On Sun, Dec 23, 2012, at 11:23 AM, Liam R E Quin wrote: > You didn't say whether you were using ftp or http in your message. > Firefox supports both.
No, I didn't. I was expecting this mailing list to get to someone who had an idea how the site configuration was set up, for whom dropping a slow connection might ring a bell. Also that being dropped in a 5MB download of xorg-server meant it was a source download. One might have thought also that http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/xserver/ was the most likely place one would have found for the download. > For what it's worth, in the past I (and others) have measured the > difference this made; there appeared to be an interaction with rouers > although I don't know if this is still true. A "slow ping" is going to keep something up better than wget hammering for packet after packet? That is very strange indeed! > There's a patch here > http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2010-July/011317.html that may > be relevant, although without more information about the actual error > it's hard to know. I've tried that. It's in libpciaccess-0.11.0, IIRC. No joy! Come to that, I expect trying xorg-server-1.7.7 won't do any good either. Currently I've got something going on the BLFS-support mailing list--I figured somebody there might have hit it because I'm using their list of package versions for a 7.5 install. > > > Or ask someone to send you the source on CD. > > Or I could ask Santa Claus to bring it to me. > > > > How does this fix the problem of getting dropped? > > I don't have enough information to address that problem beyond giving > you some suggestions that may help, which I have done. You missed one, BTW. You might have suggested I put a thumbdrive in my pocket and drive the 11 miles to the PSU campus and see if anybody's there the weekend before Xmas! > Fun - no. You'd be surprised how many people don't realise that their > local library offers free network access and computer facilities. You > didn't mention whether you were trying to install on a laptop or > desktop or something else. As it happens mine does, but it's hardly universal in the USA, which is where I am, but needn't have been to have asked about being dropped. > Firefox handles multiple protocols, and if you want someone to > investigate 'being dropped" you'd have to give the exact URL and the > time, or find someone e.g. on an IRC channel to help you by watching > the log to see if there's an error on the server. No, I think I'd have to reach someone familiar with the site configuration. I got here as the site's suggestion for joining a mailing list, but it's probably not the best of the 50+ freedesktop seems to support. -- Paul Rogers [email protected] http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users: http://www.fastmail.fm/help/overview_quotes.html _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
