Re: touchscreen support in Debian?

2013-03-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Bjoern Meier dijo [Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 12:30:36AM +0100]: > >> Seriously? "that's not what linux is for" What exactly is linux not > >> for? Jesus, I could vomit if I read this. Maybe or not Linux is - at > >> the moment - not capable for touch screens. Oh wait, Android is > >> capable to use touc

Re: Bug#455769: same problem on wheezy + Thinkpad X220T

2013-03-29 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 28 mars 2013 20:38 CET, Thomas Goirand  : >> I agree - classifying a bug is just a first step before I do anything >> more about an issue > Unless you are the original reporter and you need to > decide in order to fill the bug, please don't. That's the > role of the maintainer to do that triagi

Re: touchscreen support in Debian?

2013-03-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2013-03-30 at 00:30 +0100, Bjoern Meier wrote: [...] > If this email was really supposed to be answered. Anyway. If you think > my email was abusive or down-playing maybe you should block me. Maybe > we should block all of those who doesn't use an "proper" language. It is a very clear rule

Re: touchscreen support in Debian?

2013-03-29 Thread Bjoern Meier
hi, 2013/3/30 Dmitrijs Ledkovs : > On 29 March 2013 22:44, Bjoern Meier wrote: >> hi, >> >> >> 2013/3/29 John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell : >>> REALLY? you have 30 days to return it. if you want unix and touchscreen >>> get an Apple. >>> >>> don't use debian haphazardously (without knowing

Re: touchscreen support in Debian?

2013-03-29 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 29 March 2013 20:03, Svante Signell wrote: > Hi, > > I recently purchased an Acer S7, having both a keyboard and a touch > screen. It is currently running Windows 8. Any chances of running Debian > GNU/Linux on that box? I've heard rumours that Ubuntu supports this > hardware, is that true? >

Re: touchscreen support in Debian?

2013-03-29 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 29 March 2013 22:44, Bjoern Meier wrote: > hi, > > > 2013/3/29 John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell : >> REALLY? you have 30 days to return it. if you want unix and touchscreen >> get an Apple. >> >> don't use debian haphazardously (without knowing full well what can happen / >> if it will wo

Re: touchscreen support in Debian?

2013-03-29 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 29 March 2013 22:19, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell wrote: > REALLY? you have 30 days to return it. if you want unix and touchscreen > get an Apple. > This whole email was very out of line, and it's not how I would like Debian Community to be viewed as. Debian is Universal OS and ther

Re: touchscreen support in Debian?

2013-03-29 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 05:19:42PM -0500, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell wrote: > REALLY? you have 30 days to return it. if you want unix and > touchscreen get an Apple. > > don't use debian haphazardously (without knowing full well what can > happen / if it will work) thinking you'll sav

Re: touchscreen support in Debian?

2013-03-29 Thread Bjoern Meier
hi, 2013/3/29 John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell : > REALLY? you have 30 days to return it. if you want unix and touchscreen > get an Apple. > > don't use debian haphazardously (without knowing full well what can happen / > if it will work) thinking you'll save time or money. that's not what

Re: adduser Pre-Depends for qemu-system-common

2013-03-29 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
I'm not an admin but I'm interested in ADDUSER breakage, if any. Could you side-band me (reply to sender please) why adduser may have any (new) dependancy problems with adduser ? Obviously hacks that break adduser imply breakage to other softwares in or not in debian, which "supposedly agains

Re: touchscreen support in Debian?

2013-03-29 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
REALLY? you have 30 days to return it. if you want unix and touchscreen get an Apple. don't use debian haphazardously (without knowing full well what can happen / if it will work) thinking you'll save time or money. that's not what linux is for. doing so could easily leave you no-where, ev

Re: touchscreen support in Debian?

2013-03-29 Thread Stephen M. Webb
On 03/29/2013 04:03 PM, Svante Signell wrote: > Hi, > > I recently purchased an Acer S7, having both a keyboard and a touch > screen. It is currently running Windows 8. Any chances of running Debian > GNU/Linux on that box? I've heard rumours that Ubuntu supports this > hardware, is that true? I

Re: objcopy vs absolute addresses

2013-03-29 Thread Игорь Пашев
2013/3/30 Jeff Epler : > This is something to do with the ".note.gnu.build-id". > > Both of these alternatives give three identical object files: > > Removing this section in objcopy: > $OBJCOPY -R .note.gnu.build-id ... > > Or requesting that the linker not generate it in the first place >

Re: objcopy vs absolute addresses

2013-03-29 Thread Jeff Epler
This is something to do with the ".note.gnu.build-id". Both of these alternatives give three identical object files: Removing this section in objcopy: $OBJCOPY -R .note.gnu.build-id ... Or requesting that the linker not generate it in the first place $CC -nostdlib -Wl,--build-id=none ...

Re: objcopy vs absolute addresses

2013-03-29 Thread Игорь Пашев
Actually, grub-legacy is buildable... Probably, some patches make it possible. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/call-q8zgtnsbp1rfsj_bkklwkkm2msjncvhi3v

Re: touchscreen support in Debian?

2013-03-29 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 29/03/13 21:03, Svante Signell wrote: > Hi, > > I recently purchased an Acer S7, having both a keyboard and a touch > screen. It is currently running Windows 8. Any chances of running Debian > GNU/Linux on that box? I've heard rumours that Ubuntu supports this > hardware, is that true? > I

Re: objcopy vs absolute addresses

2013-03-29 Thread Игорь Пашев
2013/3/30 Игорь Пашев : > Hi, all. > > While trying to build GRUB on illumos [*-pc-solaris2.11], I've found that > for different absolute addresses (-Wl,-Ttext -Wl,) objcopy -O binary > produces different objects files, but it is expected to be the same. Building grub-legacy on Debian/amd64 fails

objcopy vs absolute addresses

2013-03-29 Thread Игорь Пашев
Hi, all. While trying to build GRUB on illumos [*-pc-solaris2.11], I've found that for different absolute addresses (-Wl,-Ttext -Wl,) objcopy -O binary produces different objects files, but it is expected to be the same. Test script see at the bottom. I've checked it with binutils 2.22 on Debian

touchscreen support in Debian?

2013-03-29 Thread Svante Signell
Hi, I recently purchased an Acer S7, having both a keyboard and a touch screen. It is currently running Windows 8. Any chances of running Debian GNU/Linux on that box? I've heard rumours that Ubuntu supports this hardware, is that true? Thanks :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ..

Re: Bug#704124: codename 'rc-buggy' not handled correctly

2013-03-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 07:38:16AM -0400, Paul R. Tagliamonte wrote: > Just as unstable has "sid", experimental is "rc-buggy", the rc car > from toy story. > > Hilarious joke :) > T Yes indeed funny. I like it. But not well documented. If it stays this way, I should think documenting it

Bug#704214: ITP: numbers -- asdf

2013-03-29 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yaroslav Halchenko * Package name: numbers Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Derek M Jones * URL : http://www.coding-guidelines.com/numbers * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : database of interesting

Re: Bug#455769: same problem on wheezy + Thinkpad X220T

2013-03-29 Thread Salvo Tomaselli
> What we need is someone who can reliably reproduce the issue and help > with debugging. I've had a probably related problem, without using GNOME http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=455769#59 -- Salvo Tomaselli signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.