Re: xfree86 4.2.1-0pre1v1 (source,i386) available at the X Strike Force

2002-09-09 Thread Grant Grundler
Branden Robinson wrote: > If people will build with IGNORE_MANIFEST_CHANGES=3Dyes, we can still > have 4.2.1-0pre1v1 packages for these architectures. This will cause > the build to proceed to completion despite MANIFEST differences. I caught the manifest change yesterday too and just copied .new

Re: XF86config-4 overwritten

2002-09-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 05:25:23PM -0500, Bryan W. Headley wrote: > >It's there, it just doesn't nag you every time. > > Groovy. It zaps my XF86Config whenever it feels like not nagging me. I > feel special, for unknown reasons... The "zapping" is extensively documented. > >dpkg-reconfigure xse

Re: X 4.2.x + TNT + ATI All-In-Wonder 128 => hard freeze

2002-09-09 Thread Xavier Bestel
(just forwarded to debian-x for info) Le lun 09/09/2002 à 03:16, Xavier Bestel a écrit : > Hi, > > I have a dual-headed system, with a TNT (nvidia) and an All-In-wonder > 128 (ati r128) ,running on a dual-pIII VIA VP6. With X 4.1, it runs fine > (with or without Xinerama & Gatos drivers) (as long

Re: XF86config-4 overwritten

2002-09-09 Thread Bryan W. Headley
Branden Robinson wrote: On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 08:28:30AM -0500, Bryan W. Headley wrote: Installation of 4.2.1 overwrites the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. Wouldn't mind, except it doesn't guess the video sync rates right, and keeps loading xtt and freetype modules at the same time. Can we st

Re: [dz@cs.unitn.it: Bug#156115: xserver generates bogus fontnames for scalable fonts]

2002-09-09 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
Interesting. We'd really need to have xscope traces in order to find out what's going on. Could somebody be so kind as to tell the originator how to generate xscope traces from the two runs of his Tcl/Tk clients? I'd do it myself if I zeren't stuck zith this AZERTY keyboqrd.

Re: have i to uncomment module xtt ?

2002-09-09 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
>> FreeType module? Anti-aliased fonts? There is no relationship whatsoever between the FreeType module and AA. AA is done for client-side fonts by Keith's Xft library. Xft doesn't require the FreeType module. (It is true that older versions of the Freetype module did implement a hackish form

Re: xvfb-run side-effects

2002-09-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 09:31:42AM -0400, Maitland Bottoms wrote: > I have been running some tests with and without xvfb-run. > > In short, they fail in xvfb-run, and succeed on my framebuffer. Yikes, a brief look at xvfb-run reveals syntax errors in it. I'll fix it up for 4.2.1-0pre1v2; let me

Re: XF86config-4 overwritten

2002-09-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 08:28:30AM -0500, Bryan W. Headley wrote: > Installation of 4.2.1 overwrites the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. > Wouldn't mind, except it doesn't guess the video sync rates right, and > keeps loading xtt and freetype modules at the same time. > > Can we stick in the dialog

Re: have i to uncomment module xtt ?

2002-09-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 09:01:02PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > /me yet again wonders why he bothers to write documentation that no > > one reads. > > FreeType module? Anti-aliased fonts? I'm sorry, but I am far too dense to get these subtle clues. :) Is there something you'd like me t

Re: xfree86 4.2.1-0pre1v1 (source,i386) available at the X Strike Force

2002-09-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 11:22:25PM +0900, ISHIKAWA Mutsumi wrote: > MANIFEST check is failed on hppa: > > --- debian/MANIFEST.hppa2002-09-08 15:12:03.0 +0900 > +++ debian/MANIFEST.hppa.new2002-09-09 10:36:28.0 +0900 > @@ -7269 +7268,0 @@ > -usr/X11R6/man/man4/imstt.4x

Re: 4.2.0 nVidia driver comments (updated)

2002-09-09 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Aug 08, Chris Lawrence wrote: > Thanks, Branden, for including the nv driver backport in the latest > 4.2.0 prerelease (which added support for the GeForce2 Go). I tried > switching from the *gag* non-free binary driver to nv, and it mostly > worked, with the following caveats: I finally got a

Re: have i to uncomment module xtt ?

2002-09-09 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> /me yet again wonders why he bothers to write documentation that no > one reads. FreeType module? Anti-aliased fonts? Juliusz

Re: xfree86 4.2.1-0pre1v1 (source,i386) available at the X Strike Force

2002-09-09 Thread ISHIKAWA Mutsumi
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Those using xlibs 4.2.0 packages are advised to upgrade to xlibs 4.2.1. >> >> Changes: >> xfree86 (4.2.1-0pre1v1) unstable; urgency=low >> . >>*** THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL RELEASE. FEEDBACK SHOULD GO TO >>

xvfb-run side-effects

2002-09-09 Thread Maitland Bottoms
also see Standard Error: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified as well. What brought this up were the 222 errors in http://www.vtk.org/Testing/Sites/makapuu/Debian-vtk_4.0-1_i386.deb/20020909-0522-Experimental/Test.html which was using xvfb-run, com

XF86config-4 overwritten

2002-09-09 Thread Bryan W. Headley
Installation of 4.2.1 overwrites the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. Wouldn't mind, except it doesn't guess the video sync rates right, and keeps loading xtt and freetype modules at the same time. Can we stick in the dialog I saw in the 4.1.0 release ("Do you want me to overwrite your config file?

Re: have i to uncomment module xtt ?

2002-09-09 Thread J. Imlay
> Not by default it didn't: ok * feeling very very stupid at the moment * I do seem to recall something about hitting that check box... sorry about that (me == BIGIDIOT) => True

Re: Trident CYBER 8820 and acceleration

2002-09-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 09:17:26PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote: > I upgraded to 4.2.1-0pre1v1 on a Toshiba Laptop in an attempt to > improve driver throughput. Oddly, the trident driver as packaged in > this version is slower than the frame buffer driver in 4.1. The most > obvious change is that dra

Re: HPPA (and perhaps ARM) build fail (Re: xfree86 4.2.0-0pre1v4 (source) available at the X Strike Force)

2002-09-09 Thread Chris Waters
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 03:17:55PM -0600, Grant Grundler wrote: > Is it normal that the xfree86_4.2.0.orig.tar.gz > changes between -pre releases? Yes, and I think it would make more sense (and would prefer it) if Branden gave all the pre-release .orig files unique names (e.g. "4.1.99.pre-1.4.2.0