On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Philip Pawley wrote:
I've been a long time getting around to reporting this problem , sorry.
I'm having this display problem with several Linux distributions that
include Xree86 version 4.2. I have not had the problem with earlier
versions of XFree86.
THE PROBLEM The
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, John Tapsell wrote:
Thank you for this email!
I haven't administrated a redhat machine for a long time - I wasn't
sure how it was setup.
I've noted down your points for future reference :)
Glad it was useful. I still don't understand what's going on with the
OP's
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Roger Harden wrote:
John Tapsell wrote:
First, reboot. Then boot by:
when you boot, pass the following option to the kernel:
'init=/bin/bash
So if you normally type linux, do linux init=/bin/bash
There's probably a better way. Perhaps linux single works, or linux
On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Eric Christopherson wrote:
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 08:21:10PM -0800, Oisin C. Feeley wrote:
I find it extremely helpful to run a kernel compiled with 'Magic SysRq'
enabled. That way, I can hit alt-SysRq-K (yes, all three at once) to kill
everything running on the current
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, hz wrote:
Hello there
I am Hendrik Zandt. I have RedHat 8.0 , but unfortunalety I can't
startup Xwindows anymore I looked at the screen information and i
noticed that i could sent me this report to you
Could you please help me with this.
Hi Hendrik,
You need to first look
On 12 Feb 2003, atul garg wrote:
Thanks Cynthia..
I tried running X server after running the xfs server (i came to
know of about from the pointer given by you)but it again
failed. The log file is clear but a msg is printed on the screen
along
with log..
i have included the msg in the log at the
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Roger Daniel F Ferreira wrote:
Hi,
After have installed Red Hat 7.0 on a Pentium Machine I've faced a
strange problem regarding the screen.
Every time I move some window or even some widget inside a window, I
get a completelly messed screen. To fix everything, I need to to
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Kevin B. Payne wrote:
Debian GNU Storm Linux (2.2.16) on an
AMD 300 CPU + IBM compatible system.
During the process of fighting to remove the old Xserver 3.3.? I
accidently lost the links or something that is necessary to allow my
system to see where the Xserver's programs
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Mell Anico wrote:
I am using Red Hat linux v7.3 and I am currently
having problem booting my Linux server in GUI (using
KDM). I tried reboot a number of times and still did
not come up with the GUI login screen. This problem
Do you mean that your machine boots into the text
On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Bijoy Thomas wrote:
Hello,
I have a PIII system with RedHat Linux 7.1 (kernel 2.4)
installed. Till now i had no problems whatsoever with Linux. I always
login as root.My graphics display on Linux has been working fine and
I've worked in almost all the desktop
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, neal wrote:
I am really wondering.. with X WINDOWS as good as they say it is.How
come there isn't any drivers for ATI Radeon 7500? I installed it and
now I can't get rid of it becasue it doesn't support that driver. So
please have a driver for that someday?
Stop wondering.
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Clarence Wiggins, II wrote:
I'm having the same problem with my workstation I also have an ATI
Radeon and the X server just will not start. I've even installed
Xfree86 4.3 today and still no luck. I've tried it on 7.2,7.38.0 to no
avail.
snip unnecessarily long included
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Clarence Wiggins, II wrote:
I'm having a problem with Xfree86 starting on my workstation. I'm
using Red Hat 8.0 distribution on a white box. I know some users have
What is a white box?
had no problems with an ATI Radeon 7500 graphics card working on their
Red Hat system
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Peter wrote:
XFree86 Version: 4.2.1.1 (Debian 4.2.1-6 200302225230530)
OS: Debian Linux unstable
Server: savage.o
Video Card:
S3 Inc. SuperSavage IX/C SDR (rev 05)
running on a IBM Thinkpad T23
Description:
XFree86 Version 4.2.1.1 (Debian 4.2.1-6 20030225230350 [EMAIL
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I am attaching a log file for my RedHat 8.0.93 installation
That's Red Hat's second _experimental_beta-test_ of the upcoming 8.1.
Since that there's been another pre-release of 8.0.94. Should you be
running that if you don't know how to read an
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Assad wrote:
Regarding: Cannot open x-window after the installation of redhat 8.0 connection
graphic
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
XFree86 Version: Linux 2.4.18-11 smp i686
OS: Red Hat Linux 8.0
Area:
Server: XF86_S3
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Hanspeter Roth wrote:
Hello,
can the screensaver and DPMS be reset in batch mode by standard X
tool or is there a specific application to achieve this?
I'm not sure what you mean by batch mode, but there is the utility
xset. See man xset.
HTH,
Oisin Feeley
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a BIOSTAR M7VIG PRO mainboard that, according to Biostars website, has
the S3 ProSavage8 integrated video chipset (it shares up to 32 meg of system
RAM). I am running Red Hat 8.0.
snip
My question:
S3 ProSavage8 - supported by the XFree86
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I recently installed RH8 and for some reason I can't get 'startx' to work.
Every time I try to I get the following error messages.
(-- --) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log
(EE) Unable to locate/open config file
(EE) Error from
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Lionel Lecoq wrote:
I don't know RH 8 but RH 7.x generates two config files both located in
/etc/X11. The one XF86Config is there for those who use X 3.3.6 the
other XF86Config-4 for those who use X 4.x.x If you have such a setup,
any change to the wrong config file
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Lance Birtcil wrote:
I've installed RedHat 8 on my machine and am running into a bit of a
problem with the xserver. I'm trying to run my monitor, a Viewsonic
G810, at 1600x1200 but something (xserver ??) keeps insisting on using a
refresh rate of 85.2 Hz, higher than
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Chuck Gelm wrote:
Howdy:
I think that I have successfully installed 4.2.1.
I can 'startx' and I get a blank desktop with a
small clock and three (3) windows; 'login', 'xterm',
and 'xterm'. There is no color. It is all monochrome
in shades of gray. I can toggle
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Scott Hadfield wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to use the i82845G video card with RedHat 7.3. However,
there was no support for this video card until the most recent version
of XFree86. I was wondering if it was possible to take just the driver
for that card out of cvs and
On Sat, 26 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i have problems with X in redhat 8.0
the computar say me
fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'...
[snip entire irrelevant digest]
Hi,
I've retitled your post with a more informative subject. This will help
anyone else
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, A.Melon wrote:
How can tcp port 32768 be disabled? When using startx,
the -nolisten tcp option seems to disallow all tcp
access, but when using xdm, it only disallows port 6000.
I haven't been able to shut down port 32768, and haven't
found any documentation that
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, A.Melon wrote:
How does one disable tcp access on ports at or about 32768?
When I start X with startx, this port doesn't seem to be used,
and the -nolisten tcp option makes sure that port 6000 isn't
used either. However, when I use xdm, the -nolisten tcp option
still
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Frederik wrote:
Greetings everyone,
I have installed a fresh Slackware with Xfree 4.1.0.
When starting X, the computer just hangs, only a hard reset
revives it.I can reach the desktop, but nothing more.I have tried
installing 4.2.0, but have recieved the same result.I
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Paul D. Filliman wrote:
I am trying to get X started on my powerbook G4. I have installed
Xfree86. The directory¹s look Right. I set the path required. Whenever I
attempt to run a program using X I get the error ³Can't open display² I
have tried setting DISPLAY to the
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need to switch languages (English, French, Italian) very often within
the same document where I am using text and graphics - in OpenOffice,
specifically. s there some way to switch keyboard layouts on FreeBSD
quickly and painlessly as can be done
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Jason Riley wrote:
This is unlikely as we are running the same top version. also the
difference in memeory useage is considerably more then the meagre 32mb
on my graphics card. also as i am running processes large enough to fill
memory, i am overrunning the system memory
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, N Sriram wrote:
snip
Yesterday, I had successfully installed RH Ver 8.0 in my machine.
My Machine Configuration is as follows:
P4 1.7
Intel D845GLLY Mother Board
with integrated Sound and Video
40 GB HDD
Samtron 56v 15 Monitor
Logitec Optical Mouse...
I have
On 27 Nov 2002, Erik Moeller wrote:
On Die, 2002-11-26 at 17:29, Oisin C. Feeley wrote:
On 26 Nov 2002, Erik Moeller wrote:
Hi,
whenever I try to paste large amounts of text (1 bytes), e.g. from
an editor (irrelevant which one I use) to a browser (also doesn't matter
which browser
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Jeffrey Ross wrote:
Not sure if its a problem with XF (downloaded the xc release via CVS about a
week ago).
Trying to run Adobe Acrobat and I receive the following error:
[jeff@linux2 bin]$ ./acroread
Warning: charset UTF-8 not supported, using ISO8859-1.
Aborted
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Mark R. Muto wrote:
Hello all,
After years of goofing around with leftover PCs and Frankenstien
combinations of older hardware, I decided to give RedHat Linux 8.0 a new
PC of its
own. I purchased a brand new 1.8ghz Pentium 4 PC from Dell (whitebox
equivalent of Optiplex
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Daryl Lee wrote:
I just solved this problem (with a little help from the mailing list). The
solution that worked for me is to retrieve the current state of the XFree86
code from their CVS server, run 'make World' and 'make install', then run
xf86config again. When I did
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Hans Borg wrote:
Hi all,
Have followed this forum for a time.
No doubt that video-cards and associated monitors present problems
in any X-server used (XFree86, XFreeBSD .).
My impression, though, is that a lot of people using RedHat are running
into problems. I my
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Jonathan Drews wrote:
snip
I have found Libranet (which is Debian Woody with an install interface)
to be very good. No problems with X in that one. I think SuSE is ok.
My video in SuSE runs well. However I am curious about the modprobe:
can't locate char-major-226
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Jonathan Drews wrote:
On Saturday 30 November 2002 10:52 am, J H wrote:
I am running SuSE 8.1, and I am trying to get Xwindows 4.2.0 to work.
I have an S3 Savage4 on-board video card. When I put in 'startx' in
returns this:
Hi:
Did you try running SuSE's SaX2 X
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Mr. Rafael Cheng wrote:
Just realized one more thing... when I logged in x
windows as root, I gained some sound. So this
make me think that there must be a directory where
its permissions is only for root. Does anyone
know which directory this may be?
Hi Rafael,
It may
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Joshua L. McDowell wrote:
After finally getting mozilla to compile and install in hopes that it
would run better it runs much worse. It's laggy and so on, can anyone
offer any insight as to why this is?
Joshua L. McDowell
You'll get more help on this question from one
On 1 Dec 2002, Igor Parchakov wrote:
Hi,
Is there any mail archives available to browse on xfree86.org. I'm
configuring X for my PowerMac G4 Cube, and I'm sure my questions are
olready answered before.
Regards,
Igor
Up until about a week ago there were. They used to be at
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Georgina O Economou wrote:
At 12:45 PM 12/1/2002 -0500, you wrote:
snip
Is there any mail archives available to browse on xfree86.org. I'm
configuring X for my PowerMac G4 Cube, and I'm sure my questions are
olready answered before.
snip
There is another method to view
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(--) checkDevMem: using aperture driver /dev/xf86
(--) Using wscons driver in pcvt compatibility mode (version 3.32)
(WW) xf86AcquireGART: AGPIOC_ACQUIRE failed (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
(WW) GARTInit: AGPIOC_INFO failed (Inappropriate ioctl
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, C. Brewer wrote:
Boy oh boy!! I'd like to make some slight adjustments to Oisin's
suggestions. While technically accurate, just a little off enough to
confuse.
snip excellent points
Thanks for checking up on me C. ! Your answer is much better.
Oisin Feeley
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