Re: Bug#77130: dexter is not devfs ready

2000-11-21 Thread Marc Martinez
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 11:00:34PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > I check for a mounted devfs using a check given to me. How about reading > the source of dexter and telling me what's wrong with it? a much simpler test than working out proper grep semantics is the following: [ -c /dev/.devfsd

Re: Bug#77130: dexter is not devfs ready

2000-11-21 Thread Marc Martinez
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 11:00:34PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > I check for a mounted devfs using a check given to me. How about reading > the source of dexter and telling me what's wrong with it? a much simpler test than working out proper grep semantics is the following: [ -c /dev/.devfsd

Re: Bug#77130: dexter is not devfs ready

2000-11-16 Thread Marc Martinez
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 11:27:14PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 09:55:30PM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > > All suggestions for the mouse device use the old device names, devfs > > has them in subdirectories. Please use the new names when devfs is used. > > You're goi

Re: Bug#77130: dexter is not devfs ready

2000-11-16 Thread Marc Martinez
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 11:27:14PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 09:55:30PM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > > All suggestions for the mouse device use the old device names, devfs > > has them in subdirectories. Please use the new names when devfs is used. > > You're go

Re: Nvidia driver

2000-11-10 Thread Marc Martinez
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 12:24:08AM +0100, Mithrandir wrote: > i will attach a log-file from a compilation and installation of the modules, > in > hope someone already got the same prob (and perhaps already solved it ;) ) > By the way, the graphic-board is a "Elsa Erazor III Pro - TNT2" > perhaps t

Re: Nvidia driver

2000-11-10 Thread Marc Martinez
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 12:24:08AM +0100, Mithrandir wrote: > i will attach a log-file from a compilation and installation of the modules, in > hope someone already got the same prob (and perhaps already solved it ;) ) > By the way, the graphic-board is a "Elsa Erazor III Pro - TNT2" > perhaps thi

Re: x-terminal-emulator

2000-10-30 Thread Marc Martinez
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 07:17:21PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Can someone help me establish whether the existing X terminal emulators in > Debian do in fact support all those options? If so, then it should be > straightforward to make this requirement part of policy. > > To try to answer yo

Re: x-terminal-emulator

2000-10-30 Thread Marc Martinez
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 07:17:21PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Can someone help me establish whether the existing X terminal emulators in > Debian do in fact support all those options? If so, then it should be > straightforward to make this requirement part of policy. > > To try to answer y

Re: how to deal with nvidia driver/libs

2000-10-11 Thread Marc Martinez
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 04:10:10AM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > I diverted nv, because of xf86cfg failing to start, because of to conflicting > drivers. ahh, I went through the config with the stock drivers before even extracting the nvidia stuff just to make sure the shipping defaults would

Re: how to deal with nvidia driver/libs

2000-10-11 Thread Marc Martinez
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 03:06:17AM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > I have a Geforce256 card and I am using the nvidia drivers 0.9-5. > nvidia provides several libs/modules which conflict with the debian > package ones. > > so far I have solved the following conflicts with dpkg-divert. > > /usr/

Re: how to deal with nvidia driver/libs

2000-10-11 Thread Marc Martinez
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 04:10:10AM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > I diverted nv, because of xf86cfg failing to start, because of to conflicting > drivers. ahh, I went through the config with the stock drivers before even extracting the nvidia stuff just to make sure the shipping defaults would

Re: how to deal with nvidia driver/libs

2000-10-11 Thread Marc Martinez
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 03:06:17AM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > I have a Geforce256 card and I am using the nvidia drivers 0.9-5. > nvidia provides several libs/modules which conflict with the debian > package ones. > > so far I have solved the following conflicts with dpkg-divert. > > /usr

Re: [AKennedy@bursteinlabs.com: GeForce2 divers for XFree86 4.x/Debian]

2000-10-07 Thread Marc Martinez
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 06:38:10PM -0700, Seth Arnold wrote: > Yeah, me too. > > Andrew, your best and easiest bet is to see if nvidia has a tarball, or > a single file, the way matrox does. It is very easy with matrox, and if > they don't offer something so simple, then I suggest you write them,

Re: [AKennedy@bursteinlabs.com: GeForce2 divers for XFree86 4.x/Debian]

2000-10-07 Thread Marc Martinez
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 06:38:10PM -0700, Seth Arnold wrote: > Yeah, me too. > > Andrew, your best and easiest bet is to see if nvidia has a tarball, or > a single file, the way matrox does. It is very easy with matrox, and if > they don't offer something so simple, then I suggest you write them,

Re: xfree86-common_4.0.1-0phase2v4_all.deb

2000-09-12 Thread Marc Martinez
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 05:57:51PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > FWIW, I've been using the phase1 debs of X4.0.1 with the 0.9.4 NVidia > drivers on a GeForce2, and haven't had any sig11's -- but the server hangs > (and the displacy is garbled, have to reboot blindly) if the line > #Load

Re: xfree86-common_4.0.1-0phase2v4_all.deb

2000-09-12 Thread Marc Martinez
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 05:57:51PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > FWIW, I've been using the phase1 debs of X4.0.1 with the 0.9.4 NVidia > drivers on a GeForce2, and haven't had any sig11's -- but the server hangs > (and the displacy is garbled, have to reboot blindly) if the line > #Load