Re: No sound...

2003-06-03 Thread Miguel M.
--- John Hedge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try sndconfig & or modconf > > J > > > > > On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 08:50, Miguel M. wrote: > > Sup people, > > > > I was just wondering what do you think is the > problem > > with my sound. Im not getting any! First I got: > > > > device /dev/dsp c

Re: Why kdelibs4-dev and XFree86 4.3.0 don't play nice together (was: Re: xlibs-pic)

2003-06-03 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
"John Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know that PIC code is 'supposed' to be better in that it can be loaded > into memory without regard to the actual location or layout. Why should > static libraries be built without -fPIC, and who's policy is it anyway? Position-independent code requires

Re: Why kdelibs4-dev and XFree86 4.3.0 don't play nice together (was: Re: xlibs-pic)

2003-06-03 Thread John Gay
>> I know that PIC code is 'supposed' to be better in that it can be loaded >> into memory without regard to the actual location or layout. Why should >> static libraries be built without -fPIC, and who's policy is it anyway? > >Debian's. I guess the reason is that PIC code usually performs worse

Re: Why kdelibs4-dev and XFree86 4.3.0 don't play nice together (was: Re: xlibs-pic)

2003-06-03 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 01:51, John Gay wrote: > >> This was my understanding as well. As I understand the situation, -fPIC > is > >> preferable to the non-PIC code which was there before. > > > >It's not quite that simple. This is about static libraries, which policy > >requires to be built without

Re: Why kdelibs4-dev and XFree86 4.3.0 don't play nice together (was: Re: xlibs-pic)

2003-06-03 Thread John Gay
>> This was my understanding as well. As I understand the situation, -fPIC is >> preferable to the non-PIC code which was there before. > >It's not quite that simple. This is about static libraries, which policy >requires to be built without -fPIC. The problem arises when linking them >into shared

Re: No sound...

2003-06-03 Thread John Hedge
Try sndconfig & or modconf J On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 08:50, Miguel M. wrote: > Sup people, > > I was just wondering what do you think is the problem > with my sound. Im not getting any! First I got: > > device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Permission denied) > > So i tried: su -c"chmod 666 /dev/

Re: Why kdelibs4-dev and XFree86 4.3.0 don't play nice together (was: Re: xlibs-pic)

2003-06-03 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 23:45, John Gay wrote: > >> Yeah, that's because kdelibs4-dev depends on XFree86 4.2.1, and won't > >> work with 4.3, due to the different way we handle PIC (this is > >> upstream's shiny new way, which I'm assured is wrong, but that's beside > >> the point). There's no real e

No sound...

2003-06-03 Thread Miguel M.
Sup people, I was just wondering what do you think is the problem with my sound. Im not getting any! First I got: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Permission denied) So i tried: su -c"chmod 666 /dev/dsp" but then instead of "Permission denied" I got "No such device" I even tried installing th

Changing keyboard layouts

2003-06-03 Thread Tal Eisenberg
Hi, I'm using kde 3.1.2 with kxkb setup for hebrew and english. I just bought a new keyboard with some extra buttons (play, stop, etc.). I've created a xmodmap file to get the keys working but everytime I switch between keyboard layouts that xmodmap modifications get erased and I need to run xmo

Re: Why kdelibs4-dev and XFree86 4.3.0 don't play nice together (was: Re: xlibs-pic)

2003-06-03 Thread John Gay
Sorry, meant to send this to the list. >> > ... I downgraded xlibs and xbase-clients in order to install >> > kdelibs4-dev. >> >> Yeah, that's because kdelibs4-dev depends on XFree86 4.2.1, and won't >> work with 4.3, due to the different way we handle PIC (this is >> upstream's shiny new way, wh

Re: Why kdelibs4-dev and XFree86 4.3.0 don't play nice together (was: Re: xlibs-pic)

2003-06-03 Thread John Gay
>> Yeah, that's because kdelibs4-dev depends on XFree86 4.2.1, and won't >> work with 4.3, due to the different way we handle PIC (this is >> upstream's shiny new way, which I'm assured is wrong, but that's beside >> the point). There's no real easy way to get kdelibs4-dev to install with > >Hmm,

Re: Why kdelibs4-dev and XFree86 4.3.0 don't play nice together (was: Re: xlibs-pic)

2003-06-03 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 11:20, Daniel Stone wrote: > > ... I downgraded xlibs and xbase-clients in order to install > > kdelibs4-dev. > > Yeah, that's because kdelibs4-dev depends on XFree86 4.2.1, and won't > work with 4.3, due to the different way we handle PIC (this is > upstream's shiny new way

Re: Why kdelibs4-dev and XFree86 4.3.0 don't play nice together (was: Re: xlibs-pic)

2003-06-03 Thread Chris Cheney
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 07:20:07PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > ... I downgraded xlibs and xbase-clients in order to install kdelibs4-dev. > > Yeah, that's because kdelibs4-dev depends on XFree86 4.2.1, and won't > work with 4.3, due to the different way we handle PIC (this is > upstream's shiny

KDE 3.2 CVS gnupg

2003-06-03 Thread Syd Alsobrook
I'm having an interesting problem. I have kde cvs >= 20030530. After updating yesterday I could not login through kdm with my user account. Other accounts worked fine. After going through the standard troubleshooting steps for kde, moving ~/.kde/, cleaning ~/.qt/ and others I finally narrowed it

Why kdelibs4-dev and XFree86 4.3.0 don't play nice together (was: Re: xlibs-pic)

2003-06-03 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 11:16:30AM +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote: > it seems your packages for X don't have a package "xlibs-pic". Does this have > a reason? kdelibs4-dev in Sid depends on it. There is, indeed, a reason - see below. > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: >