On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 20:14:03 -0700
"Michael M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Debian stable has a lot of value and serves many
> important purposes, but being a showcase for a nice up-to-date Linux
> desktop is not one of them.
>
> --
> Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA
I do agree with that, b
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 20:39:55 -0700
L.V.Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 4/14/06, Rick Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Fri April 14 2006 17:07, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> > > I use aliases for all apt jobs. I was thinking I was upgrading. But
> > > actually doing dist-upgrade.
> > > but f
I use a PC with a AMD Athlon64. 3500+ chip and Debian unstable, i386
port. At about 1800 ESt today, I used synaptic to update my system. Much
of X is being upgraded. I got a error message about x11-common. So I
tried to reinstall x11-common. I get the message
E: x11-common: subprocess post-ins
Žáček Kryštof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I agree, but only partially.
Agree with what? Top posting makes it really hard to follow a
discussion.
> This proves lack of software quality testing in
> the Debian release model.
Sid isn't released. What part of unstable don't you understand?
--
B
On 4/14/06, Rick Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri April 14 2006 17:07, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> > I use aliases for all apt jobs. I was thinking I was upgrading. But
> > actually doing dist-upgrade.
> > but for me everything was ok except virtual terminals opening, which
> > is no t happenin
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
Finally, to all those people, who keep referring unstable for newbies -
situations like this should be kept in mind.
raju
I have not recommended Debian's stable branch to people new to Linux for
a long time, and I don't think I ever would, except as a "just try i
On (14/04/06 22:24), Rick Friedman wrote:
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On Fri April 14 2006 17:07, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> I use aliases for all apt jobs. I was thinking I was upgrading. But
> actually doing dist-upgrade.
> but for me everything was ok except virtual terminals opening, which
> is no t happening still, though I have the following in my laptop dell
> i600m.
Raju: > Finally, to all those people, who keep referring unstable for newbies -
> situations like this should be kept in mind. Mark Crean: Don't worry. With the kind of attitude on display among some of the regular
Debian-fanciers who post here, I should imagine these "newbies" will beheading for
On Friday 14 April 2006 22:18, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
[snip]
> Finally, to all those people, who keep referring unstable for newbies -
> situations like this should be kept in mind.
>
> raju
Don't worry. With the kind of attitude on display among some of the regular
Debian-fanciers who post
On Thursday 13 April 2006 07:36, ?á?ek Kry?tof wrote:
> I agree, but only partially.
>
> look - STABLE is too outdated for desktop, TESTING is often broken more
> than unstable (mainly missing dependancies or completely missing apps (e.g.
> K3b was absent from testing for many months!)). SID appear
On 4/13/06, S. M. Ibrahim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry for this post. I tell him (L.V.Gandhi) to make dist-upgrade now, as i
> found that, at the first upgrade you may not get xserver-xorg 7.1 . I tested
> this on one of my pc. After that, when i make apt-get update and check the
> cache po
L.V.Gandhi wrote:
On 4/13/06, S. M. Ibrahim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sorry for this post. I tell him (L.V.Gandhi) to make dist-upgrade now, as i
found that, at the first upgrade you may not get xserver-xorg 7.1 . I tested
this on one of my pc. After that, when i make apt-get update and check
On 4/13/06, S. M. Ibrahim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Sorry for this post. I tell him (L.V.Gandhi) to make dist-upgrade now, as i
> found that, at the first upgrade you may not get xserver-xorg 7.1 . I tested
> this on one of my pc. After that, when i make apt-get update and check the
> cache
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On Thursday 13 April 2006 12:47,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
> Am I the only one who has managed to upgrade Xorg without anything
> breaking (did it earlier this morning)? :-o
So far, yes. But thanks for sharing.
Maybe the Maintainers have g
ing in the Debian release model. In my
> opinion the released Xorg 7 package belongs still to experimental.
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Joey Hess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 12:41 PM
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.or
On Friday 14 April 2006 08:21, Michael M. wrote:
> S. M. Ibrahim wrote:
> > On Thursday 13 April 2006 20:40, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> >> I also upgraded sid.
> >> I didn't face any problem with x or kdm or keyboard
> >
> > You will face this if you make a dist-upgrade toady.
>
> Why? What changed today
Michael M. wrote:
S. M. Ibrahim wrote:
On Thursday 13 April 2006 20:40, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
I also upgraded sid.
I didn't face any problem with x or kdm or keyboard
You will face this if you make a dist-upgrade toady.
Why? What changed today? I upgraded yesterday to Xorg 7.0 without
David Purton wrote:
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 12:06:00PM +0200, Žáček Kryštof wrote:
Well, this transition could have been prepared better - testing stuff
in such state on human beings is not ethical.
Well, it worked. Look at all the errors you found :)
I can add to them though...
x-c
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 02:50:23PM +0100, George Borisov wrote:
> David Purton wrote:
> >
> > x-cursor-theme is no longer respected by xorg. You get the default X
> > cursors no matter what.
>
> Quoted from a post earlier today:
>
> ---
>
> The easiest way to work around this seems to be creati
S. M. Ibrahim wrote:
On Thursday 13 April 2006 20:40, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
I also upgraded sid.
I didn't face any problem with x or kdm or keyboard
You will face this if you make a dist-upgrade toady.
Why? What changed today? I upgraded yesterday to Xorg 7.0 without a
single thing
On Thu April 13 2006 16:04, Wackojacko wrote:
> You may want to take a look in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, ans
> /var/log/Xorg.log. You will probably see errors setting the kdb
> parameters due to incorrect wording in xorg.conf.
>
> The relevant section of my xorg.conf is
>
> Option"XkbRul
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 19:47:34 +0300
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 16:17:21 +0100
> George Borisov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Am I the only one who has managed to upgrade Xorg without anything
> > breaking (did it earlier this morning)? :-o
> >
> > That said
On 4/13/06, Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> You may want to take a look in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, ans
> /var/log/Xorg.log. You will probably see errors setting the kdb
> parameters due to incorrect wording in xorg.conf.
>
> The relevant section of my xorg.conf is
>
> Option "XkbRu
On Thursday 13 April 2006 6:36 am, Žáček Kryštof wrote:
> look - STABLE is too outdated for desktop, TESTING is often broken more than
> unstable (mainly missing dependancies or completely missing apps (e.g. K3b
> was
> absent from testing for many months!)). SID appears to be the best choice for
Rick Friedman wrote:
On Thu April 13 2006 11:59, Michael Ott wrote:
Hello!
Some special keys do not work anymore
=
Cannot switch to virtual consoles with Alt-Ctrl-F1
Dead keys (ˇ) do not work anymore (e.g. for characters like Ž)
Try this:
setxkbmap -rules
On Thu April 13 2006 11:59, Michael Ott wrote:
> Hello!
>
> > Some special keys do not work anymore
> > =
> > Cannot switch to virtual consoles with Alt-Ctrl-F1
> >
> > Dead keys (ˇ) do not work anymore (e.g. for characters like Ž)
>
> Try this:
> setxkbmap -rule
> > That said, I don't use KDE...
>
> Nor do I -- Fvwm all the way!
Ew, graphical user interfaces.
(I just had to say that)
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On 4/13/06, George Borisov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am I the only one who has managed to upgrade Xorg without anything
> breaking (did it earlier this morning)? :-o
I haven't had any trouble, but then I haven't tried restarting X in
the past several days. I have the appropriate symlink for /e
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 04:17:21PM +0100, George Borisov wrote:
> Am I the only one who has managed to upgrade Xorg without anything
> breaking (did it earlier this morning)? :-o
It upgraded swimmingly on my box. I'm not doing anything strange with
my configuration, though.
> That said, I don't
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 01:36:00PM +0200, ???ek Kry?tof wrote:
> I agree, but only partially.
>
> look - STABLE is too outdated for desktop, TESTING is often broken more than
> unstable (mainly missing dependancies or completely missing apps (e.g. K3b
> was absent from testing for many months!))
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 16:17:21 +0100
George Borisov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am I the only one who has managed to upgrade Xorg without anything
> breaking (did it earlier this morning)? :-o
>
> That said, I don't use KDE...
>
> --
> George Borisov
>
> DXSolutions Ltd
>
>
>
Possibly. I don
Hello!
> Some special keys do not work anymore
> =
> Cannot switch to virtual consoles with Alt-Ctrl-F1
>
> Dead keys (ˇ) do not work anymore (e.g. for characters like Ž)
Try this:
setxkbmap -rules "xorg" -model "pc105" -layout "de"
This worked for me. After t
On 13 Apr 2006, George Borisov wrote:
> David Purton wrote:
> >
> > x-cursor-theme is no longer respected by xorg. You get the default X
> > cursors no matter what.
>
> Quoted from a post earlier today:
>
> ---
>
> The easiest way to work around this seems to be creating a symlink in
> ~/.icons
Am I the only one who has managed to upgrade Xorg without anything
breaking (did it earlier this morning)? :-o
That said, I don't use KDE...
--
George Borisov
DXSolutions Ltd
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> > From: Joey Hess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 12:41 PM
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: Xorg upgrade troubles
> >
> > ?á?ek Kry?tof wrote:
> > > Well, this transition could have been pre
On Thursday 13 April 2006 20:40, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> I also upgraded sid.
> I didn't face any problem with x or kdm or keyboard
>
You will face this if you make a dist-upgrade toady.
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I also upgraded sid.
I didn't face any problem with x or kdm or keyboard
On 4/13/06, Žáček Kryštof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> X did not start
> ==
> The symbolic link /etc/X11/X was wrongly set to /bin/true
> Should be set to /usr/bin/X11/Xorg
for me it was
lvgdell600m:/etc/X11# ls -l /
David Purton wrote:
>
> x-cursor-theme is no longer respected by xorg. You get the default X
> cursors no matter what.
Quoted from a post earlier today:
---
The easiest way to work around this seems to be creating a symlink in
~/.icons of your regular user:
$ mkdir ~/.icons # if it does not ex
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 12:06:00PM +0200, Žáček Kryštof wrote:
> Well, this transition could have been prepared better - testing stuff
> in such state on human beings is not ethical.
Well, it worked. Look at all the errors you found :)
I can add to them though...
x-cursor-theme is no longer resp
the
released Xorg 7 package belongs still to experimental.
> -Original Message-
> From: Joey Hess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 12:41 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Xorg upgrade troubles
>
> Žáček Kryštof wrote:
>
Žáček Kryštof wrote:
> Well, this transition could have been prepared better - testing stuff
> in such state on human beings is not ethical.
People running unstable are expected and required to be able to do the
following:
* Deal with minor breakages.
* Report bug reports when things break.
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