Bug#243314: xterm scrolling speed patch on LKML for 2.6

2004-04-12 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xterm Version: 4.3.0-7 Severity: normal Please include the analagous patch that suggested and tested here (for multi-gnome-terminal) into xterm (and send upstream - why didn't reportbug ask me the upstream question this time?):

Bug#250617: xbase-clients: [xbiff] wishlist: beep mute

2004-05-24 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xbase-clients Version: 4.3.0-7 Severity: wishlist I wish to be able to turn the xbiff beep off on one of my machines (without disabling the speaker entirely), and just let xbiff invert the bitmap colour when mail is received. Xbiff has a volume setting that doesn't work for i386 (beep

Bug#224353: /usr/X11R6/bin/xclock: xclock man page and options deficiencies

2003-12-18 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xbase-clients Version: 4.3.0-0pre1v4 Severity: normal File: /usr/X11R6/bin/xclock xclock --help shows there is a -face argument The man page does not include -face, so I have little idea how to use it (similarly, the options -sharp/-render are not in the man page) Supplyng -face Times

Bug#348873: regression: r128 on laptop ignores supplied modeline for external display, picking LCD panel pixel dimensions

2007-06-23 Thread Tim Connors
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Bug#348873: regression: r128 on laptop ignores supplied modeline for external display, picking LCD panel pixel dimensions

2007-06-23 Thread Tim Connors
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, Brice Goglin wrote: Tim Connors wrote: and then Xorg.0.log goes on to claim it knows nothing about the IBM modelines: (II) R128(0): Not using mode IBM_mode_1 (no mode of this name) (II) R128(0): Not using mode IBM_mode_2 (no mode of this name) (II) R128(0

Bug#348873: regression: r128 on laptop ignores supplied modeline for external display, picking LCD panel pixel dimensions

2007-07-15 Thread Tim Connors
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, Tim Connors wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, Brice Goglin wrote: Tim Connors wrote: and then Xorg.0.log goes on to claim it knows nothing about the IBM modelines: (II) R128(0): Not using mode IBM_mode_1 (no mode of this name) (II) R128(0): Not using mode IBM_mode_2

Bug#348873: logged in xorg

2006-02-06 Thread Tim Connors
Hi, logged this into the bug tracking system at xorg: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5832 -- TimC My other car is a cdr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#348873: regression: r128 on laptop ignores supplied modeline for external display, picking LCDpanel pixel dimensions

2006-10-25 Thread Tim Connors
reassign 348873 xserver-xorg-video-ati retitle 348873 regression: r128 on laptop ignores supplied modeline for external display, picking LCD panel pixel dimensions severity 348873 important thanks Since this bug has gone unacknowledged for 10 months, and the package is still unusable (fixed

Bug#405287: xserver-xorg: Keyboard on sparc appears to be limited to keys available on pc104 keyboards

2007-01-02 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.1.0-9 Severity: normal As far as I can tell, with the kernel 2.6 input layer changes, and having to use the pc104 layout on sparc, we seem to be somewhat limited. The sparc (type5 in my case) keys just disappear. Upon pressing SunFront, xev just returns a

Bug#270597: /usr/X11R6/bin/xbiff: request ability to temporarily disable xbiff

2004-09-08 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xbase-clients Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/X11R6/bin/xbiff Having just come back from a time management seminar, I've decided I need the ability to temporarily shut off xbiff (I should also kill our USENET feed, too). I start xbiff within my FvwmButtons, and it

Bug#466044: xserver-xorg-core: internal screen of laptop with external screen attached not blanked when laptop closed but still in use

2008-03-22 Thread Tim Connors
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Brice Goglin wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 06:28:52PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote: Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1 Severity: normal Laptop screens backlights are turned off these days by getting acpi to intercept the lid button

Bug#469166: frequency

2008-05-16 Thread Tim Connors
Note that on my machine, syndaemon itself shows up as waking up the kernel 50 times a second, but when syndaemon is running, kernel IPI : Rescheduling interrupts comes in at 140 times a second -- something that doesn't exist when syndaemon goes away. When I kill syndaemon, my power usage goes

Bug#459041: xterm: version 230-1 segfaults somewhere when involving cut and paste

2008-01-04 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xterm Version: 230-1 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss Cutting text somewhere in an xterm causes it to segfault with the most recent upgrade. It may involve either the cut or paste of long lines. I'm pretty sure it happens as soon as I click the mouse to make a

Bug#466039: xserver-xorg-core: DPMS wakes up on spontaneous 1 pixel mouse moves

2008-02-15 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1 Severity: normal My laptop is set to blank its display after 10 minutes, and turn it off after 15. (**) Option BlankTime 10 (**) Option StandbyTime 0 (**) Option SuspendTime 15 (**) Option OffTime 0 Alas, when I have an external USB

Bug#466044: xserver-xorg-core: internal screen of laptop with external screen attached not blanked when laptop closed but still in use

2008-02-15 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1 Severity: normal Laptop screens backlights are turned off these days by getting acpi to intercept the lid button, and it runs xset to force the display off via 'xset dpms force off' (after a series of other attempts at locking the display

Bug#466104: xinit: please use sessreg like in xdm, to log startx in the wtmp database

2008-02-16 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xinit Version: 1.0.7-2 Severity: normal For those of us who choose not to start X every boot using xdm, we don't get the X session being logged in the wtmp database like it does from xdm. Because X can be started and the parent shell subsequently exited, the lack of an entry in wtmp

Bug#466104: xinit: please use sessreg like in xdm, to log startx in the wtmp database

2008-02-17 Thread Tim Connors
reassign 466104 x11-common thanks On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Julien Cristau wrote: severity 466104 wishlist kthxbye On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 02:51:53 +1100, Tim Connors wrote: For those of us who choose not to start X every boot using xdm, we don't get the X session being logged in the wtmp

Bug#542328: xserver-xorg: DontZap enabled even when DontZap disabled

2009-08-18 Thread Tim Connors
, 19 Aug 2009 13:11:02 +1000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Tim Connors report...@rather.puzzling.org To: Debian Bug Tracking System sub...@bugs.debian.org Message-ID: 20090819031102.15136.22681.report...@aatpc2.aao.gov.au X-Mailer

Bug#508867: libxau6: ESTALE on nfs mounts

2008-12-15 Thread Tim Connors
Package: libxau6 Version: 1:1.0.3-3 Severity: normal There is a bug in = 2.6.24 kernels[1], where a stat() in the nfs client may return -ESTALE on an .Xauthority file that has been atomically renamed from another host (ie, .Xauthority now has a different inode; this happens when sshing to another

Bug#482798: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics: please support differing x and y scales

2008-05-25 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics Version: 0.14.7~git20070706-2 Severity: normal When I draw circles on my touchpad, they come out as rather tall ellipses (perhaps twice as high as wide). If a full scroll from top to bottom of the touchpad goes the full vertical distance on the screen, then

Bug#491526: xserver-xorg: Work around the DIX losing mmWidth/mmHeight for RandR 1.1 DDXen

2008-07-20 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.3+14 Severity: normal There is a bug that affects the proprietry crap^Wnvidia driver that causes the DPI settings to be screwed when monitors are plugged/unplugged, which fortunately may actually be a bug in the xserver code rather than the unfixable nvidia

Bug#508867: stale nfs filehandle

2009-01-28 Thread Tim Connors
Hmmm, Trond reckons this race condition always has existed in the kernel, implying that since userland can work around it, it should: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12557 Would it be possible to, upon an ESTALE return result from the acccess() call, to open() the file instead, and

Bug#508867: stale nfs filehandle

2009-03-03 Thread Tim Connors
severity grave tags 508867 security thanks On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Tim Connors wrote: Hmmm, Trond reckons this race condition always has existed in the kernel, implying that since userland can work around it, it should: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12557 Would it be possible

Bug#584186: xserver-xorg-video-intel: refuses to start with (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration., ignoring plea to ignore DDC

2010-06-01 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.3.2-2+lenny6 Severity: important I've got a workstation with an intel chipset Q45/Q43 plugged connected through a video extender. I've verified that the video extender propogates DDC/EDID data, and 'get-edid | parse-edid' returns the params for

Bug#564464: still can't adjust the bell pitch or duration with 'xset b'

2010-06-03 Thread Tim Connors
I never got back about whether I was using kbd or evdev: I'm using kbd. I'm not using gnome or pulseaudio or any of that crap, and all parameters (vol, pitch, and dur) are recorded by xset and are returned by xset q. But are ignored by the bell rung by xterm and emacs, and both code paths in the

Bug#564464: still can't adjust the bell pitch or duration with 'xset b'

2010-06-03 Thread Tim Connors
On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, Tim Connors wrote: I never got back about whether I was using kbd or evdev: I'm using kbd. I'm not using gnome or pulseaudio or any of that crap, and all parameters (vol, pitch, and dur) are recorded by xset and are returned by xset q. But are ignored by the bell rung

Bug#564464: xset b no longer sets bell qualities

2010-06-20 Thread Tim Connors
This bug may still be getting some love yet. I wonder if the patch here fixes it: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27926 I'm not up to compiling this myself right now, but does it look right? That patch works for me in addressing this bug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#591430: xserver-xorg-core: Maximum number of clients reached hardcoded

2010-08-02 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 2:1.7.7-2 Severity: normal It's 2010, and we still can't open more than about 194 clients (My ulimit is for 1024 open fds). Meanwhile, it is clear that the tradeoff that was made to only allow 256 connections is heavily lopsided towards allowing those clients

Bug#578243: patch

2010-08-11 Thread Tim Connors
Can we get this trivial patch applied? I know squeeze is frozen, but this is a bug fix for a problem that is otherwise going to leave squeeze with an Xserver that can't change the bell properties at all, and we've had the patch for ages now, and it's relatively well tested. I have personally

Bug#596630: disk full leads to xauth nulling out the Xauthority file completely instead of just failing to create entry

2010-09-12 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xauth Version: 1:1.0.3-2 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss If I have a non zero ~/.Xauthority file, then create a file in my home directory that fills the disk, and ssh in again (not closing the original X or ssh session so the Xauthority entries for those are

Bug#596634: x11-common: /etc/X11/Xsession always appends to .xsession-errors

2010-09-12 Thread Tim Connors
Package: x11-common Version: 1:7.5+6 Severity: important Is there any reason why /etc/X11/Xsession appends to the logfile instead of creating it: exec $ERRFILE 21 If the argument is that you want to be able to see what errors happened in the last session, so you don't want to clear them out

Bug#596634: x11-common: /etc/X11/Xsession always appends to .xsession-errors

2010-09-13 Thread Tim Connors
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: [I'm not a maintainer, just happened be following X bugs...] Tim Connors report...@rather.puzzling.org writes: before the user gets to review them, they can always log into the console and review the errors before they restart X. Always

Bug#596634: x11-common: /etc/X11/Xsession always appends to .xsession-errors

2010-10-02 Thread Tim Connors
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org writes: That seems to duplicate the last 512kB rather than remove the rest? Perhaps your '' ought to be ''? Whoops, yes indeed. I had some debugging prints like starting session on $(date) there and forgot

Bug#599941: /usr/bin/xset: xset dpms etc seems to operate on all screens rather than just those provided such as :0.1, in X zaphod mode

2010-10-12 Thread Tim Connors
Package: x11-xserver-utils Version: 7.3+5 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/xset My xorg.conf is set up to have dpms enabled on one screen (:0.1 -- I'm using zaphod mode, so :0.0 is a separate screen to :0.1), but disable on another screen (:0.0, a status screen that must always remain on). This

Bug#599941: /usr/bin/xset: xset dpms etc seems to operate on all screens rather than just those provided such as :0.1, in X zaphod mode

2010-10-18 Thread Tim Connors
reopen 599941 thanks On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, Julien Cristau wrote: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 03:13:24 +1100, Tim Connors wrote: Package: x11-xserver-utils Version: 7.3+5 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/xset My xorg.conf is set up to have dpms enabled on one screen (:0.1 -- I'm using

Bug#466039: xserver-xorg-core: DPMS wakes up on spontaneous 1 pixel mouse moves

2010-03-07 Thread Tim Connors
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Brice Goglin wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 04:58:23PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote: Alas, when I have an external USB mouse plugged in, it only ever goes blank. If I xset force dpms off, then it will turn the backlights off on the internal monitor, and an external LCD

Bug#564064: x11-apps: xclock -digital text is now displayed very far from the left border since last update

2010-01-07 Thread Tim Connors
Package: x11-apps Version: 7.5+1 Severity: normal Using 'xclock -digital', the text is now offset from the left of the window, and is entirely displayed outside of the window area for small windows, presumably since the changelog entry: x11-apps (7.5+1) unstable; urgency=low * xclock 1.0.4.

Bug#564464: x11-xserver-utils: xset b no longer sets bell qualities

2010-01-09 Thread Tim Connors
Package: x11-xserver-utils Version: 7.5+1 Severity: normal As of the last update to xserver-xorg*, 'xset b vol pitch duration' no longer changes anything - it's ignored. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers oldstable APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500,

Bug#564464: x11-xserver-utils: xset b no longer sets bell qualities

2010-01-12 Thread Tim Connors
reassign 564464 xserver-xorg-core thanks On Sun, 10 Jan 2010, Tim Connors wrote: Package: x11-xserver-utils Version: 7.5+1 Severity: normal As of the last update to xserver-xorg*, 'xset b vol pitch duration' no longer changes anything - it's ignored. Actually, xset in x11-xserver-utils

Bug#564464: upstream bug 24503

2010-02-04 Thread Tim Connors
This seems to be the upstream bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24503 No idea whether the 'xset b' parameters are obeyed though with the proposed fix. I get a beep already (echo -e '\a' works as desired), it's just the 'xset b' parameters that were ignored as of 1.7. I haven't

Bug#584186: xserver-xorg-video-intel: refuses to start with (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration., ignoring plea to ignore DDC

2011-02-22 Thread Tim Connors
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi, Tim Connors t...@aaocbn.aao.gov.au (02/06/2010): Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.3.2-2+lenny6 Severity: important could you please tell us how it goes with squeeze or sid? Unfortunately, I can't say for now. I'm leaving

Bug#584186: xserver-xorg-video-intel: refuses to start with (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration., ignoring plea to ignore DDC

2011-02-22 Thread Tim Connors
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi, Tim Connors t...@aao.gov.au (23/02/2011): Unfortunately, I can't say for now. I'm leaving that job in 2 days time, and can't test the hardware in question (particularly since the critical piece of equipment in question is in use, and can't

Bug#508867: still exists I think

2011-04-04 Thread Tim Connors
reopen #508867 thanks Didn't realise the bug was marked as moreinfo. As much as the kernel is claimed to be fixed, I'm pretty sure I was still seeing this bug with 2.6.32. I have quit the job with the machine I encountered this on, and my other machines are in storage, so I can't verify for

Bug#642374: xauth: Doesn't seem to handle concurrency [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2011-09-21 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xauth Version: 1:1.0.6-1 Severity: normal for run in `seq 1 10` do ssh -X -l my user server xload done /usr/bin/xauth: error in locking authority file /home/user/.Xauthority X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. A sleep 0.1 though lets it through (most of the

Bug#508867: Ping

2014-01-21 Thread Tim Connors
Hi, I still see the bug, running -stable. On Tue, 21 Jan 2014, Solveig wrote: Hi! Do you still encounter this bug with latest versions? If yes, please provide up-to-date data, and if not, this bug report might be closed, so let us know :) Cheers, Solveig -- Tim Connors

Bug#765331: xserver-xorg-video-intel: occasional hangs in read from /dev/dri/card0 with AccelMethod sna

2014-10-14 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.99.916-1~exp1 Severity: important I'm running xserver-xorg-video-intel/experimental with Option AccelMethod sna because otherwise operation on haswell is incredibly unreliable (my latest problem being horible display corruption on webbrowsers

Bug#1014625: xterm: screen corruption of scrollback buffer

2022-07-08 Thread Tim Connors
Package: xterm Version: 372-1 Severity: normal I'm getting screen corruption (scattered blocks of blackness) over text in the xterm display when scrolling back. The blocks move with the contents of the scrollback when scrolling. When that text is eventually scrolled off the screen, scrolling

Bug#1014625: xterm: screen corruption of scrollback buffer

2024-02-15 Thread Tim Connors
On Sat, 9 Jul 2022, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sat, Jul 09, 2022 at 02:39:41PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > > This has happened ever since I changed my hardware -- mostly updating > > my video card to a radeon RX570 -- necessitating new versions of some > > drivers and k