Re: Sid on PowerPC has broken xserver-xorg-core

2010-01-19 Thread Michel Dänzer
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Re: Sid on PowerPC has broken xserver-xorg-core

2010-01-18 Thread Michel Dänzer
t against the new xserver-xorg-core yet. You could try removing driver packages you don't need. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer |http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Upgrade to Sid from Squeeze not happy...

2009-04-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
x27;t caught up yet. > PS: Can somebody suggest an appropriate "package" to which I can > submit a bug report on this? FTBFS bugs should be reported against the corresponding packages, but otherwise this is just normal sid churn. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer |http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Will using kernel 2.6.24 make my laptop faster?

2008-01-31 Thread Michel Dänzer
nels is generally overrated. I'd suggest trying pre-packaged kernels from sid first. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer

Re: APM or ACPI on a PowerPC Laptop?

2008-01-07 Thread Michel Dänzer
l PowerMacs, even APM is just emulated on top of the native PMU/SMU then. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer

Re: what does xlibmesa-dri provide?

2004-03-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 07:12, Nano Nano wrote: > I'm running XFree 4.3 from SID with the FGLRX drivers from ATI. > > My OpenGL is working *very* well. Obviously a non-tainted kernel would > be preferable, but framerate is God. > > Would xlibmesa-dri provide (1) additional, (2) alternate, or (3)

Concurrent sound playback without a sound server

2003-12-31 Thread Michel Dänzer
Inspired by a very good article about ALSA in the German magazine c't 26/2003, I finally got the ALSA dmix plugin working fine and thus rid of problems with apps blocking each other on sound playback, without needing any of the sound servers which all are unsatisfactory for me (not to mention that

Re: Gnome2.2 backport and XFree86 4.3 on woody [was R:e XFree864.3 in Woody]

2003-08-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
s may already have happened. Indeed, totem 0.99.2-1 works fine for me with xlibs 4.3.0-0pre1v1, FWIW. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: the evergreen: mozilla 1.0 and gnome2

2003-07-10 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 18:27, Andreas Wüst wrote: > > On Mittwoch, 09-Jul-03 at 23:01:12, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 00:23, Andreas Wüst wrote: > >> > >> On Mittwoch, 09-Jul-03 at 22:30:19, Michel Dänzer wrote: > >> > >&g

Re: the evergreen: mozilla 1.0 and gnome2

2003-07-09 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 00:23, Andreas Wüst wrote: > > On Mittwoch, 09-Jul-03 at 22:30:19, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 17:47, Andreas Wüst wrote: > >> > >> I've installed gnome2 from unstable and am running mozilla 1.0 from > >&

Re: the evergreen: mozilla 1.0 and gnome2

2003-07-09 Thread Michel Dänzer
illa to sid as well (and installing mozilla-xft). -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: System dies after logging out of an X session

2003-01-31 Thread Michel Dänzer
neglected to do so, unless maybe he BCC'd you. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mouse freezes after X logout - why?

2002-11-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
estore the mouse? If so, you can set up gdm to always restart the X server. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: UPDATE: when using XDM, lose mouse/kbd when logout

2002-04-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
y. Is my setup messed up somewhere? I doubt it, sounds like an X bug. As a workaround, you could have your display manager always restart the X server. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XFree + KDE + USB mouse = APM misbehavior

2001-12-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
> > It seems that either X or KDE don't take secondary mouse movements into > account for resetting the suspend time-out...? > > Can anyone confirm this? > Is this a KDE or X bug? Neither AFAICT. I don't see either having anything to do with APM suspend. I'd rather

Re: debian: gnome is slower with testing distro

2001-08-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
ing multiple seconds which is eons in computer > terms. If you're running a 2.4 kernel, try 2.4.7 or later. The VM performance has improved significantly. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)\ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \XFree86 and DRI project member

Re: problem w voodoo3/XF86-4

2001-04-28 Thread Michel Dänzer
functions. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)\ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \XFree86 and DRI project member

Re: debian: Can't get X-4.0.2 working with a 2.2.18 or 2.4.x kernel.

2001-03-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
ome light > on the situation, or better still give me a solution, then I would be > very appreciative. Don't you have the Debian devfsd package installed? It did all that for me automatically. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)\ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \XFree86 and DRI project member

multiple smarthosts with exim

2001-02-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
PS: I'm not subscribed to -user . -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)\ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \XFree86 and DRI project member

Re: debian: C library man pages

2000-09-26 Thread Michel Dänzer
cache search". > > What package do I need to install to get the C library manpages. The description of manpages-dev says it contains such, but that glibc-doc may contain more accurate information - maybe just not in manpages but rather in texinfo? Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänze

Re: a2ps with 4 up printing.

2000-09-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
Brendan J Simon wrote: > Is psnup part of some debian package ? Yep, psutils. Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project

Re: USR modem & ZIP drive questions

2000-02-10 Thread Michel Dänzer
cript (no need to reboot). See if it worked by > going online and checking the transfer rate. Seems like the serial speed (115200 bps!) was too low, at 230400 bps it's been working fine so far. D'oh. Michel PS: I'm not currently on the list... -- The computer revolution i

diald & masquerading

2000-02-01 Thread Michel Dänzer
ss the outside world. Can anyone tell me briefly what to do or point me to appropriate documentation? Michel -- Software is like sex; it's better when it's free -- Linus Torvalds __

Re: How to back-out an apt-get upgrade

2000-02-01 Thread Michel Dänzer
ns of every package, i.e. you can always revert to an older version. Michel -- Software is like sex; it's better when it's free -- Linus Torvalds ______ Michel Dänzer

Re: How to back-out an apt-get upgrade

2000-01-30 Thread Michel Dänzer
Michel PS: You might be interested in 'apt-get autoclean' -- Software is like sex; it's better when it's free -- Linus Torvalds ______ Michel Dänzer /

Re: help with kernel compiling

2000-01-30 Thread Michel Dänzer
> > I've been compiling with gcc 2.95.2, and things work fine (for the 2.2 > tree, anyway). The same thing for me with 2.3.40 Michel -- Software is like sex; it's better when it's free -- Linus Torvalds ____

Re: Some phylosofical questions (and kernel questions too)

2000-01-28 Thread Dänzer
--- Luis Campos de Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. ftp ftp.kernel.org (get kernel-2.3.40, latest stable kernel until now) > tar/gz format. All 2.3.x (In fact, all kernels with an odd middle number) are unstable by definition. > 5. (as root, too. Same dir) make zImage >At this poi

Re: updatedb not working / bug in updatedb

2000-01-28 Thread Dänzer
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After more tinkering around, I think I've found the problem. The problem > is that updatedb is not able to execute the frcode program which it calls > to compress the database. In looking at an older version of updatedb, it > contains the line: > > : ${LIBEXECD

Re: Compiling KDE programs

2000-01-27 Thread Michel Dänzer
- Mother! He hath killed me! -- Shakespeare, MacBeth ______ Michel Dänzer /// [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ /// AmigaOS/Linux(Debian/PPC) Student of computer science at t

Re: libz1

2000-01-27 Thread Dänzer
--- Robyn Manning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to install libtiff3g, so I can install kde, it requires > libz1 but I can't find it anywhere. AFAIK it's provided by zlib1g Doesn't APT find out on its own? Michel = "Software is like sex; it's better when it's free" -- Linus

Re: Problems with GNOME; Using pon as user

2000-01-27 Thread Dänzer
--- Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I downloaded GNOME last night with apt, and it seems like it installed the > programs that come with GNOME, but when I boot up, the GNOME bar-type thing > isn't there. You mean the panel? Package gnome-panel IIRC. The easiest way to get a worki

Re: X hangs modem/ppp

2000-01-27 Thread Dänzer
--- Kurt Swigart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My ppp connection quits working when I start X. It doesn't happen all > the time, just about 60%. Stopping X does not make it better. How heavy is the overall system load? > The problem seems to be with the modem (or the serial port), since even

Re: Keyboard autorepeat

2000-01-27 Thread Dänzer
--- Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To clear up the earlier confusion from above: I now know the SetKbdSettings > stuff is coming from *GNOME* (latest version of GNOME, I'm using "potato" > updated almost daily). It now sets the keyboard every time it starts, thus > the value of AutoRe

Re: Pathetic Performance

2000-01-26 Thread Dänzer
--- "W. Keegan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've since recompiled the kernel and while it's much smaller and I > "think" its faster then before it's not at par with the 486-33. I told you :) > The 486-33 (Carol) has 42mb ram and I was wrong about the 486- > 100 (Alice) machine it's only got

Re: Gnome complain it cannot find internet address for hostname

2000-01-26 Thread Dänzer
--- Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Each time I log on using GDM or KDM I get a Gnome message telling me > that Gnome cannot find the internet address for scgf (my system > hostname). > > My /etc/hosts contains: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > 0.0.0.0 scgf.gmx.net scgf > > If

Re: newbie needs help veiwing files

2000-01-26 Thread Dänzer
--- DOUGLAS HUNTER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I'm in bash and trying to ls large files I can only see the last > part of the file due to it scrolling past too fast. > Is there a command to insert that means I can veiw the output page by > page and change pages when I want to ? ls | more

Re: X coming up in 320x240!!!!

2000-01-26 Thread Dänzer
--- Josh Orfanakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I upgraded to Xfree3.3.6 to support my Diamond Viper 550. The installation > goes fine but when I startx X comes up in 320x240. Shift-Alt + or - on the > number pad or the keyboard does nothing but put a + and - sign on the xterm > prompt. Try Ctrl

Re: Pathetic Performance

2000-01-25 Thread Dänzer
--- Jesse Jacobsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OTOH, Netscape is always sluggish, as is Enlightenment and some others. It's kinda fast on my Athlon/500 :) Michel = "Software is like sex; it's better when it's free" -- Linus Torvalds "If you continue running Windows, your system may b

Re: ipchains diagnostics

2000-01-25 Thread Dänzer
--- Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Would you mind explaining when to use 10.0.0.0/8 10.0.0.0/24 and > 10.0.0.0/32 With 10.0.0.0/24, the masquerading code will only forward from/to IPs 10.0.0.x, whereas with 10.0.0.0/8 10.x.x.x , which is probably what you want (although it escapes

Re: Please tell me this is curable...

2000-01-25 Thread Dänzer
--- rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know there are little windows utils to do this but someone > can cobble up an awk one-liner or something. I did it with rexx. Am I missing something, or should dos2unix/unix2dos from the sysutils pckage do the job? Michel = "Software is like sex;

Re: ipchains diagnostics

2000-01-25 Thread Dänzer
--- hypnos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 10.0.0.0/24 -j MASQ > > > > The IP address looks funny. Sure it's private? > > That's the private Class A network address. It does > look like he is using a Class C network

Re: Pathetic Performance

2000-01-25 Thread Dänzer
--- Bill Keegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running Corel/Debian v1.0 on a AMD 486-100. 24mb ram, This is very little RAM. > >1G hd, networked with three other PCs. This workstation is 5X slower then a > 486-33 running RH 5.0 acting as a gateway, Samba server, mail, etc. How much does thi

Re: ipchains diagnostics

2000-01-24 Thread Dänzer
--- Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't get ipchains to work and get no error messages when I run > echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY > /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 10.0.0.0/24 -j MASQ The IP address looks funny. Sure it's private? Michel

Re: Athlon kernel compilation blues

2000-01-20 Thread Dänzer
--- José_Luis_Gómez_Dans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 07:56:43AM -0800, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > This is not needed anymore with 2.95.2 > > > > On the contrary, if you want to build apps with strict aliasing, you have > to > > add -fstrict-aliasing. > > So what

Re: Athlon kernel compilation blues

2000-01-20 Thread Dänzer
--- José_Luis_Gómez_Dans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.2/specs > gcc version 2.95.2 2116 (Debian GNU/Linux) > > Optimization is set to O2. However, I also issue the > -fno-strict-aliasing option, as recommended by > /usr/doc/gcc/REA

Re: Hint: Finding packages with needed files

2000-01-20 Thread Dänzer
--- Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shooting in the dark here, I'd be looking at the ppp log Nothing helpful there. > and maybe the compression scheme the modem is using (different init > strings), I hoped some kind of modem wizard here might be able to help me there... I'm pretty stuc

Re: Hint: Finding packages with needed files

2000-01-19 Thread Dänzer
--- Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 1. I have a USR V90 56k modem. If I let it connect at anything above > > > > 33600, the RX rate drops drastically - to around 1kB/s. Any > > > > suggestions? > > > > But, do you think it will also help with this problem? It also shows up > > wit

Re: NEW x problem :/

2000-01-19 Thread Dänzer
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think I discovered my problem, but another came up. Here it is: I was > tweaking some of /etc/X11/XF86Config, where it configures the mouse. I > modified /dev/mouse to /dev/ttyS3 (where my mouse is). X failed. Have you set the correct mouse protocol/type in XF86C

Re: exponential dial PPP

2000-01-19 Thread Dänzer
--- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Dave" == Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dave> I'm pretty sure that diald will do this. Send it a 'force' > Dave> command and it will retry failed/dropped connections with > Dave> options for starting and maximum inter

Re: Several problems

2000-01-19 Thread Dänzer
--- "I can. Thank you." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have seen the same problem with the XF86_SVGA server with ATI cards. I > could not switch between X and a virtual console without blanking the > screen, freezing things, and other unpleasantness. > I would suggest using an accelerated server

Re: startup & shutdown

2000-01-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
ule loader enabled, but I guess that's the case in the Debian kernel packages Good luck, Michel -- Apologies are so hard to give. Would you accept some potatoes instead? ______

Re: unexpected end of file

2000-01-17 Thread Dänzer
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ethan you were partially correct in your reply. > > When I comment out the if structure that tests for the > existence of .bashrc, and 'sources' it if it does exist, > there are no problems. That is, I can source the file > without any problems. > > However the

Re: Keyboard autorepeat

2000-01-17 Thread Dänzer
--- Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is, to me, something suspicious that I haven't noticed before. > The last lines of the text console after starting X now include: > > SetKbdSettings - type: 0 rate: 5 delay: 105 snumlk: 0 > SetKbdSettings - succeeded > > Wher

Re: XF86config

2000-01-17 Thread Dänzer
--- Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have install Debian on my PC and start X sucessfully. > However, the windows and icons are to large. Althought I could cycle the > resolution by "++" , but I still want to start X at > correct resolution mode. > So I want to reorder the modeline in the "scr

Re: broken pipe

2000-01-17 Thread Dänzer
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In attempting to dpkg -i libgtk1.2_1.2.6-1.deb, the current potato > libgtk, I'm getting the following: > > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > dpkg: error processing libgtk1.2_1.2.6-1.deb) ... > subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned

Re: netscape sharing win98/linux

2000-01-17 Thread Dänzer
--- jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i think i remember a past post about how to get netscape commicator to > share the mail box between win9x/linux partiions.. > > what's i've done is put the mail box on the windows partition .. mount it > from linux and point there.. but it doesn't seem to

Re: Keyboard autorepeat

2000-01-17 Thread Dänzer
--- Alisdair McDiarmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 06:53:25PM +, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > I just upgraded my machine to current potato, and the keyboard > > autorepeat settings have changed: delay is now 500ms instead of ~300ms > > as it was before. > > > > I've

Re: Hint: Finding packages with needed files

2000-01-14 Thread Dänzer
--- Howard Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There's a simple solution to that kind of problems. There's a file called > > Contents-i386.gz in the dists/ directory. It lists every > > single file with the package that contains it. > > > > So a 'zgrep "file I need" Contents-i386.gz' gives you

Re: Reinstalling Packages

2000-01-13 Thread Dänzer
--- Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * "mike" == mike ber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > mike> Is it possible to go back to the point where you are asked which > mike> Tasks or Profiles you want installed. Thanks. > > No, not in Debian 2.1 > It will be possible in Debian 2.2 An

Hint: Finding packages with needed files

2000-01-13 Thread Dänzer
Let me comment on two different posts in one: --- Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know where I can get libXpm.so.4? --- Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > jpeg.h:8: jpeglib.h: No such file or directory > jpeg.h:9: png.h: No such file or directory > make: *** [

Re: USR modem & ZIP drive questions

2000-01-13 Thread Dänzer
--- Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you tried running "irqtune" from the hwtools package? Nope, I just stumbled upon irqtune when reading the IPmasq (or was it diald? ;) HOWTO yesterday. I'll try it next weekend. > > 1. I have a USR V90 56k modem. If I let it connect at anything

Re: Packet libz1 missing

2000-01-13 Thread Dänzer
--- Gerhard Heid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i need xserver-vga 3.3.5-2 for Nvidia Riva TNT2 graphic i386 -unstable, > but dpkg needs libz1-Packet to be installed before. This Packet is not > listet at all. As someone else has already said, it's provided by zlib1g. APT would have sorted thi

USR modem & ZIP drive questions

2000-01-12 Thread Dänzer
Hi Hope this is not too much OT, but my impression is there are a lot of very competent people on this list: 1. I have a USR V90 56k modem. If I let it connect at anything above 33600, the RX rate drops drastically - to around 1kB/s. Any suggestions? 2. Whenever I acces my ZIP drive, the RX

Re: Few problems

2000-01-12 Thread Dänzer
--- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Upgrading to potato doesn't seem to add /dev/pts to /etc/fstab, or (from > >what I gather from other users) create an rcS.d script to mount it. Is > >it part of a seperate package outside of required base which I might > >have missed during dist-up

diald setup

2000-01-06 Thread Dänzer
I have two machines running potato, they're connected and I'd like to use diald for dialling up on demand and masquerading. It works until diald actually tries to establish the link. It dials, and upon connect it starts pppd, which sends some LCP requests. That's all. After some time, (supposedl