Re: Hurd doesn't boot with 1024 Mb RAM

2003-01-05 Thread James Morrison
--- Gerardo Pirla Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone could tell me how to capture the "dmesg" if I couldn't boot > the kernel ? > After a few seconds of static "kernel page ..." the kernel > reboots my system. You can boot using a serial console or you could try using the ker

Re: simple path search for vga fonts

2003-01-05 Thread James Morrison
--- "Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fonts are stored in /lib/hurd/fonts, is this really a good place? Are > they really that arch specific that they need to go in /lib and not > /share? These fonts are plain text so /share/hurd/fonts is probably a better place for them. Even th

Re: simple path search for vga fonts

2003-01-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 10:39:40PM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: >> Fonts are stored in /lib/hurd/fonts, is this really a good place? Are >> they really that arch specific that they need to go in /lib and not >> /share? > >We can probably take them directly out of the X font dire

rpc trace and standard msg lists

2003-01-05 Thread James A Morrison
Hi, Sometime last term I got sick of using -I msg.lists, so I made a simple change so that rpctrace would read the msgids from a standard place. Two problems came up with this: Where should these msgids files be install? I think /share/hurd would be the best place for them. How do get

Re: simple path search for vga fonts

2003-01-05 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> Fonts are stored in /lib/hurd/fonts, is this really a good place? Are > they really that arch specific that they need to go in /lib and not > /share? We can probably take them directly out of the X font directory. But for this pcx format has to be parsed and the menu files (idea

Re: simple path search for vga fonts

2003-01-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 10:13:19PM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > Fonts are stored in /lib/hurd/fonts, is this really a good place? Are > they really that arch specific that they need to go in /lib and not > /share? We can probably take them directly out of the X font directory. But for this p

Re: simple path search for vga fonts

2003-01-05 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Fonts are stored in /lib/hurd/fonts, is this really a good place? Are they really that arch specific that they need to go in /lib and not /share? ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

simple path search for vga fonts

2003-01-05 Thread James A Morrison
Hi, After discovering I could recover my vga console by specifying a font, I decided I wanted a system font directory, so I made one. Here is the patch. James A. Morrison 2003-01-05 James A. Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * vga.c (DEFAULT_VGA_FONT_PATH): Default path for vga font

Re: Escape-Meta-Alt-Shift

2003-01-05 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> Don't know if this is known, but it looks like GNU Mach doesn't > grok multiple modifier keys (did it ever grok them?). For > example C-M-v doesn't work in Emacs. This is not a GNU Mach problem, it is a pc-kbd problem. Since I wasn't even using console-client, it is impossible that

Re: Escape-Meta-Alt-Shift

2003-01-05 Thread M. Gerards
Quoting "Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Don't know if this is known, but it looks like GNU Mach doesn't grok > multiple modifier keys (did it ever grok them?). For example C-M-v > doesn't work in Emacs. This is not a GNU Mach problem, it is a pc-kbd problem. The string that is bound to

Re: Hurd doesn't boot with 1024 Mb RAM

2003-01-05 Thread Gerardo Pirla Diaz
Hi Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 01:41:44 +0100 From: Gerardo Pirla Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Hi James, First, many thanks for your help. The problem was the ammount of memory, but uppermem doesn't work !!! I've tried: uppermem=131072 root (hd1,1)