Re: [Fink-devel] X11 Documentation

2003-02-14 Thread Torrey Lyons
At 9:20 AM -0500 2/14/03, Alexander Hansen wrote: I've slowly started making some changes in the X11 docs. As of right now all that I've changed is the current stable version to install from fink, and added Apple X11 Beta 2 info. The next issue, then, is section 3.3: Official Binaries. I'd l

[Fink-devel] XFree86 4.3.0 close

2003-01-31 Thread Torrey Lyons
The code freeze for XFree86 4.3.0 will be any day now. I believe the Mac OS X/Darwin part of the code base is pretty much in final form. Benjamin put together a package in fink unstable which builds something very close to the top of the tree. I would encourage as many people as possible to giv

Re: [Fink-devel] GIMP's shared memory broken

2003-01-13 Thread Torrey Lyons
At 8:00 AM -0800 1/13/03, Ben Hines wrote: On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 03:03 AM, Jakub Steiner wrote: Hello there, I noticed fink's GIMP package uses --no-shm --no-xshm because it's broken. This is a call for help if anyone's interested/has some idle cycles. I don't think your shm will e

Re: [Fink-devel] X11 compatibilty problems

2003-01-12 Thread Torrey Lyons
At 1:59 PM -0500 1/12/03, David R. Morrison wrote: Martin, My understanding is that the following upgrade path: XFree86-4.2 or Fink-4.2/ threaded-version / XFree86-4.3 or Fink-4.3 is expected to work just fine. Yes. This kind of problem is why I got bent out of shape awhile ago about Fink

Re: [Fink-devel] Who should Provide X11 ?

2003-01-06 Thread Torrey Lyons
At 9:25 PM +0100 1/6/03, Martin Costabel wrote: Bruce Korb wrote: Jeff Whitaker wrote: Why force people to install xfree86-rootless if they don't really need to? Because is solves real, multi-hour problems. The cost is very marginal: systems that need x-base and not x servers and their pri

Re: [Fink-devel] Accelerated OpenGL under OSX and X windows.

2002-11-04 Thread Torrey Lyons
At 3:14 PM -0600 11/4/02, Stephen Hocking wrote: Has anyone in the XonX team sat down coded up the libGL stuff as a relatively thin wrapper around Apple's native implementation? (Probably not the ideal list for this question, but...) Yes. TOT XFree86 CVS. :-) --Torrey ---

Re: [Fink-devel] xterm & xload permissions

2002-10-18 Thread Torrey Lyons
At 6:45 PM +0200 10/18/02, Jorge Acereda MaciĀ· wrote: Is this normal? [Silver:~] admin% ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/xload -rws--x--x 1 root admin 22240 Oct 18 05:33 /usr/X11R6/bin/xload [Silver:~] admin% ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -rws--x--x 1 root admin 275668 Oct 18 05:33 /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm [S

[Fink-devel] lesstif and XFree86

2002-06-06 Thread Torrey Lyons
The lesstif discussion reminded me that I should point out some important changes that are coming soon for XFree86. The XonX project will be releasing a bug fix update soonish to XFree86 from the 4.2 branch. In addition to fixing a few crashing bugs and adding Jaguar compatibility, it will als

Re: [KDE-Darwin] Re: [Fink-devel] KDE-Fink library problem

2002-05-31 Thread Torrey Lyons
At 4:17 PM -0400 5/31/02, David R. Morrison wrote: >Just to followup one more time: Torrey, we've had a bit more discussion >among fink developers on IRC, and it turns out that the problem which >Justin is having with xine is related to the lack of x-shm support on >Darwin. Somehow with the share

Re: [KDE-Darwin] Re: [Fink-devel] KDE-Fink library problem

2002-05-31 Thread Torrey Lyons
At 11:43 AM -0600 5/31/02, Justin Hallett wrote: >no there isn't. Plus why would you want to revert the change? It doesn't >hurt anything unless you try and mix to systems. hmmm...I think this >might end up being a problem with other pkgs for the bin dist as well. >shared libs and system pkgs a