Re: xfree86 4.2.1-6pre7v1 (source,i386) available at the X Strike Force

Branden, Just for the record, upgrading from 4.2.1-6 to 4.2.1-6pre7v2, on a T23, resolves the savage "x-not-starting" chipset problem (Bug#182986). Thanks for the fix. Cheers Rich Wale. __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page

Re: xfree86 4.2.1-6pre7v1 (source,i386) available at the X Strike Force

Branden, Just for the record, upgrading from 4.2.1-6 to 4.2.1-6pre7v2, on a T23, resolves the savage "x-not-starting" chipset problem (Bug#182986). Thanks for the fix. Cheers Rich Wale. __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page

Re : xfree86 4.2.0-0pre1v3 (source,i386) available at the X Strike Force

Updated sources.list, apt-get update and then dist-upgrade. Worked fine, no problems during the upgrade. Runs great, not experienced any problems, thus far. One point of interest though : >From running startx, gnome (1.4) launches much quicker than on XF86 4.1.x (used to be about 10 secs from s

Re : a small C program to test xdm's /dev/mem reading on your architecture

Happy to help...works fine on both my systems. ...testing on Celery 450Mhz, Unstable read #1023 of 8192 bytes read #1024 of 8192 bytes done with read of /dev/mem (returned 1). sumFile() succeeded. ...and just for the record with the fragile arg : read #1023 of 8192 bytes read #1024 of 8192 b