Bug#178242: not an issue

2003-02-19 Thread John Lenton
use both (4.2.99.x with dri-snapshot drm modules). -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: I'll see you... on the dark side of the moon... -- Pink Floyd

Bug#178242: not an issue

2003-02-19 Thread John Lenton
use both (4.2.99.x with dri-snapshot drm modules). -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: I'll see you... on the dark side of the moon... -- Pink Floyd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#181284: xserver-xfree86: Bug 174685 is NOT fixed. Quake3 Mouse cursor not Moving since xserver-xfree86 4.2.1-4

2003-02-17 Thread John Lenton
UT2003/Quake1/Quake2 works 100% > > I'm running Quake3 ver 1.32 get 1.32b that fixes this bug in quake3. -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: There was a young man from Lynn Whose cock was the size of a pin. Said his girl with a laugh As she felt his staff, "This won't be much of a sin."

Bug#181284: xserver-xfree86: Bug 174685 is NOT fixed. Quake3 Mouse cursor not Moving since xserver-xfree86 4.2.1-4

2003-02-17 Thread John Lenton
UT2003/Quake1/Quake2 works 100% > > I'm running Quake3 ver 1.32 get 1.32b that fixes this bug in quake3. -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: There was a young man from Lynn Whose cock was the size of a pin. Said his girl with a laugh As she f

Re: Can I get some feedback on my experimental pre-release, please?

2003-01-13 Thread John Lenton
seems to love (some people...!). -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.

Re: Can I get some feedback on my experimental pre-release, please?

2003-01-13 Thread John Lenton
seems to love (some people...!). -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#169019: (startx fails to start x from console). FIX

2002-11-15 Thread John Lenton
call ls by full name (i.e. /bin/ls). That's what the pesky LS=/bin/ls is for at the top of a load of scripts... -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: well there ya go. say something stupid in irc and have it immortalised forever in someone's .sig file

Bug#169019: (startx fails to start x from console). FIX

2002-11-15 Thread John Lenton
call ls by full name (i.e. /bin/ls). That's what the pesky LS=/bin/ls is for at the top of a load of scripts... -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: well there ya go. say something stupid in irc and have it immortalised forever in someone's .sig file -

Bug#168601: default {x|g|k|w}dm: why not "disable" as a choice

2002-11-13 Thread John Lenton
us" about it? > > Having a sudden VT switch in the middle of your upgrade procedure is > also a surprise. and also very bad news if you happen to have a getty on vt7, as you just lost the ability to use the machine locally. -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: Some p

Bug#168601: default {x|g|k|w}dm: why not "disable" as a choice

2002-11-13 Thread John Lenton
us" about it? > > Having a sudden VT switch in the middle of your upgrade procedure is > also a surprise. and also very bad news if you happen to have a getty on vt7, as you just lost the ability to use the machine locally. -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: Some p

Bug#164799: Small typo in generated XF86Config-4

2002-10-16 Thread John Lenton
ven knows where. Somebody might even know how. Surely we can ask him? You probably have never tried to use XML+XSLT on a pb1400... -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: Do not underestimate the value of print statements for debugging.

Bug#164799: Small typo in generated XF86Config-4

2002-10-16 Thread John Lenton
where. Somebody might even know how. Surely we can ask him? You probably have never tried to use XML+XSLT on a pb1400... -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: Do not underestimate the value of print statements for debugging. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xvesa and VBE [was: m68k buildd's without ...]

2002-10-11 Thread John Lenton
ng. That's what I meant. Or something close to it, anyway. As for the [HM]GA, I'm sure I don't care. I'm using them for what would otherwise be boxless servers :) > (We have never seen a VBE earlier than 1.2, but if you've got one and > are willing to do the test

Re: Xvesa and VBE [was: m68k buildd's without ...]

2002-10-11 Thread John Lenton
ng. That's what I meant. Or something close to it, anyway. As for the [HM]GA, I'm sure I don't care. I'm using them for what would otherwise be boxless servers :) > (We have never seen a VBE earlier than 1.2, but if you've got one and > are willing to do the test

Re: ATI Radeon 7500 QW; XFree86 4.2.1 (sid)

2002-10-09 Thread John Lenton
ad to change it _very_ little to get it working.) exactly what did you have to change? I found it worked fine (i.e. I could get dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 to build a setup that left dri working) -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: Montana: Where forty-three below keeps out the riff-raff.

Re: m68k buildd's without 1.5GB of free disk should not attempt xfree86

2002-10-09 Thread John Lenton
fb doesn't. Heck, it works in places where XFree86's vesa driver doesn't, even on some twisted videoboards that don't even work with their original (windows) dirvers. Now, putting the burden of an uclibc build environment on branden is _not_ something I'm willing to ev

Re: ATI Radeon 7500 QW; XFree86 4.2.1 (sid)

2002-10-09 Thread John Lenton
ad to change it _very_ little to get it working.) exactly what did you have to change? I found it worked fine (i.e. I could get dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 to build a setup that left dri working) -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: Montana: Where forty-three below k

Re: m68k buildd's without 1.5GB of free disk should not attempt xfree86

2002-10-09 Thread John Lenton
fb doesn't. Heck, it works in places where XFree86's vesa driver doesn't, even on some twisted videoboards that don't even work with their original (windows) dirvers. Now, putting the burden of an uclibc build environment on branden is _not_ something I'm willing to ev

Re: m68k buildd's without 1.5GB of free disk should not attempt xfree86

2002-10-08 Thread John Lenton
t huger. I don't know XDirectFB, but the kdrive servers are probably better served being compiled against a uclibc (yes they compile cleanly against the newer uclibcs). Unless the idea is to use Xvesa as a failsafe X server for intel. Else what's the point? the libs are bigger than the execs

Bug#163837: startx: hostname version is displayed

2002-10-08 Thread John Lenton
sion 2>&1 | grep GNU else stdin will be empty and it'll never grep. -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: "How do I love thee? My accumulator overflows."

Re: m68k buildd's without 1.5GB of free disk should not attempt xfree86

2002-10-08 Thread John Lenton
t huger. I don't know XDirectFB, but the kdrive servers are probably better served being compiled against a uclibc (yes they compile cleanly against the newer uclibcs). Unless the idea is to use Xvesa as a failsafe X server for intel. Else what's the point? the libs are bigger than the execs

Bug#163837: startx: hostname version is displayed

2002-10-08 Thread John Lenton
sion 2>&1 | grep GNU else stdin will be empty and it'll never grep. -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: "How do I love thee? My accumulator overflows." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: freetype can't read gzipped fonts

2002-10-04 Thread John Lenton
s, or freetype should > XB> s/open/gzopen/g ... > > The latter is difficult -- FreeType thinks it can seek around font > files. The former is not advised, as uncompressed PCF are *huge*. dictd uses seekable gzipped files for its dataases, afaik. -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PR

Re: freetype can't read gzipped fonts

2002-10-04 Thread John Lenton
s, or freetype should > XB> s/open/gzopen/g ... > > The latter is difficult -- FreeType thinks it can seek around font > files. The former is not advised, as uncompressed PCF are *huge*. dictd uses seekable gzipped files for its dataases, afaik. -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PR

Re: RandR missing from pre1v3

2002-08-27 Thread John Lenton
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 03:35:49PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 03:30:43PM -0300, John Lenton wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > I downloaded -pre1v3, and tried it against my ATI Radeon 64MB DDR > > VIVO, with mixed results: > > > > - D

Re: RandR missing from pre1v3

2002-08-26 Thread John Lenton
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 07:46:27PM +0100, mallum wrote: > on Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 03:30:43PM -0300, John Lenton wrote: > > > > Is there any reason RandR isn't being included? AFAICT it isn't > > in any of the servers (if that's so, why include xrandr -- the

RandR missing from pre1v3

2002-08-26 Thread John Lenton
(if that's so, why include xrandr -- the program -- at all?). Cheers, -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: La televisión es una hija del cine que le ha salido disipada y de malas costumbres. -- Ramón J. Sénder. (1902-1982) Escritor español.

Re: discover, read-edid, mdetect selection in base-config

2002-07-23 Thread John Lenton
ot;a bunch of special purpose code" pretty much the description of the bootstrapping stuff? couldn't mdetect et al be included in the bootstrapping stage? -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: Life is a bitch, but the puppies can be cute. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: A Radeon and X question, probably not Debian specific

2002-07-23 Thread John Lenton
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 05:36:34PM -0600, Jeff Lessem wrote: > (II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA AFAIK, you've got to turn xinerama off if you want DRI to work. To test, no need to touch the config files, just 'startx -- +xinerama' (or was that -xinerama?) -- J

Re: discover, read-edid, mdetect selection in base-config

2002-07-23 Thread John Lenton
ot;a bunch of special purpose code" pretty much the description of the bootstrapping stuff? couldn't mdetect et al be included in the bootstrapping stage? -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: Life is a bitch, but the puppies can be cute. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: A Radeon and X question, probably not Debian specific

2002-07-23 Thread John Lenton
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 05:36:34PM -0600, Jeff Lessem wrote: > (II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA AFAIK, you've got to turn xinerama off if you want DRI to work. To test, no need to touch the config files, just 'startx -- +xinerama' (or was that -xinerama?) -- J

Re: 4.2 test packages and ATI Radeon

2002-07-22 Thread John Lenton
ns -configure and doesn't say it's fragile? because last time I checked not even the FAQ mentioned "dpkg-reconfigure"? -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: You're always thinking you're gonna be the one that makes 'em act different.

Re: 4.2 test packages and ATI Radeon

2002-07-22 Thread John Lenton
ntions -configure and doesn't say it's fragile? because last time I checked not even the FAQ mentioned "dpkg-reconfigure"? -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: You're always thinking you're gonna be the one that makes 'em act different.

Re: XF4.2 packages think Alt is Meta

2002-06-21 Thread John Lenton
he same (and you haven't defined actions for those other bindings), then that's broken. As you see, it's probably a matter of design. Or taste. -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glowworm. -- Wins

Re: XF4.2 packages think Alt is Meta

2002-06-21 Thread John Lenton
he same (and you haven't defined actions for those other bindings), then that's broken. As you see, it's probably a matter of design. Or taste. -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glowworm. -- Wins

Re: ATI Mach64 Problem

2002-02-14 Thread John Lenton
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 03:42:10PM +0100, Eddie C. Dost wrote: > > This second card works perfectly well. Any ideas anyone? Which Xs have you tried? -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: Look before you leap. -- Samuel Butler

Re: ATI Mach64 Problem

2002-02-14 Thread John Lenton
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 03:42:10PM +0100, Eddie C. Dost wrote: > > This second card works perfectly well. Any ideas anyone? Which Xs have you tried? -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: Look before you leap. -- Samuel Butler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: kdrive

2002-02-13 Thread John Lenton
e > (it could be usefoul for debian 3.0 installation) so if other people wants > to package it, i have no problem. If your timeframe for getting new disk and resubmitting patch is less then a month or two, I'd say carry on; I'd have to get in touch with branden, and all that that yo

Re: kdrive

2002-02-13 Thread John Lenton
e > (it could be usefoul for debian 3.0 installation) so if other people wants > to package it, i have no problem. If your timeframe for getting new disk and resubmitting patch is less then a month or two, I'd say carry on; I'd have to get in touch with branden, and all that that yo

Re: kdrive

2002-02-11 Thread John Lenton
I have a static Xvesa w/font server access and a large busybox on a diskette with a dhcp-aware kernel. Instant X terminal. -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: hardcopy is for wussies computer program listingsnext, on HardCopy

kdrive

2002-02-11 Thread John Lenton
I was wondering if there were any plans to package the kdrive servers once 4.2 gets out? Yes, kdrive was in 4.1.x too, but IMHO they're only usable now that the mouse is autodetected. If noone is planning to package them, I'll probably do so myself. -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])