e-mail 2: some questions

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Hi again :)

i don't relly know where to start :(

1.
i tought it may be a good idea to prepare some
packages with the modified X server:
i built src.rpms/rpms for Mandrake 9.0 & cooker
i'll try to prepare one for Mandrake-8.2

i prepared XFree86.spec & patches for RedHat 8.0
and for the XFree86-4.3.0-2.1 from mharris
( ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/testing/unstable/XFree86/4.3.0-2.1/ )
i couldn't find other XF-4.3 src.rpms for RedHat ,
but the build process broke at some point, because i was 
missing utemper.h
can you rebuild them, you were running redhat correct?
just pull my additions to the src.rpms:
http://varna.demon.co.uk/~svetlio/X/XFree86-4.2.0-72.src.rpm-additions.tar.bz2
http://varna.demon.co.uk/~svetlio/X/XFree86-4.3.0-2.1.src.rpm-additions.tar.bz2

get the src.rpms, install them, put the patches from the tar in your rpm SOURCE
directory, use my XFree.spec or patch the original with the provided patch( both
are in the tar), build the rpms .
and you'll get one additional rpm, smth like my:
http://varna.demon.co.uk/~svetlio/X/XFree86-concurrent-server-4.2.1-3mdk.i586.rpm
http://varna.demon.co.uk/~svetlio/X/XFree86-concurrent-server-4.3-5mdk.i586.rpm

i can put them on my site, if you have space limitations on yours,
or if you for some reason don't want to put them on yours

may be Andrea could make some debian packages?

Andrea would you do this ?

2.
i made gpm rpms and src.rpms with the input patch from ruby's cvs
can you test them, wether they fix the mouse freese under X,
i can not use VGA if i start X, and i can not see any difference
under X both when gpm is running and isn't started

3. 
may be we should include on the download page tar, rpms, debs with
utils from the ruby tree.-- input-attach & some other usefull utilities

i installed them & i found out why i'm missing my wheel under ruby,
i should fill a bug report to linuxconsole i guess
in short :
#################################################################
[root@svetljo log]# evtest /dev/input/event1
Input driver version is 1.0.0
Input device ID: bus 0x11 vendor 0x2 product 0x2 version 0x100
Input device name: "PS2++ Logitech Mouse"
Supported events:
  Event type 1 (Key)
    Event code 272 (LeftBtn)
    Event code 273 (RightBtn)
    Event code 274 (MiddleBtn)
  Event type 2 (Relative)
    Event code 0 (X)
    Event code 1 (Y)
Testing ... (interrupt to exit)
 [root@svetljo log]#
##################################################################
that's from my Logitech Cordless Desktop PS2,
the one from my usb mice follows:
##################################################################
 [root@svetljo log]# evtest /dev/input/event4
Input driver version is 1.0.0
Input device ID: bus 0x3 vendor 0x5fe product 0x11 version 0x0
Input device name: "Cypress Sem. PS2/USB Browser Combo Mouse"
Supported events:
  Event type 1 (Key)
    Event code 272 (LeftBtn)
    Event code 273 (RightBtn)
    Event code 274 (MiddleBtn)
    Event code 275 (SideBtn)
    Event code 276 (ExtraBtn)
  Event type 2 (Relative)
    Event code 0 (X)
    Event code 1 (Y)
    Event code 8 (Wheel)
##################################################################


4.
i think there are very little examples on the site,
and it would be good if we add some for XF confs, X servers, gdm.config
kernel's .config , am i missing smth?
i can provide for Mandrake, you for RedHat, Andreas for Debian,
about the kernel's i can not boot with the configuration from defconfig,
and it's pretty limited, i think it's better if we provide .config's for our
distributions, with modified ruby part of course, the defconfig leaves a lot of
 drivers off, we could enable them as modules, the user would eventually need
only to change the typ of he's CPU and recompile.

5....
i was having some more question, but i somehow forgot them :(
i'll drop some more lines later probably 
 
Thats for now,

best,

svetljo