16 Severity: normal this one is fascinating: you can actually watch the numlock+capslock keys flash on and off during the thirty seconds it takes to start up X. the issue is that the machine is running so incredibly slowly that you can actually see things

Bug#189447: Acknowledgement (xserver-xfree86: moving mouse produces intolerable unreliability)

2003-09-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
sony [800mhz]. l. On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 09:34:47PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 09:41:37AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > p.s. i apologise for not yet having recompiled the ps2 input kernel > > module with the debug output. > > A

Bug#189447: Acknowledgement (xserver-xfree86: moving mouse produces intolerable unreliability)

2003-09-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
sony [800mhz]. l. On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 09:34:47PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 09:41:37AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > p.s. i apologise for not yet having recompiled the ps2 input kernel > > module with the debug output. > > A

Bug#189447: Acknowledgement (xserver-xfree86: moving mouse produces intolerable unreliability)

2003-05-14 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
branden, herbert: hi. regarding this issue: i can make things more tolerable by, after running startx, doing a ps -ax, looking for /usr/bin/X, and issuing a renice -20 pid_of_X. also i don't know if you're aware of this but if i renice 10 pid_of_X the mouse does not respond AT ALL (but the keyboa

Bug#189447: xserver-xfree86: moving mouse produces intolerable unreliability

2003-04-22 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
hiya people, just to recap: i agreed with herbert to patch my 2.4.20 kernel to include some debugging information in the ps/2 module, but since then have not compiled up a 2.4.20 kernel for my machine (running with the "standard" debian 2.4.20 i am not sure what to do, so have left it). once this

Bug#189447: xserver-xfree86: moving mouse produces intolerable unreliability

2003-04-17 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.2.1-5 Severity: normal hi branden, hi herbert, i do not know what it is, but 2.5.3 is "useable" where the mouse event unreliability is "tolerable" and in 2.4.20 it is completely unacceptable. under 2.4.20, an action as simple as selecting a drop-down menu cau

Bug#142569: [lkcl@samba-tng.org: interaction between kernel and xfree86 v 4]

2003-03-11 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2003 at 12:14:07AM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > > > it was suggested to me after conversations with branden that > > i relate to you a story that may be of assistance to you. > > As I have stated before, all we need to resolve #142569/#156563 is for &g

Bug#142569: [lkcl@samba-tng.org: interaction between kernel and xfree86 v 4]

2003-03-11 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2003 at 12:14:07AM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > > > it was suggested to me after conversations with branden that > > i relate to you a story that may be of assistance to you. > > As I have stated before, all we need to resolve #142569/#156563 is for &g

Bug#182319: xserver-xfree86: busy host causes mouse to go wild

2003-03-10 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
oops! thanks! On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 09:44:53AM +1100, Neale Banks wrote: > > i just got a bounce back from [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I think you slipped an "r" there.

Bug#142569: interaction between kernel and xfree86 v 4

2003-03-10 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
dear herbet, it was suggested to me after conversations with branden that i relate to you a story that may be of assistance to you. i believe that there is interaction between the linux kernel and xfree86 that is causing keyboard and mouse problems. the linux kernel is not at fault. xfree86 is

Bug#182319: xserver-xfree86: busy host causes mouse to go wild

2003-03-10 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
at 11:08:51AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 06:05:25AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > Well, our kernel maintainer has been unresponsive to the kernel > > > keybounce bug, which I see on the virtual console of my iBook from time

Bug#182319: xserver-xfree86: busy host causes mouse to go wild

2003-03-10 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
oops! thanks! On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 09:44:53AM +1100, Neale Banks wrote: > > i just got a bounce back from [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I think you slipped an "r" there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#142569: interaction between kernel and xfree86 v 4

2003-03-10 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
dear herbet, it was suggested to me after conversations with branden that i relate to you a story that may be of assistance to you. i believe that there is interaction between the linux kernel and xfree86 that is causing keyboard and mouse problems. the linux kernel is not at fault. xfree86 is

Bug#182319: xserver-xfree86: busy host causes mouse to go wild

2003-03-10 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
at 11:08:51AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 06:05:25AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > Well, our kernel maintainer has been unresponsive to the kernel > > > keybounce bug, which I see on the virtual console of my iBook from time

Bug#182319: xserver-xfree86: busy host causes mouse to go wild

2003-02-28 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 06:05:25AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:06:24AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > ... why would x version 3 work fine (same kernel), > > and xfree86 v4 not? > > Possibly because XFree6 4.2.1 has a differe

Bug#182319: xserver-xfree86: busy host causes mouse to go wild

2003-02-28 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 06:05:25AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:06:24AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > ... why would x version 3 work fine (same kernel), > > and xfree86 v4 not? > > Possibly because XFree6 4.2.1 has a differe

Bug#182319: xserver-xfree86: busy host causes mouse to go wild

2003-02-27 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 04:57:25PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 04:14:34PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > Package: xserver-xfree86 > > Version: 4.2.1-5 > > Severity: normal > > > > this _may_ be kernel-related. >

Bug#182319: xserver-xfree86: busy host causes mouse to go wild

2003-02-27 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 04:57:25PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 04:14:34PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > Package: xserver-xfree86 > > Version: 4.2.1-5 > > Severity: normal > > > > this _may_ be kernel-related. >

Bug#182319: xserver-xfree86: busy host causes mouse to go wild

2003-02-24 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.2.1-5 Severity: normal this _may_ be kernel-related. it _may_ be related to the keyboard bugs that have also been reported. approximately in 2001 there was a serious crash problem related to the mouse that i helped martin pool to help you reproduce. the prob

Bug#182319: xserver-xfree86: busy host causes mouse to go wild

2003-02-24 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.2.1-5 Severity: normal this _may_ be kernel-related. it _may_ be related to the keyboard bugs that have also been reported. approximately in 2001 there was a serious crash problem related to the mouse that i helped martin pool to help you reproduce. the prob

Re: Bug#181632: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#181632: xserver-xfree86: could not open default font 'fixed')

2003-02-21 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:09:33AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:18:27PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > scrawled: > > i _did_ know of dselect and don't like it, it is _way_ too > > confusing and terse: keystrokes are invisible and it is

Re: Bug#181632: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#181632: xserver-xfree86: could not open default font 'fixed')

2003-02-21 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:09:33AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:18:27PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton scrawled: > > i _did_ know of dselect and don't like it, it is _way_ too > > confusing and terse: keystrokes are invisible and it is > &g

Bug#181632: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#181632: xserver-xfree86: could not open default font 'fixed')

2003-02-20 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:08:36AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:18:27PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > if i didn't care about debian, and didn't want other > > people like my brother and my friends to be able to

Bug#181632: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#181632: xserver-xfree86: could not open default font 'fixed')

2003-02-20 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:04:25AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:42:08AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > ... or is this the sort of thing that cannot be noted because > > it's pre-install and the debconf system cannot do pre-install

Bug#181632: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#181632: xserver-xfree86: could not open default font 'fixed')

2003-02-20 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:04:25AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:42:08AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > ... or is this the sort of thing that cannot be noted because > > it's pre-install and the debconf system cannot do pre-install

Bug#181632: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#181632: xserver-xfree86: could not open default font 'fixed')

2003-02-20 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:08:36AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:18:27PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > if i didn't care about debian, and didn't want other > > people like my brother and my friends to be able to

Re: Bug#181632: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#181632: xserver-xfree86: could not open default font 'fixed')

2003-02-20 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 06:16:24AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: chris, thanks for responding. i acknowledge and understand what you are saying about aptitude. if i had known that it existed, and had a command-line-only interface, i would have investigated and possibly even used it well befor

Re: Bug#181632: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#181632: xserver-xfree86: could not open default font 'fixed')

2003-02-20 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 06:16:24AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: chris, thanks for responding. i acknowledge and understand what you are saying about aptitude. if i had known that it existed, and had a command-line-only interface, i would have investigated and possibly even used it well befor

Bug#181632: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#181632: xserver-xfree86: could not open default font 'fixed')

2003-02-20 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
... or is this the sort of thing that cannot be noted because it's pre-install and the debconf system cannot do pre-install "questions" like it can do pre-configure "questions"? On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:06:17AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > okay,

Bug#181632: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#181632: xserver-xfree86: could not open default font 'fixed')

2003-02-20 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
okay, how about this as a solution. the debconf / apt xserver configuration performs a detection that xfree86 has failed (runs it). then it checks the configuration and the fonts options and then asks, based on that information, "it has been noted that [you do not have xfonts-base installed], n

Bug#181632: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#181632: xserver-xfree86: could not open default font 'fixed')

2003-02-20 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:06:38PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:50:38PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > scrawled: > > [kasnip] > > > > xserver-xfree86 _definitely_ depends on xfonts-base, despite what > > you think. > >

Bug#181632: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#181632: xserver-xfree86: could not open default font 'fixed')

2003-02-20 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
... or is this the sort of thing that cannot be noted because it's pre-install and the debconf system cannot do pre-install "questions" like it can do pre-configure "questions"? On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:06:17AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > okay,

Bug#181632: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#181632: xserver-xfree86: could not open default font 'fixed')

2003-02-20 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
stall xserver-xfree86 at all when neither the meta package x-window-system nor x-window-system-core nor the real package xfonts-base is not installed? if x-window-system is a meta-package that installs xserver-xfree86, what is the equivalent package to x-window-system that gets xserver-mach32 installe

Bug#181632: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#181632: xserver-xfree86: could not open default font 'fixed')

2003-02-20 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
okay, how about this as a solution. the debconf / apt xserver configuration performs a detection that xfree86 has failed (runs it). then it checks the configuration and the fonts options and then asks, based on that information, "it has been noted that [you do not have xfonts-base installed], n

Bug#181632: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#181632: xserver-xfree86: could not open default font 'fixed')

2003-02-20 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:06:38PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:50:38PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton scrawled: > > [kasnip] > > > > xserver-xfree86 _definitely_ depends on xfonts-base, despite what > > you think. > > > >

Bug#181632: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#181632: xserver-xfree86: could not open default font 'fixed')

2003-02-20 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
stall xserver-xfree86 at all when neither the meta package x-window-system nor x-window-system-core nor the real package xfonts-base is not installed? if x-window-system is a meta-package that installs xserver-xfree86, what is the equivalent package to x-window-system that gets xserver-mach32 installe

Bug#181632: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#181632: xserver-xfree86: could not open default font 'fixed')

2003-02-19 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
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Bug#181632: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#181632: xserver-xfree86: could not open default font 'fixed')

2003-02-19 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
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Bug#181632: xserver-xfree86: could not open default font 'fixed'

2003-02-19 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.1.0-16 Severity: normal system had debian potato 2.2 on it, upgraded to "stable" via internet on a REALLY old machine: it worked, it was dog-slow as it only had 32mb of system ram. upgrade to "stable" was performed two months ago, installed latest xserver-xfree

Bug#181632: xserver-xfree86: could not open default font 'fixed'

2003-02-19 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.1.0-16 Severity: normal system had debian potato 2.2 on it, upgraded to "stable" via internet on a REALLY old machine: it worked, it was dog-slow as it only had 32mb of system ram. upgrade to "stable" was performed two months ago, installed latest xserver-xfree