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

2002-07-23 Thread Stuart Ballard
(ie leave all questions unanswered) if that's the case. Then when it comes to package install time, the debconf script will run again, and by that time the predependencies will be installed. You lose the all-questions-asked-at-onceness, but other than that I think it could work? Stua

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

2002-07-23 Thread Stuart Ballard
ions-asked-at-onceness, but other than that I think it could work? Stuart. -- Stuart Ballard, Programmer NetReach - Internet Solutions (215) 283-2300, ext. 126 http://www.netreach.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kdm/wdm and ~/.xsession

2002-06-24 Thread Stuart Ballard
tream does"). I use gdm and last time I tried it worked fine if you select "Debian" from the "Session" menu in gdm. Sucks that it's not the default, but it isn't exactly "at gunpoint", at least. I can't speak for any of the others, and I&#x

Re: kdm/wdm and ~/.xsession

2002-06-24 Thread Stuart Ballard
uot;because that's what upstream does"). I use gdm and last time I tried it worked fine if you select "Debian" from the "Session" menu in gdm. Sucks that it's not the default, but it isn't exactly "at gunpoint", at least. I can't speak fo

Re: locale[s]/LANG broken in unstable

2001-09-20 Thread Stuart Ballard
Heitzso wrote: > > I run debian unstable and this morning, after updating, noticed that > 'man' complained about a bad LANG or LC_ setting. > > My LANG was set to 'english' and LC_CTYPE was set, > but set to blank or nothing, i.e. 'set' showed it but nothing > was after the equals sign. I had a

Re: locale[s]/LANG broken in unstable

2001-09-20 Thread Stuart Ballard
Heitzso wrote: > > I run debian unstable and this morning, after updating, noticed that > 'man' complained about a bad LANG or LC_ setting. > > My LANG was set to 'english' and LC_CTYPE was set, > but set to blank or nothing, i.e. 'set' showed it but nothing > was after the equals sign. I had a

Horizontal timing out of range (was Re: Bug in Xgalaga?)

2001-07-30 Thread Stuart Ballard
[added the list back to the cc's of this because it's now a general question about Xfree86, rather than a specific question about your message. I hope you (Juliusz) don't mind - none of the content of your reply seemed particularly private] Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > >

Horizontal timing out of range (was Re: Bug in Xgalaga?)

2001-07-30 Thread Stuart Ballard
[added the list back to the cc's of this because it's now a general question about Xfree86, rather than a specific question about your message. I hope you (Juliusz) don't mind - none of the content of your reply seemed particularly private] Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > >

Re: DFSG and fonts

2001-04-04 Thread Stuart Ballard
Branden Robinson wrote: > > Underlying the DFSG is the notion that these are important values. Debian > does not insist that everyone else in the world share them, or prioritize > them as highly as we do. They are, however, very high priorities for our > Project. Speaking of DFSG-free fonts, I h

Re: DFSG and fonts

2001-04-04 Thread Stuart Ballard
Branden Robinson wrote: > > Underlying the DFSG is the notion that these are important values. Debian > does not insist that everyone else in the world share them, or prioritize > them as highly as we do. They are, however, very high priorities for our > Project. Speaking of DFSG-free fonts, I

Re: new aptable cvs dri fails with mga

2001-03-28 Thread Stuart Ballard
"Thomas E. Vaughan" wrote: > > Maybe I failed to do something that I was supposed to do, but dri is > disabled for me. > > DRM version = 2.0.1, expected 3.0.x > DRI disabled. What kernel are you using? Sounds like you have outdated drm modules in your kernel. Zephaniah's previous message claims

Re: new aptable cvs dri fails with mga

2001-03-28 Thread Stuart Ballard
"Thomas E. Vaughan" wrote: > > Maybe I failed to do something that I was supposed to do, but dri is > disabled for me. > > DRM version = 2.0.1, expected 3.0.x > DRI disabled. What kernel are you using? Sounds like you have outdated drm modules in your kernel. Zephaniah's previous message claim

Text corruption on S3 Savage under 4.0.99.1

2001-03-09 Thread Stuart Ballard
Posting on the offchance that this will sound familiar to someone, perhaps someone else who compiled 4.0.99.1... Using 4.0.99.1 on my Matrox card works fine, but when I install the same debs on my S3 Savage4 chipset at work (4.0.2 won't let me use 1600x1200) I do indeed get 1600x1200, but all the

Text corruption on S3 Savage under 4.0.99.1

2001-03-09 Thread Stuart Ballard
Posting on the offchance that this will sound familiar to someone, perhaps someone else who compiled 4.0.99.1... Using 4.0.99.1 on my Matrox card works fine, but when I install the same debs on my S3 Savage4 chipset at work (4.0.2 won't let me use 1600x1200) I do indeed get 1600x1200, but all the

Re: manifest problems on ARM

2001-03-08 Thread Stuart Ballard
Philip Blundell wrote: > > I ran a build of xfree86-4.0.2-7 on ARM. Aside from needing one small patch > to elf.h (attached) the compilation went OK, but the manifest check failed. I > don't know enough about what goes on here to say whether the manifest is just > wrong or outdated, or whether s

Re: manifest problems on ARM

2001-03-08 Thread Stuart Ballard
Philip Blundell wrote: > > I ran a build of xfree86-4.0.2-7 on ARM. Aside from needing one small patch > to elf.h (attached) the compilation went OK, but the manifest check failed. I > don't know enough about what goes on here to say whether the manifest is just > wrong or outdated, or whether

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 doesn't create XF86Config

2001-03-06 Thread Stuart Ballard
Geordie Birch wrote: > > on a fresh install of unstable i am having trouble creating an XF86Config. > it doesn't get created when xserver-xfree86 is installed, and > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 doesn't create it either. Try "apt-get install task-x-window-system-core". For some reason that de

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 doesn't create XF86Config

2001-03-06 Thread Stuart Ballard
Geordie Birch wrote: > > on a fresh install of unstable i am having trouble creating an XF86Config. > it doesn't get created when xserver-xfree86 is installed, and > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 doesn't create it either. Try "apt-get install task-x-window-system-core". For some reason that d

Re: DRI with Matrox G450 in X4.0.99.1

2001-03-04 Thread Stuart Ballard
Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Stuart Ballard wrote: > > The latter. Go to xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/drm/kernel > and run 'make -f Makefile.linux'. Excellent answer, and much appreciated. However, I think I'm ignorant or stupid or something... after

Re: DRI with Matrox G450 in X4.0.99.1

2001-03-04 Thread Stuart Ballard
"Charl P. Botha" wrote: > > Why can't you just use 4.0.2 with the drivers which are available at > http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/files/linux_05.cfm. I'm afraid > the closest I have is a G400 running with 4.0.2, but as far as I understand > from the aforementioned web page, your G450 s

DRI with Matrox G450 in X4.0.99.1

2001-03-04 Thread Stuart Ballard
As anyone following the "BYOX" thread will be aware, I've just successfully built xserver debs for XFree 4.0.99.1. I had two reasons for wanting to do this: firstly I wanted G450 support without having to use FBDev, and secondly because I hoped it might be possible to get 3D acceleration. The firs

Re: BYOX - successfully built 4.0.99.1 debs

2001-03-04 Thread Stuart Ballard
The following process works (after a very long build process) to get xfree86 4.0.99.1 debs. They seem to work (I'm running with xserver-xfree86 and xserver-common from these now) but I make absolutely no claims as to quality. I did all of this as root, which is naughty but it worked. # apt-get bui

Re: DRI with Matrox G450 in X4.0.99.1

2001-03-04 Thread Stuart Ballard
Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Stuart Ballard wrote: > > The latter. Go to xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/drm/kernel > and run 'make -f Makefile.linux'. Excellent answer, and much appreciated. However, I think I'm ignorant or stupid or something... af

Re: DRI with Matrox G450 in X4.0.99.1

2001-03-04 Thread Stuart Ballard
"Charl P. Botha" wrote: > > Why can't you just use 4.0.2 with the drivers which are available at > http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/files/linux_05.cfm. I'm afraid > the closest I have is a G400 running with 4.0.2, but as far as I understand > from the aforementioned web page, your G450

DRI with Matrox G450 in X4.0.99.1

2001-03-04 Thread Stuart Ballard
As anyone following the "BYOX" thread will be aware, I've just successfully built xserver debs for XFree 4.0.99.1. I had two reasons for wanting to do this: firstly I wanted G450 support without having to use FBDev, and secondly because I hoped it might be possible to get 3D acceleration. The fir

Re: BYOX - successfully built 4.0.99.1 debs

2001-03-04 Thread Stuart Ballard
The following process works (after a very long build process) to get xfree86 4.0.99.1 debs. They seem to work (I'm running with xserver-xfree86 and xserver-common from these now) but I make absolutely no claims as to quality. I did all of this as root, which is naughty but it worked. # apt-get bu

Re: BYOX (Build Your Own X) - again

2001-03-01 Thread Stuart Ballard
Stuart Ballard wrote: > > What I did was as follows (from memory - I may have a filename or two > wrong, as I'm not at the relevant machine right now. Later this evening > I can post a full log): > > # apt-get build-dep xserver-xfree86 > # apt-get source xserver-xfree86

Re: BYOX (Build Your Own X) - again

2001-03-01 Thread Stuart Ballard
Stuart Ballard wrote: > > What I did was as follows (from memory - I may have a filename or two > wrong, as I'm not at the relevant machine right now. Later this evening > I can post a full log): > > # apt-get build-dep xserver-xfree86 > # apt-get source xserver-xfre

Re: BYOX (Build Your Own X) - again

2001-02-28 Thread Stuart Ballard
Gordon Sadler wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 04:34:50PM -0500, Stuart Ballard wrote: > > The build works for a while (a bunch of patches fail, but some of them > > succeed, and it gets into the build part of the process), but fails when > > trying to run (I think): >

Re: BYOX (Build Your Own X) - again

2001-02-28 Thread Stuart Ballard
"Charl P. Botha" wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 04:34:50PM -0500, Stuart Ballard wrote: > > I've just joined this list, but I see a few times in the archives that > > people have tried to build their own X debs. These threads seem to peter > > out

Re: BYOX (Build Your Own X) - again

2001-02-28 Thread Stuart Ballard
Gordon Sadler wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 04:34:50PM -0500, Stuart Ballard wrote: > > The build works for a while (a bunch of patches fail, but some of them > > succeed, and it gets into the build part of the process), but fails when > > trying to run (I

Re: BYOX (Build Your Own X) - again

2001-02-28 Thread Stuart Ballard
"Charl P. Botha" wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 04:34:50PM -0500, Stuart Ballard wrote: > > I've just joined this list, but I see a few times in the archives that > > people have tried to build their own X debs. These threads seem to peter > > out

BYOX (Build Your Own X) - again

2001-02-27 Thread Stuart Ballard
I've just joined this list, but I see a few times in the archives that people have tried to build their own X debs. These threads seem to peter out without any resolution most of the time. I'm in the same situation as others who want to do this - a couple of bugs/features are in the latest 4.0.99.

BYOX (Build Your Own X) - again

2001-02-27 Thread Stuart Ballard
I've just joined this list, but I see a few times in the archives that people have tried to build their own X debs. These threads seem to peter out without any resolution most of the time. I'm in the same situation as others who want to do this - a couple of bugs/features are in the latest 4.0.99