On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:19:54PM +0100, JOSATOR@telefonica.net wrote: > ----- Mensaje Original ----- > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:05:06PM +0100, Jos? Salavert Torres wrote: > > > Package:xserver-xfree86 > > > Version:4.2.99.901 powerpc > > > > I cannot support packages I do not maintain. > > > > I have never packaed "XFree86 4.2.99.901" for Debian. > > > > You appear to be using someone's unofficial packages. > > > > Closing this spurious report. > > ok, sorry, but xfree 4.2.1 official packages doesn't work with the nv > driver, so I tried Daniel's unnoficial packages, That's fine, but those aren't my packages, they're not official, and I cannot support them. You should contact the person who created them; in this case, Daniel Stone. > Benjamin (the man who makes a patch for the kernel with additions for > powermac computers) recommended me that packages: > > "I don't recomment using rivafb for now. I want to play a bit with it > and fix the major issues, but for now, I recomment people use offb > with X "nv" driver. Also, use X latest "nv" (from daniel stone's > packages), these ones appear to work properly (including 2D > acceleration) on almost everything but eMacs. For these, I need to > investigate more. > > Ben." That's fine, but it doesn't have a lot to do with my packages. > But in my powermac G4 733 tower doesn't work. Ask him about making > those packages for unstable. XFree86 4.3.0 was released today, and I'll be packaging it for Debian unstable as soon as I can. > So now my bugreport is for 4.2.1 What exactly *is* the problem? All you've really said is "XFree86 problem", "my powermac G4 733 tower doesn't work", and you've said you've been using packages I didn't create and cannot support. That is not a trackable, resolvable issue. > Could you be more polite??? Is free, is like linux ...??? I don't see where I've been rude; I've been attempting to communicate factual data to you in as clear as manner as I can muster. Please do not mistake the inability of volunteers to accede to your every demand as impoliteness. -- G. Branden Robinson | One man's "magic" is another man's Debian GNU/Linux | engineering. "Supernatural" is a branden@debian.org | null word. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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