Re: xmessage

2000-10-22 Thread Will Lowe
> The problem is that when I did "xmessage -f /path/to/messagefile" I'm using the 3.3.6 debs on this machine, but "xmessage -f /tmp/x.msg" gives me an xmessage containing "-f /tmp/x.msg", while "xmessage -file /tmp/x.msg" works as expected. Perhaps you just need to spell out -file?

Re: xmessage

2000-10-22 Thread Will Lowe
> The problem is that when I did "xmessage -f /path/to/messagefile" I'm using the 3.3.6 debs on this machine, but "xmessage -f /tmp/x.msg" gives me an xmessage containing "-f /tmp/x.msg", while "xmessage -file /tmp/x.msg" works as expected. Perhaps you just need to spell out -file?

Re: [HOWTO] Downgrade from 4.0.1-0 to 3.3.6

2000-10-22 Thread Will Lowe
> I'd appreciate knowing what problems you experienced, since Debian packages > are supposed to be downgradeable. I did almost the same thing on my laptop the other day, except that I --purged a fair number of the leaf nodes in the dependency tree (all of the xfont-* stuff, and a few other things)

Re: [HOWTO] Downgrade from 4.0.1-0 to 3.3.6

2000-10-22 Thread Will Lowe
> I'd appreciate knowing what problems you experienced, since Debian packages > are supposed to be downgradeable. I did almost the same thing on my laptop the other day, except that I --purged a fair number of the leaf nodes in the dependency tree (all of the xfont-* stuff, and a few other things

X4, thinkpad 600x and odd font rendering

2000-10-17 Thread Will Lowe
I have a thinkpad 600x, I'm running the 4.0 phase2v17 .debs from samosa, and I have a wierd font problem: Fonts are drawn correctly _except_ when they're being edited. Any line that is being edited is almost illegible; it looks as if parts of the letters overlap each other, or mask each other, l

X4, thinkpad 600x and odd font rendering

2000-10-17 Thread Will Lowe
I have a thinkpad 600x, I'm running the 4.0 phase2v17 .debs from samosa, and I have a wierd font problem: Fonts are drawn correctly _except_ when they're being edited. Any line that is being edited is almost illegible; it looks as if parts of the letters overlap each other, or mask each other,

Re: Trident 9397 and Xfree 4.1

2000-09-20 Thread Will Lowe
> > It looks like X is drawing there -- I can put windows there, and gkrellm > > extends into this "black" region -- but it's getting cut off or clipped or > Try a lower bits-per-pixel value, or tell the server real amount of > memory and see if it still happens. Thanks for your suggestions.

Re: Trident 9397 and Xfree 4.1

2000-09-20 Thread Will Lowe
> > It looks like X is drawing there -- I can put windows there, and gkrellm > > extends into this "black" region -- but it's getting cut off or clipped or > Try a lower bits-per-pixel value, or tell the server real amount of > memory and see if it still happens. Thanks for your suggestions.

Trident 9397 and Xfree 4.1

2000-09-20 Thread Will Lowe
Hey there; I'm using this chipset on my laptop, and encountering some odd behavior, so I figured I'd check and see if this was happening to anyone else. I'm running woody updated to this morning, and xserver-xfree86 4.0.1-0phase2v7. None of the default modelines work correctly -- so I cut out th

Trident 9397 and Xfree 4.1

2000-09-19 Thread Will Lowe
Hey there; I'm using this chipset on my laptop, and encountering some odd behavior, so I figured I'd check and see if this was happening to anyone else. I'm running woody updated to this morning, and xserver-xfree86 4.0.1-0phase2v7. None of the default modelines work correctly -- so I cut out t