Re: X Strike Force X.Org X11 SVN commit: r318 - in trunk/debian: . patches

2005-07-06 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 09:27:01AM -0500, X Strike Force SVN Repository Admin wrote: > +* Provide ability for X.Org to generate config file each time on boot for > + LiveCD use (suggested by Petter Reinholdtsen. David has the example script > he > + sent that provides this.) ... what? I don't

Re: X Strike Force X.Org X11 SVN commit: r317 - in trunk/debian: . patches

2005-07-06 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 03:39:34PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Of the library packages, only xlibmesa-glu depends on libstdc++. In fact, > it's the only C++ package in the entire xorg tree. > xlibmesa-glu > -- This will need a new package name. It has a really weird package >name right n

Bug#300974: time to deal with this bug

2005-07-06 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 12:02:10PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > Speaking of which, there are some very strange conversations on debian-x > right now concerning some mysterious packages produced in x11-xorg which > operate under the nomikers of xprt and xprt-common. This conversation > has left me r

Re: 055_lnx_evdev_keyboard.diff not working?

2005-07-07 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:48:27AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 06 July 2005 23:41, Mark Hurenkamp wrote: > > I'm running kubuntu linux, which uses xorg-6.8.2-10 package, and I > > noticed that the 055_lnx_evdev_keyboard.diff was included, and so I > > wanted to give it a try. > > Please

Bug#317553: xfree86-common: leaves two files in /tmp on purge

2005-07-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 06:47:21PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Upon purge, xfree86-common leaves two files (or directories) in /tmp, > which it should remove for cleanliness. This is not, however, a bug that > actually affects anything much. This bug report is just a reminder that > we agreed at

Bug#317553: xfree86-common: leaves two files in /tmp on purge

2005-07-10 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 02:53:01PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > su, 2005-07-10 kello 03:12 +1000, Daniel Stone kirjoitti: > > If the two are /tmp/.X11-unix and /tmp/.ICE-unix, I don't think we > > should bother removing them. They're required for any X work, and /tmp &

Re: C++ Transition Patches

2005-07-10 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 06:59:56PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > xfonts-base lost an encoding: > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/large/jisx0208.1983-0.enc.gz > xlibs lost: > /etc/X11/xkb/geometry/omnibook > /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/ru_yawerty > > I don't know what to make of those changes; they'

Bug#725: #725 fixed upstream

2005-07-11 Thread Daniel Stone
I just committed the fix for #725 to X.Org HEAD. Apparently this doesn't constitute 'fixed-upstream', so I'm going to leave manipulation of the bug tags to someone who knwos this better than me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: C++ Transition Patches

2005-07-11 Thread Daniel Stone
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 02:51:21PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Daniel Stone wrote: > >Er, you don't get to choose. The DDX driver nominates which DRI module > >to load, and libGL loads it. The only chance of confusion is people > >upgrading xserver-xorg but not x

Three fixes for xorg FTBFSes

2005-07-12 Thread Daniel Stone
Hi, I've got a patch up on http://people.debian.org/~daniels/ that fixes three issues with 6.8.2.dfsg.1-1: * vars.s390 has _XFREE86_ instead of _XORG_, causing FTBFS of sorts when it attempts to build the debug server -- it trips some nasty breakage in ... * libX

Re: libglu1-xorg: should specify Provides: libglu1

2005-07-12 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 02:56:01PM +0200, Jan De Luyck wrote: > This package provides the libglu1 library built from the X.Org sources, > yet it does not specify as such. This causes installation problems: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > kcontrol: Depends: xlibmesa-glu but

Re: X Strike Force X.Org X11 SVN commit: r335 - trunk/debian

2005-07-12 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:24:15AM -0500, X Strike Force SVN Repository Admin wrote: > Log: > - Add libglu1 to Provides for libglu1-xorg Eep! Please don't do this! It's libglu1c2 for a reason! C++ transition and all that. Cheers, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: X Strike Force X.Org X11 SVN commit: r335 - trunk/debian

2005-07-12 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 05:36:19PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 07:17:54AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:24:15AM -0500, X Strike Force SVN Repository > > Admin wrote: > > > Log: > > > - Add libglu1 to Provi

New S/390-tastic packages whaaaaaat!

2005-07-12 Thread Daniel Stone
http://people.debian.org/~daniels/ as usual, (presumably) making s390 happy: xorg-x11 (6.8.2.dfsg.1-3) unstable; urgency=low * Changes by Daniel Stone: - Fix S/390 build by bringing MANIFEST and *.install.s390 files up to date. - Let Xdmx build on S/390 as well. Move

New packages -- hooray for MIPS, SPARC

2005-07-13 Thread Daniel Stone
Hi, I just put a new set of packages up in the usual place, which are now 97% more MIPS-compatible. Updated MANIFEST.mips{,el}.in. Updated xserver-xorg.install for mips{,el} and also alpha. Updated MANIFEST.sparc.in because it was broken for some bizzare reason (looks like the omnibook/ru_yawerty/

Bug#318229: Clearing a couple of things up

2005-07-14 Thread Daniel Stone
For the record, I am neither Debian's xorg maintainer, nor a woman. Cheers, Daniel(le?) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#318993: xserver-xorg: Debian needs to get Alan Hourihane's updated I810 driver

2005-07-18 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 01:09:20AM -0400, Keenan Pepper wrote: > The current I810 driver /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/i810_drv.o is > quite unstable and crashes a lot, especially when playing video. Alan > Hourihane's driver at http://www.fairlite.demon.co.uk/intel.html is much > better and th

Re: X.org and the Matrox Millenium II

2005-07-19 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 02:02:35AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > XSF, can we switch to using dlloader on alpha? Pleese? :) It does not make sense to do this for one architecture only. I'd suggest that until we move to dlloader wholesale, alpha joins hppa, mips*, m68k, sh*, etc in using a st

Re: X.org and the Matrox Millenium II

2005-07-19 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 01:57:47PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 02:00:07AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 02:02:35AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > XSF, can we switch to using dlloader on alpha? Pleese? :) > > >

Re: X.org and the Matrox Millenium II

2005-07-19 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 03:17:02PM -0400, Michel Dänzer wrote: > X.org HEAD was switched to build dlloader by default a while ago, so > it'll be like that in 6.9/7.0. That said, I don't know if or how well > dlloader works on all the architectures, but I'd expect it to be more > portable than elflo

Re: X Strike Force X.Org X11 SVN commit: r372 - trunk/debian

2005-07-19 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 08:00:47PM +0200, David Martínez Moreno wrote: > El Martes, 19 de Julio de 2005 14:20, David Nusinow escribió: > > Because the first priority is to get the thing to build on all arches. > > These stupid MANIFEST changes are something you only really have to do > > once, but

Re: X.org and the Matrox Millenium II

2005-07-19 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 12:49:09AM -0400, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 11:52 +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 03:17:02PM -0400, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > X.org HEAD was switched to build dlloader by default a while ago, so > > > it

Bug#319298: Xorg segfaults on alpha due to unhandled relocations

2005-07-20 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 06:25:36PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > The attached patch, which comes from upstream by way of Jay Estabrook > at HP, adds the necessary handling for the additional relocation type on > Alpha, fixing the latest segfault. As per the name, it should slip > right into the p

Re: X Strike Force X.Org X11 SVN commit: r385 - trunk/debian

2005-07-21 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 12:00:18PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 11:25:30AM +0800, Eugene Konev wrote: > > > +xorg-x11 (6.8.2.dfsg.1-5+SVN) unstable; urgency=low > > ^^ > > > > 5+SVN > 5. That should be 4+SVN, probably. > > Nope, sadly -4 is in

Re: X Strike Force X.Org X11 SVN commit: r372 - trunk/debian

2005-07-21 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 03:19:07PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > If you want to start grepping through the whole archive and finding all the > packages that build-dep on xlibs-dev, and then start sending patches to > every one, feel free. I'm not prepared to even think about doing that > myself unt

Re: X Strike Force X.Org X11 SVN commit: r372 - trunk/debian

2005-07-21 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 08:16:02AM +0200, David Martínez Moreno wrote: > El Viernes, 22 de Julio de 2005 02:01, Daniel Stone escribió: > > Bear in mind that one of the things that will bite us in the arse is > > people who use the AC_PATH_XTRA autoconf macro to look for X, which &

Bug#319947: Current RADEON driver in xserver-xorg is ancient.

2005-07-25 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:42:29AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > Current RADEON driver in X.Org 6.8.2 doesn't support Non-Rectangular MergedFB > Desktops, or AGPMode 8x, not to mention r300 drivers from DRI CVS. X.Org CVS > Snapshots, like 6.8.99.15 does. Maybe RADEON driver should be backported

Bug#256768: xfree86: ATI Radeon 9100 IGP support needs backporting

2004-06-29 Thread Daniel Stone
atch - if this does not work for you, please outline the specific reasons why, including configuration files, logs, lspci, et al. -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian: the universal operating system http://www.debian.or

Bug#256855: No option for Radeon cards

2004-06-29 Thread Daniel Stone
g Debian Sarge on an AMD XP 1800+ If 'ati' doesn't work, then 'radeon' has no business working. Please use reportbug xserver-xfree86, which will send information such as the output of lspci, /var/log/XFree86.0.log (preferably from both working and non-

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-06-29 Thread Daniel Stone
ltiple xservers in > > the archive. > > It does not, and it may be quite some time before it does. It will not; the 'independent' in DIX is a misnomer designed to convince naive idiots new to X that you can put the Xorg DDX on top of the KDrive DIX and have stuff just work. Fools. -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian: the universal operating system http://www.debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-06-29 Thread Daniel Stone
ive X > > servers and let people use them on smaller systems. > > kdrive has already been ITPed[2] by Daniel Stone, so I presume it's his > Intention to Package it. I intend to follow through on both my xlibs and xserver ITPs, yes. They aren't bitrotting. > > &

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-06-29 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 01:57:33AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:42:10AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > 2) Most of the X.Org/freedesktop.org folks aren't as psychotically > >meticulous about license issues as I am; > > ... which isn&#

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-06-29 Thread Daniel Stone
u still wanted to retain the MANIFEST stuff, you could have debian/tmp.arch, and debian/tmp.indep, and a MANIFEST.indep. Am I missing something? :) d -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian: the universal operating system http://www.debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-06-29 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 12:11:29PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 01:42:43AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > Fonts and docs are a clear decision: the monolithic tree is the only > > provider of these. Despite best intentions (and efforts), most apps are

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-06-29 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 12:15:51PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 01:42:43AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > I am willing to expend significant work on this; indeed, I'm in the > > middle of my rejuvinated xlibs work, and am prepared to put in the wor

Re: X Bitmap

2004-06-29 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 05:53:02PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 04:06:23AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 07:21:57PM +0200, Kevin Boergens wrote: > > > http://netghost.narod.ru/gff/graphics/summary/xbm.htm > > > >

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-06-30 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 02:51:47PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 01:57:33AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:42:10AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > Let me mitigate that complaint by observing: > > > 1) Maybe no

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-06-30 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 03:03:24PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 02:16:04AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > AIUI, these commits are all cleared by an author-internal filter as to > > licence cleanliness. > > I don't understand this. What&#x

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-06-30 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 03:08:56PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 03:25:36AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > Regardless of who packages it - hell, Ali Akaagac could package it if it > > was of good enough quality - the question is who should maintain it

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-06-30 Thread Daniel Stone
e changed, and he plans to start again. I stated my view of the XSF as it was while I was still a member[0]; I've not had any experience of the mechanics of this group since I wrote that mail, but my core view has not changed much at all. -d [0]: Lacking a better name for 'the group of peop

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-07-01 Thread Daniel Stone
ely removed from the DUX, and thus from X maintainence. That's why I can't contribute. [0]: Well, @gFH excluded. It's world-write in the same way debian-x is. -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian: the universal operating system http://www.debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#257187: pkgconfig is out of sync with actual package

2004-07-01 Thread Daniel Stone
Package: xrender Severity: important Hi, xrender currently abuses pkgconfig; by installing its includes to /usr/X11R6, but telling configure they're in /usr, xrender.pc will contain an includedir of /usr/include, and according CFLAGS[0]. This is wrong, as /usr/X11R6/include is actually needed, ins

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-07-01 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 10:22:42PM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Daniel Stone wrote: > > So call the group of people who can upload X something else. > > > > The XSF to me is meaningless as a concept > > If it is meaningless to you, it does

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-07-01 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 11:54:36PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 06:37 +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 10:22:42PM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto > > wrote: > > > On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > > If I de

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-07-01 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 12:46:44PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm more than happy with the job Fabio does as RM - I have absolutely no > > issue here. My issue is with the fact he refuses to acknowledge that > > some peo

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-07-06 Thread Daniel Stone
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 07:36:42PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 01:44:28AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > So call the group of people who can upload X something else. > > ...same thing they're called for all other group-maintained packages. Fo

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-07-06 Thread Daniel Stone
ery uncomfortable with that principle. And, if you refuse to speak to me outside of the context of debian-x, how can I realistically avoid being so hideously wrong again? -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian: the universal operating

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-07-06 Thread Daniel Stone
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 07:43:26PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 01:35:30PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > Yes, I indicated my extreme discomfort with the current XSF order. The > > current XSF order, however, is not necessarily something which need be &

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-07-07 Thread Daniel Stone
h as possible between the lines[0], would you like to share exactly what you think about a maintainership group for xlibs that includes myself? [0]: Which tends to be a great ploy to later jump out from behind some bushes and say 'WRONG! SUCK! I didn't say that!'. -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian: the universal operating system http://www.debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-07-07 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 01:20:49PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > If Mr. Stone feels there are exigent circumstances at work here, he should > say so. By the way, I'll make a special exception. You can call me Daniel. -- Daniel Stone

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-07-09 Thread Daniel Stone
e package >release > > [...] > > [1] ...that I've been able to determine from his public comments on the > subject. No other XSF member, past, present, future, or potential, was involved in my decision. -- Daniel Stone

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-07-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 04:33:16AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 07:51:32PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 07:40:32PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > While it is true that only a fraction of these people actively use their &

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-07-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 04:47:21AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 11:48:24AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 01:20:49PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > The above *does* apply even if a given upstream package changes its >

Re: hurd-i386 updates

2004-07-13 Thread Daniel Stone
the code? It used to be #ifdef REDHAT_CUSTOM or something, but I changed it when I stole it. -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian: the universal operating system http://www.debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#259639: xserver-xfree86: [ati] X starts a bit, then returns to console; [drm:radeon_unlock] *ERROR* Process 1389 using kernel context 0

2004-07-15 Thread Daniel Stone
this a shot: XFree86 :0 -nolisten tcp -dpi 100 & sleep 2 && DISPLAY=:0.0 whatever-you-usually-run (Replace 'whatever-you-usually-run' with gnome-session, startkde, or whatever.) Hopefully you can find some information this way on why your environment

Bug#260659: libxaw7-dev: Add "specs" documentation

2004-07-21 Thread Daniel Stone
nd add Suggest: xspecs to the control. This should ideally just be on a website somewhere or something. fd.o and X.Org have lots of bandwidth. -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian: the universal operating system http://www.debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#260659: libxaw7-dev: Add "specs" documentation

2004-07-21 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 08:32:01PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > On Thu 22 Jul 2004 04:17:38 +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > This should ideally just be on a website somewhere or something. fd.o > > and X.Org have lots of bandwidth. > > I don't. So how are you get

Bug#260659: libxaw7-dev: Add "specs" documentation

2004-07-21 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 08:57:33PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Le jeu 22 jui 2004 ? 04:48:15 +1000, Daniel Stone a tapot? sur son clavier : > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 08:32:01PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > On Thu 22 Jul 2004 04:17:38 +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: &

Bug#260659: libxaw7-dev: Add "specs" documentation

2004-07-21 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 09:19:35PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Le jeu 22 jui 2004 ? 05:10:55 +1000, Daniel Stone a tapot? sur son clavier : > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 08:57:33PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Le jeu 22 jui 2004 ? 04:48:15 +1000, Daniel Ston

Re: check for syntax errors in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4?

2004-07-26 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 04:44:18AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Is there a command to check for syntax errors in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > short of restarting X? No. -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian: the universal oper

Re: check for syntax errors in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4?

2004-07-26 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 03:14:46AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 10:29 +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 04:44:18AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > > Is there a command to check for syntax errors in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > >

Re: check for syntax errors in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4?

2004-07-28 Thread Daniel Stone
You know, like when we power up, when there is a XF86Config-4 syntax > error, the X Server will refuse to start. That's as far as I want to go. Try -probeonly or something. -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian: the universa

Re: check for syntax errors in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4?

2004-07-29 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:16:55AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > D> Try -probeonly or something. > > This frobs ones eproms all the same. Yes. -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian: the universal operating system

Please pass judgement on X-Oz licence: free or nay?

2004-08-02 Thread Daniel Stone
his notice, the name of the copyright holder(s) * and author(s) shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote * the sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written * authorization from the copyright holder(s) and author(s). * * Author: David Dawes <[EMAIL P

Re: Please pass judgement on X-Oz licence: free or nay?

2004-08-02 Thread Daniel Stone
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 05:50:08PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However, on the release call today, it was alleged that the code was > > actually DFSG-free, and that the so-called 'X-Oz licence' bore no legal > > p

Re: Please pass judgement on X-Oz licence: free or nay?

2004-08-02 Thread Daniel Stone
t; that here ? There is no COPYRIGHT file; this is from programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/getconfig, and programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/xf86AutoConfig.c, from the X.Org CVS tree (the monolithic one). -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Deb

Re: Please pass judgement on X-Oz licence: free or nay?

2004-08-02 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 02:01:03AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > Hi guys, > We're trying to release X11R6.7.1 over at X.Org these days, but we've > hit a little roadbump. > > As I'm sure you all know, XFree86 post-4.4RC2 bears a non-DFSG-free > licence, which

Bug#261854: marked as spam Bug#261854 acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#261854: xlibs: some softlinks not made correctly, installer fails to upgrade)

2004-08-02 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:11:39AM -0400, John D. Hendrickson wrote: > I do not appreciate being called completely bogues. I said the bug was completely bogus, not you. -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian: the universal operati

Bug#261854: marked as spam Bug#261854 acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#261854: xlibs: some softlinks not made correctly, installer fails to upgrade)

2004-08-03 Thread Daniel Stone
on't actually give any details about supposed bugs that may or may not exist, and made false accusations. > Am I good? Or does Redhat suck? Ha ha I know what conclusions I drew. > gtk/libgtk-x11-2.0.la:dependency_libs=' > /mnt

Re: Bug#255689: Bug#255439: d-i report

2004-08-17 Thread Daniel Stone
ectly legal, and just sedded to 'ati' in the XFree86 scripts if they really want to enforce this whole 'only ever use the wrapper' thingo. -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian: the universal operating system http://www.debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#266916: SIGABRT at startup with rendition driver

2004-08-19 Thread Daniel Stone
86 :1 -ac -logverbose , and send a copy of /var/log/XFree86.1.log? :) d -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian: the universal operating system http://www.debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Changet lack of clarity

2004-08-25 Thread Daniel Stone
/xorg, 'X.Org CVS'; /cvs/xserver/xserver, 'KDrive CVS'; debrix's TLA archive, 'debrix TLA'. Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian: the universal operating system htt

Bug#253607: #253607: xserver-xfree86: (debconf) X >4.3.0 is perfectly capable of detecting monitor resolutions, debconf should ask only if needed

2004-08-31 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:32:49PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Yes, "somehow". You don't provide any code, or anything beyond the barest > sketch of a design really, so this is going to have to wait until after > sarge. http://www.google.com/search?q=ddcprobe+

Bug#253607: #253607: xserver-xfree86: (debconf) X >4.3.0 is perfectly capable of detecting monitor resolutions, debconf should ask only if needed

2004-08-31 Thread Daniel Stone
edid only seems to > hurt x86 users with buggy hardware. If you have an i855 or such, try running 'X :1 -probeonly -ac' some day, when you have an X session already running. -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian: the uni

Re: Bug#263891: XFree86, X server crashed

2004-09-01 Thread Daniel Stone
quot;reportbug" a try as your primary > bug reporting tool for the Debian System, and try filing your report > again. Won't following this advice cause the reporter to get another form letter telling them off for filing duplicate bugs? -- Daniel Stone

Re: X Strike Force XFree86 SVN commit: r1792 - branches/debconf-overhaul/debian

2004-09-02 Thread Daniel Stone
> > - echo "$(date +%F %X%z) ${*:-(empty message)}" >>"$CONFIG_LOG" > + echo "$(date +"%F %X%z") ${*:-(empty message)}" >>"$CONFIG_LOG" >observe "$*" > } s/")/)"/ -- Daniel Stone

HACKING.txt is misleading

2004-09-06 Thread Daniel Stone
Hi Branden, HACKING.txt currently has outdated information wrt the xf86AutoConfig code; could you please fix this up? -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian: the universal operating system http://www.debi

Bug#270228: [nv] GeForce FX 5200 Ultra DVI output messed up

2004-09-06 Thread Daniel Stone
the very right > side are displayed on the very left. > > Replacing nv_drv.o with a self-compiled version from current X.org CVS > fixes the issue. Try 'Option "FlatPanel"'. -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Deb

Re: Bug#270346: tries to overwrite something in t1-cyrillic?

2004-09-06 Thread Daniel Stone
e, but t1-cyrillic now FTBFSes because fontforge no longer provides pfaedit. -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian: the universal operating system http://www.debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#268812: xfs: can /tmp/.font-unix be moved to /var/run/.font-unix?

2004-09-07 Thread Daniel Stone
g many things which we've long taken for granted. -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian: the universal operating system http://www.debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#270346: tries to overwrite something in t1-cyrillic?

2004-09-07 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 06:50:50PM +0200, Frank Murphy wrote: > On Tuesday 07 September 2004 6:56, Daniel Stone wrote: > > I was looking at this one, but t1-cyrillic now FTBFSes because fontforge > > no longer provides pfaedit. > > fontforge is just the new name of pfaedit,

Bug#253607: #253607: xserver-xfree86: (debconf) X >4.3.0 is perfectly capable of detecting monitor resolutions, debconf should ask only if needed

2004-09-13 Thread Daniel Stone
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 12:51:30PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 08:13:23PM -0700, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:32:49PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > My only concern about that approach is we'd better be damn sure s

Re: who is the author of the Linux evdev patch to lnx_kbd.c?

2004-02-26 Thread Daniel Stone
gt; Can either of you guys shed some light on who wrote this code? warp did, IIRC. -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "The programs are documented fully by _The Rise and Fall of a Fooish Bar_, available by the Info system." -- deb

Bug#238540: this bug is not grave

2004-03-20 Thread Daniel Stone
igher than 'important', unless the driver somehow has a security hole, or causes file loss. :) d -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian: the universal operating system http://www.debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#239719: xserver-xfree86: v4.3.0-7 post-installation script returned error exit status 139

2004-03-24 Thread Daniel Stone
hout rendering it completely unusable to everyone. > > Clearly it is not "unusable to everyone" otherwise it would have been > reported a week ago. > > I am not downgrading it, as I am no part of the xfree86 > maintainer-team. Neither am I, but don't

Bug#239617: Eww, not this again

2004-03-25 Thread Daniel Stone
g the same IRQ. I think I had to take ACPI down to 1.1 and boot with pci=noacpi noapic. With that dodgy hack done, it all works now (I have an Abit KD7, with a KT400 chipset). Does that fix things for you? :) d -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: X.Org

2004-03-25 Thread Daniel Stone
replace it with freedesktop.org's modular xlibs/xserver/xapps trees, to make it far easier to maintain. -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian: the universal operating system http://www.debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Xfree86 4.4 vs Xorg Wrap-up

2004-03-27 Thread Daniel Stone
ce. > Please, correct me if I'm wrong. But don't spend too much time on point > '8' , I know I'm right about this one. OK, I won't bother arguing. Saves me time anyway. And the disk-space issue is fixed. -- Daniel Stone

Re: XFree86 4.3.0 and testing (was: when will the release release)

2004-03-27 Thread Daniel Stone
ageing. Kamion said the only thing holding it up yesterday was an RC bug, which I promptly downgraded; if it didn't go in today, I expect that will be because of the new sppc upload, making it a transitive problem. -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian: the universal operating system http://www.debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: XFree86 4.3.0 and testing (was: when will the release release)

2004-03-27 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 02:18:03PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 11:42:30PM -0800, Daniel Stone wrote: > >... > > Kamion said the only thing holding it up yesterday was an RC bug, which > > I promptly downgraded; if it didn't go in today, I expect t

Re: xorg vs. xlibs/xserver/xapps?

2004-03-28 Thread Daniel Stone
he same collection of code merged in > (or whether they intend to). (I hope so.) Any idea? The actual codebases don't diverge too much, except we have more radical plans, such as using libdl for our loader (while retaining XFree86-ELF capability). -- Daniel Stone

Re: XFree86 4.3.0 and testing (was: when will the release release)

2004-03-28 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 05:06:21PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 06:39:47AM -0800, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 02:18:03PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 11:42:30PM -0800, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > >..

Re: X Strike Force - some infos missing

2004-03-29 Thread Daniel Stone
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 03:20:59PM +0200, Ond?ej Sur? wrote: > could you update your XSF page to include members of XSF? > (The question really is if Daniel Stone and you calmed down and are you > cooperating again :-) I'm very calm. I'll take anyone who cares out for a beer t

Re: x-window-manager - what must it provide?

2004-03-29 Thread Daniel Stone
session-manager for full environments? x-w-m should just manage windows, IMO, where as x-s-m should be for full environments (KDE vs KWin, GNOME vs Metacity, XFce vs XFwm, et al). -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian: the universal oper

Re: Patches from XFree86

2004-03-29 Thread Daniel Stone
t have to make a judgement call at the time: are you writing a whole new, complicated, extension, or are you changing an instance of strcpy to strncpy? -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian: the universal operating system http://www.debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: X Strike Force - some infos missing

2004-03-30 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 04:29:32AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 08:46:06AM -0800, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 03:20:59PM +0200, Ond?ej Sur? wrote: > > > could you update your XSF page to include members of XSF? > > > (The q

Re: X Strike Force - some infos missing

2004-03-30 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 12:39:22AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 13:48, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 04:29:32AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > > > > freedesktop.org's xlibs/xserver/xapps will be uploaded after sarge, w

Re: XFree86 4.3.0 and testing (was: when will the release release)

2004-04-01 Thread Daniel Stone
. important, at best. I'm not suggesting that the patch shouldn't be applied for 4.3.0-8, which, given Branden's lack of response, I assume I am release-managing. However, it is most certainly not RC. Please don't go around making stupid suggestions like this: you might

Re: XFree86 4.3.0 and testing (was: when will the release release)

2004-04-02 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 01:53:53AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 08:48:15PM -0800, Daniel Stone wrote: > > important, at best. I'm not suggesting that the patch shouldn't be > > applied for 4.3.0-8, which, given Branden's lack of respo

Re: XFree86 4.3.0 and testing (was: when will the release release)

2004-04-02 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 11:30:07AM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Daniel Stone wrote: > > I didn't see that; all I saw was 'why is no-one asking to be RM :('. > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/debian-x-200403/msg03703.html Ahr.

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