Bug#572869: installation-reports: PowerMac G5 installation report: ofpath doesn't work in the absence of /proc/scsi/scsi

2010-03-07 Thread Branden Robinson
: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-powerpc64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- G. Branden Robinson| Free Software Developer| If I have seen further, it is bran...@deadbeast.net | because

Re: [RFC] Remove massbuild bashisms

2007-08-28 Thread Branden Robinson
it in a few days. [...] + BDEP_SOURCE_PREFIX=$(echo $BDEP_SOURCE | head -c 1) That's a really expensive way of doing that. I recommend POSIX parameter expansion, which will avoid forks and pipes. BDEP_SOURCE_PREFIX=${BDEP_SOURCE#?} -- G. Branden Robinson| It doesn't

Re: [RFC] Remove massbuild bashisms

2007-08-28 Thread Branden Robinson
in a later parameter expansion would probably require a clever eval trick. Sorry for leading you astray with my first response. -- G. Branden Robinson| Never attribute to conspiracy that Debian GNU/Linux | which can be adequately explained [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#230832: xserver-xfree86: XkbVariant was fi, kb not working in X

2004-12-18 Thread Branden Robinson
if [ -n $XKB_VARIANT ]; then 255 printf \tOption\t\t\XkbVariant\\t\$XKB_VARIANT\\n 4 256 fi 257 if [ -n $XKB_OPTIONS ]; then 258 printf \tOption\t\t\XkbOptions\\t\$XKB_OPTIONS\\n 4 259 fi 260 printf EndSection\n 4 -- G. Branden Robinson| You

Re: Bug#275492: xserver-xfree86: [debconf] suboptimal driver suggested for Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device rev 2

2004-12-15 Thread Branden Robinson
Integrated Graphics Device rev 2 (8086:3582 suggests vesa, should be i810) reassign -1 discover1-data thanks On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 11:41:19AM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: tag 275492 -moreinfo thanks On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 07:09:27AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Fri, Oct 08, 2004

Re: Processed: reassign 265082 to xserver-xfree86

2004-10-25 Thread Branden Robinson
exceeds this amount (more than 100 kB) should you consider omitting it; instead, put it up on the World Wide Web somewhere and provide URLs to it in your report, or in subsequent followup by mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Thank you! -- G. Branden Robinson|It's extremely difficult

Bug#257478: about your Debian installation report

2004-10-14 Thread Branden Robinson
don't think anyone else will suffer the confusion I did. -- G. Branden Robinson| To stay young requires unceasing Debian GNU/Linux | cultivation of the ability to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | unlearn old falsehoods. http://people.debian.org

Re: Fresh installation: Keymap broken under X

2004-09-28 Thread Branden Robinson
, which people don't like, but only for people'd who likely be even more annoyed by a wrong keymap the first time they start X. Thoughts? [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=238778 -- G. Branden Robinson| You are not angry with people when Debian GNU/Linux

Bug#255439: Bug#255689: Bug#255439: d-i report

2004-09-27 Thread Branden Robinson
, and comenting out the monitor frequencies works best. Cloning a bug for this. d-i guys, I'm done with this bug (#255439) if you want to close it. -- G. Branden Robinson| There is no gravity in space. Debian GNU/Linux | Then how could astronauts

Re: Bug#263573: xserver-xfree86: on alpha depends on read-edid which isn't there

2004-09-01 Thread Branden Robinson
not install libglide2. (Please ignore the Version: header above.) -- G. Branden Robinson|Beware of and eschew pompous Debian GNU/Linux |prolixity. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-- Charles A. Beardsley http://people.debian.org/~branden

Bug#255439: Bug#255689: Bug#255439: d-i report

2004-08-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 08:41:52AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 07:31:23PM -0700, Daniel Stone wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:08:58AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: There's the problem. radeon is not a legal value. Use ati instead. Do not use atimisc

Bug#259525: Bug#255689: Bug#255439: d-i report

2004-07-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:12:33AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: [ cloned bug to discover1-data ] Am Mit, den 14.07.2004 um 11:45 Uhr -0500 schrieb Branden Robinson: On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:08:58AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: There's the problem. radeon is not a legal value

Bug#257595: Bug#257478: installation-report: PowerMac G4

2004-07-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 07:09:56PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 01:55:44PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: * ugh, this is distressing. d-i created a swap partition but did not construct /etc/fstab such that it would be mounted (the swap partition

Re: Bug#257302: xfree86: general complaint about XFree86 on Dell Latitude D400

2004-07-14 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 01:22:09PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Branden Robinson wrote: The debconf reorg is scheduled, but I *don't* have plans to introduce a spurious dependency of xserver-xfree86 on discover, mdetect, or read-edid. Have you considered doing an xfree86-config package

Bug#255439: Bug#255689: Bug#255439: d-i report

2004-07-14 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:08:58AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 02:05:51PM -0300, Cristian Escalante wrote: On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 04:09:46PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: The XFree86 X server used the driver it was told to use. There are only two ways

Bug#255439: Bug#255689: Bug#255439: d-i report

2004-07-13 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 02:05:51PM -0300, Cristian Escalante wrote: On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 04:09:46PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: The XFree86 X server used the driver it was told to use. There are only two ways you can tell the XFree86 X server which driver to use in the d-i

Re: Bug#257302: xfree86: general complaint about XFree86 on Dell Latitude D400

2004-07-12 Thread Branden Robinson
it was agreed a long time ago that it really was the installer's job to get hardware autodetection tools onto the system. Has that thinking changed? If so, why? Should Debian's kernel-image packages start depending on hardware detection tools as well? -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: Processed: reassign 257302 to xserver-xfree86

2004-07-10 Thread Branden Robinson
. Branden Robinson|When we call others dogmatic, what Debian GNU/Linux |we really object to is their [EMAIL PROTECTED] |holding dogmas that are different http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |from our own. -- Charles Issawi

Bug#257478: installation-report: PowerMac G4

2004-07-10 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:58:11AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 01:50:16AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 03:39:53PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: I'm aiming to create a new webpage like: http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook/ I got

Bug#257478: installation-report: PowerMac G4

2004-07-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 03:39:53PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 01:55:44PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: [...] /dev/hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled 311578126 @ 2018 (148.6G) Linux native [...] The install boot loader step didn't work. I got

Bug#255439: d-i report

2004-07-08 Thread Branden Robinson
for the ATI Radeon Mobility U1 (that's Class 0300: 1002:4336), then this must have been user error. Martin, Please keep the above mechanism in mind for future reference. Our XFree86 packages perform *no* autodetection of drivers themselves. -- G. Branden Robinson| If you have

Re: Pre-seeding XFree settings for keyboard in Debian Installer

2004-07-08 Thread Branden Robinson
. Branden Robinson| If the jury can count higher than Debian GNU/Linux | two, the case will fail. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Tom Lane, on Forgent's claim of http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |a patent on JPEG signature.asc

Bug#257478: installation-report: PowerMac G4

2004-07-03 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 20040621 sarge daily build, from cdimage.d.o uname -a: Linux sisyphus 2.4.25-powerpc-smp #1 SMP mer avr 14 16:31:15 CEST 2004 ppc GNU/Linux Date: 2004-06-21 Method: How did you install? burned CD-R

Bug#250915: installation-report

2004-05-29 Thread Branden Robinson
of them. I'm CCing the debian-x list for more comments. Can you please send the XFree86 logs from 3.3.6? Please see: http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/Status29.html -- G. Branden Robinson| The Rehnquist Court has never Debian GNU/Linux | encountered

Bug#243233: installation report (d-i 20040408)

2004-05-28 Thread Branden Robinson
the XFree86 X server in the midst of an install. It's a lot nicer to wait until after the machine is installed to do such things. Nevertheless, I am open to suggestions. -- G. Branden Robinson|I just wanted to see what it looked Debian GNU/Linux |like

Re: Processed: reassign 251020 to xserver-xfree86

2004-05-28 Thread Branden Robinson
script does invoke discover, so that accounts for the behavior seen. -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | // // // / / [EMAIL PROTECTED] | EI 'AANIIGOO 'AHOOT'E http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | signature.asc

Re: Processed: Re: Bug#245504: Close bug? (was: Dell GX270 installation report)

2004-05-12 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 02:01:38AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 05:07:00PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: This is almost as bad as just dumping a bug in someone else's lap with no explanation all. PLEASE STOP DOING THIS. I've asked the BTS guys to CC

Re: Processed: Re: Bug#245504: Close bug? (was: Dell GX270 installation report)

2004-05-10 Thread Branden Robinson
to actually document it instead of cloning bugs and reassigning all over the place. Otherwise, please close the bug. Thanks. -- G. Branden Robinson| The software said it required Debian GNU/Linux | Windows 3.1 or better, so I [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Full Debian install impressions and facts

2004-04-20 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 10:16:40AM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: On 18.IV.2004 at 13:27 (-0500) Branden Robinson wrote: The main challenge here, as I understand it, is that d-i basically uses console-data's paradigm for keyboard description. So what we need is a gigantic mapping

Re: Full Debian install impressions and facts

2004-04-18 Thread Branden Robinson
mapping table in xserver-xfree86.config to translate console-data keyboard descriptions into XKB Rules/Model/Layout(/Variant?) tuples. -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | Ab abusu ad usum non valet [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a Province of China?

2004-04-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 02:49:27PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm just a naïve gaijin[1], but I'm not sure you're right about that. Written zh_CN and zh_TW look very similar to Western eyes. I've seen a comparison of the two in some Sun

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a Province of China?

2004-04-05 Thread Branden Robinson
footballs. [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China -- G. Branden Robinson|I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, Debian GNU/Linux |and say that if God really existed, [EMAIL PROTECTED] |it would be necessary to abolish http

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot amiboot ..

2004-04-02 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 10:16:00AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 02:19:57AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: 2-clause BSD, as used by the NetBSD Foundation, would be good, too. Er. Be careful with this statement. The Foundation's policy has varied between at least (that I

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot amiboot ..

2004-04-01 Thread Branden Robinson
apple may be more inclined to use a licence they have experience with. 2-clause BSD, as used by the NetBSD Foundation, would be good, too. -- G. Branden Robinson| We either learn from history or, Debian GNU/Linux | uh, well, something bad will [EMAIL

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot amiboot ..

2004-04-01 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 09:57:21AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 12:27:09AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: IMO we should do a clean-room implementation anyway. 1) Past experiences with Apple have not been very fruitful, just ask the Linux Mac68K hackers. Well

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot amiboot ..

2004-03-31 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 09:03:19AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 01:10:36PM -0800, Jeff Bailey wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 04:05:48PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: Hacker #2 affirms that he has never looked at the existing boot sector, and will not do so

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot amiboot ..

2004-03-31 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 10:56:25AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 03:26:20AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: You don't need permission to reverse-engineer anything. If we're going to talk to Apple, we should ask them to release the boot sector and anything else we need

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot amiboot ..

2004-03-31 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 03:38:27PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 11:53:49PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Worse case scenario, this could be clean-room reimplemented

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot amiboot ..

2004-03-31 Thread Branden Robinson
of Congress since _Feist_ was decided has seen bills introduced that attempt to extend copyright to mere collections of facts. To date, such bills have not passed, fortunately. -- G. Branden Robinson|Freedom is kind of a hobby with me, Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot amiboot ..

2004-03-31 Thread Branden Robinson
their claim, there's probably not much to worry about. But I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. -- G. Branden Robinson|Beware of and eschew pompous Debian GNU/Linux |prolixity. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-- Charles A. Beardsley

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot amiboot ..

2004-03-31 Thread Branden Robinson
a clean-room implementation anyway. 1) Past experiences with Apple have not been very fruitful, just ask the Linux Mac68K hackers. 2) I disagree that disassembling the boot ROM is safer. What's safer from a legal perspective is a clean-room reimplementation. -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot amiboot ..

2004-03-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 11:53:49PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Worse case scenario, this could be clean-room reimplemented. Before doing that, somebody ought to approach Apple and ask explicit permission to reverse-engineer the boot-block code

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot amiboot ..

2004-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
obliges us to act on it, not immediately grandfather what we have found into our definition of Free Software. -- G. Branden Robinson|Computer security is like an onion: Debian GNU/Linux |the more you dig in, the more you [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot amiboot ..

2004-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
of assembly (or possibly compilable C code) to create a functionally-identical boot sector from the plain English description. -- G. Branden Robinson| Religion is excellent stuff for Debian GNU/Linux | keeping common people quiet. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#236777: xserver-xfree86: Prepost install script mistake (warning, not error, it work)

2004-03-27 Thread Branden Robinson
. Branden Robinson|The errors of great men are Debian GNU/Linux |venerable because they are more [EMAIL PROTECTED] |fruitful than the truths of little http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |men. -- Friedrich Nietzsche signature.asc

Re: kernel 2.2 packages cleanup

2004-03-24 Thread Branden Robinson
, I missed that statement, where did it occur? http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/debian-devel-200403/msg01495.html Martin Schulze has since made statements amending this. -- G. Branden Robinson| Exercise your freedom of religion. Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Processed: clone to X

2004-03-22 Thread Branden Robinson
think you meant to reassign -2 there, not -1 (again). If someone from d-i could give this bug (#238778) a quick briefing on what d-i keyboard layout info is available, we'll do our best here. -- G. Branden Robinson| You live and learn. Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Bug#234812: 234812 xserver-xfree86: configure script hangs

2004-02-27 Thread Branden Robinson
. No need to report another bug; with this message, I am reassigning this one to discover. Thanks for following up! -- G. Branden Robinson| When I die I want to go peacefully Debian GNU/Linux | in my sleep like my ol' Grand [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#229333: Small typo in lib/core.c give segfault

2004-01-26 Thread Branden Robinson
(strlen(message)); +(*status)-message = _discover_xmalloc(strlen(message)+1); strcpy((*status)-message, message); } This is reported as Debian bug #229333. Please apply upstream as well. :) Committed as r4060. Thanks! -- Branden Robinson | GPG signed/encrypted mail welcome

Re: discover Debian package maintainer

2004-01-21 Thread Branden Robinson
vis a vis Discover 2, and re-evaluate the maintainership issue in 4 weeks or so. Does that sound reasonable? Your plan sounds good to me, and like what was already discussed, so it doesn't sound very disruptive to previous expectations. -- Branden Robinson | GPG signed/encrypted mail

Re: discover Debian package maintainer

2004-01-21 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 05:11:58PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Am Mit, den 21.01.2004 schrieb Branden Robinson um 16:17: I did not know whom to personally contact. So I decided to send this mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the hope that the relevant people at progeny

directed RFA: discover (1.x)

2003-12-08 Thread Branden Robinson
to the discover-workers list. Please CC discover-workers when discussing Discover 2.x-related issues that *are* relevant to debian-boot. -- Branden Robinson | GPG signed/encrypted mail welcome [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1024D/9C0BCBFB Progeny Linux Systems | D5F6 D4C9 E25B 3D37 068C

Re: plans for discover transition (was: plans for d-i string freeze) [progeny.com #2385]

2003-12-08 Thread Branden Robinson
do not feel that the file qualifies as being in a proprietary data format per Debian Policy. If you disagree, please make a case for your position. :) -- Branden Robinson | GPG signed/encrypted mail welcome [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1024D/9C0BCBFB Progeny Linux Systems | D5F6 D4C9

Re: Bug#209240: NMU proposal for discover (i18n issues)

2003-11-18 Thread Branden Robinson
/debian-boot-200311/msg00766.html -- Branden Robinson | GPG signed/encrypted mail welcome [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1024D/9C0BCBFB Progeny Linux Systems | D5F6 D4C9 E25B 3D37 068C | 72E8 0F42 191A 9C0B CBFB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#209240: NMU proposal for discover (i18n issues)

2003-11-18 Thread Branden Robinson
[Please CC me on replies.] On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:38:20PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Branden Robinson] Please feel free to go ahead. Progeny is concentrating on Discover 2.x: This sounds very good. When will this result in replies regarding the patches we have been

new website for Discover hardware detection suite

2003-11-11 Thread Branden Robinson
to pull back that curtain, reveal the workbench, and let the community see how we really work on Discover (mistakes and all!). Discover was developed primarily by Branden Robinson, Eric Gillespie, Josh Bressers, and John Daily of Progeny, with assistance from a cast of dozens. If Discover excites you

Re: Debconf Templates Style Guide

2003-10-30 Thread Branden Robinson
of receiving none.. :-) I haven't taken the opportunity to properly review it yet. You hit a lot of pet peeves I share with Joey Hess, though, so you're off to a good start. -- G. Branden Robinson| Eternal vigilance is the price of Debian GNU/Linux | liberty

Re: Debconf Templates Style Guide

2003-10-29 Thread Branden Robinson
? :) -- G. Branden Robinson| The noble soul has reverence for Debian GNU/Linux | itself. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Friedrich Nietzsche http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: keyboard mouse problem

2003-06-24 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 09:21:24PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: If you need more help with X, try [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian-x is not a user support list. Please direct users to debian-user only. -- G. Branden Robinson|Somewhere, there is a .sig so funny Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Discover 1.5-2 pre-release available

2003-04-01 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 11:46:48AM +0100, Martin Sj?gren wrote: tis 2003-03-25 klockan 20.46 skrev Branden Robinson: I notice that your discover-data package on hackers.progeny.com/~branden/discover2 also contain the *.lst files, is that for backwards compatability and are actually

Re: Discover 1.5-2 pre-release available

2003-03-25 Thread Branden Robinson
Discover 1.x anymore. -- Branden Robinson | GPG signed/encrypted mail welcome [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1024D/9C0BCBFB Progeny Linux Systems | D5F6 D4C9 E25B 3D37 068C | 72E8 0F42 191A 9C0B CBFB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Discover 1.5-2 pre-release available

2003-03-24 Thread Branden Robinson
for this patch. * debian/discover.templates: - Mention that the link manipulation is only done if possible. * debian/rules: remove special handling of the linuxrc script, now handled upstream (by discover/Makefile.am) -- Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:55:31

Re: udebs for more than just installation

2003-02-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 06:45:23PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Branden Robinson wrote: Another approach we're thinking about is regular dpkg support for directory exclusion during package unpack, for things like documentation and localization files. Of course, that's more an issue for debian

udebs for more than just installation

2003-02-27 Thread Branden Robinson
and localization files. Of course, that's more an issue for debian-dpkg... :) Anyway, I thought you guys might have the best insights into udebs since you use them the most. -- Branden Robinson | GPG signed/encrypted mail welcome [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1024D/9C0BCBFB Progeny Linux

Re: udebs for more than just installation

2003-02-27 Thread Branden Robinson
what udpkg's capabilities are. Thanks for the feedback! -- Branden Robinson | GPG signed/encrypted mail welcome [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1024D/9C0BCBFB Progeny Linux Systems | D5F6 D4C9 E25B 3D37 068C | 72E8 0F42 191A 9C0B CBFB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: linux for blinds

2002-10-30 Thread Branden Robinson
to the blind and visually impaired. Your meaning is clear from context, but in English blinds are appurtenances attached to physical windows. -- G. Branden Robinson|I'm sorry if the following sounds Debian GNU/Linux |combative and excessively personal, [EMAIL

Re: cdebconf and debian-installer compile

2002-07-25 Thread Branden Robinson
... 2.4. We should get around that somehow -- Branden, got any idea how to? The only solutions for discover 1.x are kludges. The proper solution is to port PGI to discover 2.x, once it's packaged. :) http://hackers.progeny.com/discover/status/ -- Branden Robinson | GPG signed

Re: PGI installer [Was: Re: Why XFree86 4.2 Isn't in Woody]

2002-04-16 Thread Branden Robinson
once you've had a chance to evaluate it. Thanks a lot for giving PGI a look! -- G. Branden Robinson| If God had intended for man to go Debian GNU/Linux | about naked, we would have been [EMAIL PROTECTED] | born that way. http

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-12 Thread Branden Robinson
.) There's more information about PGI at http://hackers.progeny.com/pgi/. -- G. Branden Robinson| One man's magic is another man's Debian GNU/Linux | engineering. Supernatural is a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | null word. http://people.debian.org

feedback wanted alternative Debian installation system

2002-02-27 Thread Branden Robinson
with feedback. -- G. Branden Robinson|Somebody once asked me if I thought Debian GNU/Linux |sex was dirty. I said, It is if [EMAIL PROTECTED] |you're doing it right. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |-- Woody Allen 1.1. Features

installation success using 3.0.16 on iBook Dual USB / HOWTO

2001-11-10 Thread Branden Robinson
feedback should go to debian-powerpc; advice for the boot-floppies team should probably go to debian-boot. -- G. Branden Robinson|If you wish to strive for peace of Debian GNU/Linux |soul, then believe; if you wish to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: debian-installer status

2001-10-19 Thread Branden Robinson
of speaking only PCI, USB, and PCMCIA. I just uploaded 1.1-2 which removes some obsolete build-depends that were causing gratuitous build-failures. -- G. Branden Robinson|One man's theology is another man's Debian GNU/Linux |belly laugh. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: discover override disparity

2001-08-28 Thread Branden Robinson
-floppies guys decide it's essential for the installer. debian-boot folks, do you guys have an opinion? -- G. Branden Robinson| Software engineering: that part of Debian GNU/Linux | computer science which is too [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: discover override disparity

2001-08-25 Thread Branden Robinson
-floppies guys decide it's essential for the installer. -- G. Branden Robinson|If you make people think they're Debian GNU/Linux |thinking, they'll love you; but if [EMAIL PROTECTED] |you really make them think, they'll http

Re: experiences: installing new testing system from network

2001-08-05 Thread Branden Robinson
change for 4.1.0. The non-free mga_hal_drv.o is no longer required to drive the G450 for basic operations, but either Xv or dual-head operation is unavailable without it (I forget which). -- G. Branden Robinson|You can have my PGP passphrase when Debian GNU/Linux

Re: cvs commit to tasksel/tasks by joeyh

2001-07-19 Thread Branden Robinson
and see if it works? You might want to take both. There should be no overlap between the fonts in a -75dpi and a -misc package. (See Policy 12.8.5.) -- G. Branden Robinson| If you have the slightest bit of Debian GNU/Linux | intellectual integrity you

Re: sound card detection in base

2001-05-28 Thread Branden Robinson
if it is installed.. Anyway, if anXious is going away, I'm not sure what we will do for letting the user pick the other things anXios prompted for: window manager, fonts, and terminal emulator. AnXious doesn't have to go away, it can just stop sweating the X server issue. -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: tasks: counterproposal (and implimentation)

2001-05-14 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:05:22PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: - With package sets, it is delivered ... ? In a package called package-sets-progeny, and manipulated via binaries in the packages pkgset-tools and pkgset-tools-gnome. -- G. Branden Robinson | What influenced me

Re: tasks: counterproposal (and implimentation)

2001-05-12 Thread Branden Robinson
of the Gnus news reader that is newer than the version included with XEmacs. You can override the contents (off the top of my head, not sure about the description) by creating a file in, e.g., /etc/package-sets/xemacs.contents . -- G. Branden Robinson | Experience should teach us

Re: Busybox vi

2001-05-03 Thread Branden Robinson
sparc? SuperH. -- G. Branden Robinson |The only way to get rid of a temptation Debian GNU/Linux|is to yield to it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-- Oscar Wilde http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | PGP signature

Re: Link cfdisk with libncurses instead of slang?

2001-03-09 Thread Branden Robinson
depend on ncurses would completly screw us. What *is it* with you slang bigots? :-P Slang was fine when ncurses wasn't maintained, but ncurses has been well maintained for at LEAST the past couple of years. -- G. Branden Robinson | If a man ate a pound of pasta and a Debian GNU

Re: Why .udeb won't work.

2000-10-26 Thread Branden Robinson
them. For instance: xlibs-dbg xserver-xfree86-dbg -- G. Branden Robinson | I just wanted to see what it looked like Debian GNU/Linux| in a spotlight. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Jim Morrison http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | PGP signature

Re: Red Hat installer via CVS ?

2000-10-21 Thread Branden Robinson
license incompatibility problems because it didn't link against any GPL'ed code. We eventually gave up on Lizard for technical reasons. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux| If God had intended for man to go about [EMAIL PROTECTED] | naked, we

Re: Netscape in DEbian 2.2

2000-10-17 Thread Branden Robinson
should depend on it. -- G. Branden Robinson |I must despise the world which does not Debian GNU/Linux|know that music is a higher revelation [EMAIL PROTECTED] |than all wisdom and philosophy. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |-- Ludwig van

Re: PCI autodetection

2000-10-07 Thread Branden Robinson
also that we could detect automatically the monitor model and video frequencies with read-edid, which can be found at: http://web.onetel.net.uk/~elephant/john/programs/linux/read-edid/ Thanks for pointing this out; I will check into it. -- G. Branden Robinson |The key

Re: PCI autodetection

2000-10-05 Thread Branden Robinson
than the present way of doing things. -- G. Branden Robinson | It doesn't matter what you are doing, Debian GNU/Linux| emacs is always overkill. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Stephen J. Carpenter http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | PGP signature

Re: NMI loops during install on intel VLB system

2000-10-05 Thread Branden Robinson
+ floppy/hard disk controller and an STB Sprint 1.1 Trident-based video card. The BIOS is an Award 2C4I9S23. You probably want to talk to some kernel wizards about this problem. Be sure you provide the kernel version (I think we used 2.2.17 for the potato boot disks). -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: Which task package installs gpm?

2000-09-22 Thread Branden Robinson
configuration tool in every single package. We're learning this in a hurry at Progeny. -- G. Branden Robinson | Optimists believe we live in the best of Debian GNU/Linux| all possible worlds. Pessimists are [EMAIL PROTECTED] | afraid the optimists

Re: Which task package installs gpm?

2000-09-22 Thread Branden Robinson
to these directories, rather than their X11R6-named counterparts `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/', and `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/', if the resources being referred to have not been moved to FHS-compliant locations. The policy brownshirts are coming to get you... -- G. Branden

Re: Which task package installs gpm?

2000-09-20 Thread Branden Robinson
forget if my post was to -devel, -boot, or -policy. Anyway, I got a confusing mishmash of answers, and in the end did not enable tasksel -s. If people think that's wrong, there may be time to fix it for r1. Well, if my opinion counts, please do re-enable -s. -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: newbie question concerning linux install

2000-09-02 Thread Branden Robinson
. Several of the new Asus MB's actually have four IDE devices built in. That's intriguing -- by "devices" I presume you mean "channels"? (Two devices to a channel). Are the 3rd and 4th channels only available via the PCI bus? If not I smell serious IRQ shortage. --

Re: regarding xviddetect

2000-08-21 Thread Branden Robinson
, we're going to have to figure out what to do about the agpgart kernel module, and require that for i810 boards and possibly some others. -- G. Branden Robinson | Somewhere, there is a .sig so funny that Debian GNU/Linux| reading it will cause an aneurysm