¿Donde está 'Dexter'?

2001-07-04 Thread Juan Carlos Muro
Hola. Por curiosidad ... ¿os suena una herramienta llamada 'dexter' o algo así? Creo recordar que era para configurar las X, pero ahora no lo encuentro por ningún lado. ¿Por dónde puede andar ahora? Saludos: J. Carlos Muro

latest woody kills dexter?

2000-12-13 Thread Robert L. Harris
I'm trying to reconfigure X on my laptop as I put in a bad value durring last upgrade. I go to run dexter and it can't find it. I do a dpkg -L xserver-common and it doesn't show dexter in there anymore. Has it been moved? I checked the packages list on debian.org and it still shows

Re: latest woody kills dexter?

2000-12-13 Thread Erik Steffl
dexter and it can't find it. I do a dpkg -L xserver-common and it doesn't show dexter in there anymore. Has it been moved? I checked the packages list on debian.org and it still shows it in xserver-common. Robert :wq

Re: latest woody kills dexter?

2000-12-13 Thread Robert L. Harris
durring last upgrade. I go to run dexter and it can't find it. I do a dpkg -L xserver-common and it doesn't show dexter in there anymore. Has it been moved? I checked the packages list on debian.org and it still shows it in xserver-common. Robert :wq

Re: latest woody kills dexter?

2000-12-13 Thread Erik Steffl
you need to reconfigure the package, I am not sure which one, probably xserver-xfree86, and I am not sure how exactly but check the docs for apt-get and dpkg, you need to run one of them using --config or something like that. I think it should create XF86Config-4 by default, at least dexter

Re: latest woody kills dexter?

2000-12-13 Thread Robert L. Harris
It did, but it's corrupt. There's a --configure option to dpkg, but then it complains that it's already installed and configured. Dexter was remvoed why? Robert kThus spake Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): you need to reconfigure the package, I am not sure which one, probably xserver

Re: latest woody kills dexter?

2000-12-13 Thread David Z. Maze
Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ES you need to reconfigure the package, I am not sure which one, probably ES xserver-xfree86, and I am not sure how exactly With dpkg-reconfigure packagename. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/ Theoretical

Re: latest woody kills dexter?

2000-12-13 Thread Erik Steffl
that is already newest. I am not sure why dexter was removed, the new system should have the same functionality, so you can think of it more like a rename. erik Robert L. Harris wrote: It did, but it's corrupt. There's a --configure option to dpkg, but then it complains that it's

Re: latest woody kills dexter?

2000-12-13 Thread Robert L. Harris
Perfect. Thank you. Thus spake David Z. Maze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ES you need to reconfigure the package, I am not sure which one, probably ES xserver-xfree86, and I am not sure how exactly With dpkg-reconfigure packagename. -- David Maze

Re: latest woody kills dexter?

2000-12-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 04:47:30PM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: It did, but it's corrupt. There's a --configure option to dpkg, but then it complains that it's already installed and configured. Either delete or rename XF86Config and run 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' Dexter

where's dexter

2000-12-12 Thread Pascal Hos
I just did an apt-get upgrade on my woody machine and now dexter seems to have dissapeared from the xutils package. Has it moved to another package or is this a mistake by the packager? Pascal Hos [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: where's dexter

2000-12-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
dexter appears to hold the record for the shortest-lived debian utility. From /usr/src/doc/xserver-common/changelog.Debian.gz: * dexter has been obsoleted; all its questions have been made debconf questions instead; the dexconf tool is a backend that generates XF86Config files from

Re: Dexter

2000-12-11 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 03:14:45PM -0800, Rick Loga wrote: I updated woody which is now Xfree4 and the docs say to run dexter to configure. Dexter wants my xserver driver. What is that? The choices make no sense to me. My video adapter is a Graphics Blaster 3D with 4 MB memory made

XFree86 4.0.1 and dexter

2000-12-09 Thread Rick Loga
I updated woody which is now Xfree4 and the this mailing list said to run dexter to configure. Dexter wants my xserver driver. What is that? The choices make no sense to me. My video adapter is a Graphics Blaster 3D with 4 MB memory made by Creative Labs/Technology. Dexter referred

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and dexter

2000-12-09 Thread Rick Loga
Problem solved! I found in the old 3.3.6 XFree86 FAQ a reference to a program called SuperProbe which told me my video chipset is a Cirrus 5464 which is one of the options on the dexter configurator. --- Rick Loga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I updated woody which is now Xfree4

Dexter

2000-12-08 Thread Rick Loga
I updated woody which is now Xfree4 and the docs say to run dexter to configure. Dexter wants my xserver driver. What is that? The choices make no sense to me. My video adapter is a Graphics Blaster 3D with 4 MB memory made by Creative Labs/Technology. Dexter referred to an online HOWTO

Re: Dexter

2000-12-08 Thread Jim Kroger
At 3:14 PM -0800 12/8/00, Rick Loga wrote: I updated woody which is now Xfree4 and the docs say to run dexter to configure. Dexter wants my xserver driver. What is that? The choices make no sense to me. My video adapter is a Graphics Blaster 3D with 4 MB memory made by Creative Labs

dexter

2000-11-16 Thread Kelly Corbin
I decided to wade into X 4.0.1 and I've hit a snag. I'm trying to use dexter, but it dies when I'm at the 'Mouse Port and Protocol Selection' with the error: dexter: stopped at user request; not writing X server configuration file when I hit 'OK' at that screen. Any ideas? Just wondering

Re: Dexter?

2000-11-12 Thread John Bagdanoff
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 04:06:35PM -0500, Casey Henderson wrote: Hi all, I just upgraded to XFree version 4.0.1. I am trying to configure X to work with my hardware and I'm not having much luck. I have read lots of posts about using the dexter program, but I don't have this program on my

Re: Dexter?

2000-11-11 Thread Mike
Hubert Chan wrote: Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had somewhat similar problems. Mine was horribly bad static all over th escreen any time there was a screen redraw. Considering I've a clock on the screen, it was pretty much unusable. Try adding Option NoAccel to the

Re: Dexter?

2000-11-11 Thread Neil Darlow
On 11/10/00, 8:54:27 PM, Hubert Chan wrote: Try adding Option NoAccel to the graphics device section in your XF86Config file (The section that has `Driver s3virge'. It turns off hardware acceleration, so things may be slower, but at least it will work properly. Are we talking

Re: Dexter?

2000-11-11 Thread Mike
Neil Darlow wrote: On 11/10/00, 8:54:27 PM, Hubert Chan wrote: Try adding Option NoAccel to the graphics device section in your XF86Config file (The section that has `Driver s3virge'. It turns off hardware acceleration, so things may be slower, but at least it will

Re: Dexter?

2000-11-10 Thread Martin Fluch
. You then should make the XFree86 server the default when it ask for, or edit the file /etc/X11/Xserver... If anyone has gotten X 4.0.1 to work with an S3 virge, could you lend me a hand? Nop ... but dexter has configured my Trident chipset my Laptop uses very nice. I can remember, that when I

Re: Dexter?

2000-11-10 Thread Hubert Chan
Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had somewhat similar problems. Mine was horribly bad static all over th escreen any time there was a screen redraw. Considering I've a clock on the screen, it was pretty much unusable. Try adding Option NoAccel to the graphics device section in

Re: Dexter?

2000-11-09 Thread Casey Henderson
Hi again, Ok, I found the dexter utility and tried to run it. I got an error message saying something about this program requires dialog. Can some kind soul tell me how to fix this? Also, I was talking to a friend of mine who already has XFree 4 running. He mentioned that the S3 Virge

Re: Dexter?

2000-11-09 Thread Martin Fluch
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Casey Henderson wrote: Ok, I found the dexter utility and tried to run it. I got an error message saying something about this program requires dialog. Can some kind soul tell me how to fix this? As root: apt-get install dialog Martin -- Linux - the last service

Re: Dexter?

2000-11-09 Thread Casey Henderson
of 31.5-48.5, and vertical refresh rate 50-100. (I'm running Debian 2.2). This was working fine until I did an apt-get dist-upgrade and inadvertently upgraded to XFree86 4.0.1 and now X doesn't work. I ran the dexter utility and selected my keyboard and mouse. It then asked me for the specs on my

Re: Dexter?

2000-11-09 Thread Mike
X doesn't work. I ran the dexter utility and selected my keyboard and mouse. It then asked me for the specs on my monitor, so I typed in the above refresh rates, assuming they'd work fine. Now when I boot up Linux, it says Starting xdm... and then it drops me to the command prompt. (I

Dexter?

2000-11-08 Thread Casey Henderson
Hi all, I just upgraded to XFree version 4.0.1. I am trying to configure X to work with my hardware and I'm not having much luck. I have read lots of posts about using the dexter program, but I don't have this program on my computer. I searched the entire hard drive and it's not there. Does

Re: Dexter?

2000-11-08 Thread eric k . wolven
to XFree version 4.0.1. I am trying to configure X to work with my hardware and I'm not having much luck. I have read lots of posts about using the dexter program, but I don't have this program on my computer. I searched the entire hard drive and it's not there. Does anybody know which package I

Re: Dexter?

2000-11-08 Thread Hubert Chan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Casey Henderson) writes: Hi all, I just upgraded to XFree version 4.0.1. I am trying to configure X to work with my hardware and I'm not having much luck. I have read lots of posts about using the dexter program, but I don't have this program on my computer. I

Re: Dexter?

2000-11-08 Thread Erik Steffl
Casey Henderson wrote: Hi all, I just upgraded to XFree version 4.0.1. I am trying to configure X to work with my hardware and I'm not having much luck. I have read lots of posts about using the dexter program, but I don't have this program on my computer. I searched the entire hard

Re: Dexter?

2000-11-08 Thread Casey Henderson
Thanks to everyone who replied. I did a 'find / -name dexter' on my hard drive and it didn't find anything, which I thought was very strange. I thought the upgrade would have downloaded all the necessary packages for X, but apparently not. I'll try all the suggestions and let you know how