Re: [XFree86] Rules for an Autoreply bot

2003-02-03 Thread Egbert Eich
Don writes:
We need a FAQ more urgently than a bot.
  
   bah
  Andrew is right. An FAQ would be a better start. Hell current man pages
  would also be nice :)
  
  The MGA(4) man page mentions nothing about HAL and does not even mention
  the G450 and G550 graphics cards.
  
  I would be happy to document anything people feel should be documented.
  

I would like to thank John that he stepped forward and started a 
project to help us cope with the load of support mails we receive.

An auto reply bot is nice, but it will require a lot of tuning
before it gets really useful. For example the message:
(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios)... 
appears in the log of any desktop if APM isn't enabled. 
However it is completely harmless in almost any case.

Setting up a FAQ can be the step prior to setting up a bot.
John, if you don't mind you could convert the entries in the bot 
into a FAQ which we can be easily be extended. 
When we have a well established FAQ you can start building a bot 
pointing people to the correct entry.
A while ago somebody had set up a Wiki for XFree86. I'm not sure
if it is still working, in fact I've nver tried it. This may
be a good starting point to build the FAQ. 

I do agree with the call for better man pages ;-)

Egbert.
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man pages - was Re: [XFree86] Rules for an Autoreply bot

2003-02-02 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Don wrote:

 The MGA(4) man page mentions nothing about HAL and does not even mention
 the G450 and G550 graphics cards.

The CVS version of the man page fixes this.

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[XFree86] Rules for an Autoreply bot

2003-02-01 Thread John Tapsell
Hi,
  As some of you know, I'm working on a knowledge based system (a bot) that 
checks incomming emails against a database of rules, to try to reduce the 
workload of the volunteers here.

  The trouble is that the same questions keep being asked.
  Hopefully I can reduce the workload, but give a better response to people.

  Attached is the rules I have so far.

  The rules _really_ need looking over, and touched up.

  Please please try and clean up anything you know to be incorrect, and add 
anything that needs adding.

  An email has to match every match rule, and every oneof rule,  Matches 
inside a oneof rule allow only one match to be made.

JohnFlux
?xml version=1.0?

rules
  comments
   As of Red Hat 8.0 the default is to use only /etc/X11/XF86Config.  The
   use of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 was used up until then because of the
   desire to support both XFree86-3.3.6 and XFree86-4.x.x.  At the same
   time the older RedHat written Xconfigurator tool was dropped and a new
   redhat-config-xfree86 tool introduced.

   All RedHat 8.0 machines run the font server on 7100.

  /comments

  rule severity=low
match(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such device)/match
reply
  Power management is a long subject.  Reply with Tell me about
  apm in the subject for more information.
/reply
  /rule
  rule severity=low
subjectmatchTell me about apm/subjectmatch
reply
  First there was APM - Advanced Power Management.
  This worked okayish, but eventually something more powerful was
  needed.  ACPI is the newer version, however ACPI support is still not very
  good in the linux kernel.
  If you have a toshiba laptop, then you can get the toshibautilities to
  do power management stuff.
  More details on acpi at http://www.teleport.com/~acpi/acpihtml/home.htm,
  or at http://phobos.fs.tum.de/acpi,
  For software suspend, see http://sourceforge.net/projects/swsusp/,
  There are acpi patches for the kernel at
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpi.
/reply
  /rule
  rule severity=low
match(WW) MGA(0): Video BIOS info block not detected!/match
reply
  Unknown.  I can't find anything on the web about it.
/reply
  /rule
  rule
matchThis card requires the mga_hal module for dual-head operation/match
reply
  You need to go to the matrox.org website and download the latest
  drivers for you card.
/reply
  /rule
  rule
matchPAM authentication failed, cannot start X server./match
matchRedHat 7/match
reply
  First, It could be that you have some corrupted files.
  Please do:
  
  rpm --verify libnewt0.50

  It should return nothing.

  Second.  Check that /etc/pam.d/xserver says something like:

#%PAM-1.0
	auth   sufficient	/lib/security/pam_rootok.so
	auth   required	/lib/security/pam_console.so
	accountrequired	/lib/security/pam_permit.so

	Third.  In DEBIAN there was a file called /etc/Xwrapper.config
	I do not know if there is an equivalent in RedHat.
/reply
  /rule
  rule
oneof
  matchATI/match
  matchRadeon/match
/oneof
oneof
  matchR250/match
  matchR200/match
  matchMobility/match
/oneof
reply
  The ATI Mobility card is an R200 core.
  Both 2D and 3D will be supported in XFree86 4.3.0.
/reply
  /rule
  rule severity=low
matchFailed to setup write combining range/match
reply
  This is just a warning.  You probably don't
  have MTRR support compiled into your kernel.  
/reply
  /rule
  rule
matchRedhat/match
oneof
  matchAsus V8420/match	  
  matchGeforce 4 Ti4200/match
/oneof 
reply
  The Geforce 4 Ti4200 (Asus v8420) was not supported in 
  the X server
  that came with RedHat 8 or earlier.
  Try running XFree86 4.2.99 snapshots or later, available
  at ftp.xfree86.org
/reply
  /rule
  rule2
match2NVidia/match2
match2DVI/match2
oneof2
  match2flat panel/match2
  match2tft/match2
oneof2
reply2/  
  /rule2
  
/rules

  




Re: [XFree86] Rules for an Autoreply bot

2003-02-01 Thread Don
  We need a FAQ more urgently than a bot.

 bah
Andrew is right. An FAQ would be a better start. Hell current man pages
would also be nice :)

The MGA(4) man page mentions nothing about HAL and does not even mention
the G450 and G550 graphics cards.

I would be happy to document anything people feel should be documented.

-Don
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