Bug#750639: installing adjtimex gives syntax error message

2014-06-05 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: adjtimex Version: 1.29-2.2 Severity: minor Installing adjtimex gives the following syntax error Setting up adjtimex (1.29-2.2) ... egrep: character class syntax is [[:space:]], not [:space:] -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.9 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500,

Bug#800005: fbset gets 'ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument'

2016-06-30 Thread Rick Thomas
, 2016, at 11:20 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 2:59 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> For what it’s worth, I get the same behavior on amd64 running stretch. It’s >> not just on powerpc. > > Great ! Could you please turn more debugging info. eg: drm.debu

Bug#800005: fbset gets 'ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument'

2016-07-03 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 30, 2016, at 12:50 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> Do I understand correctly that I should put “drm.debug=0xe” as a kernel >> argument at boot time? Then boot, try running my “fbset” test and send you >> the e

Bug#800005: fbset gets 'ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument'

2015-09-25 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: fbset Version: 2.1-28 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, Prior to Jessie, I could use "fbset" toset the screen resolution on my PowerPC Macs. This was often necessary if the system happened to mis-guess the actual screen resolution, or the screen wa