Re: X problem (?) after fresh install on old laptop

2012-04-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:57:05 -0700, Potato Jim wrote: > Thanks for your advice! > > Camaleón wrote: >> Okay, so from now on you are using the "nv" driver, right? > > Yes, NV for now. Don't forget to give "nouveau" a whirl from a livecd media, it will be your better option in the future if you

Re: X problem (?) after fresh install on old laptop

2012-04-22 Thread Potato Jim
Thanks for your advice! Camaleón wrote:  > Okay, so from now on you are using the "nv" driver, right? Yes, NV for now. I realized that I now have one new issue, though not as bothersome as the original.  When I CTRL+ALT+F* into a terminal window, or during the start-up/shut-down messages (when

Re: X problem (?) after fresh install on old laptop

2012-04-22 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 18:33:22 -0700, Potato Jim wrote: > SOLVED. Great! :-) > In my last response I had overlooked Sven's comment about having > updated the wiki.  I have now looked at the updated wiki and the > suggested new xorg.conf file did the trick -- verbatim even, and I'm > now using the

Re: X problem (?) after fresh install on old laptop

2012-04-21 Thread Potato Jim
SOLVED. In my last response I had overlooked Sven's comment about having updated the wiki.  I have now looked at the updated wiki and the suggested new xorg.conf file did the trick -- verbatim even, and I'm now using the NV driver.  More precisely, I blacklisted nouveau in a blacklist-nouveau.c

Re: X problem (?) after fresh install on old laptop

2012-04-21 Thread Potato Jim
I first tried blacklisting nouveau by issuing the following command: echo blacklist nouveau > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf ...this was per the instructions here: http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModesetting#Disabling_KMS Next, I did as Sven guessed and un-blacklisted nvidiafb by commenting

Re: X problem (?) after fresh install on old laptop

2012-04-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-04-21 11:59 +0200, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:56:25 -0700, Potato Jim wrote: >> >> The suggestions on that page about blacklisting nouveau to disable KMS >> did not work. > > What exactly did you try and what exactly did you get? Precision does > matter. It seems he tried

Re: X problem (?) after fresh install on old laptop

2012-04-21 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:56:25 -0700, Potato Jim wrote: Potato Jim, please adjust your MUA to don't posting on the top, get right quoting (you forced me to delete the full message reference because it was poorly formatted ;-( ) and there's no need to send me a copy of the message, I read the list

Re: X problem (?) after fresh install on old laptop

2012-04-20 Thread Potato Jim
ebian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 12:54 PM Subject: Re: X problem (?) after fresh install on old laptop On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:43:03 -0700, Potato Jim wrote: > Hi Everyone, Hi, please, turn off html when posting to the mailing list. Thanks :-) > I installed Deb 6.0.

Re: X problem (?) after fresh install on old laptop

2012-04-20 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:43:03 -0700, Potato Jim wrote: > Hi Everyone, Hi, please, turn off html when posting to the mailing list. Thanks :-) > I installed Deb 6.0.4 on an old Dell Inspiron 2650 laptop and everything > seemed to go well, except...  I'll try to describe a problem I'm > experiencing

X problem (?) after fresh install on old laptop

2012-04-20 Thread Potato Jim
Hi Everyone, I installed Deb 6.0.4 on an old Dell Inspiron 2650 laptop and everything seemed to go well, except...  I'll try to describe a problem I'm experiencing, evidently with X:  The windows are all blank.  Even at the login screen, I can't see the "username,other" selection list -- just a

Re: Another "No devices found" in X problem

2011-02-27 Thread Steve McCarthy
On Sunday 27 Feb 2011, Camaleón wrote: > > I wonder what is the current status for Sandy Bridge in current Debian > releases :-? > > I've read that Intel X driver 2.14.0 does fully support that chipset > (H67) but you seem to be using 2.13.0 and Xorg 1.7.7. Will that combo > work? > > Greetings,

Re: Another "No devices found" in X problem

2011-02-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:12:40 -0800, Steve McCarthy wrote: (...) > The vesa driver works fine. I've since removed it and fbdev trying to > force the intel choice. Here's the resulting X.log: (...) > (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so (II) Module > intel: vendor="X.Org Founda

Another "No devices found" in X problem

2011-02-26 Thread Steve McCarthy
Hello, I followed this topic in December when Celejar was having difficulty, but that solution doesn't help me. I recently bought a motherboard w/ H67 chip-set and i5 processor. I managed to purchase it 8 hours before the Intel recall was announced - lucky me. Xorg seems determined to load/ru

Re: X problem after upgrade--help!

2009-05-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ Please wrap your lines at 80 characters or less for ordinary discussion. ] On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 08:29:42 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > > Hi. I just upgraded from testing to unstable, in order to get some > updated packages I need. > > X is now not working, and i dont know why. The

X problem after upgrade--help!

2009-05-17 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi. I just upgraded from testing to unstable, in order to get some updated packages I need. X is now not working, and i dont know why. There are no useful messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log, that i can tell--no errors are reported adn the only thing that looks bad is "SELinux: Disabled on system,

Xorg keyboard and mouse problems (was: Strange X problem--right mouse kills X)

2007-10-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:59:12 -0700, javi78 wrote: > > Today after upgrade my debian Sid, many keys of my keyboard didn't work > properly. For example, Alt-Gr key had the enter function, when I pushed "up" > direction key the Ksnapshot was launched, etc. > Then I saw in this forum that the pack

Re: Strange X problem--right mouse kills X

2007-10-25 Thread Magnus Therning
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:59:12 -0700, javi78 wrote: > >Today after upgrade my debian Sid, many keys of my keyboard didn't work >properly. For example, Alt-Gr key had the enter function, when I pushed >"up" direction key the Ksnapshot was launched, etc. Then I saw in this >forum that the package

Re: Strange X problem--right mouse kills X

2007-10-24 Thread javi78
tp://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer > Florian | > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Strange-X-

Re: Strange X problem--right mouse kills X

2007-10-23 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Tuesday 23 October 2007 16:10, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Hi. > > I can confirm this problem,... yesterdays updates broke my X,... mouse > settings and keyboard settings are no longer detected. > > Regards, > Chris. Can you give us more info on your system. I am going to try to help my f

Re: Strange X problem--right mouse kills X

2007-10-23 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. I can confirm this problem,... yesterdays updates broke my X,... mouse settings and keyboard settings are no longer detected. Regards, Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Strange X problem--right mouse kills X

2007-10-23 Thread Magnus Therning
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 11:38:19 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: >On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 09:41:08 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: >> After updating my Sid system yesterday I've noticed a rather funky >> thing--X dies when I use my right mouse button. >> >> Are other people noticing the same thing? > >

Re: Strange X problem--right mouse kills X

2007-10-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 09:41:08 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > After updating my Sid system yesterday I've noticed a rather funky > thing--X dies when I use my right mouse button. > > Are other people noticing the same thing? I found that non-US keyboard layouts were no longer working after thi

Re: Strange X problem--right mouse kills X

2007-10-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/23/07 03:41, Magnus Therning wrote: > After updating my Sid system yesterday I've noticed a rather funky > thing--X dies when I use my right mouse button. > > Are other people noticing the same thing? I just clicked right-mouse and it worked fi

Strange X problem--right mouse kills X

2007-10-23 Thread Magnus Therning
After updating my Sid system yesterday I've noticed a rather funky thing--X dies when I use my right mouse button. Are other people noticing the same thing? /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus@therning.org Jabber: magnus.therning@gmail.com

Re: X problem after upgrade

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tommi Lantta wrote: > > > On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Joe Hart wrote: > >> I don't have the same monitor as you do, but I found that pushing the >> button on my monitor that autosets the display will fix that. Almost >> all monitors made in the last few y

Re: X problem after upgrade

2007-03-21 Thread Tommi Lantta
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Joe Hart wrote: I don't have the same monitor as you do, but I found that pushing the button on my monitor that autosets the display will fix that. Almost all monitors made in the last few years have such a button. There is such a button and I think I have tried it wit

Re: X problem after upgrade

2007-03-21 Thread macondo
Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tommi Lantta wrote: Hi I have a strange display problem after upgrading from Sarge to Etch. In X the screen is displaced 1 cm to the left (leftmost 1 cm of screen is out of display area and there is an 1 cm wide black stripe at the

Re: X problem after upgrade

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tommi Lantta wrote: > Hi > > I have a strange display problem after upgrading from Sarge to Etch. > In X the screen is displaced 1 cm to the left (leftmost 1 cm of screen > is out of display area and there is an 1 cm wide black stripe at the > right e

X problem after upgrade

2007-03-21 Thread Tommi Lantta
Hi I have a strange display problem after upgrading from Sarge to Etch. In X the screen is displaced 1 cm to the left (leftmost 1 cm of screen is out of display area and there is an 1 cm wide black stripe at the right edge of the display). This only happens with the native 1280x1024 resolution of

Re: Anyone having X problem updating from testing to unstable.

2006-05-15 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 5/7/06, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/6/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 15:11:17 -1000, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: > > On 5/5/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > >http://wiki.debian.org/Xorg69To

Re: Urgent X Problem

2006-05-12 Thread Leonid Grinberg
I was sure, but it starts up now. Instead, it says that there is an error in the configuration of the login manager, and that it will use the ``default command''. Is this /etc/gdm/gdm.conf? Should I post its contents here? -- Leonid

Re: Urgent X Problem

2006-05-12 Thread Chris Lale
Leonid Grinberg wrote: If your friend is using Gnome in Etch (testing), my previous post may help: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/04/msg04086.html Although GNOME is the display environment being used, it is not the one that's crashing. It's definitely X. Are you sure? I was able

Re: Urgent X Problem

2006-05-11 Thread Leonid Grinberg
If your friend is using Gnome in Etch (testing), my previous post may help: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/04/msg04086.html Although GNOME is the display environment being used, it is not the one that's crashing. It's definitely X.

Re: Urgent X Problem

2006-05-11 Thread Chris Lale
Leonid Grinberg wrote: Hello, I have a friend, who, after upgrading via dist-upgrade had his X display broken. Now, there is a blue screen that says that it cannot load the X server. [ ... ] If your friend is using Gnome in Etch (testing), my previous post may help: http://lists.debian.or

Re: Urgent X Problem

2006-05-10 Thread mustard_debian
I've since directed the message to the list. It was my first ever reply to the mailing list and I stuffed it up. ;) Leonid Grinberg wrote: Could you configure xorg to use vesa drivers instead for a temporary workaround? I did not, and I will suggest it tomorrow. I assume that I could, sinc

Re: Urgent X Problem

2006-05-10 Thread mustard_debian
Could you configure xorg to use vesa drivers as a temporary workaround? Leonid Grinberg wrote: Oh, I'm sorry. No, the person is using xorg, and the command we ran was dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. I accidentally typed xfree86. -- Leonid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Urgent X Problem

2006-05-10 Thread Leonid Grinberg
Oh, I'm sorry. No, the person is using xorg, and the command we ran was dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. I accidentally typed xfree86. -- Leonid

Re: Urgent X Problem

2006-05-10 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 5/10/06, Leonid Grinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know what distro you upgrade, but until sarge, you could use > "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" to solve this kind of problems. This person is using Testing, and the error happened after an upgrade. We tried dpkg-reconfigure xser

Re: Urgent X Problem

2006-05-10 Thread Leonid Grinberg
I don't know what distro you upgrade, but until sarge, you could use "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" to solve this kind of problems. This person is using Testing, and the error happened after an upgrade. We tried dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, mostly to change video drivers, but it is not

Re: Urgent X Problem

2006-05-10 Thread Andrés Ghigliazza
I don't know what distro you upgrade, but until sarge, you could use "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" to solve this kind of problems. On 5/10/06, Leonid Grinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I have a friend, who, after upgrading via dist-upgrade had his X display broken. Now, there is a

Re: X Problem

2006-05-10 Thread Paul Johnson
Please don't claim urgency on public mailing lists: Lack of planning on your part doesn't constitute a crisis on ours. We're volunteers. If it really is urgent, please see http://debian.org/consultants/ instead. On Wednesday 10 May 2006 13:59, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > I have a friend, who, af

Urgent X Problem

2006-05-10 Thread Leonid Grinberg
Hello, I have a friend, who, after upgrading via dist-upgrade had his X display broken. Now, there is a blue screen that says that it cannot load the X server. This happened to me before, and I remembered that # modprobe agpgart seemed to help. He appears to have an Intel vhip, but nothing is w

Re: Anyone having X problem updating from testing to unstable.

2006-05-07 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 5/6/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 15:11:17 -1000, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: > On 5/5/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > >http://wiki.debian.org/Xorg69To7 > > [...] > > [...]. WDM doesn't seem to work here, and > I've already

Re: Anyone having X problem updating from testing to unstable.

2006-05-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 15:11:17 -1000, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: > On 5/5/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > >Check out the Xorg transition wiki first; it has solutions for the most > >common problems related to the upgrade: > > > >http://wiki.debian.org/Xorg69To7 > >

Re: Anyone having X problem updating from testing to unstable.

2006-05-05 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 5/5/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 15:58:28 -0600, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: > It looks like the modularized Xorg finally got into unstable, which is > good news I believe. Only problem is that I moved from testing to > unstable, and although I c

Re: Anyone having X problem updating from testing to unstable.

2006-05-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 15:58:28 -0600, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: > It looks like the modularized Xorg finally got into unstable, which is > good news I believe. Only problem is that I moved from testing to > unstable, and although I can start X up by running just X, now I can't > get an X

Anyone having X problem updating from testing to unstable.

2006-05-05 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
It looks like the modularized Xorg finally got into unstable, which is good news I believe. Only problem is that I moved from testing to unstable, and although I can start X up by running just X, now I can't get an X session from wdm for example neither startx. I'm sure I'm just missing some pac

Re: X Problem with Etch

2006-04-08 Thread Clyde Wilson
Thanks Adam, I'll try it right now!   ClydeAdam Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: try dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg -p lowthis will tell it to ask you any possible questions, which have alwaysincluded picking a video driver moduel when i ran that commandgood luckadam

Re: X Problem with Etch

2006-04-08 Thread Adam Black
try dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg -p low this will tell it to ask you any possible questions, which have always included picking a video driver moduel when i ran that command good luck adam

Re: X Problem with Etch - Closed

2006-04-08 Thread Clyde Wilson
Thanks Raju, I did dpkg-reconfigure xserver.org and everything works fine now. Thanks for the reply! --- kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Clyde Wilson wrote: > > I've just installed Etch and I can't get X up. > Under Sarge I used > > VESA for my driver and that worked fine. T

Re: X Problem with Etch

2006-04-08 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Clyde Wilson wrote: I've just installed Etch and I can't get X up. Under Sarge I used VESA for my driver and that worked fine. The Etch installer doesn't seem to give me a choice. I changed /etc/X11/xorg.conf by hand to vesa but X will not recognize this. Any suggestions would be apprecia

X Problem with Etch

2006-04-08 Thread Clyde Wilson
I've just installed Etch and I can't get X up.  Under Sarge I used VESA for my driver and that worked fine.  The Etch installer doesn't seem to give me a choice.   I changed /etc/X11/xorg.conf by hand to vesa but X will not recognize this.   Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Re: an X problem

2005-07-14 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Mark Fletcher wrote: On Tuesday 12 July 2005 18:45, Ivan Glushkov wrote: Hi List, Since I went from standart radeon driver to fglrx, Indeed, the problem is in the driver, when I remove it, gdm restarts properly when I issue: /etc/init.d/gdm restart Everything dissapiares, includi

Re: an X problem

2005-07-12 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Tuesday 12 July 2005 18:45, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > Hi List, > > Since I went from standart radeon driver to fglrx, > when I issue: > > /etc/init.d/gdm restart > > Everything dissapiares, including the terminals > (Ctrl+Alt+F1..). I swithed to kdm. The result was the > same. I made dpkg-reconfigu

an X problem

2005-07-12 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Hi List, Since I went from standart radeon driver to fglrx, when I issue: /etc/init.d/gdm restart Everything dissapiares, including the terminals (Ctrl+Alt+F1..). I swithed to kdm. The result was the same. I made dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, but nothing changed. The strange thing is that

Re: X problem as root

2005-06-27 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Pavlos, thanks for your help, i've inserted the export command inside the .bashrc file. Thanks again, MC Pavlos Parissis wrote: Hello, You have to export the variable XAUTHORITY before invoke su export XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority su do not use the '-' in su command because this invoke the

Re: X problem as root

2005-06-27 Thread Pavlos Parissis
Hello, You have to export the variable XAUTHORITY before invoke su export XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority su do not use the '-' in su command because this invoke the shell which read the .profile files and over write you XAUTHORITY variable. You will find a sample .bash_profile under /usr/share/docs/bas

Re: X problem as root

2005-06-27 Thread Kent West
Marco Calviani wrote: > Hi everybody, > i've got a problem whenever i become root and try to open a window in > my user X session: > > for example: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ eog > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: No protocol specified > > > Does anybod

X problem as root

2005-06-27 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi everybody, i've got a problem whenever i become root and try to open a window in my user X session: for example: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ eog Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified Does anybody can diagnose the problem? Thanks, MC

Strange keyboard/GUI login/restart X problem

2005-05-20 Thread Jerry Turba
I have the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel working and there is no problem. I also have the 2.6.8 custom kernel installed and working fine except for the GUI login. When the login screen comes up the keyboard does not respond. (KDM) I can only use the mouse to click on the drop down lists etc. THe solution I h

Re: X problem - desktop too big for screen size.

2005-01-04 Thread grahams
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 05:35:50PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Changed monitor and am back running X after a dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-xfree86. > > Problem is the windows are way too big for the 1024 x 780 resolution, > and the desktop does not fit into the screen. does the screen scroll

Re: X problem - desktop too big for screen size.

2005-01-04 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 05:35:50PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Changed monitor and am back running X after a dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-xfree86. > > Problem is the windows are way too big for the 1024 x 780 resolution, > and the desktop does not fit into the screen. does the screen scroll

X problem - desktop too big for screen size.

2004-12-31 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Changed monitor and am back running X after a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86.   Problem is the windows are way too big for the 1024 x 780 resolution, and the desktop does not fit into the screen. X is started from GDM If I startx -- -depth 24 as root it’s fine, just how it should be.

Re: X problem

2004-02-01 Thread Bradley M Alexander
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 08:50:50PM +0100, Bytor the Destroyer wrote: > Hello > I have been having trouble with running X. I am running kernel 2.6.0 and > sarge. I have Nvidia GForce2 MX graphic card. When I type startx the screen > flickers and then goes black. I used apt-get to instal

X problem

2004-02-01 Thread Bytor the Destroyer
Hello I have been having trouble with running X. I am running kernel 2.6.0 and sarge. I have Nvidia GForce2 MX graphic card. When I type startx the screen flickers and then goes black. I used apt-get to install gnome and the X packages like xfree86 and the others that it recomended.

Re: Switching to console mode from X problem almost solved

2003-03-03 Thread GSO
>From someone else who's stuck with a S3 Trio as well - XFree86 4.1 doesn't support an accelerated S3 driver so I'm using XFree 3.3.6. Am guessing but maybe you are using XFree 4.1 - getting round the fact the driver isn't directly supported by using the svga module. The good news is XFree 4.2 s

Re: Switching to console mode from X problem almost solved

2003-03-02 Thread GSO
>From someone else who's stuck with a S3 Trio as well - XFree86 4.1 doesn't support an accelerated S3 driver so I'm using XFree 3.3.6. Am guessing but maybe you are using XFree 4.1 - getting round the fact the driver isn't directly supported by using the svga module. The good news is XFree 4.2 s

Switching to console mode from X problem almost solved

2003-03-02 Thread Sam Yuval
Several weeks ago I sent an email concerning my inability to switch from X windows to the virtual console using Ctrl+Alt+F1. I own a Viewsonic P810 21" monitor and an S3 Trio 2D/4X video adapter. It appears that the problem is cause the use of the wrong X server: when I started using xserver

Re: X problem: mouse pointer shifted

2002-12-11 Thread Jens Grivolla
Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 16:06:27 +0100, Jens Grivolla wrote" >> Regularly, after some time, the mouse pointer will shift and then be >> shown around 100 pixels to the right of the actual position[...] > > Yes. From a post of mine dated 16th February 2002 in D

Re: X problem: mouse pointer shifted

2002-12-11 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 16:06:27 +0100, Jens Grivolla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem on my Acer TM210 laptop with integrated ALi (Trident) > graphics (sorry, I don't have the exact name, it doesn't seem to show > anywhere) on XFree86 4.2.1.1, but also on older versions. > > Re

X problem: mouse pointer shifted

2002-12-11 Thread Jens Grivolla
Hi, I have a problem on my Acer TM210 laptop with integrated ALi (Trident) graphics (sorry, I don't have the exact name, it doesn't seem to show anywhere) on XFree86 4.2.1.1, but also on older versions. Regularly, after some time, the mouse pointer will shift and then be shown around 100 pixels t

Re: X problem

2002-12-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 12:18:05PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > Willi Dyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 01:17:18PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: > > Your X server is refusing any connection from clients as long as > > authentication is enabled. Disable by 'xhost +'. Or as roo

Re: X problem

2002-12-03 Thread Gary Hennigan
Willi Dyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 01:17:18PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: > > Hello Debian users, > > > > I was wondering how I can fix this problem regarding the root user and > X. > > Normally, I log into the machine as a regular user then use the su > command > > to

Re: X problem

2002-12-03 Thread Willi Dyck
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 01:17:18PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: > Hello Debian users, > > I was wondering how I can fix this problem regarding the root user and X. > Normally, I log into the machine as a regular user then use the su command > to become root. Whenever I need to utilize X(xmms, emacs)

Re: X problem

2002-12-03 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 03 December 2002 6:17 pm, Bruce Park wrote: > Hello Debian users, > > I was wondering how I can fix this problem regarding the root user and X. > Normally, I log into the machine as a regular user then use the su command > to become root. Wh

Re: X problem

2002-12-03 Thread Miguel Griffa
as the regular user who logged in xhost + for more info man xhost there are security issues with this. Bruce Park wrote: Hello Debian users, I was wondering how I can fix this problem regarding the root user and X. Normally, I log into the machine as a regular user then use the su command to

X problem

2002-12-03 Thread Bruce Park
Hello Debian users, I was wondering how I can fix this problem regarding the root user and X. Normally, I log into the machine as a regular user then use the su command to become root. Whenever I need to utilize X(xmms, emacs), I get an error stating the following: =

Re: A serious X problem after Testing upgrade

2002-11-17 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi All, once upon a time, I had a Matrox card & Matrox had binary closed source drivers for it. Check out the Matrox site. Heck, even the Perihelia (sp?) has Tux drivers. That makes Nvidia & Matrox one up on ATI *mutter-mutter* If anyone is here from ATI, please blush now ;-) Sigh, I

Re: A serious X problem after Testing upgrade

2002-11-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 12:15:14PM +, Barry Samuels wrote: > (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Wed Nov 6 11:51:21 2002 > (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" > (EE) MGA: Failed to load module "mga_hal" (module does not exist, 0) > modprobe: Can't locate module mga > [dr

A serious X problem after Testing upgrade

2002-11-06 Thread Barry Samuels
gout of KDE and return to the KDM login screen the screen goes black with just the graphical mouse cursor showing and the machine locks at that point. does the same. The same things happen if I use Icewm so it's not KDE. I am assuming that this is an X problem. The new X packages re-created

Re: Auto-X problem

2002-04-06 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 08:18:55PM +0200, DSC Publishing, LLC wrote: > Good day; > > I just installed Stable-Potato, and then installed packages including > XFree86, and the C++ -written minimalist Window manager (sorry, I forgot > the name. It advertises a *nonwindoze* look and feel, and has a

Auto-X problem

2002-04-06 Thread DSC Publishing, LLC
Good day; I just installed Stable-Potato, and then installed packages including XFree86, and the C++ -written minimalist Window manager (sorry, I forgot the name. It advertises a *nonwindoze* look and feel, and has a bar across the bottom. Somehow, XDM also got installed. Which lends two pr

Re: matrox g400 X problem

2002-03-21 Thread Good Times
this was the right thing this led me to read throught he xinerama howto and now things are better than they were before as i now have proper xinerama support thanks on Thu, 21 Mar 2002 Simon Hepburn typed > You are trying to use Xinerama and 3D accel together. They are incompatible. > > Simon

Re: matrox g400 X problem

2002-03-21 Thread Simon Hepburn
You are trying to use Xinerama and 3D accel together. They are incompatible. Simon Hepburn.

matrox g400 X problem

2002-03-21 Thread Good Times
hello here is what i have Enlightenment was installed using apt-get X was installed using apt-get I have a matrox g400 32 meg dual head card. A manually configured the XF86Config-4 file to support dual monitors so i did an apt-get upgrade on my potato box with kernel 2.4.17 when i logged in via

Re: X problem - unwanted logout after 20 min

2002-03-02 Thread Martin Hermanowski
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 06:29:57PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 09:13:57PM +0100, Martin Hermanowski wrote: >> Hi, >> I got an unwanted logout after about 20 minutes of inactivity under X. I >> am using Sawfish and the only programs I running are xterms. I am not >> using

Re: X problem - unwanted logout after 20 min

2002-03-01 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 09:13:57PM +0100, Martin Hermanowski wrote: > Hi, > I got an unwanted logout after about 20 minutes of inactivity under X. I > am using Sawfish and the only programs I running are xterms. I am not > using idled or so. > > I think this started just after the last upgrade of

Re: X problem - unwanted logout after 20 min

2002-03-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Mar-2002 Martin Hermanowski wrote: > Hi, > I got an unwanted logout after about 20 minutes of inactivity under X. I > am using Sawfish and the only programs I running are xterms. I am not > using idled or so. > > I think this started just after the last upgrade of parts of xfree in > woody

X problem - unwanted logout after 20 min

2002-03-01 Thread Martin Hermanowski
Hi, I got an unwanted logout after about 20 minutes of inactivity under X. I am using Sawfish and the only programs I running are xterms. I am not using idled or so. I think this started just after the last upgrade of parts of xfree in woody some days ago. This is really annoying, does anybody ha

Re: ATI RADEON 7500 and X problem

2002-02-28 Thread Scott Henson
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 18:09, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > Hi! > > A friend of mine (not on this list) has problems getting X version > 4.1.0 (from testing) to start on his box with a Radeon 7500 card > inside. When trying xf86cfg in graphics mode, it doesn't recognize > the card correctly, and when

Re: ATI RADEON 7500 and X problem

2002-02-27 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hi! Thanks very much for your answers. Cheers, Stephan On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 21:39:50 -0800 Aaron Brashears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 03:16:52PM -0800, Tim Moss wrote: > > You need XFree 4.2.0 for Radeon 7500 support but I don't think 4.2.0 is> > available as Debian pa

Re: ATI RADEON 7500 and X problem

2002-02-26 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 03:16:52PM -0800, Tim Moss wrote: > You need XFree 4.2.0 for Radeon 7500 support but I don't think 4.2.0 is > available as Debian packages yet. All very true. Before you bug the maintainer (like I did...) Check his webpage for updates: http://people.debian.org/~branden/

Re: ATI RADEON 7500 and X problem

2002-02-26 Thread Tim Moss
Apparently, on Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 12:09:29AM +0100, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > Hi! > > A friend of mine (not on this list) has problems getting X version > 4.1.0 (from testing) to start on his box with a Radeon 7500 card > inside. When trying xf86cfg in graphics mode, it doesn't recognize > the

ATI RADEON 7500 and X problem

2002-02-26 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hi! A friend of mine (not on this list) has problems getting X version 4.1.0 (from testing) to start on his box with a Radeon 7500 card inside. When trying xf86cfg in graphics mode, it doesn't recognize the card correctly, and when choosing the drivers "ati" or "r128" in xf86cfg text mode, X won't

Re: Install woes...X problem

2002-02-07 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 08:36:19PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 18:19:29 -0800 ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 February 2002 05:54 pm, Ray Bowles wrote: > > > VIA686a > > > > apparently all straight 2.4 kernels are affected by this. allegedly, there > > are ac

Re: Install woes...X problem

2002-02-06 Thread Ray Bowles
I am very thankful to all of you! I can't express how helpful you have been. I will take what you have told me and keep working on it. You've deffinately made me confident this can work. My local LUG isn't very freindly, so I thank you all very much for your suggestions and I'm sure I will be keepi

Re: Install woes...X problem

2002-02-06 Thread Ray Bowles
> > My TNT2 cards seem to worn in other systems this is my first time with a > > GeForce2 (same driver though, I believe) What did you install with? a > > stable image or woody? and did you up grade? > > "seem to worn" ?? "seem to work"? work sorry

Re: Install woes...X problem

2002-02-06 Thread ben
On Wednesday 06 February 2002 08:19 pm, you wrote: > ac patches? > > On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, ben wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 February 2002 05:54 pm, Ray Bowles wrote: > > > VIA686a > > > > apparently all straight 2.4 kernels are affected by this. allegedly, > > there are ac patches that fix this. > > >

Re: Install woes...X problem

2002-02-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 23:16:12 -0500 (EST) Ray Bowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 20:54:47 -0500 (EST) Ray Bowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > You could have a flaky mobo. > > anyway to test? I dual-boot the same system wit

Re: Install woes...X problem

2002-02-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 18:41:57 -0800 ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 06 February 2002 06:36 pm, you wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 18:19:29 -0800 ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wednesday 06 February 2002 05:54 pm, Ray Bowles wrote: > > > > VIA686a > > > > > > apparently all strai

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