Re: pre-release 4.0.1-10 packages available for building

2000-12-04 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
> People have been grumbling (rightfully) about the xfree86 package's > MANIFEST file causing problems. > > So in an effort make to sure that people can get debian/*.$(ARCH) files for > their architecture that will work out of the box for the next release, I've > made 4.0.1-9pre10v1 available at

Problems with several application when using special locale

2000-12-04 Thread Morten B. Pedersen
When I use locale 'da_DK', xchat, Eterm and licq becomes unstable, (xchat segfaults, Eterm hangs, licq segfaults from time to time) Setting locale to 'C' solve these problems, I believe that this has something do with the latest X. -- Med venlig hilsen - Sincerely Morten B. Pedersen - [EMAIL PROT

Re: pre-release 4.0.1-10 packages available for building

2000-12-04 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > I'm working on Alpha now. I have another patch to give to you for Alpha > that fixes a few 32-bit-isms and a few other problems. Ok, work done...I'm attaching the diff for Alpha against 9pre10v1. C pre10-final-alpha.diff.gz Description: Bi

Re: sorry, I can't build 4.0.1-9pre10v1 for powerpc

2000-12-04 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Appears to be a memory/swap related problem. Open up another tty and run > > 'top' while the make is going on, and watch your total free memory and your > > total free swap..they might get too small for cc to run > > successfully. (VM is the virtual memory driver) > > Tried that; I di

Re: sorry, I can't build 4.0.1-9pre10v1 for powerpc

2000-12-04 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 12:17:39AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > This is reproducible. It hits this wall on gamma_gl.c every time. > If my memory is correct, the gamma_gl is particularly big, isn't it ? Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: Problems with several application when using special locale

2000-12-04 Thread Seth Arnold
* Morten B. Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001204 02:28]: > When I use locale 'da_DK', xchat, Eterm and licq becomes unstable, > (xchat segfaults, Eterm hangs, licq segfaults from time to time) > > Setting locale to 'C' solve these problems, I believe that this has > something do with the latest X.

Re: Problems with several application when using special locale

2000-12-04 Thread Morten B. Pedersen
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 08:44:05AM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: > * Morten B. Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001204 02:28]: > > Setting locale to 'C' solve these problems, I believe that this has > > something do with the latest X. > > Ok, have you edited /etc/locales.gen and then ran the locale-gen >

scaled fonts

2000-12-04 Thread Debian User
hi, Some time before i post a mail about ugly fonts im my debian X. Some nice guy, answer about unscaled or noscaled after the font path in xfs config. The point is than some tests later i found than the problem is specific to Times fons. Utopia and Courier works fine. So i think the prob

Running multiple X servers

2000-12-04 Thread Traber, Stefan, TRA
Hello, could somebody tell me what the best way is to start a second X server upon startup. I would like this second X server to run on vt8 and send an XDMCP-query to a different server. I know how to do this manually, but i would like to know in what configuration file i should add this so that t

Re: sorry, I can't build 4.0.1-9pre10v1 for powerpc

2000-12-04 Thread Tom Rini
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 12:38:47AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Tried that; I did some testing in real-time with the folks in > #debian-devel. It appears to be a problem with the kernel VM handler > (perhaps ppc specific) in 2.2.18pre21. ... > memory : 56MB ... > 56MB ain't a lot but

Re: Running multiple X servers

2000-12-04 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 07:15:17PM +0100, Traber, Stefan, TRA wrote: > Hello, > > could somebody tell me what the best way is to start a second X server upon > startup. I would like this second X server to run on vt8 and send an > XDMCP-query to a different server. I know how to do this manually,

Re: pre-release 4.0.1-10 packages available for building

2000-12-04 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
Ok, the corresponding packages for Alpha are at: http://people.debian.org/~chris/xfree86_4.0.1-9pre10v1/ if anyone is interested or if Branden wants to copy them into his public_html tree... C On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Christopher C. Chi

Re: scaled fonts

2000-12-04 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
DU> Some time before i post a mail about ugly fonts im my debian DU> X. Some nice guy, answer about unscaled or noscaled after the font path in DU> xfs config. Why are you using xfs and not accessing the fonts directly? DU> The point is than some tests later i found than the problem is DU> s

[aaron@eazel.com: xfonts-*]

2000-12-04 Thread Branden Robinson
Sounds like he is using a really old phase1 or phase2 package. - Forwarded message from Aaron Brick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: "Aaron Brick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: xfonts-* Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:41:26 -0800 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMA

Re: [aaron@eazel.com: xfonts-*]

2000-12-04 Thread Seth Arnold
Aaron, please ensure you have the xutils package installed, per the suggestion in the xfonts-* package descriptions. * Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001204 15:18]: > Sounds like he is using a really old phase1 or phase2 package. > > - Forwarded message from Aaron Brick <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: pre-release 4.0.1-10 packages available for building

2000-12-04 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 02:04:15PM -0500, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > Ok, the corresponding packages for Alpha are at: > http://people.debian.org/~chris/xfree86_4.0.1-9pre10v1/ > if anyone is interested or if Branden wants to copy them into his > public_html tree... I've got your patch,

Re: sorry, I can't build 4.0.1-9pre10v1 for powerpc

2000-12-04 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 12:17:39AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > My build box has a slight problem: [...] > Dec 3 16:17:14 eris kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd... > Dec 3 16:17:16 eris kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for cc1... > Dec 3 16:17:16 eris kernel: VM: kill

Re: pre-release 4.0.1-10 packages available for building

2000-12-04 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
> People have been grumbling (rightfully) about the xfree86 package's > MANIFEST file causing problems. > > So in an effort make to sure that people can get debian/*.$(ARCH) files for > their architecture that will work out of the box for the next release, I've > made 4.0.1-9pre10v1 available at

Problems with several application when using special locale

2000-12-04 Thread Morten B. Pedersen
When I use locale 'da_DK', xchat, Eterm and licq becomes unstable, (xchat segfaults, Eterm hangs, licq segfaults from time to time) Setting locale to 'C' solve these problems, I believe that this has something do with the latest X. -- Med venlig hilsen - Sincerely Morten B. Pedersen - [EMAIL PRO

Re: pre-release 4.0.1-10 packages available for building

2000-12-04 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > I'm working on Alpha now. I have another patch to give to you for Alpha > that fixes a few 32-bit-isms and a few other problems. Ok, work done...I'm attaching the diff for Alpha against 9pre10v1. C pre10-final-alpha.diff.gz

Re: sorry, I can't build 4.0.1-9pre10v1 for powerpc

2000-12-04 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Appears to be a memory/swap related problem. Open up another tty and run > > 'top' while the make is going on, and watch your total free memory and your > > total free swap..they might get too small for cc to run > > successfully. (VM is the virtual memory driver) > > Tried that; I d

Re: sorry, I can't build 4.0.1-9pre10v1 for powerpc

2000-12-04 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 12:17:39AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > This is reproducible. It hits this wall on gamma_gl.c every time. > If my memory is correct, the gamma_gl is particularly big, isn't it ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: Problems with several application when using special locale

2000-12-04 Thread Seth Arnold
* Morten B. Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001204 02:28]: > When I use locale 'da_DK', xchat, Eterm and licq becomes unstable, > (xchat segfaults, Eterm hangs, licq segfaults from time to time) > > Setting locale to 'C' solve these problems, I believe that this has > something do with the latest X

Re: Problems with several application when using special locale

2000-12-04 Thread Morten B. Pedersen
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 08:44:05AM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: > * Morten B. Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001204 02:28]: > > Setting locale to 'C' solve these problems, I believe that this has > > something do with the latest X. > > Ok, have you edited /etc/locales.gen and then ran the locale-gen

scaled fonts

2000-12-04 Thread Debian User
hi, Some time before i post a mail about ugly fonts im my debian X. Some nice guy, answer about unscaled or noscaled after the font path in xfs config. The point is than some tests later i found than the problem is specific to Times fons. Utopia and Courier works fine. So i think the pro

Running multiple X servers

2000-12-04 Thread Traber, Stefan, TRA
Hello, could somebody tell me what the best way is to start a second X server upon startup. I would like this second X server to run on vt8 and send an XDMCP-query to a different server. I know how to do this manually, but i would like to know in what configuration file i should add this so that

Re: sorry, I can't build 4.0.1-9pre10v1 for powerpc

2000-12-04 Thread Tom Rini
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 12:38:47AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Tried that; I did some testing in real-time with the folks in > #debian-devel. It appears to be a problem with the kernel VM handler > (perhaps ppc specific) in 2.2.18pre21. ... > memory : 56MB ... > 56MB ain't a lot bu

Re: Running multiple X servers

2000-12-04 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 07:15:17PM +0100, Traber, Stefan, TRA wrote: > Hello, > > could somebody tell me what the best way is to start a second X server upon > startup. I would like this second X server to run on vt8 and send an > XDMCP-query to a different server. I know how to do this manually,

Re: pre-release 4.0.1-10 packages available for building

2000-12-04 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
Ok, the corresponding packages for Alpha are at: http://people.debian.org/~chris/xfree86_4.0.1-9pre10v1/ if anyone is interested or if Branden wants to copy them into his public_html tree... C On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Christopher C. Ch

Re: scaled fonts

2000-12-04 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
DU> Some time before i post a mail about ugly fonts im my debian DU> X. Some nice guy, answer about unscaled or noscaled after the font path in DU> xfs config. Why are you using xfs and not accessing the fonts directly? DU> The point is than some tests later i found than the problem is DU>

[aaron@eazel.com: xfonts-*]

2000-12-04 Thread Branden Robinson
Sounds like he is using a really old phase1 or phase2 package. - Forwarded message from Aaron Brick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: "Aaron Brick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: xfonts-* Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:41:26 -0800 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EM

Re: [aaron@eazel.com: xfonts-*]

2000-12-04 Thread Seth Arnold
Aaron, please ensure you have the xutils package installed, per the suggestion in the xfonts-* package descriptions. * Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001204 15:18]: > Sounds like he is using a really old phase1 or phase2 package. > > - Forwarded message from Aaron Brick <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: pre-release 4.0.1-10 packages available for building

2000-12-04 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 02:04:15PM -0500, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > Ok, the corresponding packages for Alpha are at: > http://people.debian.org/~chris/xfree86_4.0.1-9pre10v1/ > if anyone is interested or if Branden wants to copy them into his > public_html tree... I've got your patch

Re: sorry, I can't build 4.0.1-9pre10v1 for powerpc

2000-12-04 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 12:17:39AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > My build box has a slight problem: [...] > Dec 3 16:17:14 eris kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd... > Dec 3 16:17:16 eris kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for cc1... > Dec 3 16:17:16 eris kernel: VM: kil

RE: Running multiple X servers

2000-12-04 Thread Jean-Sebastien . VALETTE
Title: RE: Running multiple X servers Try to edit xdm.conf or gdm.conf (if using gnome) to add a second display. -Message d'origine- De: Traber, Stefan, TRA [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date:   lundi 4 décembre 2000 19:15 À:  '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Objet:  Running multiple X server

Re: sorry, I can't build 4.0.1-9pre10v1 for powerpc

2000-12-04 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 12:21:09AM -0600, Phil Fraering wrote: > > > Yikes. It turns out that my swap partition was never set up. There was > > a swap partition on the drive, but it hadn't been mkswap'ed or added to > > /etc/fstab. > > > It took over 8 minutes of real CPU time to build that fi