[Gnewsense-dev] Useless and confusing terminal messages

2009-12-24 Thread Richard Stallman
When I type FN-downarrow, which reduces the screen brightness, it displays a message on the console. That is a pain in the neck. Merely typing a key should display any such message. ___ gNewSense-dev mailing list gNewSense-dev@nongnu.org

[Gnewsense-dev] FN-leftarrow

2009-12-24 Thread Richard Stallman
When I type FN-rightarrow, which reduces the audio volume, it not only displays an annoying message on the console. It also generates a character, F14. Magic FN-combinations should not generate terminal input. ___ gNewSense-dev mailing list

[Gnewsense-dev] Gnash snapshots for Lemote

2009-12-24 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Rob Savoye schreef: Getting 0.8.6 (the last stable release) into gNewSense would be a good step. All the popular sites are always changing, so when it comes to free flash support, you often need to use the very latest from trunk. That's why I build snapshots, which usually are pretty stable,

[Gnewsense-dev] Emacs 23

2009-12-24 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Emacs 23 is in the updates for metad, but it can't be installed on the Yeeloong and printed a warning on i386. Aptitude on Yeeloong: The following packages have unmet dependencies: emacs: Depends: emacs23 which is a virtual package, or emacs23-lucid which is a virtual

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Gnash snapshots for Lemote

2009-12-24 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Sam Geeraerts schreef: Rob Savoye schreef: Getting 0.8.6 (the last stable release) into gNewSense would be a good step. All the popular sites are always changing, so when it comes to free flash support, you often need to use the very latest from trunk. That's why I build snapshots, which

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Gnash snapshots for Lemote

2009-12-24 Thread Eric Padman
On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 15:48 +0100, Sam Geeraerts wrote: snip On i386 it also doesn't install, but with a different error: Unpacking replacement gnash ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gnash_trunk20090313_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite

[Gnewsense-dev] Re: Gnash snapshots for Lemote

2009-12-24 Thread Daniel Clark
Sam Geeraerts wrote: Rob Savoye schreef: Getting 0.8.6 (the last stable release) into gNewSense would be a good step. All the popular sites are always changing, so when it comes to free flash support, you often need to use the very latest from trunk. That's why I build snapshots, which

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Emacs 23

2009-12-24 Thread Karl Goetz
On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:40:29 +0100 Sam Geeraerts sam...@elmundolibre.be wrote: Emacs 23 is in the updates for metad, but it can't be installed on the Yeeloong and printed a warning on i386. Aptitude on Yeeloong: The following packages have unmet dependencies: emacs: Depends: emacs23

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Gnash snapshots for Lemote

2009-12-24 Thread Karl Goetz
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 04:33:46 +1300 Eric Padman mentalnotes...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 15:48 +0100, Sam Geeraerts wrote: snip On i386 it also doesn't install, but with a different error: Unpacking replacement gnash ... dpkg: error processing