An unnamed Administration source, Kendall Bennett, wrote:
% David Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
%
% I guess you must have read something to even know about the existence
% of a host.def file. I presume that it was misleading, and so should
% be fixed.
%
% Yes, I have the file that I printed
An unnamed Administration source, Jesse Hutton, wrote:
% Does anyone know of a good modeline generator? I have a Viewsonic P95f
% monitor (video bandwidth of 285Mhz), and I would like to see how it looks
% with a refresh rate of about 100 (and my video card is a Matrox G550) at
% 1280x960
Feigning erudition, Fabrice Trichard wrote:
%
% Hi
%
% I am new to Linux and I encountered the following:
%
% when I boot my machine it satr all services normaly and XFS as well ...
Does XFS show up in the output of ps? For example:
$ ps -e | grep xfs
111 ?00:00:00 xfs
Kurt
Feigning erudition, Kendall Bennett wrote:
% Marc Aurele La France [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
%
% The binaries you provide for your driver should be generated against the
% earliest (public) XFree86 version that provides the functionality your
% driver depends on. If that means 4.1.0, then
Feigning erudition, Kendall Bennett wrote:
% Hi Guys,
%
% I know I have asked this before, but I can't seem to find my emails and
% the mailing list archive does not seem to be responding.
%
% What sort of back/forward compatibility is there with the XFree86 driver
% modules? From memory last
Feigning erudition, David Dawes wrote:
[evils of make -k]
% We could change the default, and let those who like the current behaviour
% run 'make WORLDOPTS=-k'. Since the original reasons for this are less
% valid now (builds are much faster than they once were), and since it
% catches a lot of
Feigning erudition, Dominik Szczerba wrote:
% Hi,
%
% How do I report a bug?
http://www.xfree86.org/cgi-bin/bugform.cgi
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Feigning erudition, Nigel Taylor wrote:
% Does anyone know when XFree86 4.3 will be released?
smirk
When it's ready.
/smirk
Seriously, RSN after some significant bugs are squashed.
Kurt
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Feigning erudition, Andrew Goh wrote:
% Please unsubscribe me from the list.
Do so yourself at the URL appended to each message that passes
through the list.
Kurt
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misleading. Debug only code.
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Feigning erudition, Matthew O. Persico wrote:
% I have just purchased a Samsung SyncMaster 191T. When I go to install XFree, the
monitor is not listed. How do I update the installation with the monitor specifics?
Please fix your word wrap. Then, add the vertical sync and horizontal
refresh
Feigning erudition, Torsten Zander wrote:
% startx
%
% Fatal Server Error
% Server is already Active
% for Display 0
% if this server is no longer remove tmp/.XO-lock
% and start again.
%
% hope this is anough
If a server isn't running on display 0, remove the lock file and
try again. If it
Feigning erudition, Eric Olinger wrote:
% Hello all,
% I'm haveing problems with the newest verions of XFree86. My setup
% was working perfectly when I was using 4.2.1, but after emerging the
% 4.2.99.4 my box dead locks with the old XF86Config file.
%
% If i 'X -configure' and change the
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:51:04AM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
The makefile does not abort on missing programs (strings) or missing header
files.
You aren't the first person this week to report that make World
doesn't stop when it
Feigning erudition, Zippo wrote:
% i updated to XFree86 Version 4.2.99.3 everything works fine but my
% cursor is now large red and has a shadow. I was wondering how to change
% it back to the old one if possable and help would be nice zippo
The archives for this list should help, in particular:
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 01:38:37PM +0100, Chimou wrote:
I want exactly xvidtune, but for Microsoft Windows.
To know the values of the modelines for the various resolutions
which Windows uses.
I don't have any information on my screen (Laptop Compaq Evo n800w) ...
I recommend asking on an MS
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 01:59:03PM +0800, Hua zhang wrote:
Yes. There is a project that needs to study the arithmetic of Window's GDI, but
there is no way to get its source code you know. We hope to study the GDI functions
of Linux first, that is XFree86. It is a huge code package and I have no
Also sprach Jason Forehand:
I get most of my equipment second hand, and have limited access to
documentation. Is there a way I can get detect video ram and
clockchip settings? I am running redhat 7.0- also, How do I find which
version of XF86 Im running through gnome?
To get the version:
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 14:21:50 -0400 Paul Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Will the moron who run this stupid list be kind enough to remove me
from it?
Just for that, No! :-\
Kurt
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snippage]
If you go back a day or so in the list archives however you'll
find a posting from Tungsten Graphics stating they're being
funded by The Weather Channel to write a DRI driver for the 8500
which will be released in Q4 2002.
Fascinating -- The Weather
On Sun, 9 Jun 2002 11:30:36 -0500 (EST) Matthew Caine Garrett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've done something to screw up my font handling in my xf86 4.1.0
installation and now Star Office and Opera only attempt to display
using characters a half an inch tall. Even on my 1600x1200 display,
this
On Sun, 09 Jun 2002 23:49:33 + votefreedom notashcroft or gates,
for that matter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I type 'X' at the prompt to start X it comes back with an error
that says:
Fatal server error:
no screens found
Can someone please tell me what this
Adam Weston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No output when I entered that as root...
I figured out how to install bison, and tried to make install again. this
time there was no bison error but I got similar errors for flex. I
installed flex and fixed that problem as well, but now this is whats
Scribbling feverishly on May 28, technical questions managed to emit:
Hey guys,
I am completely new to this X thing. But had heard a lot about it and now NEED to
know it.
So the following questions follow -
Whats X's primary purpose? (What am I missing without X? What will I gain with
Scribbling feverishly on May 28, Brian McGrew managed to emit:
Hi folks! Quick one ...
Running XFree86 4.2.0 with RedHat 7.3 on a Dell 1400SC. This machine has an
ATI Rage XL card which X uses the Mach64 server for. I need to turn on the
copy of SWcursor (or sw_cursor, whichever one
Scribbling feverishly on May 28, Mike A. Harris managed to emit:
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Kurt Wall wrote:
It's a boolean option now:
Option SWCursor True.
Put this in the Device section, I believe.
It always was boolean. And True is merely syntactic sugar and
unrequired.
I didn't
Scribbling feverishly on May 25, mikepolniak managed to emit:
I just upgraded from 4.2.0 to 4.2.99.1 by compiling the latest cvs source and this
fixed my previous problem of redundant error msgs filling up my XFree86 log,
( i was forced to startx with -logverbose 0 previously).
However now
Scribbling feverishly on May 17, BioChem333 managed to emit:
Does anyone know
if there's some better way (eg. changeable at runtime, like on windows)
to change the cursors used by X?
$ xsetroot -cursor cursor file mask file
$ xsetroot -cursor_name cursor-font name
Refer to these, as well:
Scribbling feverishly on May 11, Joshua Lokken managed to emit:
Hello
what do I need to put in XF86Config to make the screen fit to the
dimensions of the window, rather than having a larger virtual
screen?
Add the following to the Display section(s):
Virtual 0 0
Alternatively, set it
Scribbling feverishly on May 09, Darren Martz managed to emit:
Hi, I'm new to Linux and having troubles getting X to run with my
monitor and video card.
Monitor: NEC FE950+
Video : Asus 7100 Magic SE (aka: nVidia GeForce2 MX-200)
Linux : Latest Debian
Any help will be greatly
Scribbling feverishly on May 06, Tomasz Grzywacz managed to emit:
Is there any way to capture a part or whole sceen but including mouse pointer.
I found a lot of programs but none grabs sceen with mouse cursor.
I am using XFree 4.1.0 and S3 Virge DX video adapter.
xwd
Kurt
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Scribbling feverishly on May 03, Michel R Vaillancourt managed to emit:
Hi there. I cannot seem to convince XDM to log me into my machine.
Console logins work fine as do SMB logins. Where do I start looking?
By console login you mean login at the console and use startx?
Kurt
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Scribbling feverishly on May 02, George Riley managed to emit:
Scribbling feverishly on May 01, George Riley managed to emit:
I have KDE properly installed on my Dell Laptop, and everything is fine
if I use runlevel 3 (command line log-in) and then type startx.
However, when I change
Scribbling feverishly on May 05, Peter Finderup Lund managed to emit:
[kerschnip]
PS: I think the two #if 0 lines in
xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/man/Imakefile might explain some of
it... and the misspelled ExpandNamNames. And the install.man target in
the generated Makefiles
Scribbling feverishly on May 01, George Riley managed to emit:
I have KDE properly installed on my Dell Laptop, and everything is fine
if I use runlevel 3 (command line log-in) and then type startx.
However, when I change to runlevel 5 (graphical log-in screen), I am
unable to get any window
Scribbling feverishly on April 30, John Culleton managed to emit:
I just installed Slackware 8.1 beta which includes XFree 4.2.
I can get XFree to work but no matter how I fire it up there is a 60 second
delay built in. Any hints appreciated.
Anything useful in /var/log/XFree86.0.log?
. Herewith: I, Kurt Wall, do solemnly volunteer to create,
test, and maintain a bug database for XFree86, or to modify an existing
one.
Kurt
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Scribbling feverishly on April 25, Bo Sun managed to emit:
thanks
Read the bottom of any email message sent to the list.
Kurt
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Scribbling feverishly on April 24, Q-ha Park managed to emit:
hi, i'm pretty new to XFree86 with a lot of questions to ask, but trying
hard not to spit them all at once.
okay, straight to the point; i've been playing with XFree86 for awhile, and
i'm just wondering how i'd make this X server
Scribbling feverishly on April 22, Do-Risika RAFIEFERANTSIARONJY managed to emit:
Hi all,
Where can i optimize (or change) the gamma setting on XFree 4 ?
-gamma N passed to the X server
In XF86Config:
Gamma N
Gamma red-N green-N blue-N
man XF86Config is your friend.
Kurt
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It has
Scribbling feverishly on April 19, Isak Lyberth managed to emit:
Wich file do I need to edit to change the amount of colors in x?
I have a toshiba Satelite 4000CDS with OpenBSD installed and it runs
4.2.0.
The basic XF86Config is created by xf86cfg, but I cant seem to change
the amount of
Scribbling feverishly on April 20, Alexey Dokuchaev managed to emit:
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 06:27:16AM -0500, Ian Truelsen wrote:
Alexey Dokuchaev writes:
Oh, Mesa GLX Indirect would not yield you any true hardware accell, they
do it software. Which operating system and X version
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Scribbling feverishly on April 14, Cary Pembleton managed to emit:
Thanks for your reply.
I just get the standard There is a problem with your X configuration
message. I guess I will have to learn how to find the error log that is
generated and
Scribbling feverishly on April 13, Klaus-Peter Schrage managed to emit:
[loading DRI snipped]
Hallo, Klaus-Peter,
After restarting the x-server, voilà: dri.
There are two hitches left with my setup:
- When the kde login shows up, it is barely readable and the screen is
a bit scrambled,
Okay, so I upgraded XFree and now I can't login using XDM (spare me
the use KDM/GDM, please). I login without incident, the screen clears
as if getting ready to start my session, and then I'm back at the
login window. This happens for root and mortal users. I can use startx just
fine, as root and
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