Re: Errors in sid xserver-xfree86 configuration

2002-01-19 Thread Rogério Brito
On Jan 19 2002, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 05:06:27AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > > BTW, Branden, if you're reading this, could you make the debconf > > for xserver-xfree86 ask the user if he wants a font server > > running? In my computers (which are quite limited in RAM),

Re: Errors in sid xserver-xfree86 configuration

2002-01-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 05:06:27AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > BTW, Branden, if you're reading this, could you make the > debconf for xserver-xfree86 ask the user if he wants a font > server running? In my computers (which are quite limited in > RAM), I usually don't have

Re: Errors in sid xserver-xfree86 configuration

2002-01-19 Thread Rogério Brito
On Jan 18 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 19:11, Rogério Brito wrote: > > Indeed, it took me ages to make a 9500/180MP with an imstt > > card work with xfree86 -- I had to specify the pci slot where > > the card was. Otherwise, xfree86 told me that it didn't find a >

Re: Errors in sid xserver-xfree86 configuration

2002-01-18 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 05:55, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 12:23:50AM -0500, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > > That's what I did, and it seems to work, but the instructions should say > > not to specify a bus ID if you don't have PCI video, such as for all the > > macs that just h

Re: Errors in sid xserver-xfree86 configuration

2002-01-18 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 19:11, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Jan 17 2002, Branden Robinson wrote: > > I'm not sure, but I think you probably need the BusID unless you're > > using the fbdev driver. > > Indeed, it took me ages to make a 9500/180MP with an imstt > card work with xfree86 -- I h

Re: Errors in sid xserver-xfree86 configuration

2002-01-18 Thread Rogério Brito
On Jan 17 2002, Branden Robinson wrote: > I'm not sure, but I think you probably need the BusID unless you're > using the fbdev driver. Indeed, it took me ages to make a 9500/180MP with an imstt card work with xfree86 -- I had to specify the pci slot where the card was. Oth

Re: Errors in sid xserver-xfree86 configuration

2002-01-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 12:23:50AM -0500, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > That's what I did, and it seems to work, but the instructions should say > not to specify a bus ID if you don't have PCI video, such as for all the > macs that just have video ram and no video chip. This would otherwise > be ve

Re: Errors in sid xserver-xfree86 configuration

2002-01-17 Thread Michael D. Crawford
On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 05:58, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > However, my Macintosh uses onboard video ram for its video. I don't > > think there is a PCI device for the video at all. That would have been > > the case for a Mac 9500, but not a Mac 8500. I didn't see anything > > about it when I did the

Re: Errors in sid xserver-xfree86 configuration

2002-01-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 07:07:27PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 11:58:04AM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 03:35, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > > > The other problem is that the new configuration nuked my existing > > > XF86Config-4 settings. When I re

Re: Errors in sid xserver-xfree86 configuration

2002-01-17 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 11:58:04AM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 03:35, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > > The other problem is that the new configuration nuked my existing > > XF86Config-4 settings. When I restarted X, it went back to 640x480. I > > had to run, I think it was d

Re: Errors in sid xserver-xfree86 configuration

2002-01-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 03:35, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > I'm reporting this to the Debian-PowerPC list because the first problem > was specific to macintosh. In the one item that gets configured, it > says that Macintosh users need to enter their PCI bus identifier for > their video card. Users

Re: Errors in sid xserver-xfree86 configuration

2002-01-16 Thread Russell Hires
> I updated from sid on my powermac 8500 a couple days ago. I had two > problems with the configuration of an updated package, I'm pretty sure > it was the xserver-xfree86 package. I have 4.1.0-13 now (PowerPC). > > I'm reporting this to the Debian-PowerPC list because the first problem > was spe

Errors in sid xserver-xfree86 configuration

2002-01-16 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I updated from sid on my powermac 8500 a couple days ago. I had two problems with the configuration of an updated package, I'm pretty sure it was the xserver-xfree86 package. I have 4.1.0-13 now (PowerPC). I'm reporting this to the Debian-PowerPC list because the first problem was specific to ma