apt-build and xfree86

2002-10-21 Thread Scott Henson
Im currently trying to rebuild some stuff on my system using apt-build and its not going very well. In particular: apt-build --reinstall --rebuild install xserver-xfree86 -> Installing build dependencies (for xserver-xfree86) <- Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... D

Wacom driver update

2002-10-21 Thread PETNUCH MICHAEL
The wacom driver included in the X distrobution is out of date. I have compiled the newer version of the driver from: http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~flepied/projects/wacom/xf86Wacom.c.gz and it now works like a charm. So perhaps it can be merged into debians x pacakge so that people with intuos

Re: a small C program to test xdm's /dev/mem reading on your architecture

2002-10-21 Thread Guido Guenther
Hi Branden, On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 01:20:33AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > The X Strike Force is trying to determine for which architectures it's a > bad idea to read several megabytes of data sequentially from /dev/mem, > because this is exactly what XDM currently does when generating an > XD

Re: xlibs_4.1.0-16_i386.deb

2002-10-21 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 08:25:46PM -0500, Nathan Peet Maier wrote: > dpkg-deb (subprocess): short read in buffer_copy (failed to write to > pipe in copy) > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste returned error exit status 2 > dpkg: error processing xlibs_4.1.0-16_i386.deb (--install): > short read in buffer_c

Bug#165619: xserver-xfree86: Xserver crashes and blocks all VTs while ssh works

2002-10-21 Thread Jan Korger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 08:53:32PM +0200, Jan Korger wrote: > > X hangs (does not respond the mouse clicks or keyboard input, you can > > still move the mouse pointer for some time). If you try to change t

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Re: woody : X install

2002-10-21 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:21:00PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 13:54, Branden Robinson wrote: > > I'll be rewriting it from scratch over the coming months and trying to > > work out a strategy for letting the user select between up to three > > sources of information: > > >

Re: a small C program to test xdm's /dev/mem reading on your architecture

2002-10-21 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 08:12:45PM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: > xdm as of 4.2.1-3 still let's the kernel on mips oops. I assume it's > still the issue of reading blindly from /dev/mem. Do you have any > further plans regarding this issue? Yes. Forgot. Adding it to TODO list. -- G. Branden Ro

Re: Wacom driver update

2002-10-21 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 02:15:11PM -0400, PETNUCH MICHAEL wrote: > The wacom driver included in the X distrobution is out of date. I have > compiled the newer version of the driver from: > http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~flepied/projects/wacom/xf86Wacom.c.gz > and it now works like a charm. > > S

Re: apt-build and xfree86

2002-10-21 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 02:10:12PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote: > Im currently trying to rebuild some stuff on my system using apt-build > and its not going very well. In particular: > > apt-build --reinstall --rebuild install xserver-xfree86 [...] > E: Package hurd has no installation candidate >

Re: apt-build and xfree86

2002-10-21 Thread Scott Henson
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 19:06, Branden Robinson wrote: > apt-get's output looks pretty suboptimal. > > Check the xfree86 source package's build dependencies by hand. > > I think you'll find that they can, in fact, all be satisfied on a Linux > box. You are correct, but apt-get build-dep doesn't kn

Bug#163622: xfree86-common: Error starting X, using Matrox G200

2002-10-21 Thread Hans Christian Kjølberg
[ Ian Bicking ] > Package: xfree86-common > Version: 4.2.1-1 > Severity: normal > > After just upgrading XF86, X no longer starts. It complains about > "bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan" and accepts no resolution. > There were no changes to the config file at the time of the update. > This is

Re: woody : X install

2002-10-21 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:21:00PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:21:00PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > Speaking with my Debian Desktop hat on, I would prefer it if you took > > the approach of just trying what the autodetection tools said, and only > > if that fails

Bug#165793: xbase-clients: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xlsfonts.1x.gz doesn't explain "pattern" good enough

2002-10-21 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: xbase-clients Version: 4.1.0-16 Severity: minor The xlsfonts man page doesn't explain "pattern" good enough. # xlsfonts -fn a xlsfonts: pattern "a" unmatched So it must not be a "grep" string, like I assumed. It must be another string. Also the --help info should mention -fn in the latte

Re: XFree86 4.2.x for Woody?

2002-10-21 Thread Philipp Huegelmeyer
Max Moritz Sievers wrote: Hello, are there any XFree86 4.2.x debs for Woody/i386? On my search i only found dead links. regards, Max Moritz Sievers Hi Max, please have a look at http://zoidberg.dnsalias.org/xfree . Cheers, Philipp Huegelmeyer

Re: XFree86 4.2.x for Woody?

2002-10-21 Thread Eduard Bloch
Moin Philipp! Philipp Huegelmeyer schrieb am Montag, den 21. Oktober 2002: > please have a look at http://zoidberg.dnsalias.org/xfree . Or http://people.debian.org/~blade/woody

Re: XFree86 4.2.x for Woody?

2002-10-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 07:32, Philipp Huegelmeyer wrote: > Max Moritz Sievers wrote: > > >are there any XFree86 4.2.x debs for Woody/i386? > >On my search i only found dead links. > > please have a look at http://zoidberg.dnsalias.org/xfree . Thanks for providing these, but please spell 'XFree86

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apt-build and xfree86

2002-10-21 Thread Scott Henson
Im currently trying to rebuild some stuff on my system using apt-build and its not going very well. In particular: apt-build --reinstall --rebuild install xserver-xfree86 -> Installing build dependencies (for xserver-xfree86) <- Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... D

Wacom driver update

2002-10-21 Thread PETNUCH MICHAEL
The wacom driver included in the X distrobution is out of date. I have compiled the newer version of the driver from: http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~flepied/projects/wacom/xf86Wacom.c.gz and it now works like a charm. So perhaps it can be merged into debians x pacakge so that people with intuos

Re: a small C program to test xdm's /dev/mem reading on your architecture

2002-10-21 Thread Guido Guenther
Hi Branden, On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 01:20:33AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > The X Strike Force is trying to determine for which architectures it's a > bad idea to read several megabytes of data sequentially from /dev/mem, > because this is exactly what XDM currently does when generating an > XD

Re: xlibs_4.1.0-16_i386.deb

2002-10-21 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 08:25:46PM -0500, Nathan Peet Maier wrote: > dpkg-deb (subprocess): short read in buffer_copy (failed to write to > pipe in copy) > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste returned error exit status 2 > dpkg: error processing xlibs_4.1.0-16_i386.deb (--install): > short read in buffer_c

Bug#165793: xbase-clients: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xlsfonts.1x.gz doesn't explain "pattern" good enough

2002-10-21 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: xbase-clients Version: 4.1.0-16 Severity: minor The xlsfonts man page doesn't explain "pattern" good enough. # xlsfonts -fn a xlsfonts: pattern "a" unmatched So it must not be a "grep" string, like I assumed. It must be another string. Also the --help info should mention -fn in the latte

Bug#165619: xserver-xfree86: Xserver crashes and blocks all VTs while ssh works

2002-10-21 Thread Jan Korger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 08:53:32PM +0200, Jan Korger wrote: > > X hangs (does not respond the mouse clicks or keyboard input, you can > > still move the mouse pointer for some time). If you try to change t

Re: woody : X install

2002-10-21 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:21:00PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 13:54, Branden Robinson wrote: > > I'll be rewriting it from scratch over the coming months and trying to > > work out a strategy for letting the user select between up to three > > sources of information: > > >

Re: a small C program to test xdm's /dev/mem reading on your architecture

2002-10-21 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 08:12:45PM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: > xdm as of 4.2.1-3 still let's the kernel on mips oops. I assume it's > still the issue of reading blindly from /dev/mem. Do you have any > further plans regarding this issue? Yes. Forgot. Adding it to TODO list. -- G. Branden Ro

Re: Wacom driver update

2002-10-21 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 02:15:11PM -0400, PETNUCH MICHAEL wrote: > The wacom driver included in the X distrobution is out of date. I have > compiled the newer version of the driver from: > http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~flepied/projects/wacom/xf86Wacom.c.gz > and it now works like a charm. > > S

Re: apt-build and xfree86

2002-10-21 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 02:10:12PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote: > Im currently trying to rebuild some stuff on my system using apt-build > and its not going very well. In particular: > > apt-build --reinstall --rebuild install xserver-xfree86 [...] > E: Package hurd has no installation candidate >

Re: apt-build and xfree86

2002-10-21 Thread Scott Henson
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 19:06, Branden Robinson wrote: > apt-get's output looks pretty suboptimal. > > Check the xfree86 source package's build dependencies by hand. > > I think you'll find that they can, in fact, all be satisfied on a Linux > box. You are correct, but apt-get build-dep doesn't kn

Bug#163622: xfree86-common: Error starting X, using Matrox G200

2002-10-21 Thread Hans Christian Kjølberg
[ Ian Bicking ] > Package: xfree86-common > Version: 4.2.1-1 > Severity: normal > > After just upgrading XF86, X no longer starts. It complains about > "bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan" and accepts no resolution. > There were no changes to the config file at the time of the update. > This is

Re: woody : X install

2002-10-21 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:21:00PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:21:00PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > Speaking with my Debian Desktop hat on, I would prefer it if you took > > the approach of just trying what the autodetection tools said, and only > > if that fails