[yori_h@nifty.com: (bug) xserver-xfree86_4.0.1-5]

2000-11-18 Thread Branden Robinson
Someone please tell him not to mail bugs to me privately, and also that this bug has already been filed 3 times? - Forwarded message from Yoriyosi Hattori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Yoriyosi Hattori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: (bug) xserver-xfree86_4.0.1-5 Date: Sa

Re: permedia2

2000-11-18 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 01:46:44AM +0100, Matthijs Melchior wrote: > Hi, > Here is a little patch to `dexter', that makes two enhancements. > > Add `-s' to enable selecting another X server even if the current one > is recognized [used for generating `XF86Config-4' in an older environment].

please help.

2000-11-18 Thread 陳彰熾
My inbox has literally exploded with bugs since I released 4.0.1. Perhaps 100 or more have been filed. The bugs are coming in faster than I can do triage on them. I am literally overwhelmed. I would appreciate it if those on this list could do what they can as described on the X Strike Force pa

[andrew_pmk@hotmail.com: Forward Backspace (**annoying**)]

2000-11-18 Thread 陳彰熾
Someone please direct this person to the Debian X FAQ (or quote it for him), which has a very long section on troubleshooting this very issue. You don't know how proud it makes me to see those FAQ's I write go unread, year after year... - Forwarded message from Andrew MacKinnon <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: K6-x optimized .debs for 4.0.1-1

2000-11-18 Thread 陳彰熾
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 12:26:14PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, all. I finally succeeded in compiling K6-optimized X binaries for > XF4.0.1. Are these optimizations also benificial for the K7 (Athlon) line of CPU's? <>

Re: Forwarding X bugs here?

2000-11-18 Thread 陳彰熾
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 04:38:24PM +0100, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > I was grepping debian-bugs-dist for X bugs and I was wondering if you > were willing to set the maintainer of the X packages to something like > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and have the bugs copied over here. This is a lot > more rel

[pelux@tiscalinet.it: WOW]

2000-11-18 Thread 陳彰熾
Since he was nice to me in the first sentence, please be nice to him. :) I think he probably just needs a URL to Raphael Bossek's packages. Anyone know it? - Forwarded message from Stefano Peluchetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Stefano Peluchetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Problem with Voodoo3

2000-11-18 Thread 陳彰熾
Hi, i can't configure xfree4 for Voodoo3 the glide 2 and glide 3 librairies are installed on my woody. There is the log. Encolpe -- Celui qui est capable de marcher derri鋨e une musique militaire n'a pas besoin d'un cerveau: une mo螔le 廧ini鋨e lui suffit. Albert Einstein <>

Re: lockup when starting X

2000-11-18 Thread 陳彰熾
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 11:01:24AM +0100, Jelmer Feenstra wrote: > Well actually my problems were even worse. I had X constantly crashing > every once in a while, it would just fly back into textmode. I solved > this by downgrading the packages, perhaps updated woody packages fix > this as well.

Re: [yori_h@nifty.com: (bug) xserver-xfree86_4.0.1-5]

2000-11-18 Thread Seth Arnold
Yoriyosi, Please do not email Branden directly. Email debian-user if you think the problem is common, or debian-x if you think the problem is unique to the Debian packaging of X. In this case, I believe it is unique to the debian packaging of X, so debian-x would be the correct address to email.

Re: please help.

2000-11-18 Thread Seth Arnold
Tony, you are the lucky recipient of the navidad virus. Figure out how to remove it. [Check the debian-x archives if this email makes no sense to you. You sent an email to debian-x containing the text here, and navidad.exe, the latest winblows virus going around. :] * ?K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [

[Off Topic] Virus warning!

2000-11-18 Thread Hajime Saito
It appears that someone on this list has just been infected by the Navidad virus. Do not open attachments named navidad.exe. Details can be found here. http://www.norton.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.navidad.html All the best, Hajime Saito

Re: [Off Topic] Virus warning!

2000-11-18 Thread Joshua Shagam
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:24:37PM +0900, Hajime Saito wrote: > > It appears that someone on this list has just been infected by the > Navidad virus. > Do not open attachments named navidad.exe. Details can be found here. Okay, who's the closet Windows user? ;) -- Joshua Shagam

Re: K6-x optimized .debs for 4.0.1-1

2000-11-18 Thread djw
I have been told that -march=k6 may not be beneficial for athlons. But some compilers may be able to use -march=k7. See previous emails on this subject. Thanks. -- ** Derek J Witt** * Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: [kabi@informatics.muni.cz: xserver-svga]

2000-11-18 Thread Michael Meding
Hi there, if brandens packages are recent then you should get 32bpp and dri to work together. It works here but I do use a cvs snapshot from dri.sourceforge.net. > > Hi Brande > > > > Great work you have made with your new xserver package - however > > I would like to know why have you removed MG

Re: XFree 4 && Neomagic

2000-11-18 Thread Randy Edwards
> It's strange, because a guy from the list, with the same hardware than me > (Dell Latitude CPi, Neomagic MagicGraph) says that he has been running > pre-4.0.1 debs in 1024x768 perfectly well. FWIW, I've got a Compaq Presario 1236 with a NeoMagic chipset running just fine in its 800x600 mode w

list filter request

2000-11-18 Thread Randolph Chung
Can someone at least temporarily filter [EMAIL PROTECTED] off the debian-x list? he is apparently running a windows email client that has been infected with the navidad virus and is flooding the list with copies of old mails with virus attachments. randolph -- Debian Developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: list filter request

2000-11-18 Thread Martin Schulze
You should ask listmaster@ for such a request! It's installed. Since there were only a couple of such mails I thought that he had his problem fixed already. Randolph Chung wrote: > Can someone at least temporarily filter [EMAIL PROTECTED] off the > debian-x list? he is apparently running a windo

Re: [yori_h@nifty.com: (bug) xserver-xfree86_4.0.1-5]

2000-11-18 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 12:03:29AM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: > [Branden, could you make XF86Config-4 a symlink to XF86Config? That way, > I can refer to XF86Config-4(5) directly. :] Can't do this because people can and may have, for instance, xserver-svga and xserver-xfree86 installed simultaneous

Re: [yori_h@nifty.com: (bug) xserver-xfree86_4.0.1-5]

2000-11-18 Thread Seth Arnold
* Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001118 12:44]: > On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 12:03:29AM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: > > [Branden, could you make XF86Config-4 a symlink to XF86Config? That way, > > I can refer to XF86Config-4(5) directly. :] > > Can't do this because people can and may have, for

Re: [yori_h@nifty.com: (bug) xserver-xfree86_4.0.1-5]

2000-11-18 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 02:14:04PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: > Hmm. No, there really isn't a good way of dealing with this. I've made a debconf note that will attempt to club people over the head. -- G. Branden Robinson | When I die I want to go peacefully in Debian GNU/Linux

Re: 1600x1200 broken with vooodoo3 and NEC FP950

2000-11-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 03:36:17PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >From what I recall, dri didn't make any difference. I've a feeling that it > may have been dbe that reduced the corruption when removed, but I'll check > that when I'm back with the machine this evening. Right. Removing DRI makes

Re: 1600x1200 broken with vooodoo3 and NEC FP950

2000-11-18 Thread Zephaniah E. Hull
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 02:20:23AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 03:36:17PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > >From what I recall, dri didn't make any difference. I've a feeling > > >that it > > may have been dbe that reduced the corruption when removed, but I'll > > ch

[Off Topic] Virus warning!

2000-11-18 Thread Hajime Saito
It appears that someone on this list has just been infected by the Navidad virus. Do not open attachments named navidad.exe. Details can be found here. http://www.norton.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.navidad.html All the best, Hajime Saito -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: [Off Topic] Virus warning!

2000-11-18 Thread Joshua Shagam
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:24:37PM +0900, Hajime Saito wrote: > > It appears that someone on this list has just been infected by the > Navidad virus. > Do not open attachments named navidad.exe. Details can be found here. Okay, who's the closet Windows user? ;) -- Joshua Shagam

Re: K6-x optimized .debs for 4.0.1-1

2000-11-18 Thread djw
I have been told that -march=k6 may not be beneficial for athlons. But some compilers may be able to use -march=k7. See previous emails on this subject. Thanks. -- ** Derek J Witt** * Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: [kabi@informatics.muni.cz: xserver-svga]

2000-11-18 Thread Michael Meding
Hi there, if brandens packages are recent then you should get 32bpp and dri to work together. It works here but I do use a cvs snapshot from dri.sourceforge.net. > > Hi Brande > > > > Great work you have made with your new xserver package - however > > I would like to know why have you removed M

Re: XFree 4 && Neomagic

2000-11-18 Thread Randy Edwards
> It's strange, because a guy from the list, with the same hardware than me > (Dell Latitude CPi, Neomagic MagicGraph) says that he has been running > pre-4.0.1 debs in 1024x768 perfectly well. FWIW, I've got a Compaq Presario 1236 with a NeoMagic chipset running just fine in its 800x600 mode

list filter request

2000-11-18 Thread Randolph Chung
Can someone at least temporarily filter [EMAIL PROTECTED] off the debian-x list? he is apparently running a windows email client that has been infected with the navidad virus and is flooding the list with copies of old mails with virus attachments. randolph -- Debian Developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: list filter request

2000-11-18 Thread Martin Schulze
You should ask listmaster@ for such a request! It's installed. Since there were only a couple of such mails I thought that he had his problem fixed already. Randolph Chung wrote: > Can someone at least temporarily filter [EMAIL PROTECTED] off the > debian-x list? he is apparently running a wind

Re: [yori_h@nifty.com: (bug) xserver-xfree86_4.0.1-5]

2000-11-18 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 12:03:29AM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: > [Branden, could you make XF86Config-4 a symlink to XF86Config? That way, > I can refer to XF86Config-4(5) directly. :] Can't do this because people can and may have, for instance, xserver-svga and xserver-xfree86 installed simultaneou

Re: [yori_h@nifty.com: (bug) xserver-xfree86_4.0.1-5]

2000-11-18 Thread Seth Arnold
* Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001118 12:44]: > On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 12:03:29AM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: > > [Branden, could you make XF86Config-4 a symlink to XF86Config? That way, > > I can refer to XF86Config-4(5) directly. :] > > Can't do this because people can and may have, for

Re: [yori_h@nifty.com: (bug) xserver-xfree86_4.0.1-5]

2000-11-18 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 02:14:04PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: > Hmm. No, there really isn't a good way of dealing with this. I've made a debconf note that will attempt to club people over the head. -- G. Branden Robinson | When I die I want to go peacefully in Debian GNU/Linux

Re: 1600x1200 broken with vooodoo3 and NEC FP950

2000-11-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 03:36:17PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >From what I recall, dri didn't make any difference. I've a feeling that it > may have been dbe that reduced the corruption when removed, but I'll check > that when I'm back with the machine this evening. Right. Removing DRI make

Re: 1600x1200 broken with vooodoo3 and NEC FP950

2000-11-18 Thread Zephaniah E. Hull
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 02:20:23AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 03:36:17PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > >From what I recall, dri didn't make any difference. I've a feeling > > >that it > > may have been dbe that reduced the corruption when removed, but I'll > > c