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

2003-08-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 08:55:10AM -0700, Evan Martin wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 09:44:42AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > The source of the bug was without a doubt, X, not totem. Recent XF4.3 > > > packages include a patch to rectify this bug - which, with a little help, > > > was found and

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

2003-08-22 Thread Evan Martin
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 09:44:42AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > The source of the bug was without a doubt, X, not totem. Recent XF4.3 > > packages include a patch to rectify this bug - which, with a little help, > > was found and fixed by Bastien, author of totem. Both totem and XF4.3 (when > > cr

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

2003-08-22 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On 22 Aug 2003 09:01:35 -0400, James Strandboge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 05:25, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On 21 Aug 2003 09:07:39 -0400, > > James Strandboge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > >

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

2003-08-22 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On 21 Aug 2003 09:07:39 -0400, James Strandboge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The main way I advertised the backport was through this list and > debianplanet.org. Both of those have these instructions. ..urls? (I'm new on this list.) -- ..med vennlig hils

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

2003-08-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 05:34:55PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > Totem has never worked as far as i can remember, but xine works fine. > > But then, buggy applications are no reason for saying X 4.3 is no good. > > The source of the bug was without a doubt, X, not totem. Recent XF4.3 > packag

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

2003-08-22 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Totem has never worked as far as i can remember, but xine works fine. > But then, buggy applications are no reason for saying X 4.3 is no good. The source of the bug was without a doubt, X, not totem. Recent XF4.3 packages include a patch to rectify this bug - which, with a little help, was fo

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

2003-08-22 Thread Michael Bennett Cohn
On 21 Aug 2003 15:51:54 -0400 James Strandboge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When that was posted on debianplanet, xfree86 was not part of of my > backport. After it was, I let people know via the list. I am not sure > what you are trying to accomplish here, but I have submitted another > arti

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

2003-08-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 06:58:40PM -0700, Evan Martin wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 23:48, Sven Luther wrote: > > Would it not be better to rebuild the gnome 2.2 backport together with a > > backport of branden's unofficial 4.3 packages ? I seriously doubt that > > it is wise to continue to stay w

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

2003-08-21 Thread Michael Bennett Cohn
On 21 Aug 2003 09:07:39 -0400 James Strandboge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The main way I advertised the backport was through this list and > debianplanet.org. Both of those have these instructions. As for > others, I would like them to have proper instructions, but there isn't > much I ca

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

2003-08-21 Thread Michael Bennett Cohn
With more help from friends at #debian, I actually managed to get rid of the offending XFree86 files. I then finished the backport install according to James' instructions. In general, it seems to be working. But I have a few concerns: 1) I think that James and whoever is promoting his backpor

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

2003-08-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 01:44:51AM -0700, Michael Bennett Cohn wrote: > James, > > Please explain the relationship between what you're saying here, and the info > appearing at http://www.linuxcompatible.org/print20707.html, which was apparently > posted quite recently, and which suggests differe

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

2003-08-19 Thread Michael Bennett Cohn
> > What is the output of each of these commands? > > dpkg -l|grep freetype > dpkg -l|grep fontconfig > dpkg -l|grep xlibs > dpkg -l|grep libxft2 > dkpg -l|grep xserver > > Jamie Strandboge Since our last exchange, I have had some help from a friend on #debian in removing the incorrect xfree86

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

2003-08-19 Thread Michael Bennett Cohn
James, Please explain the relationship between what you're saying here, and the info appearing at http://www.linuxcompatible.org/print20707.html, which was apparently posted quite recently, and which suggests different changes to sources.list, and gives different instructions. mbc On 19 Aug

Re: XFree86 4.3 in Woody

2003-07-18 Thread James Strandboge
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 11:28, James Strandboge wrote: > I can save you the trouble. They won't do it because of conflicts with > other parts of woody. Adrian Bunk has an openoffice.org that will work > with later freetype and fontconfig-- however these later freetype and > fontconfig packages wil

Re: XFree86 4.3 in Woody

2003-07-18 Thread James Strandboge
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 11:43, Antony Gelberg wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 03:36:51PM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Whilst trying to see if the Gnome 2.2. backport was conflicting with the > > XFree 4.3 backport that I was already using, I realised that my xlibs > > had been k

Re: XFree86 4.3 in Woody

2003-07-18 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 04:43:29PM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > openoffice.org-bin: Depends: libfreetype6 (< 2.1.0) but 2.1.3-7 is to > be installed > E: Sorry, broken packages > brain:/var/cache/apt/archives# > > I need the l

Re: XFree86 4.3 in Woody

2003-07-18 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 03:36:51PM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Hi all, > > Whilst trying to see if the Gnome 2.2. backport was conflicting with the > XFree 4.3 backport that I was already using, I realised that my xlibs > had been kept back and was still at v4.1. > > So I removed xlibs (and th

XFree86 4.3 in Woody

2003-07-18 Thread Antony Gelberg
Hi all, Whilst trying to see if the Gnome 2.2. backport was conflicting with the XFree 4.3 backport that I was already using, I realised that my xlibs had been kept back and was still at v4.1. So I removed xlibs (and the many dependants), removed the Gnome line from my sources.list, did an apt-ge