Re: Debian on iBook startx problem
Well, I installed wmaker and then went through your xserver installation instructions all over again, but it's still not working. HOWEVER! Here's a work around I figured out, but I do wish to get this working right. What I do is I issue the command startx -lf /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager Then when x starts up with its grey screen there is an xterm console as well. In the xterm console I then enter the command kde2 and voila! I have KDE2. Curtis Mij wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:42:35 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, i followed your instructions, but nonetheless, I get a grey screen with the mouse. Nothing else. this means that you have everything working well. The page imply you have some piece of windowmanager installed before trying to get X woking: apt-get install wmaker and then redo everything you did so far and proceed with what you find on the page. When you get this working, I suggest you to try something like gnome, which I guess you'd like better. bye Curtis Mij wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:50:23 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please follow step bye step the instructions in the page i pointed you to. Shut down you display manager, if you use one, and try starting the xserver manually; turning back to the console, you can see immediately what's wrong. It's difficult helping you if you don't give us some more detail. If X started manually gets well, probably your problem is the windowmanager (as I'm convinced it to be). bye Believe it or not, there are no .xsession or .xinit files in my home directory. Curtis Mij wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:16:17 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I dowloaded Mij's XF86Config-4 files and put it in /etc/X11and low and behold I got an x session. However, i get just the log on screen. If I log on, it just returns to the log on screen. What's up now? you do have a winmanager installed, don't you? in this case, try removing ~/.xsession and ~/.xinit files. bye Curtis Mij wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:29:06 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mij.oltrelinux.com/ibook/ Basically, I followed the instructions for installing Debian on an iBook at the site http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium, but after doing the part concerning X, I run startx and get an errors stating among other things that the modules pex5 and xie don't exist. Anyone have any advise on this? Curtis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian on iBook startx problem
Basically, I followed the instructions for installing Debian on an iBook at the site http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium, but after doing the part concerning X, I run startx and get an errors stating among other things that the modules pex5 and xie don't exist. Anyone have any advise on this? Curtis
Re: Debian on iBook startx problem
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:29:06 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mij.oltrelinux.com/ibook/ Basically, I followed the instructions for installing Debian on an iBook at the site http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium, but after doing the part concerning X, I run startx and get an errors stating among other things that the modules pex5 and xie don't exist. Anyone have any advise on this? Curtis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mij -o- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -o- http://mij.oltrelinux.com
Re: Debian on iBook startx problem
Ok, I dowloaded Mij's XF86Config-4 files and put it in /etc/X11and low and behold I got an x session. However, i get just the log on screen. If I log on, it just returns to the log on screen. What's up now? Curtis Mij wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:29:06 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mij.oltrelinux.com/ibook/ Basically, I followed the instructions for installing Debian on an iBook at the site http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium, but after doing the part concerning X, I run startx and get an errors stating among other things that the modules pex5 and xie don't exist. Anyone have any advise on this? Curtis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian on iBook startx problem
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:16:17 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I dowloaded Mij's XF86Config-4 files and put it in /etc/X11and low and behold I got an x session. However, i get just the log on screen. If I log on, it just returns to the log on screen. What's up now? you do have a winmanager installed, don't you? in this case, try removing ~/.xsession and ~/.xinit files. bye Curtis Mij wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:29:06 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mij.oltrelinux.com/ibook/ Basically, I followed the instructions for installing Debian on an iBook at the site http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium, but after doing the part concerning X, I run startx and get an errors stating among other things that the modules pex5 and xie don't exist. Anyone have any advise on this? Curtis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mij -o- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -o- http://mij.oltrelinux.com
Re: Debian on iBook startx problem
Believe it or not, there are no .xsession or .xinit files in my home directory. Curtis Mij wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:16:17 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I dowloaded Mij's XF86Config-4 files and put it in /etc/X11and low and behold I got an x session. However, i get just the log on screen. If I log on, it just returns to the log on screen. What's up now? you do have a winmanager installed, don't you? in this case, try removing ~/.xsession and ~/.xinit files. bye Curtis Mij wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:29:06 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mij.oltrelinux.com/ibook/ Basically, I followed the instructions for installing Debian on an iBook at the site http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium, but after doing the part concerning X, I run startx and get an errors stating among other things that the modules pex5 and xie don't exist. Anyone have any advise on this? Curtis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian on iBook startx problem
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:50:23 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please follow step bye step the instructions in the page i pointed you to. Shut down you display manager, if you use one, and try starting the xserver manually; turning back to the console, you can see immediately what's wrong. It's difficult helping you if you don't give us some more detail. If X started manually gets well, probably your problem is the windowmanager (as I'm convinced it to be). bye Believe it or not, there are no .xsession or .xinit files in my home directory. Curtis Mij wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:16:17 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I dowloaded Mij's XF86Config-4 files and put it in /etc/X11and low and behold I got an x session. However, i get just the log on screen. If I log on, it just returns to the log on screen. What's up now? you do have a winmanager installed, don't you? in this case, try removing ~/.xsession and ~/.xinit files. bye Curtis Mij wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:29:06 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mij.oltrelinux.com/ibook/ Basically, I followed the instructions for installing Debian on an iBook at the site http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium, but after doing the part concerning X, I run startx and get an errors stating among other things that the modules pex5 and xie don't exist. Anyone have any advise on this? Curtis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mij -o- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -o- http://mij.oltrelinux.com
Re: Debian on iBook startx problem
Ok, i followed your instructions, but nonetheless, I get a grey screen with the mouse. Nothing else. Curtis Mij wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:50:23 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please follow step bye step the instructions in the page i pointed you to. Shut down you display manager, if you use one, and try starting the xserver manually; turning back to the console, you can see immediately what's wrong. It's difficult helping you if you don't give us some more detail. If X started manually gets well, probably your problem is the windowmanager (as I'm convinced it to be). bye Believe it or not, there are no .xsession or .xinit files in my home directory. Curtis Mij wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:16:17 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I dowloaded Mij's XF86Config-4 files and put it in /etc/X11and low and behold I got an x session. However, i get just the log on screen. If I log on, it just returns to the log on screen. What's up now? you do have a winmanager installed, don't you? in this case, try removing ~/.xsession and ~/.xinit files. bye Curtis Mij wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:29:06 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mij.oltrelinux.com/ibook/ Basically, I followed the instructions for installing Debian on an iBook at the site http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium, but after doing the part concerning X, I run startx and get an errors stating among other things that the modules pex5 and xie don't exist. Anyone have any advise on this? Curtis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian on iBook startx problem
turning back to the console, the only error I see is: (EE) RADEON(0): Cannot read V_BIOS (5) Curtis Mij wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:50:23 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please follow step bye step the instructions in the page i pointed you to. Shut down you display manager, if you use one, and try starting the xserver manually; turning back to the console, you can see immediately what's wrong. It's difficult helping you if you don't give us some more detail. If X started manually gets well, probably your problem is the windowmanager (as I'm convinced it to be). bye Believe it or not, there are no .xsession or .xinit files in my home directory. Curtis Mij wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:16:17 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I dowloaded Mij's XF86Config-4 files and put it in /etc/X11and low and behold I got an x session. However, i get just the log on screen. If I log on, it just returns to the log on screen. What's up now? you do have a winmanager installed, don't you? in this case, try removing ~/.xsession and ~/.xinit files. bye Curtis Mij wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:29:06 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mij.oltrelinux.com/ibook/ Basically, I followed the instructions for installing Debian on an iBook at the site http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium, but after doing the part concerning X, I run startx and get an errors stating among other things that the modules pex5 and xie don't exist. Anyone have any advise on this? Curtis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian on iBook startx problem
oh, i noticed one other warning; X: warning; /dev/dri has unusual mode (not 755) or is not a directory. warning: process set to nice value - instead of -10 as requested. Mij wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:50:23 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please follow step bye step the instructions in the page i pointed you to. Shut down you display manager, if you use one, and try starting the xserver manually; turning back to the console, you can see immediately what's wrong. It's difficult helping you if you don't give us some more detail. If X started manually gets well, probably your problem is the windowmanager (as I'm convinced it to be). bye Believe it or not, there are no .xsession or .xinit files in my home directory. Curtis Mij wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:16:17 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I dowloaded Mij's XF86Config-4 files and put it in /etc/X11and low and behold I got an x session. However, i get just the log on screen. If I log on, it just returns to the log on screen. What's up now? you do have a winmanager installed, don't you? in this case, try removing ~/.xsession and ~/.xinit files. bye Curtis Mij wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:29:06 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mij.oltrelinux.com/ibook/ Basically, I followed the instructions for installing Debian on an iBook at the site http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium, but after doing the part concerning X, I run startx and get an errors stating among other things that the modules pex5 and xie don't exist. Anyone have any advise on this? Curtis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian on iBook startx problem
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 05:42:35PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote: Ok, i followed your instructions, but nonetheless, I get a grey screen with the mouse. Nothing else. Curtis Looks like your X is working but nothing is launched. What do you want to run on X? gnome2, kde, ... ? You can try to launch an xterm fromn the console. On the console, log as the same user you used for X then do $ xterm -display :0.0 Go back to X you should see the xterm. Christophe -- Christophe Barbé [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. --Ellen Perry Berkeley
Re: Debian on iBook startx problem
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:42:35 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, i followed your instructions, but nonetheless, I get a grey screen with the mouse. Nothing else. this means that you have everything working well. The page imply you have some piece of windowmanager installed before trying to get X woking: apt-get install wmaker and then redo everything you did so far and proceed with what you find on the page. When you get this working, I suggest you to try something like gnome, which I guess you'd like better. bye Curtis Mij wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:50:23 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please follow step bye step the instructions in the page i pointed you to. Shut down you display manager, if you use one, and try starting the xserver manually; turning back to the console, you can see immediately what's wrong. It's difficult helping you if you don't give us some more detail. If X started manually gets well, probably your problem is the windowmanager (as I'm convinced it to be). bye Believe it or not, there are no .xsession or .xinit files in my home directory. Curtis Mij wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:16:17 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I dowloaded Mij's XF86Config-4 files and put it in /etc/X11and low and behold I got an x session. However, i get just the log on screen. If I log on, it just returns to the log on screen. What's up now? you do have a winmanager installed, don't you? in this case, try removing ~/.xsession and ~/.xinit files. bye Curtis Mij wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:29:06 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mij.oltrelinux.com/ibook/ Basically, I followed the instructions for installing Debian on an iBook at the site http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium, but after doing the part concerning X, I run startx and get an errors stating among other things that the modules pex5 and xie don't exist. Anyone have any advise on this? Curtis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mij -o- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -o- http://mij.oltrelinux.com
