I posted a few days ago about my problems getting the Linux binaries
to run under Debian.  To follow up, I never did succeed in making the
supplied binaries work, but I compiled x-povray with the stock Linux
makefile and it worked fine.  Even though I had libpng and libz, I had
to compile them first.  I was unable to compile s-povray because vga.h
was missing.  I am still trying to compile the Superpatch.  Frame.h
(for the Superpatch) has problems.  I see a lot of control-M's, so I
suspect cr/lf problems.
Jerry Anning
clem "at" dhol "dot" com

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Jerry Anning wrote:
> 
> I posted a few days ago about my problems getting the Linux binaries
> to run under Debian.  To follow up, I never did succeed in making the
> supplied binaries work, but I compiled x-povray with the stock Linux
> makefile and it worked fine.  Even though I had libpng and libz, I had
> to compile them first.  I was unable to compile s-povray because vga.h
> was missing.  I am still trying to compile the Superpatch.  Frame.h
> (for the Superpatch) has problems.  I see a lot of control-M's, so I
> suspect cr/lf problems.
> Jerry Anning
> clem "at" dhol "dot" com

Debian seems to have some ... interesting ... policies regarding what
versions of software they ship.  This affects everything from shared
libraries to X.  I haven't been able to get X to run at better than
80x60 or so, nor am I able to get X to recognize my mouse, and the
configuration utilities look like they date to around 1993.  I'm going
to throw an older, Debian-supported video card in my box and see what I
can find out.

I recall hearing a comment on Slashdot from a Debian user saying they
didn't want to make Debian too user-friendly, since that would make it
too attractive to idiots, and they didn't want to attract idiots to
Debian.  I'm coming to the conclusion that this attitide is quite
widespread.

It looks like if Debian is going to be supported, it will need its own
set of binaries.

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Mark Gordon
mtg### [at] povrayorg

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On Fri, 09 Jul 1999 03:37:32 GMT, Jerry Anning wrote:
> I am still trying to compile the Superpatch.  Frame.h
>(for the Superpatch) has problems.  I see a lot of control-M's, so I
>suspect cr/lf problems.

Oops.  You're probably right.  Try unzipping with the -a option.  If
that doesn't work, try -aa.  Unfortunately, I had to choose between
having the Unix users mad at me or having the Windows users mad at 
me.  I chose to make them both mad at me, probably because my source
was half edited on Windows and half on Linux, depending which machine
I was using at the time.

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> I recall hearing a comment on Slashdot from a Debian user saying they
> didn't want to make Debian too user-friendly, since that would make it
> too attractive to idiots, and they didn't want to attract idiots to
> Debian.  I'm coming to the conclusion that this attitide is quite
> widespread.

Sounds like something an idiot would say. ;-)

Although I didn't stick with Linux, I had first tried Debian and it ran
poorly.  I found Red Hat not only easier to setup, but the software that
came with it actually worked.  I've heard many others have had trouble with
Debian because it came with out-dated files.

-Mike

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Mike wrote:
> 
> > I recall hearing a comment on Slashdot from a Debian user saying they
> > didn't want to make Debian too user-friendly, since that would make it
> > too attractive to idiots, and they didn't want to attract idiots to
> > Debian.  I'm coming to the conclusion that this attitide is quite
> > widespread.
> 
> Sounds like something an idiot would say. ;-)

I knew I ran the risk of such a response. ;-)

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Mark Gordon
mtg### [at] povrayorg

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Mark Gordon wrote:
> 
> Debian seems to have some ... interesting ... policies regarding what
> versions of software they ship.  This affects everything from shared
> libraries to X.  I haven't been able to get X to run at better than
> 80x60 or so, nor am I able to get X to recognize my mouse, and the
> configuration utilities look like they date to around 1993.  I'm going
> to throw an older, Debian-supported video card in my box and see what I
> can find out.

Latest update: My old video card is recognized by Debian, but I have to
rebuild the kernel to support a PS/2 mouse. :-P

-- 
Mark Gordon
mtg### [at] povrayorg

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On Sat, 10 Jul 1999 11:30:59 -0500, Mark Gordon <mtg### [at] mailbagcom>
wrote:

>Mark Gordon wrote:
>> 
>> Debian seems to have some ... interesting ... policies regarding what
>> versions of software they ship.  This affects everything from shared
>> libraries to X.  I haven't been able to get X to run at better than
>> 80x60 or so, nor am I able to get X to recognize my mouse, and the
>> configuration utilities look like they date to around 1993.  I'm going
>> to throw an older, Debian-supported video card in my box and see what I
>> can find out.
>
>Latest update: My old video card is recognized by Debian, but I have to
>rebuild the kernel to support a PS/2 mouse. :-P

Oddly enough, I had no problem setting up X for my video or ps/2 mouse
on Debian.  XF86Setup worked well. The video is a GraphicsBlaster
128zx (Riva TNT), so I told it to use the Nvidia driver and forced the
video memory setting to 8mb.  As to the mouse, once I set it to
/dev/psaux instead of /dev/mouse it was fine.
As to the POV troubles, I now have Superpatch compiled and working.
According to ldd, the libraries required by the downloaded binaries
were all present, so I don't have a clue why they didn't work.  If it
means anything, I noticed that my (stripped) standard 3.1g x-povray
was about 50k smaller than the downloaded one.

Jerry Anning
clem "at" dhol "dot" com

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