Re: Linus Torvalds at the Pearly Gates

1999-04-02 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 07:48:27PM -0600, Jonathan Hayward wrote: > 1: XFree86 was downgraded from 3.3.3 to 3.3.2.1. 3.3.3 supports my video > card; 3.3.2.1 does not. This means that my X display is now > (mal)functioning at 320x200 -- I can see the lower right quadrant of an > xterm. The machin

Re: Linus Torvalds at the Pearly Gates

1999-04-02 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Jonathan Hayward wrote: > > 1: XFree86 was downgraded from 3.3.3 to 3.3.2.1. 3.3.3 supports my > video Apt will not downgrade any package, I don't believe. You mean that the X package overwrote your manually installed copy. (Not to nitpick, just trying to clarify so we are a

Re: Linus Torvalds at the Pearly Gates

1999-04-02 Thread John Hasler
Jonathan Hayward writes: > The machine was also set to start xdm on boot; coming in with a rescue > floppy was the only way I could figure out to get it to boot and give a > text terminal (I did not have the boot scripts start xdm before). I agree that this a serious bug. The authorities don't ag