what is the difference between /usr/bin/X and /usr/bin/Xorg?
hi all: is there any difference between /usr/bin/X and /usr/bin/Xorg? On my debian box, /usr/bin/X is not symlink to /usr/bin/Xorg, and i can start X server with /usr/bin/X but fail with /usr/bin/Xorg? i google it but find nothing, could any one here help me? thanks in advance.
Re: Can not startx anymore after the laptop was forced to turn off
sorry to reply so late, i was assigned a business trip for 2 weeks, now i am back. ;) actually the entry in the xorg.conf generated by Xorg :1 -configure was nvidia, i changed it to nouveau because i could not startx. i did not mention that in the first mail. Apologies! Now i am installing the nvidia-kernel-dkms package and see what happens. On 7/10/11, Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote: --- how can i fix the issue, any idea? thanks in advance. I suggest, not to use the noveau driver. Maybe you should try to use the nvidia-drivers, which are offered in packages. For easy installation, you should use the nvidia-kernel-dkms and nvidia-glx package. Make sure, the linux-headers afre installed. module-assistant does that for you. When everything is installed, especially the -dkms packages, then the modules will be automatically built (thank you, dear developers for the idea of dkms!) Maybe it is necessary to install the package nvidia-glx by hand. Change the entry in xorg.conf from nouveau to nvidia and leave the rest as is. For testing purposes I suggest to move your login-manager out of the way, so it will not start (for example move /etc/init.d/kdm to /root). When you restart you get a console and can start with startx and see the output when it fails. When everything is working fine, move kdm (or your choosen login-manager like gdm or xdm) back to /etc/init.d/ and have fun. Good luck! Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201107101816.24686.hans.ullr...@loop.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CANhQ+ZihWZJwpcAftg0jzBUibXFHye_+j3tHp_wAXmmi66T=r...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Can not startx anymore after the laptop was forced to turn off
Here is the result. I installed the nvidia-kernel-dkms and nvidia-glx package, changed the entry from nouveau to nvidia, and run startx again. The nvidia LOGO showed and disappeared, still the black screen is what i get. what else can i do, remove the xorg and install it again? any suggestion? thanks On 7/22/11, jiang lei john.jiang...@gmail.com wrote: sorry to reply so late, i was assigned a business trip for 2 weeks, now i am back. ;) actually the entry in the xorg.conf generated by Xorg :1 -configure was nvidia, i changed it to nouveau because i could not startx. i did not mention that in the first mail. Apologies! Now i am installing the nvidia-kernel-dkms package and see what happens. On 7/10/11, Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote: --- how can i fix the issue, any idea? thanks in advance. I suggest, not to use the noveau driver. Maybe you should try to use the nvidia-drivers, which are offered in packages. For easy installation, you should use the nvidia-kernel-dkms and nvidia-glx package. Make sure, the linux-headers afre installed. module-assistant does that for you. When everything is installed, especially the -dkms packages, then the modules will be automatically built (thank you, dear developers for the idea of dkms!) Maybe it is necessary to install the package nvidia-glx by hand. Change the entry in xorg.conf from nouveau to nvidia and leave the rest as is. For testing purposes I suggest to move your login-manager out of the way, so it will not start (for example move /etc/init.d/kdm to /root). When you restart you get a console and can start with startx and see the output when it fails. When everything is working fine, move kdm (or your choosen login-manager like gdm or xdm) back to /etc/init.d/ and have fun. Good luck! Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201107101816.24686.hans.ullr...@loop.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/canhq+zimvwmxkrfjcjv7jmfn76iol893hn8uno0srjoxxag...@mail.gmail.com
Package name
Hi all, My system is debian testing, I just found I lost man pages for basic system calls, like open(), read() write() ... Can someone tell me what is the package I need to install? Thanks. Lei Kong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bash history search key binding
Hi all, I am using debian testing, and the bash version is 3.1.5. I have the following lines in my .bashrc to assign arrow keys to history search: bind '\M-[A:history-search-backward' bind '\M-[B:history-search-forward' It worked well before, one day, after I did a routine upgrade, it stopped working. The weird thing is, the arrow key search still works in a sudo shell. Anyone has a clue on what's wrong? Many thanks. Lei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: bash history search key binding
Hi all, I am using debian testing, and the bash version is 3.1.5. I have the following lines in my .bashrc to assign arrow keys to history search: bind '\M-[A:history-search-backward' bind '\M-[B:history-search-forward' what does $ bind -P | grep history say? It worked well before, one day, after I did a routine upgrade, what do you mean by this? did you upgrade your system as part of your weekly/monthly routine.. or did you upgrade something in particular? Were.. bash.. the readline library upgraded as part of the process? it stopped working. The weird thing is, the arrow key search still works in a sudo shell. how do you start this sudo shell..? does it run under the same user as the other shell..? Anyone has a clue on what's wrong? the more likely cause is that the arrow keys are no longer bound when running in the regular shell context.. and do get bound in the sudo shell .. that's why I suggest checking the output of the bind command.. just a thougt but the up arrow is normally bound by default to previous-history - at least that's how it is in the version of bash I am running (2.05) .. what happens when you run your regular shell and you hit up-arrow.. do you get the default behavior .. or nothing happens..? Thanks for your advice, but misteriously, it is back to normal now. I swear to god I didn't do anything, oh, wait, maybe I did an aptitude upgrade without even knowing about it. BTW, I wasn't talking about the default bash key binding. I don't know the official name, it works like this: enter a word, say cd in a bash shell, then press up and down key will walk you through all previous commands that start with cd one by one. This is more efficient than the default behavior of up/down key binding, which shows you the whole command history one by one. Lei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bash history search key binding
Hi all, I am using debian testing, and the bash version is 3.1.5. I have the following lines in my .bashrc to assign arrow keys to history search: bind '\M-[A:history-search-backward' bind '\M-[B:history-search-forward' It worked well before, one day, after I did a routine upgrade, it stopped working. The weird thing is, the arrow key search still works in a sudo shell. Anyone has a clue on what's wrong? Many thanks. Lei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ACPI
Hello, I have Debian testing with kernel 2.6.12-1-386 on an IBM Thinkpad. For some reason, ACPI is not enabled in the kernel by default. This is unfortunate, because I cannot monitor the battery without ACPI. How exactly do I go about configuring the kernel to enable ACPI? I am sorry for the newbie question, but I have never compiled/configured the kernel before? Thanks in advance for your replies and patience. -- Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check out the thinkwiki link: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_make_ACPI_work You can find a lot of information there about using linux on thinkpad. Lei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: module load sequence
Lei Kong wrote: How do I make sure ide_generic module is loaded before libata and ata_piix? I need to do this on my thinkpad z60t, because the dvd rom won't be recognized otherwise. echo ide_generic /etc/modules -- Chris Howie Thanks, I tried this before, it didn't work for me. I was following the instructions from thinkwiki: DVD drive not recognized The ata_piix SATA driver grabs ownership over the IDE ports when it is loaded, but (by default) does not support PATA ATAPI devices such as the Ultrabay optical drives. Thus, if the ide driver is compiled as a module and loaded after ata_piix, the DVD drive will not be recognized by either driver. Either of the following configurations will work: * For kernel 2.6.14 and newer: enable ATAPI support in the SATA system using |libata.atapi_enabled=1| (see below; this is experimental). * Compile IDE into the kernel (non-module). * Compile both IDE and SATA as modules and make sure IDE is loaded first (the module is called 'ide_generic'). Note that the optical drive must be in the Ultrabay during system boot (Ultrabay device swapping is currently unsupported). I wasn't able to get solution 1 work, solution 2 works, but the machine hangs there when I took the dvd rom out from the bay. So, I was trying to get number 3 work. I tried the follwing things: 1) put ide_generic in /etc/modules, no luck 2) put ide_generic in /etc/mkinitrd/modules or /etc/mkinitramfs/modules and reinstall the kernel, ide_generic was loaded before ata_piix and libata, but then my sata hd was recognized as hda instead of sda, which lead to boot failure. 3) make sata modules dependent on ide_generic by modifying /lib/modules/xxx/module.dep, didn't work. Lei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
module load sequence
How do I make sure ide_generic module is loaded before libata and ata_piix? I need to do this on my thinkpad z60t, because the dvd rom won't be recognized otherwise. Thanks. Lei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: sudo and X
I haven't seen any definitive answers to this one yet and I'm not sure if the behavior is different between sarge and etch (I have etch). After the update of sudo I didn't have any problems, but as soon as I put the Defaults env_reset into the /etc/sudoers as suggested by the DSA 946-1, the sudo environment was limited to the few variables. DISPLAY is not one the those variables. According to the DSA, additional variables are only passed through when set as env_check in /etc/sudoers, but I haven't got it working. I.e. Defaults env_reset Defaults env_check += DISPLAY doesn't work for me. So, until somebody comes up with the correct way of doing this, I use env_keep to pass the needed variables to sudo: Defaults env_reset Defaults env_keep = DISPLAY in my /etc/sudoers. Simo Cool! finally, that explains why X after sudo works on my desktop, fails on my laptop. Obviously, sudo upgrade on the desktop did not touch my /etc/sudoers, and I installed debian on my laptop after the sudo update, :-P Thanks! Lei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: 100dpi vs. 75dpi fonts in X
Thanks for the hint, now things looks all right now. My laptop screen is 14in 5:3 wide screen, guess that's why things got screwed up. Now I set the display size explicitly in xorg.conf, I am running debian testing. No way to let the machine detect the correct DPI automatically? guess that requires the display dimension be stored in the hardware. Lei -dpi 100 in Xservers is purely arbitrary, intended for the old xfs system, not for moderm fontconfig apps. You may find elsewhere if you look around with grep in /etc, e.g. in kdmrc, another instance(s) of an arbitrary -dpi. I don't have hardware that supports UseEdidDpi, and so can't test myself, but I suggest unless you can find out that it's buggy that you allow it to do its job, and adjust elsewhere to get the sizes you prefer. If your desktop is set to 10pt, the size really should be 10pt, and not some artificially shrunken size purporting to be 10pt. If you don't like 10pt, choose something else in your font size chooser. If UseEdidDpi on your system is broken, I suggest you try DisplaySize or Xft.dpi rather than -dpi to force to your preference, or if you're using Gnome, use its control center. If you are using Gnome, start by checking in its control center to see if that's where the 75 is coming from when you disable UseEdidDpi. The log says 111x111. Is that correct, or nearly so? To see whether 111 or 75 is more nearly correct, look at http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/dpi.html . For web browsers, it's better to err on the high side if possible, but the idea is for an inch wide image on http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/dpi-screen-window.html to display at least an inch wide. Only after DPI is reasonably set should font size adjustments elsewhere be made. It isn't just fonts that depend on a proper DPI setting. -- Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.Psalm 33:12 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Font size discrepancy
The actuall font size is smaller when starting kde from command line, than the kde font size when started from kdm. I am running debian testing on my thinkpad z60t, and the font I am using is Bitstream Vera Sans. I noticed there is no difference in the console font size, which is bitmap font, if I remember correctly. My guess is the system resolution is different in two cases, I mean the DPI thing, but I have no clue why they are different. Can someone tell me how to correct this? Thanks. Lei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: su/sudo cannot X
As about the security concern, why is it more secure not to let root log into X than otherwise? why is not letting root start X client after su/sudo by default a good policy? Because neither X nor any X applications are secure. True, root X session over network is insecure, but how about using locally? the restrictions could have been set for remote usage only. Why is it even enforced for local usage? What is the security concern for local root X session? can u give an example? thanks. Lei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: su/sudo cannot X
John Hasler wrote X and X applications are exceedingly complex, unaudited, and likely to be chock full of buffer overruns, format string vulnerabilities, and other I guess a checking on CERT's vulnerability list will reveal if this is true, X vs non-X. nasties. Consider the segfaults and memory leaks in Firefox, for example. It only makes sense that you should want to run as little code as possible as root. X drags in cubic miles of it. Yeah, that's a general rule, but I am not sure if it is legit to draw the line on whether it is X or not. I am actually not trying to run tons of X applications as root, just some of the admin tools insist on connecting to X, like my printer driver from samsung. Making sudo/su X painful doesn't mean I will give up running them. I wondering how much difference it makes on security by making sudo/su incapable of connecting to X by default. This is different than logging into X as root. Lei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: su/sudo cannot X
I tried it, and it works with su, but not su - or sudo -s then I removed these lines, and guess what, it still allows me to open a window with su, and su - and sudo -s still fail, mysterious, huh? In summary, sudo -s never allows me to start an X client. On my another machine, I never had any problem with openning a window after sudo -s, and I don't remember I did anything special, and I don't need to run xhost + either. try putting this in /root/.bashrc: # allow root to run programs when another # user is in X if [ ! $USER = root ]; then export XAUTHORITY=/home/$USER/.Xauthority fi or just run the export line. now you should be able to su to root and run an X11 client locally. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: su/sudo cannot X
thanks, sux works beautifully. but still I don't understand why sudo -s has problems, and on my desktop, on problem at all, and I don't remember doing special thing on it. As about the security concern, why is it more secure not to let root log into X than otherwise? why is not letting root start X client after su/sudo by default a good policy? I just feel it is a bit funny, root can do anything, it just can't open a damn window. Maybe I really need to dig into xauth manual for an answer. Lei Or you can try sux # apt-cache show sux Package: sux Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 64 Maintainer: Millis Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: all Version: 1.0.1-3 Recommends: xbase-clients Filename: pool/main/s/sux/sux_1.0.1-3_all.deb Size: 8560 MD5sum: 868e114a14297b521a55a329c45c7d3b Description: wrapper around su which will transfer your X credentials Sux is a wrapper around the standard su command which will transfer your X credentials to the target user. . http://sourceforge.net/projects/sux/ ( from http://fgouget.free.fr/sux/ ) Tag: admin::login, interface::commandline, security::authentication, use::login, x11::application -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: su/sudo cannot X
$xhost + $ sudo -s #kedit kedit: cannot connect to X server Leave off the xhost line when using sudo. It inheirets the parent shell's environment. I did try it without xhost+ first, didn't work. The inherit thing is default, or I need to configure it? On my desktop, sudo -s does allow me to start X apps without xhost+ or anything extra. thanks. Lei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
su/sudo cannot X
Hi, I have a strange problem with my thinkpad z60t, running debian testing. I ran these commands in konsole or xterm under kde: $xhost + $ sudo -s #kedit kedit: cannot connect to X server What is wrong? My desktop runs debian testing too, but after su or sudo, root can open windows even without xhost +. xserver-xorg 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 sudo 1.6.8p12-1 kdebase 3.4.3-3 Can someone enlighten me? Thanks. Lei Kong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: su/sudo cannot X
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 19:17, you wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 17:29 -0500, Lei Kong wrote: Hi, I have a strange problem with my thinkpad z60t, running debian testing. I ran these commands in konsole or xterm under kde: $xhost + $ sudo -s #kedit kedit: cannot connect to X server What is wrong? My desktop runs debian testing too, but after su or sudo, root can open windows even without xhost +. xserver-xorg 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 sudo 1.6.8p12-1 kdebase 3.4.3-3 Can someone enlighten me? Thanks. Lei Kong This should be considered to be a security feature. X generally does not permit root logins and for the same reason, root (via sudo) cannot access the X system. Thanks, but, with xhost +, root should be able to start X applications. Like I said, I don't have such a problem with my desktop. Lei Thanks, Martin OConnor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: superblock last write time is in the future on boot
On Tue, 03 Jan 2006, Brandon Simmons wrote: boot. According to the Debian changelog for the e2fsprogs package, the newest version checks for this, so I don't know whether e2fsprogs is mistaken or whether there really is a problem. How would I go about checking this? Short and to the point: stop using your RTC in local timezone mode. Currently it simply cannot be as well supported as a RTC in UTC mode, and it was never a sound engineering idea to begin with to have that in local time, even back on the DOS days it was already broken by design. Real fix: whatever you do, make sure /etc/localtime IS IN THE ROOT FILESYSTEM (it is usually a symlink to /usr, and since you got the bug, your /usr is probably a separate partition...). I don't have a seperate partition for /usr, and still I have this problem. so this real fix is not a fix to me, :-( Cosmetic fix: Edit hwclockfirst.sh and add right at the top of the file TZ=TMP+200 (if your timezone is two hours less than UTC) or TZ=ABC-500 (if it is five hours more than UTC). Move hwclock.sh in /etc/rcS.d to priority 36. Forget about getting it right for daylight savings, leap seconds and any other advanced timezone stuff until after S35mountall has run, you'll have to update that TZ= thing manually... See tzset(3) for more information on TZ. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=342887 for more details. Note that glibc will have to change how they deal with /etc/localtime for a proper fix to this one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: superblock last write time is in the future on boot
On Tue, 03 Jan 2006, Brandon Simmons wrote: boot. According to the Debian changelog for the e2fsprogs package, the newest version checks for this, so I don't know whether e2fsprogs is mistaken or whether there really is a problem. How would I go about checking this? Short and to the point: stop using your RTC in local timezone mode. Currently it simply cannot be as well supported as a RTC in UTC mode, and it was never a sound engineering idea to begin with to have that in local time, even back on the DOS days it was already broken by design. Real fix: whatever you do, make sure /etc/localtime IS IN THE ROOT FILESYSTEM (it is usually a symlink to /usr, and since you got the bug, your /usr is probably a separate partition...). I don't have a seperate partition for /usr, and still I have this problem. so this real fix is not a fix to me, :-( That's a very interesting datapoint. Does /etc/localtime point to a valid file, and more important, to the file corresponding to the timezone your RTC is in? Is UTF=yes set in /etc/default/rcS? Is your RTC in local time instead of in UTC? I followed the link in your previous post, and solved the problem by making hardware clock store UTC time (UTF=yes in /etc/default/rcS). Now, my question is, any drawback in doing so? besides possbile windows problem on a dual boot machine and confusion when looking at bios. thanks. Lei Kong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
firefox crashes on flash
My system is debian testing, with kde 3.4, xorg 6.8.2. After upgradeing from kde 3.3.x to kde 3.4.2, firefox crashes everytime I visit a site with flash stuff. Anyone has a clue on how to get around without removing flash plugin? thanks. Lei Kong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
one column of pixels missing
Hi all, I have sarge running on a dell inspiron 8200. In kde, I noticed something really weird: About 1/3 screen width from the right, there is one (maybe more) column of pixels missing. Whenever I move a window there, I can see contents missing in that column, no matter it is text or graphics. For example, letter l appears to be ., a squre across that column looks not-so-square, narrower than it is supposed to be. When it boots into windows, I don't see such a thing, so it is not a hardware defect, or windows knows how to handle it by default. Anyone met similar problems before? My video card is a Nvidia Gefore2, and the stock nv driver is used for X11. The following is my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4: Section Files FontPathunix/:7100# local font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi EndSection Section Module LoadGLcore Loadbitmap Loaddbe Loadddc Loaddri Loadextmod Loadfreetype Loadglx Loadint10 Loadrecord Loadspeedo Loadtype1 Loadvbe EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Keyboard Driver keyboard Option CoreKeyboard Option XkbRules xfree86 Option XkbModel pc104 Option XkbLayout us EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Configured Mouse Driver mouse Option CorePointer Option Device/dev/psaux Option Protocol ImPS/2 Option Emulate3Buttons true Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Mouse Driver mouse Option SendCoreEventstrue Option Device/dev/input/mice Option Protocol ImPS/2 Option Emulate3Buttons true Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section Device Identifier Generic Video Card Driver nv EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Generic Monitor HorizSync 30-75 VertRefresh 50-85 Option DPMS EndSection Section Screen Identifier Default Screen Device Generic Video Card Monitor Generic Monitor DefaultDepth24 SubSection Display Depth 1 Modes 1600x1200 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 4 Modes 1600x1200 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 8 Modes 1600x1200 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 15 Modes 1600x1200 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 16 Modes 1600x1200 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1600x1200 EndSubSection EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier Default Layout Screen Default Screen InputDevice Generic Keyboard InputDevice Configured Mouse InputDevice Generic Mouse EndSection Section DRI Mode0666 EndSection -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: gnome and kde conflicts?
Incoming from Lei Kong: I like the consistent look across kde and gtk applications offered by this feature, but with this enabled, gnome doesn't start any more. The first thing you should be offering people who might be able to help you is error messages. Does ~/.xsession-errors exist? With the line env ~/.xenv in ~/.xsession (or ~/.xinitrc, if that's what you use), what's in ~/.xenv? Also see /var/log/XFree86*. Do everything you can think of to trap error messages. _Then_ we (or someone) might be able to help. Personally, I choose to avoid the living daylights out of both of them (there are many far less finicky environments out there), but that's neither here nor there. Here you go: Xsession: X session started for konglei at Sat May 28 15:14:04 EDT 2005 SESSION_MANAGER=local/puma:/tmp/.ICE-unix/5202 Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1 Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1 Not initializing the Gtk-Qt theme engine It seems gnome is trying to start qt engine, which is not available in gnome? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gnome and kde conflicts?
I am using sarge, both kde and gnome are installed.
I chose to use kde style and font for gtk application
in kde (kcontrol - appearance themes - gtk styles and fonts),
then I found kde wrote the following into .gtkrc-2.0:
include /usr/share/themes/Qt/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
style user-font
{
font_name=Bitstream Vera Sans 12
}
widget_class * style user-font
gtk-theme-name=Qt
gtk-font-name=Bitstream Vera Sans 12
I like the consistent look across kde and gtk applications offered by
this feature, but with this enabled, gnome doesn't start any more.
If I remove the lines written by kde in .gtkrc-2.0, gnome will start.
Does anyone know how to get around this problem? It will be great
if I can have this kde-gtk thing and gnome work at the same time.
By the way, kdm is running on my machine, not sure if it has something
to do with this.
thanks.
Lei
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Re: interesting boot problem
Ok. Here is the story. I have Debian Sarge CDs. I can boot the first cd on my laptop and install Debian easily. But when i want to boot that cd with my old pc which is P2 i cant boot it. But, i can boot other distro's cds with that machine, Slackware and Knoppix is an exapmle. So i cant figure out where is the problem. I copied the cd and try, but no solution. I have a CDrom which is SONY and CD-WR which is ASUS. I cant boot the cd by using both of them. This is so interesting and i cant find any suggustion. Maybe you need to upgrade your bios, just a guess. I had the same problem when trying to install gentoo on a PII, solved it after upgrading bios. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xine error
I have tried what you said below for the mouse, but I can only use the touch pad, the ps2 mouse is disabled, I could use both on Suse 9.1 before, do you know a way to do this? Did what you said for the dvd, still got error, it cannot find dvd. I kept on have xine engine error There is no input plugin available to handle 'dvd:/' Maybe MRL syntax is wrong or file/stream source doesn't exist. please help. Thanks a lot. On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:11:14 -0800, Jim McCloskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I have just installed debian on my machine. But the touch pad does | not work and also the dvd player xine does not work either. I thought | swap from suse to debian enable me to watch dvd on my laptop, but it | doesn't seem to be the case. :-( it kept on throw the error message, | the plugin for /dev/dvd cannot be found...:-( For the second of these problems, I believe that you need the libdvdcss libraries. Because of their dubious legal status, they are not included in Debian proper (they decrypt encrypted DVDs). You can install the libdvdcss package from unofficial Devian sources. Add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sid main then: apt-get update apt-get install libdvdcss Then when you click on the DVD button of the xine GUI the decryption libraries will be called and you should be able to watch (encrypted) DVDs just fine. For the touchpad, if you have a Synaptics touchpad, you can install the special driver for it, and then in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. include this stanza: -- Section InputDevice Driversynaptics IdentifierTouchPad OptionDevice/dev/psaux OptionProtocol auto-dev OptionLeftEdge 1900 OptionRightEdge 5400 OptionTopEdge 1900 OptionBottomEdge4000 OptionFingerLow 25 OptionFingerHigh30 OptionMaxTapTime180 OptionMaxTapMove220 OptionVertScrollDelta 100 OptionMinSpeed 0.02 OptionMaxSpeed 0.18 OptionAccelFactor 0.0010 OptionSHMConfig on EndSection --- I compiled this driver from source, but there seems to be a Debian package in the unstable archive: xfree86-driver-synaptics (0.13.6-1) Hope this helps, Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xine error
Hello, I have just installed debian on my machine. But the touch pad does not work and also the dvd player xine does not work either. I thought swap from suse to debian enable me to watch dvd on my laptop, but it doesn't seem to be the case. :-( it kept on throw the error message, the plugin for /dev/dvd cannot be found...:-( can anyone help. Larinia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xine error
/dev/dvd does exist, and it is linked to hdc. I will give vlc a try. Thanks. On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:49:52 +, Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29 Nov 2004, Lei Yu wrote: Hello, I have just installed debian on my machine. But the touch pad does not work and also the dvd player xine does not work either. I thought swap from suse to debian enable me to watch dvd on my laptop, but it doesn't seem to be the case. :-( it kept on throw the error message, the plugin for /dev/dvd cannot be found...:-( can anyone help. Larinia Does /dev/dvd exist? If not, you may need to make it a link to /dev/hdc or wherever your CD drive is. (It's /dev/hdc on my Thinkpad.) Incidentally, have a look at vlc. I find this to be better than xine for watching dvds. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| http://www.acampbell.org.uk using Linux GNU/Debian || for book reviews, electronic Windows-free zone || books and skeptical articles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xine error
just tried vlc, I got the following messages libhal.c 696 : org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceDoesNotExist raised Service org.freedesktop.Hal does not exist libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 0.1.9 from http://dvd.sf.net libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable. libdvdread: Could not open input: No medium found libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading libdvdnav: vm: faild to open/read the DVD libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable. **** ** No css library available. See ** ** /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/README.Debian ** ** for more information. ** **** libdvdread: Could not open input: No medium found libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading [0236] dvdread demuxer error: DVDRead cannot open source: /dev/dvd [0237] vcd access error: could not read TOCHDR [0237] vcd access error: no movie tracks found [0237] access_file access error: file /dev/dvd is empty, aborting [0237] cdda access error: could not read TOCHDR [0237] cdda access error: no audio tracks found [0235] main input error: no suitable access module for `dvd:///dev/dvd' Is it because the vlc don't support encrypted dvds? is there a way to get around this? Larinia On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:40:24 +, Lei Yu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /dev/dvd does exist, and it is linked to hdc. I will give vlc a try. Thanks. On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:49:52 +, Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29 Nov 2004, Lei Yu wrote: Hello, I have just installed debian on my machine. But the touch pad does not work and also the dvd player xine does not work either. I thought swap from suse to debian enable me to watch dvd on my laptop, but it doesn't seem to be the case. :-( it kept on throw the error message, the plugin for /dev/dvd cannot be found...:-( can anyone help. Larinia Does /dev/dvd exist? If not, you may need to make it a link to /dev/hdc or wherever your CD drive is. (It's /dev/hdc on my Thinkpad.) Incidentally, have a look at vlc. I find this to be better than xine for watching dvds. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| http://www.acampbell.org.uk using Linux GNU/Debian || for book reviews, electronic Windows-free zone || books and skeptical articles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problem while update to kernel 2.6.6
Dear all, While I update the the kernel from 2.2 to 2.6.6, I had the following question: VFS: Cannot open root device 1606 or unknown-block(22,6) Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(22,6) But I had root=/dev/hdc6 at the file LILO.conf. Who can tell me how to resolve this problem? Thank you. Jinzhi Lei [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-06-14
Re: Unavailable Delivery : Mail was rejected
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How do I know which version of GNOME I am using?
How do I know which version of GNOME I am using? (I used apt-get from ftp.us.debian.org for stable version) and if I am not using the 2.4 version, how do I get the latest version? Lei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where is XFree86
Hi, I saw Kent's message, I did apt-get install x-windows-system as root It says could not find package x-windows-system Is there something wrong with my apt source list? but I use the ones from debian.org... :( -- Also, how come that I can't receive the messages that I sent from this mailing list? Lei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how to force the install cd to use EXT3 type partition
I am trying to install debian using the vanilla CD. But when I choose to partition the disk, it only tells me 82 for swap, and 83 for linux native. I found 83 could be EXT2, EXT3 or reiserfs, but when I am doing the initializing the disk part, it tells me that it is going to make it EXT2 only, I don't have any other choice... Can anyone tell me, what should I do to enable the choice of which type, (EXT2, EXT3, REISERFS) to use for my file system? Lei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where is XFree86?
I am a newbie debian and I am trying to make my toshiba 2405-s202 laptop to work with xserer. I found http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200210/msg01878.html but I can't find where XFree86 executable is, which I would like to run XFree86 -configure for auto detection configuration... Please help Lei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
