Re: Help needed, TDFX [Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 23, 2001]

2001-03-25 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
GS> You mean to say a Voodoo2 graphics card that is sold/marketed/used as a GS> 3D only chipset, can be used under X4 as a '2D' card? With no other GS> VESA/VGA card available? Yep. It's a ``shadowfb'' driver: all rendering is done in software to a ``shadow framebuffer'', and the updated area of

Re: Help needed, TDFX [Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 23, 2001]

2001-03-25 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Scott Dier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Uh. uh. ah. uh. Are you trying to say that windowed opengl with > multiple opengl contexts and 2d-apps side-by-side doesn't work on most > pc cards? Nvidia cards do it fine. No. He's saying that you have to pay attention to what you are doing at

Re: Help needed, TDFX [Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 23, 2001]

2001-03-25 Thread Scott Dier
* Zephaniah E. Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010324 13:48]: > (FWIW, almost all 2D/3D cards have the same.) Uh. uh. ah. uh. Are you trying to say that windowed opengl with multiple opengl contexts and 2d-apps side-by-side doesn't work on most pc cards? Nvidia cards do it fine. -- Scott Dier <[EMAI

Re: Help needed, TDFX [Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 23, 2001]

2001-03-25 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Scott Dier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Uh. uh. ah. uh. Are you trying to say that windowed opengl with > multiple opengl contexts and 2d-apps side-by-side doesn't work on most > pc cards? Nvidia cards do it fine. No. He's saying that you have to pay attention to what you are doing a

fresh batch of X policy proposals

2001-03-25 Thread Branden Robinson
Hello folks, I have made some proposed revisions to Debian X policy. None of them should come as a surprise to readers of this mailing list. Please check out the debian-policy mailing list. I'd appreciate discussion of these proposals (remember to mail the bugs under which they were filed, not

Re: broken key configuration in unstable / policy rules needed?

2001-03-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 08:40:24PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > First: I am sick of the stuff I am writting about. 1) there is a known problem with xterm. It is an upstream bug. Not sure what causes the breakage in all the other programs. 2) You could try going through the debugging steps de

Re: Help needed, TDFX [Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 23, 2001]

2001-03-25 Thread Scott Dier
* Zephaniah E. Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010324 13:48]: > (FWIW, almost all 2D/3D cards have the same.) Uh. uh. ah. uh. Are you trying to say that windowed opengl with multiple opengl contexts and 2d-apps side-by-side doesn't work on most pc cards? Nvidia cards do it fine. -- Scott Dier <[EMA

fresh batch of X policy proposals

2001-03-25 Thread Branden Robinson
Hello folks, I have made some proposed revisions to Debian X policy. None of them should come as a surprise to readers of this mailing list. Please check out the debian-policy mailing list. I'd appreciate discussion of these proposals (remember to mail the bugs under which they were filed, not

Re: broken key configuration in unstable / policy rules needed?

2001-03-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 08:40:24PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > First: I am sick of the stuff I am writting about. 1) there is a known problem with xterm. It is an upstream bug. Not sure what causes the breakage in all the other programs. 2) You could try going through the debugging steps d

broken key configuration in unstable / policy rules needed?

2001-03-25 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hi people! First: I am sick of the stuff I am writting about. I have more and more problems with configuration of HOME and END keys in the current unstable. On my system, they work today in Gnome Terminal in any environment konsole on !KDE rxvt wterm any X apps, including Tk, Gtk, Qt, ... slang

broken key configuration in unstable / policy rules needed?

2001-03-25 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hi people! First: I am sick of the stuff I am writting about. I have more and more problems with configuration of HOME and END keys in the current unstable. On my system, they work today in Gnome Terminal in any environment konsole on !KDE rxvt wterm any X apps, including Tk, Gtk, Qt, ... slang

Re: random sig 11 in 4.0.2

2001-03-25 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Seth Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Branden, also note that I would find the XFree86.?.log file more useful > if it date-time stamped once in a while similar to crontab's --mark-- > facility -- consider asking the good people at xf86 to add such a > feature to help debugging. If the

Re: random sig 11 in 4.0.2

2001-03-25 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Seth Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Branden, also note that I would find the XFree86.?.log file more useful > if it date-time stamped once in a while similar to crontab's --mark-- > facility -- consider asking the good people at xf86 to add such a > feature to help debugging. If the

random sig 11 in 4.0.2

2001-03-25 Thread Seth Arnold
Greetings! :) [Sent to debian-x because I do not know the proper package against which to submit a bug report. Branden, please advise for general X bug reports.] This is the second sig11 I have seen lately. I have also seen cut'n'paste fail miserably for the last few days. (Well, the cut seems fi

Re: CVS DRI packages.

2001-03-25 Thread Jon Pennington
On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 05:15:09AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > I'm sorry, I forgot one important bit. > > >> "Zephaniah E. Hull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > My rough naming scheme is as follows: xlibmesa3-dri, xlibmesa-dri-dev, > > xlibosmesa3-dri, xlibosmesa-dri-dev, and xserver-