Bug#242216: xserver-xfree86.config hardcodes different defaults for display selection method on different priorities

2007-10-03 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> tags 242216 - patch > reassign 242216 xserver-xorg > kthxbye > > On Thu, Apr 8, 2004 at 11:29:46 +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > > > Could you please explain what you mean? > > > > > > Sure. > > > ... > > > I am referring t

Bug#415292: libgl1-mesa-glx: assertion failure in libGL.so.1

2007-06-17 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> Hi Nikita, > > It might be good to test Mesa 6.5.3-1 which has been uploaded to > experimental today. The upstream bug that you reported has not been > touched, but there are so many changes since 6.5.2 that it's probably > worth a try. Hello, and sorry for long delay. I've tried it, and the is

Re: Bug#372856: krandrtray does NOT correctly switch resolution on my setup

2006-06-13 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
While trying to add xrandr support to Xvnc, I faced a bug in xrandr implementation in XFree 4.x; maybe current Xorg also has it? Bug is that xrandr stores the moment of last switch as 64-bit value. Then, in 'get configuration' request it sends this time to client as 32-bit value. In 'set config

Bug#366355: This may be caused by incorrect display number selection

2006-05-08 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Looks like I've faced something similar to this bug, and seems that it is caused by incorrect choice of dispaly number by remote sshd. Look: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ssh -X sercond No mail. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> echo $DISPLAY localhost:10.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> xterm xterm Xt error: Can't open displa

Ok to mention ubuntu versions inside Debian archive?

2006-02-26 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> Package: xserver-xorg > ... > Version: 1:7.0.0 > ... > Pre-Depends: x11-common (>= 7.0.0-0ubuntu3) Is this considered OK these days? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#320627: crash w/ xpdf

2005-07-31 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> #0 0x0fcf5c40 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6 > No symbol table info available. > #1 0x0fcf5a08 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6 > No symbol table info available. > #2 0x0fcf7140 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6 > No symbol table info available. > #3 0x1045ec7c in ddxGiveUp () at xf86Init.c:1264

Keyboard lockup after X startup; possible cause

2005-07-22 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Hello. Several people probably faced the problem that after initial system bootup, and startup of *dm, keyboard does not work. Suggested workaround was to add implicit 'vtX' parameter to X server command line in Xservers file. I've never seen an explanation of what is actually hapenning, and wh

Re: X Strike Force X.Org X11 SVN commit: r338 - tags

2005-07-12 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> Author: dnusinow > Date: 2005-07-12 12:14:46 -0500 (Tue, 12 Jul 2005) > New Revision: 338 > > Added: >tags/6.8.2.dfsg.1-1/ > Log: > Tagging 6.8.2.dfsg.1-1 release. Note that due to issues with svn access, > there is a dependency change of xprt-xprintorg -> xprint that was made for > this t

Re: redirect Xsession error to syslogd

2005-06-06 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> Hi, > > I'd like all errors from my xsession to go to the syslogd daemon instead > of ~/.xsession-error. > > Can that be easily done? You may use 'logger' for that; see man logger for details. E.g. find 'exec >>"$ERRFILE" 2>&1' in /etc/X11/Xsession, remove it, and move entire script into (

Re: xprt-xprintorg taking over xprt: now or later?

2004-12-07 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 11:09:31AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: >> I guess we can do it now. xprt (xfree86) does not work and Fabio was >> already prepared to remove it now before sarge. > > Of course, neither does xprt-xprintorg, but that's a minor quibble. :) > Does *anything* besides Mozilla

Re: Xsession and login shells

2004-07-28 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> Marc Wilson wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote: >> > Xsession does not spawn a login shell. >> >> Why should it? > > * Because it provides the most user convenient way for the user to log > in and have their login environment. > > * Because not doing so has been a long term problem for users. > >

Bug#242216: xserver-xfree86.config hardcodes different defaults for display selection method on different priorities

2004-04-08 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
tag 242216 + patch thanks > > Could you please explain what you mean? > > Sure. > ... > I am referring to the large case statement at line 990 of > xserver-xfree86.config.in[1]. > > The Simple) and Medium) cases have no auto-answer logic. Your patch > should not be applied until they do. I'm not

Bug#242216: xserver-xfree86.config hardcodes different defaults for display selection method on different priorities

2004-04-06 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> Your patch is incomplete; there is no auto_answer counterpart for the > "Simple" and "Medium" monitor selection methods. Could you please explain what you mean? I've looked at the code of auto_answer, and I fail to find what else is needed to change default displayed answer. auto_answer routin

Bug#242216: xserver-xfree86.config hardcodes different defaults for display selection method on different priorities

2004-04-05 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.3.0-7 Severity: normal Tags: patch xserver-xfree86.config contains the following code: ... if [ "$RET" = "true" ]; then db_subst xserver-xfree86/config/monitor/selection-method choices "Medium, Advanced" db_subst xserver-xfree86/config/monitor/selection-m

Re: Bug#241062: base-config should start xfs before *dm

2004-04-01 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 05:57:55PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > I don't think it's base-config's job to work around what looks like a > > bug in xdm for not starting the daemon on initial install. Forwarding > > to the XSF. > > This done for two reasons: > > 1) historical > 2) display managers ar

Strange point in xserver-xfree86.config

2004-03-30 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Hello. I'm experimenting with preloading default values to debconf database. Among others, I was playing with the question about method of display configuration (simple/medium/advanced). I wanted to preload answer "Simple", but still let user to change it. So I preload the following: Name: xser

Re: Bug#233818: Bug#233867: "Provides: xlib6g" needed in 4.3.0

2004-02-23 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Branden Robinson wrote: > > [...] >> > The question is: Since the last xlib6g packages are empty packages >> > anyways... do you really need to Conflict: it? >> >> I'd really like to force them off the system. > > Could conflicting with xlib6g less-than say 4.3.0 help in

Idea for smoother upgrade from pre-4.3 XFree to 4.3

2003-11-14 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Hello. To get correctly configured russian keyboard In pre-4.3 xkb configuration, we had to write Option "XkbLayout" "ru" In 4.3, we have to write Option "XkbLayout" "us,ru" because setting it to just "ru" now gives only russian letters input, instead of both english and russi

Setting DisplaySize in dexconf-generated XF86Config ?

2003-11-14 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Some experiments show that to get best results with OpenOffice.org (and probably other packages), X server's DPI value should be set to real monitor DPI. XFree86 seems to have an excellent way to do that. In XF86Config-4, in section "Monitor", one can write DisplaySize 320 240 and sp

Re: Bug#218919: Call for OOo user interface font size testers

2003-11-14 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
After I've configured dpi correctly on all servers, I do get correct font sizes everywhere in OpenOffice - both with 1.1.0-2 and 1.1.0-2.3pre1 What have I done: - physically measured the visible picture dimensions for monitors, and added correct "DisplaySize" parameter to XF86Config-4 (Section

Re: Please assist debugging X server crash

2003-11-01 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Never mind. It was a bug (process esp breakage in interrupt handler) in a kernel module I was playing with and forgot to unload. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Please assist debugging X server crash

2003-10-31 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Hello (the above happens with package from debian/experimental, with ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 RF video card) One of users here experienced a nearly-reproducable X server crash ("nearly-reproducable" means that he does a compex sequence of actions, and at some moment it leads to the crash,

Bug#218169: "CGA snow" effect on Radeon 7500 at 24bpp

2003-10-29 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> See http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175 . [From that bug discussion] > The radeon driver in current CVS contains bandwidth management code > by Hui Yu which might help this. Would be great if someone seeing this > problem could verify that. If there is pre-build driver binary availabl

Bug#218169: "CGA snow" effect on Radeon 7500 at 24bpp

2003-10-29 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.3.0-0pre1v4 Tags: experimental Architecture: i386 After upgrading X from 4.2 to current 4.3 packages from XSF, I've got the following problem on several of workstations here. If X is started on 1280x1024 24bpp, there is well-visible and really annoying "CGA s

Re: Getting X server crash backtrace

2003-10-16 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:26:17PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > I guess -dbg X server package is needed... > > I am disappointed that you reached this conclusion, completle with > speculation as to how such a package would be named, and then didn't > e

Getting X server crash backtrace

2003-10-16 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Hello. On one of Debian systems I administer, user does experience random X server crashes. The crashes seem not to be reproducable by exact action sequence, but they do happen every 2-3 hours. This happens both with 4.2 from testing and 4.3 from experimental. I don't think it is bad memory or s

Bug#195418: a patch to fix this

2003-07-31 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
tag 195418 +patch thanks Oh, seems that I forgot to attach my patch when I reported this bug :( Well, the patch is attached to this mail. --- config.old 2003-07-31 18:42:00.0 +0400 +++ config 2003-07-31 18:41:55.0 +0400 @@ -508,11 +508,25 @@ # collect information about installed

Bug#195418: a patch to fix this

2003-07-31 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
tag 195418 +patch thanks Oh, seems that I forgot to attach my patch when I reported this bug :( Well, the patch is attached to this mail. --- config.old 2003-07-31 18:42:00.0 +0400 +++ config 2003-07-31 18:41:55.0 +0400 @@ -508,11 +508,25 @@ # collect information about installed

Re: autologin with xdm?

2003-07-26 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> How can I autologin after boot with xdm? > I'm tired of typing name and password each day at power up. > The maintainer suggested I try another display manager, but all I use > is icewm and don't need or understand the glitz. I think xdm does not support this. If you really don't want to insta

Re: autologin with xdm?

2003-07-26 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> How can I autologin after boot with xdm? > I'm tired of typing name and password each day at power up. > The maintainer suggested I try another display manager, but all I use > is icewm and don't need or understand the glitz. I think xdm does not support this. If you really don't want to insta

Bug#164379: xnest: I can confirm this bug on 4.2.1-6

2003-04-16 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Package: xnest Version: 4.2.1-6 Followup-For: Bug #164379 This bug still exists in 4.2.1-6 Xnest does not provide XKEYBOARD extension, regardleÙÙ ÝÁ +kb/-kb switches. Xnest from woody does provide XKEYBOARD. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux zigzag 2.4.20

Re: Ralf's X backport compiled with the wrong g++

2003-03-21 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> Hi Ralf, > > the g++ libraries from your backport of the experimental packages of > XFree86 4.3.0 you announed at [1] are compiled with g++ 2.95 although > they must be compiled with g++ 3.2. Nothing in woody should be compiled by 3.2. Everything should be compiled by 2.95 > Much worse is that

Re: Ralf's X backport compiled with the wrong g++

2003-03-21 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> Hi Ralf, > > the g++ libraries from your backport of the experimental packages of > XFree86 4.3.0 you announed at [1] are compiled with g++ 2.95 although > they must be compiled with g++ 3.2. Nothing in woody should be compiled by 3.2. Everything should be compiled by 2.95 > Much worse is that

Re: Radeon xvideo bug

2003-01-07 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> I've experienced the following problem since I first installed my Radeon > VE card under XFree86 4.X. The bug affects the playback of any video > using the xvideo extension. > > When I play any video using any video player (e.g. xine, mplayer or vlc) > and try to minimize the application, a fr

Re: Radeon xvideo bug

2003-01-06 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> I've experienced the following problem since I first installed my Radeon > VE card under XFree86 4.X. The bug affects the playback of any video > using the xvideo extension. > > When I play any video using any video player (e.g. xine, mplayer or vlc) > and try to minimize the application, a fr

Bug#168791: xfs: A fix for xfs segfault

2002-11-12 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Package: xfs Version: 4.2.1-3 Severity: important Tags: patch After upgrade to Xfree 4.2.1, several times we experienced xfs crashes. (quite bad, because it causes several user sessions on terminals to crash) At last one of our users found an reprodusable sequence of actions to crash xfs. So I've

Bug#168791: xfs: A fix for xfs segfault

2002-11-12 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Package: xfs Version: 4.2.1-3 Severity: important Tags: patch After upgrade to Xfree 4.2.1, several times we experienced xfs crashes. (quite bad, because it causes several user sessions on terminals to crash) At last one of our users found an reprodusable sequence of actions to crash xfs. So I've

Bug#167605: xfs should have configurable pid file

2002-11-03 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Package: xfs Version: 4.2.1-3 Severity: normal Tags: patch In current xfs package, pid file is hardcoded to /var/run/xfs.pid. Hardcoded pid file leads to problems if more than one font server should run (e.g. one providing unicode fonts for fast clients, and another one not providing unicode fonts

Bug#167605: xfs should have configurable pid file

2002-11-03 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Package: xfs Version: 4.2.1-3 Severity: normal Tags: patch In current xfs package, pid file is hardcoded to /var/run/xfs.pid. Hardcoded pid file leads to problems if more than one font server should run (e.g. one providing unicode fonts for fast clients, and another one not providing unicode fonts

Bug#167448: libxaw7: A bug in Xaw/StripChart.c causes incorrect scale lines in xload window

2002-11-02 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Package: libxaw7 Version: 4.2.1-3 Severity: normal Tags: patch Recently I tried to run xload on a high loaded server (load was more than 10), and discovered that if window size is rather small, scale lines are drawn incorrectly (upper than needed). This is caused by a bug in Xaw/StripChart.c. It

Bug#167448: libxaw7: A bug in Xaw/StripChart.c causes incorrect scale lines in xload window

2002-11-02 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Package: libxaw7 Version: 4.2.1-3 Severity: normal Tags: patch Recently I tried to run xload on a high loaded server (load was more than 10), and discovered that if window size is rather small, scale lines are drawn incorrectly (upper than needed). This is caused by a bug in Xaw/StripChart.c. It

Re: Running 2 X font servers

2002-10-29 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> > > What is the correct way to solve the situation? > > Use xfs-xtt or xfstt for the second server? Hmm... How stable are those font servers? Font server stop or crash is very bad because not all X servers survive after disconnect from font server - they often hang or crash. Users don't like

Running 2 X font servers

2002-10-29 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Hello. I really need to run 2 font server processes with different configuration on the same server. One should provide only small fonts for extremely slow clients that work too slow if get iso10646 fonts, and another should provide all available fonts for clients that cat handle them well. Cu

Re: Running 2 X font servers

2002-10-29 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> > > What is the correct way to solve the situation? > > Use xfs-xtt or xfstt for the second server? Hmm... How stable are those font servers? Font server stop or crash is very bad because not all X servers survive after disconnect from font server - they often hang or crash. Users don't like

Running 2 X font servers

2002-10-29 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Hello. I really need to run 2 font server processes with different configuration on the same server. One should provide only small fonts for extremely slow clients that work too slow if get iso10646 fonts, and another should provide all available fonts for clients that cat handle them well. Cu

Re: [desktop] Unix configuration nightmare

2002-10-24 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> They. Will. Not. Read. Maybe there will be somewhat less complains from those who don't read, if debconf stuff will calculate and store a checksum of autogenerated part of the file, and later don't touch it (or give extra warnings before touching) if the checksum does not match.

Re: [desktop] Unix configuration nightmare

2002-10-24 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> They. Will. Not. Read. Maybe there will be somewhat less complains from those who don't read, if debconf stuff will calculate and store a checksum of autogenerated part of the file, and later don't touch it (or give extra warnings before touching) if the checksum does not match. -- To U

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

2002-08-15 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Hello. I wanted to set up an X terminal (old Pentium 100) that will connect to remote xdm, and use remote xfs. I thought that the only X packages I need for the terminal are xfree86-common, xserver-common and xserver-xfree86. But I wanted to configure the X terminal keyboard using xkb (as I usu

Re: ATI rage 128

2002-07-31 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
added. This seem not to impact perfarmance noticably. I posted this to the list because someone may need this information. > > Jeremy > > On Monday 29 July 2002 3:15 am, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > Seems that with current X packages "ati" driver with ATI rage 128 c

ATI rage 128

2002-07-29 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Seems that with current X packages "ati" driver with ATI rage 128 card works much better (e.g. no garbage on screen) with Option "XaaNoSolidHorVertLine" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why XFree86 4.2 Isn't in Woody

2002-04-17 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Seems that 4.1.0-16 fixed at last the old problem with garbage-on-screen in kicker and in nedit scrollbars on r128 card. Great work ! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Monitoring for keyboard event.

2002-04-04 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> Does anybody know how it is possible to catch keyboard events, > regardless of the pointer position? > > The only way I found is by using XQueryTree for RootWindow, which builds > an hierarchy of all existing windows and then XSelectInput with > KeyPressMask | SubstructureNotifyMask for every w

Extended Window Manager Hints specification ?

2002-02-21 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Hello. Could someone please help me to get a copy of Extended Window Manager Hints specification (that is, the specification how newer window manares such as kwin communicate with other X clients) ? The only URL I found is http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/wm-spec.html, but www.freedesktop.o

Extended Window Manager Hints specification ?

2002-02-21 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Hello. Could someone please help me to get a copy of Extended Window Manager Hints specification (that is, the specification how newer window manares such as kwin communicate with other X clients) ? The only URL I found is http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/wm-spec.html, but www.freedesktop.