On Sunday 02 February 2003 9:27 am, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
Did you compile this server yourself ?
I've noticed that RedHat 8.0 ships with a version of mga_drv.o
whcih doesn't support the hal. You aren't using that version, but
has yours been similarly nobbled ?
This is what I get on a
Hi,
As some of you know, I'm working on a knowledge based system (a bot) that
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On Thursday 30 January 2003 11:08 pm, System Administrator a.k.a. The Root of
the Problem wrote:
pci bus 0x0 cardnum 0x00 function 0x: vendor 0x1106 device 0x0691
VIA Device unknown
Just a host bridge. Apollo Pro/133/133A chipsets.
VT82C691/693A/694X
pci bus 0x0 cardnum 0x08 function
Hi,
I think that inXFree86 Version 4.2.99.4 there is a bug in the detection of
mga_hal.
I had a look through the changelog for 4.2.99.4 and someone added some code
to detect and check whether the mga_hal module exists. I'm probably doing
this wrong, but it does seem to me, naively, that I
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I wouldn't know, but others might be able to help you better if you attached
/var/log/XFree86.0.log and /etc/X11/XF86Config
Sincerely,
JohnFlux
On Friday 31 January 2003 2:01 pm, sam wrote:
Regarding: x server is not starting.
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Friday 31 January 2003 3:11 pm, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, John Tapsell wrote:
Hi,
In the attached log file, the mga_hal module is loaded (I added
LoadModule mga_hal in the XF86Config-4 file)
Why not let the driver load the hal itself ?
I don't have that line
Sir,
Try doing:
service xfs start
Then trying X again.
JohnFlux
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 09:35:39PM -0800, chaitali wrote:
I have loaded Linux on a machine the specufications are given below but am
unable to go to the graphical mode. Please help
The OS is RedHat Linux7.1 with X Window
On Thursday 30 January 2003 7:43 pm, Jordi Ferrer Plana wrote:
Hi all,
I traced my problem with Qt applications and my X server. I found that
my problem is with OpenGl applications:
Sir,
Could you tell me what video card you have?
If it is nvidia, then try:
chmod 666 /dev/nvidia
On Thursday 30 January 2003 8:34 pm, Donald E Haselwood wrote:
John,
Thanks for the conversion tip. Using MS Word did not occur to me! I tried
everything else, e.g. file transfer with samba, etc.
you can use ftp. Make sure it is in text mode before you do the get.
This btw is the
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Sir,
You wouldn't be able to move around because the virtual size is the same as
the view size (i.e. 320x200).
Okay, do:
mv /etc/X11/XF86Config{,.backup-30012003}
redhat-config-xfree86
(without the -4 this time)
JohnFlux
On Thursday 30 January 2003 9:03 pm, Donald E
I believe that the problem is in the hardware acceleration. By moving that
module, X can no longer find it. Therefore it disables DRI and falls back on
software rendering.
I'll bet that you don't get a particulary good framerate.
Unfortunetly I do not know where to go from here ;)
Perhaps
ali,
Did you fix your problem?
JohnFlux
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:44:43PM +, John Tapsell wrote:
Good sir,
Could you try something for me please?
place this in /etc/system:
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax = 8388608
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni = 0x1000
set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg
Could you try the following please, and let me know if it works.
Open /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
Go to the Display section.
Add:
Option SWCursor
in that section.
Thanks
JohnFlux
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 04:03:07PM +0200, Marius Andreiana wrote:
Hi
On sis 5591/5592 agp video card, mouse cursor
Try:
redhat-config-xfree86
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 06:18:50PM -, vikash gautam wrote:
whenever i m starting my x server thru startx getting following
message in log file:
XFree86 Version 4.2.0 (Red Hat Linux release: 4.2.0-72) / X Window
System
(protocol Version 11,
Good sir,
Could you try something for me please?
place this in /etc/system:
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax = 8388608
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni = 0x1000
set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg = 0x100
And try again. Let me know if anything changes.
(Create it if it doesn't exist)
Thanks
JohnFlux
On Tue, Jan
Can we see your log file please?
/var/log/XFree86.0.log
JohnFlux
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:03:15PM -0500, Donald E Haselwood wrote:
RedHat8.0, P100, 48MB, Trident TGUI9660. I've used 'xf86config' in about
every combination that I can think of, all resulting in a screen that looks
like it
Bruce,
We seem to be getting more and more errors with no information in them.
How are we supposed to help you if you don't give us any information?
For a start, what OS is this? What cpu? What distribution?
What do the logs say? What are the permissions on /dev/io?
What version of X
Hi,
Many people are reporting problems and bugs without giving
enough information.
Personally I try to take the view the user is always right, and so
this is what I propose.. :)
*) I (or someone else) writes a quick program (or extension to bug
or reportbug or any other bug reporting
Okay I'll have it done by the weekend.
If it is of decent quality, could it be included in the distribution,
with a bit of text suggesting to run it appended to the X crash output?
Otherwise it is kinda pointless :)
We'll have a play anyway. I have an example tommorrow morning, and it's
getting
You wouldn't believe how often this comes up.
http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/numlock.txt
DEVELOPERS - PLEASE FIX THIS!
(Having shouted, they probably already have.. and boy will I be embarrased)
JohnFlux
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 04:52:16PM -0500, Don wrote:
I realize this is an
I appologise for the previous message. Encrypted it by mistake :)
Kmail with gpg-mime support is still dodgy
Anyway, email is below
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 10:31 am, Craig wrote:
When reporting a problem to a server crash, please send the full server
output, ot
just the last
Your OWN email contains a copy and paste of the following:
When reporting a problem to a server crash, please send the full server
output, not
just the last message. This can be found in the log file
/var/log/xfree.0.log.
But I don't see the attached said file.
JohnFlux
On Friday 17
On Wednesday 08 January 2003 10:12 pm, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
I run the XFree86 binary. I can't start a window manager from the
console. Why is it doing this? I don't have this problem on another
machine, but on this one it won't accept any connections at all.
Given the HUGE of amount of
Hi,
On my Toshiba Satellite Pro 4300 laptop I get pixmap corruption.
(I think pixmap is the right word - all the icons etc)
They often disapear, and half appear etc. If I move my mouse over them I get
them back, but only temporarily.
For an example, I loaded up kmail, and the icons across the
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 09:44:38AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need to have accurate color representation on my monitor. Of course
monitors and video cards differ in this area, so how do I know a color
being presented to me on the screen is true to the color of the source?
Is there
I've had this problem when all disk space on my / partition was used, but
that was also stopping XFS from running - so I don't know how helpful my
advice might be.
I've had this problem on multiple occasions. Can we get this fixed please?
Thoughts:
1) Get xfs to return the error somehow (via
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 2:48 pm, Owen Savill wrote:
It works :-)
However, only if I login as a user, launch X, lauch a console and do an
'su' !!!
Attempts to do any 3D stuff without doing this (even root) is met with :
libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted
libGL
On Friday 22 November 2002 6:15 am, Keith Packard wrote:
Around 5 o'clock on Nov 22, John Tapsell wrote:
Sorry for being slow, but why isn't the display dpi good?
You could try to always make the cursor 1cm big for example - isn't that
a good thing?
Mostly what you need is bigger cursors
Could we have the cursor size be automatically set from the dpi?
Is it already?
JohnFlux
On Thursday 21 November 2002 7:44 pm, Scott Lampert wrote:
Is there a simple way to get X to use larger or different mouse cursors?
I notice some applications change the mouse cursor but I'd like to do
On Friday 22 November 2002 1:00 am, Keith Packard wrote:
Around 0 o'clock on Nov 22, John Tapsell wrote:
Could we have the cursor size be automatically set from the dpi?
Is it already?
It's automatically set from Xft.dpi resource (if set), or from the smaller
of DisplayWidth/48
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 7:12 am, you wrote:
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:27, John Tapsell wrote:
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 10:35 am, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
Two input groups doesn't make sense unless you have two foci.
That means the concept the window with focus becomes the list
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 10:35 am, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, John Tapsell wrote:
Each input group has one cursor. (Few, in any, graphics cards can cope
with multiple hardware cursors, so above one cursor, the rest will have
to be software cursors.)
Popular
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 5:10 am, you wrote:
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, John Tapsell wrote:
I would dearly love to see this working.
Thoughts?
well, I've done some more research, and it turns out that it's already
been done.
The linuxconsole project (linuxconsole.sourceforge.org) has done
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 12:56 pm, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, John Tapsell wrote:
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 10:35 am, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
I think it would need either two event queues, or a new parameter
in the event queue to say which input group
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 12:26 am, James Chin wrote:
Does anyone know if it's possible to specify a ServerLayout section
without a keyboard input device?
Basically, I have a dual independent head setup with two mice and one
keyboard and I want the keyboard to only apply to the left
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 1:18 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 12:56 pm, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, John Tapsell wrote:
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 10:35 am, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
I think it would need either two event queues
I would dearly love to see this working.
I can't answer your questions unfortunetly, but this is one way I envisage it
working:
In the XF86Config-4 file, an input group section is added. The syntax of
CorePointer and SendCoreEvents is discarded (What is the difference between
the primary and
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:20:05AM -0700, Anurag Palsule wrote:
Hello,
Is it possible for me to write a wrapper or a hook to
the Xserver,so that all the X calls, instead of going
to Xserver, will land into my application and my
application will inturn pass them to the X server for
further
this question, and choose PCI. However this doesn't disable
the second card or anything, just prioritises the PCI card.
Yiqun Wang
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 02:56:00PM -0700, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, John Tapsell wrote:
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 02:33:05PM -0700, Mark
Hi all,
On quite a few keyboards these days there are extra keys.
One of which is the power button. How would I get the power
button working?
I read the Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO but as far as I could
follow, the only examples were for mapping new keys to existing
functions
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 07:14:13AM -0700, Alex Deucher wrote:
John,
You can map those new keys to run anything. you can write a script
that simply contains
shutdown -h now
and when you hit that key it'll run the that script shutting your
machine down. if you want something neat
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 07:25:31PM +1200, David Antliff wrote:
Well, I don't know if it's been done before, but I use Fluxbox and as it
stands, it has no ability to place new windows 'interactively' (i.e.
choose to open an xterm, click where you want it to be positioned). I
know it's
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 03:01:44PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, that's fine. I tried this, and it works. Now I have a problem when I want
to logout. If I want to logout, the X-Server is chrashing. So I get no screen
and it hangs up.
I personally want 2 pointers, and do it by binding keyboards and mice
together. (e.g. keyboard 1 + mouse 1, keyboard 2 + mouse 2..)
There are of course various problems, one of the less technical being that
since you have multiple keyboards and mice, you probably will connect them
via usb, and
bah
What I meant to say, before I so rudely interrupted myself, was that
you can emulate multiple cursors etc by having multiple X servers.
At the moment you cannot have multiple X-servers on one screen, nor can you
have them on multiple monitors.
The first, I doubt will ever be changed.
The
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On Tuesday 28 May 2002 6:17 am, Bharathi S wrote:
On Mon, 27 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I saw a demo of Linux + XFree86 4.1.0
with 4 DISPLAY( Mon,KB, mouse).
Yeah, I have that working too. But next time you see it, try
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So, as I already said, I think some kind of serialization of video
device accesses is needed between the multiple X servers.
So who would be qualified to attempt such a thing?
Who do we have to beg ? :)
I saw a demo of Linux + XFree86 4.1.0
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You would be correct, unless someone has written an X server with a VNC
Server built in.
Hmm.. have there been any attempts at this?
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There is no accelleration in fbdev.
But will there be? Is it possible?
btw, whats GGI or whatever it is?
JohnFlux
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On Wednesday 22 May 2002 9:36 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Xperts,
how hard would it be to add more keyboards and mice to XFree, each
delivering events to a different screen, thus enabling a full local
multiuser setup? Is there any reason
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Are you aware of the linuxconsole project at
linuxconsole.sourceforge.net, looks like this kind of thing is included
in thier plans. Stuff is already getting merged into the 2.5 development
kernels.
Several years ago (jeez, that long.. how time
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On Friday 24 May 2002 1:10 am, Trent wrote:
2) Some way for one unix user, but two human users to use the machine.
I.e. two ppl share a desktop. I would like this so that I can work on
one half one monitor, and gf on other monitor, then if we
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On Thursday 23 May 2002 2:12 am, res0i1oz wrote:
My friends,
I am curious to ask you: whether it is possible to find a solution of the
problem in Xwindow. The probelm is: I run an application (for Xwindow) in
local (machine A), meanwhile, I like
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Put the floppy disk in
Make a directory for it: mkdir /mnt/floppy its okay if already exists
Copy file there: cp /var/log/XFree86.0.log /mnt/floppy
unmount the drive: umount /mnt/floppy
wait for green light to go out on the drive, and
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Card: Matrox G400 Dualhead
X version: 4.1.0.1
Distro: Debian, sid (unstable)
Attempt:To get dual head working, using mgapdesk, using xinerama.
Problem:kicker (the panel) crashes
On Monday 11 February 2002 01:04, Brent Bailey wrote:
just installed xfree86 4.2 all is good but this mousewhn i do
startx...KDE starts up ...and everything looks ok ..untill i move the
mouse ...then the cursor flies up to the top letf corner and stays
there ..unusableis there
On Saturday 12 January 2002 15:42, you wrote:
Hello,
I am using a 14 TFT 1024x768 LCD screen and I am trying out AA fonts for
the first time on a Mandrake system. I have used them on RH 7.2 at work
with a 17 CRT display and the result using Open Office makes even the most
hard line Windows
On Saturday 05 January 2002 18:26, you wrote:
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, John Tapsell wrote:
but could you try with the latest 2.4 kernel? just to check - thanks.
Tried *that*, too: 2.2.19, 2.4.4, 2.4.17 . No difference. If I'd had the
right binutils, I'd've checked against 2.5.1, but I'm sure
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