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: X-Problem

2002-11-08 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Von: Matthias Hentges [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: Deutsche Debian Mailingliste [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: X-Problem Datum: Donnerstag, 7. November 2002 00:09 Am Mit, 2002-11-06 um 19.58 schrieb Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini: Hallo! Habe gerade eine woody-Installation hinter mir. Jetzt

X-Problem

2002-11-06 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo! Habe gerade eine woody-Installation hinter mir. Jetzt gibt's noch einiges zu bereinigen: - Wo trage ich nachträglich den Domainnamen meines Systems ein? - Unter X können die oberen 2 cm des Bildschirms nicht mit der Maus erreicht werden. Das graue Hintergrundraster bedeckt jedoch den

Re: X-Problem

2002-11-06 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Mit, 2002-11-06 um 19.58 schrieb Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini: Hallo! Habe gerade eine woody-Installation hinter mir. Jetzt gibt's noch einiges zu bereinigen: - Wo trage ich nachträglich den Domainnamen meines Systems ein? - Unter X können die oberen 2 cm des Bildschirms nicht mit der

A serious X problem after Testing upgrade

2002-11-06 Thread Barry Samuels
try to logout 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. ctrlaltdel 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

Dank und weitere Fragen (war Neuer hat Fragen großes kleines X Problem)

2002-08-25 Thread Alois Stöckl
Hallo, erstmal meinen Dank an Hans-Georg, Gerhard, Holger, Niklas und alle die mir sonst noch geantwortet haben. Mit deselect konnte ich mich etwas besser anfreunden :-) Leider besteht das X Problem immer noch. Könnte es sein das die S3 Trio64 mit Xfree 4.X nicht läuft ? Habe eine Nachricht

Re: Dank und weitere Fragen (war Neuer hat Fragen gro?s kleines X Problem)

2002-08-25 Thread umidori kamome
Hey Yo Hoh, Alois! Die XF86Config erscheint mir sehr sonderbar. Keine Mod-Lines, keine Eintraege der Aufloesung usw. Sieht aus wie ein Geruest (sollte es das heissen?) einer conf. Ich kann mich eigentlich nicht beschweren - weiss auch nicht, wie ich bei yahoo einen 1er oder 15er iso-code

Re: Dank und weitere Fragen (war Neuer hat Fragen gro?s kleines X Problem)

2002-08-25 Thread Udo Mueller
Hallo, * umidori kamome schrieb [25-08-02 22:43]: Wer hat da einen Tipp f? (so wie hier) mich. Schick doch mal Deine XF86Config Aber ohne die Kommentare !!! grep -v /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Gruss Udo -- Wenn ich einem Schwein eine RedHat-CD um den Hals binde und es trete kann man sagen,

Re: Dank und weitere Fragen (war Neuer hat Fragen gro?s kleines X Problem)

2002-08-25 Thread umidori kamome
Hey Yo Hoh, Udo! Aber ohne die Kommentare !!! grep -v /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Kann den Sinn zwar vermuten (auch nach man grep), aber ein "grep -v /etc/X11/XF86Config-4" rueckt bei mir einfach den cursor in die naechste Zeile und wartet dann auf enter, um danach wieder den normalen prompt zu

Re: AW: Dank und weitere Fragen (war Neuer hat Fragen gro?s kleines X Problem)

2002-08-25 Thread umidori kamome
Hey Yo Hoh, Konrad! Danke - hatte schon mail bekommen (geht auch mit '#') cu kamome __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! BB is Broadband by Yahoo! http://bb.yahoo.co.jp/ -- Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] mit dem Subject

Re: Dank und weitere Fragen (war Neuer hat Fragen gro?s kleines X Problem)

2002-08-25 Thread Michael Koch
Am Sonntag, 25. August 2002 17:22 schrieb Udo Mueller: Hallo umidori, * umidori kamome schrieb [25-08-02 23:23]: Hey Yo Hoh, Udo! Aber ohne die Kommentare !!! grep -v /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Kann den Sinn zwar vermuten (auch nach man grep), aber ein grep -v /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

Re: Dank und weitere Fragen (war Neuer hat Fragen gro?s kleines X Problem)

2002-08-25 Thread Alois St(B?(Bckl
Hallo Kamome, hier die XF86Config: - Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "XFree86 Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Files" RgbPath

Re: Dank und weitere Fragen (war Neuer hat Fragen gro?s kleines X Problem)

2002-08-25 Thread Uwe Kerstan
* Udo Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [25-08-02 17:22]: Ich Schlaumi: grep -v '#' /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 s/#/^#/ msg16581/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Dank und weitere Fragen (war Neuer hat Fragen gro?s kleines X Problem)

2002-08-25 Thread Rainer Ellinger
Udo Mueller schrieb: Ich Schlaumi: grep -v '#' /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Nimm' besser etwas in der Art: cat -s datei | sed '/^#/d' Da kann man die Logik, dass die Ausgabe einer Datei bearbeitet wird, deutlicher erkennen. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL

Re: Dank und weitere Fragen (war Neuer hat Fragen gro?s kleines X Problem)

2002-08-25 Thread Udo Mueller
Hallo Rainer, * Rainer Ellinger schrieb [25-08-02 18:53]: Udo Mueller schrieb: Ich Schlaumi: grep -v '#' /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Nimm' besser etwas in der Art: cat -s datei | sed '/^#/d' Da kann man die Logik, dass die Ausgabe einer Datei bearbeitet wird, deutlicher erkennen. Warum das?

Re: X Problem

2002-06-15 Thread Stefan Bachem
Hallo Ich hatte exakt dasselbe Problem. Config Error: /etc/X11/XF86Config:48. Höchstwahrscheinlich liegt es daran, dass du mehrere Xserver laufen hast. Ich habe alten gewohnheiten zufolge insgesamt 3 Server Installiert. Deinstalliere sie mit apt-get remove xserver-xx, wobei xx für den

X Problem

2002-06-14 Thread Stefan Bachem
Hallo Alle Nachdem ich hier Woody von ftp.de.debian.org installiert habe ist es mir nicht moeglich X zu starten. Nachdem ich mittels xf86config eine config Datei erstellt habe bricht der xserver sofort mit der Fehlermeldung ab: --- dbe: Unknown error loading Module Config Error:

Re: X Problem

2002-06-14 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Stefan Bachem [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nachdem ich hier Woody von ftp.de.debian.org installiert habe ist es mir nicht moeglich X zu starten. Nachdem ich mittels xf86config eine config Datei erstellt habe bricht der xserver sofort mit der Fehlermeldung ab: Warum so? Nimm debconf:

Re: X Problem

2002-06-14 Thread Sebastian Bortz
Hallo! Ich hatte exakt dasselbe Problem. Config Error: /etc/X11/XF86Config:48. Höchstwahrscheinlich liegt es daran, dass du mehrere Xserver laufen hast. Deinstalliere sie mit apt-get remove xserver-xx, wobei xx für den jeweiligen Server steht. Falls du nicht weisst, welche Xserver noch alle

Re: X Problem

2002-06-14 Thread Udo Mueller
Hallo Sebastian, * Sebastian Bortz schrieb [14-06-02 22:08]: Ich hatte exakt dasselbe Problem. Config Error: /etc/X11/XF86Config:48. XF86Config weist auch auf einen potato-XServer hin, denn XFree 4.x nimmt ja XF86Config-4. Höchstwahrscheinlich liegt es daran, dass du mehrere Xserver laufen

Re: X Problem

2002-06-14 Thread Sebastian Bortz
Öhm.. 1. Ich habe nix außer der Signatur und dem Mailinglistenfooter gelöscht 2. Es tut mir ausserordentlich leid, dass ich meine Antwort oberhalb der Frage gesetzt habe. Beim nächsten mal werde ich daran denken. eua neuerDeb(ianer) -- Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL

Re: X Problem

2002-06-14 Thread Uwe Kerstan
* Udo Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [14-06-02 22:37]: XF86Config weist auch auf einen potato-XServer hin, denn XFree 4.x nimmt ja XF86Config-4. Hallo Udo, probiere mal: cd /etc/X11/ mv XF86Config-4 XF86Config Das sollte immer noch funktionieren, muss also nicht auf Potato deuten. Gruss Uwe

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

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 bar

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: 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.

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: 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 idled or

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

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 some

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 parts

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 packages

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: 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 card

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: 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 patches that

Install woes...X problem

2002-02-06 Thread Ray Bowles
I'm having a tough time all of a sudden. My non-X machines work great but I'm having a problem on my desktop. I tried every type of Debian (2.2_rev5, Woody, Sid, pseudo) download I could get and they all failed. Mostly due to my USB keyboard and mouse. I eventually got an image of

Re: Install woes...X problem

2002-02-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 20:54:47 -0500 (EST) Ray Bowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a. Probable hardware bug: restoring chip configuration. You could have a flaky mobo. [snip] let me know. One friend from a Linux support

Re: Install woes...X problem

2002-02-06 Thread ben
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 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 patches that fix this. I've run with the linus kernel for 5 months now

Re: Install woes...X problem

2002-02-06 Thread ben
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 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 Ray Bowles
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 with WinXP and play highend games without a problem. I understand the drivers are different but I

Re: Install woes...X problem

2002-02-06 Thread Ray Bowles
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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

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 straight 2.4 kernels are

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 with WinXP and

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. -- To

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 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

Re: Gericom Laptop: X Problem with the Screensetting

2001-12-14 Thread Wayne Sitton
You can test out different settings at the lilo prompt By making the argument there it will superceed the conf file vga=791 is correct for 1024x768x16 But, some have had success with vga=864 which should give you 1024x768x24 I was never able to get that mode to work on my laptop which is an ASUS

Re: Gericom Laptop: X Problem with the Screensetting

2001-12-13 Thread Wayne Sitton
I have an Asus laptop with the same problem. X and sis630 don't work very well together. The best way to do this is by recompiling the kernel and enable the framebuffer. Once that is done add to your lilo.conf vga=791 remember to run lilo before you reboot you should be able to 1025x768x32

X problem: No startx or xinit

2001-10-18 Thread Vitor Silva Souza
Hello again, Here I am with one more problem... I installed potato using the CDs. I used dselect to select packages to install and I left it unchanged, that means I did not install any X packages. Afther that, I changed the apt source to testing and ran apt-get dist-upgrade. Then I

Re: X problem: No startx or xinit

2001-10-18 Thread dman
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 01:27:11PM -0300, Vitor Silva Souza wrote: ... | I installed potato using the CDs. I used dselect to select packages to | install and I left it unchanged, that means I did not install any X | packages. Afther that, I changed the apt source to testing and ran

Re: X problem

2001-06-11 Thread ktb
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 10:34:56PM -0300, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: Hi all. I have a problem with my X configuration. When I try to start the server from command line with startx, the X server don't work; when I try to start it with xdm, the server starts, I fill the username/password fields

Re: X problem

2001-06-11 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 10:34:56PM -0300, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: :Hi all. : :I have a problem with my X configuration. :When I try to start the server from command line with :startx, the X server don't work; when I try to start it :with xdm, the server starts, I fill the username/password :fields

X problem

2001-06-10 Thread Eduardo Gargiulo
Hi all. I have a problem with my X configuration. When I try to start the server from command line with startx, the X server don't work; when I try to start it with xdm, the server starts, I fill the username/password fields but the system don't say nothing and the login script starts again. Both

A very strange X problem

2000-12-20 Thread Joel Ståbis
Hi. I have a very stange problem with xf 4.0.x. Now and then X seems to crash in some strange way. The screen stops updating, the keyboard doesn't work, the only thing I can do is to hit the power-button and reboot. This has happend with all versions of xf 4.0.x, under both redhat 6.2/7.0,

Re: A very strange X problem

2000-12-20 Thread Paul Barton
Joel, I have just recently been getting the same problem. First I thought it was my processors, then I thought it was XF4, then I thought it was enlightenment. It just locks my screen with everything frozen except the mouse, which moves around fine. Maybe this isn't a hardware problem like I

Re: A very strange X problem

2000-12-20 Thread Joel Ståbis
I forgot to mention that in my post that I can move the mouse around just like you say. I have also thougth of it being a hardware-problem. Just out of curiosity, what gfx-card do you have? I have a 3dfx voodoo3 2000 agp, maybe there is some problem with the tdfx-driver. * Paul Barton ([EMAIL

Re: A very strange X problem

2000-12-20 Thread Christoph Simon
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 11:10:06 -0500 Paul Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joel, I have just recently been getting the same problem. First I thought it was my processors, then I thought it was XF4, then I thought it was enlightenment. It just locks my screen with everything frozen except the

Re: A very strange X problem

2000-12-20 Thread Paul Barton
I have been using the 3DFX Voodoo 3 3000 AGP for a long time without problems. This new problem just started happening to me on Saturday. Oh, and I'm running cvs enlightenment on unstable Debian. --Paul * Joel St?bis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I forgot to mention that in my post that I can

Re: A very strange X problem

2000-12-20 Thread Paul Barton
Joel, which kernel are you using? I am currently using 2.2.18pre21 for the DRI for the tdfx module. I was actually using this kernel for 2 weeks before it started to freeze on me, so I assume it's not the kernel's fault. I'm already leaning towards X4 on this one. Something must be wrong with

Re: A very strange X problem

2000-12-20 Thread Paul Barton
Enlightenment just segfaulted on me, and this is about 30 minutes after the latest crash which just happened. I am going to switch over to gnome for a few days and see if I can get it to crash. --Paul * Joel St?bis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi. I have a very stange problem with xf 4.0.x.

Re: A very strange X problem

2000-12-20 Thread Erik Steffl
from the description of the problem I am not sure if this is related but it might be so here it goes: I have the same card (3dfx voodoo 3, PCI) and the X server used to crash quite often when I moved around large windows (whole windows where moved, not just frames, opaque moving). Daryll said

Re: A very strange X problem

2000-12-20 Thread Joel Ståbis
I'm currently using 2.2.18, no dri, no tdfx-module, no agpgart. I have tested with all of those included to, but that doesn't make any difference. X has freezed much more often latley (since a few days ago) for me, so there might be something with the latest builds that is causing it. * Paul

Re: A very strange X problem

2000-12-20 Thread Paul Barton
I switched to gnome this afternoon (which I can't stand because the window-focusing isn't as cool as E) and I haven't frozen yet. I sure hope E is screwed up and not X. --Paul * Joel St?bis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm currently using 2.2.18, no dri, no tdfx-module, no agpgart. I have

Re: A very strange X problem

2000-12-20 Thread Robert Gill
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 07:07:12PM -0500, Paul Barton wrote: I switched to gnome this afternoon (which I can't stand because the window-focusing isn't as cool as E) and I haven't frozen yet. I sure hope E is screwed up and not X. --Paul It probably has something to do with the fact that

Re: A very strange X problem

2000-12-20 Thread Joel Ståbis
For me the windowmanager doesn't mather, e, wm, fvwm2, gnome/sawfish all of them crashes. WindowMaker is the worst. * Paul Barton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I switched to gnome this afternoon (which I can't stand because the window-focusing isn't as cool as E) and I haven't frozen yet. I sure

Major X problem: Xwrapper.config missing!

2000-12-11 Thread Dan Griswold
Hi all, Please, I hope someone can help me with this. After an apt-get upgrade, I no longer can run X. I get these messages: X: unable to open wrapper config file /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory), aborting. giving up. So, these two files have

Re: Major X problem: Xwrapper.config missing!

2000-12-11 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am Montag, 11. Dezember 2000 14:34 schrieb Dan Griswold: Hi all, Please, I hope someone can help me with this. After an apt-get upgrade, I no longer can run X. I get these messages: X: unable to open wrapper config file /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or

Re: Major X problem: Xwrapper.config missing!

2000-12-11 Thread Dan Griswold
Cajus == Cajus Pollmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Cajus I had this problem some time ago. Make a symlink: Cajus /etc/X11/X - /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 Cajus Fill this in your Xwrapper.config: allowed_users=rootonly Cajus (console or anybody depends on what you want) Cajus

Re: Weird X Problem

2000-10-18 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 07:54:36AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: xscreensaver has a screensaver that downloads random images from the net... called web collage (or similar name)... could have been the screensaver? they all can be ran independently (they are just programs that xsreensaver run),

Weird X Problem

2000-10-17 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
Hi all! yesterday, I experienced a very weird problem with X : the background of my Laptop become suddenly black, excepting two areas : one showed a fragment of a picture with a dog in it ( only the head an part of the body ), the other showed an half-schetched drawing which could be a

Re: Weird X Problem

2000-10-17 Thread Erik Steffl
xscreensaver has a screensaver that downloads random images from the net... called web collage (or similar name)... could have been the screensaver? they all can be ran independently (they are just programs that xsreensaver run), so you might have one way or another run it... erik

Re: X problem with 2.2.17

2000-09-05 Thread Igor Mozetic
installed the patch for 2.2.17 from linux.kernel.org, ran 'make [...] The new kernel seems to run fine in a text console, but if I start X, I get four tiled copies of my screen and the mouse cursor is a big smudge. Are there some new features in 2.2.17 which affect XFree86? I have been

Re: X problem with 2.2.17

2000-09-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
I downloaded a pristine copy of the 2.2.17 source and recompiled. No more problems. The 2.2.16 kernel I patched also had the win4lin patch applied. I don't see how that could have created the problem, but I need to explore this further. Thanks Bob On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 02:49:23PM +0200,

X problem with 2.2.17

2000-09-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
I'm been running a potato system for some time with 2.2.16. I just installed the patch for 2.2.17 from linux.kernel.org, ran 'make oldconfig' and created a .deb with make-kpkg. There were no errors in this process, although I did notice some warnings I had not seen before. The new kernel seems

configuring X problem

2000-05-21 Thread BadMan
I use Debian2.1 , installation went fine everything works fine, EXCEPT I just cant get Xwindows to work. I have 16Mb Diamond Viper TNT AGP Video Card (Version 1.95E5802), IntelliMouse 1.1A PS/2 Compatible. I try to configure XFree86, write the new configuration, when I try to start X, the screen

Re: configuring X problem

2000-05-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
-- What am I doing wrong ? I've tried selecting different mouse and keyboard options, but still get the same error. i'm not sure, but i have the impression, that exactly the same question came up some days ago on this list, so please look at the archives. if you find nothing,

X problem with rotated text?

2000-03-24 Thread Carl Fink
Just wondering: is there a known issue with rotated text in XFree86 3.3.6-6? I've been printing some name tents with WordPerfect 8, and everything worked normally until I had rotated text on the screen. Then suddenly XF86_SVGA (not xwp) was taking 90% of processor time, and the system slowed to

NEW x problem :/

2000-01-19 Thread claviola
I think I discovered my problem, but another came up. Here it is: I was tweaking some of /etc/X11/XF86Config, where it configures the mouse. I modified /dev/mouse to /dev/ttyS3 (where my mouse is). X failed. Tried to use /dev/gpmdata (while running gpm -R), and the mouse was moving like a crazy

NEW x problem :/

2000-01-19 Thread claviola
I think I discovered my problem, but another came up. Here it is: I was tweaking some of /etc/X11/XF86Config, where it configures the mouse. I modified /dev/mouse to /dev/ttyS3 (where my mouse is). X failed. Tried to use /dev/gpmdata (while running gpm -R), and the mouse was moving like a crazy

Re: NEW x problem :/

2000-01-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On 18/1/2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /home/cyberdemo/.xinitrc: line 3: 291 Broken pipe blackbox xinit: connection to X server lost. waiting for X server to shut down Fatal server error: Unable to set status of mouse fd (Interrupted system call) If I just kill gpm, I can start

Re: NEW x problem :/

2000-01-19 Thread Larry Fletcher
On Jan 18, 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I discovered my problem, but another came up. Here it is: I was tweaking some of /etc/X11/XF86Config, where it configures the mouse. I modified /dev/mouse to /dev/ttyS3 (where my mouse is). X failed. Tried to use /dev/gpmdata (while running gpm

Re: NEW x problem :/

2000-01-19 Thread Dänzer
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I discovered my problem, but another came up. Here it is: I was tweaking some of /etc/X11/XF86Config, where it configures the mouse. I modified /dev/mouse to /dev/ttyS3 (where my mouse is). X failed. Have you set the correct mouse protocol/type in

Re: NEW x problem :/

2000-01-19 Thread Kovács Tamás
Hi. Can you try with XF86Setup? - Original Message - From: Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 10:59 AM Subject: Re: NEW x problem :/ --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I discovered my problem

X problem fixed- thanks folks

1999-12-18 Thread Pollywog
I found the problem and it is fixed. I downloaded xserver-common and reinstalled it and that seems to have fixed the problem. I have no idea how it got messed up in the first place but I believe it may have been that I installed a package which is now obsolete, and it wiped out /etc/X11/Xserver

X problem with kernel 2.2.13

1999-10-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
I just compiled kernel 2.2.13 using my old .config file with 'make oldconfig'. Now when I start X, I get multiple overlapping copies of the screen. Has anyone else seen this or know why this is occuring? I'll try reconfiguring X in the morning, but I've never seen anything like this happen with

New Slink Install - X Problem

1999-09-20 Thread Joe Stewart
After a new Slink install - X has the following problems. First, after configuring with XF86Setup, I got the following error: -- Joe

Re: New Slink Install - X Problem (Oops)

1999-09-20 Thread Joe Stewart
Try this again: After a Slink install, trying to get X going I ran XF86Setup OK. But when I ran startx, I received a X: cannot read security setting from /etc/X11/Xserver So in /etc/X11/Xserver, I add an entry for /etc/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy Now when I run startx, it's X: you are not

X problem (slink + SiS 530)

1999-09-17 Thread Chrisopher D. Judd
Hi, all, I'm having a problem getting X running on my home system. It's a relatively new sytem with a SiS 530 (onboard Sis 6326AGP), running slink. The version of X is 3.3.3.1-2 (Xserver-SVGA), the Xserver started, but the screen was garbled. I could stop the server using ctrl-alt-bs. I

Re: confusing X problem

1999-08-19 Thread Patrick Olson
On 18 Aug 1999, Colin Marquardt wrote: I would first get rid of xdm, then run I'll remove the package for now. X -probeonly 2 my_x-probe.log Console screwed up vertically when command prompt returned, as usual. Monitor power light goes dim when I just run X. As always, XF86Config

Re: confusing X problem

1999-08-18 Thread Patrick Olson
The only way I know to approach a problem like this is to get the system to a known state, and then proceed with a step-by-step analysis to reduce the number of variables, and isolate the problem. I would suggest something like the following: That sounds good, but I'm not really sure how to

Re: confusing X problem

1999-08-18 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Patrick Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That sounds good, but I'm not really sure how to accomplish step-by-step analysis with X. Everything seems to be just fine until I try to run X. Even then, everything seems fine except for the power on and power off entries in /var/log/xdm.log and

Re: confusing X problem

1999-08-17 Thread Patrick Olson
I took a look at your files on the web. A quick check of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Cards indicates the following: NAME Weitek P9100 (generic) CHIPSET Weitek P9100 SERVER SVGA NOCLOCKPROBE Thanks for that info. I didn't even know that file was there, but it wouldn't matter much since mine is

Re: confusing X problem

1999-08-17 Thread Ernest Johanson
How old is your version of Debian? Did you install the XF86_SVGA from a debian package or compile it from source? Thanks for that info. I didn't even know that file was there, but it wouldn't matter much since mine is old and doesn't have that entry. Did I do something bad by just

Re: confusing X problem

1999-08-17 Thread Patrick Olson
How old is your version of Debian? Did you install the XF86_SVGA from a debian package or compile it from source? I started from a Debian 2.0 CD, but did not install X from there. I pointed dselect to ftp://ftp.debian.org//pub/debian/dists/stable for updating the stuff that installed off the

Re: confusing X problem

1999-08-17 Thread Ernest Johanson
Theological Seminary On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Patrick Olson wrote: Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 09:57:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Patrick Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ernest Johanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: confusing X problem How old is your version of Debian

Re: confusing X problem

1999-08-16 Thread Patrick Olson
Um, I've got only good to say for the xserver that nvidia has released, which your video card might like. I hear diamond viper so I'm guessing a tnt chip. Beyond that, you really should have the specs of your monitor handy, as that has always for me been the part that needed the endless

Re: confusing X problem

1999-08-16 Thread Patrick Olson
You can find documentation at http://www.cc.gatech.edu/linux/LDP/. Check out the Installation and Getting Started Guide, and the X HOW-TOs. Thank you for the information. However, I have tried to make sense out of the information and still can not get anything better than 320x200 resolution.

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