Bug#620813: xserver-xorg-video-s3: laptop display distorted after resume from sleep

[Eric Brown]

Package: xserver-xorg-video-s3
Version: 1:0.6.3-2
Severity: important


Running a Dell Latitude C610 with onboard ATI Radeon Mobility. When resuming 
from sleep mode, the display is completely distorted. I can still enter my 
password to unlock the screen and use keyboard shortcuts to shut down, but 
that's it.

This was an occasional problem under Lenny, but occurs consistently under 
Squeeze.


-- Package-specific info:
X server symlink status:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jan 10 20:29 /etc/X11/X - /usr/bin/Xorg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1733468 Feb 19 09:43 /usr/bin/Xorg

VGA-compatible devices on PCI bus:
--
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility 
M6 LY [1002:4c59]

Xorg X server configuration file status:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1077 Jan 10 20:29 /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
---
# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type man xorg.conf at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section InputDevice
Identifier  Generic Keyboard
Driver  kbd
Option  XkbRules  xorg
Option  XkbModel  pc104
Option  XkbLayout us
EndSection

Section InputDevice
Identifier  Configured Mouse
Driver  mouse
EndSection

Section Device
Identifier  Configured Video Device
EndSection

Section Monitor
Identifier  Configured Monitor
EndSection

Section Screen
Identifier  Default Screen
Monitor Configured Monitor
EndSection

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d does not exist.

KMS configuration files:

/etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf:
  options i915 modeset=1
/etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf:
  options radeon modeset=1

Kernel version (/proc/version):
---
Linux version 2.6.32-5-686 (Debian 2.6.32-31) (b...@decadent.org.uk) (gcc 
version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-4) ) #1 SMP Tue Mar 8 21:36:00 UTC 2011

Xorg X server log files on system:
--
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40381 Mar 30 07:27 /var/log/Xorg.20.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37489 Apr  4 06:35 /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Contents of most recent Xorg X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
-

X.Org X Server 1.7.7
Release Date: 2010-05-04
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.32.29-dsa-ia32 i686 Debian
Current Operating System: Linux baxter 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Tue Mar 8 21:36:00 
UTC 2011 i686
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686 
root=UUID=1a7456ea-e8f1-4b0b-8545-bd52cd062049 ro quiet
Build Date: 19 February 2011  02:37:36PM
xorg-server 2:1.7.7-13 (Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org) 
Current version of pixman: 0.16.4
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Mon Apr  4 06:35:09 2011
(==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
(==) Using system config directory /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d
(==) No Layout section.  Using the first Screen section.
(**) |--Screen Default Screen (0)
(**) |   |--Monitor Configured Monitor
(==) No device specified for screen Default Screen.
Using the first device section listed.
(**) |   |--Device Configured Video Device
(==) Automatically adding devices
(==) Automatically enabling devices
(WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(==) FontPath set to:
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,
/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType,
built-ins
(==) ModulePath set to /usr/lib/xorg/modules
(II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices.
If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or disable 
AutoAddDevices.
(II) Loader magic: 0x81ecca0
(II) Module ABI versions:
X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
X.Org Video Driver: 

Bug#871502: Bug #871502

[Eric Brown]

Hello,

I apologize if this is inappropriate, but given the challenges in
packaging Zotero for Debian, I wanted to point out that there is a
flatpak available on Flathub, with the latest version
(https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.zotero.Zotero), which may be a
solution for some.

Good luck to all trying to package Zotero for Debian.

Eric


On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 22:14:57 +0200 =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien?= Villemot
 wrote:
> Dear Jakson,
>
> Le jeudi 09 août 2018 à 14:59 -0300, Jakson Alves de Aquino a écrit :
>
> > Please, forgive me if this is a stupid question, but would it be
> > against Debian policy a package whose name could be zotero-install
> > that would depend on libraries that Zotero needs to work and whose
> > configure script would:
> >
> >    - Download the binary Zotero package and unpack it at /usr/lib/
>
> The solution that you propose is clearly not an option for Debian,
> because the package would no longer be built from source, thus failing
> the Debian Free Software Guidelines. The only way of doing what you
> suggest would be to move zotero to the non-free archive area (which is
> not considered part of Debian per se), but the value added over
> upstream packaging would be low (and I am personally not interested in
> doing that).
>
> A better solution would be to bundle the Javascript dependencies in the
> zotero source package (this is not ideal, but at least is it acceptable
> in Debian if all the source is DFSG-compatible); this still represents
> a significant amount of work.
>
> Best,
>
> --
> ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀  Sébastien Villemot
> ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁  Debian Developer
> ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀  http://seb
> astien.villemot.name
> ⠈⠳⣄  http://www.debian.org

Bug#982895: ITP: r-cran-pingr -- A CRAN R package, pingr, which is used to check if a remote computer is up. It can either call the system ping command, or check a specified TCP port.

[Eric Brown]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Eric Brown 
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, e...@ericebrown.com

* Package name: r-cran-pingr
  Version : 2.0.1
  Upstream Author : Gábor Csárdi 
* URL : https://github.com/r-lib/pingr#readme
* License : MIT
  Programming Lang: R
  Description : A CRAN R package, pingr, which is used to check if a remote 
computer is up. It can either call the system ping command, or check a 
specified TCP port.

This R package is an important dependency for other important 
R packages, such as shinytest and codemetaR and is suggested 
by major packages such as remotes and devtools.

The package will be maintained by the Debian R package
maintainers team.

I will seek a sponsor from the Debian R package maintainers
team.

Bug#960906: shiny-server -- put Shiny web apps online

[Eric Brown]

Hi all,

Unfortunately, I don't have the skills to help out with this. However I
do agree that this would be a particularly useful package to have in
Debian, to more easily deploy and update remote servers.

Further, there is a demand for an ARM build (as evidenced by multiple
tutorials online for running on a Raspberry Pi). Hopefully, the Debian
packaging could also work with ARM, which would greatly simplify current
options.

Thanks everyone involved in getting this packaged.

Eric

On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 17:27:27 + Shayan Doust 
wrote:
> Hello Andreas,
> 
> As of now, there still stands a single dependency called [node-http-proxy].
> 
> Unfortunately, it looks like it relies on socket.io, which has not been 
> packaged
> yet.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Shayan Doust
> 
> 
> 
> [node-http-proxy]: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-http-proxy/

Bug#996965: bslib and rmarkdown update

[Eric Brown]

Hi Andreas,

I can at least identify which .woff files correspond to which fonts,
that is possible with grep. Here's the output:
https://gist.github.com/eebrown/95615fc35af364bd0fae09a69273dbdf

I think deleting the .woff files and seeing if the fonts render
properly when they are installed at the system level is reasonable but
I too am not sure exactly how to try out all the fonts.

If that doesn't work, I guess it would be a matter of symlinking files
to replace the .woff files. This might require a step to derive the
.woff wiles in the format expected by bslib.


On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 9:44 AM Andreas Tille  wrote:
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> Am Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 06:42:59AM -0400 schrieb Eric Brown:
> > To update, I found that a few more are packaged in texlive-fonts-extra (
> > https://packages.debian.org/buster/texlive-fonts-extra)
> >
> > Roboto  https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/fonts-roboto
> > Ubuntu  https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/fonts-ubuntu
> > Open Sans   https://packages.debian.org/sid/fonts-open-sans
> > Latohttps://packages.debian.org/sid/fonts-lato
> > Cabin Sketchhttps://packages.debian.org/sid/fonts-cabinsketch
> > Montserrat, Nunito, Raleway, Source Sans Pro: texlive-fonts-extra
> >
> > This leaves 4 which I could not find in Debian:
> >
> > Nunito Sans https://github.com/googlefonts/NunitoSans
> > Inter   https://github.com/rsms/inter/
> > News Cycle  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~n8/newscycle/
> > Neucha  ?
>
> Thanks a lot for this very helpful investigation.  The problem now is
> how to know which of the 60 inst/fonts/*.woff files we can remove from
> the source package since these are not needed and whether the fonts
> you said are found by bslib if we simply set the dependencies you
> mentioned above (and how to test this).  The names of these *.woff
> files are absolutely cryptic and I need to admit I have no idea about
> all this fonts stuff.
>
> Kind regards
>
>   Andreas.
>
> > Best,
> > Eric
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 3, 2022 at 14:34 Eric Brown  wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Since this is a pretty important package, I grep'd the package to see
> > > what fonts are included. It looks like some of them are already in
> > > Debian:
> > >
> > > Roboto  https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/fonts-roboto
> > > Ubuntu  https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/fonts-ubuntu
> > > Open Sans   https://packages.debian.org/sid/fonts-open-sans
> > > Latohttps://packages.debian.org/sid/fonts-lato
> > > Cabin Sketchhttps://packages.debian.org/sid/fonts-cabinsketch
> > >
> > > The rest are all SIL OFL licence (Debian compatible). I was able to find
> > > sources for all but two:
> > >
> > > Montserrat  https://github.com/JulietaUla/Montserrat
> > > Nunito Sans https://github.com/googlefonts/NunitoSans
> > > Nunito  https://github.com/googlefonts/nunito
> > > Inter   https://github.com/rsms/inter/
> > > News Cycle  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~n8/newscycle/
> > > Raleway https://github.com/impallari/Raleway/
> > > Neucha  ?
> > > Source Sans Pro ?
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > Eric
> > >
> > --
> > Eric Brown MD MSc FRCPC
> > For encryption, OpenPGP public key available on request.
>
> --
> http://fam-tille.de



-- 
Eric Brown MD MSc FRCPC
For encryption, OpenPGP public key available on request.

Bug#996965: bslib and rmarkdown update

[Eric Brown]

Hi again,

I tried to see what happens when the woff files are deleted from bslib.

I cloned the bslib git, deleted the contents of the font folder, built
the R package locally, then tried to render an R markdown document
that uses a bslib theme (minty).
It fails with an error message (below).

pandoc: 
/tmp/Rtmp1sYpTM/bslib-ca23be8b2c03436a7d75cedd4667b7ed/fonts/JTUSjIg1_i6t8kCHKm45xW0.woff:
openBinaryFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
Error : pandoc document conversion failed with error 1
Error: callr subprocess failed: pandoc document conversion failed with error 1
Type .Last.error.trace to see where the error occurred

Best,
Eric

On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 11:39 AM Eric Brown  wrote:
>
> Hi Andreas,
>
> I can at least identify which .woff files correspond to which fonts,
> that is possible with grep. Here's the output:
> https://gist.github.com/eebrown/95615fc35af364bd0fae09a69273dbdf
>
> I think deleting the .woff files and seeing if the fonts render
> properly when they are installed at the system level is reasonable but
> I too am not sure exactly how to try out all the fonts.
>
> If that doesn't work, I guess it would be a matter of symlinking files
> to replace the .woff files. This might require a step to derive the
> .woff wiles in the format expected by bslib.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 9:44 AM Andreas Tille  wrote:
> >
> > Hi Eric,
> >
> > Am Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 06:42:59AM -0400 schrieb Eric Brown:
> > > To update, I found that a few more are packaged in texlive-fonts-extra (
> > > https://packages.debian.org/buster/texlive-fonts-extra)
> > >
> > > Roboto  https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/fonts-roboto
> > > Ubuntu  https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/fonts-ubuntu
> > > Open Sans   https://packages.debian.org/sid/fonts-open-sans
> > > Latohttps://packages.debian.org/sid/fonts-lato
> > > Cabin Sketchhttps://packages.debian.org/sid/fonts-cabinsketch
> > > Montserrat, Nunito, Raleway, Source Sans Pro: texlive-fonts-extra
> > >
> > > This leaves 4 which I could not find in Debian:
> > >
> > > Nunito Sans https://github.com/googlefonts/NunitoSans
> > > Inter   https://github.com/rsms/inter/
> > > News Cycle  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~n8/newscycle/
> > > Neucha  ?
> >
> > Thanks a lot for this very helpful investigation.  The problem now is
> > how to know which of the 60 inst/fonts/*.woff files we can remove from
> > the source package since these are not needed and whether the fonts
> > you said are found by bslib if we simply set the dependencies you
> > mentioned above (and how to test this).  The names of these *.woff
> > files are absolutely cryptic and I need to admit I have no idea about
> > all this fonts stuff.
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> >   Andreas.
> >
> > > Best,
> > > Eric
> > >
> > > On Sun, Apr 3, 2022 at 14:34 Eric Brown  wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Since this is a pretty important package, I grep'd the package to see
> > > > what fonts are included. It looks like some of them are already in
> > > > Debian:
> > > >
> > > > Roboto  https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/fonts-roboto
> > > > Ubuntu  https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/fonts-ubuntu
> > > > Open Sans   https://packages.debian.org/sid/fonts-open-sans
> > > > Latohttps://packages.debian.org/sid/fonts-lato
> > > > Cabin Sketchhttps://packages.debian.org/sid/fonts-cabinsketch
> > > >
> > > > The rest are all SIL OFL licence (Debian compatible). I was able to find
> > > > sources for all but two:
> > > >
> > > > Montserrat  https://github.com/JulietaUla/Montserrat
> > > > Nunito Sans     https://github.com/googlefonts/NunitoSans
> > > > Nunito  https://github.com/googlefonts/nunito
> > > > Inter   https://github.com/rsms/inter/
> > > > News Cycle  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~n8/newscycle/
> > > > Raleway https://github.com/impallari/Raleway/
> > > > Neucha  ?
> > > > Source Sans Pro ?
> > > >
> > > > Best,
> > > > Eric
> > > >
> > > --
> > > Eric Brown MD MSc FRCPC
> > > For encryption, OpenPGP public key available on request.
> >
> > --
> > http://fam-tille.de
>
>
>
> --
> Eric Brown MD MSc FRCPC
> For encryption, OpenPGP public key available on request.



-- 
Eric Brown MD MSc FRCPC
For encryption, OpenPGP public key available on request.

Bug#1009730: RFP: fonts-nunitosans -- A well-balanced Sans Serif font with rounded terminals.

[Eric Brown]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: e...@ericebrown.com

* Package name: fonts-nunitosans
  Version : 3.006.0
  Upstream Author : Vernon Adams 
* URL : https://github.com/googlefonts/NunitoSans
* License : SIL OFL 1.1
  Programming Lang: n/a
  Description : A well-balanced Sans Serif font with rounded terminals.

"Nunito is a well balanced Sans Serif with rounded terminals. Nunito has been 
designed mainly to be used as a display font but is useable as a text font too. 
Nunito has been designed to be used freely across the internet by web browsers 
on desktop computers, laptops and mobile devices.

In November 2017 Nunito has been expanded to GF Cyrillic Pro by Manvel 
Shmavonyan, and Alexei Vanyashin."

This is a Google Web Font. It is used in bootstrap themes. It is a dependency 
of r-cran-bslib. 
It would be appropriate for the Debian Font team to maintain.

Bug#1009729: RFP: fonts-neucha -- A sans serif font available on Google Fonts

[Eric Brown]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: e...@ericebrown.com

* Package name: fonts-neucha
  Version : 1.0.0
  Upstream Author : Jovanny Lemonad 
* URL : https://typetype.org/freefonts/
* License : SIL OFL 1.1
  Programming Lang: n/a
  Description : A sans serif font available on Google Fonts

An OTF font available as a Google Web Font 
(https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Neucha).

This open source font is used in bootstrap themes and is a dependency of e.g. 
r-cran-bslib.

The .otf file and licence are available here: 

Bug#1009707: RFP: fonts-newscycle -- News Cycle is a "realist, sans-serif typeface based primarily on a revival of the 1908-era News

[Eric Brown]

Package: wnpp 
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: e...@ericebrown.com 

* Package name : fonts-newscycle Version : 0.5.2 Upstream Author : Nathan Wilis 
nwil...@glyphography.com * URL : https://launchpad.net/newscycle * License 
: SIL OFL 1.1
  Programming Lang: n/a Description : News Cycle is a "realist, sans-serif 
typeface based primarily on a 
  revival of the 1908-era News Gothic."


This package is a Google Web Font and is a dependency of bootstrap themes and 
packages that use them, such as r-cran-bslib.

It would be appropriate for the Debian Fonts team to maintain this package.

Bug#1010077: ITP: r-cran-xlsx -- Read, Write, Format Excel 2007 and Excel 97/2000/XP/2003 Files

[Eric Brown]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: e...@ericebrown.com

Subject: ITP: r-cran-xlsx -- Read, Write, Format Excel 2007 and Excel 
97/2000/XP/2003 Files
Package: wnpp
Owner: Eric Brown 
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: r-cran-xlsx
  Version : 0.6.5
  Upstream Author : Adrian Dragulescu,
* URL : https://cran.r-project.org/package=xlsx
* License : GPL-3
  Programming Lang: GNU R
  Description : Read, Write, Format Excel 2007 and Excel 97/2000/XP/2003 
Files
 Provide R functions to read/write/format Excel 2007 and Excel
 97/2000/XP/2003 file formats.

Remark: This package is maintained by Debian R Packages Maintainers at
   https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-xlsx

Bug#1010076: ITP: r-cran-xlsxjars -- Package required POI jars for the xlsx package

[Eric Brown]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: e...@ericebrown.com

Subject: ITP: r-cran-xlsxjars -- Package required POI jars for the xlsx package
Package: wnpp
Owner: Eric Brown 
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: r-cran-xlsxjars
  Version : 0.6.1
  Upstream Author : Adrian A. Dragulescu,
* URL : https://cran.r-project.org/package=xlsxjars
* License : GPL-3
  Programming Lang: GNU R
  Description : Package required POI jars for the xlsx package
 The xlsxjars package collects all the external jars
 required for the xlxs package. This release corresponds to POI
 3.10.1.

Remark: This package is maintained by Debian R Packages Maintainers at
   https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-xlsxjars

Bug#1009819: ITP: --

[Eric Brown]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: e...@ericebrown.com

Subject: ITP:  -- 
Package: wnpp
Owner: Eric Brown 
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: 
  Version : 
  Upstream Author : 
* URL : 
* License : 
  Programming Lang: (C, C++, C#, Perl, Python, etc.)
  Description : 


Remark: This package is maintained by  at
   

Bug#1009821: ITP: r-cran-skimr -- Compact and Flexible Summaries of Data

[Eric Brown]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: e...@ericebrown.com

Subject: ITP: r-cran-skimr -- Compact and Flexible Summaries of Data
Package: wnpp
Owner: Eric Brown 
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: r-cran-skimr
  Version : 2.1.4
  Upstream Author : Copyright: FIXME-2022 Elin Waring,
* URL : https://cran.r-project.org/package=skimr
* License : GPL-3
  Programming Lang: GNU R
  Description : Compact and Flexible Summaries of Data
 A simple to use summary function that can be used with pipes
 and displays nicely in the console. The default summary statistics may
 be modified by the user as can the default formatting.  Support for
 data frames and vectors is included, and users can implement their own
 skim methods for specific object types as described in a vignette.
 Default summaries include support for inline spark graphs.
 Instructions for managing these on specific operating systems are
 given in the "Using skimr" vignette and the README.

Remark: This package is maintained by Debian R Packages Maintainers at
   https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-skimr

Bug#1033472: adolc: ADOL-C configure step does not enable ColPack

[Eric Brown]

Source: adolc
Version: 2.7.2-6
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

A non-Debian package (PSOPT) calls ADOL-C in a way that requires ColPack to be 
enabled.

When I inspected the Debian source:

`apt source adolc'

and configure'd, I saw that ColPack did not say "Yes" at configure time, as it 
does
when I configure in a tarball distro of ADOL-C.

Possible Fix:  add --with-colpack=/usr to debian/rules

Regrettably I am not a Debin package expert to give a better statement of 
problem/fix. 
I would be happy to answer more questions if someone wishes more information.

Best regards,
Eric 

PS This used to work in older Debian's (and downstream such as Ubuntu) so it 
may be recent intro.
Now I am on bookworm


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.0
  APT prefers testing-security
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled