Locales broken after Xorg upgrade

[Please Cc: replies to me, I'm not subscribed to this list.] After the latest Xorg upgrade (unstable), my locale settings don't work anymore. Currently I'm using en_US.UTF-8, and it was working perfectly with the last version of the Xorg packages. After the latest update, I get this message every

Cyrillic input in Xorg?

Hi all, I've a (probably dumb) question: how do I configure XKB so that I can switch between Latin and Cyrillic keyboard layouts? I tried: setxkbmap us,ru -option grp:lwin_toggle and I'm able to get it to switch between the US keyboard and the Russian keyboard, but when I'm in Russian mo

alsaplayer problems

[Please Cc: replies to me, I'm not subscribed to debian-user] I'm having problems using alsaplayer. For some reason, everything works perfectly as root, but when I try to run it under a non-root user, it fails with the following: Unavailable hw params: ACCESS: RW_INTERLEAVED FORMAT: S16_LE SUBF

Kernel idle interference??

[Please Cc: replies to me, I'm not subscribed due to high volume.] Recently, I noticed this very odd phenomenon with my sound card. I'm using an SB16 with the OSS drivers, and there is this persistent background static hum, which is noticeably loud on my headphones. This hum also has buzzes which

Re: MetaFont & X

Oops, I found the answer to both my questions... I guess I should've RTFM'd for the X question since it's addressed in the README.Debian for tetex-base. The second answer is found by searching the BTS archives... Sorry for clogging the list with an irrelevent question :-/ T

Metafont & X

[Please Cc: replies to me -- I'm not on this list since it's too high-traffic.] For you teTeX gurus out there... what do I need to do to get Metafont to use X to display fonts? I'm trying to learn Metafont (from the Metafontbook) but the examples don't work because I can't figure out how to view t