Re: [XFree86] X Free 86 Fatal Server Error
Hi, Am Donnerstag, 8. April 2004 08:27 schrieb Andi Martin: Hi, was wondering if you could help, I know it's a real waste of your time, I would be greatly appreciative if you could spare 5/10 mins to have a look over this, I'm fairly new to Linux, used Sparc machines for a couple years at Uni 7 years ago - hence my linux knowledge leaves a bit to be desired (been a long long time!). I keep getting this error when trying to run startx, I'm sure it's very easy to correct, just no idea how Have attached the log file for viewing pleasure :-) ? Thanks for your time in reading this email, and even more thanks if you can tell me how to fix it :-) first of all, you're version of XFree86 is quite old (4.2.0). Current stable is 4.4.0, so I highly recommend you to upgrade it, as you're videocard is much better supported now. Second thing I think could be a problem, is that you are using the vesa driver. Try to change this to the nv driver provided by xfree (Section Device in /etc/X11/XF86Config), or download and install the binary drivers from nvidia (http://www.nvidia.com), which support 3D acceleration, but are not open source. Rgds Andi Martin Hth, Michael Btw: Not shure, if rajesh k has the same problem, because there was no log attached. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Problem getting xfree to work ( on gentoo )
Hi, Am Montag, 22. März 2004 14:57 schrieb David Eduardo Gomez Noguera: On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 22:09, Mark Vojkovich wrote: The GeForceFX 5700 is technically not supported by the nv driver prior to XFree86 4.4. XFree86 4.3's nv driver will try to treat it as an older card and start up anyhow, but in the case of the 5700, that doesn't work (except for digital flat panels, where it kindof works). It's works fine with XFree86 4.4. Mark. Thank you. That might be it. I have exatly FX5700 card. Dont remember exactly what X version does gentoo tries to install, but I think thats it. My Moderboard has an integrated intel video card (hope that works with 4.3's thoug ;) ). I will try to see if I can get both living happyly together (integrated video is dissabled now) Uhm. What else could I do if gentoo has not updated its version? I think I need to read a bit more on its portage... Thank you again for the pointer. there's an ebuild + instructions available at: http://media.homelinux.org/gentoo Gentoo will not include 4.4.0 in portage because of license issues they have. I use the ebuild above on various machines and it works perfectly. HTH, Michael ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] My GDM won't start
Hi, Am Sonntag, 21. März 2004 11:28 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi alle, I have installed the xfree86 server (LATEST version) on my debian 3.0r2 woody linux system, all works, except for my windowmanager and xserver. no, you have not the latest version installed. Why do you think that? It's 3 years old. This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any way. Bugs may be reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and patches submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions, please check the latest version in the XFree86 CVS repository (http://www.XFree86.Org/cvs) XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510) Release Date: 21 December 2001 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Read the above lines carefully, and you'll know, what to do ;-) An alternative would be to use the binary drivers from nvidia. Thanks! Tjerk. PS could you mail me to my own adres [EMAIL PROTECTED] please tnx. Michael ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Re: Fwd:XFree4.4 no more GPL?
Am Dienstag, 2. März 2004 20:44 schrieb Måns Rullgård: Michael Schreckenbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am Dienstag, 2. März 2004 17:49 schrieb Måns Rullgård: Frédéric L. W. Meunier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Mike A. Harris wrote: As always, people can use another distribution, the binaries from http://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.4.0/binaries/ , or compile it. You mean there is a distribution that actually plans on shipping 4.4.0? ;o) Actually, according to ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/COPYRIGHT.TXT , I guess Slackware will: I suppose Gentoo won't have any problems either, since they are not actually shipping the files. Besides, I don't think they have any silly political reasons stopping them. Gentoo announced, that it will not supply ebuilds for XFree86 with the new license. There's actually a long disussion in gentoo-user mailing list about this. I'm going to write my own ebuild now. Would you mind posting your ebuild somewhere so others can use it? I will do this, as soon as my ebuild works. I think, I'll post it here and on gentoo-users. Is this ok? Somewhere else to go? Michael ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Re: Fwd:XFree4.4 no more GPL?
Am Dienstag, 2. März 2004 17:49 schrieb Måns Rullgård: Frédéric L. W. Meunier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Mike A. Harris wrote: As always, people can use another distribution, the binaries from http://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.4.0/binaries/ , or compile it. You mean there is a distribution that actually plans on shipping 4.4.0? ;o) Actually, according to ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/COPYRIGHT.TXT , I guess Slackware will: I suppose Gentoo won't have any problems either, since they are not actually shipping the files. Besides, I don't think they have any silly political reasons stopping them. Gentoo announced, that it will not supply ebuilds for XFree86 with the new license. There's actually a long disussion in gentoo-user mailing list about this. I'm going to write my own ebuild now. Imho the only reason for gentoo doing this, is a political one :-( Michael ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] SiS DRI
Hello, Am Freitag, 12. Dezember 2003 15:17 schrieb Steve: hi all, last week i compiledinstalled xfree 4.3.99.901 on my gentoo 1.4 machine to test the new sis dri driver included( i have a sis 630 graphics card). but when i try to startx glxgears the whole machine crashes. glxinfo reports direct rendering to be correctly enabled. i think the problem could maybe be the drm kernel modules which are for 4.3 in the 2.4.23 kernel :-/ i tried both the modules compiled into the kernel or as a module and i also tested the xfree-drm 4.3.0r7 package for gentoo but it simply doesnt work :( . another thing i tried was to compile agpgart either as a module or into the kernel but this also showed no success. maybe anyone of you knows how to get dri to work on my machine... btw dri worked with the old dri driver of xfree 4.2. thx for help Steve I have a laptop with SIS630 and dri works with cvs sources from dri.sourceforge.net. Just follow their instructions to get them. After make World copy the sis_dri.so from somewhere under the exports-folder to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/. After that everything should be ok. The build of sis_dri was broken a long time, now Eric Anholt is working on it and does a great job. I use the kernel module from xfree-drm (gentoo-packaged). HTH Michael ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] XFree86Config Question
Hello, Am Donnerstag, 6. November 2003 07:41 schrieb Shawn M. Badger: I just switched over to Gentoo 1.4, which I love so far, but I'm having some trouble with my XFree86Config file, and consequently my xserver. Is there an Xconfigurator-like program in Gentoo that I can use to configure this thing a bit more easily? Or is there one that I can easily emerge using Gentoo's awesome portage setup? Sorry if this is a really dumb question, but I am trying to learn more. Thanks, Shawn afaik gentoo has no program to do this for you. I just used xf86config (included in XFree), answered its questions and all went well. Regards Michael ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] XFree86 4.2.1, Crucial ATI Radeon 9100
Am Donnerstag, 25. September 2003 14:27 schrieb Joseph Schlabotnik: Hi, I have a Crucial ATI Radeon 9100 video card (128MB) and an Asus A7V333-X motherboard. I've tried running xf86cfg using two different hard drives, each of which had OpenBSD 3.3. with XFree86 4.2.1 configured successfully for a different video card. The Radeon config fails. Included is output from scanpci -v and XFree86.8.log. Thanks for your help. # XFree86.8.log # XFree86 Version 4.2.1 (for OpenBSD) / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) Release Date: 3 September 2002 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/) snip Fatal server error: XFree86 has found a valid card configuration. Unfortunately the appropriate data has not been added to xf86PciInfo.h. Please forward 'scanpci -v' output to XFree86 support team. When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages. This can be found in the log file /var/log/XFree86.8.log. Please report problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your card is newer than your server and so the server doesn't know it. Current is XFree86 4.3.0. Although I do not know, wether the Radeon 9100 is supported by it, an upgrade would be the first step. Michael ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
