Re: BYOX (Build Your Own X) - again

2001-02-28 Thread Charl P. Botha
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 without any resolution most of the time. Oh? They peter out do they? I seem to

Re: S3 ViRGE MX continued

2001-02-28 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 10:53:44PM -0500, Kevin Brosius wrote: > Okay, that shows me were the problem is (at least the first one). I've > made a couple minor changes to some register lock/unlock code, plus > fixed a couple debug printouts that didn't work as expected. New > version, here's a dire

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 without any resolution most of the time. > >

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): > > bison -y -d pswparser.y

Re: BYOX (Build Your Own X) - again

2001-02-28 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:56:59AM -0500, Stuart Ballard wrote: > Sorry, I should have been clearer. There are regular howtos on how to > build the 4.0.2 packages, both on potato and on unstable, but I haven't Are these howtos still needed? I built 4.0.2-4 at home without build trouble (dpkg-build

Re: BYOX (Build Your Own X) - again

2001-02-28 Thread Charl P. Botha
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:05:49AM -0600, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > But then my system at home is a wild mixture of potato/woody and lots of > selfbuilt packages (glibc, xfree). Exctly... the HOWTO explains exactly (and in small steps) how to build the 4.0.2 packages on a _stock_ potato s

Re: nVIDIA XFree86 4.0 binary driver

2001-02-28 Thread Marcus Geiger
Hi, although I did not check your packages, I am verry happy to see this. It makes rebuilding my kernel setup a lot easier. Nice job. It would be nice if you inform this list when you packages provide libGlu and depend on xlibosmesa. Thanks Marcus On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:35:40PM -0600, Chris

Re: Where do I get discover?

2001-02-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 10:47:03AM +, Jules Bean wrote: > This may or may not be the right forum, but: how's that going? It > seems like a pretty cool project to me, and it will rock when Debian > has decent hardware auto-detection (always one of its > limitations). When might we expect it in

Re: BYOX (Build Your Own X) - again

2001-02-28 Thread Charl P. Botha
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 without any resolution most of the time. Oh? They peter out do they? I seem t

Re: S3 ViRGE MX continued

2001-02-28 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 10:53:44PM -0500, Kevin Brosius wrote: > Okay, that shows me were the problem is (at least the first one). I've > made a couple minor changes to some register lock/unlock code, plus > fixed a couple debug printouts that didn't work as expected. New > version, here's a dir

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 without any resolution most of the time. > >

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): > > bison -y -d pswparser.y

Re: BYOX (Build Your Own X) - again

2001-02-28 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:56:59AM -0500, Stuart Ballard wrote: > Sorry, I should have been clearer. There are regular howtos on how to > build the 4.0.2 packages, both on potato and on unstable, but I haven't Are these howtos still needed? I built 4.0.2-4 at home without build trouble (dpkg-buil

Re: BYOX (Build Your Own X) - again

2001-02-28 Thread Charl P. Botha
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:05:49AM -0600, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > But then my system at home is a wild mixture of potato/woody and lots of > selfbuilt packages (glibc, xfree). Exctly... the HOWTO explains exactly (and in small steps) how to build the 4.0.2 packages on a _stock_ potato

Re: nVIDIA XFree86 4.0 binary driver

2001-02-28 Thread Marcus Geiger
Hi, although I did not check your packages, I am verry happy to see this. It makes rebuilding my kernel setup a lot easier. Nice job. It would be nice if you inform this list when you packages provide libGlu and depend on xlibosmesa. Thanks Marcus On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:35:40PM -0600, Chris

Re: Where do I get discover?

2001-02-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 10:47:03AM +, Jules Bean wrote: > This may or may not be the right forum, but: how's that going? It > seems like a pretty cool project to me, and it will rock when Debian > has decent hardware auto-detection (always one of its > limitations). When might we expect it in