David Dawes wrote:
Please report problems/success, etc here, and send me any documentation
updates that you may have.
Successful installation here (Slackware 8 based Linux system w/ 2.6.16.9
kernel, glibc-2.4, gcc-20060414). :)
Peace...
Tom
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Marc Aurele La France wrote:
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Tom Williams wrote:
David Dawes wrote:
The second release candidate for XFree86 4.6.0 is now available.
The source tarball can be found at:
ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/develsnaps/XFree86-4.5.99.902.tar.bz2
This version marks
David Dawes wrote:
The second release candidate for XFree86 4.6.0 is now available.
The source tarball can be found at:
ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/develsnaps/XFree86-4.5.99.902.tar.bz2
This version marks the beginning of the intensive testing phase for this
release. Please report
Marc Aurele La France wrote:
Thanks for the link to the thread. So, I guess the patch submitted by
the thread starter was rejected?
Yes, it was. Kernel headers have been gradually breaking for a _very_
long time, WRT their #include'ing by userland apps. Instead of
changing the kernel
David Dawes wrote:
The second release candidate for XFree86 4.6.0 is now available.
The source tarball can be found at:
ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/develsnaps/XFree86-4.5.99.902.tar.bz2
This version marks the beginning of the intensive testing phase for this
release. Please report
Marc Aurele La France wrote:
gcc-4.1.0, and glibc-2.3.4. Looks like the 2.6.16 kernel changed
unsigned long types in the input_device_id struct to
kernel_ulong_t. I don't know if the XFree86 source needs to be tweaked
any to build against a 2.6.16 kernel, but I'm making everyone aware of
David Dawes wrote:
Can you exit the server normally, without this problem?
Yep.
Does it happen
every time you attempt to switch to another terminal?
I believe so, but it seems to happen when I issue the Ctrl-Alt-F7 key
sequence. Other Ctrl-Alt-Fn keysequences (like Ctrl-Alt-F3) do nothing.
David Dawes wrote:
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 07:53:41AM -0800, Tom Williams wrote:
David Dawes wrote:
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 05:54:02PM -0500, David Dawes wrote:
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:23:17AM -0800, Tom Williams wrote:
Hi! I just installed
David Dawes wrote:
Sounds good! Are you aware of this issue I posted about a few days ago:
http://www.mail-archive.com/xfree86@xfree86.org/msg20133.html
I haven't been able to reproduce this. It might be specific to the
driver/hardware. Is it something that you can reproduce reliably?
I've been running XFree86 4.5.99.901 since it came out and it's been
running well, except for today when I pressed Ctrl+Alt+F7, in an attempt
to switch to the console on tty7. When I pressed Ctrl+Alt+F7, X seemed
to crash. The video got all garbled and no key sequence I press did
anything
Tom Williams wrote:
I've been running XFree86 4.5.99.901 since it came out and it's been
running well, except for today when I pressed Ctrl+Alt+F7, in an attempt
to switch to the console on tty7. When I pressed Ctrl+Alt+F7, X seemed
to crash. The video got all garbled and no key sequence I
David Dawes wrote:
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 05:54:02PM -0500, David Dawes wrote:
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:23:17AM -0800, Tom Williams wrote:
Hi! I just installed the XFree86 4.5.99.901 snapshot (which fixed my
xterm installation problem, thanks guys! :)) and it runs fine. I
Hi! I just installed the XFree86 4.5.99.901 snapshot (which fixed my
xterm installation problem, thanks guys! :)) and it runs fine. I
wanted to try the -autoconfig option to see what it would do and it
generated these messages:
Required symbol fbdevHWLoadPalette from module
Tom Williams wrote:
Marc Aurele La France wrote:
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Maluvia wrote:
I have been using Xfree86 because of its continued support for TinyX.
I have tried compiling a recent snapshot, but got errors and the
compile failed -so just decided to wait for the next official
Mark Vojkovich wrote:
It would appear as though -autoconfig is broken. Can you
do -configure instead? It used to be able to generate a working
config file.
Mark.
Will do and I'll report my findings here. :)
Peace...
Tom
David Dawes wrote:
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 05:54:02PM -0500, David Dawes wrote:
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:23:17AM -0800, Tom Williams wrote:
Hi! I just installed the XFree86 4.5.99.901 snapshot (which fixed my
xterm installation problem, thanks guys! :)) and it runs fine. I
Mark Vojkovich wrote:
It would appear as though -autoconfig is broken. Can you
do -configure instead? It used to be able to generate a working
config file.
Mark.
Ok, that worked just fine, using the original, unpatched XFree86 code.
The attached XF86Config.new
Marc Aurele La France wrote:
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Maluvia wrote:
I have been using Xfree86 because of its continued support for TinyX.
I have tried compiling a recent snapshot, but got errors and the
compile failed -so just decided to wait for the next official
release, which brings me to my
Marc Aurele La France wrote:
worked fine but the installation failed with an invalid group utmp
error when xterm was begin installed. At this point, I think I'm
running a half 4.5.99.21/4.5.0 XFree86 installation on Linux. :)
Attached is my XFree86.0.log after the failed installation
Marc Aurele La France wrote:
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Tom Williams wrote:
Hi! I´ve been running XFree86 4.5.0 on my Linux system since it was
first release without problems. I replaced an old Nec XE17 monitor with
a Dell E771a this morning and I can no longer get X to start in
[EMAIL PROTECTED
Hi! I´ve been running XFree86 4.5.0 on my Linux system since it was
first release without problems. I replaced an old Nec XE17 monitor with
a Dell E771a this morning and I can no longer get X to start in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] resolution. It will crank up to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I
believe) max.
I
David Dawes wrote:
The '-configure' option is listed if you are root when you do that. The
root-only options are not listed when you are not root.
(snip)
I understand now. Thanks for the info. :)
Peace...
Tom
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Ok, when I read the man pages on XFree86 (man XFree86), the -configure option
is described:
-configure
When this option is specified, the XFree86 server loads all video driver
modules, probes for available hardware, and writes out an initial XF86Config(5x)
file based on what was detected.
I tried building XFree86 4.5.0 RC2 from source and ran into the compile problem
below:
START-
gcc -m32 -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -fno-strict-aliasing -ansi -Wall
-Wpointer-arith -Wstrict-prototypes-Wmissing-prototypes
-Wmissing-declarations
Tom Williams wrote:
I tried building XFree86 4.5.0 RC2 from source and ran into the compile
problem below:
START-
gcc -m32 -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -fno-strict-aliasing -ansi -Wall
-Wpointer-arith -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wmissing-prototypes
Hi! Ok, I'm now running XFree86 4.5.0 RC2 woo-hoo! :)
I ran XFree86 -configure and it sniffed out my display gear and created a
XF86Config.new file. I tried it out and find I like the manually tweaked
settings in my XFree86 4.4.0 XF86Config file better (I run at a higher
resolution than what
When I try to use XFree86 -configure to configure my X settings, it seg faults:
--START
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# gdb --args /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 -configure :2
GNU gdb 6.2.1
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General
Hi! I've just installed XFree86 4.5.0 RC1 on my Slackware 8 based Linux system
and so far it's running great! :)
I tried running Gimp 2.2.3 and it complained about the fontconfig library being
too old. I had fontconfig 2.2.x installed before installing XFree86 4.5.0 RC1
and it seems the
Is the use of ttmkfdir still needed for TrueType font configuration with
XFRee86 4.3.0? ttmkfdir isn't mentioned in the current online doc for
installing TrueType fonts:
http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/4.3.0/fonts2.html#9
Thanks...
Peace...
Tom
COLIN Stephane wrote:
Hi Prasad !
To be able
Hi! I'm running XFree86 4.3.0 on Slackware 9 w/ 2.4.21-ac4 kernel,
gcc-3.3, and glibc-2.3.2. XFree86 runs fine at 1280x1024 resolution.
Recently, I've been running into problems starting X clients and I get
this message printed to stdout (when I run the client from a shell
window):
Xlib:
Mark Vojkovich wrote:
You've got alot of X clients. I've got an app at:
http://www.xfree86.org/~mvojkovi/restest.c
that you can run to print out how many clients there are and
what resources they are using. BE CAREFUL, you want to run
the app like restest outfile because normally
Josh Schlicker wrote:
3) The last problem is the most frustrating. Currently, i can only
boot linux in Single User mode. This is because whenever i try
another style, the loading process reaches the X font server and
stalls indefinitely.
Find the startup script where xfs is
Josh Schlicker wrote:
Find the startup script where xfs is run and put an ampersand after the
xfs command:
xfs
Good idea,
Do you have any ideas where said startup script might be hiding?
it's most like in one of the startup scripts in /etc/rc.d. If there is a
/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs
Actually, WeirdX is a FREE option for Windows:
http://www.jcraft.com/weirdx/
Peace.
Tom
Fredrik Wänglund wrote:
You must have an X-server running in MS-windows if you want to run X-apps.
As you may have seen there is no free X-servers for windows (?), but there is an
other option,
tcsxp wrote:
Hello,I
have Gcc 2.7 on a Sparc2 with SunOS 4.1.4. I cant get Xfree86 ver.4.2
to compile. It complains that "Fatal error in reader:Makefile line
953: Unexpected end of line seen. This happens during the make World
section in the programs/xterm dir. Any help would be
James Robinson wrote:
Been Having loads of problems getting
X working with my new Slackware 8.1 install. Ran XF86config without any
problems configured it fine and X just will not run..Here's My config file...
Can anyone see anything wrong with ut...Tried to include my log file
too but wouldn't
Dexter Filmore wrote:
Try getting rid of that gimp dev snapshot and install the latest stable release,
check http://www.linuxpackages.net if they have sth suitable.
Was that your frist Linux install on this particular amchine or *at all*?
Checked /var/logXFree86.0.log? Post it.
Dex
Hi! Thanks for the reply. I installed Slackware 8.0 on my Windows machine, so
Slackware was my FIRST Linux install
on this machine. After I installed Slackware, I installed gcc-3.1, glib-1.2.10,
gtk+-1.2.10, and XFree86 4.2.0 and
everything was working just fine. I WAS using the GNOME
Hi! Ok, I'm running Slackware 8.0 as my base Linux installation with
these mods (from source):
2.4.18 kernel
binutils-2.12.1
glibc-2.2.5
gcc-3.1 (and gcc-3.1.1 20020709 snapshot)
glib-1.2.10, glib-2.0.4
gtk+-1.2.10, gtk+-2.0.5
perl-5.6.1 (and perl-5.8.0-rc1)
XFree86 4.2.0
I'm running on a
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