What does SuperProbe say about your video card??
The SVGA server can only see that you have got 64k video ram.
Try uncomment out the line:
#VideoRam2048
in your XF86Config file.
You might also try out the latest server from XFree86.org.
Patrick Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I think I am closer to having a
working setup, but not there yet.
What does SuperProbe say about your video card??
First video: Super-VGA
Chipset: Tseng ET4000 (Port Probed)
Memory: 256 Kbytes
RAMDAC: Generic 8-bit pseudo-color
, Patrick Olson wrote:
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 21:04:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Patrick Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Ernest Johanson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: confusing X problem
You can find documentation at http://www.cc.gatech.edu/linux/LDP/. Check
out
I have been trying all day to get XFree86 3.3.2.3 running, but have simply
had no luck getting any resolution other than 320x200. I would like it to
do 800x600 with 256 (or more) colors. The video card does that just fine
under Windows95, so I know the hardware is capable, although maybe not
Patrick Olson wrote:
[snip--]
The video card is a 2MB Diamond Viper Pro Video, and is a PCI card. I
have been trying to use the SVGA X server.
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
-0700 (PDT)
From: Patrick Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: confusing X problem
I have been trying all day to get XFree86 3.3.2.3 running, but have simply
had no luck getting any resolution other than 320x200. I would like it to
do 800x600 with 256 (or more
i'm using slink, with xfree upgraded to 3.3.3.1, with a diamond viper 550
and a sony 100es monitor. in the console, the screen is perfectly centered,
while in x at any resolution, the screen is moved (black gap) down and to
the right about a half an inch. it looks like the screen is being drawn
xvidtune could be the answer. At least this is how I deal with my monitor
screen problems, when I start it up. Sounds exactly like your problem.
Andrew
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Andrei S. Ivanov
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL
I installed Slink this morning; debian seems to be up and running just
fine. X, however, is another matter.
xdm tries to find an xserver, and can't find a /etc/X11/XF86Config file.
It just isn't there. Startx also can't start x, but it doesn't even tell
me why, so I'm going with xdm's
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Matthew Myers Davis wrote:
I installed Slink this morning; debian seems to be up and running just
fine. X, however, is another matter.
xdm tries to find an xserver, and can't find a /etc/X11/XF86Config file.
It just isn't there. Startx also can't start x, but it
I installed Slink this morning; debian seems to be up and running just
fine. X, however, is another matter.
xdm tries to find an xserver, and can't find a /etc/X11/XF86Config file.
It just isn't there. Startx also can't start x, but it doesn't even tell
me why, so I'm going with xdm's
I just installed the (slink) Debian distribution. It worked ok and seemed to
be rather painless. I got lilo working even though I installed to a second
disk in my system... So what's my problem? Here goes:
I read the readme's and found that for my video card SiS 5597/5598 I would
need the 3.3.3.1
You don't need to reinstall. You system hangs because xdm is being run as part
of the
boot up. You need to boot into 'single user mode' to fix this problem. At the
lilo
prompt you'll need to type 'Linux single' where Linux is whatever label you
used in
your lilo.conf. This will bring you to a
On 12-Apr-99 Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
logged in you can remove whatever boot file is starting xdm (I'm not sure
what it
would be since you're not using the standard debian package).
/etc/init.d/xdm?
I developed this same problem after upgrading to slink and I was unable to
locate the cause
You don't actually even need to boot to single-user mode- hitting
ctl-alt-f2 will get you a text-mode login prompt. If you are scarce for
cycles once you've logged in, as root you can run ps to find xdm's
PID and kill it. NOTE: killing your X server is not enough- xdm will
merely bring up
You can get a console at boottime by using your resc1440 disk and then
nuking/renaming the S99xdm line in /etc/rc2.s. This being done, you can
then run XF86Config/setup again until you get it going.
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Small, Bradley wrote:
I just installed the (slink) Debian distribution.
Hi all,
I have a problem with du. When I do a du * -sx the -x flag
should exclude other mounted filesystems, but it doesn't. I was
using v3.16 and then upgraded to 4.00, both don't work right. Can
anybody help?
Thanks,
Chris
Hi all,
I have a problem with du. When I do a du * -sx the -x flag
should exclude other mounted filesystems, but it doesn't. I was
using v3.16 and then upgraded to 4.00, both don't work right. Can
anybody help?
Thanks,
Chris
du is working just fine. What is happening is
-Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
I have a problem with du. When I do a du * -sx the -x flag
should exclude other mounted filesystems, but it doesn't. I was
using v3.16 and then upgraded to 4.00, both don't work right. Can
anybody help?
With du 4.0 -x seems to work for me.
Hello !
I use a
DIAMOND Fire GL 1000 Pro
with 3D Labs Permedia 2 and Xserver XF86_3DLabs. Since
upgrading to slink some programs report X errrors.
PV wave : Not enough colours available
xmaple: X-Error BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
[resid=10
Just recently
Burned slink to CD and totally reinstalled and installed Kernel2.2.1 from
Johnie ingram.
Everything is pretty rockin stable
except...
Well I think people are aware of the strange little Xsession bug.
However I use WindowMaker as my WM of choice, and I always remember that
when I
Wasnt anything serious, just the changes I made to afterstep, or tried to
make, caused it to fail at startup when in user mode.
Andrew
Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov
someone else understand your code.
I'm trying to get X to work on my Toshiba Satellite 4000CDT.
I've established that the chipset is CT B69000.
This isn't listed in the hamm distribution. Has anyone got X to work on this
machine and, if so, could they kindly provide their XF86Config file?
Many thanks,
Anthony
--
Anthony
Hi,
You should use SVGA server, the chip set should be CT 6
HTH,
Giuseppe
Anthony Campbell wrote:
I'm trying to get X to work on my Toshiba Satellite 4000CDT.
I've established that the chipset is CT B69000.
On 09 Dec 1998q, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
Hi,
You should use SVGA server, the chip set should be CT 6
HTH,
Giuseppe
This is what I am using. It doesn't work; I get the message:
No valid modes found.
Anthony
--
Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0
[EMAIL
This is usually done because a wrong monitor configuration is in use.
You should check your monitor setting and the modelines (both in XF86Config)
I can send you mine, if you need it.
bye,
Giuseppe
Anthony Campbell wrote:
This is what I am using. It doesn't work; I get the message:
On 09 Dec 1998q, Francois GELIS wrote:
Francois Gelis
Laboratoire de physique theorique LAPTH
BP 110, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux Cedex
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I'm trying to get X to work on my Toshiba Satellite 4000CDT.
I've established
I wonder if there is a way to prevent X server from being killed by the
CTRL-ALT-backspace keystroke. I know that putting DontZap in
XF86Config would do that on redhat. The Debian docs say the same thing.
However, this DontZap method does not work here, I am using Debian
2.0. Any one got ideas ?
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Akop Pogosian wrote:
I wonder if there is a way to prevent X server from being killed by the
CTRL-ALT-backspace keystroke. I know that putting DontZap in
XF86Config would do that on redhat. The Debian docs say the same thing.
However, this DontZap method does not work
On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 02:23:58AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm having problems starting X windows. After installing
Debian 2.0 and entering 'startx' I get the following error;
(--) VGA16: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 90 MHz
(--) VGA16: There is no defined dot-clock matching mode
I'm having problems starting X windows. After installing
Debian 2.0 and entering 'startx' I get the following error;
(--) VGA16: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 90 MHz
(--) VGA16: There is no defined dot-clock matching mode 1024 x
768
Fatal server error:
No valid modes found.
When
Hi!
Well I managed to install X thanks to the people that helped me here but
I'm for getting rid of all those newbies problems :)
This time I couldn't get those windows managers to run. People advised
me
to install them so I choosed fvwm95, the instalation was ok, dselect did
not
Yo-
This time I couldn't get those windows managers to run. People advised
me
to install them so I choosed fvwm95, the instalation was ok, dselect did
not find any problems, but when I first started X it did not appear like
the fvwm95 docs said it would be. I found the windows
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
I recently upgraded my hamm installation to the latest set of software under
frozen. Suddenly I find that X windows have lost their chrome. I tried
kde, fvwm2 and olwm. Smae problem in all the cases. Why is this
happening? Hoe can I get around it?
I really
Joey Hess wrote:
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
I recently upgraded my hamm installation to the latest set of software under
frozen. Suddenly I find that X windows have lost their chrome. I tried
kde, fvwm2 and olwm. Smae problem in all the cases. Why is this
happening? Hoe can I
Hi,
look into ~/.xsession-errors if you use xdm, or, if you use
startx, look for errors in the log file (assuming you start startx
like startx //tmp/startx.log).
Sounds like your window manager is dying. I got that when I
messed up the configuration for fvwm2 once.
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
look into ~/.xsession-errors if you use xdm, or, if you use
startx, look for errors in the log file (assuming you start startx
like startx //tmp/startx.log).
Sounds like your window manager is dying. I got that when I
messed up the configuration
Hi,
I recently upgraded my hamm installation to the latest set of software under
frozen. Suddenly I find that X windows have lost their chrome. I tried
kde, fvwm2 and olwm. Smae problem in all the cases. Why is this
happening? Hoe can I get around it?
S.
--
The human race never solves any
On Thu, 04 Dec 1997, Paul Rightly wrote:
I successfully reinstalled Debian on my Thinkpad 365XD.
[...]
Once I got a PCMCIA modem and got this laptop connected, I upgraded it to
the
lastest in stable (this moved X from 3.2 to 3.3). I cannot get X to work
correctly now. When I startx I see
I am using the current version of the stable tree (I guess Debian 1.3.1 r6). I
have recently upgraded my video card from an ancient old thing to the Diamond
Stealth 3000 3D. I have used both xf86config and XF86Setup to produce
XF86Config files that provided some usable modes. However, if I
I successfully reinstalled Debian on my Thinkpad 365XD. This time
I used the Oficial Debian 1.3 CD's from LSL. This worked fine with the Tecra
disks (which maybe should be renamed). Thank you to all who have worked on
Debian (it was sure easier to install 1.3 on this laptop than 1.2 - back
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Paul Rightley wrote:
XF86Config files that provided some usable modes. However, if I exit X and
then
restart it (with startx), my machine will hang (i.e. no keystrokes will modify
I've got the same problem with the same video card, and I'm running a
pretty-much
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Paul Rightley wrote:
Will,
Thanks for the information (and commiseration). I will file a bug with the
xfree folks.
You're quite welcome. Two other notes:
it seemed to work ok with (the demo version of) Accel-X. Not free, but
an alternative. I ran their
-
Hi,
I've an interesting X problem and I'm out of ideas.
Any help much appreciated, TIA.
Problem: I install any xlib-3.3-[ 5 ] (running hamm)
and I can't startx as a user. I can if I specify full
path to server (i.e. startx -- /usr/X11R6/bin/X
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote:
Thank for your info. and yes the server compiled with a default font
paths.
By the way, I can still run startx with the following FontPath, and
don't know you said your won't work?
FontPath tcp/localhost:7100
FontPath
I tried to comment out ALL FontPath and I can't still run startx, though
the Font looks bad, xfs not running and the following commands give
error. I am using xsvga, does it has a VERY default font!
fsinfo -server localhost:7100
fslsfonts -server localhost:7100
Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
On
sorry, my previous post have some typo errors, here is the correct one.
I tried to comment out ALL FontPath and I CAN still run startx, though
the Font looks bad, xfs not running and the following commands give
error. I am using xsvga, does it has a VERY default font!
fsinfo -server
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote:
sorry, my previous post have some typo errors, here is the correct one.
I tried to comment out ALL FontPath and I CAN still run startx, though
the Font looks bad, xfs not running and the following commands give
error. I am using xsvga, does it has a
Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote:
sorry, my previous post have some typo errors, here is the correct one.
I tried to comment out ALL FontPath and I CAN still run startx, though
the Font looks bad, xfs not running and the following commands give
error. I am
According to Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
fsinfo -server localhost:7100
fslsfonts -server localhost:7100
I tried that and listed a huge list of fonts. I started X, but
it still couldn't find fixed.
If xfs is properly configured and running, and if the FontPath in
XF86Config is set to
Sorry, guys, the saga goes on.
Now that X is up and running again, there is only one (pretty annoying)
problem:
When placing, moving or resizing windows I don't see the typical
window outlines. All I see is the changed mouse cursor.
I am using the latest fvwm95 from BO. And in case it's
On 26 Sep 1997, Andy Spiegl wrote:
Sorry, guys, the saga goes on.
Now that X is up and running again, there is only one (pretty annoying)
problem:
When placing, moving or resizing windows I don't see the typical
window outlines. All I see is the changed mouse cursor.
I am using the
According to Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I encountered the same problem. Doing a
mkfontdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/*
seems to fix the problem for Xfree servers; it still doesn't work after
that for AcceleratedX though.
Thanks a lot for the hint. Unfortunately it doesn't work
Looks like you're missing the FontPath line(s) in the
Files section of /etc/X11/XF86Config. Try man XF86Config.
Andy Spiegl wrote:
According to Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I encountered the same problem. Doing a
mkfontdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/*
seems to fix the problem
According to Bob Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Looks like you're missing the FontPath line(s) in the
Files section of /etc/X11/XF86Config. Try man XF86Config.
You are right, I commented out the FontPath lines in XF86Config,
but I am running xfs. Shouldn't that provide all the fonts?
Thanks,
On 25 Sep 1997, Andy Spiegl wrote:
According to Bob Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Looks like you're missing the FontPath line(s) in the
Files section of /etc/X11/XF86Config. Try man XF86Config.
You are right, I commented out the FontPath lines in XF86Config,
but I am running xfs.
On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Scott Ellis wrote:
On 25 Sep 1997, Andy Spiegl wrote:
According to Bob Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Looks like you're missing the FontPath line(s) in the
Files section of /etc/X11/XF86Config. Try man XF86Config.
You are right, I commented out the
You didn't say (and I can't figure out from your error messages) whether
or not you are using AcceleratedX. If so, you need to go into all of
your font directories and gunzip the fonts, then ncompress them if you
have it, then do the mkfontdir step. AcceleratedX can't do gzipped
fonts, but
I took a look at the output of the X server in an earlier post and it
already uses xfs for the fonts. But you have to configure xfs so that it
looks in the right place for the fonts. Take a look at the 'catalogue'
line in /etc/X11/xfs/config. You have to set this to exactly the set of
font
On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Civ Kevin F. Havener wrote:
You didn't say (and I can't figure out from your error messages) whether
or not you are using AcceleratedX. If so, you need to go into all of
your font directories and gunzip the fonts, then ncompress them if you
have it, then do the
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote:
I took a look at the output of the X server in an earlier post and it
already uses xfs for the fonts. But you have to configure xfs so that it
looks in the right place for the fonts. Take a look at the 'catalogue'
line in /etc/X11/xfs/config. You have
According to Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I took a look at the output of the X server in an earlier post and it
already uses xfs for the fonts. But you have to configure xfs so that it
looks in the right place for the fonts. Take a look at the 'catalogue'
line in /etc/X11/xfs/config.
Andy Spiegl wrote:
According to Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I took a look at the output of the X server in an earlier post and it
already uses xfs for the fonts. But you have to configure xfs so that it
looks in the right place for the fonts. Take a look at the 'catalogue'
Xfs is the X Font Server. You won't have much problems if you don't use
it, but it seems to be better than letting the X server manage the fonts
in some cases. For example, you don't have to gunzip all fonts if you are
using an X server that doesn't understand gzipped fonts. And of course you
On 25 Sep 1997, Andy Spiegl wrote:
According to Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I took a look at the output of the X server in an earlier post and it
already uses xfs for the fonts. But you have to configure xfs so that it
looks in the right place for the fonts. Take a look at the
On 25 Sep 1997, Andy Spiegl wrote:
According to Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I took a look at the output of the X server in an earlier post and it
already uses xfs for the fonts. But you have to configure xfs so that it
looks in the right place for the fonts. Take a look at the
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote:
Xfs is the X Font Server. You won't have much problems if you don't use
it, but it seems to be better than letting the X server manage the fonts
in some cases. For example, you don't have to gunzip all fonts if you are
using an X server that doesn't
Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
No, you will have to tell the X server that it must use the font server.
Look in /etc/X11/XF86Config for some lines like:
FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/
Place a '#' in front of all those lines, and add a line:
FontPath tcp/localhost:7100
This
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote:
If I put 'FontPath tcp/localhost:7100' the very first line and follow
by others font paths, do you think the X server will try to use the xfs,
if fails it uses the others.
Hmm, interesting thought. I'll try it.
-- wait some time --
No, it doesn't work.
Hi,
last night I finally went through the work to update my rex
system to bo. Everything went pretty smooth, except that X
doesn't start up anymore. It gives me this error:
Can't open default font fixed(or something very close to it)
Has someone had this problem before? I have no clue
I encountered the same problem. Doing a
mkfontdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/*
seems to fix the problem for Xfree servers; it still doesn't work after
that for AcceleratedX though.
--
Stephen Hsieh Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have upgraded to Debian 1.3.1 and now sattrack runs, and the display
opens, but the lower 3/4 of the screen is corrupted. Its hard to describe
what the problem is, but here goes...
There are several zig-zag 'lines' running vertically down the screen. I
have remade sattrack, thinking the new
It seems that when I focus the sattrack graphic window, the zig-zags
appear. when i focus the sattrack text display, the graphic display clears
up. If the graphic display is focused, and I focus another window, like
netscape, the corruption remains.
I am beginning to believe that the problem is
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote:
It seems that when I focus the sattrack graphic window, the zig-zags
appear. when i focus the sattrack text display, the graphic display clears
up. If the graphic display is focused, and I focus another window, like
netscape, the corruption
I solved my locked out of X problem by rebooting the machine while
holding down the shift key, then booting up in single user mode. Then
removing the S99XDM file or whatever it is called. Thanks for all your
help everyone, you are incredible!
-=-
Daniel Robbins
School of Medicine Computer
I solved my locked out of X problem by rebooting the machine while
holding down the shift key, then booting up in single user mode. Then
removing the S99XDM file or whatever it is called. Thanks for all your
help everyone, you are incredible!
But isn't that the wrong solution? Isn't
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mind you, I can't see anywhere in /etc/init.d/* where it only
starts xdm based on the runlevel, nor in the inittab.
I think the information you want may be in /etc/init.d/README
--
Rob
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When I try to launch x-apps like xtetris or afterstep, I get the
following error-message: cannot load libbg.s0.3, for example.
I know that I have these files in /usr/X11R6/lib.
How do I fix this? This problem occurs with every X-pgm, TWM works
fine though :^(
Is it possible to upgrade afterstep
On Sun, 19 Jan 1997 16:26:48 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I try to launch x-apps like xtetris or afterstep, I get the
following error-message: cannot load libbg.s0.3, for example.
I know that I have these files in /usr/X11R6/lib.
How do I fix this? This problem occurs with every
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