Toshiba laptop keybounce

2003-03-14 Thread Branden Robinson
reassign 121335 kernel thanks [I am not subscribed to debian-user.] On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 08:30:53PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 11:14:19PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > > I take it 121335 should be reassigned to the kernel, then? > > I would

Re: How do I make dpkg-reconfigure rewrite XF86Config-4?

2003-10-01 Thread Branden Robinson
a follow-up, > should an answer to this question be put in the FAQ? Yes. In the meantime you can get the instructions from a dexconf-written config file. Just do this: $ dexconf -output=/tmp/foo $ pager /tmp/foo -- G. Branden Robinson| "There is no gravity in space.

Re: Make Debian better (Re: Two Debian 3.0 reviews at Slashdot)

2002-10-21 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 12:15:16PM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 12:49:34PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 09:07:48AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > > > - broken home/end keys in bash in xterm (even in Woody)

Re: Make Debian better (Re: Two Debian 3.0 reviews at Slashdot)

2002-10-21 Thread Branden Robinson
talking English, eh? > - centralised "setup" tool which would reconfigure etherconf, pppoeconf, and >do sth. as gx-debconf does, but be more understandable. Like the configlet-capplet frontend (cf. configlet-frontends)? -- G. Branden Robinson| Never underest

Re: Make Debian better (Re: Two Debian 3.0 reviews at Slashdot)

2002-10-21 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 01:21:00PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 02:45:44PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Whining about Debian developers whining about upstream implies that you > > expect Debian developers to fix every problem. For instance, I suppose

Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-03 Thread Branden Robinson
sh to assume that they aren't doing so this time. -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | De minimis non curat lex. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | msg10857/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Anti Open Source Psyops / "Mind Tweakers"? (they'll never believe we're really aliens dept)

2003-06-01 Thread Branden Robinson
rn up from time to time to remind me that what I call my "paranoia" is really just sensible caution. And I'm not even as careful as Manoj. > There are "head hunters" and there are head hunters. I hear there's a whole line of porn flicks by this name. > Word

Re: su problems with xdm

1999-06-06 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 12:29:58AM +, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > I've got problems running X apps as root with xdm. See /usr/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ. -- G. Branden Robinson | Measure with micrometer, Debian GNU/Linux | mark with chalk

Re: Can start Xserver as user

1999-06-10 Thread Branden Robinson
xdm. We strongly advise against making the > server > SUID root! Check the contents of /etc/X11/Xserver. The file is internally documented. -- G. Branden Robinson | When dogma enters the brain, all Debian GNU/Linux | intellectual activity

Re: Can't start Xserver as user

1999-06-13 Thread Branden Robinson
an X server wrapper (/usr/bin/X11/X) is actually installed setuid root. An ls -l should looks something like this: -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 5636 Jun 5 05:39 /usr/bin/X11/X -- G. Branden Robinson |I am sorry, but what you have mistaken Debian GNU/Linux

The Debian XFree86 FAQ

1999-06-13 Thread Branden Robinson
n the version in the slink X packages) for your reading pleasure. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Never attribute to malice that which can [EMAIL PROTECTED] | be adequately explained by stupidity. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | Debian X W

Re: agp graphics cards with slink

1999-06-17 Thread Branden Robinson
f XFree86 3.3.3.1. -- G. Branden Robinson |The first thing the communists do when Debian GNU/Linux |they take over a country is to outlaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] |cockfighting. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |-- Oklahoma State Senator J

Re: [potato] Font servers broken?

1999-06-21 Thread Branden Robinson
s via TCP, you will need to re-enable this option. And from xfs(1): no-listen (trans-type) Disable a transport type. For example, TCP/IP conĀ­ nections can be disabled with "no-listen = tcp". -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux

Re: X-Server for AGP-7410 (Intel740 chipset)?

1999-06-21 Thread Branden Robinson
re probably stuck with whatever you can coax out of it. -- G. Branden Robinson | Measure with micrometer, Debian GNU/Linux | mark with chalk, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | cut with axe, cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | hope lik

Re: X-Server for AGP-7410 (Intel740 chipset)?

1999-06-21 Thread Branden Robinson
My personal reply to you bounced. Apparently your ISP is under the impression that I am a spammer. You might let them know about their error. Please keep this in mind in the event you need my assistance in the future; I will be unable to reply. -- G. Branden Robinson | Q: How

Re: startx

1999-06-22 Thread Branden Robinson
rtual terminal you want the server to start on. Try this: startx -- vt13 The double dash is important; don't leave it out. -- G. Branden Robinson | One man's theology is another man's Debian GNU/Linux | belly laugh. [EMAIL PRO

Re: ld/Xm/Xt question

1999-06-22 Thread Branden Robinson
he math library, which of course won't be needing any symbols from fancy GUI libraries. -- G. Branden Robinson |A committee is a life form with six or Debian GNU/Linux |more legs and no brain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-- Robert Heinlein cartoon.ecn.p

Re: XF86Config for Trident 3DImage975???

1999-06-25 Thread Branden Robinson
30 and 620, 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee and Voodoo 3, Trident Blade3D, S3 Trio3D. -- G. Branden Robinson |A committee is a life form with six or Debian GNU/Linux |more legs and no brain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-- Robert Heinlein cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~b

Re: How to pronouce "Debian"?

1999-06-28 Thread Branden Robinson
rdue students at the time), and this is one of the questions I asked him. So I feel I can correct just about anyone on this issue if they pronounce it wrong. My only regret is that I didn't have a PGP key at the time, so he couldn't sign it... BTW, love the hostname. :

Re: vim 5.4m BETA packages

1999-06-29 Thread Branden Robinson
:) -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux |kernel panic -- causal failure [EMAIL PROTECTED] |universe will now reboot cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpY0CRGhWFiF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: WHERE IN THE WORLD IS X-WINDOWS? (I'M SO CONFUSED!)

1999-06-29 Thread Branden Robinson
x11 Installed-Size: 369 Maintainer: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: xfree86-1 Version: 3.3.3.1-9 Replaces: xbase (<< 3.3.2.3a-9), xlib6g-dev (<< 3.3.2.3a-2), xstd Suggests: twm, xbase-clients, xdm, xf86setup, xfonts-100dpi | xfonts-75dpi, xfonts-base, xfonts-scalabl

Re: X -- switching colour depths on the fly

1999-06-30 Thread Branden Robinson
r is 24 or 32 bpp TrueColor). To some extent, I am told, this will depend on the supported features of the graphics card. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Mob rule isn't any prettier just because [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you call

Re: xterm with utf-8

1999-07-04 Thread Branden Robinson
is the current unstable version. -- G. Branden Robinson | Q: How does a Unix guru have sex? Debian GNU/Linux | A: unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck; [EMAIL PROTECTED] | more;yes;fsck;fsck;fsck;umount;sleep cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pg

Re: where do i find crypt ?

1999-07-08 Thread Branden Robinson
t; > Isn't that in libc6, folks? Yes. Be sure you supply "-lcrypt" on the gcc command line when building that file. -- G. Branden Robinson |The greatest productive force is human Debian GNU/Linux |selfishness. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pc keyboard oddity in xterm

1998-09-09 Thread Branden Robinson
kg replace that file in later upgrades. You should have the following in your /etc/X11/Xresources file: *VT100.Translations: #override BackSpace: string("\177")\n\ Delete: string("\033[3~")\n\ Home: string("\033OH")\n\

Re: Backspace in xterm (again)

1998-09-11 Thread Branden Robinson
ard-char "\eOD": backward-char "\e[D": backward-char "\C-h": backward-delete-char "\C-?": backward-delete-char "\C-x\C-?": backward-kill-line "\e\C-h": backward-kill-word "\e\C-?": backward-kill-word And that

Re: Keyboard Policy

1998-09-23 Thread Branden Robinson
lang? Thank you. There is extensive documentation regarding the xterm keyboard situation in the file /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian. -- G. Branden Robinson | "I came, I saw, she conquered." The Purdue University | original Latin seems to h

bo box needed for X security build

1998-05-14 Thread Branden Robinson
in advance for helping keep bo secure. -- G. Branden Robinson | "To be is to do" -- Plato Purdue University | "To do is to be" -- Aristotle [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "Do be do be do" -- Sinatra http://w

bo box FOUND for security X build

1998-05-16 Thread Branden Robinson
soon, making scenarios like this one much less difficult to address. -- G. Branden Robinson | "I came, I saw, she conquered." The Purdue University | original Latin seems to have been [EMAIL PROTECTED] | garbled. ht

fvwm2: seems to be reading some hook files twice?

1998-06-18 Thread Branden Robinson
doubled up (see the attached X window dumps in PNG format). I am cc'ing this message to debian-user in case I have done something dumb. Also, the BTS's primitive brain cannot comprehend MIME, so this message will have to be manually assigned to the fvwm2 package. -- G. Brande

Re: fvwm2: seems to be reading some hook files twice?

1998-06-19 Thread Branden Robinson
was from /etc/X11/fvwm2, right? No. Why would the fvwm2 maintainer ship menu entries for connecting to hosts at Purdue University? :) -- G. Branden Robinson | When I die I want to go peacefully in Purdue University | my sleep like my ol' Grand Dad.

Re: X-tended input

1998-06-23 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 02:33:13PM +1000, Chris wrote: > Where are the extended input modules for X in hamm? > > I mean the files that lived in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules with bo, like > xf86Wacom.so? xext -- G. Branden Robinson | Purdue University

Re: minimum X packages?

1999-02-08 Thread Branden Robinson
l. Read the extended description of xfree86-common as well. -- G. Branden Robinson | I just wanted to see what it looked like Debian GNU/Linux | in a spotlight. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Jim Morrison cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpSJGnzB8b93.pgp

Re: what's 32 bpp?

1999-02-08 Thread Branden Robinson
en > > Or is this only a maping thing, 24 bits are used, and a whole byte is > thrown away, but using 32bits per pixel cleans up the dma access some > how? As far as I know, the latter is the case. Kind of a shame. I wish the last 8 bits could be used for an alpha

Re: minimum X packages?

1999-02-09 Thread Branden Robinson
ead the extended description of the xbase package. -- G. Branden Robinson |I have a truly elegant proof of the Debian GNU/Linux |above, but it is too long to fit into [EMAIL PROTECTED] |this .signature file. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |

Re: XPR for x-windows?

1999-02-09 Thread Branden Robinson
like it that converts the screen dump into a useable format, I would > appreciate it. Thanks. IIRC, xpr was dropped from X about the time R6 was released. ImageMagick will do this for you. xwd -out dump.xwd convert dump.xwd dump.ps -- G. Branden Robinson |Convictions are more da

Re: mouse in Xwin

1999-02-11 Thread Branden Robinson
screen and i can move it, but not down wards... Sounds like a protocol problem. GPM's set of protocols do not map exactly to XFree86's. man XF86Config and just run through the possibilites (see section "Pointer"). If you have a serial mouse, Protocol "Auto" mi

Re: Slink, xbase-common and xdm...

1999-02-11 Thread Branden Robinson
It should get you back to a virtual console. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | If encryption is outlawed, only outlaws [EMAIL PROTECTED] | will @goH7OjBd7*dnfk= pgp92VSogwdAq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: apm (was: Re: Do you still need screensavers these days?)

1999-02-16 Thread Branden Robinson
e where you could just say "go to sleep after n minutes." Is > there a place where I could configure this in debian? setterm(1) XF86Config(5) xset(1) -- G. Branden Robinson | Religion is something left over from the Debian GNU/Linux | infancy of ou

Re: xterm-debian?

1999-02-18 Thread Branden Robinson
there to torment those of us that spend most of our day > logged onto systems from other vendors. Users of slink and potato systems will need to see /usr/doc/xterm/README.Debian -- G. Branden Robinson | One man's "magic" is another man's Debian GNU/

Re: XFree86 3.3.3

1999-02-18 Thread Branden Robinson
lation and setup procedures aren't goofy (especially for people who don't already have an XF86Config file). -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Exercise your freedom of religion. Set [EMAIL PROTECTED] | fire to a church of your

Re: Confused with the X packages in slink

1999-02-19 Thread Branden Robinson
ick. > Will apt-get install xfonts-base automatically remove the > package with the old name xfntbase?? Yes. > Is it safe for me to remove the package xbase in slink?? Yes. Read xbase's extended description (or /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian). > What other packages ar

Re: problems with 2 xservers

1999-02-19 Thread Branden Robinson
ither 1) bad configuration on your system somehow, or 2) an upstream problem. -- G. Branden Robinson |There's nothing an agnostic can't do Debian GNU/Linux |if he doesn't know whether he believes [EMAIL PROTECTED] |in it or not.

Final test build of XFree86 for slink -- PLEASE TEST

1999-02-21 Thread Branden Robinson
f the font and static library packages have not changed substantively since they were renamed. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux |The software said it required Windows [EMAIL PROTECTED] |3.1 or better, so I installed Linux. cartoon.ecn.

Re: VGA fonts on X

1999-02-21 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 02:23:50AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > is it possible to use vga fonts on an Xterm? No. Not without converting them, and I know of no tool to do this. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux |If existence exists, [EM

Re: Screen Size in X

1999-02-22 Thread Branden Robinson
ard error is one of the most fundamental things to learn about using Unix shells. startx > xserver.output 2>&1 This says, "run the startx command, but instead of sending output to the screen, send it to the file xserver.output; also, send standard error there as we

Re: xbiff for remote mail?

1999-02-24 Thread Branden Robinson
r.com xbiff I can think of many, many scenarios in which this will not work. It presumes the user has a Unix shell account on the remote host. It presumes the remote host has the xbiff program available. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux |kernel pan

Re: Help

1999-03-01 Thread Branden Robinson
Also, while this doesn't affect the size of the virtual desktop or the screen resolution, people who want their X session to "save state" should look into xsm or a window manager which does session management. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux

Re: X server & slink

1999-03-01 Thread Branden Robinson
upgrade from hamm to slink. The new xbase will prompt you to read a file; be sure you read it. -- G. Branden Robinson |I am sorry, but what you have mistaken Debian GNU/Linux |for malicious intent is nothing more [EMAIL PROTECTED] |th

Re: Minimal requirements for xwindows and slave hard disk installation

1999-03-03 Thread Branden Robinson
r/bin on one disk partition and /usr/X11R6 on another. (It's an issue of symbolic links mandated in the Policy Manual.) -- G. Branden Robinson | "Why do we have to hide from the police, Debian GNU/Linux | Daddy?" [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Trouble updating (trashed my X setup)

1999-03-03 Thread Branden Robinson
s the problem or changes nothing. I suspect it won't, though. The next thing to do is try the --debug option to dpkg, and/or use strace to find out exactly where this problem is occuring. If we can track down this awful bug, maybe Ian Jackson (dpkg author) can fix it. -- G. Branden Robins

the "g" in libraries (was: where is xlib6g-dbg ?)

1999-03-05 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 01:21:30PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 04:45:38AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > I was wondering if there is a xlib6g-dbg package. I have a problem with > > > > Not yet. I have plans to make one for potato (xli

Oh, Brad! Oh, Brad!

1999-03-05 Thread Branden Robinson
Let's do the time warp again! -- G. Branden Robinson | "I came, I saw, she conquered." The Debian GNU/Linux | original Latin seems to have been [EMAIL PROTECTED] | garbled. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | --

Re: left hand mouse in X

1999-03-05 Thread Branden Robinson
slink X packages. -- G. Branden Robinson | Software engineering: that part of Debian GNU/Linux | computer science which is too difficult [EMAIL PROTECTED] | for the computer scientist. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpkzQbGh3oIs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century

1999-03-06 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Mar 06, 1999 at 10:19:57PM +1100, Richard Lyon wrote: > Nope I don't think I will vote for any person on the basis of scientific or > technical merit. A more global view is required. I was thinking of RMS, too. -- G. Branden Robinson | "There is no

Re: Color Depth [was: X & Font Problem]

1999-03-07 Thread Branden Robinson
e been trying to improve X documentation a little. (My remarks here apply to slink X, not hamm X). -- G. Branden Robinson | "To be is to do" -- Plato Debian GNU/Linux | "To do is to be" -- Aristotle [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: X, new video card, and servers.

1999-03-07 Thread Branden Robinson
e perfectly safe to remove the Mach64 server. -- G. Branden Robinson |There's nothing an agnostic can't do Debian GNU/Linux |if he doesn't know whether he believes [EMAIL PROTECTED] |in it or not. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/

Re: XKEYBOARD - Documentation

1999-03-07 Thread Branden Robinson
etc. of the files located in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xbk/* ? Install the xbooks package, and see /usr/doc/xbooks/specs/XKB/*. -- G. Branden Robinson | When I die I want to go peacefully in Debian GNU/Linux | my sleep like my ol' Grand Dad...not [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xserver fixated on tty7?

1999-03-09 Thread Branden Robinson
ystems during boot. I therefore made the conffile ship with :0 on vt7, since the inittab conffile ships with getty on vt1 through vt6. There's more about this in /usr/doc/xdm/README.Debian. -- G. Branden Robinson | "To be is to do" -- Plato Debian GNU/

Re: Book on Xwindow

1999-03-14 Thread Branden Robinson
(which is almost certainly where it would have ended up), the Open Group returned X to its traditional licensing terms late last year. Wow, that was long post. Maybe I should edit it and add it to the Debian X FAQ (/usr/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ). -- G. Branden Robinson | Q: How does

Re: Xterm not showing Xresources changes

1999-03-15 Thread Branden Robinson
he default /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm.) If you also have translation overrides for the VT100 widget in your .Xresources file, all the above overrides will be forgotten even if you're not changing the events for the BackSpace, Delete, Home or End keys. -- G. Branden Robinson | If

Re: termcap/info help

1999-03-15 Thread Branden Robinson
ource* to > termcap but it doesn't work; even if it did it doesn't know how to convert > terminfo binary to source (i had to do it on the termcap-using other > system... odd, huh?). You can use infocmp to decompile a terminfo entry. From there you should be able to "tic" it

Re: Missing ldd? Have libc6 on hold? Get ldso from slink...

1999-03-15 Thread Branden Robinson
y to break if i upgrade to glibc 2.1? will i still be > left with a (mostly) usable system? My machine survived long enough for me to force-downgrade to the previous version of ldso, and put it on hold. -- G. Branden Robinson | "There is no gravity in space." Debian GNU/Li

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread Branden Robinson
over maintainership were better at doing the above than they are now, I'd like to hear it. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | If encryption is outlawed, only outlaws [EMAIL PROTECTED] | will @goH7OjBd7*dnfk= pgpiH3dIqA4SG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread Branden Robinson
"yes I do!" You can't be serious. I'm not going to let you. "[EMAIL PROTECTED] OFF!" Tools are here to enable us, not hinder us. I feel that part of the Debian philosophy is to never let user friendliness become a user straightjacket. It's not ea

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread Branden Robinson
xdm, directory /var/state/xdm not empty so no > removed, > and the same for /etc/X11/xdm. Is it ok for me to manually remove these > directories and their contents, or will I break something? Won't hurt a thing. Toast it. The message you saw is arguably a

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-16 Thread Branden Robinson
d 2.1. I was wondering where else I need to place announcements so that they won't escape people's attention. In the specific case of X, replace the "*" with "xfree86-common" in items 3 and 4 above. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linu

Re: MIT-SCREENT-SAVER

1999-03-16 Thread Branden Robinson
to start a screen saver on your local hardware. That could be a bug in licq. I have no idea why licq would have anything to do with a screen saver, though. -- G. Branden Robinson | Suffer before God and ye shall be Debian GNU/Linux | redeemed. God loves us,

Re: xfs and fonts

1999-03-16 Thread Branden Robinson
ds for itself. Needless to say, you can have the X server use local fonts AND a font server. xfs is in no way required to have a functional X installation. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | If God had intended for man to go about [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xfree86 3.3.3.1 debs?

1999-03-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 02:28:01PM -0800, Jim Harritt wrote: > Is there a source for Xfree86 3.3.3.1 debian packages? You can always check http://master.debian.org/~branden/xsf.html for the latest Debian X news. -- G. Branden Robinson |There's nothing an agnostic

Re: MIT-SCREEN-SAVER

1999-03-19 Thread Branden Robinson
0), through which it will encrypt X protocol transactions back to the local host, and then redirect them to the local host's $DISPLAY. In other words, all you should have to do is the following, from the local host. ssh bar /usr/bin/X11/licq & Of course, if you have other commands to run o

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-19 Thread Branden Robinson
ipt by hand, but I think there are cases where we don't have the source document that was used to create the PS document. Also, I left out SGML because *I think* we always provide SGML-based documentation in some kind of post-processed format. To systematize all these manners of documentatio

Re: Xterm not showing Xresources changes

1999-03-19 Thread Branden Robinson
am saying. If you have *VT100.Translations: #override foo and *VT100.Translations: #override bar Only "bar" will be used, even if it defines translations that don't collide with those in "foo" at all. It doesn't matter if foo and bar are in the same file or not

Re: Zombies

1999-03-26 Thread Branden Robinson
s and deal with it appropriately. Miquel van Smoorenburg (author and maintainer of the sysvinit package), and lots of other people can probably give you a more technical explanation. BTW, has anyone else noticed that the manpage for ps(1) is uglier than sin? Whose idea of nroff formatting is th

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Branden Robinson
e griping at me lately because the default /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file says server 0 is on vt7. Folks who have customized /etc/inittab and added virtual consoles are upset with that default, caring not about the console lockup problems that so many other people having experienced due to xdm beating

Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 09:13:03PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote: > On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Oh, this would really rock if it would work for xdm; if I could say "only > > start xdm once getty has grabbed all the virtual consoles listed for this >

Re: problem with xwindow

1999-04-01 Thread Branden Robinson
problem as well. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux |If existence exists, [EMAIL PROTECTED] |why create a creator? cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpcfCxn0Bixm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Linus Torvalds at the Pearly Gates

1999-04-02 Thread Branden Robinson
xbase depends on (like xdm and xfs, see below.) dpkg --remove xbase 2) xdm and xfs (among other programs) are now in their own packages. They will start automatically on boot if they are installed. If you do not desire this, remove the packages before your next reboot. dpkg --remove xdm

Re: X & locales problems.

1999-04-03 Thread Branden Robinson
-1pt_PT.ISO8859-1 portuguese_brazil.8859 pt_BR.ISO8859-1 portuguese.iso88591 pt_PT.ISO8859-1 locale.alias is not a conffile, so yours should have these exact same lines. If you don't, or if the file doesn't exist, that may explain the problem. Reinstall xlib6g

Re: where to find dbootstrap source??

1999-04-03 Thread Branden Robinson
pointers would > be appreciated. I think you'll find it in the boot-floppies source package. -- G. Branden Robinson | Q: How does a Unix guru have sex? Debian GNU/Linux | A: unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck; [EMAIL PROTECTED] | more;yes;

Re: Ethics Violation in XFree86

1999-04-05 Thread Branden Robinson
might have had it sooner but the Open Group played games with the X license last year. Next time, check your sources. And if you're going to make charges of unethical behavior, you'd better be ready with support for them. As in, URL's to this alleged false advertising. --

Re: X thinks my screen is larger than it actually is

1999-04-05 Thread Branden Robinson
hermore, because 1376x1032 is listed first, it is the default mode. So I startup with a virtual resolution that is the same as the screen resolution. If I use to "zoom in" (proceed forward along the list of modes, which are in my case progressively lower in resolution), then I get virtual de

Re: A few questions

1998-12-09 Thread Branden Robinson
nutes, my screen turns black, how do I > turn that off or start a screen saver? I forget how this handled on the VC, there's some parameter in the kernel terminal driver you can manipulate with setterm or something. In X, xset manages this and a few other hardware-related issues. man xset

Re: Frame Buffer

1998-12-09 Thread Branden Robinson
server for i386 is new in XFree86 3.3.3, which I haven't gotten Debianized yet. It would be dishonest of me to try and give you an ETA on 3.3.3 .debs at this time, but the sooner I get the problems ironed out of 3.3.2.3a for the slink release, the sooner I can get 3.3.3 packages made. -- G.

Re: dselect-help!!!!!!!

1998-12-10 Thread Branden Robinson
recipient. This copy was detruite because it appeared out of CS in the list of distribution. This message was genere on the computer: TIV Well, it's Babelfish French... -- G. Branden Robinson |Communism is just one step on the long Debian GNU/Linux |road

Re: Thanks/X11

1998-12-10 Thread Branden Robinson
kages in slink, they're much better than the ones in hamm. xcontrib is just a collection of popular X clients that have accumulated over the years -- but are not strictly part of the official X Window System. -- G. Branden Robinson | You live and lear

Re: Unsure of how Debian is updated

1998-12-12 Thread Branden Robinson
work on 3.3.3, which will go into potato. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Never attribute to malice that which can [EMAIL PROTECTED] | be adequately explained by stupidity. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpsG57LfN4zU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 4 button Logitech MouseMan and XFree86

1998-12-13 Thread Branden Robinson
the PS/2 port. Section "Pointer" Protocol"IMPS/2" Device "/dev/mouse" Buttons 4 EndSection /dev/mouse is a symlink to /dev/psaux. I don't have to mess with xmodmap at all. If you have problems with above, ensure you have properl

New test build of XFree86 3.3.2.3 available

1998-12-24 Thread Branden Robinson
: Get the SVGA server binary .tar.gz from ftp.xfree86.org. Install it in /usr/local/bin/XF86_SVGA. Edit the first line /etc/X11/Xserver to point to the above path. Run X. -- G. Branden Robinson | Q: How does a Unix guru have sex? Debian GNU/Linux | A: unzip;strip

XFree86 3.3.2.3a-8pre9v2 available, and help wanted

1998-12-31 Thread Branden Robinson
h and Depth. (#29643) - Added consistency checks for DefaultColorDepth and Depth values (I hope they work in all cases). - Added Device/ChipRev (only for mach cards?) (#29982). -- G. Branden Robinson | When dogma enters the brain, all Debian G

Re: Rescue disk fails for initial installation

1999-01-02 Thread Branden Robinson
ocessor, right? Linux absolutely, positively will not work on 8086, 8088, 80186, 80286, NEC V20, etc. Just checking the obvious possibilities first. :) -- G. Branden Robinson |Convictions are more dangerous enemies Debian GNU/Linux |of truth than lies. [E

Re: X toolkit warning

1999-01-06 Thread Branden Robinson
written Xaw programs in the Real World. For futher reading: Chapter 5 of the Athena Widget Set manual in the xbooks package: /usr/doc/xbooks/hardcopy/Xaw/widgets.PS.gz . -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Mob rule isn't any prettier just because [E

Re: Problems with X

1999-01-06 Thread Branden Robinson
server-svga (which supports the card), anytime I switch away from the X display (by killing the server or just CTRL-ALT-Fn'ing away), I lose my entire console. The machine has to be rebooted. Maybe this is fixed in 3.3.3 -- I'll find out when I can close the book on 3.3.2.3 for slin

Re: X and fvwm2 configuration

1999-01-13 Thread Branden Robinson
ady. Careful reading of the man pages for X and xterm will be instructive. Skip what you don't understand and read carefully the parts you do. man X man xterm > I also wasn't unable to run the fvwmconf module. > > Please tell me where I can look for documentation on that topic. I can't help you with that; I'm an old fogey and edit my fvwm config file by hand. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux |Please do not look directly into laser [EMAIL PROTECTED] |with remaining eye. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpYaFNI3r9uh.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Xdefaults VS Xresources

1999-01-16 Thread Branden Robinson
l be much more clear about this stuff. -- G. Branden Robinson |A committee is a life form with six or Debian GNU/Linux |more legs and no brain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-- Robert Heinlein cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpHgccE4oq83.pgp De

Re: Quake2 & nVidia TNT

1999-01-19 Thread Branden Robinson
e bugs with multiple server instances running and other problems with the previous code. The NV1 code is unchanged. The code looks to be Open Source. (#2336, David Schmenk, NVIDIA). -- G. Branden Robinson | "There is no gravity in space." Debian GNU/Linux

Re: installation problems

1999-01-20 Thread Branden Robinson
1993 or '94 or so, we had machines getting parity errors all the time. If this system is about that age, it may be falling victim to the changes that occurred in the memory industry in those days. Is the machine able to boot some other OS successfully? -- G. Branden Robinson |

Re: Multiple xdm/kdm logins

1999-01-21 Thread Branden Robinson
That causes big problems. That should be about all there is to it. I hope this helps. When I get around to writing the Debian XFree86 FAQ, I'll definitely have a couple of entries about multiple X servers running concurrently on the same machine. -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: Desktop manager for X Window in a slow computer?

1999-01-22 Thread Branden Robinson
(version 1) was designed to not hog too many system resources. I used it happily for a couple of years; I now use fvwm2. There are lots and lots of window managers out there. Your best bet is probably to experiment. -- G. Branden Robinson | What influenced me to atheism was Deb

Re: configuring X

1999-01-22 Thread Branden Robinson
of your /etc/X11/XF86Config file. That autodetects a wide variety of serial mice. -- G. Branden Robinson | When dogma enters the brain, all Debian GNU/Linux | intellectual activity ceases. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Robert Anton Wilson

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