Cubic mouse cursor

1999-05-16 Thread David R. Kohel
Anyone know how to get rid of this 2x2 cm mouse cursor under X? I just re-installed X (3.3.3.1) from potato. --David P.S. Pls CC me.

Re: Cubic mouse cursor

1999-05-16 Thread David R. Kohel
appreciate it. Thanks, --David [x] Emailed to author [x] Sent to mailing list David R. Kohel wrote: Anyone know how to get rid of this 2x2 cm mouse cursor under X? I just re-installed X (3.3.3.1) from potato. You REALLY need to give some more information. At the very least, we need

Re: Cubic mouse cursor

1999-05-16 Thread David R. Kohel
Yes, thanks. That did it. --David Hi, From this line: (--) SVGA: NM2070: Using hardware cursor Probably, you need the option using sw_cursor. Check out the XF86Config man pages to find out exactly how to set it. I think you need to do something like:

Unstable help.

1999-05-04 Thread David R. Kohel
As with another user I've had problems with unstable. I killed X windows with 3.3.3-1, and can't seem to get it back with 3.3.2. XF86Setup just blanks the screen; returning to the tty1 I just find a segfault message. How much do I need to downgrade? Advice? Secondly, on my laptop, I lost

Corrupted passwd file?

1999-05-03 Thread David R. Kohel
I think I have a dying hard disk; the only other option is some virus. I was upgrading libc gcc compliers (from potato) on my laptop over a PLIP connection when I gradually started losing priviledges to ftp and telnet into the machine. Once I logged out I couldn't log back in, even as root.

Re: Broken emacs

1998-09-12 Thread David R. Kohel
emacs-install emacs19 emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs19 emacsen-common: byte-compiling for emacs19 Well, do you have set EMACSLOADPATH on your root (or whatever are you using for instaling new packages)? Bilbo This was precisely the problem. The

Broken emacs

1998-09-10 Thread David R. Kohel
I found some references to this in the July and August archives, but has no fix been found for the emacs19 emacs20 packages? My apologies if there has been more recent discussion which I did not find in my search. As far as I could tell, some people got them to install by removing certain

Re: Broken emacs

1998-09-10 Thread David R. Kohel
Seems like the most likely problem, but things have to be very odd for that not to be found... what does dpkg -S bytecomp show? it should at least have emacs19: /usr/share/emacs/19.34/lisp/bytecomp.elc Yes, on a machine with broken emacs19: emacs19: /usr/share/emacs/19.34/lisp/bytecomp.elc

Emacs20.

1998-03-08 Thread David R. Kohel
I get the following error message when trying to install emacs20 from hamm: emacs-install emacs20 Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish (forking to background) Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock) emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs20 emacsen-common: byte-compiling

Re: RPM packages.

1997-11-06 Thread David R. Kohel
FWIW, I was able to compile SANE on my system running 'unstable' with no problems. Works great with my HP ScanJet 4c. Thanks, I did the partial upgrade. Compiling seemed to work OK, except that the configure doesn't set up the Makfiles to compile xscanimage. I did also upgrade the xlibs.

RPM packages.

1997-11-05 Thread David R. Kohel
I'm trying to install sane (Scanner Access Now Easy) using rpm packages for the gtk+ (Gimp Tool Kit) and sane binaries. [ The Debian gimp package does not seem to provide the gimp libraries that I need to compile the sane sourece code. ] Using 'alien --auto package-name.rpm', I get error

Re: Mouse not working and delayed keyboad input

1997-08-01 Thread David R. Kohel
that my university-provided office machine (a desktop) also has one of these ps/2 mice. I also set /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux and have no problem. David On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, David R. Kohel wrote: This may well be the problem I am experiencing: see my post on keyboard locking. Now

Keyboard lock

1997-07-31 Thread David R. Kohel
OK, after running Debian Linux for a week, my system developed the following bug. After logging in from xdm, I can get in about five to twenty keystrokes before the keyboard locks and I can't even do a vulture nerve pinch to shut down. My previous Slackware partition runs fine. I don't have

Re: Mouse not working and delayed keyboad input

1997-07-31 Thread David R. Kohel
This may well be the problem I am experiencing: see my post on keyboard locking. Now that you mention it, my mouse was nonresponsive. If anyone has a solution, I'd like to know, as I'm still clueless. Thanks, P.S. If this is relevant, I set the mouse (a ps/2) to /dev/psaux. Should this go

Re: xdm configuration

1997-07-29 Thread David R. Kohel
Thanks for the responses. Yes, run-xconsole is unnecessary (I also comment it out), but the xdm-start-server was missing. Note: not no-xdm-start-server (or perhaps this is this an option?) As someone else pointed out, the line :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X needed to be inserted in

Modem config

1997-07-29 Thread David R. Kohel
What is the current standard for device files? I have a pcmcia modem. Previously it worked fine with /dev/cua1 under my Slackare Linux. Debian appears to have gone to some other device files or naming system. (I think it tried to put /dev/modem -- /dev/ttyS0 which didn't work for me.)

X fonts, Re: xdm config

1997-07-29 Thread David R. Kohel
I just answered a question I had about X fonts. XFree86 3.2 fonts are compressed, while XFree86 3.3 are gzipped. To convert between compression formats it is not sufficient to change only the compression of the fonts, but also the fonts.dir file in each font directory, which list

xdm configuration

1997-07-28 Thread David R. Kohel
I chose not to start xdm at the initial configuration because my laptop has an unsupported (by XFree86) video card (Neomagic), and I needed to set up Xinside's (= Xi Graphics now) server. Now I try to run xdm and it doesn't start. I have a xdm-start line in my /etc/X11/config and on boot it

XFree86 3.3 and ATI Mach64

1997-07-18 Thread David R. Kohel
I've got an ATI Mach64 card (ATI 264CT chipset) which was configured correctly under XFree86 3.2. Now under the highest resolution (1024x768) it displays shadowed traces of the window as I move it -- two prominant resonances can be seen shifted about 1 and 2 cm to the right, but horizontal

Re: Off-topic: Making ALT be the META key

1997-07-11 Thread David R. Kohel
Did anyone come up with a solution to this one? Is this controlled by emacs of X keymapping (or both)? I had the same problem (with emacs) until it spontaneously corrected itself. David I recently installed XEmacs, and would like to have it recognize my ALT key as the META key (which

General colorization question

1997-07-11 Thread David R. Kohel
There have been several questions about colorization, but once we get it working, how do we customize it? I'm looking for the equivalent of the /etc/DIR_COLORS in Slackware, from where it is read, and where to specify that users' ~/.dircolors be sourced. David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Networking and talk

1997-07-11 Thread David R. Kohel
Does anyone know how to configure networking so that local talk works without breaking the overall configuration? My previous Slackware /etc/hosts always came with a warning: # By the way, Arnt Gulbrandsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] says that 127.0.0.1 # should NEVER be named with the name of the

Cron and dying disk

1997-07-09 Thread David R. Kohel
Someone earlier mentioned a cron job being run at 7:00 AM, complaining about the heavy CPU/memory usage. I've found another complication. I had one new hard disk die just after installation. I was in the process of transferring my Slackware Linux filesystem over to it when the superblock

Re: Mailers

1997-07-09 Thread David R. Kohel
I found mutt in unstable, but slang 0.99.38 is not available, giving a conflict. Where do I get the complete package for mutt? I don't find PGP on the mirror here (Singapore). Where is PGP usually located on non-US mirrors? David Frank Barknecht dijo: Hamish Moffatt hat gesagt: // Hamish

Mailers

1997-07-07 Thread David R. Kohel
This is not really Debian specific, but is relevant to handling the volume of mail from this mailing list. I've been using elm for years. But as far as I can tell, it does not handle multiple active folders. Before investing in converting all of my mail archives to a new system, I'd like to