Re: X server problems in Woody

2002-06-08 Thread Helgi Örn
Thank's for the advice. On Sat, 2002-06-08 at 04:30, bill traynor wrote: You can try the xf86cfg tool, but I've better luck editing the XF86Config-4 file by hand. I've edited the file by hand comparing it to the one in my SuSE 8.0 box so now I'm going to give it a try One thing that

Re: X server problems in Woody

2002-06-08 Thread Helgi Örn
Thank's for your reply. I fixet the whole thing by comparing with the file in my SuSE system and editing the XF86Config-4 file by hand. Cheers, Helgi Örn On Sat, 2002-06-08 at 13:17, Graham Williams wrote: Hi, I've a similar but not identical Rage 128 video card. I simply used the debian

Re: X server problems in Woody

2002-06-07 Thread bill traynor
On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 18:49, Helgi Örn wrote: Hello all! I've been trying to configure the X-server in my new Woody installation on a box with only supported hardware. In the days of XFree86 3.3.6 the configuration was as easy as apple pie, in Woody it's a real PITA. My question is: what is

Re: X Server Problems

1999-07-06 Thread Sami Dalouche
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 12:53:41PM +0100, Paulo J Matos aka PDestroy wrote: Hi, I have a Diamond Stealth 2500 series graphics card and I'm having a problem during X many time a fatal error occurs and I'm not able to get back to it. Only restarting linux. I think I've read on this mailing list a

RE: X server problems

1998-10-02 Thread Paul
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote: I have always been able to get a virtural terminal by typing ctrlaltf1 once the xdm process started. --- The problem is that when xdm cannot start, it keep retrying. ctrlaltf1 may get you to a

Re: X server problems

1998-10-01 Thread Stefan Nobis
Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could Braden not simply try Ctrl-Alt-F2 to switch to a non-X virtual console? I'm too new at Linux to know, but I'd at least try it. No. If the X-Server isn't configured yet and you start xdm, xdm starts the X-Server. The Server exits at once and returns

RE: X server problems

1998-10-01 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I have always been able to get a virtural terminal by typing ctrlaltf1 once the xdm process started. --- Braden N. McDaniel writes: Now when I boot the machine, my monitor goes to sleep as soon as the boot sequence has completed. I *think*

Re: X server problems

1998-10-01 Thread servis
*- Stefan Nobis wrote about Re: X server problems | Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | Could Braden not simply try Ctrl-Alt-F2 to switch to a non-X virtual console? | I'm too new at Linux to know, but I'd at least try it. | | No. If the X-Server isn't configured yet and you start xdm

RE: X server problems

1998-09-30 Thread Braden N. McDaniel
-Original Message- From: Fredrik Ax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 1998 8:42 AM To: Braden N. McDaniel Cc: Debian User Mailing List Subject: Re: X server problems You must install the VGA server in order to use it. dpkg -i dists/stable/main/binary-i386/x11

RE: X server problems

1998-09-30 Thread Fred Yankowski
Braden N. McDaniel writes: Now when I boot the machine, my monitor goes to sleep as soon as the boot sequence has completed. I *think* this is because I elected to being xdm up at bootup when I initially installed everything, and now that setting is kicking in. I suspect the problem may be

Re: X server problems

1998-09-30 Thread Chris Fury
Braden N. McDaniel wrote: Now when I boot the machine, my monitor goes to sleep as soon as the boot sequence has completed. I *think* this is because I elected to being xdm up at bootup when I initially installed everything, and now that setting is kicking in. I suspect the problem may be that

Re: X server problems

1998-09-30 Thread Martin Bialasinski
CF == Chris Fury [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CF This link in /etc/rc2.d is what causes xdm to be launched on startup. CF Removing it from this directory will cause xdm NOT to be started on CF boot. Actually it would be easier to edit /etc/X11/config and change start-xdm to no-start-xdm and

Re: X Server problems

1998-09-30 Thread Chris Fury
Martin Bialasinski wrote: Actually it would be easier to edit /etc/X11/config and change start-xdm to no-start-xdm and xdm-start-server to no-xdm-start-server. Yeah, but my option has less keystrokes... :P :) Elegence? What's that? -- balderdash.

Re: X server problems

1998-09-30 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 07:47:15AM -0400, Chris Fury wrote: Braden N. McDaniel wrote: Now when I boot the machine, my monitor goes to sleep as soon as the boot sequence has completed. I *think* this is because I elected to being xdm up at bootup when I initially installed everything, and

RE: X server problems

1998-09-30 Thread Kent West
At 08:41 PM 9/29/1998 -0500, Fred Yankowski wrote: Braden N. McDaniel writes: Now when I boot the machine, my monitor goes to sleep as soon as the boot sequence has completed. I *think* this is because I elected to being xdm up at bootup when I initially installed everything, and now that

RE: X server problems

1998-09-30 Thread Fred Yankowski
Kent West writes: At 08:41 PM 9/29/1998 -0500, Fred Yankowski wrote: ... Anyway, I had to boot from a Debian Rescue floppy to get in. ... Could Braden not simply try Ctrl-Alt-F2 to switch to a non-X virtual console? I thought I tried that at the time and it didn't work, but perhaps I was

Re: X server problems

1998-09-30 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Stephen J. Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 07:47:15AM -0400, Chris Fury wrote: | Braden N. McDaniel wrote: | Now when I boot the machine, my monitor goes to sleep as soon as the boot | sequence has completed. I *think* this is because I elected to being xdm up |

Re: X server problems

1998-09-29 Thread Fredrik Ax
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Braden N. McDaniel wrote: I've just installed Debian 2.0. While I have some rather superficial familiarity with Linux in general (have played with a few distributions), this is my first crack at Debian. This is what I get when I run startx: X: exec of

Re: X server problems

1998-09-29 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 29 Sep 98 07:12:15 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I've just installed Debian 2.0. While I have some rather superficial familiarity with Linux in general (have played with a few distributions), this is my first crack at Debian. This is what I get when I run startx: X: exec of