On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:31:38PM +0200, Johannes Rohr wrote: > Second, I wonder, why rxvt is missing on the CDs. I grabbed the sources > from the unstable tree. As far as I can see, they compiled and installed > normally on my machine.
Jeff, can you build X packages by now? > Third, I couldn't find a way to run any terminal emulator as non-root. I > have learned that for security reasons SUID and SGID programs ignore > LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and therefore are unable to locate the X11 libs. xterm > is SUID and rxvt is SGID. We will probably make /X11R6 a link to . soon. You can try that yourself already (there are only minor conflicts, check out prior discussions here. > So, if I got it right, both won't run as > non-root. Late last year I installed Debian GNU/HURD and X11 from the > CDs distributed with the German magazine freeX. For some reason, then > both xterm and rxvt *did* work as non-root. Now, they don't. Strange, maybe the linker was broken? > Third, there were some dependency probs with Xfonts packages and xutils: > xfonts-base, xfonts-75dpi, xfonts-100dpi and xfonts-scalable require > xutils >= 4.0.3, but the version on the CD is 4.0.3 I don't see a conflict? > After compiling the xutils source package from Debian's ftp server, the > fonts packages did install normally. The latest xutils is 4.0.3-3 and is in the ftp archive. I don't know about the CD, maybe Phil can tell us. I think I updated xutils only after the CD was created, so it might contain an old version of xutils. > Finally, concerning the mouse under X I tried to follow the instructions > from Marcus' freeX article (settrans -c /dev/mouse /hurd/mouse > -protocol=microsoft -device=com0). In XF86Config I set protocol to > "osmouse" and device to "com0". However, X would crash informing me > about a failure to initialize a core device. With the conventional > settings (device=com0, protocol=microsoft), X starts up normally, > although mouse movements are somewhat retarded. Can you tell us what "cat /dev/mouse" and wiggeling the mouse does for you? > Hope, these remarks are not completely useless. Absolutely not. Thanks a lot. In fact, we want more of those ;) Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
