Re: X 4.0.2 - 3.3.6

2000-12-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 03:31:40PM -0500, Terry 'Mongoose' Hendrix II wrote: > Is anyone working on 3.3.6 in woody? Yeah, me. I just uploaded 3.3.6-20 yesterday. -- G. Branden Robinson | If you have the slightest bit of Debian GNU/Linux| intellectual inte

Re: [ch@zpr.uni-koeln.de: problems with keyboard and 4.0.1-11]

2000-12-15 Thread Michael Meding
Am Donnerstag, 14. Dezember 2000 22:06 schrieb Seth Arnold: > God, I would love to know how the rest of the four billion people on the > planet cope with their own character set. It would be nice to help him > out, but someone else is going to have to do it. :( > > * Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTEC

[raphaelh@easynet.fr: Problem with your Debian packages]

2000-12-15 Thread Branden Robinson
- Forwarded message from Raphaël HALIMI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Raphaël HALIMI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem with your Debian packages Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 16:24:27 +0100 Delivered-To: [EMAI

Re: [ch@zpr.uni-koeln.de: problems with keyboard and 4.0.1-11]

2000-12-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
In case noone noticed, we already kind of solved his problem yesterday. :) Anyway... Michael Meding wrote: > I guess there is a broken symlink somewhere in your system. I once had this > also. But I don't recall how to correct this. Interesting idea. I remember someone talking about the xkb fi

Re: m68k MANIFEST for xfree86_4.0.1-11

2000-12-15 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 10:48:13PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: > * Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001213 22:43]: > > Let me know if this works out, and I will babysit XFree86 builds for m68k > > myself, using the recently-donated G3. > > Well, I wasn't thinking of emulating one of those old m

Re: [ch@zpr.uni-koeln.de: problems with keyboard and 4.0.1-11]

2000-12-15 Thread Michael Meding
Am Freitag, 15. Dezember 2000 17:22 schrieb Michel Dänzer: > In case noone noticed, we already kind of solved his problem yesterday. :) > > Anyway... > > Michael Meding wrote: > > I guess there is a broken symlink somewhere in your system. I once had > > this also. But I don't recall how to correct

Short inquiry: Xaw packages

2000-12-15 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On my X workstation, there are currently 3 Xaw packages installed for a small selection of Athena apps (all from Debian): libxaw6, libxaw7, and xaw3dg. Oh yeah, and xaw-wrappers. The dependencies seem to be a huge mess: most old X packages depend indirectly on libxaw6, the more recently compiled on

xutils or dpkg bug - symbolic link

2000-12-15 Thread Lysander
Hello, just got this error: Setting up xutils (4.0.1-12) ... ERROR: /usr/bin/rstartd symbolic link does not exist. Either the package didn't ship the symbolic link (a bug in the package), or dpkg failed to unpack it to the filesystem (a bug in dpkg). Please report the package name, version, and t

Re: Short inquiry: Xaw packages

2000-12-15 Thread H. S. Teoh
Hi Aaron :-) On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 08:38:56AM -0800, Aaron Lehmann wrote: > On my X workstation, there are currently 3 Xaw packages installed for > a small selection of Athena apps (all from Debian): libxaw6, libxaw7, > and xaw3dg. Oh yeah, and xaw-wrappers. The dependencies seem to be a [snip]

Re: xutils or dpkg bug - symbolic link

2000-12-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 04:45:45PM +, Lysander wrote: > Hello, just got this error: > > > Setting up xutils (4.0.1-12) ... > ERROR: /usr/bin/rstartd symbolic link does not exist. > Either the package didn't ship the symbolic link (a bug in the package), > or dpkg failed to unpack it to the fi

Re: Short inquiry: Xaw packages

2000-12-15 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
HST> As for why some packages explicitly depends on xaw3dg, it just HST> shows that Xaw3d and plain Xaw are not 100% compatible -- see gv, HST> for example. I'm not sure if gv is exactly *dependent* on HST> xaw3d-specific features; maybe it is. I believe that there is a problem with applications t

Riva 128 patch

2000-12-15 Thread Alessio Re
Hi there, I found a patch to correct the X 4.0.1 nv driver when used with Riva 128... it'd be nice if it could be incorporated as a Debian patch, given the X developers aren't willing to help on this at all, even if it's really a little bug http://www.iit.uni-miskolc.hu/~halasz3/linux/xpatch.html

[adsouza@student.math.uwaterloo.ca: dpkg having serious trouble trying to upgrade xlibs]

2000-12-15 Thread Branden Robinson
- Forwarded message from "Antonio M. D'souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: "Antonio M. D'souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: dpkg having serious trouble trying to upgrade xlibs Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 14:20:50 -0500 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL P

Re: -11 gives graphics corruption with V3 3000

2000-12-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 01:47:17PM -0500, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 10:39:55PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > xserver-xfree86-11 gives corruption on my V3 3000. Black bars run across > > the top of the screen, and moving windows causes corruption. I'm running at > > 1792

Re: -11 gives graphics corruption with V3 3000

2000-12-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 08:39:50PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 01:47:17PM -0500, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 10:39:55PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > xserver-xfree86-11 gives corruption on my V3 3000. Black bars run across > > > the top of

Cant Open database

2000-12-15 Thread dude
Hi all, i recently was finally able to get my laptop and network connection debian-ized but when i try to install task-x-window and startx debvonf, i get an x-window briefly and then it says :Cant open card database? ideas? thanks

Fwd: [XFree86(TM) Bug Report] G450 Does not work with mga_drv.o in 4.0.2 CVS

2000-12-15 Thread Jon Pennington
Forwarded From: Jon Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am forwarding this XFree86 Bug Report to this list mostly for posterity, since I truly believe that this is an XFree86 bug. If, however, someone on this list may provide some advice, I'd be more than happy to hear it. What follows is one of th

Use of dpkg --print-architecture in xserver-xfree86.config

2000-12-15 Thread Malcolm Parsons
Hi, I noticed today that xserver-xfree86 fails to configure if gcc is not installed, this appears to be due to the use of dpkg --print-architecture: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg --print-architecture i386 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo dpkg --remove gcc (Reading database ... 11128 files and directories c

Re: Use of dpkg --print-architecture in xserver-xfree86.config

2000-12-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 10:22:07PM +, Malcolm Parsons wrote: > I noticed today that xserver-xfree86 fails to configure if gcc is not > installed, this appears to be due to the use of dpkg --print-architecture: [...] > I think dpkg --print-installation-architecture should be used instead: Fixed

Re: Problem with your Debian packages

2000-12-15 Thread reiner
Hallo, I guess you have followed the warnings during an previous install of the XF4.01-deb's. Don't, i repeat, don't make a symbolic link (ignore the warnings during an install) from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults to etc/X11/app-defaults. In this trap i got in, short time ago (The trap snaps if

Re: xfree86 (4.0.1-11)

2000-12-15 Thread Malcolm Parsons
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 10:38:30AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > compress the tarball, and file a bug report with important severity so I > > Yes, this is one of the few things I give people permission to file > release-critical bugs against for. :) The important severity is no longer release

Re: Problem with your Debian packages

2000-12-15 Thread Charl P. Botha
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 12:18:01AM +0100, reiner wrote: > Don't, i repeat, don't make a symbolic link (ignore the warnings during > an install) from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults to > etc/X11/app-defaults. You have to be more specific. On my systems, both current woody and potato with the potat

Re: dpkg having serious trouble trying to upgrade xlibs

2000-12-15 Thread reiner
Hallo, If you have a symlink from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults to etc/X11/app-defaults, then remove this symlink and try the install again. This has worked for me. See the post (problem with your Debian packages) on the list Good Luck Reiner Stallknecht

Re: X 4.0.2 - 3.3.6

2000-12-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 03:31:40PM -0500, Terry 'Mongoose' Hendrix II wrote: > Is anyone working on 3.3.6 in woody? Yeah, me. I just uploaded 3.3.6-20 yesterday. -- G. Branden Robinson | If you have the slightest bit of Debian GNU/Linux| intellectual int

Re: [ch@zpr.uni-koeln.de: problems with keyboard and 4.0.1-11]

2000-12-15 Thread Michael Meding
Am Donnerstag, 14. Dezember 2000 22:06 schrieb Seth Arnold: > God, I would love to know how the rest of the four billion people on the > planet cope with their own character set. It would be nice to help him > out, but someone else is going to have to do it. :( > > * Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTE

[raphaelh@easynet.fr: Problem with your Debian packages]

2000-12-15 Thread Branden Robinson
- Forwarded message from Raphaël HALIMI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Raphaël HALIMI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem with your Debian packages Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 16:24:27 +0100 Delivered-To: [EMA

Re: [ch@zpr.uni-koeln.de: problems with keyboard and 4.0.1-11]

2000-12-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
In case noone noticed, we already kind of solved his problem yesterday. :) Anyway... Michael Meding wrote: > I guess there is a broken symlink somewhere in your system. I once had this > also. But I don't recall how to correct this. Interesting idea. I remember someone talking about the xkb f

Re: m68k MANIFEST for xfree86_4.0.1-11

2000-12-15 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 10:48:13PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: > * Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001213 22:43]: > > Let me know if this works out, and I will babysit XFree86 builds for m68k > > myself, using the recently-donated G3. > > Well, I wasn't thinking of emulating one of those old

Re: [ch@zpr.uni-koeln.de: problems with keyboard and 4.0.1-11]

2000-12-15 Thread Michael Meding
Am Freitag, 15. Dezember 2000 17:22 schrieb Michel Dänzer: > In case noone noticed, we already kind of solved his problem yesterday. :) > > Anyway... > > Michael Meding wrote: > > I guess there is a broken symlink somewhere in your system. I once had > > this also. But I don't recall how to correc

Short inquiry: Xaw packages

2000-12-15 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On my X workstation, there are currently 3 Xaw packages installed for a small selection of Athena apps (all from Debian): libxaw6, libxaw7, and xaw3dg. Oh yeah, and xaw-wrappers. The dependencies seem to be a huge mess: most old X packages depend indirectly on libxaw6, the more recently compiled o

xutils or dpkg bug - symbolic link

2000-12-15 Thread Lysander
Hello, just got this error: Setting up xutils (4.0.1-12) ... ERROR: /usr/bin/rstartd symbolic link does not exist. Either the package didn't ship the symbolic link (a bug in the package), or dpkg failed to unpack it to the filesystem (a bug in dpkg). Please report the package name, version, and

Re: Short inquiry: Xaw packages

2000-12-15 Thread H. S. Teoh
Hi Aaron :-) On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 08:38:56AM -0800, Aaron Lehmann wrote: > On my X workstation, there are currently 3 Xaw packages installed for > a small selection of Athena apps (all from Debian): libxaw6, libxaw7, > and xaw3dg. Oh yeah, and xaw-wrappers. The dependencies seem to be a [snip]

Re: xutils or dpkg bug - symbolic link

2000-12-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 04:45:45PM +, Lysander wrote: > Hello, just got this error: > > > Setting up xutils (4.0.1-12) ... > ERROR: /usr/bin/rstartd symbolic link does not exist. > Either the package didn't ship the symbolic link (a bug in the package), > or dpkg failed to unpack it to the f

Re: Short inquiry: Xaw packages

2000-12-15 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
HST> As for why some packages explicitly depends on xaw3dg, it just HST> shows that Xaw3d and plain Xaw are not 100% compatible -- see gv, HST> for example. I'm not sure if gv is exactly *dependent* on HST> xaw3d-specific features; maybe it is. I believe that there is a problem with applications

Riva 128 patch

2000-12-15 Thread Alessio Re
Hi there, I found a patch to correct the X 4.0.1 nv driver when used with Riva 128... it'd be nice if it could be incorporated as a Debian patch, given the X developers aren't willing to help on this at all, even if it's really a little bug http://www.iit.uni-miskolc.hu/~halasz3/linux/xpatch.html

[adsouza@student.math.uwaterloo.ca: dpkg having serious trouble trying to upgrade xlibs]

2000-12-15 Thread Branden Robinson
- Forwarded message from "Antonio M. D'souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: "Antonio M. D'souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: dpkg having serious trouble trying to upgrade xlibs Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 14:20:50 -0500 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL

Re: -11 gives graphics corruption with V3 3000

2000-12-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 01:47:17PM -0500, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 10:39:55PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > xserver-xfree86-11 gives corruption on my V3 3000. Black bars run across > > the top of the screen, and moving windows causes corruption. I'm running at > > 179

Re: -11 gives graphics corruption with V3 3000

2000-12-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 08:39:50PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 01:47:17PM -0500, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 10:39:55PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > xserver-xfree86-11 gives corruption on my V3 3000. Black bars run across > > > the top of

Cant Open database

2000-12-15 Thread dude
Hi all, i recently was finally able to get my laptop and network connection debian-ized but when i try to install task-x-window and startx debvonf, i get an x-window briefly and then it says :Cant open card database? ideas? thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Fwd: [XFree86(TM) Bug Report] G450 Does not work with mga_drv.o in 4.0.2 CVS

2000-12-15 Thread Jon Pennington
Forwarded From: Jon Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am forwarding this XFree86 Bug Report to this list mostly for posterity, since I truly believe that this is an XFree86 bug. If, however, someone on this list may provide some advice, I'd be more than happy to hear it. What follows is one of t

Use of dpkg --print-architecture in xserver-xfree86.config

2000-12-15 Thread Malcolm Parsons
Hi, I noticed today that xserver-xfree86 fails to configure if gcc is not installed, this appears to be due to the use of dpkg --print-architecture: malcolm@arthur:~$ dpkg --print-architecture i386 malcolm@arthur:~$ sudo dpkg --remove gcc (Reading database ... 11128 files and directories curren

Re: Use of dpkg --print-architecture in xserver-xfree86.config

2000-12-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 10:22:07PM +, Malcolm Parsons wrote: > I noticed today that xserver-xfree86 fails to configure if gcc is not > installed, this appears to be due to the use of dpkg --print-architecture: [...] > I think dpkg --print-installation-architecture should be used instead: Fixe

Re: Problem with your Debian packages

2000-12-15 Thread reiner
Hallo, I guess you have followed the warnings during an previous install of the XF4.01-deb's. Don't, i repeat, don't make a symbolic link (ignore the warnings during an install) from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults to etc/X11/app-defaults. In this trap i got in, short time ago (The trap snaps if

Re: xfree86 (4.0.1-11)

2000-12-15 Thread Malcolm Parsons
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 10:38:30AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > compress the tarball, and file a bug report with important severity so I > > Yes, this is one of the few things I give people permission to file > release-critical bugs against for. :) The important severity is no longer releas

Re: Problem with your Debian packages

2000-12-15 Thread Charl P. Botha
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 12:18:01AM +0100, reiner wrote: > Don't, i repeat, don't make a symbolic link (ignore the warnings during > an install) from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults to > etc/X11/app-defaults. You have to be more specific. On my systems, both current woody and potato with the pota

Re: dpkg having serious trouble trying to upgrade xlibs

2000-12-15 Thread reiner
Hallo, If you have a symlink from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults to etc/X11/app-defaults, then remove this symlink and try the install again. This has worked for me. See the post (problem with your Debian packages) on the list Good Luck Reiner Stallknecht -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA