> I've experienced the following problem since I first installed my Radeon
> VE card under XFree86 4.X. The bug affects the playback of any video
> using the xvideo extension.
>
> When I play any video using any video player (e.g. xine, mplayer or vlc)
> and try to minimize the application, a fr
> Hi Ralf,
>
> the g++ libraries from your backport of the experimental packages of
> XFree86 4.3.0 you announed at [1] are compiled with g++ 2.95 although
> they must be compiled with g++ 3.2.
Nothing in woody should be compiled by 3.2.
Everything should be compiled by 2.95
> Much worse is that
Package: xnest
Version: 4.2.1-6
Followup-For: Bug #164379
This bug still exists in 4.2.1-6
Xnest does not provide XKEYBOARD extension, regardleÙÙ ÝÁ +kb/-kb
switches.
Xnest from woody does provide XKEYBOARD.
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> They. Will. Not. Read.
Maybe there will be somewhat less complains from those who don't read, if
debconf stuff will calculate and store a checksum of autogenerated part of
the file, and later don't touch it (or give extra warnings before touching)
if the checksum does not match.
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Hello.
I really need to run 2 font server processes with different configuration on
the same server.
One should provide only small fonts for extremely slow clients that work too
slow if get iso10646 fonts, and another should provide all available fonts
for clients that cat handle them well.
Cu
>
> > What is the correct way to solve the situation?
>
> Use xfs-xtt or xfstt for the second server?
Hmm...
How stable are those font servers?
Font server stop or crash is very bad because not all X servers survive
after disconnect from font server - they often hang or crash. Users don't
like
Package: libxaw7
Version: 4.2.1-3
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Recently I tried to run xload on a high loaded server (load was more
than 10), and discovered that if window size is rather small, scale
lines are drawn incorrectly (upper than needed).
This is caused by a bug in Xaw/StripChart.c.
It
Package: xfs
Version: 4.2.1-3
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
In current xfs package, pid file is hardcoded to /var/run/xfs.pid.
Hardcoded pid file leads to problems if more than one font server should
run (e.g. one providing unicode fonts for fast clients, and another one
not providing unicode fonts
Package: xfs
Version: 4.2.1-3
Severity: important
Tags: patch
After upgrade to Xfree 4.2.1, several times we experienced xfs crashes.
(quite bad, because it causes several user sessions on terminals to crash)
At last one of our users found an reprodusable sequence of actions to
crash xfs. So I've
> I've experienced the following problem since I first installed my Radeon
> VE card under XFree86 4.X. The bug affects the playback of any video
> using the xvideo extension.
>
> When I play any video using any video player (e.g. xine, mplayer or vlc)
> and try to minimize the application, a fr
> Hi Ralf,
>
> the g++ libraries from your backport of the experimental packages of
> XFree86 4.3.0 you announed at [1] are compiled with g++ 2.95 although
> they must be compiled with g++ 3.2.
Nothing in woody should be compiled by 3.2.
Everything should be compiled by 2.95
> Much worse is that
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 11:09:31AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
>> I guess we can do it now. xprt (xfree86) does not work and Fabio was
>> already prepared to remove it now before sarge.
>
> Of course, neither does xprt-xprintorg, but that's a minor quibble. :)
> Does *anything* besides Mozilla
> Author: dnusinow
> Date: 2005-07-12 12:14:46 -0500 (Tue, 12 Jul 2005)
> New Revision: 338
>
> Added:
>tags/6.8.2.dfsg.1-1/
> Log:
> Tagging 6.8.2.dfsg.1-1 release. Note that due to issues with svn access,
> there is a dependency change of xprt-xprintorg -> xprint that was made for
> this t
Hello.
Several people probably faced the problem that after initial system bootup,
and startup of *dm, keyboard does not work.
Suggested workaround was to add implicit 'vtX' parameter to X server
command line in Xservers file.
I've never seen an explanation of what is actually hapenning, and wh
> Marc Wilson wrote:
>> Bob Proulx wrote:
>> > Xsession does not spawn a login shell.
>>
>> Why should it?
>
> * Because it provides the most user convenient way for the user to log
> in and have their login environment.
>
> * Because not doing so has been a long term problem for users.
>
>
> On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> [...]
>> > The question is: Since the last xlib6g packages are empty packages
>> > anyways... do you really need to Conflict: it?
>>
>> I'd really like to force them off the system.
>
> Could conflicting with xlib6g less-than say 4.3.0 help in
Hello.
I'm experimenting with preloading default values to debconf database.
Among others, I was playing with the question about method of display
configuration (simple/medium/advanced).
I wanted to preload answer "Simple", but still let user to change it.
So I preload the following:
Name: xser
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 05:57:55PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > I don't think it's base-config's job to work around what looks like a
> > bug in xdm for not starting the daemon on initial install. Forwarding
> > to the XSF.
>
> This done for two reasons:
>
> 1) historical
> 2) display managers ar
Package: xserver-xfree86
Version: 4.3.0-7
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
xserver-xfree86.config contains the following code:
...
if [ "$RET" = "true" ]; then
db_subst xserver-xfree86/config/monitor/selection-method choices "Medium,
Advanced"
db_subst xserver-xfree86/config/monitor/selection-m
> Your patch is incomplete; there is no auto_answer counterpart for the
> "Simple" and "Medium" monitor selection methods.
Could you please explain what you mean?
I've looked at the code of auto_answer, and I fail to find what else is
needed to change default displayed answer.
auto_answer routin
tag 242216 + patch
thanks
> > Could you please explain what you mean?
>
> Sure.
> ...
> I am referring to the large case statement at line 990 of
> xserver-xfree86.config.in[1].
>
> The Simple) and Medium) cases have no auto-answer logic. Your patch
> should not be applied until they do.
I'm not
> How can I autologin after boot with xdm?
> I'm tired of typing name and password each day at power up.
> The maintainer suggested I try another display manager, but all I use
> is icewm and don't need or understand the glitz.
I think xdm does not support this.
If you really don't want to insta
tag 195418 +patch
thanks
Oh, seems that I forgot to attach my patch when I reported this bug :(
Well, the patch is attached to this mail.
--- config.old 2003-07-31 18:42:00.0 +0400
+++ config 2003-07-31 18:41:55.0 +0400
@@ -508,11 +508,25 @@
# collect information about installed
> How can I autologin after boot with xdm?
> I'm tired of typing name and password each day at power up.
> The maintainer suggested I try another display manager, but all I use
> is icewm and don't need or understand the glitz.
I think xdm does not support this.
If you really don't want to insta
tag 195418 +patch
thanks
Oh, seems that I forgot to attach my patch when I reported this bug :(
Well, the patch is attached to this mail.
--- config.old 2003-07-31 18:42:00.0 +0400
+++ config 2003-07-31 18:41:55.0 +0400
@@ -508,11 +508,25 @@
# collect information about installed
Hello.
On one of Debian systems I administer, user does experience random X server
crashes. The crashes seem not to be reproducable by exact action sequence,
but they do happen every 2-3 hours.
This happens both with 4.2 from testing and 4.3 from experimental.
I don't think it is bad memory or s
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:26:17PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> > I guess -dbg X server package is needed...
>
> I am disappointed that you reached this conclusion, completle with
> speculation as to how such a package would be named, and then didn't
> e
Package: xserver-xfree86
Version: 4.3.0-0pre1v4
Tags: experimental
Architecture: i386
After upgrading X from 4.2 to current 4.3 packages from XSF, I've got the
following problem on several of workstations here.
If X is started on 1280x1024 24bpp, there is well-visible and really
annoying "CGA s
> See http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175 .
[From that bug discussion]
> The radeon driver in current CVS contains bandwidth management code
> by Hui Yu which might help this. Would be great if someone seeing this
> problem could verify that.
If there is pre-build driver binary availabl
Hello
(the above happens with package from debian/experimental, with ATI
Technologies Inc Rage 128 RF video card)
One of users here experienced a nearly-reproducable X server crash
("nearly-reproducable" means that he does a compex sequence of actions,
and at some moment it leads to the crash,
Never mind.
It was a bug (process esp breakage in interrupt handler) in a kernel module
I was playing with and forgot to unload.
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After I've configured dpi correctly on all servers, I do get correct font
sizes everywhere in OpenOffice - both with 1.1.0-2 and 1.1.0-2.3pre1
What have I done:
- physically measured the visible picture dimensions for monitors, and
added correct "DisplaySize" parameter to XF86Config-4 (Section
Some experiments show that to get best results with OpenOffice.org (and
probably other packages), X server's DPI value should be set to real
monitor DPI.
XFree86 seems to have an excellent way to do that.
In XF86Config-4, in section "Monitor", one can write
DisplaySize 320 240
and sp
Hello.
To get correctly configured russian keyboard In pre-4.3 xkb configuration,
we had to write
Option "XkbLayout" "ru"
In 4.3, we have to write
Option "XkbLayout" "us,ru"
because setting it to just "ru" now gives only russian letters input,
instead of both english and russi
> Hi Nikita,
>
> It might be good to test Mesa 6.5.3-1 which has been uploaded to
> experimental today. The upstream bug that you reported has not been
> touched, but there are so many changes since 6.5.2 that it's probably
> worth a try.
Hello, and sorry for long delay.
I've tried it, and the is
> tags 242216 - patch
> reassign 242216 xserver-xorg
> kthxbye
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2004 at 11:29:46 +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> > > > Could you please explain what you mean?
> > >
> > > Sure.
> > > ...
> > > I am referring t
> #0 0x0fcf5c40 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6
> No symbol table info available.
> #1 0x0fcf5a08 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
> No symbol table info available.
> #2 0x0fcf7140 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
> No symbol table info available.
> #3 0x1045ec7c in ddxGiveUp () at xf86Init.c:1264
> Package: xserver-xorg
> ...
> Version: 1:7.0.0
> ...
> Pre-Depends: x11-common (>= 7.0.0-0ubuntu3)
Is this considered OK these days?
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Hello.
Could someone please help me to get a copy of Extended Window Manager Hints
specification (that is, the specification how newer window manares such as
kwin communicate with other X clients) ?
The only URL I found is http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/wm-spec.html,
but www.freedesktop.o
Seems that with current X packages "ati" driver with ATI rage 128 card
works much better (e.g. no garbage on screen) with
Option "XaaNoSolidHorVertLine"
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added. This seem not to impact perfarmance noticably.
I posted this to the list because someone may need this information.
>
> Jeremy
>
> On Monday 29 July 2002 3:15 am, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> > Seems that with current X packages "ati" driver with ATI rage 128 c
Hello.
I wanted to set up an X terminal (old Pentium 100) that will connect to
remote xdm, and use remote xfs. I thought that the only X packages I need
for the terminal are xfree86-common, xserver-common and xserver-xfree86.
But I wanted to configure the X terminal keyboard using xkb (as I usu
> They. Will. Not. Read.
Maybe there will be somewhat less complains from those who don't read, if
debconf stuff will calculate and store a checksum of autogenerated part of
the file, and later don't touch it (or give extra warnings before touching)
if the checksum does not match.
Hello.
I really need to run 2 font server processes with different configuration on
the same server.
One should provide only small fonts for extremely slow clients that work too
slow if get iso10646 fonts, and another should provide all available fonts
for clients that cat handle them well.
Cu
>
> > What is the correct way to solve the situation?
>
> Use xfs-xtt or xfstt for the second server?
Hmm...
How stable are those font servers?
Font server stop or crash is very bad because not all X servers survive
after disconnect from font server - they often hang or crash. Users don't
like
Package: libxaw7
Version: 4.2.1-3
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Recently I tried to run xload on a high loaded server (load was more
than 10), and discovered that if window size is rather small, scale
lines are drawn incorrectly (upper than needed).
This is caused by a bug in Xaw/StripChart.c.
It
Package: xfs
Version: 4.2.1-3
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
In current xfs package, pid file is hardcoded to /var/run/xfs.pid.
Hardcoded pid file leads to problems if more than one font server should
run (e.g. one providing unicode fonts for fast clients, and another one
not providing unicode fonts
Package: xfs
Version: 4.2.1-3
Severity: important
Tags: patch
After upgrade to Xfree 4.2.1, several times we experienced xfs crashes.
(quite bad, because it causes several user sessions on terminals to crash)
At last one of our users found an reprodusable sequence of actions to
crash xfs. So I've
Looks like I've faced something similar to this bug, and seems that it is
caused by incorrect choice of dispaly number by remote sshd.
Look:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ssh -X sercond
No mail.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> echo $DISPLAY
localhost:10.0
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> xterm
xterm Xt error: Can't open displa
While trying to add xrandr support to Xvnc, I faced a bug in xrandr
implementation in XFree 4.x; maybe current Xorg also has it?
Bug is that xrandr stores the moment of last switch as 64-bit value. Then,
in 'get configuration' request it sends this time to client as 32-bit
value. In 'set config
> Hi,
>
> I'd like all errors from my xsession to go to the syslogd daemon instead
> of ~/.xsession-error.
>
> Can that be easily done?
You may use 'logger' for that; see man logger for details.
E.g. find 'exec >>"$ERRFILE" 2>&1' in /etc/X11/Xsession, remove it, and move
entire script into (
Hello.
Could someone please help me to get a copy of Extended Window Manager Hints
specification (that is, the specification how newer window manares such as
kwin communicate with other X clients) ?
The only URL I found is http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/wm-spec.html,
but www.freedesktop.
> Does anybody know how it is possible to catch keyboard events,
> regardless of the pointer position?
>
> The only way I found is by using XQueryTree for RootWindow, which builds
> an hierarchy of all existing windows and then XSelectInput with
> KeyPressMask | SubstructureNotifyMask for every w
Seems that 4.1.0-16 fixed at last the old problem with garbage-on-screen in
kicker and in nedit scrollbars on r128 card.
Great work !
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