Re: Xfree86 4.4 vs Xorg Wrap-up

2004-03-26 Thread Daniel Stone
ce. > Please, correct me if I'm wrong. But don't spend too much time on point > '8' , I know I'm right about this one. OK, I won't bother arguing. Saves me time anyway. And the disk-space issue is fixed. -- Daniel Stone

Re: Cygwin/XFree86 - Staying or leaving XFree86.org? [Was: Re: Cygwin/XFree86 Bugs?]

2003-10-27 Thread Daniel Stone
27;s really not, you know. Aside from the fact you can do permissions, there's also the KDE module, with a flexible checkin script to allow/deny/whatever commits, based on an arbitrary ruleset. -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.deb

Re: Cygwin/XFree86 - Staying or leaving XFree86.org? [Was: Re: Cygwin/XFree86 Bugs?]

2003-10-26 Thread Daniel Stone
ICT) placing conditions on his continued participation in a volunteer activity, not making demands of other volunteers. -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.org - http://www.kde.org - http://www.freedesktop.org "What's ne

Re: Memory Allocation Problems for Intel 845G

2003-10-02 Thread Daniel Stone
t stands, it's an external binary. Its main function is to show one what registers need what data shoved into them. -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.org - http://www.kde.org - http://www.freedesktop.org "Configurabi

Re: Starting XFree86 without an XF86Config file

2003-10-02 Thread Daniel Stone
GNOME and KDE versions will come. Don't have none, have both. Red Hat can ship the GNOME version, SuSE/whatever can ship the KDE version, and they work the same way, semantically. Everyone's happy. -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: synaptics lockups (was Re: radeon lockups ...)

2003-09-02 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:19:38AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Daniel Stone wrote: > >On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:04:00AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: > >> It's GPL licensed unfortunately. Only MIT licensed code is > >> accepted into XFree

Re: synaptics lockups (was Re: radeon lockups ...)

2003-09-02 Thread Daniel Stone
27;s source code. It's possible to do a clean room > implementation, but I'm not sure if anyone would really want to > bother when there's a working driver already. Well, couldn't the upstream author just relicense it? -- Daniel Stone

Re: patch to include some kernel info in banner

2003-08-24 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 02:25:47PM -0600, Marc Aurele La France wrote: > On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > > > This patch puts the kernel version in the banner, on Linux, and also whether > > > > > or not it's tainted (providing it's a suffi

Re: patch for ia64

2003-08-14 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 09:40:43PM -0600, Marc Aurele La France wrote: > You seem to be "submitting" a string of old patches, some of them twice. > Why? These patches are all from the Debian packages. -- Daniel Stone <[EMA

Re: patch to include some kernel info in banner

2003-08-11 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 09:04:42PM -0600, Marc Aurele La France wrote: > On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 04:57:14PM -0500, Warren Turkal wrote: > > > This patch puts the kernel version in the banner, on Linux, and also whether > &g

Re: patch to include some kernel info in banner

2003-08-10 Thread Daniel Stone
move RH_CUSTOM, etc). Please do not accept this Linux-specific hack of a patch; I merged it to Debian, and Mike asked me not to send it upstream. -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.org - http://www.kde.org - http://www.xwin.org &quo

Re: CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)

2003-07-30 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 06:14:06AM -0500, Todd T. Fries wrote: > Penned by Daniel Stone on Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 04:51:49PM +1000, we have: > [..] > | I did suggest this (mv hp,v hp.old,v). > > If you guys care about history at all, aka the ability to checkout files > in the p

Re: CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)

2003-07-29 Thread Daniel Stone
m, HP is an abbreviation for Hewlett-Packard - two proper nouns, which should be capitalized. Dell, on the other hand, is just the last name of Michael, and thus shouldn't be fully capitalized. > Would it be possible to fix this issue on the repository side? I

Re: CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)

2003-07-29 Thread Daniel Stone
nce in names, but feels a difference in object type > (file vs. directory). > Perforce on Windows has the same problems. > > Please manually delete `hp' file, and try `cvs update' again. Moving hp,v to hp.old,v on the server would also help a lot. Another sterling example

Re: Rant (was Re: ATI Drivers.)

2003-07-24 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 05:12:00AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Daniel Stone wrote: > >Not very many, and their competitirs would then have access to all their IP, so > >could out-do them in the next generation of cards. > > I doubt that it would involv

Re: Rant (was Re: ATI Drivers.)

2003-07-24 Thread Daniel Stone
> microcode engine from one of these drivers however is even much > more likely than reverse engineering the KFC recipe by analyzing > the molecular structure of the crispy crust. Aye. The problem with this view is that most people slam you for trying to kill open source or some cr

Re: Rant (was Re: ATI Drivers.)

2003-07-19 Thread Daniel Stone
ss to all their IP, so could out-do them in the next generation of cards. -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.kde.org - http://www.debian.org - http://www.xwin.org "Configurability is always the best choice when it's p

Re: Radeon 9000 If (RV250), Mac G4 (Wintunnel) problems with XFree86

2003-06-04 Thread Daniel Stone
sion > of X than my own, what can I do? Should I try it with a 4.3 server? > (and if so, are some official debs available?) Could you compile it > against a lower version for me? Or shall I just give up on this whilst > somebody else with more xfree86 smarts tests it? :( 4.3.0 debs

Re: Xfree supports Hppa ?

2003-02-28 Thread Daniel Stone
to support the relocation types introduced in gcc3.2, as we recently had to do for other, non-i386/powerpc architectures. -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Trinity College, University of Melbourne pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: TerminateServer Keycode combination broken ...

2003-01-23 Thread Daniel Stone
x27; instruction which adds > some other files to the final map). So what's the best way to get an Apple Pro keyboard working fully? -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Trinity College, University of Melbourne msg00251/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debugging in RH8?

2003-01-15 Thread Daniel Stone
this in his latest package set, IIRC. -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Trinity College, University of Melbourne msg00152/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ATI card addition to xf86PciInfo.h

2003-01-14 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 12:06:42AM -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III scrawled: > >>>>> "DS" == Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > DS> Probably, but in the 40 Dell Optiplex SX260s I just helped deploy > DS> as a lab one and a half hours ag

Re: ATI card addition to xf86PciInfo.h

2003-01-14 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:54:04PM -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III scrawled: > >>>>> "DS" == Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > DS> There's also a BIOS option to do this early ... > > Many of the BIOS versions out there are bugg

Re: ATI card addition to xf86PciInfo.h

2003-01-14 Thread Daniel Stone
es shared memory, whereas the > >Savage/MX has its own separate VRAM. The driver doesn't care at all. > > I guess the Intel integrated graphics chips (810/815, 830M, 845G) are > a little different then, with the agpgart kernel driver allowing additional > system me

Re: Another voice

2003-01-14 Thread Daniel Stone
x27;s irrelevant now, isn't it? One of the big complaints > has been that XFree86 has had the appearance of an exclusive club. > Well, that has been addressed by effectively eliminating the club! > Isn't that what the "Open Source Community" wanted? patches@, fixes@,

Re: [Devel] Re: Another voice

2003-01-13 Thread Daniel Stone
e general public? Yes, but with Bugzilla you can have open submissions, but only certain users able to set bugs to CONFIRMED, etc. Maybe if we handed the latter out to only clueful people ... :) d, KDE developer and current Debian XFree86 4.3 dude, so excuse the bias -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Trinity College, University of Melbourne msg00073/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature