Re: mirror of XF86 4.2 unofficial debs

2002-05-24 Thread kiss the sun and walk on air
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:26:02PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote: > I'm okay with locale problems - I badly need a working XFree86 4.2 > setup. > > I wonder if you could upgrade your packages. They seem to be based off > a prerelease, and I don't think that version has the fix I need. I have a .deb

Re: mirror of XF86 4.2 unofficial debs

2002-05-24 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:40:44PM -0400, Shaya Potter wrote: > The reason I didn't make an apt repository is that these debs are not > perfect, and have some serious issues (most notably I found with locale > problems on my machine) Hi, I'm okay with locale problems - I badly need a working XFre

Re: X11 to MPEG: Different RGB Masks for XF86 Server :0 and Xvfb :2

2002-05-24 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 17:09, Steffen Neumann wrote: > > I am trying to build an X11_to_MPEG converter > using xmx (www.cs.brown.edu/software/xmx/, > which was part of Debian back in 1999, > now compiled from source.) > to multiplex the X11 Desktop to both > the local :0 Display, as well as a X

Re: mirror of XF86 4.2 unofficial debs

2002-05-24 Thread kiss the sun and walk on air
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:26:02PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote: > I'm okay with locale problems - I badly need a working XFree86 4.2 > setup. > > I wonder if you could upgrade your packages. They seem to be based off > a prerelease, and I don't think that version has the fix I need. I have a .deb

Re: mirror of XF86 4.2 unofficial debs

2002-05-24 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:40:44PM -0400, Shaya Potter wrote: > The reason I didn't make an apt repository is that these debs are not > perfect, and have some serious issues (most notably I found with locale > problems on my machine) Hi, I'm okay with locale problems - I badly need a working XFr

Re: X11 to MPEG: Different RGB Masks for XF86 Server :0 and Xvfb :2

2002-05-24 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 17:09, Steffen Neumann wrote: > > I am trying to build an X11_to_MPEG converter > using xmx (www.cs.brown.edu/software/xmx/, > which was part of Debian back in 1999, > now compiled from source.) > to multiplex the X11 Desktop to both > the local :0 Display, as well as a

Re: mirror of XF86 4.2 unofficial debs

2002-05-24 Thread Shaya Potter
The reason I didn't make an apt repository is that these debs are not perfect, and have some serious issues (most notably I found with locale problems on my machine) the server seems fine, but if people upgrade their entire X based on this repository, as most are going to do with apt, then they mi

Re: How do I put X on hold?

2002-05-24 Thread John Gay
On Fri 24 May 2002 11:34, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 12:54:22AM +0100, John Gay wrote: > > On Sat 18 May 2002 22:23, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > > On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 23:07, John Gay wrote: > > > > I've got a GVX1 video card, which is only supported by xfree86>4.2.0 I was not awar

mirror of XF86 4.2 unofficial debs

2002-05-24 Thread Aaron Lehmann
I've put up a mirror of spotter's debs at http://chunk.mp3revolution.net/~aaronl/x for two reasons. One, I want to apt-get the debs, and the original site on columbia.edu did not have a Packages file. I've corrected this locally on my mirror. Also, I was only able to download from the primary site

Re: mirror of XF86 4.2 unofficial debs

2002-05-24 Thread Shaya Potter
The reason I didn't make an apt repository is that these debs are not perfect, and have some serious issues (most notably I found with locale problems on my machine) the server seems fine, but if people upgrade their entire X based on this repository, as most are going to do with apt, then they m

Re: How do I put X on hold?

2002-05-24 Thread John Gay
On Fri 24 May 2002 11:34, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 12:54:22AM +0100, John Gay wrote: > > On Sat 18 May 2002 22:23, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > > On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 23:07, John Gay wrote: > > > > I've got a GVX1 video card, which is only supported by xfree86>4.2.0 I was not awa

mirror of XF86 4.2 unofficial debs

2002-05-24 Thread Aaron Lehmann
I've put up a mirror of spotter's debs at http://chunk.mp3revolution.net/~aaronl/x for two reasons. One, I want to apt-get the debs, and the original site on columbia.edu did not have a Packages file. I've corrected this locally on my mirror. Also, I was only able to download from the primary site

Re: How do I put X on hold?

2002-05-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 12:54:22AM +0100, John Gay wrote: > On Sat 18 May 2002 22:23, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 23:07, John Gay wrote: > > > I've got a GVX1 video card, which is only supported by xfree86>4.2.0 so I > > > had the sources for 4.2.0 on a CD, so a little reading of

Re: How do I put X on hold?

2002-05-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 10:07:19PM +0100, John Gay wrote: > I realise this is not exactly a support forum, but, > > I've got a GVX1 video card, which is only supported by xfree86>4.2.0 so I had Huh, the GVX1 is supported on 4.1.0, the support is better in 4.2.0 but mostly for video stuff. Well,

Re: How do I put X on hold?

2002-05-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 12:54:22AM +0100, John Gay wrote: > On Sat 18 May 2002 22:23, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 23:07, John Gay wrote: > > > I've got a GVX1 video card, which is only supported by xfree86>4.2.0 so I > > > had the sources for 4.2.0 on a CD, so a little reading o

Re: How do I put X on hold?

2002-05-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 10:07:19PM +0100, John Gay wrote: > I realise this is not exactly a support forum, but, > > I've got a GVX1 video card, which is only supported by xfree86>4.2.0 so I had Huh, the GVX1 is supported on 4.1.0, the support is better in 4.2.0 but mostly for video stuff. Well,